Be Excellent To Each Other

Yeah it stays that way for as long as I could put up with it.

Who told me I should be watching Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt?

Does it get good, or do I just not like it? I've watched half of it.

Finished Season Two of Dexter last night and up to now I'm loving it, even if it does require a substantial suspension of disbelief.



Roll on Season Three! Which I will be starting this evening as soon as Hearthly Jnr has gone upstairs.

Watched the first episode of 'Portlandia' for the first time last night. Great fun: reminded me a lot of the 'League of Gentleman'.

I am watching Penny Dreadful, and it is pretty good.

It's a bunch of characters from classic horror literature thrown together. Reminds me a little of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen actually. It's pretty dark, has a good cast, and takes some interesting unexpected turns

Recommended.

I have 'acquired' Penny Dreadful and mean to watch it.

Lulz @ AE for getting excited about Dexter. After Discopath I can't take his TV/film choices seriously anymore.

I watched Penny Dreadful when it first came out, but got bored of it after a while. Same for Hemlock Grove (although that did have the best werewolf transformation I've seen in a long time).

Is Penny Dreadful the one with Dorian Grey in it? If so he reminded me of Malabar.

Or it may have been the Dorian Gray from the film. But I think it was from a series. All blurred.

Yes, Google 'Dorian Grat Penny Dreadful'

Looks like Malabar. Or 80% Malabar 20% REALLY young Hugh Grant

It's well good.

Mad Men is building to a very fine conclusion, though we still don't know quite what that is.
Three left to go!

I watched a few episodes of the first series of that. I decided I must have been watching something else to the world. It seemed pretty dull to me, albeit dull with a lot of style.

I found the first series hard work. Slow and felt like meticulously observed style over dramatic substance.

However, from series 2 I thought it really picked up, and it gets gradually weirder and funnier as it goes on. Would happily replace my father with Roger Sterling.

I never saw the first series. We watched what turned out to be S3, thinking it was the start and got confused because nobody was introduced properly (as of course, they wouldn't be being two years in), then bought S2 on DVD and got more confused jumping back a year.

I might go back and track down S1 at some point.

Agents of SHIELD is totally my favourite thing on telly at the moment.

The recent additions to the cast of the likes of Kyle McLachlan, Nick Blood, Edward James Olmos et al have all been awesome, and the existing characters are all now far better defined.

I read "Kyle McLachlan", and thought

Would happily replace anything with Joan. Lots of Joans everywhere. That's the dream.

And Man Men is indeed one of the finest dramas of all time. I will miss these characters when the show ends...

aka my old housemate. A very nice, charming man with a thoroughly cool name.

I got pretty bored of Mad Men on season (I think) 7.

don't be silly

He's really sucking it in, there

Nice! He's awesome.

Oh come on, you know it's yours too.

Been on holiday last week so the TV shows are building up. Plan to save the rest of Mad Man until the end of the season then binge on it!

Started watching American Crime which is a really good show.

Star Wars Rebels is surprisingly violent for a kid's show.

Have you seen the trailer for Series 2? I'm really looking forward to it.

Anybody watched Powers? Just downloaded S1 (10 episodes)

"Powers is set in a world full of people with superhuman abilities and where all of those powers are just another catalyst for mayhem and murder. The series follows Detective Christian Walker, who is in charge of protecting humans like us and investigating cases involving the God-like men and women, referred to as Powers, who glide through the sky on lightning bolts and fire and who clash above cities in epic battle, oblivious to the mortals below."

I watched the first episode and thought it was awful.

A great cast and probably a decent amount of money wasted on a dull and badly written script.

Drinking game: Drink a shot for every time a character says "Powers"

Although seeing Eddie Izzard as a villain did remind me to recommend the utterly fantastic Bullet In The Face. It's a violent, sexy, and incredibly snappy dark comedy about a violent criminal forced to wear the face and play the role of a police office, Face/Off style. There's only six episode in total, and they're all fantastic. It's full of incredible one liners, the cast is all top notch, and even in the short running time it builds a fantastic world. One of the best TV shows I never hear anyone else talk about.

I like the Powers comics but haven't heard anything good about the tv adaption so avoided it.

I downloaded all of Bullet in the Face on your recommendation Lewie but I haven't got round too watching it yet. The fact that it's relatively short does give it a better chance of being watched then most other things in my pile of shame though.

We're three episodes into the Netlfix series, Bloodline. It seems pretty great so far. I have to say that Netflix are fair killing it with their own content.

I finished Season 4 of Dexter last night which was great (SCARY JOHN LITHGOW USING THE 'C WORD' A LOT SHOCKER) but I'm not entirely sure I'm going to dive straight into Season 5.

For starters there's the sheer time commitment of watching all these seasons, when I also have GTAV and Hearthstone vying for my time (very much a nice first world problem, that is), plus I like to watch films as well and that doesn't happen when I'm binging on telly seasons.

I'm also wondering just how far they can stretch the story of SERIAL KILLER TRYING TO LIVE A NORMAL LIFE, I'm not entirely sure how far they can push it now without it starting to get a bit silly. On top of that, Dexter did a couple of spectacularly stupid things in the final couple of episodes of Season 4 which were clearly just silly contrivances to make the story twist a bit more, and that irritated me.

All that said I will watch Season 5 at some point, but I'm not going to dive straight back into it tonight, and will indeed take a break to get some quality time in on GTAV and maybe catch up on some films I want to watch. (I've been watching an episode or two (or three!) of Dexter every night for the last five weeks, so it's not done bad.)

Season 5 was where I dropped out - Season 4 was amazing and John Lithgow stole the show - however the next season started off poorly and it was one that i watched maybe 3 or 4 episodes of and then never went back to.

I quite enjoyed season 5 and thought Jonny Lee Miller, Julia Stiles and Peter Weller were all very good in it.

I would watch it all just to get the closure, but yes, it gets silly.

We're watching The Wire at the moment, and are two episodes of the full finale, and the last season is frankly beyond belief.

The last season of The Wire got hit badly by the writer's strike of the time and is by far the weakest by consequence I think. That's why it's only ten episodes rather than thirteen and I suspect it would've all come together a lot better if they'd actually been able to use those 'missing' three episodes. It's a shame because David Simon's background was in news reporting so there was potential there for it to be a particularly good focus.

I was thinking more McNulty's storyline, but yeah, shame about the strike.

The McNulty thing sort of works in that it's well established he's a bit of a tit who acts impulsively and doesn't think things through but yeah, it's a bit hard to swallow the idea that even he can't see how massively and inevitably the wheels will come off such a bonkers plan.

New Netflix series :

Last episode of Mad Man = Best thing ever.

Mad Man, and his faithful sidekick Crrrazy Boy!

There's a Scream TV series a'comin'.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3921180/

Watched the Kimmy Schmidt episode last night with the plastic surgeon.

Superb.

I didn't really get Kimmy Schmidt.

I liked the Theme music, though.

The Scream TV series looks fucking awful. As does the Minority Report series.

This looks pretty good though.

It's...dunno...okay?

That's how I felt about the whole thing, to be honest.

Losers. Martin Short as the plastic surgeon was hilarious.