General Purpose US TV thread

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

I am loving Jessica Jones, three episodes left to go of the season now.

It gets better as the season goes on IMO, mostly because there's progressively more of David Tennant in it.

I see it has been renewed for a second season so there should be more of it along soon.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

Had a mini-binge and watched the final three episodes of Jessica Jones last night.

It was jolly splendid although I felt the final confrontation could have been a bit stronger.

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I guess it's a big deal that Jessica can't be controlled by Kilgrave, and sort of controls him in a way, allowing her to do the neck snap, but considering how awful he was I was just hoping for something a bit more..... brutal.

They're going to have to come up with a really good baddie for Season Two to match Mr Tennant though.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Hearthly wrote:

They're going to have to come up with a really good baddie for Season Two to match Mr Tennant though.

Aye, I'm not at all sure what they'll do there. The character hasn't really done much of anything since the Kilgrave stuff so they can't even crib story lines from there. I'm slightly concerned season 2 will be shite.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

I suppose it depends on the quality of the writers and directors they get really, I noticed that there were loads of different names cropping up in the credits for both roles. (I always watch the start and end credits in their entirety, even if I'm watching three episodes on the bounce, bit of an OCD thing.)

I'm not familiar with the comics at all so I have no idea what they have (if anything) of substance to draw from there, but I guess they could just make stuff up as long as it sort of fits into 'the world'.

But yes, Kilgrave and his power will be a hard act to follow, especially as Tennant was so damn good.

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I almost wish they hadn't killed him off.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

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im not familiar with his character beyond the TV show, but characters in comics always die and then somehow end up being not dead.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2016 9:41

Trooper wrote:

Season 4 of SoA was great

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Apart from the deus ex machina ending

Onto season 5!

End of Season 6:

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Jesus this is getting silly now with the people dying

The Great Tyrant · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2016 9:50

Hearthly wrote:

I suppose it depends on the quality of the writers and directors they get really, I noticed that there were loads of different names cropping up in the credits for both roles. (I always watch the start and end credits in their entirety, even if I'm watching three episodes on the bounce, bit of an OCD thing.)

I'm not familiar with the comics at all so I have no idea what they have (if anything) of substance to draw from there, but I guess they could just make stuff up as long as it sort of fits into 'the world'.

But yes, Kilgrave and his power will be a hard act to follow, especially as Tennant was so damn good.

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I almost wish they hadn't killed him off.

JESSSSSICAAA!

I loved this series so much. Glad it's coming back for another season. Kind of love that it has lots of important, flawed f!characters without resorting to crappy tropes.

And David Tennant was a terrifying bad guy. Literally terrifying.

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5146

The final series of Banshee has started.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

Cool, always good fun.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

The final series of Banshee has started.

Sweet!

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Was unimpressed by JJ after a couple of episodes. Still loving DD, but, s2e8, too many fucking ninjas now.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

MrChris wrote:

Was unimpressed by JJ after a couple of episodes.

a) You're wrong, HTH
b) While, as previously mentioned, you're wrong, it does get even better as it goes on

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

DD S2E11, got a lot better after the whole Matt/Karen nonsense took a back seat. And

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fisk is back!

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14487

Preacher teaser / promo

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5146

About the only thing I got from that was "butt face".
As someone who's not read any of the comics, it's not tempting me in.

In other news , Fear The Walking Dead is back on.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

About the only thing I got from that was "butt face".
As someone who's not read any of the comics, it's not tempting me in.

In other news , Fear The Walking Dead is back on.

Arse Face. I love the preacher but that didn't do much for me either. I know it's only a teaser, but I don't feel teased. I feel befuddled.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Well, episode 13 was peak ninja

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2016 8:48

Latest 2 Broke Girls is properly funny in parts.

Triple Sophie whoo, though.

RuySan · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3542

Vikings is getting better and better each season. And now we get to see Ragnar as a junkie. Good times!

'The girlfriend experience' is an excellent surprise. I liked the movie, but the TV show is just on another level, even though is lacking in Sasha grey

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

It is good although I thought the scene where was tripping was a bit poor/hammy.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25585

Mimi wrote:

Whilst being trapped under a sleeping baby, fearing to move, I stumbled across watching The People vs O J Simpson on iPlayer. It's really awful, but like all the best bad TV, I couldn't stop watching (mostly because the remote had fallen on the floor and I was too scared of waking up Baby Codd to move).

Cuba Gooding Jnr plays a shouty man called OJ Simpson, who killed his wife. His lawyer friend is some Kardashian man, who is Ross from F.R.I.E.N.D.S (did we ever find out what that acronym stood for?). But he is the WRONG KIND OF LAWYER, so instead John Travolta is drafted in as a lawyer who wears far too much make-up and seems to have his face moved into a permanent creepy clown face by botched plastic surgery. But he's a shit lawyer, so then there is another lawyer.

Then whilst OJ is with police and under arrest, he decides to go for a shower, which they allow him to do, all by himself, and he decides to go on a drive with his buddy up and down the motorway, holding a gun to his own head. Eventually he is caught.

Then it goes to court and I was singing Row Row Row the boat so don't know what happened at that point.

There are still a few more episodes to go. I hope they get the bad man!

I can't believe

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he got off

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serioysly, though, I had no idea that you could then be tried by s civil suit for causing death by your actions... It's all very weird...

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

A civil suit has a lower level of evidence needed, so it's often a way to pursue some level of justice if a criminal suit fails. It's something of a risk though, because you could potentially be countersued for, for example, harassment, defamation etc.

Malc · **Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2016 12:50

I mean if you listen to what the jury where saying (in the TV program, but that's my recollection from listening to the news at the time too), there were so many inconsistencies in the prosecutions case, then they did not prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. And as for the civil case, then yeah as Craster says the civil case needs to be proven to the balance of probabilities (or something like that).

At the time I remember thinking that "they" wanted him to get off, because "they" didn't want another riot.

I was in LA for the best part of 8 weeks in the summer of 1995, and there was a lot of tension in the city.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38458

Thanks, now the song's stuck in my head...

Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city

All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25585

Summer in th city and the air is chill
Something nana nana de dum dum de hill

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25585

Malc wrote:

I mean if you listen to what the jury where saying (in the TV program, but that's my recollection from listening to the news at the time too), there were so many inconsistencies in the prosecutions case, then they did not prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. And as for the civil case, then yeah as Craster says the civil case needs to be proven to the balance of probabilities (or something like that).

At the time I remember thinking that "they" wanted him to get off, because "they" didn't want another riot.

I was in LA for the best part of 8 weeks in the summer of 1995, and there was a lot of tension in the city.

Yes, I see what you mean: a distinction between not guilty and innocent, I guess.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2016 16:38

The last episode of season 1 of Californication is the best series finale of all time.

I welcome your challenges.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

In the absence of anything else to watch, I'm giving Jessica Jones another go. This better get better.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

You're the worst person

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Space ship count currently: 0

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

It's wall to wall emo.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Apr 21, 2016 21:06

MrChris wrote:

Space ship count currently: 0

Keep watching.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Pretty much the only reason I'm watching right now is to spot the crossover with DareDevil S2.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

It's growing on me. BUT, surely, given his power, Kilgrace could (and would, given his personality) be running the world?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

The effects fade once he's no longer nearby, no?

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

No, because whatserchops who shot her parents was left alone in the hotel room for ages and couldn't leave because he said not to then shot her parents cos he said to.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

MrChris wrote:

No, because whatserchops who shot her parents was left alone in the hotel room for ages and couldn't leave because he said not to then shot her parents cos he said to.

His powers require proximity to initiate control and that control wears off over time. It's just that the time period in question is relatively long, hence what you're talking about there.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

It was established at

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12 hours if memory serves, to the extent that on a couple of occasions characters use that length of time as a sort of 'quarantine' on other people who have been exposed to his powers, to establish if they're doing his bidding or are in control of their own actions.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

FUCKS SAKE SPOILERS.

I've only watched 3 episodes.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

Well you didn't seem to be enjoying it.

EDIT - I've spoilered it anyway, even though you were basically asking questions that got answered.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

I've been watching Season One of that Fargo thingy on Netflix, that's very good innit. I like Billy Bob Thornton, although not 'like like', if you get my drift, as he's a cold-hearted psychopath.

Some of what goes on stretches credulity a bit, or doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but the overall quality is keeping me hooked - one of those where they've really got the whole cast spot on.

I think I prefer TV series to films these days, far too many films are made now to fit the mould of 'worldwide audience friendly' and 'PG-13' content.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Apr 25, 2016 9:12

2 episodes in and Deadwood is really rather good.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Apr 25, 2016 9:17

(Checks Beex archives) It's been five years since I finished the first series. Really should start on the second: it's very, very good. And sweary Lovejoy never ceases to fascinate.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

Good time to start watching it too. It got cancelled without a decent conclusion, but there's a movie on the way now.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Apr 25, 2016 23:03

Almost Human is really good, Beexers.

Make sure to watch it in the right order: http://geektyrant.com/news/fox-is-airin ... t-of-order

Morte · **Posted:** Tue Apr 26, 2016 11:19

Fox really seem to take some perverse delight in doing that.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Apr 26, 2016 11:56

They do - but in this series it really does matter - characters seem to change their relationships (and living situations) wildy, and even reference events that haven't occurred yet!

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

I know you all know this, but B99 is the bestest. Holt is absolutely the most funniest character ever EVER.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25585

He is. I think I love him.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

"you made me turn round my chair".

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