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.Going to keep watching through the old ones first anyway.
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.
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 beOriginally Posted by Baz
Sixteen episodes into [season one of] The X-Files and I'm absolutely loving it. Had a brilliant run of three episodes too.
Boggs.
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 cameoIts 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've just done episode 22 of season 1 (it had Janice from Friends in) and it's still absolutely ace.
I'm a twit
Maybe but not by much but it's gone way back down with 6.
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.
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.
Happy Valley.
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.
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.
Making a Murderer with Homer Simpson. This is really well done.
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.
The Americans S4 is coming.
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.
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