Nathan Barley - Episode 2

Episode 2 of Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris' "Nathan Barley" (2005).

[@JackEMcPherson]

The second half of this episode is as close as anyone has come to filming an actual nightmare

[@richardmcquillan4305]

This is brilliant! Completely passed me by until now (August 2023). Deary me! Better late than never ;-)

[@theidiotsarewinning2868]

“Hey you should come doll snatch, it’s gonna be totally fuckn Mexico”. Genius.

[@veroniquehoflack4910]

I am not sure i understand what i am watching but I can relate to this poor 'writer'.

[@zamiadams4343]

My mate lives down the boundry where the office was located, theres still more than a few Nathan Barleys about believe me.

[@arrivalofdoom7449]

I want one of those "I fuck nuns" t-shirts

[@surreptitious5869]

I was at university 2003-2006, this is a documentary of many parts of the social experience. Almost a 50/50 split between these hipsters and posho Jack Wills wearing, surfer wannabie, floppy haired, daddy's Amex types. Haha

[@harazharmr9885]

Which uni? I was Bristol ’19-’22. Very “edgy” neo-hipster permutations -aesthetically, sonically and collectively nostalgic for your era and Y2K. I know I am. And the ’90s of course. 1970s. ’90s-does-’60s. Etcetera. Keep it living, keep it dense yeah

[@stephenkissane4268]

Did u write about the rise of the Idiots

[@atarirob]

@@harazharmr9885 The fact there are people born after 2000 that are somehow deeply nostalgic for the late-90's/Y2K (and earlier eras) is baffling, but ultimately emblematic of the cavernous cultural void that England inhabits. It's a bizarre fetishisation of a past they never actually experienced, based entirely on pop-culture, film, music, etc. It's total entropy, and if you ask me is much more phoney and contrived than the Nathan Barley types that this show is parodying, because it shows that we're not even prepared to attempt to create something new or interesting anymore. We're just going to eat ourselves and prat about wearing the undead carcasses of previous decade's culture round our necks until we're eventually completely displaced.

[@brimleyhillmassive]

Nathans mix in the club was actually a complex edit of excellent 80's and 90's songs, but the quality of the dubbing is excellent. I'd love to know who did it and if its available.

[@Amethyst_Friend]

And his rapping isn’t that bad

[@arrivalofdoom7449]

@brimleyhillmassive absolutely. The whole of this episode is one epic dub - from the bus thru Noel Fieldings odyssey thru the brilliant Charlie Condu thru Tramp Vegas thru to the Preacher Man show , the music thruout is brilliant. No wonder Einstein A Gogo is still a top tune for me

[@slayerfiend]

i want it as well

[@trecorite]

I feel like people are going to start turning to this show again in the next few years -- nostalgia cycle, aesthetic plundering, "indie sleaze", etc... whatever you kids do, don't bring straw trilbies back

[@youngjock1985]

This could be any club in Shoreditch.

[@vollsticks]

keep it foolish

[@MakeItWithJim]

well jackson

[@bitchykins]

totally fuckin’ Mexico

[@brimleyhillmassive]

Bum

[@slayerfiend]

peace n fuckin

[@benjames9158]

totally Mexico

[@msscartlead]

Does anyone know who sings 890 Years of Slavery?

[@PHILD0]

Franck Alba

[@msscartlead]

@@PHILD0 Thank you!

[@patrickcross5195]

fit sisters are cool😏

[@AJ.429]

Ahhhh don't we remember them summer nights at the beginning back in the day. Unfortunately summer nights now aren't romance holidays or Arabian Nights, just sweating where you become exhausted in the bed and the neighbours slamming the doors. Everything bad then 😅 it's also not like the comical disasters we use to get up between 1970-2006. 😅 I noticed back in the day as well anything under 2004 more under 2000 that they was places that didn't seem so modern. For example you would see grass not be mowed or flattened, paler, cow pat in the fields or a bit of graffiti, why i understand the ghetto and run down places are sadly growing, the traditional setting is simply decreasing. Now the perfect streets, the nice clean streets and the dark green grass almost feels robot like and you are being watched. It feels all thr countryside is being protected under state park regulations with about 1000 guidelines. Back in the day if you saw a nice place like that you wouldn't have to worry about it, it would be better than the pale green grass (is the grass greener on the other side) 🤷🏽‍♂️ but now we feel fear to shout in the streets fear of being watched and reported. I have a friend to scared to go on the road incase he gets a court letter through the door. So he doesn't like driving. Doesn't matter where it is. People are more awake than ever before now and even crossing the road where a lollipop lady is and school can get you in trouble if you don't have a kid, particularly if you don't use the school. In America one lollipop man was found to have connections to the mob. 🤷🏽‍♂️ I've saw models on Instagram easily flown into the middle of the desert having photoshoots. Nowhere feels remote anymore, everything is easy accessed and gives impression everything is discovered. I doubt nothing has been discovered compared to discovered but ya know 🙄

[@simonmoore2380]

I always thought Nathan’s “Trashbat Is….” track was rather good……🤔

[@owenevans83]

Easy as you park the Bentley!

[@brimleyhillmassive]

All the music is excellent

[@drewyStyla]

He is the Preacher Man. 🗑️🦇

[@hrmpug1092]

Legitimately depressing ending.

[@jackbauer4762]

Dan deserves it imo

[@bencolemanart]

I haven't watched this since it came out, at the time I found it overwhelmingly cynical, and a bit off the mark with some of the aesthetics. Time seems to have been kind to it on that last score, as the ,little details that seemed off or just wrong at the time have faded into the past somewhat. And 2005 cynicism can't compete with 2023 cynicism!

[@bitchykins]

Your younger self wasn’t acquainted with Chris Morris, huh.

[@PHILD0]

Yeah I reckon.

[@bencolemanart]

@@bitchykins My younger self was intimately acquainted with Chris Morris, as it happens, and this was his first misstep, as it seemed to me back then.