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Ol’ Qwerty Bastard 12-28-2016 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1788711)
Maybe it's because I am an *******, but I can still be crazy interested in the storylines of characters that I wouldn't like personally, like Hannibal Lector or Travis Bickle.
usually these make for my favourite characters.

Chula Vista 12-28-2016 02:11 PM
Anton Chigurh for the win.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard 12-28-2016 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1788747)
Anton Chigurh for the win.
**** yes

Trollheart 12-28-2016 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Paedantic Basterd (Post 1788144)
Soooo I started House of Cards yesterday and I got 5 episodes in, then put it away. I'm worried that this series is going to be little more than 4 seasons of escalating manipulation / personal threat, and that the series isn't going to end up telling an enclosed story. Sort of like the David Fincher version of Suits. After you've seen the first season, you've seen the whole series and it never goes anywhere; the characters just manipulate each other in the same tired ways and never develop. At a certain point, it's like TV is about trying to see how many more episodes they can make instead of telling a good story.

I have a really hard time getting into dramas, because most of the gratification comes from the overarching story, and if that doesn't play out in a satisfying way, it kind of ruins the whole series. Like with Suits, or Dexter, or Lost, or House. At least with comedy if the end of the show sucks you can just ignore it because the episodes prior to it tell complete stories and are instantaneously gratifying.

I'm tired of being disappointed by TV.
You should try watching the BBC original with Ian Richardson. I've not seen the US one but I loved all three parts of the original.

djchameleon 12-28-2016 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1788782)
You should try watching the BBC original with Ian Richardson. I've not seen the US one but I loved all three parts of the original.
I tried watching the original and I just can't. The US one is just more relatable since I know the political system here better and in depth.

Paedantic Basterd 12-28-2016 03:44 PM
Uhg, it's bad enough that I only understand 50% of U.S. politics; if I watch the British one I'll understand 20% of what's going on.

The Batlord 12-28-2016 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1788727)
I love a good *******.
I'll bet you do.

Thelonious Monkey 12-28-2016 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1788802)
I'll bet you do.
:laughing:

Ninetales 12-28-2016 04:04 PM
was never huge into house of cards either. got through the first season and enjoyed it enough I guess but never had the urge to keep up with it.

I will say I would put suits in that "comedy" tv show grouping where I enjoy watching it without really giving a shit about an overall story. its the same rehashed stuff from season to season but I can put any episode on really and dig it for what it is

Key 12-30-2016 04:35 PM
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Maron

I watched the first season a while back and I got into the 2nd season last night and god damn this show is good. Easily in my top 5 favorites.

innerspaceboy 12-30-2016 08:45 PM
Tonight's MST3K - Time Chasers! - an impossibly stupid indie flick from 1994 filmed in action-packed Vermont. An idiot creates a time machine out of an airplane and a Commodore 64 and chaos ensues. No expense was spared on the Spirograph special effects.

http://i.imgur.com/8aJGdsh.jpg

Chula Vista 12-30-2016 08:53 PM
Keep hearing Linda laughing loudly in the next room. She's watching a marathon of the show Wrecked.

Disclaimer: She's a bit lit.

Frownland 12-30-2016 09:09 PM

Paedantic Basterd 12-31-2016 02:01 AM
I just watched the entirety of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency in a single sitting on Netflix. I recommend you do the same. Or something like that.

Thelonious Monkey 12-31-2016 11:19 PM
Re-watching breaking bad.

Goofle 01-01-2017 05:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Paedantic Basterd (Post 1789892)
I just watched the entirety of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency in a single sitting on Netflix. I recommend you do the same. Or something like that.
Same. I am guessing that wasn't your intention at the outset either?

Paedantic Basterd 01-01-2017 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Goofle (Post 1790178)
Same. I am guessing that wasn't your intention at the outset either?
Oh no, I had no idea what I was getting into other than "loosely based on the works of Douglas Adams". And then I couldn't stop.

Very excited about the series. Some of the tightest writing I've seen in a while, and terribly charming. Gutted that I have to wait until October to find out what happens next.

Chula Vista 01-01-2017 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by _Violet_ (Post 1790161)
Re-watching breaking bad.
Amazing how it sucks you right back in.

Frownland 01-04-2017 04:49 PM
Just watched the eleventh season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and the episode from Frank's perspective is hands down their best yet. I don't like what they did with Dennis's character tbh, I liked it better in the earlier seasons when his insecurity was a little more subtle.

FRED HALE SR. 01-05-2017 04:31 PM
Finished Man in the High Castle. Finished Red Oaks Season 2. Finished Goliath which is the best thing Billy Bob Thornton has done. Currently watching nothing.

djchameleon 01-05-2017 11:20 PM
Emerald City is on tonight!

I can't wait. Looks like a Game of Thrones version of Wizard of OZ and I'm sure NBC will cancel it because they always cancel good ****.

It probably shouldn't even be on NBC tbh.



I still won't forgive NBC for cancelling Kings.

Vinnie 01-06-2017 05:56 AM
I'm also going to watch Emerald City. Hope they don't **** it up with to many (low) CGI.

I watch a lot of series, but the best one which is running on the moment is Sherlock.

How is Man in the High Castle, its on my list to watch.

Chula Vista 01-06-2017 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Vinnie (Post 1791980)

How is Man in the High Castle, its on my list to watch.
First season is GREAT! Second season kinda lost focus for me and I quit halfway through.

Goofle 01-06-2017 10:46 AM
Watching Mad Men through again. Thoroughly fantastic show, and I'm definitely enjoying it more this time round. I believe I watched it on my phone whilst half asleep last time round. And I now appreciate the Ayn Rand references.

FRED HALE SR. 01-06-2017 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1792040)
First season is GREAT! Second season kinda lost focus for me and I quit halfway through.
First Season was Great. Second season was equally as Great. I didn't notice any lack of focus. I am eagerly anticipating the 3rd season. I would recommend Red Oaks and Goliath as well with regard to Amazon Prime exclusives. Hand Of God and Mad Dogs are also excellent. Even Catastrophe and Bosch hold up very well.

FRED HALE SR. 01-06-2017 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Goofle (Post 1792044)
Watching Mad Men through again. Thoroughly fantastic show, and I'm definitely enjoying it more this time round. I believe I watched it on my phone whilst half asleep last time round. And I now appreciate the Ayn Rand references.
Mad Men is so heavy on incredible dialogue and they really captured the era in a beautiful way. Certainly one of the best done shows in recent time.

debaserr 01-06-2017 02:18 PM
Best show made in my opinion. It was so ambitious and they really pulled it off.

Janszoon 01-07-2017 11:25 AM
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The Last Kingdom
I've only watched an episode and half but it seems like it could be good—nice and gritty Viking vs. Saxon stuff. My only complaint so far is that the main actor is way too much of a pretty boy for the role.

The Batlord 01-07-2017 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 1792279)
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The Last Kingdom
I've only watched an episode and half but it seems like it could be good—nice and gritty Viking vs. Saxon stuff. My only complaint so far is that the main actor is way too much of a pretty boy for the role.
Cooool.

Paedantic Basterd 01-07-2017 08:12 PM
I've started to watch Sherlock? I'm only on the first episode of the third season but

Spoiler for spoils:
The **** is this bull**** going on all of a sudden? Some terrible writing going on during a half decent show. They decide to make him fake his death and the explanation is the biggest cop out I've ever seen? "It was all a set up, we shut down a whole street in London and a gaggle of homeless people rolled a giant balloon out and then my brother called off the snipers and I faked my death in front of you" DOESN'T MAKE ANY ****ING SENSE. If he could call off the sniper at any time then what the **** was the point in staging a suicide? Minor celebrity fakes his own death and no less than 100 people help him do it but somehow that doesn't leak out to the public? Literally everyone on the ****ing show with a named character knows about the fake attempt except Watson? To what ****ing end? What does that achieve? The entire plotline was just an excuse to do something shocking that added nothing to the storyline whatsoever.

Also, they had better not have actually killed the best character on this ****ing program. Worse, they'd better not bring him back as some kind of apparition or phantom or hallucination or dream sequence.

I think I have it left in me to get jerked around maybe once more and then I'm bailing. This is teetering on House / Dexter / Hannibal / Heroes level writing combustion.

LoathsomePete 01-08-2017 12:51 PM
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Red Dwarf XI

I just started this but I enjoyed the first episode. It really goes out of its way to stay faithful to the older episodes in terms of setup, delivery, and format. Hell, it even looks like it was filmed on the budget of the old shows, or at least Series 7 and 8 when they began to incorporate more CGI.

Cuthbert 01-08-2017 01:39 PM
Belter of a documentary on C4 right now. Walking The Americas.

Vowels you would like it, I'll try to find you a link. It's some English guy walking from Mexico to Colombia.

The Americas = best place on Earth imo. For this stuff anyway.

Key 01-11-2017 03:09 PM
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Criminal Minds

Been watching this for the past week and I've been hooked since the first episode. It's everything I love regarding crime and it's done so well and the cast is phenomenal.

Janszoon 01-11-2017 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Paedantic Basterd (Post 1792504)
I've started to watch Sherlock? I'm only on the first episode of the third season but

Spoiler for spoils:
The **** is this bull**** going on all of a sudden? Some terrible writing going on during a half decent show. They decide to make him fake his death and the explanation is the biggest cop out I've ever seen? "It was all a set up, we shut down a whole street in London and a gaggle of homeless people rolled a giant balloon out and then my brother called off the snipers and I faked my death in front of you" DOESN'T MAKE ANY ****ING SENSE. If he could call off the sniper at any time then what the **** was the point in staging a suicide? Minor celebrity fakes his own death and no less than 100 people help him do it but somehow that doesn't leak out to the public? Literally everyone on the ****ing show with a named character knows about the fake attempt except Watson? To what ****ing end? What does that achieve? The entire plotline was just an excuse to do something shocking that added nothing to the storyline whatsoever.

Also, they had better not have actually killed the best character on this ****ing program. Worse, they'd better not bring him back as some kind of apparition or phantom or hallucination or dream sequence.

I think I have it left in me to get jerked around maybe once more and then I'm bailing. This is teetering on House / Dexter / Hannibal / Heroes level writing combustion.
Yeah, I thought the first two seasons were great, but then it fell off in the third season and I lost interest.

Trollheart 01-11-2017 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete (Post 1792730)
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Red Dwarf XI

I just started this but I enjoyed the first episode. It really goes out of its way to stay faithful to the older episodes in terms of setup, delivery, and format. Hell, it even looks like it was filmed on the budget of the old shows, or at least Series 7 and 8 when they began to incorporate more CGI.
Have this taped. Must watch.
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Originally Posted by Kiiii (Post 1794121)
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Criminal Minds

Been watching this for the past week and I've been hooked since the first episode. It's everything I love regarding crime and it's done so well and the cast is phenomenal.
Told ya!

Has anyone any thoughts on the new 24? I kind of wonder how it's going to fare without either Jack or Chloe, a whole new cast? I mean, I'll watch, but I don't feel it's going to be the same... I hope I'm wrong of course.

Also, has anyone watched The Bastard Executioner? Done by Kurt Sutter, who brought you Sons of Anarchy of course. Cancelled already but it looks very good, gritty stuff.

djchameleon 01-12-2017 08:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1794230)

Told ya!
I thought I mentioned it and then he decided to watch it after I said I was watching the new season.

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1794230)
Has anyone any thoughts on the new 24? I kind of wonder how it's going to fare without either Jack or Chloe, a whole new cast? I mean, I'll watch, but I don't feel it's going to be the same... I hope I'm wrong of course.
I'm glad Jack and Chloe are gone. I'm more interested in it now that there is a whole new cast. I barely watched the little return thing they had like a year or two ago.

LoathsomePete 01-12-2017 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1794230)
Have this taped. Must watch.
The second episode, "Samsara", is more of a return to form, it actually did that bit from "Balance of Power" where the scene transformed from flashback to present day. It kind of feels like a "Greatest Hits" but of new material if that makes sense, like each new episode reminded me of older episodes but changed in such a way as to still sort of be a new idea. Not the best, but definitely on par with Series X and miles better than Series VIII and that godawful Back to Earth mini-series.

http://epguides.com/RickyGervaisShow/cast.jpg

Anyways, I've spent the last two days binging the entirety of The Ricky Gervais Show and holy shit it may be one of the funniest things I've watched/listened to in awhile. Karl Pilkington is my favorite kind of idiot because he's always willing to share his opinion with complete sincerity regardless of how retarded or poorly worded it is, and defend it. His bit on the "ultimate animal" having the body of an armadillo (for protection), the head of an owl (because people like owls), and the slime of a snail or slug (so people can't kick it over), had me in stitches I was laughing so hard.

Key 01-12-2017 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1794385)
I thought I mentioned it and then he decided to watch it after I said I was watching the new season.
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I don't remember anyone mentioning it actually. I started watching it because I saw it on Netflix and it looked interesting.

The Batlord 01-12-2017 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete (Post 1794420)
http://epguides.com/RickyGervaisShow/cast.jpg

Anyways, I've spent the last two days binging the entirety of The Ricky Gervais Show and holy shit it may be one of the funniest things I've watched/listened to in awhile. Karl Pilkington is my favorite kind of idiot because he's always willing to share his opinion with complete sincerity regardless of how retarded or poorly worded it is, and defend it. His bit on the "ultimate animal" having the body of an armadillo (for protection), the head of an owl (because people like owls), and the slime of a snail or slug (so people can't kick it over), had me in stitches I was laughing so hard.

Dude, exactly the same and exactly the same time frame (just discovered it in the last two days). I love how the other dude just kind of laughs at how dumb Karl is, but Ricky seems to have a genuine appreciation for Karl's unintentional comic genius.

LoathsomePete 01-12-2017 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1794434)
Dude, exactly the same and exactly the same time frame (just discovered it in the last two days). I love how the other dude just kind of laughs at how dumb Karl is, but Ricky seems to have a genuine appreciation for Karl's unintentional comic genius.
Serendipity is a peculiar mistress. I think Ricky's appreciation stems from having somebody to work off of who's so thick he doesn't seem to know if and when he's the butt of the joke. I think half the humor arises from trying to figure out if Karl is playing the idiot, if he's an idiot savant, or if he's just plain stupid.


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