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| Author: | LewieP [ Wed May 06, 2015 8:02 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Wed May 06, 2015 8:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: General Purpose US TV thread |
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. |
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| Author: | markg [ Wed May 06, 2015 11:40 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Thu May 07, 2015 8:55 ] |
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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.) |
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| Author: | zaphod79 [ Thu May 07, 2015 9:49 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Thu May 07, 2015 9:54 ] |
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I quite enjoyed season 5 and thought Jonny Lee Miller, Julia Stiles and Peter Weller were all very good in it. |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Thu May 07, 2015 11:22 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Thu May 07, 2015 11:38 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Thu May 07, 2015 11:46 ] |
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Bamba wrote: 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. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Thu May 07, 2015 11:58 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | zaphod79 [ Fri May 08, 2015 13:15 ] |
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New Netflix series : |
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| Author: | RuySan [ Fri May 08, 2015 18:36 ] |
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Last episode of Mad Man = Best thing ever. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Fri May 08, 2015 19:50 ] |
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Mad Man, and his faithful sidekick Crrrazy Boy! |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed May 13, 2015 12:12 ] |
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There's a Scream TV series a'comin'. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3921180/ |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed May 13, 2015 12:21 ] |
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Watched the Kimmy Schmidt episode last night with the plastic surgeon. Superb. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed May 13, 2015 12:22 ] |
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I didn't really get Kimmy Schmidt. I liked the Theme music, though. |
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| Author: | LewieP [ Wed May 13, 2015 12:29 ] |
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The Scream TV series looks fucking awful. As does the Minority Report series. This looks pretty good though. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Wed May 13, 2015 12:33 ] |
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Curiosity wrote: Watched the Kimmy Schmidt episode last night with the plastic surgeon. Superb. It's...dunno...okay? |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed May 13, 2015 12:42 ] |
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Cras wrote: Curiosity wrote: Watched the Kimmy Schmidt episode last night with the plastic surgeon. Superb. It's...dunno...okay? That's how I felt about the whole thing, to be honest. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed May 13, 2015 12:50 ] |
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Losers. Martin Short as the plastic surgeon was hilarious. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed May 13, 2015 22:36 ] |
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"Talk to the shame puppet!" Screw you guys. Kimmy Schmidt is awesome. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu May 14, 2015 1:50 ] |
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\ Keep telling yourself how good it is. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Thu May 14, 2015 8:44 ] |
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It is a delightful show. And also one for people who would describe a show as 'delightful'. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Thu May 14, 2015 8:51 ] |
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Grim... wrote: |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu May 14, 2015 9:05 ] |
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Yes indeed. Trinity, too. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu May 14, 2015 9:06 ] |
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Woop! |
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| Author: | Morte [ Thu May 14, 2015 9:42 ] |
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I'm currently forcing my way through American Horror Story: Asylum, I'm at episode 6. Does it get any better at any point, it seems a mish mash of half a dozen ideas forced together with some extremely poor writing. ...are Coven / Freakshow any better? |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu May 14, 2015 9:47 ] |
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I gave up pretty soon into the second series. Really enjoyed the first series, though. |
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| Author: | Satsuma [ Thu May 14, 2015 9:57 ] |
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Morte wrote: I'm currently forcing my way through American Horror Story: Asylum, I'm at episode 6. Does it get any better at any point, it seems a mish mash of half a dozen ideas forced together with some extremely poor writing. The last two (or three, I forget) tie everything together in a satisfactory way. Like you say though, there's too many different ideas smashed together. It could have been excellent had they bothered to trim the fat substantially and refine the couple of decent ideas that worked. Morte wrote: ...are Coven / Freakshow any better? No and no. Worse and substantially worser. I stopped watching Freakshow about five or six episodes in. |
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| Author: | Morte [ Thu May 14, 2015 12:26 ] |
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Ah OK, looks like I'll finish this series and give the others a miss. As an aside I've been offered over 10 series of Cops by a colleague at work, I'm not sure the human mind can endure watching 10 series of Cops. |
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| Author: | RuySan [ Thu May 14, 2015 17:53 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | JohnCoffey [ Thu May 14, 2015 18:29 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | asfish [ Thu May 14, 2015 18:35 ] |
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JohnCoffey wrote: 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:)! |
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| Author: | JohnCoffey [ Thu May 14, 2015 18:45 ] |
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asfish wrote: JohnCoffey wrote: 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. |
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| Author: | nickachu [ Fri May 15, 2015 0:10 ] |
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JohnCoffey wrote: 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. The 2nd season is much better than the first. And the first was great!!!! |
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| Author: | JohnCoffey [ Fri May 15, 2015 1:19 ] |
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nickachu wrote: JohnCoffey wrote: 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. 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. |
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| Author: | zaphod79 [ Fri May 15, 2015 11:37 ] |
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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 ) |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Fri May 15, 2015 11:40 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Fri May 15, 2015 12:48 ] |
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: a non-trivial investment of time. Is the name of your sex tape. |
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| Author: | Trousers [ Fri May 15, 2015 13:01 ] |
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Mr Kissyfur wrote: Doctor Glyndwr wrote: a non-trivial investment of time. Is the name of your sex tape. POTW |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Fri May 15, 2015 14:20 ] |
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: 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. 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. |
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| Author: | zaphod79 [ Fri May 15, 2015 15:42 ] |
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Curiosity wrote: 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. |
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| Author: | JohnCoffey [ Fri May 22, 2015 13:26 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Fri May 22, 2015 20:43 ] |
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Got fed up with Amazon instant and signed back up to netflix. Fargo the series is a bit good isn't it? |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Fri May 22, 2015 21:34 ] |
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i am up to episode 4 of The 100: ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Fri May 22, 2015 21:37 ] |
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It doesn't start making any more sense than that |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Fri May 22, 2015 21:45 ] |
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Also, Blonde One is annoying. Very annoying. |
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| Author: | zaphod79 [ Fri May 22, 2015 22:44 ] |
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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 |
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| Author: | Cras [ Fri May 22, 2015 23:31 ] |
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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' |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Sat May 23, 2015 1:04 ] |
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It gets stupider. |
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