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Vikings is quite nice. Don't know why it took me so long to give it a go. Maybe because the title is so generic and short.

And the main Viking lady is lovely.

My lady and I started watching The 100. Then we realised you had to pay for the second season, so that kind of put us off

Shame, it's quite a good show.

Pay? Assume you have NG:)!

Amazon Prime, where half of everything is free...

If you mean Newsgroups then no, don't use them any more. Haven't for years I hardly download anything now.

The 2nd season is much better than the first. And the first was great!!!!

Haha you tease!

It's a shame because I usually hate US drama. I love Pawn Stars, the one about Rick the restoration guy and Counting Cars, but usually yeah, their dramas are sodding naff.

My lady watches The Collector which is Canadian but she likes it. Just seems pretty lame to me.

Warning contains spoilers for the last episodes of Arrow and Flash from this week - but another spin off show (with Arthur Darvill as a time traveler )

Hmmm. I really liked Arrow -- we watched the first half-dozen or so of the first season -- and I've heard nothing but good things about Flash. But if I want to watch the continuity properly, with three shows, that's 50 hours of TV a year -- and I'm about 100 hours behind where they are right now. That's a non-trivial investment of time.

Is the name of your sex tape.

POTW

I keep hearing good things about The Flash, but then they show clips of it being terrible on The Soup, and I don't know what to believe.

Its generally good , however there are some poor episodes and its one where you need to leave your brain at the door most weeks.

Well last week my lady finished watching The Collector and thus needed something new for when I'm watching my boy's stuff. So she started on Grimm. Three eps in I decided to go and watch one and I must say I was completely blown away by how good it is. I generally tend to hate anything considered fantasy but it really is a quality proggy.

Thankfully all of the eps are free too.

Got fed up with Amazon instant and signed back up to netflix. Fargo the series is a bit good isn't it?

i am up to episode 4 of The 100:

It doesn't start making any more sense than that

Also, Blonde One is annoying. Very annoying.

Trailer for Season 3 of Hannibal (spoilers if you've not seen previous ones obviously)



Also the pilot of the new Supergirl TV series has leaked onto the web and is downloadable in all the usual places if your interested in it

Wow. The 100 really wins the award for 'most really stupid decisions made in the first episode by literally everyone who gets to make a decision'

It gets stupider.

Yeah some of the 100 is just pure dumb. Found myself yelling at the screen.

Grimm starts out really strong and I remember initially being very impressed at the setup and it's subtle subverting of genre tropes; but it went downhill really quickly and turned into generic pish that I gave up on entirely some way into the second season. A shame as it had a lot of potential.

Ooh, Constantine was pretty ace. Rumours of it getting pIcked up again after getting cancelled.

I liked Constantine. He was really good in the role, too.

Just watched the "leaked" pilot for the SUPERGIRL tv series.

If you're a dumb teenage girl you'll probably love it !

Constantine was decent, the lead actor was pretty good and I felt it was hamstrung by the generic writing. The times that they hit up the comics for storylines showed what it was capable of but it wasn't allowed to be that good often enough.

Ugh well that sucks. The best character is by far and away Monroe is he still in season 2?

I thought Constantine was OK. Would have liked to have seen more of Jeremy Davies, and they really underused Mark Margolis. It was basically scooby do except the bad guy was actually a demon, not just a disgruntled mine owner in a costume.

After been pretty pissed off with the last episode of Mad Men (in that it did nothing to close of the show)

I now find out for Season 7 they did one extra episode so I have that to watch tonight and hopefully it will a good final episode!

On Grimm thought that was good and I still download it, stopped watching due to lack of time around S2

The ark is a life raft to keep humanity alive for generations, right? And they have a one child per family rule?! Somebody really sucks at maths.

Probably late to the party but I am really enjoying Person of Interest. Starts with the Bloke from Lost creating a super duper AI which predicts who in New York will get in trouble and then sends Jesus to fix all their problems.

Just over half way through series three and the "world" has really opened up with lots of interesting (for TV) ideas on the impact of AI and how people respond to the idea and the reality of it, plus gun play, lots and lots of gun play.

Recommended.

So, in the past few weeks I have watched Grimm(s1-3), Constantine(S1) and most of Arrow(S1). Arrow is far and away the worst. I am happy t watch a fair bit of pap, but the plot holes in Arrow are almost unbearable. That said, I am still watching it - not sure what that says about me.

Looking at my episode calendar for the upcoming few months it's as bare as I've ever seen it. It's basically only Silicon Valley and Game of Thrones (both of which finish in a couple of weeks) then the second season of Halt and Catch Fire (which I haven't yet watched the first season of). Instead of going looking for new stuff I'm thinking I'll actually spend some time going through my backlog so basically

• Black Mirror (never watched a single episode)
• 30 Rock
• Bullet in the Face
• The Dirk Gently mini-series from a few years back
• Friday Night Lights, which I've hard nothing but good things about
• The first season of Halt and Catch Fire
• In the Flesh (odd looking BBC drama about 'cured' zombies trying to reconnect with their lives)
• The Affair
• The Last Man on Earth
• Utopia

Fuck, that's a much bigger list than I thought, especially if I do get into 30 Rock and Friday Night Lights as that's over 200 episodes right there. So, yeah, if people could just stop making any kind of decent TV programmes for the next year that would be great.

Black Mirror is good.
Utopia is not good. Swap in Orphan Black if you've not seen that and want a sci-fi fix.

Ex-Mrs B watched some of Orphan Black so I was sort of following along with it for a while. It was alright but it never really gripped me.

OBJECTION! I thought it was brill. Tonally patchy in parts where it couldn't decide if it wanted to push comedy over super-serious conspiracy thriller or not. But it was the most visually arresting thing I can remember seeing on tv for a long time, and Neil Maskell is even more brilliant than usual as the ambling, virtually mute hitman. Series 2 lost its way a little but I thought it was still brilliant tv.

Orphan Black on the other hand I couldn't get into. They seemed to cast everyone based on their punchability. Amusing seeing Vaasshisface from Far Cry 3 though.

Agreed Utopia was excellent (especially the 'retro' episode to start series 2).

Orphan Black I've not seen but have heard good things so I will give it a try. Has anyone tried "Lizzy Borden"? Sounds slightly mad.

Utopia is fantastic. Way better than Orphan Black.

I found both pretty dull, to be honest.

Hmm backlogs, you say?

I have, still to watch:

The 100
American Horror Story
Ascension
Broadchurch
Constantine
Continuum
Falling Skies
Fargo
Gotham
Happy Valley
iZombie
The Leftovers
Luther
Marvel Agents of Shield
The Messengers
Nikita
Orphan Black
Penny Dreadful
Resurrection
Silicon Valley
The Strain
True Detective

and I've just started with Unforgettable.

Phew.

The 100 is great (starts a bit slowish, but really gets going)
I liked Fargo.
Gotham is a bit hit and miss occasionally, but gets quite good
I like iZombie, mainly because Zombie Girl is adorable.
True Detective. Watch it now!

I read the comic iZombie is based on for a while but it was boring as shit and I gave up on it so I've never tried the TV series.

Oh, has anyone else been watching Happyish? Steve Coogan's new US series.

He's an aging bloke working in an ad agency, struggling to not get out of touch with the world around him, and balancing work and family life. Also has Bubbles from The Wire, and Josh from The West Wing.

It's OK. Not fantastic. TBH I don't really like the family stuff. I don't really believe he would actually have that family, and interact with them in the way he does. But it has some hilarious moments and dialogue, particularly between him and Josh from the west wing. First two episodes are a bit fumbling, but third and fourth are great, and you get to see Steve Coogan do a convincing Don Draper impression.

I'm going to stick with it, but it's not his best work.

/meerkats

Actually this is true, it's getting really rather good. Though they're still all making the dumbest decisions possible at every turn.

Planet populated by teenagers, what do you expect.

Daredevil is a bit good, isn't it?

I just finished the first season of Daredevil last night and yeah, it's very good. Though my suspension of disbelief struggles slightly with how good Kingpin is in a fight. There's no explanation given for how he's able to fight Daredevil (super powers; years of training) to a standstill given his reliance on just being really angry and a bit fat.

Oh god, it's not them specifically - it's everyone! The adults are just as bad if not worse.

In its defence they do kind of have that Vault 101 mentality.

Yeah, but they don't just make bad decisions, they make really, really stupid decisions. If there's a choice to make, they'll charge headlong into the most blatantly idiotic one every single time.