What TV series are you watching at moment?

Season 2 of Bates Motel just got weirder.

Got sucked into watching a marathon of Alaskan Bush People, I could give a shit at first, then got hooked of course. A large family of what looks like wanna be bikers, they eschew civilization almost entirely, explores the barter economy of Alaska, how many mentally ill people gravitate to living in wilderness, violence among the population, etc. they had a really bad run of luck on the show, house burnt down (supposedly by Feds), cabin built on newly bought land, then (and this is in debate) shots were fired at the family & Discovery cam crew, but no report ever filed with authorities? So they bought a 32ft boat, which hits a log in the water and sinks as they barely pull into port. Now they really have nothing, boat sank, car sold, possessions underwater. What struck me about them, besides the usual fish out of water questions they fielded to them, was how are these now adult children going to live going forward? They all live as a family on subsistence survival, but how are these (mostly men) going to find a wife or start a family when they live in complete wilderness w no electricity or running water? What girl will sign up for that?

Show's future is uncertain, family not sure if they want to keep filming. Very interesting for reality tv, actually had me thinking after I finished watching.

The one where his mom gives birth to a hair ball was too wtf for me.

no one else watching Penny Dreadful? after ep 2 there's a big wtf that still has me reeling.

Does anybody remember Oliver Stone's Wild Palms mini series from the mid 90s?

Kind of want to give it another go. Only ever saw 1 episode and i was very very stoned.

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Wild Palms is a five-hour mini-series which was produced by Greengrass Productions and first aired in May 1993 on the ABC network in the United States. The sci-fi drama, announced as an "event series",^[2] deals with the dangers of politically motivated abuse of mass media technology, virtual realities in particular. It was based on a comic strip written by Bruce Wagner and illustrated by Julian Allen first published in 1990 in Details magazine.

/opens wiki and scrolls down to reception.

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"Readers of the British trade weekly Broadcast were much more negative, calling it one of the worst television shows ever exported by the U.S. to the U.K. It placed fourth on their list, exceeded only by Baywatch, The Anna Nicole Show and The Dukes of Hazzard. TV Guide also blasted it, offering the interpretation that Oliver Stone was condemning television while covertly lauding cinematic films"

lol, there's a rhino in the pool. /youtub

Could never get through it. First of all, the lead actor is Jim Belushi, so that doesn't help. It's kinda fun in the sense that there are plot twists every second. Pretty idm show really, holograms and rhinos

I watched a bit more on youtub and started really getting annoyed at how shit it is. The acting and scripting, the early nineties anti timelessness of it's look, some nice set up shot ideas here and there. Maybe it works better if you're not an inveterate skimmer and really stoned and you don't have the viewing options that today gives you.

I'm pretty big Coen Bros fan, so I started watching Fargo today, a series based on the movie of the same name.

Enjoyed it so far, recomendable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_(TV_series)

  On 7/9/2014 at 7:05 PM, Rubin Farr said:

The one where his mom gives birth to a hair ball was too wtf for me.

what show was that? because there was an incident where that happened in real life

  On 7/11/2014 at 9:24 AM, verticalhold said:

Could never get through it. First of all, the lead actor is Jim Belushi, so that doesn't help. It's kinda fun in the sense that there are plot twists every second. Pretty idm show really, holograms and rhinos

same here, it was during a time when Oliver Stone was still pretty good though, if you can get past Belushi it's worth checking out

  On 7/11/2014 at 11:57 PM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 7/9/2014 at 7:05 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

The one where his mom gives birth to a hair ball was too wtf for me.

what show was that? because there was an incident where that happened in real life

Also read Clive Barker's Nightbreed (Cabal) being adapted to TV.

Fargo, better than the movie.

Bates Motel.

Tokyo Ghoul, 2 eps in, good so far. Once it settles in i wonder if it can keep up the momentum/innovation. There were actually a number of series that peaked my interest from the summer anime batch. I was starting to despair for anime. But there's some nice animation to be found along with interesting storylines. Whether they arc for the whole series, or crash and burn remains to be seen, or not seen.

  On 7/13/2014 at 12:09 AM, Kooch said:

Fargo, better than the movie.

whoa seriously?

Firefly

Twin Peaks

yeh judging from that first episode bob odenkirk's doing dep andy heh

was that character in the film?

none of the characters in the show are in the film, although some of the archetypes are in both. it's a totally new story that's only real connection to the film is setting & vibe.

enjoy fargo, fellas. it's a good one.

wow. this was terrible. couldn't even really get into it because of how annoying EVERYONE is. it's like a tv show version of gravity with bits of moon for the flashback sequences mixed in with ai and terra nova (for the technology and unbelievable characters). oh and the mystery, isn't even interesting.

~~ good, i'm glad that it sucks. Shows that are up their own arse will inevitably be shit.

Finished Sopranos today. Great ending and I honestly have no idea why so many have been bitching about it for all these years. Did those people even watch the rest of the show?

looks up ending of sopranos on wiki to see what ff is on about.

read a telegraph interview with the show creator about the ending which was pretty vague, the article was one of the first results in my search and now i don't give enough of a fuck to check the wiki synopsis, yay at deflated interest. ;-]