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It was about fucking Gayle too, who I can't stand. I put it on last night but barely paid attention.
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For fuck's sake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mahow
It was about fucking Gayle too, who I can't stand. I put it on last night but barely paid attention.
Indeed, other than Tammy in Parks and Rec I can't stand Megan Mullally.
There were a few good bits in the episode but Gayle (mostly because of Megan's voice) ruined it.
The season 2 finale of The Americans is superb shit.
The pre-credits stuff with this playing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf2CzEq0w
:drool:
I've had an episode of Person of Interest on in the background on TV for the past hour (Series 4 Episode 11).I've never seen it before but is it always this mental? The same thing seems to be happening over and over but with differing outcomes and they are all just randomly talking out loud but not to anyone. Not a fucking clue what's going on.
That episode was especially mental.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
The computer program was playing out every single scenario possible and they showed a few of them.
It was a way of showing how it works, pulling on some heart strings and filling out an episode.
Not a particularly easy one to be my first then. Is there always a computer program?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mahow
I must have a look at the actual general plot of the show.
Sorry, it's a machine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Yeah, I think it's a damn good TV show.
A man comes up with a Minority Report esque machine that can predict murder. They give this to the government who use it to stop terrorism. The inventor codes a back door into the machine that sends him 'irrelevant' murders (non terrorist actions) and prevents them with his band of merry men. It's great stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
The first season of it is complete bilge, and I mean complete bilge, but if you can get through that it apparently gets more serialised and begins to take off a bit. I couldn't. Not even close.
Mahow, please provide a full list of 'damn good tv shows' so I know what to avoid.
Although you do like Bob's Burgers so I'll let you have that one.
Anyone else bothered with Angie Tribeca yet? It's wonderfully silly.
"We did find something strange when going through the victim's records. There was a Simon and Garfunkel album in the hard rock section."
:drool:
I watched it properly last night and actually really enjoyed it. It's still great.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mahow
Shame they're so useless at putting it out regularly.
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by John
Not yet but I fully intend to based on your posts in here about it.
It really is excellent. I haven't been quite that fast with it, but I'm into season four now and I reckon I'll have finished it by the end of next week, so about a month all in all.Quote:
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Since X-files is back soon, me and the lady decided to start rewatching them all from the beginning. They are a little old, sure, but the Intro tune is so awesome you can watch whole episodes almost only thanks to the hype that comes with that, and really it still holds up pretty well.
Scully :wub:
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Only watched two so far though, and it's great.
I've just started on episode one and that sums it up perfectly.Quote:
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It's probably more bizarre and punchline heavy than Naked Gun. It's the sort of thing that needs every ounce of that star power just to get made.
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:cool:
I swear she was narrating a nature documentary the other day.
Ali G was doing that better 20 years ago.
New Girl has been back for three episodes and none of you told me?
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I lost track of it in the middle of whichever series that Coach returned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
Just set up a RSS feed on a torrent site (BTN is damn good for TV shows but it is private) and your torrent client will auto download anything that pops up on said feed.Quote:
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Or if you can't be arsed doing that, make an account on on-my.tv and set up your own filter so you know the scheduling of all your shows.
Seriesguide is a pretty handy app for tracking them too.
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I need to get going with the X-Files again. I had never seen any of it before, and I think I'm mid-way though season five. Whatever the last season before the first movie is, that's where I was up to. I need to knuckle down. This has been going on for a year now, on and off. I was really enjoying it too, I just keep getting distracted and drifting away from it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
I always enjoyed The X-Files more when they stuck to the one-off stories in a single episode.
Some of the "monster of the week" episodes are up there with the best things I've seen on TV. It bugs me a little bit that the stuff that happens in those episodes nearly always makes Mulder's belief in supernatural occurrences and weird shit in general pretty much unquestionable, but you'll still get Scully giving it the old "there must be a reasonable explanation for all this Mulder!" routine. Even after she's just been terrorised by a man who can shape shift to fit himself through the crack under a door, or whatever. :D
There were undoubtedly some good one-off episodes (the stretchy man one) but I always thought the over-arching/smoking man-centric ones (usually the beginning/end of series) were the best.
Spooky.
Everyone says that. I'm getting a bit sick of them though, and I'm only about 9 episodes in. Looking forward to them eventually following on a bit.
The way that it constantly breaks up the actual story (aliens, government conspiracies etc) does get a bit tiresome. A lot of times you want them to just get the fuck on with it but instead you've got about ten stand alone monster episodes to wade through before you get any progression. I think that's the main reason I keep tailing off with it.
The 'actual story' was complete bobbins, so the Monster style episodes were by far the best ones, in retrospect at least.
We should hold one 'damn good' spot vacant for whenever Mahow gets around to watching 'Lucifer'.
I've been holding one for months after watching the trailer.
My Dad's watching Gotham at the minute and it's wall-to-wall scene chewing. And every scene seems to need overpowering music in the background, for some reason.
I saw an advert for the new season of that last night, billed as 'Rise of the Villains'. How is that in any way distinct from the first batch, in which every villain in Batman history appeared in some form?
Alfred's trying to sack Bruce off to get his end away with a lass who is not interested until he mentions some fancy restaurant. The state of it.
I'm assuming his parents have already been shot and his still not moody about it.
Well for a start it's even more laughable.
Barbara becomes even more unbearable than Fish ever was too.
All they'd need to do for that to happen is expand her role. She was hardly there so wasn't particularly irritating, but she was quietly the worst actress ever.
"I know you, James Gordon. And I love you. And now I will make you a drink." A hook should have come onscreen immediately after that line and just dragged her right out of the postcode.
Whilst true, they also decided to turn her into a psychotic criminal.
Suits is back :cool:
I didn't even know it was on break.
Brooklyn Nine Nine isn't living up to series 2, but there's still not a better TV character than Captain Holt.
While it was always going to happen, they got to 'Holt's back in charge everyone' a little too quickly, if only because I wanted more Vulture. I prefer when they have the episode structured around some kind of case too rather than wackiness in the woods.
Series 3 of House of Cards really doesn't have the same spark to it.
Gotham has been by far the only reason to watch TV lately. Pure classic in the making.Quote:
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Been re-watching some Parks and Rec between other things when I can't be arsed with paying proper attention to something new. Coming up to 5000 Candles in the Wind. :cool:
Don't let John hear you say that.Quote:
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How's this season been? I've got the episodes aired in the UK so far on my Sky box, think I should persevere and yet can't quite bring myself to make a start.
Sixteen episodes into [season one of] The X-Files and I'm absolutely loving it. Had a brilliant run of three episodes too.
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...20120802015701
Boggs. :drool: What a villain.
Had totally forgotten that when I caught up with Parks and Rec through US Netflix that there was a whole series still not on there.
And it is now. :drool: Going to keep watching through the old ones first anyway.
Two episodes into season 1 of Fargo now and it's not really doing much for me.
I stuck with season 1 basically because I didn't hate it, as slow as it was. Glad I did.
I've started Continuum. I wanted something science fictiony, it had decent-ish ratings and has finished as well.
Seems okay after one episode but the future gun things the cops have are annoying me. It's just a handle and then the gun part forms when they need to use it. Looks all futuristic but that's a shit design. It'd just slow you down when you're needing to use it quickly.
Its also so weird seeing all these half-famous actors like that in it. The other day I watched an episode in season 3 with Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi in it being all young and, in fairness, the same as they always turned out to be :cab:Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
The Secret Life of the Zoo is fucking great.
I watched some of the early Game On the other day and Estes from Homeland (David Harewood) makes a random cameo :drool:Quote:
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It looked mildly interesting but I used to live with a zookeeper and will drop into a coma if I see even one more animal TV show.Quote:
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Has anybody watched Louis C.K.'s new thing, Horace and Pete?
Anyone been watching Billions? It's really good with a strong cast including Paul Giamatti who is a tour de force as the US District Attorney versus Damien Lewis' man of the people super trader.
Shame about Showtime going out of there way to destroy it. 1st episode came out Jan 1st, 2nd on Jan 17th, 3rd on Jan 31st and then weekly from there on in. It's not a show you can just drop into so they've really fucked it IMO.
I'll watch anything with Paul Giamatti in it. :drool:
Not yet, but I have downloaded it. The release method was interesting, $5 on his website. I felt obliged to buy it. I might watch it tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toby
Watched it now. It's pretty slow and feels more like a play than a sitcom, but it has some funny moments. Good enough that I'll watch the next instalment at least.
It's not a comedy at all really. It's a play and not sure it gets away from some of the loud grating voices.
Billions is just like Black List. You have one actor that runs absolute circles around everyone else.
Now that I think about it, Spader and Giamatti even have similar voices.
Two episodes into TWD season four and I'm struggling to go on. Absolutely woeful.
What is TWD?
The Walking Dead.
Oh and Manc, it just keeps getting worse from there.
I feared it would. :moop:
BBC can't possibly fuck up The Night Manager, can they?
I've been watching that BBC adaptation of War and Peace. It's alright and Paul Dano is good as always. What's bugging me is the story in general though. Maybe the book is a lot better but it just seemed to be a bunch of whiny aristocrats confusing lust and love. I don't think there are many on here who've read the book ( @GS , @Henry), but is it really a lot better? This series such isn't enticing me to read it.
Sincerely hope not, and the soundbytes on the focus seem good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
I'd have preferred Le Carre's cold war stuff, mind.
I don't know how much of that is left to tread. They'd never put the money down to do The Honourable Schoolboy.
Haven't watched it yet, but planning to do so in the next while so I'll let you know what I think. From what I hear, they did focus on the romantic stuff in the series, which isn't that central in the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
However good it is as TV show, it couldn't possibly have captured the depth and breadth of the book. There was a blurb on the back of the copy I read that said "If history wrote itself it would write like Tolstoy". That's about right.
I don't know, season five was probably a step back up to be fair, wasn't it? Or maybe like the last half of season four and the first half of season five. It's all blurred into one for me really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mahow
The beginning of season four is shit though, I agree. That is if I'm remembering correctly and that's the "farmer Rick" phase.
Also, I've finished season five of the X-Files. I need to watch the movie now before I continue. I might watch it tonight, in fact.
Man, I can't wait to be that far in. :drool:
I've just done episode 22 of season 1 (it had Janice from Friends in) and it's still absolutely ace.
Maybe but not by much but it's gone way back down with 6.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex
To be fair there's a very good chance I'm getting mixed up between it actually being good television and my own admiration of Rick's beard. The beard made everything seem better for a while there.Quote:
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The Walking Dead basically kept up a constant level of middling quality with the odd great episode from about season two until the fourth or fifth episode of the current run. I'm about three or four episodes behind at the moment and given it's coming back soon and I haven't for a moment considered catching up, I think I might be done. It's just so poorly written.
Happy Valley is back for a second run tomorrow. :drool:
Happy Valley. :drool:
Series 3 of Brooklyn Nine Nine has been good but a day spent watching series 2 on Netflix shows how much it has gone down.
Is Happy Valley the Sarah Lancashire police thing? I didn't see that it was back.
It is.Quote:
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Early signs are excellent.
Is the first season any good? I mean, actually good, rather than "Good for British TV"?
I enjoyed it very much but I don't rank TV series by country of origin so it's hard to say.
It's excellent, by any standards.
I'll give it a go. Do you not find that ITV produce a load of shit dramas?
Being ITV would instantly put me off (along with 'Raquel') but it sounds like they may have finally made something decent.
It's actually BBC (my mistake). I did enjoy Broadchurch (season one, anyway), but that's the exception rather than the rule, I think.
ITV produce a load of shit everything. They can fuck right off with that Benidorm nonsense in particular.
Sarah Lancashire was Raquel what, twenty years ago? She's a very good actress, and absolutely brilliant in Happy Valley. Think Olivia Colman in Broadcrhuch for the quality of the performance.
Never seen Broadchurch, I'd say Coronation Street is the last thing I seen her in (unless she did something with Nicholas Lyndhurst that I vaguely remember), though that's not to say she's not excellent in this. I like detectivey things so might check it out if I can easily find it.
I can't pull myself to watch TWD. I'm considering one of The Knick, Mad Men or Californication as my new go to show.
What's the X-Files return been like?
I'm guessing shit.
The book is fantastic. As Henry says, they've condensed a huge novel of depth and breadth into a six part series. They've done a very good job, but you could make the series twice or thrice as long and still struggle to fit everything in. There's a lot more focus on some of the historical elements in the book, including how the Russians would have seen the Tsar (almost as some sort of deity), the lead up to battle, battle itself, the wider political context, the burning of Moscow. It really is fantastic. You can probably skip Tolstoy's essays buried within the narrative, mind you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
Making a Murderer with Homer Simpson. This is really well done. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtlu123dg0I
I've watched the X-Files movie now (it was decent) and ploughed on into season six. Apparently this is the point a lot of the diehards turned against it because they moved production to Los Angeles and people thought it changed, or something?
It's been a really excellent start though I think. Particularly "Drive", the episode with Brian Cranston in.
Just got to these after doing a catchup marathon. He is rather good, I hadn't recognised the name.Quote:
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The Americans S4 is coming. :drool:
http://i.imgur.com/54xe0CI.gif
Well the first episode of the new X-files is a bit wank. You know what everyone didn't like about the old X-files - the later period, overly complicated conspiracy upon conspiracy nonsense where every character talks entirely in exposition or rubbish platitudes about the 'truth'? It's that again.
They even go as far as to throw out a lot of the accumulated conspiracy guff from the old series, only to immediately replace it with something equally turd. The mythology stuff only really worked when it had a very simple concept - trying to find evidence of aliens, shadowy dark forces working against them that never actually showed up, and the occasional enigmatic informant with unreliable motivations. This has none of that.
Needs more comedy running around after a monster episodes, is what I'm saying.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is absolutely brilliant.
Well done, TTH.
Enjoying my re-watch of Parks and Rec.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anbrC3x5r6Y
:D
Did you finish it? I remember you saying there was a season missing when you ran through it the first time.
'Ron and Leslie'. :drool:
Nah, I'm halfway through season 5 just now.
I watched the first episode of The Americans last night. It seems pretty good.
Anyone watch it?
Ron is quite possibly one of the greatest characters created.Quote:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHhLm7e6DnA
Fox are doing a Lethal Weapon remake with Damon Wayans in the Danny Glover role. :sick:
I wonder if ISIS do contract work.
I've been rewatching house the last few months. Just started season 4, which means...
http://cdn3-www.afterellen.com/asset...2808house1.jpg
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.....
I'm powering through Sons of Anarchy. It's brilliant stuff. So easy to watch and keep you hooked.
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Seven seasons Andy. Seven.Quote:
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It's pretty good but once you get to 3/4 you start to question where it's going. What season are you on?
The second season of that starts tonight. :drool:Quote:
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Really looking forward to it. It's the US that get to watch it tonight. UK Netflix tomorrow.
Is anyone going to watch that new thing that's started on HBO, "Vinyl"? It's about a record executive in the seventies. Martin Scorsese seems to have been involved in creating it (along with Mick Jagger, but I think he's a bit of a wanker so that doesn't really add much for me), and it looks like he directed the first episode too. Bobby Cannavale is in the lead role as well, I like that guy. I'll probably give it a go.
This is captivating.Quote:
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Just season 2 so not got to the meandering stage.Quote:
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Just watched. Seems pretty great! And Thirteen from house is in it ;) she's just above this post playing with her boobs :DQuote:
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Goes South once they get to the "moss-covered shithole," but it picks back up again. Worth the effort.Quote:
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I didn't realise it would be based in real life music history quite as much, that was cool. The guy playing Robert Plant was awful though. I don't know what accent he was supposed to be aiming for but it wasn't the right one, whatever it was meant to be. :D
Terence Winter, a man with one of the most incongruous career progressions of all time, is the most attractive presence on that project for me. Obviously Martin Scorsese is a draw but he's basically there as a hands off producer, a role in which he's put his name to all manner of shite.
For reference, Terence Winter went from writing for Sister, Sister, to Xena Warrior Princess, to The Sopranos, to Boardwalk Empire, with a few standalone projects including the 50 Cent film and computer game in between.
I watched the first episode of 'The Magicians' the other night, and while it's an absolute mess in general, the final scene is creepy and strange enough that I'll definitely be downloading at least another episode or two at some point.
Made a start on Gotham season 2 last night. Obviously some of the actors are still struggling to step through the wreckage of chewed scenery (I realise that the acting will be intended to be that way, to an extent) but it feels like an improvement over season 1 so far.
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Parks & Recreation has taken up full morning ruining, body clock warping form for me. I watched season 1 around the time that John was harping on about it and enjoyed it, but season 2 really hooked me and season 3 sees a step up in quality.
Need to catch up on that next. I think I got around 6 or 7 into it and the things like Making a Murderer took over. Was definitely a massive improvement on the first series.Quote:
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Did anyone else watch The People Vs OJ Sinpson last night? I quite enjoyed it and it's got a decent cast for a TV drama, but Travolta looks like a shit wax work of himself.
The sound track is top too.Quote:
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Here it is on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/user/vinylh...uwrdu1Bf9u19Ov
I watched 'Plebs' over the last couple of weeks. Thought it might be shit but it's pretty funny.
I wasn't thrilled by the new Saul episode, but I think it's setting up the season and will pick up in pace. It's always at least interesting though, the camera work and music etc give it quite a unique feel.
What did you think, @John and others?
Yo @phonics, when does Orphan Black start again?
I follow Tatiana on Twitter and she hasn't even mentioned being in filming. Not for a while I fear.
edit: Yeah just went into production. Filming won't start for a month or two. Maybe June?
http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/orph...rns-april-2016Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
http://www.ecumenicalnews.com/articl...soon/38148.htm
April.
Too long. :(
Started watching Deutschland 83 after my brother recommended it to me - he was born and raised in Germany in the late 70's/early 80's so he bloody loved it - and much to my surprise it has been very good so far, and the music is quality.
I thought it was great fun, but you have to stop yourself questioning the logic of quite a bit of it. It made East Germany look quite nice too.
I really enjoyed it, but I'm a massive fan of the show. I actually really like the slow considered pace of it and how low-key it is. Makes a nice contrast to more mile a minute stuff you tend to get from TV drama. I'm not gonna claim it is better than Breaking Bad but I honestly prefer it in a lot of ways.Quote:
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Yeah, I definitely know what you mean. It's less similar to Breaking Bad than I expected and I'm quite glad for that, it certainly stands on its own well. There were a couple episodes of the first season that were up there with the best TV I've seen.Quote:
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The only episode from the first season I'd put anywhere close to the best TV I've seen was also the only one to go for the same tone as Breaking Bad. The Mike Ehrmantraut episode.
I haven't watched the new one yet but I'll get to it at some point over the weekend.
I've started watching American Crime Story, has anybody else been watching it? It's basically a dramatisation of the OJ Simpson trial. Cuba Gooding Jr plays OJ, John Travolta and David Schwimmer are his lawyers. It seems really good so far.
Yea I mentioned it a little bit up the page. Really enjoyed the first one looking forward to the car chase episode tomorrow.Quote:
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I watched a couple of episodes of Superstore last night, and it's surprisingly good fun. The creator was a writer, and later a producer on The Office. Colton Dunn is fucking great.
I finished Deutschland 83, I thought it was really good. As Wullie said, you have to take it with a pinch of salt towards the end of the season, but it is still great. The music and the set design are proper 80's, and they pull it off with ease. Also the main guy, Jonas Nay, looks more like Daniel Agger in each episode.
The only thing that had me scratching my head was..
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Currently 9 episodes into the season 1 of American Horror Story. I still don't know if I'm enjoying it or not.
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Anybody watching Judd Apatow's new thing on Netflix, Love?
Couple episodes in it seems quite good. Definitely not a patch on Freaks & Geeks, but then very little is.
Just had my first TO BE CONTINUED on X-Files (S02E05) and it was so :drool:worthy.
Also saw the advert for the new series. Scully looks like a completely different person.
Finally watched the first episode of War and Peace.
Thought it was excellent, with the exception of the incest bit that wasn't in the book and didn't add anything. Looking forward to the rest.
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This American Crime Story is quite excellent. I just wish I could watch it all in one go.
Billions is actually pretty solid.
@Bernanke I'm actually watching the Americans now and not just taking the piss out of you. It's great.
S4 in three weeks. :drool: How far in are you?Quote:
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I'm really enjoying it, although Mickey is such a complete arsehole that the storyline feels a bit shaky. It's hard to accept he would still put up with her just because they spent one nice day together, especially when various other attractive women appear in the story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reg
But, it's funny enough that it doesn't need to be taken seriously. Renewed for a second season already too. If only the previously mentioned Freaks and Geeks had been made in the age of Netflix.
In the middle of season 2. I thought it was the fifth season that was coming out soon. Quite disappointed I'll have to watch it weekly sooner than I thought.Quote:
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Mrs Ari Gold popping up in season 2 of the X-Files couldn't save what is potentially the worst episode of anything I've ever seen. :nono:
I don't think I'll ever tire of Impractical Jokers.
It's great isn't it? The new season is just as good.
I've just watched the one where they're in the library and I was actually in tears. So simple but so good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnp46b6D74Y
The new series of Gotham is definitely an improvement but the Nygma storyline is boooooooooooooooring. Which is a shame because I think the actor is decent enough.
Sal doing the dentist is the best ever.
The first 15 minutes of an episode of The Good Wife just came on and we all went silent and got suddenly engrossed in it. I'm definitely copping the first season.
Hell yes, one of my favourite programmes.Quote:
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Watching A League of Their Own. Nicole Scherzinger is so hot. Admittedly, there's a lot of make up.
Just watched the first episode of the Night Manager. I renewed my license fee on Wednesday. I regret both of these decisions.
1. Don't treat Le Carre's work like its Fleming. He does not have a Bond.
2. You're lucky if you get a sentence in the books to imply two characters have fucked. Here you get a full-blown sex scene and some dodgy flashbacks. No need. Especially as Pine comes off in the book as a pervy tit who got his end away with a woman twice his age.
3. You don't need to zoom in on something several times to convey IMPORTANCE.
4. Neither do you need captions for locations when well-known landmarks are in shot. "Where are these Pyramids? CAIRO!? FANKS!"
I'm seeing it through to see how they handle some shit. Namely the thing that made me put the book down in shock. Plus I like Hugh Laurie.
She really is the worst, isn't she? I've just watched episode eight and I want to fucking kill her. I think they try and justify her behaviour by giving her these "issues" and trying to make her all complex and troubled, but even then she still comes across as a complete cunt.Quote:
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It's not a bad little show though, I'm enjoying it. Very watchable.
It's pretty good, and at times, it's excellent. The first 4 seasons or so in particular.Quote:
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It's currently on season 7, and the last few episodes that have come out have been total tripe though. It's really losing its way.
I finished "Love" last night.
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"Going somewhere" is overrated.
Watch Master of None next if you haven't already. It's similar but far better.
Yeah I liked Master of None, that was very good. The obsession with using their phones was a bit weird.
I watched the first two episodes of Love last night. I hope that they're just going to end up having adventures as friends as I buy them as a couple less than Britta and the big fat cult guy who lives with his mum.
Is it? The whole premise is as a humourous commentary on the lives of modern late twenties-mid thirties people. Queue forced quirkiness, awkward sex, awkward dates, lack of appreciation, sense of entitlement and the redemption of both failings... Why wouldn't being chained to a mobile device be a part of that?Quote:
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Ah fuck. As a massive le Carre fan I want this to be great, but have had a foreboding feeling that they'd fuck it up in exactly the kind of ways you outline.Quote:
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Ah fuck. As a massive le Carre fan I want this to be great, but have had a foreboding feeling that they'd fuck it up in exactly the kind of ways you outline.Quote:
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My biggest problem in episode 2 is Olivia Coleman's flat delivery. She's concentrating too hard to be Yorkshire. Tom's getting a bit too Hugh Grant. Overall, they're trying to make this like a film.
That's a fair interpretation but I didn't take the series as deliberate a plan as that. I think he just wanted to represent what his own life was like and have some laughs.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Merse
Neil fucking Morrissey is in this!? Source material's getting me through this. Its okay but they did this spy stuff so much better 30 years ago.
Yeah, that was some terrible casting. Paul Rust just looks like a Bo Selecta version of Sean Penn as well, which keeps putting me off. I liked what I've seen so far though.Quote:
Originally Posted by wullie
This looks pretty good as well. Very Arrested Development:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKOpvm7BcOo
Paul Rust, eh? I took one glance and thought it was Andy Dick. There's your silver lining.
What's wrong with Neil Morrissey? :D He was boss in Men Behaving Badly, although admittedly Martin Clunes carried some episodes, and I saw him as Fagan in Oliver Twist at the theatre and he made it worthwhile.Quote:
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He's not the man you want in Whitehall deciding government funding. That's what. Martin Clunes, perhaps.
Sadly, I'm now all caught up with The Americans :(
It's going to suck watching it weekly.
I'm on season three now and I'm dreading getting to that point.
I slowed down a lot in the hopes of, at the very least, episode one of the new season being out.
I failed miserably though.
Started Making a Murderer though...
How did no-one mention that a new season of House of Cards is out?
I've watched 2 episodes. Can't say I'm that excited really. I was kinda sick of Spaceys southern drawl by the end of S2 already.
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I also hated the constant fourth wall breaking so never made it past episode 1, which is a shame as it's so highly rated.
Fourth wall breaking?
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I liked it, but I don't think I absolutely loved it.
Spacey constantly talks directly to the viewer.Quote:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBV0yCVcRTY
Don't knock it.
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SO GOOD!
I was away to say the original did it too. It suits the nature of the show although it worked better for the first 2 seasons when there was more cunning and manipulation involved.
I'm the opposite - I love 4th-wall breaking stuff (but I'd agree it worked better in the first couple of seasons).
I wasn't that into last season so hopefully it'll pick itself up. I can see the story arc a mile off though: it'll be Frank vs. Claire, they'll reconcile towards the end and then she'll do a Hillary.
Watched the first of the new episodes of Happy Valley last night. I'm a bit concerned that the main story from last year and the main story from this one are linked because coincidence but otherwise a good start.
Done with War and Peace.
Decent as far as these things go. Obviously not an experience that compares in any way with reading the book.
Anyone seen the clown show with Zach Galifinakis? The trailer is kind of promising:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5yuV0q61s8
I am a cloun!
Louis CK involved, might get on it.
It's really good. I think it is, anyway. It's got a really nice mixture of straight up comedy, weirdness and genuine ,often quite touching, little moments.
The casting of a bloke (Louie Anderson) as his mother on it is legitimately brilliant. Not in a "haha, it's a man in a dress" way either, he's actually fantastic in it.
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Watching Sunday's Night Manager at the minute. That surveillance sequence was fucking awful. Makes Burr look like a fucking shambles of a spy. Also, she got pregnant quick. Okay, Pine's perving on women again.
At least the office stuff was well done. Dunno why they've given Burr a workplace extra-marital relationship. Presumably to give the bloke out the Fast Show some more lines.
Watching Men Behaving Badly on Gold.
It's still bloody brilliant.
I love it. It's one of the comedies I have on rotation for watching in bed.Quote:
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House of Cards season four is done. Probably the best since the first, especially the second half of the season after the 'event'. They made it crazier and hammier and made less attempts to make serious deep political points. Entertaining stuff.
I'm up to Episode 9 just after the meeting with Underwood and Conway. I saw people complaining that 'nothing has happened' when something seems to happen 4-5 times an episode. Some of them have felt long though.
I think it was the best season together with S1. Conway was really entertaining to watch and was a nice foil to Underwood.
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"My apology. You a mother fucker. MR. PRESIDENT"
Finished season 3 of The Americans yesterday. Is the new one out yet?
16th of March :(Quote:
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I miss not having an episode to watch.
As someone who binged it, rank the seasons for me please.Quote:
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I don't really know. They kind of just blur into one since I did binge it.
Two episodes in to the latest season of House of Cards and I don't think I can be arsed with it any more. The last season was pretty meh all round and this seems very much the same. I just don't care about anyone in it. They're all shits.
I liked season four a lot more than season three. Without giving anything away, if you're a couple of episodes in I would give it at least another two episodes before giving up on it Boyd.
S1 > S4 > S2 > S3 imo. 3 was really bad.
Season 3 of Broad City has started. I hadn't realised. Just watched the first episode. It was brilliant. This is probably the best comedy about at the minute, I reckon.
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Also going to have a look at that.
Started on Flaked today. Seems okay but nothing at all like Arrested Development.
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Heather Graham though :drool:
I watched an episode of Broad City just after the first season finished and it all seemed a bit tryhard. There were a couple of chuckles but it seemed like a first attempt from people who might do something brilliant in future.
I'll give it another go at some point if it's being talked up to that extent.
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Did anybody else watch Stag on the Beeb over the last few weeks? I went in with low expectations and thought most of the characters being arseholes would ruin it but I rather enjoyed it in the end. Doesn't do anything that numerous load-of-people-being-picked-off-by-a-killer things haven't done before but it was done quite well.
I watched all three and thought it was complete horseshit. Shame because I can't think of a single thing Reece Sheersmith has got mixed up in that I haven't loved. The 'twist' was blindingly obvious, none of the characters - even Ian - was remotely likeable and while I know it's supposed to be a silly black comedy, I couldn't engage myself in a show that portrayed such OTT 'blokey, matey, laddish' friendships that just don't exist to that extent. And the fact the environment would have killed them before anything else. It's even more the shame it was done so badly bdcause it wasn't a half-bad idea. A stag do where the (quite literal) hunters become the hunted.
I just expected it to be darker and more twisted, closer to something like The League of Gentlemen. Or perhaps I just got carried away when I saw Sheersmith was in it.
Jeremy Kyle has a show now where he leers at 'brave' people in hospital. Highlights include a full shot of a transgender's new cock.
I think they do, sadly. Just not amongst people who aren't bastards.Quote:
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I get why you might hate it though. There's a lot that probably would have annoyed me were it a film rather than having it an hour at a time.
I'm finally working my way through season 7 of Parks and Rec and just watched "Leslie and Ron." Can't remember which episode it reminds me of ("Ron and Tammy", maybe?) in terms of Ron/Leslie interaction but it's just brilliant. Ron and Leslie's reasons for their particular predicament in the previous few episodes are totally in keeping with their characters (and in Ron's case, in keeping with his development through the various series of the show) and both acted their parts superbly.
That's the one I've cited in the past as probably my favourite episode of the whole thing. There are laughs, but it shifts and does the emotional stuff brilliantly. Not far off a perfect episode in my eyes.
It's funny how, because of the characters, a relatively small thing (the catch-up at JJs that never happened), is a genuinely big moment. They didn't have to concoct some daft scenario to trigger the break-down in their relationship.
Absolutely. It's all so well drawn that they can make a small moment like that a big thing in the lives of the characters and it doesn't take any manufactured drama to make it real. It's a silly comedy with people uncontrollably farting and sneezing themselves into concussions, but I struggle to think of any show that's nailed the relationships as well, romantic or otherwise.
Not to the extent where people turn a blind eye to their 'mates' being killed. That, to me, just breaks any kind of narrative in it. You just don't get a group of 6-8 friends were ALL of them lacks any kind of empathy whatsoever. Blegghhh, I think I'm/we are reading too much into it. It was just shit frankly.Quote:
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Four episodes into Flaked now and sadly have to conclude that it's just a bit crap.
The Americans starts tonight. :nodd:
Finally.
Really looking forward to new Daredevil on Friday. They release the episodes in a one-r right?
Yep.
Can't wait to knock that out this weekend.
Oh and in related news, Luke Cage is getting his series on the 30th of September.
Cage, Iron Fist then whatever their mini-Avengers is going to be called, right? Maybe another series of Jessica Jones.
Definitely another series of Jessica Jones, they're developing it now.
They've cast Ser Loras to be Iron Fist.
I've just remembered that they've also commissioned a Punisher series after liking the character so much in Daredevil.
OMG The Flash and Supergirl crossover ep 28th March
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Daredevil season 2 has started so damn well.
Sons of Anarchy hasn't really dipped for me and I'm near the end of season 4. It's not as good as something like the shield but a solid Milner.
Done with Daredevil.
Really didn't think I'd carve through it that quickly as I was actually hoping I'd watch the last few whilst flying to Poland next week. I thought it was great though and just couldn't stop the 'Oh just one more' voice in my head.
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Finished House of Cards the other day. It was a big improvement from season 3 and I'm excited to see where they go in the new season.
Frank. :cool:
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I'm a couple more episodes further along than you Ian, but I agree about episode three.
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Realised something that needed correcting, the other day: I've never seen Freaks And Geeks.
Watched the first (of 18?) episode before. Seems totally ace!
The girl who plays Lindsay is sooooooo :drool: too.
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Send a pm this way on where you're watching it. I've seen it a long time ago (swear it was on channel 4 or something) but wouldn't mind giving it another go.
Finished second series of Daredevil. Really good.
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I got to the end of episode eight last night.
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The character is supposed to be Greek but as you say, christ knows what accent she was doing.
Isn't she French?
The actress is (she was born there and her mother is French but her Dad is from Cambodia) but Elektra is Greek. However, during the series the accent is all over the fucking shop.Quote:
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Elektra is so fit! She looks like my ex :(
I'm sure she does, if you squint hard enough that is.
And now I'm done with Parks and Recreation. That last season is wildly inconsistent and the last episode in particular I thought was generally disappointing with a few nice moments (Ron's job being one of them), feeling like a clip/flashback show in reverse. And those episodes are always terrible.
Still, it gave us possibly my favourite episode they've ever done so I shan't complain.
Favourite being Ron and Leslie? That was just delightful.
Outside of that episode the best moments in the final season were all throwaway joke, but that one episode basically justified the whole thing.
Archer is back in just over a week \0/.
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I put The Office on in the background the other day and I've found myself watching the whole thing again. The writing is second to none.
Big Keith gets me every time-
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Exactly that. It was probably the "true" dramatic finale of the season/series. Everything after that was kind of epiloguey, and you got the feeling it was just tying up all the loose ends.Quote:
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Keith from the Office appeared on my 'people you may know' thing on Facebook the other day. So somehow we have a friend in common :D
What the hell is the problem with US schedulers??
Brooklyn Nine Nine started on September 27th, 2015... it had a two week break at the start of October, another at the end of October, another at the end of November, another in the middle of January, another at the beginning of March one in the middle of March... what is the point? Surely they can't be chasing viewing figures this sporadically?
Is it on one of those channels deep into election coverage?
Could be. Still, B99 > US Elections.
I had a look at Craig Ferguson's new thing earlier and the only conclusion to be drawn from it is that he made a huge error leaving that late night show he was doing. He's now doing a twenty minute 'debate' show on the History channel and it's fucking atrocious. Worth watching once just to appreciate what a throbber he is for binning his old job.
3 episodes into series one of Fargo and it's absolutely crap.
It's a coen brothers project. Of course it's wank.
To be honest I never knew that and it would probably have been enough to make me avoid it altogether.Quote:
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It's really annoying. Bob's Burgers has been all over the place as well.Quote:
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Fargo is great. And it's not a Coen Brothers project, they're listed as producers in return for their blessing but they're not actually involved.
Oh thank god, I might watch it now those talentless hacks the Coens aren't involved.
I feel like there's an inside joke that I'm missing out on.
I'm sort of getting the feeling Max is related to them.Quote:
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Fargo is worth watching.
I thought so too, but I think 3 episodes was a fair shot. I'm still going to give the second series a go though seeing as the stories aren't related.
Watched an episode of Black Sails earlier. It's fairly standard piratey fare, but I might watch more of it for the sake of the woman who plays Max, who is extraordinary.
Jessica Parker Kennedy. :drool:
It's one of the best shows there's been in recent years. Season 2 pips the first.Quote:
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I won't be watching any more of the first series but I'll give the second a go this week as I'm off work for the week and there's not much else drawing me in.Quote:
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I started watching The Night Manager. I'm quite enjoying it. Haven't read the book so not sure how it matches up with that which I saw some of you complaining about.
Watched legends of tomorrow and it could be so much better. The American propaganda + obvious ends kill the show. Still I follow it week after week. I can only explain because of my man crush on Wentworth Miller. He is so hypnotizing gorgeous.
Impossible not wanting to see that man again. He must be the most gorgeous man on earth.
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Did you watch Broad City yet?Quote:
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So Catastrophe is now owned exclusively by Amazon Prime in America. Channel 4 hasn't made a decision on it yet over here for Season 3. Fucking wank.
Last night's Brooklyn Nine Nine was a bit strange.
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I've just finished watching Breaking Bad and thought it was fantastic. It's betweem Sons of Anarchy, Peaky Blinders and Narcos for my next binge. Opinions?
That's sort of the problem with the whole Pimento thing. It just doesn't fit the tone at all.Quote:
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I thought that episode was genuinely crap, probably the first bad episode they've done. It took two good ideas from Parks and managed to make both seem cheap and shit.
Sons of Anarchy gets rave reviews but I thought it went very quickly to shit after the second season. Couldn't get into Peaky Blinders at all. Narcos is good.Quote:
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Have you seen The Americans?
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Definitely wasn't a good episode. Series on the whole has been weak in comparison to what went before but that was as bad as it's been. I think it was @wullie said it before too, bit it's at it's best in episodes based around a case.
It's decent enough during the first season but the second season is brilliant and the third isn't too shabby either.Quote:
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Was finally getting round to starting series 2 of Fargo and the fucking thing isn't on Netflix :moop:
Is The Americans on Netflix? If not where could I watch it? We binned Sky.
All 3 seasons on Swedish Netflix at least.Quote:
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I've watched a couple of episodes of Flaked on Netflix. It's inoffensive and entertaining enough I suppose, in a mildly watchable sort of way. I'm just having a hard time buying into the premise though. Man in his mid-forties, acting like he's in his twenties and talking like he's a teenager just hanging around all day doing nothing. It all just seems a bit sad. Yet he's somehow managed to effortlessly get himself stuck between two very attractive women who are seemingly about half his age.
It's basically a slacker re-hash of Californication I suppose. Duchovny had a lot more about him though. Hank Moody wasn't a mopey, hipster drip and his exploits were at least semi-believable. I don't think Arnett really fits the role he's playing.
Amazon Prime have got it in the UK I believe, Spikey. The first two seasons anyway.Quote:
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Someone give me a new show to watch. Something with plenty of action or plenty of plot twists and turns.
Have you watched Person of Interest yet, you bastard?
Plough through the first season knowing it's not great because the rest of it is a million times better than anything Mr. Robot does.
White Collar is fun if you like con man capers, it's a complete rip off of that English show but done with a budget and far more compelling actors.
Download Southland if you haven't seen it. Maybe not big on twists and turns and it's olf, but it's still the best thing I've seen in a long time.Quote:
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Must watch it again soon myself.
White Collar is bilge. If you're after that sort of quirky caper nonsense then Leverage is what you want.
Underground is incredibly promising, Boyd. It's only four episodes in so not something you'll be able to whizz through, but you've got to admire the balls it takes to embark upon a Prison Break style show set in a cotton plantation and the skill it to have it not be blisteringly offensive.
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Also saying the first season isn't great isn't going to entice me much.
I saw that on Kodi and thought it sounded like an interesting idea but I think I'll wait until more than four episodes are out before I start it.Quote:
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A machine spits out the social security numbers of people about to be involved in crime, and a reclusive billionaire teams up with a special forces wrecking ball to stop that crime.
I'll let Phonics fill you in on the many great parallels to actual surveillance shittery. I didn't last long with it.
Sounds like a shit Minority Report.
Also, I see they've made a TV show of Rush Hour. Jesus christ.
The ads are on E4 all week for it. Looks horrendous.Quote:
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Fox are doing a Lethal Weapon TV show with Damon Wayans in the Danny Glover role. I think I only watch Brooklyn Nine Nine of their output, so unfortunately I might have to boycott that in protest.
How does something like Rush Hour or Lethal Weapon even work as a TV show?
Archer is back. :drool:
I'd say we're about to find out that they don't.Quote:
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With a cracking opener too.Quote:
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It's just the odd couple detectives. Take the central dynamic and plug it into a load of generic crimes in such a way that the dynamic somehow leads to the answer.Quote:
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Fox in particular are churning those things out at an alarming rate. The other week they started a program where the devil, the actual figurehead of hell, is a hedonistic nightclub owner in Los Angeles and by the end of the first episode he'd teamed up with a policewoman to solve a murder.
I've decided I'm going to watch The Killing. I loved The Bridge so I'm hoping it'll be pretty similar.
I was also considering The Wire and The Shield as I've been meaning to watch both of those for ages but I can't find them online. I specifically want the remastered version of The Wire because those black bars down the side because of the 4:3 aspect ratio of the original piss me off. Do people not really do torrents much any more? There seems to be piss all on pirate bay.
I'd invite you to BTN but I have no invites, sorry.
Also, the original version or the American? I've watched the American version and I'd recommend that you give it a miss, it's pretty fucking shit.
Original.
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Banshee is back. :drool:
The Shield is also fucking excellent Boydy so it'll be well worth your time getting on that.
Started Lucifer and is showing potential.
I watched the first episode of Lucifer a while ago, and it's fucking shite. Embarrassingly bad.
Banshee is off to a strange start. They're doing a sort of flashback structure and they've sidelined their best character for the moment.
I do admit I have a crush for charismatic arrogant bad guys but I think It was good for a pilot. What you saw That was so bad?
Everything. The only redeeming feature was a decent central performance. I had a lol at the concept in post 1317, so I'll leave that for now.
It was laughably predictable, the dialogue was terrible, and the characters were all cardboard cutouts with one exception.
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Cooked is quite good. The second episode is subpar, but the other three are very enjoyable.
It was really top-notch. I"m glad they're back doing proper spy stuff.Quote:
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Apparently this is a four-episode+ arc, which should be fun.
Recently downloaded all these through Prime and was massively impressed given that I went into it with serious reservations. Is it worth shelling out for the third season or does it all go a bit DexterQuote:
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Watching this new ITV drama from the The Bridge people and while it's reasonably intriguing and well played, Anna Friel has had an appallingly bad cosmetic procedure done that's stealing every scene.
Is it as bad as Leslie Ash's?
It's not a trout pout situation, her top lip is just completely immobile, protrudes a bit too much, and looks a bit scabby.
She used to be lovely too.
No, the third season is well worth it. The fourth has started well, too. Definitely keep going.Quote:
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Watched another Gotham episode and don't get why it got so much pepper from y'all. I dare to say it is the best TV show running at the moment.
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Cheers lads. Will be on it when payday rolls around then.
I've watched four episodes of this after noticing it on Amazon Prime. I'm not sure whether to carry on or not. The story telling is a bit all over the place at the moment, but hopefully settles down. The episodes feel too long a lot of the time too. It's a bit of a slog an hour at a time. I probably will give it a bit longer, seeing as Mahow says it gets better. Plus, you know, pirates. Pirates are great.Quote:
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Since we don't seem to have a general TV thread anymore and it would be deeply inappropriate to put it in the working class TV thread, has anyone been watching this series of Stewart Lee? Most of it I think has been brilliant, but in this last one ('Migrants') when he's going on about the food on Rod Liddle I had to hold my hands up and say I had absolutely no idea what he's on about.
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If you've ever seen Stewart Lee then you'll know that half his act is wanking on basically about how he belongs in this thread and not that one, so it's only fair.
Did we ever have a general TV thread?Quote:
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I watched the first couple but haven't got round to the latest one yet. He seems to be going big on the 'everyone watching is a twat' stuff this series, and it very quickly becomes hard work when he starts that. The Graham Norton stuff was absolutely brilliant though.
We had one on the old board which was basically for anything thay wasn't one of the big American series that went in the Golden Age thread. The closest we have here is the Reality and Shite one.
We had that 'TV Guide' thread which served the same purpose the other one here is now.
Also, who told you you had to put The Simpsons in the other one?
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Plus it was more about the screen format rather than content.
Another example of you imagining snobbery where none exists, then. The Simpsons is brilliant.
Second point still stands though, and we don't have a technical TV thread.
Dunno when I last watched a new episode of the Simpsons. Good three of four years, I'd say.
I'm not sure what changed or what stopped getting shown elsewhere but it seems to be on in our house a lot more lately.
The Killing is great. Cliffhangers at the end of every episode though. I always want to watch another. It's midnight and I'm quite tired and have been all day but I want to watch another one and tomorrow is Friday. Ugh, I'm definitely gonna watch another one.
Odds on Boydy pulling a Yev and watching all of it before going to bed?
I turned the latest episode of Brooklyn off halfway through. This arc is not good.
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My internet died so that must be a sign I should go to bed.
This weeks episode of The Americans :|
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I watched the US version of The Killing and thought it was alright. Does the original have the same story?
I have no idea.
Black Sails got really good towards the end of the first season (last two episodes were ace, mainly because they actually started doing some pirate-y stuff) so I've ploughed through into season two. Hopefully it keeps up the good work.
Marcella continues to be impenetrable yet intriguing, and Anna Friel's cosmetic surgery continues to steal the show.
A scene featuring a camwhore being threatened has just drawn the comment 'imagine doing that as a job, her heating bill must be sky high' from my gran. Spot on, gran.
It's weird, I've now caught up with Quantico (the show that I mentioned was Saved By The Bell meets Weekly Cop Show) and it's SO much better since the break. Every episode deals with the characters struggles in a much more intelligent way. There's far less emphasis on the training stuff being involved with people making out, it has emotion without being Glee meets the FBI. I can only hope they end this series well and then end it, and since that's never happening I can only hope that everything wraps up nicely and we end up moving onto a different generation of agents or something. For once I doff my hat to the schedulers as I'd never have lasted 23 episodes of it's first run.
This story is working perfectly towards a climax with you never knowing who the bad guy is and once they reveal it, it'll become the most boring "I WAS A GREAT AGENT AND THE FBI SCREWED ME" (it's clearly an insider, but who and for what is always a good plotline) good cop / bad cop thing that every show does.
edit: Although one character is probably the least convincing autist you've ever seen. His act seems to be appearing gormless and out of breath and then saying everything as quickly as possible. It's terrible even though the base character is interesting.
Orphan Black is back!
@phonics
Castle, Arrow, Quantico and now Orphan Black. TV is back boys.Quote:
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They're giving Orphan Black one of those talkshow things, and HBO will be doing the same for Game of Thrones. I'd say those better not become a thing, but they already are. Such nonsense.
Castle. :sick:
On season 5 of X-files now. This is around the time when I started watching it more sporadically, back in the day.
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Talk show things...? As in the actors sit around and talk about the show, or... ?
It's basically a podcast about the episode that just ended but on TV.Quote:
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Chris Hardwick from The Nerdist did it for Walking Dead and now every show seems to want one.
Ooh, right. I think I may have seen something similar in Sweden about some show (probably game of thrones).
That is absolutely fucking retarded. It's like filming a bunch of spotty geeks discussing whether Trek or Wars is best, or what the perks of different versions of Dungeons & Dragons.
The update at the start of the new Orphan Black season is not nesrly comprehensive enough given how long it hasn't been on. I can barely remember what happened.
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Christ knows who is actually going to watch it.
Nope. Not having that.
And that's a film which wasn't that good to begin with being trodden on. Imagine when the Lethal Weapon trailer appears. :sick:
That Angie Tribeca thing looks so so awful.
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I've only seen the one currently running on E4 and it looks terrible. Is it worth a go then?Quote:
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If you like The Naked Gun, yes.Quote:
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The humour is very similar.
Season two of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has appeared with very little fanfare. That's tonight's viewing sorted.
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Watched Daredevil recently which was pretty awesome. Also House Of Cards is warming up nicely. Shit just got real
You watched both series of Daredevil and Jessica Jones, Raoul? All three are great.
Arrow is so lol. It's really bad but I can't stop watching (apart from the Flash focused episodes, I skip them)
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Watched one episode of Kimmy Schmidt last night and I've been humming, whistling, and singing the theme song all day today. It's a disgrace.
No, it's a miracle!
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I'll be interested to see how they time the releases of Iron Fist and then The Defenders. I suppose given the relative patience Marvel have shown so far it might not be until 2018 that we get The Defenders unless they go to 3+ Netflix series a year to fit in all four of the characters they have planned and more often.
It's scheduled to begin filming in 'late 2016' after Iron Fist which is filming right now.
I'd guess Iron Fist around March 2017, then Defenders in June and Jessica Jones season 2 around September/October.
The amount of Malcolm In The Middle on ComedyXtra is making slobbing in front of the telly far too easy.
Forgot how funny it is.
It's brilliant, isn't it? I binge through it every now and then.
:nodd: Loved it as a kid and just as good now, a lot of clever jokes and storytelling.
The second season of Kimmy Schmidt was about on a par with the first one in pure comedy terms, but they managed to address some of the darkness of that backstory and slip some emotional stuff in. The third episode was a bit crap overall but, much like 30 Rock, there are still enough brilliant throwaway jokes in each episode to sustain it.
The third was one of those 'address the critics' things, but it had the sight gag of a gay black man in whiteface playing a Geisha so that's fine.
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Every single character is so well developed you can't help but love them all. Craig. :wub:
Hadn't really thought about that but you're right, there's more depth to the characters than most comedies.
Hal's half-crying exasperation is always great. He's got to be up there with the best telly actors of the last twenty ish years.
He is, but for Breaking Bad only. I could never really get into Malcolm in the Middle. It's not terrible, I just never saw the genius other people seemed to be watching.
I went off it slightly when Jamie came in to it.
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I'm up to Season 3 of the West Wing after failing to stick to the 'West Wing Weekly' schedule.
Two Cathedrals is massively over-rated but apart from that, and a few moments of horrific sexism, still great.
Marcella is still all over the place but I'm finding it oddly watchable. That could be because I'm locked into finishing it due to watching with my gran and so have resigned myself to it, but I reckon it's pulling the standard Scandi-Noir trick of doing just enough to keep you in while telling you basically fuck all. It's written by the same bloke behind The Bridge, so it should come as no surprise that it has a mentally abnormal female detective at the centre of it, yet the fucker keeps finding new ways to make her be a cunt.
I'm gonna binge that once it's over because I fucking loved The Bridge.
I'm on season 2 of The Killing right now and it's great too. The Scandis know how to make good TV.
Nobody ever laughs, audience included. They can weave a narrative, but fuck me it's grim.
Is The Night Manager worth watching?
Watched all of Episodes, great show.
I'd tend to agree apart from Hugh Laurie's constant 'Jed daaaaarling'.
Archer has been amazing this season. Strength to strength.
They're really making perfect use of the characters, in a way that can only come from writers who really understand what they've created. The animation quality has improved dramatically, and it's also gotten a little darker. Some of the fight scenes, like the bare knuckle clown beatdown in the new episode, are pretty brutal. None of them rival to the fight scene they did entirely with sound over the phone an episode or two back though, which was equal parts horrifying and darkly hilarious.
If the second half of this two-parter is as good as the first, then it's up there with the best they've ever done.
I recorded the first episode of Angie Tribeca after hearing the Naked Gun comparisons but by fuck it is absolutely horrendous, worst thing I've seen on TV in a long time. Maybe it improves after the first episode, it can only go up.
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I don't mind the parody, I really like that type of thing, I just thought everything from the jokes to the story to the acting let it down.
I thought it had some promise, but bits like the parkour chase went on about five times longer than it should have.
RE: Archer I've really struggled to stay interested after about four episodes of Archer Vice. Should I persevere?
You could skip it.
The season after is pretty good and the current season is brilliant.
The Vice season wasn't terribly interesting but six was excellent. I haven't watched any of this year yet. I prefer to let each season of that finish before touching it.
That did go on far too long. They got a bit better at incorporating that sort of endlessly running joke into the background of other scenes as it went on though. That said, they actually did it much better earlier in the same episode too with the mad slap fight between Giles and Edge, so maybe it was just an aberration.Quote:
Originally Posted by wullie
This current season of Archer has started as strong as the show has ever been I think. The PI angle works really well, and there's less running jokes into the ground. (COCAINE-PAM)
My friend showed me this earlier and I'm with you it's awful, comparing it to Naked Gun let alone Police Squad is a travesty. And it has a stupid name.Quote:
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Gotham's gone a bit shit again.
Punisher series on Netflix confirmed: http://arstechnica.co.uk/the-multive...tflix-details/
Berenthal is great as Punisher and many of the last season of Daredevil's best scenes/episodes featured him heavily. The third episode in particular, with the rooftop scene.
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I think this might be the best season yet.
Person of Interest is back :drool:
Still haven't picked up on Orphan Black mind.
I'm not sure if it's purely a case of me expecting it to be so much better but I'm still finding Gotham to be complete horse wank.
I had to watch this weeks episode in 2 chunks because I couldn't get through it in one sitting.
The worst part is that I know I can't just give up on it :\
They only went and built a super computer out of PS3's due to the cell system :drool:
What a show.
I started watching Peaky Blinders the other day. Cracking series so far. Even Sam Neil's amusingly fluctuating accent can't knock it off track.
Just coming to the end of the second series now, and it's been ace
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The latest season of The Americans has been fantastic, if they nail the finale in a few weeks (which they will because they always do) then this will have been the best of the lot.
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I really liked the second episode of Angie Tribeca last night. Not sure if it was actually better than the first or I just was a bit too jaded when I watched it.
I really enjoyed Angie Tribeca when I fist watched it. However, when I went back to it when I wasn't in such a good mood - it did my head in. You definitely need to be in a good/silly mood to enjoy it.
Started House of Cards. 5 episodes in.
Bit "meh" so far.
I'd suggest watching the entire first series. If you're still not a fan, don't bother with the rest.
I'm enjoying season 4 a lot more than I did 3. It's pretty good again.
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The latest season was great I thought. Far better than the previous one.
Is it just me or is Orphan Black not as good this season?
I'm getting a bit bored with it. Although I think it might be because I binged watch the other seasons but have been following this one weekly. That really kills the flow of a TV show for me.
Fucking Netflix doesn't have season 3 of The Killing and I can't find it via Kodi with English subtitles or on any torrent sites either. Bloody annoying.
Searching for its Danish name brought some results. Should have thought of that before, really.
Marcella went full Scandi, and then about three hundred miles past that tonight, lingering on a particularly distasteful death in a way that didn't really feel earned.
Can't find the proper thread so I'm just going to post it here.
Did anyone see the documentary about a family of refugee's from Syria on Channel 4 just then? Really compelling viewing.
I had very high hopes for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, but it really just isn't very good. You can tell they knew as well, when they brought Tina Fey into a recurring role in the second season, but even that didn't help it enough.
I liked the first season a lot but just couldn't get into the second at all.
Dave Gorman's got a new thing on Dave, though it appears to be just the "best bits" from Modern Life is Goodish with, supposedly, some unseen footage. I'll still watch it despite no doubt having seen 90% of it before.
This weeks episode of Archer was brilliant.
Krieger is such a don.
I loved that they continued the gag of mirroring the story for so long.
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Evel Nazi Bob Ross Knievel. :D
Two episodes into Billions and it's pretty great.
Yeah I'm enjoying it too. Think we've just finished episode 4. The only issue I'm having is that I'm often forgetting the names of minor characters, so when they briefly mention them in conversation, I'm left wondering who they're talking about.
And Billions only got better towards the second half of the season. The finale has some of the best character scenes I've seen on TV in a long time.
Chucks wife is pretty much my dream wife as well, aside from when she pisses on him.
Also, on a sidenote, I don't think there is a TV show that I've watched that hasn't had this chap appear in it at some point.
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He's in everything.
I've only seen him in Suits and this, but I love him so much in Billions. Best character.
Edit: Damn, forgot that he's Gale from Breaking Bad.
Preacher starts on Sunday. :drool:
What are ITV up to with the last episode of Marcella? They've showed the whole thing on seven consecutive Mondays, then they're changing it to a Tuesday night for the last one. It's as if they're not comfortable unless it's going up against football for viewers.
Legends of Tomorrow is largely awful (Wentworth Miller and Arthur Darvill are the best things in it, for fuck's sake) and yet here I am, not deleting it from my planner. Were it not for my loathing of Batman vs. Superman I'd be thinking I'd become immune to the shitness of comic book films/TV.
It is indeed fairly shit but I do find it being quite watchable.
The only thing I dislike Miller in the show is his accent though, it's so shit.
He was appallingly bad on The Flash. It was like he was unhappy with his contract and trying to get the sack.
It's the way he INSISTS on emphasising every SENTENCE in the SAME WAY I find irritating.
I suppose it PREVENTS HIM from having to DISPLAY any ACTUAL EMOTIONS.
I wonder what made the Marcella people go full fucking horror film for a couple of moments there, the cunts. Take away all the ancillary stuff that was presumably there to serve as table setting for a second series and I reckon they could have told that story in about three episodes.
I guess TV's golden age is over.
Everything that's ever been popular is getting remade or rebooted. Some things look quality, like Westworld, but all the 'network' stuff just looks like putrid shit.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been remade, for fuck's sake.
Gotham really is pits.
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I honestly don't know how much longer I can keep watching.
It seems that CBS are trying to crank out Person of Interest as quickly as possible. The 13 run season has the following air dates:
May 3rd, May 9th, May 10th, May 16th, May 17th, May 23rd, two on May 24th, May 30th, May 31st, June 7th, June 14th and finally June 21st.
Other broadcasters should do the same.
Yeah Gotham's gone shit again.
Decided to start on Orphan Black. I'm pissed that I've only just decided to try it out, it's damn good.
To continue the "everything is getting rebooted for TV and it all looks shit" theme, do we really need a television version of Training Day?
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"No, we do not", would be the answer to that.
The film is a classic, but it was a fucking training day. Singular. How does that even work over the course of a series? It doesn't even make sense.
24 managed it.
It'll be complete arse, like the rest of them. It does seem odd that about fifteen film properties are suddenly being made into TV shows though. Are they all owned by the same struggling production company or something?
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It is bizarre. I've no idea what's kicked it off, but hopefully it's short-lived.
Speaking of which, they actually are rebooting 24 as well, with Dr. Dre from the NWA film taking the main role.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOWpUB_Xdqs
I think I'll struggle to care about it without Jack, to be honest.
I actually like the look of that.
They'd have been better off calling it something different though.
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I've also finished off the first season of Orphan Black and it really is great.
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The video has been put back up on the original Youtube account but that's proper fucking shit from Fox.
The guy now has over 100k views so he's probably happy with the eventual outcome.
I know I've made this point already, but Archer is on one hell of a roll at the moment. The most recent episode was one of the weaker in this season, and still managed to knock it out of the park.
Finished Billions this afternoon. I thought it was excellent, and a very good season finale too. Can't wait for the second season to start, just a shame I've got such a long wait.
Paul Giamatti continues to show why he's one of Hollywood's finest.
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Preacher is off to a terrifically fun start. Joseph Gilgun was presumably cast off the back of his turn playing a headcase in Lockout, because his character is a complete fucking nutter. Absolutely bonkers.
The way they've scheduled it is a bit shit, with the first episode showing last night then being repeated next week followed by 'Talking Preacher', before normal service resumes the following week. A two week gap between premiere and the second episode doesn't seem like the way to build a fanbase, although I suppose people like me will be gravy when the built in audience from the comics is apparently so huge.
I'd heard they were adapting it but had no idea it was out already. Still yet to read Preacher but I loved Garth Ennis's The Boys and Dredd's so I've been wanting to do so for a while.Quote:
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Hopefully not as pish poor as the Punisher adaptation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNgI2sRzr8IQuote:
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It's an old trailer, but it offers a taste of what they're doing and every trailer AMC have released since is region locked to the US.
I can't to speak to how faithful the adaptation is, though if it's as unfilmable as I've heard then it's almost certainly not very faithful, but it's a lot of fun.
The Americans has been renewed for another two years, with the sixth definitely being the last.
That's probably good that they know far enough in advance when it's going to finish.
I'd quite like to see them still there come the fall of the Soviet Union and what happens then.
The end date was set by the showrunners rather than the network too, which is always good news.
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Oh and I've now finished the first three seasons of Orphan Black.
It's such a shitter that I'm pretty much all caught up now :(
Helena though :cool:
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Probably called him a big bum boy.
Silicon Valley is the best thing going right now. The callback to Russ in the latest episode was brilliant.
Jared. Nice. Using that dick.
The guys credits are a who's who of Globe winning TV when you take into account his cameos but Damages, Breaking Bad, The Wire and Flight of the Concords as a proper regular is pretty good really.Quote:
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This weeks episode is probably the best one of this season. This season is shaping up to be the best so far, too.
Done with my Seinfeld rerun. :(
Peaky Blinders is pretty good. As in HBO good.
All the accents are terrible though.
Sell me on Silicone Valley?
Now I've finished Freaks and Geeks, I need something else to watch.
I've finally got around to starting The Wire properly. Three episodes in. I'm enjoying it so far.
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Jealous right now.
Looking forward to the favourite season discussion already!
After what has probably been it's weakest year so far Arrow didn't even do it's usual trick of massively uppong it's game for the last episode or two of the season to the same extent. Not sure about the Flash finale either.
Not sure what to watch while I've briefly got a bit of a lull in stuff I'm recording. Just powering through Archer to hit the good stuff is an option but there are loads of other things I still need to watch. Might make a start on Sons of Anarchy.
Imagine getting to sit down and watch The Wire for the first time.
Are you watching the original DVD version or the wide screen HD remastered version?
I've never seen The Wire either. I've heard it's tough to get into, so I keep putting off starting it.
The Arrow SubReddit was so angered by the finales that they've rebranded it a Daredevil subreddit and banned all discussion of it :DQuote:
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It has been really, really crap this year.
Hah. :D I quite like the stuff in whatever-that-place-was-called in the second-last episode of Arrow but the whole thing seemed like a waste and the flashbacks are increasingly a waste of time and I don't know why they don't bin them off.
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I've actually lost all ability to follow Person of Interest, I wake up one day and there's 4 new episodes and nothing for a few weeks and then 2 more pop up. So I'm waiting till they finish the season and start again.
I think I got into The Wire by catching a later episode and getting into that one, then going back to the start. Same with Walking Dead, the first episode of that I ever saw was when Rick was stuck in the house with that gang of bandits.
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I don't mean I started from that one and didn't watch what came before it, that was just the first episode I caught by chance which got me into it to then go back and watch from the start.
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Ah ok. I don't think that episode spoils too much, all I knew about the show was that Egg from This Life was somehow the star so him making it though was a safe assumption. I'd forgot all about Michonne by the time she popped up during the proper watchthrough luckily, and fuck Carl either ways.
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The only initial difficulty in The Wire is understanding what's actually being said. If you're familiar with the lingo, or able to follow, then it's an addictive breeze.
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TV shows I haven't watched but think I should include Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad, The Americans, Justified, Deadwood .... er, I'm sure there are half a dozen more that I occasionally remember that I keep meaning to watch.
I quite fancy The Man in the High Castle too. Was it actually any good?
Put Breaking Bad on the top of that list and start it immediately. The Americans is every bit as good at its best as Breaking Bad was, but it's ongoing and there's less of it extant so if you watch it now it's not as complete an experience as Breaking Bad.
Sons of Anarchy was good for a short while then shite for long enough that I stopped watching it, but I'm sure it improved when it became such a big hit that FX stopped putting time restrictions on it and started letting Kurt Sutter, television's Quentin Tarantino, turn in two hour episodes every week.
Anyone given the new version of Roots a try?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZwaqFhs9fo
I'm tempted.
Agree with that. Finishing sons of anarchy was a slog. The new 'lost'... Just tell me the ending...Quote:
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Currently rewatching the first season of True Detective and it's brilliant. You've got to wonder what went wrong with the latest effort.
John Oliver's program bought and forgave fifteen million dollars worth of debt the other night, as part of a bit on debt collection agencies. Great stuff.
Also, Angie Tribeca season two is somehow airing already.
Finished Peaky Season 1. Fuck yeah, loved it. Short enough for me not to lose interest as well.
Also fucking lol at that shit Jack Dee program about the EU. I was going to watch it thinking it might be satirical enough to get a laugh but the PANEL was vomit inducing.
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It's an awesome thing to do, just the practicalities of it blow my mind.
Presumably it's debt they've had no luck collecting themselves, so they pass it on and take whatever they can get for it so they're not completely out of pocket. It does seem a bit mad on both sides, but then if that program is to be believed basically everything that happens in America is totally backwards and without logic.
Preacher is completely and utterly bananas.
Not just America. I once temped for such a company in the holidays here. Utterly, utterly awful place.
OK, I finally finished all 9 seasons and the 2 films of X-files now. Watched the first Episode of the new season 10 yesterday.
I have to say, it really is just largely living on nostalgic values for me with this season. First episode was... awkward.
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That ought to do it. Get it watched, it's ace!
Ahh man too late. I've literally just pressed play on Better Call Saul!
Only 20 episodes (right?) and then I'll get on Silicone Valley.
Thanks. :thbup:
After finishing with Seinfeld I've moved on to Daria. Season 1 done. Still a decent show.
Baz what happened to X-files?
I have one last episode to watch here and I fear it'll be the last forever (maybe). This has touched something in me, I think because I never saw the series through as a kid, it's like the combined nostalgia of that with your regular post-series-depression-syndrome. Feels fucking retarded but what do I know.
I'm still on the X-Files. Watch that with my missus.
Next episode to watch is the final one of season three.
There are too many stupid/crap episodes compared to good/relevant ones, so I'll be surprised if we make it all the way to season ten. Well done!
Well, you have to skip a few, specially in season 8-9.
I need to get back on with the X-Files too. I stalled again somewhere in season six.
I've been watching season two of Bloodline recently. I was worried it might go to shit without Ben Mendelssohn (his character was easily the best thing about season one) but it's managed to still be decent. Coach Taylor is picking up the slack for him. The entire family are all still self-centred cunts though, I hope it culminates in the demise of the lot of them.
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Curb is returning for season 9
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I'm on the second season of The Wire now. Not liking this one quite as much. It's still good though. Just seems a bit slower. Not enough McNulty either.
Blimey, there's a Eurotrash special on on Friday.
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We hear you brother.
Trying Deadwood again. Can't help but find it all a bit hackneyed. Again.
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It's good. The later stuff is much better than the early stuff and getting rid of the standup sections was a good call. Also, it took me at least three years to go through it all, so it's not like I was actively watching it in order, just an episode here and there.Quote:
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Up to season 2 now. Getting better. Good show.Quote:
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Yeah, I switched subtitles on immediately. Baltimore drugspeak takes a little time to gather. And I'll say that structurally, its not like a lot of TV. Things don't wrap up week to week, no real attempts at cliff hangers and you don't go into the last episode expecting an event. On that note, I should use this free time to dive deep into the Sopranos.Quote:
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It is fucking excellent. I like how it "evolves" (ugh, sorry) as a show. At first it is like a great throwaway cartoon without much continuity or seriousness, but by the end it has proper story arcs and shit. The two feature length episodes that finish the show are so good.Quote:
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Downloading The Wire and going to give the first episode a watch later. Wish me luck.
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Wait until you have time for two or three in your first sitting.
Don't do what my mother did, which was to watch one episode and go 'I don't know what is going on, I don't understand why everyone says this is so good', then never watch it again. Though in fairness it could have never competed with her usual viewing habits of watching every single property programme ever made whilst constantly bitching about how shit the decor is and telling me how she would have decorated it.
I reckon I might be in the 1% (hai mert) of the worlds population who watched season 1 of The Wire and never bothered with it after that. I just didn't think it was any good.
actually, cross me off that list because I got one and a bit episodes into season 2 (boats!) before sacking it off.
I first watched it almost under duress because I was sick and tired of the likes of SG wanking about it on here, and I was pretty much determined not to like it.
Turned out to be by far the best thing I've ever seen.
Finished season 2 last night. Really enjoyed it in the end too.
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Frank Sobotka was an absolutely brilliant character. I enjoyed season two way more on repeat viewings.
Agreed. Originally I found it difficult to really get into as it was the first season I watched, back when BB2 were running it late at night 7 or 8 years back now I think, I saw a couple of episodes and decided to buy up the box sets as a result. Season 1 was so good though, that season 2 felt a bit unimpressive given that I'd spoiled a couple of plot points for myself.Quote:
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When watching back S1-5 (I've now done this a good 5 or 6 times which is ludicrous really) it stands out as probably the most personable of all the seasons, the one that illicits the most sympathy and the least satisfaction in the end (which is a good thing in the world of The Wire as far as I'm concerned).
I think 4 trumps it in that department but yeah I broadly agree. Seeing what became of the docks and some of the characters in later seasons (that lad with the beard having a cameo as a homeless in S5) gives it added pathos on repeat viewings.Quote:
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S2 Crew is growing!
I've only ever done one run through it but after the initial thing of it giving some of the season 1 characters less focus than I expected I really enjoyed it.
I've gone down the Youtube rabbit hole now. Can't stop watching Wire videos.
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I did that yesterday! About two hours of various compilations! :gay:
Wire video.
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Mouzone :cool:
That's the business, Shindig. Put a spoilery video in the thread when about three people have said they're watching for the first time.
Aye, thankfully I've seen that season now but it's a fucking stupid video to post without spoilers.
Just to interrupt The Wire wanking, I'm 9 episodes into Better Call Saul and really enjoying it. Probably better than some seasons of Breaking Bad. (Although BB season 1 is GOAT)
Just got season two ready too, so can continue my binge inbetween the football. :drool:
Fuck that noise. If spoilers hamper your enjoyment of a decade's old television, you're the kind of person who doesn't like to be told it gets dark at night.Quote:
Originally Posted by John
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Well it can only take away from the experience to be fair.
Why does the age of the series matter? If you're watching it through for the first time of course knowing what's going to happen will change the way you see it and how much you enjoy it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
I dunno, it happens with me and games all the time. I'm more about how they arrived at that point, rather than the point itself.
Which is fine, but some people like to go in blind and be surprised. Think of it another way, if you'd just posted the title of that video in plain text would you be arguing with anyone asking you to spoiler it?
A comparison to gaming is just laughable, if entirely predictable.
Glad it's not just be being over sensitive. I thought that was a dickhead move too.
Spoilers, John has a superiority complex.
I understand the argument that it is about the journey rather than the destination, but it isn't fair to impose that on people who don't agree. You can't get pissy if someone makes aQuote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
Toggle Spoilerwas hisToggle Spoilerjoke on some tv show, but to post videos like that in this thread is a bit out of order.
Also video games aren't a fair comparison because the journey is a lot more important than the outcome in that medium compared to others because
a) You actually do shit in video games
b) Writing in video games is nearly always shit
First you insult Stewart Lee, now this spoiler business. You're on very thin ice, mister!!
I accept I dropped a bollock but I've definitely had gaming experiences (I'm looking at you, Metal Gear Solid V) where the big plot twist has been spoiled beforehand. I wasn't miffed by it but more thinking, "Right. How? Why?" Hell, one day I'll pick up Game of Thrones and the cackling hags at work have already given me a rundown through their conversations. I'm not putting up a barrier for that.
Although this is a forum where the facility is there to hide it. I got carried away. The Wire is mint.
So you've been annoyed at something being spoiled for you so it's okay if you spoil stuff for other people?
Very big of you @Shindig. I'm lucky in that I don't really remember spoilers unless I've actually started watching something. The only thing I know about GoT is something to do with some bloke called John Snow. Everything else washes over me. And a lot of my mates have confessed that they're starting to think it is a bit crap really, that even they can't remember who half of the characters are and that they're just watching out of habit now. Feel vindicated in immediately dismissing it as fantasy wank with some elves and fairies and shit. Not arsed mate.
I dismissed GoT as that too. No one I know who watches seems to have come round to admitting it's a bit crap yet though. Everyone still seems to be preaching the GoT gospel.
Nonsense. You can't pick and choose what you think it's acceptable to spoil and what you don't.Quote:
Originally Posted by igor_balis
I mean obviously you can but it makes you a shitbag.
no no i wouldn't spoil a video game either, though i am a shitbag.Quote:
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I also spoiled Our Kind of Traitor for myself because I wanted to see how many pages I had left. It still hit me when I read through it with the context onboard.
That looks class.
It will probably shit the bed midway through the second season though, fucking JJ Abrams.
It is a bit crap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
The problem is I'm getting it all from the perspective of annoying married women. "OOOH, I HOPE THAT CHARACTER I LIKE ISN'T KILLED. HE'S MY FAVOURITE! THAT WOMAN WITH THE BOOBS HAS BOOBS!"
Re-watching some old South Park episodes and they pretty much predicted Subway Jared and his life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p87cBp0oggc
Last year he was sentenced to 15 years for child porn and travelling to pay for sex with minors.
5 minutes into the new season of OITNB and I hate Piper more than ever. Christ she's such a cunt.
I really am struggling to immerse myself in either Deadwood Peaky Blinders due to the hamminess of the former and the crap accents in the latter.
Hence, I'm re-watching Angry Boys :drool:
Stuck the new Anna Torv thing on, what is supposed to be a fairly serious 'political thriller'. Ten minutes in and Dewey fucking Crowe has turned up as a transsexual bugging the phones of journalists. Would have been over the top strange if they'd done it on Fringe.
I caught an episode of Angie Tribeca while skimming channels the other day. It's surprisingly good but I'm not sure I could stand watching more than an episode at a time. They fit more jokes into 20 minutes than Judd Apatows entire filmography which is both a good and a bad thing, there are loads of things that don't hit but much like a Tim Vine stand-up routine they've got 2 more jokes before you've even started to think 'That wasn't funny'.
http://i.imgur.com/RFmd4xy.png
DRAMA.
In fairness, it seems like an accomplished political drama outside of that stuff. It's a lot like how Floyd, I think it was, described 'The Code'. All the polish of a top American drama with none of the sark.
Secret City, the thing I mentioned above, is actually very good. Dan Wyllie's bulldog mouth is a constant source of irritation, but other than that it's excellent. Big hit in Australia, @elth, @ItalAussie ?
This is exactly right. It's a scattergun approach, but there's enough hits to outweight the misses.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
You have to give it full concentration though, so it's definitely one episode at a time.
I haven't heard of it, but I don't watch a huge amount of TV. I'd definitely give it a look though.Quote:
Originally Posted by John
Bloodline was slow going to start but really started picking up, I'm at episode 8 now and have an urge to binge the rest over the weekend. Ben Mendelsohn goes from sympathetic to threatening in the blink of an eye, he's so good but I assume he's going to be killed by the rest of the family because he's started turning the screw on all of them. I noticed he had a lisp a few episodes in and it's all I hear when he speaks now.
It's a limited run thing with the last episode coming out this weekend, I think. It's very bizness, but I've enjoyed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ItalAussie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9EkMc79ZSU
Netflix are cooking with gas.
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Does anyone on here watch 12 Monkeys? It's always been silly but it's getting ridiculous now. Still enjoying it though.
When I watched Fringe I tried my hardest to fancy Olivia but it was impossible. She's not attractive in the slightest. Same with Scully in X-Files. I definitely fancy Dr Railly though; she looks a bit like Natasha Bedingfield too. :drool:
I've been watching it, I really like the first season a lot but it just keeps getting worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
This season has been turd, I've been struggling to actually watch it. Railly is indeed hot as hell though.
Just started the penultimate episode of season 3 of The Wire.
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Don't actually tell me, obviously.
Fuuuuuck.
Lucky prick. :moop:
:D
And now I watched that scene again. And now I'm watching the entire thing again. Fuck you Boydy.
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Originally Posted by Boydy
Most recent season of Orange Is The New Black was excellent.
I reckon its the only show I've watched that gets better with every season. In true TTH fashion: 4>3>2>1
It became a lot better in the second half of the season.Quote:
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Thought the Ruiz arc was decent personally. Agree on Piper though, easily the weakest character and although they've sidelined her more and more I still think the writers find her far more interesting than I do.
Finale was fucking heartbreaking
First episode of Mr Robot was leaked last night. The network/producers leaked it themselves as some viral marketing thing, pretending they'd been hacked which is actually quite funny.
University Challenge and Only Connect are back!!! Yay!!!
How was Orphan Black Season 4 @Boydy? After some initial hype I didn't hear anything from you.
I've got 24 hours of travelling in the next couple of weeks and watching The Wire for the sixth time (I'm up to mid Season 2 now) seems a waste.
I haven't watched all that much of it. Got bored of waiting for it week by week and have just been distracting myself with The Wire. Once I've finished The Wire I'll go back to it.
Catastrophe is getting two more seasons. Yay!
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...an-rob-delaney
Catastrophe, which was originally turned down by the BBC, has proved a huge success for Channel 4, becoming their second highest performing comedy of 2015.
:harold:
Also excellent news as it was exclusive to Prime for a while after C4 finished with 1 and 2 which was a huge worry.
Just finished Better Call Saul season two. :drool:
Can't believe I've gotta wait til February for season three. It way easier to watch than Breaking Bad.
How long is that likely to run for?
I'll be doing with that what I did with Breaking Bad and nailing it all at the end.
I finished season two of Marco Polo at the weekend. It was really good, I probably enjoyed it more than the first season. I really hope it gets a third, it's such an interesting time period to set a TV show in.
I've started Wayward Pines in it's place last night. The first couple of episodes were pretty interesting. It's quite Twin Peaks-ish, but more sinister I guess.
Finished season 4 of The Wire yesterday.
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Yeah that season just delivers such a massive kick in the balls.
Preacher is fucking excellent.
Didnt download anything so had to rely on in flight entertainment. I settled for some Cold War Spy thing called The Game fronted by a bloke so handsome it seems weird he hasn't permeated popular culture like Cumberbqtch.
Only three episodes in and it's just good enough to watch on a flight. Getting a massive feeling it'll go Fight Club for the twist but fuck it I've got 8 hours to burn.
Even worse than I assumed.
Bloodline Series 2 was superb, didn't quite have the oomph of the first (probably due to Mendelsohn barely being in it) but things are ramping up superbly.
The Night Of is the best thing on TV currently, and its only one episode in.
I'm only two episodes in to S2 and I miss Danny, who had all the presence in the world. I hear it's like S1 where it starts slow and builds up though, so looking forward to that and the hopeful death of Kevin at the hands of whoever's nearest.
Yeah its another slow burn, first four or five nearly lost me but then it kicks in.
They confirmed S3 in the last day or so too, I think there were rumours it might have been ditched.
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Originally Posted by Dark Soldier
I saw that on Rotten Tomatoes yesterday and thought it looked good.
Is season 2 of Mr Robot out? I saw some ad about it.
Started with a double bill last night, but the first of the two was leaked on 'social media' at the weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
Echo The Night Of comments.
Great opener.
Also, Bodie :cool:
Stranger Things is about as eighties as it's possible for something to be. It's like ET meets Twin Peaks with a synth soundtrack and an open door policy for Stephen King references.
I'm four episodes in and it's very good.
Finished Stranger Things. It's really good, but it's almost too overt with its influences in places. The score is a fucking marvel, it's immaculately cast, with the exception of Winona Ryder who's a one note shrew, and it's funnier than it has any need or right to be.
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Episode two of The Night Of is just as good and compelling as the first, which is rare. This is going to be something special.
About to watch the last episode of season 5 of The Wire. Anyone want to rank them now that it makes some sense to me?
Shouldn't you be the one giving us your ranking?
It's been a long while so I can't say that I remember very well, but I think it goes something like:
4,3,1,2,5
4, 1, 3, 2, 5.
3 & 1 are probably the hardest to split for me.
1, 4, 2, 3, 5
I think. I don't know. It was all great.
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Originally Posted by Boydy
So 4 is great an 5 is turd. It's unanimous.
5's is like realising something long in the tooth and deciding to cut to the closing montage.
Wire S1, 2, 3, 4
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Everything else
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...d-third-913489
Daredevil season 3 next year :drool:
New season of Bojack Horseman out.
:dust:
I inadvertently seen half an episode of Pretty Little Liars last week. It's so so bad that's it's like one of those awesome US soaps that frustratingly never close out a storyline. I've watched 34 episodes since :cool:
Michael Kenneth Williams :cool:
The Night Of, right? I'm guessing he finally turns up in it this week. Excellent. More Omar, less close ups of John Turturro's character's fucked up feet please.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mahow
Yep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex
I had no idea that he was going to be in it so almost creamed my pants when his name popped up in the opening credits, he didn't disappoint.
Good stuff. I'll download it and watch the new episode tonight. I've enjoyed it quite a lot so far. Although:
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Apparently James Gandolfini was meant to play John Turturro's role before he died. That I would have liked to see.
Is Netflix down for anyone else?
I just wanna keep watching Stranger Things. :(
Finished Stranger Things last night. It's really good, innit?
I stopped watching The Americans a while ago and thought I'd come back to it once a few episodes were out together. Also I was busy with The Wire for a while. Just went looking for the next episodes and it turned out the last one I saw had been the last of the season. It didn't really seem like a finale episode.
Oh well. I think I've still got some Orphan Black to watch at least.
I binged through it yesterday/today. I did enjoy it, although after seeing rave review after rave review, I think my hopes were too high. Still very good and worth the watch, just not as genre defining as I hoped it might be.
Just put season one episode one of The Wire on.
Watching the HD widescreen version though :cool2:
Recently started watching Archer properly. Before I'd only randomly caught it on TV now and then, but not really watching is sequentially. Now that I am, I've understood it's real greatness. Not sure if it's quite as good as Rick & Morty, but almost.
I'm on Season 4 now. 3 is criminally under rated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike
Brooklyn Nine Nine and New Girl crossovers. Dafuq?
@phonics - are you still watching Orphan Black?
This season's been a bit disappointing.
Not sure if I can ask this, or maybe it's ok if answers are by PM, but what's the craic now with Torrents? I have been making do with Netflix for months now and haven't tried to download anything, but I'm travelling most of the week and seeing as Netflix doesn't let you download for offline I went to try get some TV tonight for flights, etc. Couldn't get Torrentz, PB, KAT, etc to load at all. So what are people using these days or is it game over as regards that?
Pirate Bay isn't Pirate Bay any more. KickassTorrents got raided by the Polish FBI. Torrentz shut down because they're somehow linked to KAT.
For TV I use eztv but there's rumours that that site has been over-taken by scammers. I genuinely have no idea where to go anymore. RIP my private torrent membership.
Shit. A flight of stickman golf it is so.
Private torrent sites are the way to go.
BTN and PTP are amazing.
Complete life savers. Owe DS for those invitations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mahow
Invitations seem harder to come by now, think they clamped down a lot on the availability a while back.
BTN has regular auctions but they're pretty damn expensive on bonus points but I was able to get one the other week.
PTP is at the max user limit or close to it I think.
Is BTN the one where you can buy an invite for 40 dollars? If it was reliable and that was the final cost then I'd go for it.
BTN is very good.
Thank you, Mahow.
No, they have auctions for current members who can pay bonus points. Can't use real money to get in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Piratebay still seems fine for me - always has everything I am looking for.
Started on Stranger Things today by watching the first two episodes.
It's bloody brilliant thus far, I love it.
Bojack Horseman is amazing.
Are public torrents dead then? Genuinely not angling for an invite or anything, I'm just curious.
Use a Torrent site search engine, or scraper, and you're good to go as long as you know the difference between real and fake, virus loaded releases. Toorgle is a personal favourite for when I have to use public, but it links you to the actual sites so if you don't have a VPN or a workable proxy ( proxybunker :lewis: ) you're fucked.Quote:
Originally Posted by elth
I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to acquire a digital copy of media I already own legitimately.
Soon will come the day when we prefix all our posts with SWIM.
VPN's never work properly. I think I'll just wait for Netflix to get round to offline stuff.
Good post. Will use.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Soldier
Sky can get fucked for their selective blocking though.
Pity that Zen ISP is so pricey. They don't block anything.
Finished it, I absolutely loved it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mahow
Cannot wait until the next season.
I've not seen many of the Netflix original shows but this one is the best that I've seen.
Might give that a try, the ratings are really high.
I've resumed House, only on S1 E14 but so far it's consistently amusing and interesting. I like the American format of a different storyline each episode.
I watched all of Stranger Things in a day. So so good. :drool:
Not good that I slightly resemble the character Mike though.
It's great until Season 5. It goes downhill quite a bit at that point, but it's still watchable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reg
4/8 in to Stranger Things, and it's pretty freaking good.
I like that it sort of feels like Freaks and Geeks in parts. The sister could be less of a stereotype though.
The kid with the cap is the best.
I stopped watching it around then for a few months then eventually got back into it and stopped again with about 6 episodes left to go of the whole thing. The fact I keep getting told the ending is pants doesn't help.Quote:
Originally Posted by SvN
The trouble with shows with that format is it's easy to just stop half way and never get back round to it.
I watched through Stranger Things recently and was actually a tad disappointed. It was fairly good, but I think I'd worked up too high expectations. Some of the series felt a little rushed to me, like they should have taken another episode or two to establish the universe a little better.
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Apart from that fairly minor nuissance, I thought the Kid actors all did stellar jobs, as well as the guy playing the Cop.
The White haired baddie was a bit of a cliché and not very interesting, and Winona Ryders character was downright annoying and I don't quite understand the praise she's gotten for it.
Agree that the toothless kid is the absolute star of the show.
I liked it for the reason you didn't like it. Too many shows have cringeworthy scenes of dialogue where they go over what's happening and why completely for the benefit of the viewer.
I thought it was OK, I liked it visually and the music was incredible, but I just felt it was a bit too supernatural for me.
Fair enough. I do get what you mean with that, that sort of thing can easily also get very annoying - like when they try to be too matter-of-factly about something that's not very factly in the first place. But I reckon you can either find a nice middle ground (Stranger things was a bit too far from that for me) or frame it within the concept of the series (like Fringe or X-files).Quote:
Originally Posted by SvN
Just started watching Stranger Things, and the first two episodes have me hooked. I just want to watch it straight through as quickly as possible. :D
I started it last night and finished it an hour ago. Even the mood from the opening credits is spot on.
I started on The Night Of before. Three episodes in and enjoying it. No idea where it's gonna go either.
Four episodes into Stranger Things, and it's all starting to hit the fan.
The first-half setup has been so good, I just hope they can stick the landing. If they can, then this winds up right up near the top of my list.
We started this today, and we've watched the entire season. Just got the finale left. I hope it doesn't disappoint, it's been very good until now. Although the first episode was miles better than everything since then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
Has it finished now?
I didn't want to start it until it was all out.
Yeah the finale was last night.
Just finished The League. It was pretty good to start, went through a serious lull where I considered just canning it but came back pretty well. Might re-watch through it at some point in the future.
Anyone else bothered?
Yeah, I loved all of it.
The Coopers vs the Rest is quite possibly the worst pilot comedy I've ever seen. SHITE.
I've two episodes left of The Night Of.
Getting more unrealistic the more it goes on, but it's still good.
Worse than Heil Honey, I'm Home?Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
It was quite good. Veered a bit too close to sappy in the end and the young girl's so professional an actor that it's creepy, like those Outnumbered kids.
That about Stranger Things, Wullie? The young girl in that is stupidly good.
Finale spoilersQuote:
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No, the Coopers thing last night that Magic hated.Quote:
Originally Posted by John
Someone sell me Marcella.
Just finished the series and it's an absolute riot. Best thing I've seen on British TV in a while.
You must have missed Happy Valley.
There's the next show sorted.
Fleabag (on iPlayer) is brilliant.
Reminds me a bit of Catastrophe at times.
Agreed.Quote:
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Season 2 of Narcos is on Netflix tomorrow. Really looking forward to it.
So after the spectacular opening of The Night Of, I've actually come to quite dislike it. A jumbled boring mess of shit for the majority.
My missus watched episode one and episode eight, and knew what was going on. The rest is totally unnecessary. Still rate it, purely for the opener, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Soldier
Yeah I'll always rate the opening episode as one of the best pieces of TV I've ever seen.
Agreed. The opening episode was fantastic. It never came close to reaching that level again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Soldier
By the way DS, I notice you've stopped recommending stuff in the Film Thread. What gives? I'm struggling for stuff to download just lately and you quite often throw out obscure suggestions.
How do you download stuff these days, have you one of those invite subscriptions? I can't find any way to get anything any more. Some apps are OK for streaming but if you're travelling you're fucked.Quote:
Originally Posted by SvN
Yong Feng Auto dot com, use magnet link.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Is that a child porn URL?
I've just started watching Mad Men. I'm hoping at some point it will stop being mind-numbingly boring. I'd have given up by now but the wife wants to persist.
Its slow to start but it builds.
I use warez-bb.org and a filesharing account such as uploaded.net or rapidgator, have done for years.Quote:
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Yes. Yes of course it is.Quote:
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I don't know why I asked as I don't trust any of you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
Its a torrent site that you don't need to sign up to.Quote:
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Started on Preacher last night and I've just finished the sixth episode. I think it's absolutely mental but brilliant.
Gilgun is excellent.
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Gets better and then it gets much worse. Mind-numbingly boring describes it perfectly.Quote:
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I really liked Outnumbered, and the kids were fantastic.Quote:
Originally Posted by wullie
Stranger Things ended well. Possibly slightly abruptly/predictably, but still decent, and with enough open questions that a second season won't just feel like a cash-in.
Did anyone watch Ex-wife?
Joey Badass is really, really, good in Mr. Robot. I'm not sure if it's the fact that he seems so old compared to the 16 year old rap kid but he's really convincing.
I've been watching Star Trek: Voyager again recently. Cracking show.
Seven and her catsuits :drool:
Pointy tiddies :drool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
Still my favourite of the ST series.
It's a close-run thing between Voyager and Next Gen. Both awesome in different ways though. I think we can all agree that DS:9 is bobbins.
It's a shame they're tied-up making the shitty films, as a new series with kinda GoT-level production would be immense.
That would be brilliant. I'm not all that excited about Discovery from what I've heard/read on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
DS:9 had its moments, but overall it's rather forgettable. Wouldn't mind going back over it again some time though as it's the only one I never repeat watched.
There is a series on the way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&so...Y0kms_uyZgkGVA
Ace. Hopefully it'll be on Netflix, rather than Sky
That's the one I mentioned. By all accounts it's going to be pretty low budget like Enterprise, though I'll still watch like I did with that.
It's all about the story rather than the budget so if they can get that right then it'll be watchable. I think having Enterprise pre Kirk was boring for me. Much more interested in the future space politics.
Which series had the badass female captain?
Voyager.
Capt. Janeway :drool:
I sincerely hope The Office US improves on its first season...
Indeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
The first season is just an almost exact copy of the UK one. It gets miles better when it starts going its own way (although the UK one is better overall).Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
The best part of each Office US episode was almost always the little teaser at the beginning, particularly when it involved some sort of prank war between Jim and Dwight. They misjudged the central character far too often for the series as a whole to be genuinely good though. Shit like that 'Scott's Tots' where his obliviousness ruined lives just made him an irredeemable arsehole.
I thought his character was perfect. He's way too funny to be dislikeable. The "Scott's Tots" thing was just him being endearingly foolish like always.
Nope. If that person was involved on any level in your life you'd have battered him to death.
You know it's a comedy?
Most of the characters became too exaggerated the more the show went on. Dwight and Michael were both utterly ridiculous after about 3 seasons. It was still funny, but let's be serious, it's not even in the same league as the original.
I didn't realise Review was finishing with a shortened final season- http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...ortened-867351
That's from a while ago but can't find any word of a broadcast date.
No, I took the documentary format literally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reg
There were always laughs in the margins, but Michael Scott was too big an arsehole to be funny. Cringe comedy is fine when it's low key and low stakes like the UK Office, but when there's a class of children having their lives ruined I'm out.
Had absolutely no idea Suits season 6 had been out for a few months, probably because I'm the only idiot bothering with it anymore. Smashed through about 5 episodes in the last couple of days but I'm not really enjoying it that much. The silly concept for the show made it great fun at first, but has inevitably led to the show sort of tying itself in logical knots. Bit of a slog now, and it is just about the worst non-soap opera show I've seen for stretching plots that should have lasted 2 episodes over about 10.
Mike is a pretty shit protagonist as well - sort of reminds me of mid-era Harry Potter in that he's been made irritatingly and unrealistically stupid and headstrong as a lazy plot device.
I stopped watching it after about a season, if that, but wasn't the original premise that he was preposterously smart? Have they done a u-turn on that or is he just an idiot in other ways?
Idiot in other ways. Overly-emotional and martyry in that totally unrealistic way just because it is an easy way to create a plot device. "FUCK YOU HARVEY I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP" leading to a couple of episodes of conflict to be resolved, whereas in real life they'd just talk and be like 'oh right, actually that makes sense, cheers mate'. The classic soap opera 'misunderstanding'.Quote:
Originally Posted by John
Yeah, it's alright to start with (although a bit nothing-y) but then rapidly turns into total horse cock. I bailed out after a couple of seasons.
Same. Season three I think.
Louis/Lewis (I think that was his name?) was an absolute legend though.
His storyline this season is that he's in love with an architect but he can't act normal around her because she's TOO amazing. It's awful. I skip through any scene he's in nowadays.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
They are great, I just find kids that are ahead of their years creepy. Future serial killers, all of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by ItalAussie
Kid with dialogue that sounds like a 40 year old saying it really shouldn't ever work, but it sometimes does.
If by that you mean that the US >>>>>>> UK then I completely agree.Quote:
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You're a mong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Foe
The UK one is an absolute masterpiece.
If you think that the US one is better, or if you think that the UK one is merely 'cringe comedy', you need to visit some sort of doctor.
It's really not. It's watchable, but not great. I've watched through the US office probably 8-10 times. It's brilliant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mahow
In terms of Brittish comedy, off the top of my head, there's far better alternatives in men behaving badly, fawlty towers, father ted, i'm alan partridge. All of those also don't have Ricky Gervais who is a grade A cunt.
Men Behaving Badly? Go lie down.
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I'm with Foe tbh, US > UK. I'm in no way saying the UK version is bad, its superb, but I wouldn't label it a masterpiece. I prefer the more over the top style of the US effort, and prefer Carell's Michael.
Then again I've never really been a fan of Brent as a character, or Gervais in general.
Two different ball games. About to start season 2. :drool:
+1 for the US being superior. The laughs per minute is way higher.
The UK one is more original in style, but I'd rather laugh more often than nod in approval at innovation.
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I enjoy my carefree lifestyle. I work at a multi national (lol) energy company and use a 'Frozen' mug to drink my tea at work. Who the fuck cares?
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Series 2 and 3 are outstanding.Quote:
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Me and Pepe are total forum bros. This is the most satisfied I've been on the board for years.
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If you say so. It must be true.Quote:
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G'wan Foe. Knock him out lad.
One thing I will say is this season already is a lot brighter, funnier, light-hearted whereas the first 6 in Se01 were dour. Still funny but it really was like a forced American Slough-like version right down to the filter on the camera.
Loving it.
I'm so jealous :(. Watching it "fresh" is brilliant. My flat mate in Shetland told me about it and I picked up the series 1-5 boxset before Christmas 2012. Roasted through it with all the Christmas snacks. What a time to be alive that was.Quote:
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Probably the only good thing about Shetland. /itwasnteveninshetland
With the US one you're better off starting with S2 and getting out before they go a bit mental with the Nard Dog. Nearly all the stuff in between is good.
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Second series of Narcos was better than the first.
Having a clear end point seemed to help and they cut down on the boring DEA guy and cut down a bit on the redundant narration. More Pablo as well, the actor who played him is fucking magnetic.
He's great as the central character in the Elite Squad films.Quote:
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Yeah they've been on my list for while. Probably about time I got involved.
Doesn't really belong here but I can't be bothered going fifteen pages back to find the comedians thread. Downloaded the 'Comedy Roast of Rob Lowe' to see how Jimmy Carr got on with an American audience and I'll be surprised if he gets out of it without a lawsuit on his hands. He just completely dropped all pretense that he was joking when it came to Ann Coulter.
'Ann Coulter is the most repugnant, hateful, hatchet faced bitch alive. But it's not too late to change, Ann. You could kill yourself.'
:D
Alright, that's redeemable. :D
Narcos, being the only show I watch, was pretty damn good in its 2nd season. Escobar + the 2 Americans are really well written and acted. I don't see how a 3rd season will go down well though, no one gives a shit what the Cali cartel was up to
Fucking hell S2 of USO is just hilarious. A laugh a minute.
Also I watched 3rd Rock on C4 at a premier inn when I was getting ready to go to work and it too was incredibly funny.
Vince Gilligan is writing a series about Jonestown for HBO. :drool:
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Michelle McLaren is directing the whole thing too.Quote:
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Cranston will be in there no doubt, don't think he has the look to play Jim Jones.
Get Cranston in to play Leo Ryan, and Javier Bardem for Jim Jones.
I found out about this about half an hour ago and I'm already more excited for it than I've been for any television project in quite some time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2ZFdepTu-w
@Spoonsky
I loved Sorrentino's work on The Great Beauty, so I'm really excited for this even if it looks a bit hammy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JctIuZfSsa4
Jesus it looks good.
It does. Is it more of a Blade Runner meets Westworld thing do you think?
Seems like a really, really wank version of The Prisoner.
Stuck with Mad Men, half way through series 3 now and it's much more compelling viewing.
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At the same point with Lost too, which I'm still enjoying but sense a downturn may be on the cards...
Really enjoying the return of Cold Feet. No idea whether it's objectively any good or not, but great to see the characters back.
I couldn't bring myself to watch it. I felt it already lost it's way a bit when Emily from Friends died.
Her character was a succubus and the actress not very good at comedy anyway, so it's no great loss.
Robbie Coltrane has never been skinny but Christ he's properly obese now.
New series of The Fall about to start. Second series was a proper let-down so hopefully it picks up again.
Brooklyn Nine Nine has come back reasonably well but Maya Rudolph better not be around long. She's about as funny as a stabbing.
The Fall was really, really, really boring.
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Gave it 25 minutes then turned it off.
I persevered but it needs to sort itself out pronto.
The people in work who watched it said not much happened in that episode anyway so I'll watch the next one in the hope it picks up.
Boyd, did you end up finishing Orphan Black? Was it worth it. I still haven't caught a single episode of season 4.
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Are you still watching Mr Robot? I couldn't get into it again at the start of the second season. Is it worth sticking with?
Pretty amusing in your neck of the woods?Quote:
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Luke Cage is out today on Netflix. I'm looking forward to it, the trailers have looked really good. There looks to be a big undercurrent of Hip-Hop influences to it as well, so it looks pretty ideal for me on paper.
Freaks and geeks just got added to Netflix. Ace.
Watched the first two episodes of Cage thus far and they've nailed it again.
Not as strong out of the gate as Daredevil or Jessica Jones but it's got promise and the music is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWhKzEii4yw
The music during the scenes at the club (especially during the first episode like the above the video) are brilliant.
Didn't realise Luke Cage was out. I'll be all over that.
Watched the first two as well. The story isn't really grabbing me, it's kind of vanilla so far. A lot of the tension in scenes feels really forced as well.
I love the actors though, so I'll stick with it. I love the Shades-guy, and Misty Knight is fine as hell.
Westworld is off to a good start. The motifs are a bit too overt for my liking, but it looks absolutely gorgeous, the acting is uniformly excellent, and it's wonderfully creepy in places.
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+1 for Westworld. I've also watched the first two episodes of Luke Cage and enjoyed those. It feels less distinct from the other two at this stage than Jessica Jones did from Daredevil but does still have a bit of a different feel which is nice.
That Saadiq guy has a great voice too, might look up some of his stuff.
I thought the first episode of Westworld was pretty shit. Maybe I'm just not cut out for most television (Seinfeld is all I need). It also doesn't help the suspension of disbelief that all the absolutely gorgeous landscapes are about three hours' drive from my house.
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The scenery is beautiful enough that I was wondering where it was filmed while watching though, so thanks for that.
I know I'm late to this, it being on Season 18 or whatever, but The Good Wife is bloody fantastic television.
The last season was fucking horrendous, but it was very good for a long time.
Does the Husband conspiracy stuff ever disappear? It's a terrible B-plot.
There's always something.
I've just seen my first ever 30 seconds of Modern Family. Christ I hate those type of shows, never knew it was like that.
The Mrs informs me the type is a 'mockumentary'.
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I'd call Modern Family a sitcom as their camera use and lack of a narrator doesn't depict a mockumentary. Although, I guess the same could apply to Spinal Tap, maybe I'm wrong?Quote:
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Second episode of Westworld released early chaps.
Is it wobbly cam? I've never liked the characters enough to give it more than a passing glance when it's on the TV. Then yeah, it's a mockumentary.Quote:
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Modern Family is technically a 'Mockumentary', but from what I've seen of it they fuck with the timeline of the interviews enough that it doesn't really fit into that category.
The next season of Archer will be set in the forties. :drool:
How's that going to work?
The Archer thing, I mean. Actually, it'll probably just involve Krieger inventing a time machine. So quite easily.
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I'll lay down money now on Lana being a jazz lounge singer at some point.
Mike Schur's new thing, 'The Good Place' is good fun. It's probably too high concept to last more than a year on a proper American network, and stick a healthy dose of genuine philosophising and jokes about Socrates on top and I imagine it'll be getting viewerships in the low double digits in the US, but I like it.
The scoreboards are particularly good fun, with each action a person can perform being assigned a number value and your lifetime score being used to decide whether or not you get into 'the good place'.
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Finished Luke Cage today and whilst it's the weakest of the Netflix Marvel stuff it's still damn good.
It really ramps up around the third episode for me.
I'm three in and it hasn't hooked me the way the others have yet but I've enjoyed what I've seen.
Finished season four of the X Files last night and although it was late, had to watch the first episode of season five. I'm completely aware it will take a huge dip soon but the end of season four was a cracker. :drool: It must have been AMAZING watching it the first time it aired too becauseToggle Spoilerand you wouldn't have known it wasn't true.
The fuck is this Derren Brown shit on C4? He's gone all religious gobbledegook that the Americans like. Hopefully it all turns out to be a windup.
The Missing is back and it looks as though the 2nd series is going to be as good as the first. Brilliant tv.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8aFcHFu8QM
Stunning footage. I've never seen a lion trying to take down a giraffe before.
That's going to be so good.
That does look fantastic.
Do we know when it starts?
I can't wait to watch that. :drool:
Time to buy drugs
I watched the first three episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine (the Figgis arc). The jokes landed fantastically, but I was a touch disappointed by the plot. The villain didn't feel particularly threatening, and got taken down relatively simply. I know that B99 isn't really about the bad guys, or the police procedural, but I was hoping they'd up their game a little bit for the guy who drove them into witness protection for six months.
Still, the jokes clearly haven't missed a beat. Also, Ken Marino from Party Down!
I watched the first few episodes of season 2 when it first came out then stopped as I was waiting until the whole season was done to continue but never got back round to it. Just picked it up again and forgot how many proper laughs it provides.
Is Daredevil worth a watch?
Massively so.
Which UK channel airs B99? Anyone know when it's starting again?
No idea which channel it's on, but they're four episodes in in the US so I'd imagine it'll be starting back soon here if it hasn't already. Speaking of Brooklyn Nine Nine, I found out the other day that Andre Braugher's great 'HOT DAMN' in the scene where they're trying to puzzle out why Santiago is late was a complete improvisation. Well done that man.
I enjoyed the first run of Daredevil but I haven't been even vaguely tempted to watch the second.
Brooklyn 99 is on E4.
I'd say that the second season edges the first.
The fight scenes are so much better and Bernthal is a fantastic Punisher.
I'll keep an eye out. I see the big bang theory is starting on E4 next week and they have around the same starting time in the US.Quote:
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Anyone watching Westworld?
Was it leaked early last night or anything?
I can't imagine it would've been leaked online before HBO even showed it but some fucking bullshitting dickhead in my work claimed he was watching it at midnight. He asked me if I'd seen last night's today and I said no because it only aired in America last night so I'd have had to have been up stupidly late to see it and he said he was watching it at midnight.
Could have been.Quote:
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HBO shows do sometimes get released early on their online service. I know it happened with Game of Thrones a couple of times.
Last week's was, I think erroneously, released on their online service on Saturday afternoon, and so ended up on every extant Torrent site a full day before it aired, so it's absolutely possible.Quote:
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Nah, they aired last week's early on the Friday because they didn't want to clash with the presidential debate on Sunday.Quote:
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It's not just this either. He's been noticed by a few people talking shit about various things.
Nah it didn't leak early this time round.
Should have asked him for the specifics of what happened. It's always easy to catch a serial bullshitter out.
Third episode bored me to tears save the last 10 minutes or so. It's just dull western interspersed with (faux-)philosophical talk that goes on for way too long.
BtN is still down so yet to get round to it.
I asked him if it was any good and he said 'I don't want to say anything, I don't want to give you any spoliers.' To be honest, in case he had actually seen it, I didn't want to know any details.Quote:
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BTN is back up :drool:
Was talking to someone else in work about the bullshitter yesterday. He said he had claimed to have gone to a midnight screening of Suicide Squad when it first came out in a nearby town. The guy I was talking to checked at the time and there was no midnight screening. So, yeah, he's just a habitual liar.
Just watched the episode of The X-Files with Bryan Cranston in.
Actually thought the movie was good too - just a longer episode with a bigger budget, really - so onto season six now. Still really liking it.
The Bryan Cranston episode is really good. I haven't watched any in about six months but you've inspired me to pick it back up Baz. I'm just a little bit ahead of you. Same season but episode nine. Also, I thought the film was quite good too.Quote:
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That was one of the scenes which sold me on the show completely. Get that man an Emmy, stat.Quote:
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Have you seen the latest episode... "I will slit you both open from mouth to anus and wear you like jackets" seems a little out of place for the Captain :D, though delivered superbly.Quote:
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He's by far the best thing about it.
Bingpot!Quote:
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Anyone watch Black Mirror? I think I remember Boyd frothing over it but if not it definitely seems like something he would adore. As it stands I'm loving US Office and brooklyn 99.
I liked most of the series bar the Waldo one, looking forward to seeing the Netflix episodes.
It was stunning.Quote:
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Is Sherlock really that good? Also we can add Peaky Blinders to the list of series I've not and never will finish. :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhxH6Lgsklg
pissed myself at the last line
I haven't seen the last series yet. Worth bothering with? I have enjoyed it overall but my main concern is that Jackson is so much better than everyone else in it that I just find myself waiting for the next time he comes on screen.
Closing in on the end of Season 2 of Better Call Saul.
The Mike stuff and Jimmy playing fast and loose with legal ethics stuff is really good, but the lawyer firm and Chuck stuff is boring the tits off me now.
The stuff at the firm is tedious beyond belief.
The best episode they've done is still the Mike spotlight towards the end of the first season. Written by someone who'd never had a single thing produced and spent the entirety of Breaking Bad as Gilligan's assistant, by the way.
I didn't realise I hated Chuck until the guy who plays him turned up in The X-Files and I absolutely despised him. You were supposed to dislike him anyway, but I couldn't stand him.
I could't get intoBetter Call Saul which is a shame because Breaking Bad was probably my favourite series of all time. Should have give Jesse his own.
Yep, that spotlight stuff was brilliant.
Agree entirely on the law firm stuff just being tedious crap and has had the second season meandering toward nowhere for about 4 episodes now. Every time I see that dribbling flange near a light or with his fucking stupid foil coat, I can't believe what Gilligan was thinking. I just couldn't give a shit.
As an aside though, I want to watch Breaking Bad again.
I'm already on Season 4 of The Good Wife. I've absolutely rammed through it with 3-4 episodes a night. It's like popcorn.
This Morning is on because idiot colleague got to staff room first this lunch, but Roger Moore and Bryan Cranston have been rather excellent guests. Probz not worth watching on catch up but still.
The Missing really is absolutely outstanding TV.
Is that the French one? I'm two episodes in, promising so far. Beautiful cinematography.
British. First series set in France, 2nd in Germany. It's about kidnapped kids. Is that what you're watching?
No, I was referring to something called Les Revenants.
Ah, I watched that too. The first series was brilliant. The 2nd series lost me a few episodes in.
Do you have to watch the first before the second or are they totally separate stories?Quote:
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Of The Returned or The Missing?
The former, absolutely. The later, no, though it adds depth to a main character.
Sorry, quoted the wrong bit, I was referring to The Missing.
I thought the first series of The Returned was brilliant but I only watched the first episode of the second series and have yet to get back to it.
You'll be fine with just the 2nd. The first was great though, so watch it too if you can.
That said, it's a mind fuck in nature so the first series could suddenly become relevant out of fucking no where.
That heist episode of B99 was the best one of the lot. Holt is fucking brilliant.
Started The Walking Dead a week or two ago. On season 2 now. That little lad's an annoying gimp.
There's some really great stuff early on. Episode 1 is probably my favourite pilot in a long time.Quote:
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Planet Earth is on tonight :drool:
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Watched the first episode of something BTN recommended named 'Letterkenny', about a little farming town in Canada. It's absolutely bonkers, and quite good fun. It's like Napoleon Dynamite: The Series, but with considerably more swearing.
Masterchef the Professionals :drool:
When did it start back?
Tonight.
Unless someones said so already: Rick and Morty season 3 should be out fairly soon.
New series of 'Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish' starting in half an hour. I'm fairly sure a few on here watched it before.
Happy days, I've missed nothing bar the first 15 minutes or so. On series record now.Quote:
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The bint needs to put the hair dye down though.
It was quality, although eye-bleedingly obvious beardy baldy would be put through at the end.Quote:
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The woman looked a potential winner.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...group=p02q32xl
Just noticed this on iPlayer, not tried the second series yet but the first was quality homespun stuff.
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I love it, but tonight's has had an ad break every 10 minutes so far. :nono:Quote:
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Dana Gordon was in the episode of The X-Files I watched last night. Most people would be perving on the hot CGI woman the episode was about, but Dana Gordon, man! :drool:
Can someone answer me a question on The Walking Dead. I've just watched episode 3 of season 4 and just realised:
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I'm up to season 6 now and Alan Cummings hair has changed colour 4 times in as many weeks.
Re- Walking Dead, am I the only one that's done a 360 and now finds Carl relatable and not shit?
I'm up to speed on Frequency (that was a bat out of hell to find on Netflix, of all the films being adapted to tv series I wouldn't have expected Frequency at all) and Westworld. The former is ok-ish, the latter is exceptional. Both have difficult pacing a plenty, but it works well with the particular narratives and I think we're all getting used to it. Looking forward to seeing how Westworld progresses. I've an idea of how Frequency will go but it's ok enough to justify following it down that path.
I hated Carl in the first season or two. Then I started to change and I really quite like him now. I'm just about to watch the final episode of season 4.
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Yeah, Carl gets better which is strange. I found that most characters got worse during the run.
The joke at the end of the intro of the most recent Brooklyn Nine Nine is among the best they've ever done.
Was scrolling through Amazon Prime Video's library to find something to watch.
I couldn't say no to another run through when Parks and Rec popped up.
John Lithgow as Churchill is an inspired choice.
Is The Crown worth a watch then? I hadn't even heard of it until I googled what you were talking about. Seems to have great reviews but doesn't really look like my cup of tea.
It almost feels like a direct continuation of The Kings Speech in tone, you enjoy that? The girl playing Elisabeth talks just like Bonham-Carter does in the movie.
Nearly finished SE03 of The Office and it is fucking golden.
If I could sum it up in smilie format:
:D
After putting it off for a while, Atlanta is bloody brilliant. At 22 minutes a show it never has long enough for you to get bored and just enough to be left wanting more.
Got an email from Netflix about a new show I might like
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It looks like Aldi's version of Archer
Australian, no less. Aaaaahchair. In other news, BBC are starting online coverage of the BBL and WBBL tonight at 7:45pm.
I started with The Good Wife a few weeks ago and have since watched copious amounts of it. I blame phonics. It is good though.
I just finished season 2 of Narcos.
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Will catch up with everyone else's thoughts.
Anyone catched the Invasion flash/arrow/supergirl/legends crossover episode?
I did.
It was nice to see them all together but the whole storyline was a bit pointless and I didn't like that they cut away from the main story-lines in each for an episode. Although not really a problem for Legends as there is no proper story-line at all.
Yeap,it wasn't as much as a spectacle as i had hoped but the LOT-focused episode saved the whole crossover.It surely would have been better if they were fighting the now known Legion of Doom with Reverse-Flash,Merlyn and Damien Darhk but they needed a sufficient reason to include Supergirl.Still,i give it a rating of 7,5 out of 10.
Well you wren't wrong. Powered through the first season just before the finishing the second season, on the off chance of any revelations. Both seasons excellent but I'd say the second was definitely better.Quote:
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Julien Baptiste :cool:
The first series was decent, the second (had I not watch Breaking Bad this year) is easily this years best TV.
https://youtu.be/FOXZgRTfSUA
Someone on the full site can imbed that if they want.
Rewatching Freaks and Geeks (it's on Netflix). Such a lovely programme and still probably the best thing Judd Apatow has been involved with.
Did anyone watch Rillington Place? BBC dramas aren't ordinarily my thing, but Tim Roth being in it piqued my interest.
Loved it.
I loved it, bar episode 2 being a bit of a headfuck if you didn't know the case.
Roth was amazing.
Yeah I had a quick read through on wiki before I started it.
He was, played it to perfection.
I've started watching Wayward Pines. Seems interesting after one episode.
Also watched episode one of The Wire. She wasn't a fan though so if I do continue with it, it'll be very slowly.
Last two episodes of Brooklyn Nine Nine have been boring. Hope this isn't a sign of things to come.
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Also on finishing it I stumbled across two documentaries on Netflix: Narco Cultura and Cartel Land. Both are fucking grim, specially the former.
Two episodes into The Man in the High Castle. Hard to know what to make if it yet but enough there to make me watch more.
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Is anyone else finding Westworld fucking dull?
I watched most of it week to week and I'm now watching episode 9 and 10. 9 is almost over and if I wasn't so close to the end I'd probably just give up on it.
I enjoyed it, but it's overhyped. It's a well-produced, well-acted show with an alright plot and some fairly long parts that feel unnecessary and outright boring.
Ryan Philippe (remember when he was supposed to be a star?) is in a new thing about a special forces sniper trying to stop people murdering the president. His character's name is Bob Lee Swagger. That's a fucking rasslin' persona, not the protagonist of an apparently serious dramatic endeavour.
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'tis the reason. Still fucking ridiculous.
Shooter?
I saw that advertised somewhere recently. Pretty sure it's based on the mediocre Mark Wahlberg film of the same name. They'll remake anything these days.
I can't believe I've waited 15 years to get round to Band of Brothers. Started on Monday and finished it already, a must watch.
I'm watching The Missing. I'm really quite bored of James Nesbitt but Sayid from La Haine turning up makes it worth it.
P.S. Way too many of these french people speak English for it to be realistic.
I see him pop up now and then in things and each time he looks more like a middle aged man, which is to be expected I suppose, but still rather depressing. He'll always be Sayid to me.
This spurred me on to see what Hubert was up to. Nothing but French tele for the last decade, how depressing.
Christmas episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine was one of the show's weakest episodes ever.
That it still got five or six solid out-loud laughs is testament to the high standards of the show, but this whole season has felt a little goofy and meandering so far. Still, it's not like I'm going to stop watching, so we'll see if they can swing upwards.
I haven't seen the last two episodes, but I'm confident in saying the biggest problem this year has been that they're leaning on 'goofy Holt' as a bit of a crutch. That works on occasion because Braugher sells it so well and the character is so well established that things like him uncontrollably giggling at the taste of marshmallow or bawling 'HOT DAMN' are made to seem just on the extreme edge of his behaviour, but they're close to the point where each visit to that well deconstructs the character a bit more. It's not character development, it's just taking an established facet of the characters personality and allowing it to undermine everything else.
I completely agree. I prefer Holt as a deadpan straight-man who lets the facade slip occasionally. He's just so good at doing it that they're making it more frequent, so it's not a shock anymore.
I really was dire. Don't think there has been a worse one.
Downloading the 4th season of The Wire.
Also is Westworld any good?
Oooh The Wire, might rewatch that. Never ended up watching more than 2-3 episodes into season 4.
Downloading :harold:Quote:
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Can't see past it tbh.
I have Amazon Prime and still downloaded Vikings, what's the problem?
Why when you can just stream?
Piracy streams are still a load of wank. If you don't have Prime/Netflix I'd rather yarr than stream.
My mate wondered why his computer was slow and full of spyware. He said, "Don't know how it gets on there, I never look at porn on it". He then proceeded to attempt to stream a TV show that involved closing about 1400 pop-ups...
Exodus is perfect 1080 every single time. You can also download from there for offline, saves the faffing with ratios and shite like that. Far better.Quote:
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I'm not talking about browser streaming. Exodus through Kodi has none of that and is perfect.
I did that, clicked on The Grand Tour they day after it came out. Stream said HD, looked like I was viewing it through dish water. Besides, I've no worries about ratio so would rather grab a guaranteed copy.
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It's not through a browser. It's an app through a standalone media player.
It's not really streaming either through Exodus, it's all cached so very rarely buffers. Uses the same bandwidth as downloading it. Especially when you can do that too.
Finding a good stream on Exodus is no different to selecting a good torrent, except you can change stream within 5 seconds rather than waiting for it to download, watching it to check quality, finding another, downloading again etc etc.
Each to their own but I can't see how anyone would prefer it nowadays.
Yeah but the bandwidth is still used while you're watching it rather than last night while I was asleep. I'm not talking about Exodus because I have no idea what that is (and I'm not really interested).
I've only ever had one issue with Exodus through Kodi and it was never the quality. It never misses on that front for me.
I've started using Showbox on my phone along with BubbleUpnp to send it to my TV. It's pretty good.
For something I really want to be sure of good quality with I tend to download rather than stream though.
People do this? Its not hard to know which encode is fine, then its a matter of a short download during the day and I watch at night. Compared a 1080 The Force Awakens stream to my 14gig encode the other week, its like night and day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adamski
Snobbery :drool:
It's the same with streaming barring the short download.
I don't agree on quality but fair enough if that's your experience. You're definitely in the minority of people I've spoken to.
I just want to sit down and pick stuff with my remote control. Kodi does this.
Streaming.
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You're not really understanding the argument I'm making. If you don't think the streaming quality on Exodus is up to speed then fair enough.
I've played 1080 and Blu Ray through it on a 4K TV for well over a year and it's been spot on.
I was a member of a private torrent site for almost 10 years and I can't notice a discernible difference in quality whatsoever.
As Giggles said, there's an undoubted delay time in waiting a torrent to download and even plugging a laptop into a TV like you're a 12 year old watching porn.
Click a stream, play on your TV. Done.
Having to do anything involving dragging out a laptop or external hard drives or Plex or home networks. No thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Soldier
Travelling somewhere? Then there's benefits, but you're watching it on a smaller screen then anyway.
I do get the discussion man, I've used Kodi multiple times. I'm just being a dick. Watch media however ya want, nae worries.
The primariy reason I go torrents is I like to have a library, and I like obscure, rare films. Finding an ultra rare copy of Angst from 1983, the extended version in full 1080p is a pain, whereas I now have the file in my collection for any moment.
I even put up bounty for that exact encode. Its the only encode of it that exists. The extended version is impossible to even buy.
My internet is far too volatile and slow for streaming at the moment, I occasionally get bandwidth balls ups trying to watch things on fucking iPlayer. They were out laying the groundwork for fibreoptic a few weeks ago though so I might try streaming once that's switched on.
DS has hit on the reason I think I'll always prefer torrents for most things though. I've recommended things to mates with Kodi boxes and whatever else and they've been unable to find a stream, any stream, or one with the proper subtitles, because there isn't enough of a market for microbudget nineties Japanese horror films for anyone to bother hosting a stream in decent quality.
That makes sense too. I very rarely watch a film so I never build collections but I can see the attraction in building one up if you do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Soldier
Yeah I can agree with that although I can't think of a film I've not found on Exodus. I don't tend to go that obscure though!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Soldier
I've got quite a lot of films downloaded off of it now onto my hard drive as well, for if I'm going away and don't have enough space on my tablet.
Heh yeah Angst was just a bit of an example. Greatest horror film ever made, it'd be fairly easy to find the original cut at one hour nineteen minutes via streaming, but the US had a small print run of the ultra rare extended copy so getting hold of that is a ballache in the best quality. There's literally only two HD encodes of it in existence.
Thoughts on Vinyl?
Not much good TV was ever released on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manc
I've set up an RSS feed for my TV shows, they get automatically downloaded whilst I'm asleep and then my Plex library automatically updates as soon as they're downloaded.
I can then watch on my TV via Amazon fire, tablet or laptop.
With films I just manually pick and choose although I've also got Netflix just in case something takes my fancy.
I'm an active collector (as evidenced by my 500 odd DVD's/Blu-rays) so I love having loads of media on external hard drives.
Giggles is back. :drool:
TV shows part sounds great but for me that's a hell of a lot of up front faff to get it into a position that's Exodus' starting point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy Mahowry
It took me about 5 minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adamski
It's seriously easy to set up an RSS feed, especially on a torrent site like BTN.
I can select the file type, quality, codec, resolution, origin etc.
Dem exclusive encodes :drool:
I hate how Exodus got rid of the 'My TV Shows' (or was it favourites? Something like that anyway) section that Genesis had. It has something similar now but you have to sign up for a Trakt account or some shit.
Yeah that is a bit annoying. I loved that.
Yeah it would really be handy. I've a tiny Bluetooth keyboard linked with the Shield though so searching is handy.
Oh and I found some exclusive content on BTN.
Raw unedited footage of the Arrested Development episode 'Bringing up Buster'.
Try finding something like that on Exodus.
I can safely say I'll never even look.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy Mahowry
You won't but that was never my point. If you watch that 24 hours a day then fair enough it's not for you. It has a massive massive library though.
It doesn't take 5 minutes to download Plex, set up a Plex server, link it to your hard drive, download all the metadata and sync your library to it before you even start with the RSS feed. Like I said, I used it for years and in my opinion what I have now is vastly better.
I can also take my firestick anywhere in the world in my pocket and as long as a tv has an HDMI port I can stream anything I want.
I don't often agree with DS but DS. :drool:
And via torrents I've a potential library of 137,000 movies to download at any point I wish. So much rare shit its untrue :drool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Adamski
We're all pretty happy pirates.
'tis a good time to be alive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
Didn't take a whole lot longer tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adamski
I also have it setup to automatically sync whenever anything is added/removed from my main drives.
Four episodes into Wayward Pines and it's still interesting. Having the main character as a complete prick is an interesting approach.