Probably not in Canada, I'll check.

Been watching Game of Thrones, I'm about halfway through season 2. I'm about 200 pages away to the end of "A Storm of Swords".

House season 7.

first short episode was pretty good, though in retrospective i'm getting a whiff of californication plagiarism

The Sweeney, because ITV4 have been showing stuff all weekend. Superb series.

There's a documentary about the Intercity 125 on this week, Thursday evening I think.

Breaking Bad season 1.

Good lad. Such a great tv series. How is america after all the shit film they produce able to bring out so many watchable, brilliant tv series?

all the talent has migrated. in tv the stakes are lower and writers/directors have more creative freedom, i.e., less cooks = better broth.

speaking of that, i'm in the middle of a walking dead marathon today (season 2). i know tv is not documentary, but fuck, are georgia rednecks mentally challenged as a population or what?

Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro chan
(Killer Beating Angel)

Started watching this...pretty fucking fun...bloody too :D


Oh and the animation hilarious!!!!!

the thick of it has been over for a week now. ill miss it but i feel like it was time for the show to come to end. i found that the fourth season showed instances of the characters just being parodies of themselves. i found the final episode to be a pretty good wrap-up, would have liked to see ollie, glenn and nicola in the same room again but i think that would have been asking too much. i'd say the fourth season was the worst season of the bunch, it was still good but just not as good as the others. would have also liked to see jamie one last time...

anyone watch Veep? i havent given a chance, im just always hesitant when it comes to "americanized" version of things...i didn't think In the Loop was very good and it sorta tarnished the series. i read the iannucci is working on a movie adaptation of alan partridge, woo....

Dr. Who

I wanted to hate the new series, but thanks to deaddiscodickhole, I'm hooked.

Netflix is missing heaps of specials, so my coverage is spotty, but I'm so glad that we stuck with it.

Hell, I even like that ranga, Amy Pond, and damn if I don't like rangas; soulless beasts that they are.

Wrong thread.



Delete that post.

Lol.

actually the redneck is the most reasonable of the bunch. the supposedly semi-educated people are the ones who act most fucking retarded (up to season 2 anyway).


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anyway, been watching "spy" (the british show) on hulu and the 2nd season doesn't disappoint. the latest episode was very funny.

i only wish they weren't so fucking lazy and called 6 episodes a season... no, what is it called, a... "series". "second series". for fucks sakes. add at least 6 more!

My wife has me watching Mad Men. Good melodrama so far. Nothing earth-shattering, but good.

teh historical reconstruction of mores and attitudes is pretty fucking great.

also, christina hendricks is most definitely earth-shattering.

My issue with television like Mad Men is that a good portion of their audience does not understand that what they are watching is a historical reconstruction, and take it to be something they should model their personal views after.

Remember Seinfeld? That show was about 4 HORRIBLE human beings, selfish, immoral, unrepentantly self-absorbed, with no cares for the rest of humanity. So many of that show's fans did not see this. instead, they saw mirrors of themselves and used Seinfeld as a get-out-of-jail free care for all their personal bullshit they lay on people. It helped them rationalize their own horrible behavior. "I'm just like Elaine!" "I'm not so bad compared to Costanza!"

Those same assholes did not understand the finale of Seinfeld, how they truly deserved to rot in jail for the untold horrors.

I wonder if Mad men is so highly thought of by the old white men that vote for the Emmy's because it directly mirrors what they truly believe and feel inside their secret minds, what they can no longer share with the world because it is not currently "acceptable."

It really is like Happy Days (made in the 70's but set in 50's), That 70's show (made in 90's but set in 70's), or other such rewrites of recent history, but it is a well-crafted drama with good acting.

Dexter season 2.

There's a wonderful documentary on BBC Four right now called "Sound it Out" about a record shop in the North East of England. Its making me swell with happiness, if you can find it online, i reccomend you do.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nwfxx