MR BLACKMAGIK
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Finished watching Dexter season 7 and Homeland season 2. I though both were really good. Also watched the first half of the new Supernatural season(7 I think).
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Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
I saw the first episode of Game of thrones. Enjoy it, but not sure whether to keep watching.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Yeah I haven't really got time to be watching it in bigger chunks. Though one hour each night seems to be what I prefer anyway.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Heh, it must take you at least half a year to make it through a series like The Wire then.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Not at all. I bailed on The Wire after a season 2.
But yeah, I usually like to take my time and savor shows that aren't of the cliffhanger variety. Stuff like Breaking Bad I could probably consume within a week if I hadn't already been watching it.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Ep 5 of Luck was decent.
Goddamn do I love that Irish jockey.
Goddamn do I love that Irish jockey.
Do TV movies count? I just watched "Jack Irish: Bad Debts" and "Jack Irish: Black Tide". Its great to see Guy Pearce back in an Australian production. I'm looking forward to them doing the next 2 books in the series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfRnjS7Khp8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfRnjS7Khp8
BlackGhost
Banned
Just finished season 2 of the walking dead, wish season 3 was up on Netflix
it was pretty unanimously agreed that season 4 was a huge misfire after season 2/3 were so great. Season 5 has been a bit more divisive, but overall people are loving it as a finale, I think.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Is Game of Thrones worth the time investment?
Season two of Chuck is some of the best network TV around. It's a pity that it never reached that point again. The later seasons are simply eh worthy.
Rad, seems like I should enjoy my time with Fringe then.
Cornballer
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I worked my way through How to Make it in America the last couple of weeks. Amusing show with some likable characters and the soundtrack is great.
I also started watching The League this week and tore through the first season. It's a little rough at first, but it seems like they're starting to hit their stride now and the laughs are coming more frequently.
I also started watching The League this week and tore through the first season. It's a little rough at first, but it seems like they're starting to hit their stride now and the laughs are coming more frequently.
It's worth checking out if you have the time and interest. As long as you go in with adjusted expectations, the later seasons are still fun.I've heard as much
Ventilaator
Banned
After finishing S2 of Boardwalk Empire I just want to say that if you've ever said "Boredwalk Empire" anywhere then you are wrong and stupid and you probably smell bad. I wanted to finish season 2 and then get back to Six Feet Under, but BE just had to go and be one of the greatest TV shows I've ever seen so I have to keep going.
Also finished Series 4 of Peep Show and I'm enjoying that show more and more the further I get.
Also finished Series 4 of Peep Show and I'm enjoying that show more and more the further I get.
I'll give the extremely helpful answer of: maybe. It's not as good as a lot of other stuff on TV. The pacing is a little disjointed and the structure of the show (jumping around within episodes to people barely connected thousands of miles apart) sort of prevents each episode from having a massively strong thematic throughline. But it's a fun watch for the huge scale and political wit alone, and several of the characters are plenty endearing. If you have the time it's worth it, just to be part of a cultural phenomenon.
HtMiiA was one of those laid-back shows that you don't love but hate to see go. Was great to decompress watching that.
I think The League takes a bit to start firing on all cylinders because it's a largely improvised show, and improv only gets better as the players get more and more time to refine and know their characters.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Thanks, the jumping was kind of confusing while watching the first episode the other day, but I did enjoy it. With tv the threat of decreasing quality is always a bummer
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
I saw the second episode of GoT. I liked it more. That dwarf guy is awesome. I already hate the little prince; little prick. Queen's deserves to go in a painful way too
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Ep 6 of Luck was great. Ah, Nolte.
Nemesis121
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Merlin Series Finale WTF was that...
They killed off Morgana, Mordred and Aurthur...then flash to the future and you see an old Merlin walking the street where lake Avalon is...
Ctrl A1t Elite
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Depends what else you haven't seen. Definitely stuff to be watched before GoT.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
GoT is pretty good, but you really ought to join Boardwalk GAF, Charles. Best show on television by far.
For an incentive to start: Scorsese directs the first episode.
For an incentive to start: Scorsese directs the first episode.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
I haven't watched any shows in years probably since early 2007. At least not new, not that I followed. I haven't even watched anything like The Sopranos either lol.
Sold.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Ctrl A1t Elite
Neo Member
Well, having just come out of finishing The Sopranos, I suggest... no... I urge you to watch it because it's absolutely incredible. The only thing I can recommend that's better than it is Breaking Bad, which you should also watch.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Not a single episode lol.
I've mostly watched sitcoms, almost only that. Abandoned tv for years.
So I'm interested in watching some of what's considered great. I was thinking Sopranos since I like gangster stuff. But rented GoT for something newer.
I've heard good things about both.
Ran through the first two seasons of Justified in the span of about a week and a half. Enjoyed it once the first five or six episodes were out of the way. It's weird to watch a show where law enforcement shooting and killing criminals consistently remains a Big Deal.
It's remarkably solid throughout, and you haven't really seen the show hit its stride yet. If I had to pick a weak point, I'd say part of season four may seem like the show may be in danger of losing steam, but then it picks up again. Seasons five, six, and seven are stellar and build on the foundation laid out in the first four seasons. Has one of the strongest series finales of all time, and is a rare series that seemed to last exactly as long as it needed to to tell its story.
It's remarkably solid throughout, and you haven't really seen the show hit its stride yet. If I had to pick a weak point, I'd say part of season four may seem like the show may be in danger of losing steam, but then it picks up again. Seasons five, six, and seven are stellar and build on the foundation laid out in the first four seasons. Has one of the strongest series finales of all time, and is a rare series that seemed to last exactly as long as it needed to to tell its story.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
The Sopranos is the best show to have graced television hands down. Boardwalk has been teetering upon entering the Sopranos tier, but isn't quite there yet. The idea that Breaking Bad is better than The Sopranos right now is beyond ridiculous.
lol... yeah man it will hold. It will definitely hold.
There is no escaping the ups and downs of a show, some episodes are stronger than others, but it never ever got to the point that I lacked a desire to start the next episode ASAP.
That show just builds and builds and buillllllds until it explodes like a volcano at the end.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Nice. Yes, I've heard many times that it's the best, so I'm very interested in it; specially since I love gangster stuff (you know I love Marty and The Godfather) as I said before.
BrokenEchelon
Banned
The idea that Boardwalk is anything other than hamfisted shit is ludicrous.
Breaking Bad is leagues above Boardwalk Empire and on rather equal footing with The Sopranos. I like it more, but the two in such a high tier of quality that at this point its just subjective preference for the story and characters that could distinguish which is "better".
A period piece a masterpiece does not automatically make. Especially when it's pedantically pointless boredom like Boardwalk. Unless it somehow sprung wings overnight in Season 3 (I dropped it after Season 2).
You'll love it. I don't know how it' possible not to love that show. You'll also appreciate the countless references to films as well.
Also, do yourself a favor and read the Song of Ice and Fire books. The TV show is excellent fan service and can probably hold its own without the backdrop of the books, but much like the LOTR films, it hardly does justice to the glory of the books. I especially recommend reading A Storm of Swords before Season 3. It is infinitely excellent.
Cornballer
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Shootouts are remarkably violent and short on that show. You don't pull on someone unless you intend to kill them, and people don't miss very often. It's one of my favorite aspects of Justified.
Ctrl A1t Elite
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I'm about halfway through season 2 in Deadwood, and I'm really taking my time over it, like one every 2 weeks, savouring it. I remember getting to this monologue in season 1 and halfway through it just being taken aback and thinking, jesus christ this is amazing.
Ian McShane is so damn good that no matter how good the show is, I found it hard to enjoy the first four episodes of season 2 when
. Big spoiler there I know (it's not).
Ian McShane is so damn good that no matter how good the show is, I found it hard to enjoy the first four episodes of season 2 when
Al gets kidney stones and hardly says anything
SCULLIBUNDO
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One more ep to go of Luck! Burned through two eps today. Might even watch the last one tonight.
Discotheque
Banned
What you think of Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Farina?
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Great chemistry. I also like how they've developed Escalante's character. In the early episodes he seemed very one note.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Didn't you just admit to not having finished The Wire? Heh, I don't think anyone who hasn't seen the entire holy trinity of The Wire/Sopranos/Deadwood (expansion to include The Shield and Oz is also acceptable) can really be taken aback that someone hasn't seen another part of it
SCULLIBUNDO
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Different when you're Jewish on Christmas day and everything is shut!
Difference is I gave The Wire a good chance. I watched two whole seasons of the show before deciding it really wasn't my thing/worth putting my time into three more seasons.
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