Television Anyone recommend me any TV Shows?

Maccaa said:
It's that time again where I'm looking for a new TV show to watch. Such a hard decision to make but I'm thinking of Justified. Would anyone recommend it?
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Great show.
 
Maccaa said:
It's that time again where I'm looking for a new TV show to watch. Such a hard decision to make but I'm thinking of Justified. Would anyone recommend it?
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First few seasons are ace, if you're into hillbilly crime drama. Drags a bit in the middle before a high octane final season.
 
Organic Potatoes said:
First few seasons are ace, if you're into hillbilly crime drama. Drags a bit in the middle before a high octane final season.
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JPRouve said:
Great show.
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Cheers. Think I'll start it tomorrow. I've never watched a hillbilly crime drama but I do love my crime dramas. I noticed that Shane out of The Shield is in it as well so that's a bonus.
 
"Last Chance U" completely rocks, for those who haven't seen it. A brilliant sports documentary about a junior college football team that made a program out of hiring very gifted athletes that were rejected by bigger schools for disciplinary or academic reasons.

I thoroughly enjoyed "Goliath", too. Not a world beater of Breaking Bad dimension, but entertaining enough with some brilliant acting.

Recently, i started watching "3%", a brazilian netflix scifi production that shows promise.
 
Mockney said:
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.
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It's a great show for its first five seasons IMO. Never really got its deserved respect as one of the best prestige dramas on TV because it was on network TV and had those 20 episode seasons but it really was a fantastic show at its peak. I wish that it was on a basic cable network instead though and if it had shortened seasons (13 episodes), it would have been much better off.
 
SwansonsTache said:
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.

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Indeed. I really like Travelers, it's way superior to the garbage that is Timeless. The show is pretty dark and colourless in the looks department, which is a bit of a turn off, but important things like story and characters are good. And it's going fast, a lot of other shows would end their 13 or 20+ episode seasons with the stuff like Travelers sixth episode.
 
SwansonsTache said:
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.

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Will give this a go as I agree with what you say about Timeless and Frequency. I love 12 Monkeys (TV series), tried Timeless a few nights ago and thought it was utter shite !
 
Nialler said:
Will give this a go as I agree with what you say about Timeless and Frequency. I love 12 Monkeys (TV series), tried Timeless a few nights ago and thought it was utter shite !
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It is a good show, best being binged though, but now you have 8 eps to devour.

Really disappointed about "Timeless" since I expected big things from it due to being produced by Eric Kripke, the guy behind the "Supernatural" series, which is one of my favs. He totally failed in recreating that campy feelgood vibe from Supernatural in this one though, even though it is very evident that he tried, he just tried too hard.
 
This new SyFy series caught my interest:

Incorporated:

"Incorporated tells the story of multinational corporations rising to world power in 2074 after climate changes have ravaged the world and created famine and chaos and left collapsed countries in their wake. Populations are now divided into Green Zones (those who work for gigantic corporations and, for total fealty, get to reap the nice life with real food and other luxuries) and the Red Zone, which is basically somebody's idea of making the world of Blade Runner seem sunny."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4118466/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Might give it a go, currently two eps out.
 
SwansonsTache said:
This new SyFy series caught my interest:

Incorporated:

"Incorporated tells the story of multinational corporations rising to world power in 2074 after climate changes have ravaged the world and created famine and chaos and left collapsed countries in their wake. Populations are now divided into Green Zones (those who work for gigantic corporations and, for total fealty, get to reap the nice life with real food and other luxuries) and the Red Zone, which is basically somebody's idea of making the world of Blade Runner seem sunny."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4118466/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Might give it a go, currently two eps out.
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I will give that a look , here is another one that looks interesting. 3%

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4922804/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
 
strongwalker said:
"Last Chance U" completely rocks, for those who haven't seen it. A brilliant sports documentary about a junior college football team that made a program out of hiring very gifted athletes that were rejected by bigger schools for disciplinary or academic reasons.

I thoroughly enjoyed "Goliath", too. Not a world beater of Breaking Bad dimension, but entertaining enough with some brilliant acting.

Recently, i started watching "3%", a brazilian netflix scifi production that shows promise.
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Yeah another shout for Last Chance U. Incredible documentary.

Looking for a show similar to Parks & Rec/Modern Family. Basically witty, laid back kind of show (few good looking ladies in there wouldn't be too bad as well). I've also already watched Workaholics, It's Always Sunny, Master of None.

If anyone can recommend anything...ta
 
McLovin said:
Yeah another shout for Last Chance U. Incredible documentary.

Looking for a show similar to Parks & Rec/Modern Family. Basically witty, laid back kind of show (few good looking ladies in there wouldn't be too bad as well). I've also already watched Workaholics, It's Always Sunny, Master of None.

If anyone can recommend anything...ta
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Arrested Development
Broad City
Atlanta
 
Edgar Allan Pillow said:
Anyone watch Designated Survivor?
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Yeah. It starts okay but the further it goes, the worse it becomes. Especially the Russian line - the idea that a coach caught with PE substances will serve a life-time sentence, etc. Looks on par with the worst examples of the Cold War movies. After the scrutinous recreation of the American politic system I expected more from them, really

POTUS and his family are also incredibly boring - he is a perfectly perfect liberal/moralist who can't put a foot wrong because of his principles.
 
Shane88 said:
Is Falling Skies any good?
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Nah, it's the same postapocalyptic thing over and over and over again. TWD with aliens is a correct description, but the comparison is with all those boring filler episodes.
 
HBO needs to raise their game. They're doing well with GoT I suppose but they don't have any other show with the entertainment value of True Detective S1/Sopranos/The Wire etc. The Night Of was underwhelming.
 
VorZakone said:
HBO needs to raise their game. They're doing well with GoT I suppose but they don't have any other show with the entertainment value of True Detective S1/Sopranos/The Wire etc. The Night Of was underwhelming.
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Westworld.
 
McLovin said:
Yeah another shout for Last Chance U. Incredible documentary.

Looking for a show similar to Parks & Rec/Modern Family. Basically witty, laid back kind of show (few good looking ladies in there wouldn't be too bad as well). I've also already watched Workaholics, It's Always Sunny, Master of None.

If anyone can recommend anything...ta
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Community
 
VorZakone said:
Looks meh to me.
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I am saving up all the eps to binge it, but I understand from people I talk with that it has failed to deliver on the hype. By all means a good show, just not the blockbuster it was tipped to be.
 
Westworld was a massive commercial success though which they needed with GoT soon ending.

Agreed that Leftovers is their best show at the moment.

They also have the best comedy on TV in Silicon Valley.
 
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