What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 2/8/2013 at 9:01 AM, ghOsty said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:24 PM, chimera slot mom said:

The Office season 4. I'm utterly hooked on this show.

Just be sure to stop after Micheal leaves for good, the show never really had the same steam after that...

When is that? Wouldn't be able to watch this show without Michael.

i kept watching and i'm still having fun!

  On 2/8/2013 at 1:56 PM, chimera slot mom said:

 

  On 2/8/2013 at 9:01 AM, ghOsty said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:24 PM, chimera slot mom said:

The Office season 4. I'm utterly hooked on this show.

Just be sure to stop after Micheal leaves for good, the show never really had the same steam after that...

 

When is that? Wouldn't be able to watch this show without Michael.

Not til the end of Season 7 I believe

Utopia. Absolute quality stuff and with a bit of a The Invisibles influence in there. Excellent score and visually stunning as well.

kitten mittons

Columbo box set

FML

  On 2/8/2013 at 9:14 PM, Mindphaser said:

Utopia. Absolute quality stuff and with a bit of a The Invisibles influence in there. Excellent score and visually stunning as well.

It's actually gone downhill badly since the eye catching first episode. Nothing has actually happened since. Stephen Rea and James Fox seem to be dictating affairs from that fancy room. The script's fallen pretty flat, when i see Rea and Fox sitting in that room with sad faces i imagine its their disappointment at the weak narrative and the words that their more prominent co-stars are made to make come out of their mouths. Rea and Fox appear to be as bored as anyone who isn't dazzled by the comic-lite visuals.

i dunno, i think i went adhd trying to watch utopia, nothing caught my attention at all and i turned it off after 25 mins

Start of the 3rd episode was pretty brutal school shooting and what not... Apart from that its slowing down abit

that's cause your missing all the little gems a long the way.. Its a real treat for mental people like myself who like to pick up on tiny little themes and stuff or who obsess over programmes like this.

I love it.

TWD new episode was really awful. Can't really see how it will turn decent specially with how boring the prison arc is.

Mostly HBO stuff, new season of Girls. Trying to work through The Wire, The Sopranos, and Enlightened

krollshow is p lol

i burned through most of Fringe and i have to say i'm really disappointed after Peter went into the machine not only did the timeline change with seemingly no chance of returing back to normal, the entire fucking 5th season is this very cheesy 'the observers are fascists' 20+ year in the future timeline? Why in the fuck did they do this, i can't even describe how pissed I am. I feel like some of the worst elements of LOST creeped their way into the show towards the end, like the flash-foward concept. Its hard to have emotional investment in characters when we all of the sudden skip 20 years ahead, W T F

I'm still going to keep watching it till the end but i have to say i'm really shocked that they went out this way. I miss the Walt from the other timeline, and for 2 seasons of the show i have to endure almost a reset of his personality where he's an agoraphobic ninny. fucking A

well I finally finished Homeland series 1 -- I'm a little behind...

the ending was not great, but the rest of the series entertained me.

is series 2 any good?

the walking dead redeemed itself from last weeks abortion. quite excellent episode

I'm watching Homeland too. About 9 episodes into series 1. I've liked it a lot so far - hope you're wrong about the ending, isaki!

it wasn't a bad ending, it won't put you off the show -- I dunno. it just needed... something more. (or less?)

*spoilers ahead warning*

so for the Fringe fans out there, did you like the way the show wrapped up? I never really had an overt problem with the whole Observers subplot elements, but when they turned the entire 5th season into a story centering around them being some sort of fascist dictatorship i couldn't take it seriously. Not only did they do that but they heavily borrowed from the Matrix films by making them seem agent Smith like, with their bullet time speed and casual expert martial arts hyper speed fighting style. I thought they did a decent job with the story in 5, i just found it sort of shocking that they built up such a good cohesive (considering how convoluted the concepts are) universe(s) by the end of Season 3. Now the show starts off in Season 4 where Peter is erased from the timeline, and we have Walt (the most interesting character) reverting to his introverted neurotic state that he was in way back in Season 1 and a more anal and emotionless Olivia. I understand that they wanted to make an interesting story gimmick out of it, but why the fuck didn't they just reset the timeline back to normal like 3-4 episodes into season 4? Instead we get some bullshit about Olivia taking crotexiphan so now she remembers the alternate timeline along with Peter but no one else does?

I find it incredibly frustrating how much potential there was for the show at the end of Season 3, just to see it collapse under it's own weight during 4 and 5. 4 was still very watchable, and i got invested in it but still frustrating...

There were points during the last 2 seasons i actually had faith the writers were going to do some extremely clever wrap up involving some kind of time-loop paradox ie: something they do in the future ties into some of the very first episodes of the show. Something *like* that. Instead we get a tie-in to a flashback scene that we only see at the beginning of Season 5 where Olivia and Peter's daughter is already like 5-6 years old? Skip forward 6 years, no explanation and only 13 episodes to go for the finale? They dug themselves a big hole and kept digging deeper, but all in all it ended much stronger than Lost or the X-files did.

Watching Spaced. Don't know why I never got into this but it's great. It looks quite dated for some reason but I'm loving it.

Hello Brian...

  On 2/20/2013 at 11:13 AM, spratters said:

Watching Spaced. Don't know why I never got into this but it's great. It looks quite dated for some reason but I'm loving it.

 

Hello Brian...

Well it is full of pop culture references that are almost 15 years old.

Loved that show.

Managed to watch 8 hours of the classic ITV crime thriller CRACKER since Saturday. Robbie Coltrane's best role? Almost certainly. I love that man so much too.

COLTRANE

  On 2/20/2013 at 1:48 PM, blackdust said:

 

  On 2/20/2013 at 11:13 AM, spratters said:

Watching Spaced. Don't know why I never got into this but it's great. It looks quite dated for some reason but I'm loving it.

 

Hello Brian...

Well it is full of pop culture references that are almost 15 years old.

 

Loved that show.

Ditto - one of my favorite tv series ever. They killed off any effort to make an American copy which is amazing.

Spaced always seemed like such a WATMM-esque show imo.

Anyone watching Utopia?

good stuff

  On 2/20/2013 at 9:50 AM, Awepittance said:

*spoilers ahead warning*

so for the Fringe fans out there, did you like the way the show wrapped up? I never really had an overt problem with the whole Observers subplot elements, but when they turned the entire 5th season into a story centering around them being some sort of fascist dictatorship i couldn't take it seriously. Not only did they do that but they heavily borrowed from the Matrix films by making them seem agent Smith like, with their bullet time speed and casual expert martial arts hyper speed fighting style. I thought they did a decent job with the story in 5, i just found it sort of shocking that they built up such a good cohesive (considering how convoluted the concepts are) universe(s) by the end of Season 3. Now the show starts off in Season 4 where Peter is erased from the timeline, and we have Walt (the most interesting character) reverting to his introverted neurotic state that he was in way back in Season 1 and a more anal and emotionless Olivia. I understand that they wanted to make an interesting story gimmick out of it, but why the fuck didn't they just reset the timeline back to normal like 3-4 episodes into season 4? Instead we get some bullshit about Olivia taking crotexiphan so now she remembers the alternate timeline along with Peter but no one else does?

I find it incredibly frustrating how much potential there was for the show at the end of Season 3, just to see it collapse under it's own weight during 4 and 5. 4 was still very watchable, and i got invested in it but still frustrating...

 

There were points during the last 2 seasons i actually had faith the writers were going to do some extremely clever wrap up involving some kind of time-loop paradox ie: something they do in the future ties into some of the very first episodes of the show. Something *like* that. Instead we get a tie-in to a flashback scene that we only see at the beginning of Season 5 where Olivia and Peter's daughter is already like 5-6 years old? Skip forward 6 years, no explanation and only 13 episodes to go for the finale? They dug themselves a big hole and kept digging deeper, but all in all it ended much stronger than Lost or the X-files did.

I thought it was neat how they wrapped it up, not flawless by any means but it does *almost* feel like that's where they were heading at from the start (but obviously not the case) and I thought it was bold to change things so much in s5, besides, the format was getting stale. I think it gives it a good enough closure. imo what they did was avoid going the LOST/Xfile route. Felt the same way as you at the start but they kinda pulled it off.