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I recently finished Curb Your Enthusiasm season 1, which was awesome, but right now I'm finally starting to watch Battlestar Galactica and I'm gonna give Mad Men a shot in the near future.
I'm currently following 30 Rock, Community, Dexter, Dollhouse, FlashForward, House, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and the Office. Shows that are off season at the moment: Burn Notice, Lost, and Psych.
I watched the premiere of White Collar on Hulu yesterday and liked it quite a bit, so I'll be following that from now on too.
I'm currently following 30 Rock, Community, Dexter, Dollhouse, FlashForward, House, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and the Office. Shows that are off season at the moment: Burn Notice, Lost, and Psych.
I watched the premiere of White Collar on Hulu yesterday and liked it quite a bit, so I'll be following that from now on too.
I love how they took no easy out whatsoever, either.
Vic ends up getting away at the end, but at the expense of almost literally everything else. And about the character loyalties... while the viewer usually sides with Vic throughout most of the series since he is our focal point for the show (and is frequently shown to be conflicted), by the end of it Shane becomes a vastly more sympathetic figure, which I found fascinating.
Still, it was undoubtedly sad to see Vic reduced to a suit and a tie and working a dull desk job, though that's certainly much better than what happened to the rest of the Strike Team.
Still, it was undoubtedly sad to see Vic reduced to a suit and a tie and working a dull desk job, though that's certainly much better than what happened to the rest of the Strike Team.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Has anyone watched the River Cottage series?
I grabbed a bunch of them recently. Its a lifestyle/cooking/gardening/DIY sorta show, pretty fucking amazing actually. The host grows his own fruit, veg, meat and anything else he can find in the wild n stuff. Its a UK series but damn is it good and if your even remotely interesting in food n stuff you should check it out.
Besides that, all current seasons.
Bored to Death, incredibly brilliant.
Modern Family, amazing.
Sons of Anarchy, good ramping up to great.
Stargate Universe, great,
Californication brilliant, brilliant, BRILLIANT.
Dexter, good but seems to be ramping up, has me excited.
Venture Bros, BEST.
Southpark, last 3 eps have been good!
Curb Your Enthusiasm, EPIC.
Community, good.
How I Met Your Mother.... goodish.
Think thats bout it.
I grabbed a bunch of them recently. Its a lifestyle/cooking/gardening/DIY sorta show, pretty fucking amazing actually. The host grows his own fruit, veg, meat and anything else he can find in the wild n stuff. Its a UK series but damn is it good and if your even remotely interesting in food n stuff you should check it out.
Besides that, all current seasons.
Bored to Death, incredibly brilliant.
Modern Family, amazing.
Sons of Anarchy, good ramping up to great.
Stargate Universe, great,
Californication brilliant, brilliant, BRILLIANT.
Dexter, good but seems to be ramping up, has me excited.
Venture Bros, BEST.
Southpark, last 3 eps have been good!
Curb Your Enthusiasm, EPIC.
Community, good.
How I Met Your Mother.... goodish.
Think thats bout it.
Just finished this today. Great show. Kevin McKidd and Ray Stevenson are an epic duo, and the actor who plays Marc Antony is brilliant. Hell, the acting in general is just great, even from the younger ones.
Looking forward to watching season 2. Shame that this was cancelled, though I can see why; the show must have cost a fortune.
CajoleJuice
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The first season cost $100 million. I'm waiting for the Blu-ray to watch it for the first time.Blader5489 said:
Brian Fellows
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CajoleJuice said:
I'm just waiting for the Blu-Ray.
randomlyrossy
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EvilMario said:
I'd agree with that, the finale eps are amazingly epic, the fight between
Zuko and Azula
I've been rewatching The OC the last week or two. Not everyones cup of tea I'm sure but I have to say the first Season is just brilliant, I really can't quite place what it is that makes it so good but I feel compelled to keep watching. The majority of the characters are just greatly written and there's some really good drama constantly, it's basically a soap opera but I love it.
Just started Season 2 and it's already started to go downhill a bit, I'll probably watch it till the end of this Season then stop, it's a shame that after such an awesome first Season it went to shit after a while.
arts&crafts
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Just started watching Friday Night Lights, due to Explosions in the Sky doing alot of the soundtrack and I am loving it so far (about 7 episodes in). Who would have thought that a show about high school football could be so addictive.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Decado said:
Eh i liked Bored to Death from the get go, it has good characters, is well shot, story/concept is great.
Venture Bros is an animated show but is by no means a "kids" show. Smart, funny, clever and has its fair share of action. Good characters, excellent plots and character arc's make it probably my favorite show at the moment.
Anasui Kishibe
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Hellion said:
first episode of Lost is probably the worst of the entire serie. Stick with it, once the mysteries start piling up you won't be disappointed
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Hellion said:
Nope.
Hellion said:
I actually think the first ep of lost is one of the strongest pilots ever made. You should definitely keep watching because everybody obviously doesn't agree and the show does rely heavily on mysteries that take time to build up, but that was a pretty good episode overall.
Anasui Kishibe
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I thought it was really dull and with lots of obligatory and unimpressive oh shi- moments, like the dude swallowed by the turbine. A airplane crashing on a island isn't really that gripping of a premise, to me; real show doesn't start until the flashbacks and the various weird stuff happenin on the island AFTER the pilot
I'd like to point out that it's not like I'm sayin the episode is bad or something, it's that i find what happens next absolutely awesome
I'd like to point out that it's not like I'm sayin the episode is bad or something, it's that i find what happens next absolutely awesome
Ford Prefect
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Been watching Season 2 of 30 Rock on Netflix... I'm beginning to put it up there with the likes of Seinfeld and Arrested Development. Always consistent, and endlessly clever. All that AND fucking Captain Beefheart references?
CajoleJuice
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So drop it.Hellion said:Ugh I really wanted to drop Lost for Friday Night Lights... I still need to catch up on Breaking Bad
Anasui Kishibe
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gdt5016 said:
like I said, disaster scenes rarely do anything for me, expecially on a tv show. I'm much more a mystery-plot lover
Started watching X-files season 5 \o/
Four episodes down and so far not so impressive. Redux I & II were mainly boring. Only thing that could have shaken me would have been the
I skipped Unusual Suspects because I hate the Lone Gunmen guys. Haven't seen Homicide: Life on the Street so didn't really care for the crossover. Detour was pretty decent stand alone case. Nothing special but wasn't bad either. Goign to watch The Post-Modern Prometheus right after this post
Four episodes down and so far not so impressive. Redux I & II were mainly boring. Only thing that could have shaken me would have been the
shooting of Cigarette Smoking Man but I do remember that he survived.
While waiting for the last Lost season, I've started watching Sons of Anarchy, How I Met Your Mother, Mad Men and Bored to Death. Watched one season of Dollhouse as well.
SoA is brilliant, up to the 2nd season now. HIMYM and Bored to Death are hilarious, and Mad Men I reserve my judgment on til I've seen more of it.
Watching House and Heroes (I know.. I'm still seeing if it's ever going to be good again) weekly, as well. Entourage's latest season was too short.
SoA is brilliant, up to the 2nd season now. HIMYM and Bored to Death are hilarious, and Mad Men I reserve my judgment on til I've seen more of it.
Watching House and Heroes (I know.. I'm still seeing if it's ever going to be good again) weekly, as well. Entourage's latest season was too short.
CajoleJuice
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Truer words (and numbers) have never been typed.Solo said:
Cornballer
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There's way too much time for monkeying around and losing focus in a 22 episode season. I'm trying to think of any 22-ep season of a network show that had me riveted from start to finish. There's always at least a couple throwaway episodes, a bad story arc, etc...
Brian Fellows
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gdt5016 said:
Me too. I feel that going to longer season killed both BSG and The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Both shows has such tightly paced stories when things were kept shorter.
Still watching X files season 5 and just finished episode 12 Bad Blood. Fucking loved it :lol It was first really good episode from this season. There has been a lot of Scully episodes and I have found them to be rather boring. Dana just doesn't work without Fox
Halfway through s5 and at this point I would give this season 6/10. I hope it gets better.
Halfway through s5 and at this point I would give this season 6/10. I hope it gets better.
The Librarian
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Wha- ...How? I LOVED The Lone Gunmen.CiSTM said:Started watching X-files season 5 \o/
Four episodes down and so far not so impressive. Redux I & II were mainly boring. Only thing that could have shaken me would have been theI skipped Unusual Suspects because I hate the Lone Gunmen guys. Haven't seen Homicide: Life on the Street so didn't really care for the crossover. Detour was pretty decent stand alone case. Nothing special but wasn't bad either. Goign to watch The Post-Modern Prometheus right after this postshooting of Cigarette Smoking Man but I do remember that he survived.
I've been going through the entire series of Stargate SG-1. I'm currently on season nine, but I'm going to list my favorite seasons and episodes and such up until season 8.
This list is incomplete for now. I'll update when I'm done with season ten.
Seasons
Best Season
Season 7
Best to Worst
1. Season 7
2. Season 8
3. Season 6
4. Season 5
5. Season 4
6. Season 2
7. Season 3
8. Season 1
It's good to know that the show got better overall, at least up until season 8.
Episodes
Best Season Finale
Lost City, Season 7
My Favorite Episodes (in order of season)
- The Nox, Season 1
- The Fifth Race, Season 2
- Pretense, Season 3
- Chain Reaction, Season 4
- Window of Opportunity, Season 4
- Disclosure, Season 6
- The Other Guys, Season 6 <-- Being a Trek fan certainly helps the quality of this episode.
- Enemy Mine, Season 7
- Heroes Parts 1 and 2, Season 7
- Lost City, Season 7
- Citizen Joe, Season 8
I have now finished X-Files season 5... All I can say is "meh". I would give it 5/10
Simply to put it: Not enough conspiracy and alien stuff.
Bad Blood was first great episode of the season and after that there were two somewhat good episodes (Patient X and The Red and the Black) but I found the
plot to be bit too much. After these two episodes there was only one good episode left and that was Folie a Deux. I love William Gibson's books but Kill Switch is probably the worst episode of X-files so far (I think he also wrote FPS which is the worst episode of x-files). Technical jargo is something that Gibson usually does well but in this episode it was just laughable. And what about Chinga ? I mean evil
? C'mon, you should be able to do better than that. Even the last episode was boring as a fuck. Terrible season.
edit: Here is my top 8 episodes from this season... Why to list 8 episodes ? Well because there were only 8 good episodes in this season.
1. Bad Blood
2. Patient X
3. Folie a Deux
4. The Post-Modern Prometheus
5. Redux
6. Detour
7. Redux II
8. The Red and the Black
I have decided to put X-files season 6 on hold. Will watch it eventually but after fifth season I really don't have the energy to go on with this show... Well actually I did watch the first two episodes of season 6 and while the first episode was just dumb the second one "Drive" was really good. I had seen it before but didn't remember it that well and certainly didn't remember it was that good of an episode... Still I'm gonna watch something else for now on.
edit: after some thinking here is season order from best to worse:
2 > 3 > 4 > 1 >>>>>>>>>>>>>> 5
Seasons 1-4 are all great while season 5 is just terrible. You could see the decline of quality in season four's stand alone cases but it had very solid mytharc and alien mythology episodes and they saved a lot.
Simply to put it: Not enough conspiracy and alien stuff.
Bad Blood was first great episode of the season and after that there were two somewhat good episodes (Patient X and The Red and the Black) but I found the
alien invasion
doll
edit: Here is my top 8 episodes from this season... Why to list 8 episodes ? Well because there were only 8 good episodes in this season.
1. Bad Blood
2. Patient X
3. Folie a Deux
4. The Post-Modern Prometheus
5. Redux
6. Detour
7. Redux II
8. The Red and the Black
I have decided to put X-files season 6 on hold. Will watch it eventually but after fifth season I really don't have the energy to go on with this show... Well actually I did watch the first two episodes of season 6 and while the first episode was just dumb the second one "Drive" was really good. I had seen it before but didn't remember it that well and certainly didn't remember it was that good of an episode... Still I'm gonna watch something else for now on.
edit: after some thinking here is season order from best to worse:
2 > 3 > 4 > 1 >>>>>>>>>>>>>> 5
Seasons 1-4 are all great while season 5 is just terrible. You could see the decline of quality in season four's stand alone cases but it had very solid mytharc and alien mythology episodes and they saved a lot.
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