Yeah it's great.
Television Anyone recommend me any TV Shows?
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Yeah it's great.
It's the best of the recent HBO comedies.
Just saw the Charlie Work episode of IASP. That was brilliant!
There's a Scottish version of The Fast Show called Chewin' The Fat. Not as good as TFS, obviously but it's not terrible. Ran from 1999 - 2002.
Thanks for the recommendations. Surprised there's so little, UK comedy used to be so good.
So we've seen a huge influx of time travelling tv shows this season, you've got "Frequency", "Timeless" and last, but not least "Travelers".
A common theme about most of them; they suck balls. Not one of them can touch the brilliance of 12 monkeys which is time travel and scifi as good as any, truly a great series.
I tried giving "Frequency" and "Timeless" a go, just had to give up. Zero charm, zero plot, zero fun and shit characters. Then I stumbled upon one that hardly has been mentioned, "Travelers". It seems like it is made for adults, as opposed to "Frequency" and "Timeless" which seems to be some kids \ tweens series.
It is made by the guy that created the entire Stargate franchise and is by far the best of the lot. Some good acting going on, interesting characters and a cool spin on the whole time travel thing with the minds of people from the future being downloaded into people who lives in 2016, with the implications of having to live the life of their subjects, while at the same time do what they came for; stop the world from ending in some huge event which isn't explained yet.
I highly recommend it, I watched all the five episodes currently available on the trot, liked it instantly instead of the normal 3-4 episode period you have to go through to decide. Together with the Exorcist my favourite new show from this years releases (saving up Westworld to binge it.) Another thing I like about it is the pacing, the episodes are well put together and holds your attention. For me the true test of a series is if I start to surf on my phone and post shit on the caf while watching, this one kept me away from the phone and held my attention.
It currently airs on Canadian Showcase, but will be coming to Netflix very soon (it is listed as a Netflix show, no idea why Showcase shows it first). All episodes can of course be acquired elsewhere as well. Currently 5 eps available.
A common theme about most of them; they suck balls. Not one of them can touch the brilliance of 12 monkeys which is time travel and scifi as good as any, truly a great series.
I tried giving "Frequency" and "Timeless" a go, just had to give up. Zero charm, zero plot, zero fun and shit characters. Then I stumbled upon one that hardly has been mentioned, "Travelers". It seems like it is made for adults, as opposed to "Frequency" and "Timeless" which seems to be some kids \ tweens series.
It is made by the guy that created the entire Stargate franchise and is by far the best of the lot. Some good acting going on, interesting characters and a cool spin on the whole time travel thing with the minds of people from the future being downloaded into people who lives in 2016, with the implications of having to live the life of their subjects, while at the same time do what they came for; stop the world from ending in some huge event which isn't explained yet.
I highly recommend it, I watched all the five episodes currently available on the trot, liked it instantly instead of the normal 3-4 episode period you have to go through to decide. Together with the Exorcist my favourite new show from this years releases (saving up Westworld to binge it.) Another thing I like about it is the pacing, the episodes are well put together and holds your attention. For me the true test of a series is if I start to surf on my phone and post shit on the caf while watching, this one kept me away from the phone and held my attention.
It currently airs on Canadian Showcase, but will be coming to Netflix very soon (it is listed as a Netflix show, no idea why Showcase shows it first). All episodes can of course be acquired elsewhere as well. Currently 5 eps available.
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Can I just say, anyone who hasn't seen Rectify, watch it you piece of shit. It's one of the best TV shows ever made and the final season is currently airing.
Watched the first episode and thought it was quite boring. Waste of his talents IMO.
Yes, I've watched all the episodes so far, its a little slow paced but very mysterious. I'm enjoying it.
Has anyone watched channel 4s show Hunted? I like the concept of it but I've heard mixed things. Is it worth a watch?
I've been on the set, second season. Very good show indeed highly recommended
Started Season 3 of The Strain ,the other 2 have been pretty decent.
I enjoyed the first season
I doubt the legitimacy at times though. People made stupid mistakes that felt like they were just for the drama, or baiting the pursuers. I'd just rent a room in a fake name and stay there for the whole time but that wouldn't make good TV.
Ted Junior from Rectify is my favourite character from TV at the moment
I did the same , did 3 eps and gave up on it.
Thanks. I'll probably give it a watch when I've got some time to spare but, like you, the feeling of them making silly mistakes just to up the drama for the show rather than them making sensible decisions might take me out of it a little.
I mean they might just be dumb f*cks or they specifically pick people who are really close to their families. Was frustrating at times though when some people tried to contact home. It's only 30 days on the run.
Since I plan on watching this sometime this week I went and checked out the shows IDMb page and saw a review stating that there are rules to the show that they never talk about on the actual show itself - you have to go to it's website.
Heres what the person said:
imdb user said:
I have no idea why they wouldn't state these rules on the show as they're pretty important and help you grasp the overall structure (I guess) of the hunt. It'd only take a minute or two to inform the viewers, surely?
I don't know if you care anymore but I thought I'd share with you incase you were still wondering how the people/"hunted" could be so dumb.
Just binged 2 seasons of Red Oaks on Amazon Prime. Good show. I'm a sucker for these kind of settings.
Since I plan on watching this sometime this week I went and checked out the shows IDMb page and saw a review stating that there are rules to the show that they never talk about on the actual show itself - you have to go to it's website.
Heres what the person said:
I have no idea why they wouldn't state these rules on the show as they're pretty important and help you grasp the overall structure (I guess) of the hunt. It'd only take a minute or two to inform the viewers, surely?
I don't know if you care anymore but I thought I'd share with you incase you were still wondering how the people/"hunted" could be so dumb.
The show is stupid if that's the case, basically... They're saying don't be found, but you have to do all these stupid as shit things regularly so it makes it easy for us to find you. Absolute bollocks. Don't have any rules. See how clever you are then.
Yeah, I'd much prefer that. Even though I don't like the rules I'll probably still give it a go as, at the very least, I find the concept itself for a show interesting despite them.
It was OK when I didn't know the rules, they still infuriated me doing stupid things like phoning family though, but now actually knowing how it works I couldn't really imagine enjoying it at all now.
Since I plan on watching this sometime this week I went and checked out the shows IDMb page and saw a review stating that there are rules to the show that they never talk about on the actual show itself - you have to go to it's website.
Heres what the person said:
I have no idea why they wouldn't state these rules on the show as they're pretty important and help you grasp the overall structure (I guess) of the hunt. It'd only take a minute or two to inform the viewers, surely?
I don't know if you care anymore but I thought I'd share with you incase you were still wondering how the people/"hunted" could be so dumb.
Cheers, makes a lot more sense now. They dressed it up as them wanting to get in contact with their families though, what a load of shit,
Shooter isn't too bad.
Has anyone seen any of the Chicago based shows? Any good?
I'm on to season two now. It's such a slow burner, I said to my girlfriend that it reminded me of breaking bad in the way it's written and shot, lots of deliberate yet unnecessary shots of barren landscape. Turns out it's from their producers.
On the recommendation of a trusted arbiter, I grudgingly started binging The Good Wife. As someone who hates law procedurals with a passion (White 1%ers in glass windowed Wall Street high rises don't = cool white collar superheroes just because they play basketball in their down time and have a community confidant played by Donald Faison!) I'd never have dipped my toe in without encouragement, but I'm very glad I did.
It took me until the second season to realise it was a level above the usual fluff, and until the 5th to fully appreciate it as great TV, but in the fullness of hindsight, it's quite possibly top ten 21st century TV fare...Top 20, at least. It can occasionally veer into trash, but I've never seen such an ostensibly mainstream show deal with the uncontrollable, random nature of memory, fantasy and thought, quite as impressively (and visually) as this does. It's the kind of thing you can't really explain cold without sounding like a dick, and can't be appreciated without years of character development anyway...So all I can say is if you've got a solid fortnight spare, give it a go. It gets really good 5 seasons in, trust...
There's also a lot of Wire alumni in it. To the point where it'd make a really good/dangerous drinking game.
It took me until the second season to realise it was a level above the usual fluff, and until the 5th to fully appreciate it as great TV, but in the fullness of hindsight, it's quite possibly top ten 21st century TV fare...Top 20, at least. It can occasionally veer into trash, but I've never seen such an ostensibly mainstream show deal with the uncontrollable, random nature of memory, fantasy and thought, quite as impressively (and visually) as this does. It's the kind of thing you can't really explain cold without sounding like a dick, and can't be appreciated without years of character development anyway...So all I can say is if you've got a solid fortnight spare, give it a go. It gets really good 5 seasons in, trust...
There's also a lot of Wire alumni in it. To the point where it'd make a really good/dangerous drinking game.
I thought it went off the rails towards the end, when the competing love plots and the murder and endless corruption cases started overshadowing the "case of the week".
I've caught bits and bobs of The Good Wife on E4 in the middle of the night just browsing the channels. From what I saw I'd agree that it was a good show but I honestly don't know what season(s) I was watching.
My high opinion of it has very little to do with it's week to week stories tbf, and a lot to do with it's determined cynicism (everyone was a dick, and they frequently lost) and aforementioned depiction of memory, fantasy and random, unreliable thought.
It's a hard thing to explain. The episode that dealt with grief is perhaps the best example of it (though I'm partial to the one that attempted to depict the inner monologue of an atheist via an imaginary late night kitchen argument with a fake Richard Dawkins) But both are hard to explain without being super spoilery (and really poncy!)
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Fair enough, but I still think the story arcs went crazy in the final few seasons. Way too much soap opera stuff.
Again, it's very hard to explain what's special about it, especially since it's presented within the framework of a melodramatic law procedural, but as an aspiring writer, it does a lot of subtly unusual things (often outside of the week to week narrative) that are quite interesting and impressive for the form.
Its approach to memory being one I thought was easy to convey, but apparently not...
Its approach to memory being one I thought was easy to convey, but apparently not...
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"Making a murderer" and "Goliath" are pretty good. Finish them both in just a couple days.
Good entertainment, straight to the veins, no bullshit mambojambo.
Good entertainment, straight to the veins, no bullshit mambojambo.
Atlanta
Atlanta is great. Managed to binge watch the full series on my flight from New York last week. Cannot wait for the next season.
I concur. Donald Glover is brilliant. I've been waiting for a show like this set in Atlanta
I highly recommend nobody ever watches "Young & Hungry" ... the worst fecking thing I have ever seen. Absolute shit and it's somehow in it's 5th season!
Anyone seen the Spoils after dying? Goof on whodoneits and film noir. The Spoils of Babylon came out before it and its also a good fun watch.
Just about to start Season 3 after this recommendation. I'll grant you this one, it's very, very good.