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TV Choice: Inbetweeners, The Seal Ripper & the Titanic
By Hugh FortSeptember 23, 2010
Every week our square-eyed reporters take a look at what’s on TV – the highlights and the lowlights – and pick what they think you should watch or avoid.
The Inbetweeners, Channel 4, Friday, 10.50pm
The boys who try so hard to be cool and fail by so much are back and if last week’s first episode is anything to go by, the rest of the series is going to be top notch.
The lads – Will, Simon, Jay and Neil – go to a gig, and, in a shocking twist of events, manage to make total fools themselves.
Of course, there’s a girl involved and Simon takes it upon himself to “score” some cannabis.
But that inevitably goes horribly wrong and mega-geek Will, once again, takes the moral super-high ground.
As usual, a series of hilarious disasters ensue and the lads take another blow to their already massively damaged teenage egos before heading home in their rubbish little cars.
Collateral
American actor Tom Cruise turns against type to play a mean hitman, rather than a wholesome good guy who always gets the girl, in this tense thriller.
Cruise plays Vincent, a contract killer who hijacks a taxi, complete with its driver.
He then sets out on a mission to go around LA working through his hitlist, carrying out ruthless assassinations while the driver cowers inside the car.
Collateral, apparently, is an organised crime term for someone who finds themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, like Max (played by Jamie Foxx), the poor old taxi driver.
Vincent gets Max to drive him round LA to carry out five separate assassinations – not the normal type of ride that he’d accept.
To make it more realistic, the producers should have included a scene where Vincent orders Max to go somewhere he doesn’t actually know, then a half-hour segment where they drive around with Max stubbornly refusing to admit he doesn’t know where it is or ask for directions.
You’d also hope he gets a good tip from Vincent at the end of the night.
Titanic: The Mission, Channel 4, Monday, 9pm
In this new five-part series, a team of engineers looks at how the first Titanic ship was made (badly) and each week create a new part of the ship using the original methods.
Welder Dave Wilkes, metalworker Luke Perry
They start with a 30ft section of the steel bow and set about putting it up at the Belfast dock – where the boat began its ill-fated voyage in 1912.
I’m not sure of the point of this, are they trying to rebuild the entire ship? If so, it had a slight design flaw.
Perhaps they will use modern ideas to make it iceberg-resistant.
Nature Shock: The Seal Ripper, Channel Five, Tuesday, 8pm
This is the most over-the-top nature show around.
It follows the American route of playing terrifyingly dramatic music around the idea that there’s something out there coming to get us.
So (dramatic film voice) on a beach near a remote Atlantic island, the shredded carcasses of seals keep appearing on a beach.
Scientists are mystified, but there can be only one animal doing it, the supposedly placid Greenland shark.
My hope is that they’re wrong, and there’s some massive beast out there.
What they seem to discover is that the supposedly timid shark is really a sophisticated killing machine.
Although, if it’s leaving bits of mangled seal to wash up on the beach, it’s not that efficient is it?
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