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So did you get £30 for it?

Pot Noodles. Like crack.

The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers

Demand outstripped supply by some distance. Turns out people like a classy plain black shirt.

Kingsmen: The Golden Circle - Sequel that's a lot like the first movie only much less interesting and a bit more flippant. There's certain aspects of the Kingsmen films that I quite like but they're also to OTT and zany for their own good. 4 out of 10. Crazy Rich Asians - Romcom about a US college professor who travels to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family who, it turns out, are rich as fuck. Decent movie, good performances and it's not often you see this type of movie with a total non-white cast but it still suffered from the usual tropes of the genre. 6.5 out of 10.

I will be. All the previous Mega Drive releases have been poor quality and tech so this one looks exactly what was needed.

Been really enjoying it too. All three leads are stellar but I've always enjoyed watching Matt Berry; the scene with the cats in the animal control shelter was brilliant.

I bake my turds to within an inch of their lives. When they're ready I fire out torpoodos like Red October and frequently whilst only requiring one wipe afterwards. My arse is the ying to my bladder's yang.

Brexit Party romping home without having a manifesto or a plan - just has Brexit in the name. Politics really is in the gutter these days.

This is sorted now. Ta

Yes, mate. Unsuccessful final ballot applicants only at this stage.

Anyone unsuccessful in the ballot for final tickets on here? If so, if you're not going to the official screening at the Echo could anyone spare us their season ticket/members number for the pre-sale? Don't need any personal details, just the number? Cheers.

In the end it was a very tame and very safe finale. The whole final season was a series of missteps and the red flag became obvious when the Night King was dealt with in one battle. I didn't come away from last night's episode annoyed or down as I quite enjoyed seeing Bronn, Tormund and Ghost again but the way Danerys was dispatched with little immediate aftermath was very weak. She was far from my favourite character but she was really poorly served by the writers in this season. You'd have needed far better foreshadowing, and much more focus on the heartbreak of losing Jorah (who she once banished), Rhaegal and Missandei than the series managed, to justify to her actions to destroy King's Landing and Jon's decision to kill her. If we have to join too many dots ourselves then it's a fault of writing. In fact, in the final hour she's barely mentioned. Another forgotten tyrant, her entire arc was meant to be someone who was raped, abused, survived many near death scrapes, who conquered and freed people to ascend the throne and build a better world but at the last minute she was written like a Vince McMahon swerve just to swerve the fans. Very few shows finish well (Mad Men probably is the leader in the clubhouse for the last decade) but two years wait and only six episodes to deliver a season that felt sloppy and rushed can only be labelled a disappointment. A rewatch in a year or two might be more favourable to it but I feel like if I rewatch it I'll stop on the cliffhanger of S7.

Captain Fantastic - Viggo Mortensen as the father of 6 kids brought up as survivalists and away from modern society. Nice comedy drama with some great performances by the kids. 8 out of 10 Lady Macbeth - Period drama with Florence Pugh as a young woman married to an older bloke who's a bit of a bastard. Once he and his dad are away on business she begins an affair with a stable hand and... it deviates a little bit from where you think it'll go. Interesting up to a point but it's told in that modern British way of not much dialogue, moody landscape shots and grim music. If that's not for you then you'll hate it; otherwise it's 6.5 out of 10