I watched the pilot of "The 100" the other day. It was fucking awful, but as it is a CW show I think, I expect it will last another 10 seasons...

I watched the pilot of "The 100" the other day. It was fucking awful, but as it is a CW show I think, I expect it will last another 10 seasons...

The 100 looks like a load of teen fluff at first but it really does improve hugely and has been renewed.

So to summarise, there's fuck all on at the moment?

Fargo was great.

New HBO show The Leftovers

http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-34506

A Rapture type plot in a small town, not started watching it yet, but HBO stuff is usually OK

The series is set in the Silicon Prairie of Texas in 1983 and depicts a fictionalized insider's view of the personal computer revolution. The show's title refers to the machine code instruction Halt and Catch Fire, which would cause the computer's central processing unit to cease functioning.

Yep, Halt.... has been excellent so far. I think I first saw it mentioned on here and have loved it from day one.

Sadly it's not looking too promising for a series 2.

Cool. Weirdly I actually like the fact that it's only ten episodes long rather than the slightly wearying 24 or whatever that most US stuff is these days.

More and more shows are doing 13 episodes or less now which is a definite step in the right direction. There's very few shows that can keep the quality up for that long.

The 100 looks like a load of teen fluff at first but it really does improve hugely and has been renewed.

Not really an US show, but i have been watching an incredible Portuguese drama series about the early eighties music scene, and there was an awesome and obscure reference to Championship Manager.

I had to pause it and explain it to my wife but it made my day. So cool that some screenwriter managed to squeeze that in.

What's that called then ? Sounds interesting (partly because I have a fondness for early 80's music but mainly because you described it as being "incredible").

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strain_(TV_series)
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2654620/
(Both have minor spoilers for the premise, which is built up to fairly slowly in the show.)

Big budget horror TV series from del Toro, based on the trilogy of novels he co-wrote with Chuck Hogan. Pleasingly, it's planned as a 3-5 season show, with a fixed timeline and a fixed ending. I like things that have an ending. Unsure how involved del Toro will be as time goes on, but he's been very hands on as writer, showrunner, and occasional director of the first season.

I've only seen the first episode so far, and although it's a bit hoary and clichéd in places (a ranting old geezer who's the only person who knows the terrible truth! A driven main character with family problems! Sinister businessmen in immaculate suits talking in oblique but threatening language!) it's generally well done (squirmy body horror! Intriguing somewhat-new take on a very old story!) Four episodes have aired in the US, to decent reviews.

Set in a world destined for extinction as women have stopped having children. When remarkably 100 embryos are successfully fertilized, a national lottery is held to decide the surrogates

Another Sci-Fi show ... The Lottery



Starting watching it the other night and fell asleep! So will give it another go this weekend, I feel asleep more as I was tired than the content of the show!

Found another show Manhattan, not watched it yet there are 2 episodes out from a run of 13

Blurb below

Manhattan is set against the backdrop of the clandestine mission to build the world’s first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico and follows the brilliant but flawed scientists and their families as they attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.

managed to get about 1/2 way through the 1st episode, hasn't grabbed me at all

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strain_(TV_series)
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2654620/
(Both have minor spoilers for the premise, which is built up to fairly slowly in the show.)

Big budget horror TV series from del Toro, based on the trilogy of novels he co-wrote with Chuck Hogan. Pleasingly, it's planned as a 3-5 season show, with a fixed timeline and a fixed ending. I like things that have an ending. Unsure how involved del Toro will be as time goes on, but he's been very hands on as writer, showrunner, and occasional director of the first season.

I've only seen the first episode so far, and although it's a bit hoary and clichéd in places (a ranting old geezer who's the only person who knows the terrible truth! A driven main character with family problems! Sinister businessmen in immaculate suits talking in oblique but threatening language!) it's generally well done (squirmy body horror! Intriguing somewhat-new take on a very old story!) Four episodes have aired in the US, to decent reviews.

Found another show Manhattan, not watched it yet there are 2 episodes out from a run of 13

Blurb below

Manhattan is set against the backdrop of the clandestine mission to build the world’s first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico and follows the brilliant but flawed scientists and their families as they attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.