What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 8/25/2015 at 4:03 AM, drillkicker said:

 

  On 8/24/2015 at 11:16 PM, Squee said:

 

  On 8/24/2015 at 12:24 AM, drillkicker said:

I noticed that The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack got put on Hulu, so I've been revisiting that good old show. I don't know how I forgot how god damn funny that show is. It's still surprising to me how much the writers of that show got away with. It's dark as hell for Cartoon Network.

Man, that old guy who looks like a kid cracks me up every single time.

 

 

Flapjack is the best. I don't know how it got away with being so good and still not being the most successful show on Cartoon Network. It's infinitely better than most of the shit that passes for television.

Blunt Talk - pretty funny so far, the toilet scene was classic, as seen in the GIF. Hoping for more Star Trek cameos, or Ian McKellen to show up.

Evangelion

The West Wing while I work sometimes. Good dialogue and it's eerie how the exact same issues they talk about have had almost no progress made on them today. Health care, gay rights, and some marijuana prohibition are the only ones that come to mind as having been improved upon since then.

 

Show Me a Hero on HBO. Oscar Isaac is currently my favorite actor.

  On 8/25/2015 at 1:08 AM, Nebraska said:

 

started watching this and so far, only made it just a little over half way in episode 1. it's a little boring (maybe i'm not in the right frame of mind). but i'd rather they just get on with it instead of what is currently, a guy with bandages over his eyes talking into a tape recorder about how the triffids came about. there is one really interesting discussion amongst two scientists about how the plants could be communication with one another- but then we go into this bureaucratic talk betwix two business guys about how much money they're making from the sap of the plants.

 

so yeah- too much talk and not enough play. i might give it another try, though reluctantly

 

 

def a product of its time......its dated BBC sci-fi = zero budget, wobbly props & walking lilies trying to french snog every cunt

^^^ i don't mind the zero budget. the show is just too slow and talky. i really like the beginning- sets it up like children of the stones- then it's a wall of dialogue before you even see the plastic venus fly trap type plants wobbling around before you're hit with another wall of dialogue.

aye it kinda bridged age groups at the time

 

have you seen the original BBC version of Dennis Potter's Pennies From Heaven or the superior The Singing Detective?

 

much better conceived personal & pvt universes, dripping with layered strangeness & atmosphere.....always gives me the fear when i see "The Forest of Dean" signposted along border-country lanes late at night

USA announces that tonight's MR. ROBOT season finale is being delayed a week due to a graphic scene "similar in nature" to today's shooting.

https://twitter.com/andygreenwald/status/636638191521517568

 

Spoilers!

  On 8/27/2015 at 6:49 AM, roasty said:

USA announces that tonight's MR. ROBOT season finale is being delayed a week due to a graphic scene "similar in nature" to today's shooting.

https://twitter.com/andygreenwald/status/636638191521517568

 

BOOOO!

Penny Dreadful season 2 - I really enjoyed this one, their recombinant mythology coalesced much better this time. loved seeing the Monster head to the arctic like in the book, and his vengeance upon the waxworks owners was sweet. what will happen to Vanessa now that she's abandoned god, they've all split up which will raise the budget costs, but it's already been renewed for season 3, so I'm betting a lot more green screen work is ahead. looking froward to next year.

Mr Robot - awesome but not too sure about the direction the plot has taken, feels like a "madness ex machina" or something. Someone in this thread said he had the impression the show had begun broadcasting before the ending was written. It does feels a bit like it to me too. Hopefully it will turn out great. Acting is spot-on and so is the filming. Very good show altogether.

 

Peaky Blinders - watched the whole first season two days, just begun season 2. Bloody great.

 

Better Call Saul - didn't expect a spin-off to be that good. It could even be great without Breaking Bad having ever existed, so that's pretty awesome.

 

Can't wait for The Knick to come back too !

Edited August 27, 2015 by Perezvon

  On 8/27/2015 at 5:19 AM, cwmbrancity said:

aye it kinda bridged age groups at the time

 

have you seen the original BBC version of Dennis Potter's Pennies From Heaven or the superior The Singing Detective?

 

haven't seen those. i've heard of the singing detective but never watched an episode. i have some other shows in the same vein though, including the sandbaggers & c.a.t.s. eyes with leslie ash before she blew a beehive and married lee chapman. i've also been meaning to check out raven but always end up getting distracted. have you seen any of those?

Been marathoning Silicon Valley. Quite good.

barely managing to watch "show me a hero", the topic is interesting to me and isaac is indeed very good but shit direction, those huge, poorly thought out jumps in time which leave holes in the story, and those pointless concurrent storylines about poor minorities that everyone's seen 50 times already bring the whole thing down.

Edited August 28, 2015 by eugene

  On 8/28/2015 at 12:02 AM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 8/27/2015 at 5:19 AM, cwmbrancity said:

aye it kinda bridged age groups at the time

 

have you seen the original BBC version of Dennis Potter's Pennies From Heaven or the superior The Singing Detective?

 

haven't seen those. i've heard of the singing detective but never watched an episode. i have some other shows in the same vein though, including the sandbaggers & c.a.t.s. eyes with leslie ash before she blew a beehive and married lee chapman. i've also been meaning to check out raven but always end up getting distracted. have you seen any of those?

 

 

 

do yourself the honour (and pleasure) of immersing yourself in TSD, then PFH.........not for chronology, its simply that TSD is more deeply layered, stranger, captures the varied darker edges of all the layers of noir imaginable.......the song n dance routines in any other context/production would fail miserably (look out for the Dem Bones routine), but here they compound the madness

 

PFH is Bob Hoskins at his peak, the story is much more bleak, pure WWII era British dystopianism, a long way from modern aspiration but the moods, the quiet desperation & the score's visionary cheeriness compounds it......i trainspotted so many tracks off both albums actually. Both get right into the human psyche like few others, they wouldnt get made today, well maybe in the US & trainspotted 90% of the tunes (nuff ssaid)

 

if u aint already you might like The Life & Loves of a She-Devil (by Fay Wheldon & huge Philip K Dick fan)

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098849/

 

def a worthy investment of your time, superb anarchy

Edited August 28, 2015 by cwmbrancity

 

anyone watching Narcos?

^ Netflix keeps spamming me about that show. I can't resist anything about the drug trade though.

started watching fringe cause there's no other decent sci fi on tv that i know of. at what point does it transcend its being an x files ripoff and become an original and more imaginative show?

i mean it's not bad as it is, quite fun and effortless, especially bishop senior (the guy who plays his son is simply an atrocious actor), but i'm not sure i need another ~80 episodes of "monster of the week" x files kind of thing.

Edited August 28, 2015 by eugene

I started watchimg Documentary Now. Their skewering of Vice was dead on!

  On 8/28/2015 at 11:51 PM, eugene said:

started watching fringe cause there's no other decent sci fi on tv that i know of. at what point does it transcend its being an x files ripoff and become an original and more imaginative show?

i mean it's not bad as it is, quite fun and effortless, especially bishop senior (the guy who plays his son is simply an atrocious actor), but i'm not sure i need another ~80 episodes of "monster of the week" x files kind of thing.

Season 2 is where it came into it's own. Especially the 80s flashback episode, I won't ruinit for ya. Be prepared for a vastly slimmed down season 4 shot almost entirely on a generic backlot though. They still tied it up nicely in the end. I'm still hoping John Noble shows up in the Star Wars sequels, he's an excellent villain, and friends with JJ Abrams.

  On 8/28/2015 at 7:09 AM, cwmbrancity said:

if u aint already you might like The Life & Loves of a She-Devil (by Fay Wheldon & huge Philip K Dick fan)

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098849/

 

def a worthy investment of your time, superb anarchy

 

 

thanks for the recs. defo going to hunt those. life & loves looks like interesting. never heard of it before.

 

btw: would you (or anyone else reading this) happened to have watched a show about some kids who were on an island and acted like detectives solving crimes that took place at a hotel. one of the kids- his dad worked at this particular hotel. the other kids were locales who lived there and they formed a "famous five" type mystery solving club.

 

i think this show was either british or australian (but definitely filmed on a tropic island)

  On 8/28/2015 at 9:46 PM, doublename said:

^ Netflix keeps spamming me about that show. I can't resist anything about the drug trade though.

it seems like the flipside of Miami Vice, with all the 80s cheesiness intact.