What TV shows are people watching?

The Batlord · 02-04-2018, 04:04 PM

Also we need a show about Otto von Bismark and the rise of the German Empire. Prussia was the ****.

Chiomara · 02-04-2018, 04:26 PM

Totally. 15 seasons and a movie.

~~Lesbian With A Gun~~ · 02-04-2018, 10:45 PM

Bob's Burgers

**Yac** · 02-05-2018, 12:47 AM

Altered Carbon.
I'm only 4 episodes in, but so far it's amazing. Good writing, great characters, a very dark world. Really well done action scenes, full frontal nudity.
What more can a boy want, eh ?

Seriously though, this is great tv.
Without spoiling anything, we follow Takeshi Kovacs (most cyberpunk name ever), a recently released and "resleeved" terrorist/freedomfighter that spent the last 250 years locked away, without a body, sentenced to rot in "jail" forever.
You see, this is a world where people don't die - they simply replace their bodies, or sleeves as they're called, and they keep on going.
Takeshi is offered a chance at freedom, if he finds a killer. Soon things turn out to be more complicated than he anticipated. I know this cryptic bs is.. well, bs, but I really don't want to spoil anything.
Give it a try. If you're into dark, intelligent sf and don't mind extreme violence, you'll love it.

grindy · 02-05-2018, 01:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Yac

Altered Carbon.
I'm only 4 episodes in, but so far it's amazing. Good writing, great characters, a very dark world. Really well done action scenes, full frontal nudity.
What more can a boy want, eh ?

Seriously though, this is great tv.
Without spoiling anything, we follow Takeshi Kovacs (most cyberpunk name ever), a recently released and "resleeved" terrorist/freedomfighter that spent the last 250 years locked away, without a body, sentenced to rot in "jail" forever.
You see, this is a world where people don't die - they simply replace their bodies, or sleeves as they're called, and they keep on going.
Takeshi is offered a chance at freedom, if he finds a killer. Soon things turn out to be more complicated than he anticipated. I know this cryptic bs is.. well, bs, but I really don't want to spoil anything.
Give it a try. If you're into dark, intelligent sf and don't mind extreme violence, you'll love it.

Started watchig this yesterday and also 4 eps in.
Fun stuff.

~~Lesbian With A Gun~~ · 02-05-2018, 08:40 AM

Young Sheldon, I've seen them all, but I find myself watching them again...
I think I've got a crush on Meemaw/Annie Potts, tbh.

Trollheart · 02-05-2018, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

I'd recommend The Hollow Crown if you didn't catch it the
first time around. Cumberbatch is an engaging Richard III.

Seconded most highly. The four plays - King Henry IV part one and two, King Henry V and Richard II - absolutely enthralling television.

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Originally Posted by Chiomara

Been wanting to see Detectorists.

I know that there's lots of very good shows about royals of yore these days (I do want to watch Borgias and also Reign), but I am still bitter over the fact that none of them are about Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Or Ludwig. Why??

There's one about Catherine II if that helps.

Also, Borgias is pretty sweet, though not as violent/sexual as you may have been led to believe. Jeremy Irons is of course flawless but a real shout-out to Francois Arnaud as Cesare and Colm Feore as the Borgias' sworn enemy, Cardinal della Rovere.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Give us Frederick the Great!

Meh, he wasn't so great.

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Originally Posted by Yac

Altered Carbon.
I'm only 4 episodes in, but so far it's amazing. Good writing, great characters, a very dark world. Really well done action scenes, full frontal nudity.
What more can a boy want, eh ?

Seriously though, this is great tv.
Without spoiling anything, we follow Takeshi Kovacs (most cyberpunk name ever), a recently released and "resleeved" terrorist/freedomfighter that spent the last 250 years locked away, without a body, sentenced to rot in "jail" forever.
You see, this is a world where people don't die - they simply replace their bodies, or sleeves as they're called, and they keep on going.
Takeshi is offered a chance at freedom, if he finds a killer. Soon things turn out to be more complicated than he anticipated. I know this cryptic bs is.. well, bs, but I really don't want to spoil anything.
Give it a try. If you're into dark, intelligent sf and don't mind extreme violence, you'll love it.

Sounds excellent. I'll add it to my ever-growing list.

The Batlord · 02-05-2018, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Meh, he wasn't so great.

I've slacked abhorrently on my Prussian history but he seemed pretty awesome to me, and any show which included the Seven Years War (the first Word War as far as I know) should be pretty amazing TV. You can't deny that you'd **** yourself at the possibility at a Bismark series though.

Trollheart · 02-05-2018, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I've slacked abhorrently on my Prussian history but he seemed pretty awesome to me, and any show which included the Seven Years War (the first Word War as far as I know) should be pretty amazing TV. You can't deny that you'd **** yourself at the possibility at a Bismark series though.

Ah yeah it would be great, no doubt. I was just making a bad pun on his name. I love all that historical ****. Watching one about Napoleon atm. Man was he a bad ass! Can't beat properly researched historical dramas. You watched Versailles yet? I think you'd love that ****.

The Batlord · 02-05-2018, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Ah yeah it would be great, no doubt. I was just making a bad pun on his name. I love all that historical ****. Watching one about Napoleon atm. Man was he a bad ass! Can't beat properly researched historical dramas. You watched Versailles yet? I think you'd love that ****.

I have not. I've been listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast though, and his five-part series on WW1 (Blueprint for Armaggedon) starts by talking about Napoleon and the French Revolution and how the invasion of France by basically all of Europe revolutionized war due to the mobilization of all of France in retaliation, an unprecedented move in Europe that created for the first time an entire nation going to war, rather than poncy aristocrats hiring mercenary armies to fight battles with other mercenary armies for a few months to decide who gets what province.

Fascinating stuff that makes me stop listening and go out to smoke a cigarette just so I can ruminate on what I've just heard (cigs are good for making you think). I figure you'd love Carlin.

https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/

Currently on Amazon considering whether I should pull the trigger and buy this...

https://www.amazon.com/Iron-Kingdom-.../dp/0674031962

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Yac Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: It's a secret too. Posts: 1,363	Altered Carbon. I'm only 4 episodes in, but so far it's amazing. Good writing, great characters, a very dark world. Really well done action scenes, full frontal nudity. What more can a boy want, eh ? Seriously though, this is great tv. Without spoiling anything, we follow Takeshi Kovacs (most cyberpunk name ever), a recently released and "resleeved" terrorist/freedomfighter that spent the last 250 years locked away, without a body, sentenced to rot in "jail" forever. You see, this is a world where people don't die - they simply replace their bodies, or sleeves as they're called, and they keep on going. Takeshi is offered a chance at freedom, if he finds a killer. Soon things turn out to be more complicated than he anticipated. I know this cryptic bs is.. well, bs, but I really don't want to spoil anything. Give it a try. If you're into dark, intelligent sf and don't mind extreme violence, you'll love it.

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