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

Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy
Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy
Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy
Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy
Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy
Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy
Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy
Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy

Just finished ep12

OMFG WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?

:p .

Treme Season 1

I'm only two episodes in but I really hope this improves. The DJ guy, Davis, has to be one of the most irritating characters I've seen in a tv series and the whole thing just seems far too earnest for its own good.

spoilers: it will! really nice show.

so did you finish the wire?

workaholics is awesome.

There has been a number of television shows in the past 10 years or so that asked us to root for a amoral or self-serving character. This started with "The Sopranos", where we are asked to root for a criminal. Tony Soprano loved his family, sure, but as the series went on his character grew more self-serving. Then there's a show like Dexter which wants the audience to root for a murderer. Shows like "Dexter" and "Breaking Bad" are wish-fulfillement shows that focus on a character who does what they want, and each week we want them to get away with the terrible things they do. Don Draper may not be a killer but his loner doesn't want to make any serious attachments lest he has to recreate his identity persona is another sort of wish-fulfillment to do as we please and if things don't work he can leave and let others to pick up the pieces he's left behind. In each of these shows the audience is asked to root for selfish, even delusional characters who justify their self-serving actions.

been watching season 1 of homeland which just came out on disc



claire danes looks so fucking disturbed. good show, if slightly nightmare-inducing.

i just finished season 4 and can't wait to start on season 5! also finished twin peaks a couple weeks ago, and started watching spaced last night.

A friend of mine is raving about that. It's similar to The Wire, right?

only in a tangential way. watching claire danes go completely unhinged is the main attraction here. but good plot and all.

did you finish the wire yet?? hurry up already ha ha.

thought homeland was so boring.

why does this woman think 9/11 was her fault. so this soldier becomes an islamic terrorist. but why do i care? were is the actual terrorism? after 4 episodes of this boredom and no boom boom i deleted the torrent.

i am not going to listen to americans whinge about the ever so slightly dangerous undercurrents to their nice upper middle class worlds without seeing them get blown the fuck up in spectacular terrorist suicide bombings.

No, still not finished yet. I get the discs when they come so it'll be ages before I do. I'm still only at the beginning of Season 3. I like it, but I'm starting to wonder if I like it as much as I wanted to/thought I would. It sort of suffers from it's own massive reputation. Not that it's an either/or but I think I prefer The Sopranos. Although I did think season 2 of the Wire (about the dock workers) was amazing.

I think the Wire was way inferior, acting wise, to the Sopranos. Writing not so good, either, the McNutty and his black pal, and wife and kids and girl friends has got to be the worst characterizations since, I don't know when. Some parts are excellent, a lot of the inner story around the higher ranking cops and politicians was very good. I only watched 2 or 3 epsodes of Treme and bailed on it. Same thing. Unbelievable characters, poor dialog and acting.

yeah I always thought the wire was really clichéd in terms of the individual characters; the show as a whole was good (I'm not nearly as big on it as others) but the characters had the depth of a toddler pool.

it's the same problem I have with this new show, top of the lake. I mean for fuck's sake, you're copping your entire concept from twin peaks so you may as well put some time into your characterizations. it's seriously as if they're not even trying to distance themselves from the fact that the show is entirely unoriginal.



I need a new tv show though. I've done my usual cycle through curb, seinfeld, peep show, always sunny, black books etc. and need something to keep me going. survivor can only do so much...

re-watching this.


Re: workaholics, it is a funny show, but I see so much that is cribbed off of other shows, and the one guy who is like a poor man's Jack Black can sometimes irritate me, but the show is funny stuff...


I found BLACK BOOKS so BORING!

Peep Show was good stuff though. My wife turned me onto that one. Thank mario for Netflix.

watch the big lockout again, and then again and again and again until you get it. brilliant show, definitely the best british show of the last 15 years (along with the eternally gloriously painful peep show).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT7c6PTWlQs

I will give Black Books another try. it is hard to find time for sitcoms....

mang, the episode when manny becomes a hair model (or whatever it is he does) is one of funniest things ever.

one difference between british and americans sitcoms/ comedies i think is that the british tend to use much more unpleasant characters as fodder for comedy. i.e., the characters in seinfeld or sunny are assholes, but they have a likeable side and you somehow find yourself cheering for them, whereas say peepshow (the most highly rated british comedy i've had trouble with) the characters are just horrible and depressing and that's that (same thing w/the green wing-- a bunch of unpleasant assholes).

in black books they are atrocious people but i dont know, something just works-- i think i remember the first two seasons are really good and the last was surprisingly crap. thing is these british seasons are ultra-short.

and if you're looking for something sillier/goofier i could recommend father ted. father ted is hilarious!

I'm three episodes into season 1 of "The Wire". Each episode is better then the last. I was reading a bit about the show on wikipedia, and saw that each season looks into a different part of the community (crime, education, politics). Do they change the cast each season, and are the following seasons as good or better then the first if that's the case?

The cops for the most part stay throughout the whole series, there are also other characters who stay throughout. If I said anymore it'd probably be a spoiler. However as each season is a different case there are many characters who are only in it for one season.

The great thing about the following seasons is they're generally different (except 3 which is close to season 1) so everyone has their favs. My personal favorite was 4.