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I watched a couple episodes of Inside Amy Schumer. Hit and miss but some of it was really funny. Saw two episodes of the second season of True Detective and thought it was awful. Overwrought dialogue, convoluted plot, and mediocre acting imo.
the only scripted comedy that i watch regularly is the big bang theory.
the only scripted drama that i was regularly is the walking dead. just an aside...i have no interest in Fear The Walking Dead...it looks unoriginal and heavy handed.
i watch other shows if they are on but i don't follow them like the 2 above. mostly i watch movies and educational/how to type shows.
Right now The Strain, Humans, Hell on Wheels, Ray Donovan, Strike Back. Really liked The making of the mob ny. Looking forward to the Bastard Executioner in the fall. A Kurt Sutter joint. Can't forget Murder in the First.
Channel 4 in the UK is currently showing a French drama, Witnesses (Les témoins) which is well-written, well-acted and has the spooky recurrence of recently deceased cadavers being dug out of their graves and placed carefully in show homes -silent witnesses to what murky goings on in the past of the police detectives baffled by the case? The usual weakness now undermines European drama, namely the flawed hero/heroine detective who must have demons and problems of their own to match the criminals they are trying to find. Otherwise well done and recommended.
Would like to see the new series of The Americans , which I believe has just stated in the US, it has been one of the best drama series of recent years. It will air in the UK eventually.
Finale of ALONE is on tonight on the History channel., Aug 20.
Ten guys dropped off on an island in British Columbia
It's down to Sam and Alan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQaZRMaK0Zs
The Americans is excellent Stavros.
There's one called Mr. Robot which is interesting. I caught the twist pretty much from Day 1, but I don't think they were trying that hard to hide it. It's a good little show though, I'm enjoying it. We also got one called Humans from across the pond. Mostly summer TV in the States is awful.Quote:
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The new season of The Americans doesn't air until the Spring 2016. We just wrapped up season 3. It's not doing well over here. I wish it was. TV would be better if there were more shows like this, and less Law & Order, and CSI's.
Season 3 of The Americans hasn't even started here yet, I didn't realise it was already over.
I thought Humans was very good. It's been renewed for another season. I really like the BBC stuff, 3 Musketeers, Ripper Street, good stuff.:)
Not that I'm advocating it, but if you are creative, you can find all of season 3 online. I will say that while it was still head and shoulders above most of the shows on TV, the third season was perhaps the weakest one. The girl that plays the daughter is getting older, and they're having some trouble figuring out what to do with her. They also got backed into a corner with Nina being shipped off to prison. I think she was going to another TV show, but then they decided to keep her around. Plus, she doesn't get naked and show off that great little ass of hers.Quote:
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I usually like the BBC America programming, but it's been weak as of late, at least to me. I never got into Ripper Street or 3 Musketeers. But, there's a new series of Luther coming this fall. If you didn't see it before, you can find the first three series of it online. There's also a new mini-series called London Spy that has Ben Wishaw in it. He's been pretty good in everything I've seen of his on the beeb. I have high hopes for this one.Quote:
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Watched a few episodes of Luther but couldn't get into it. Love the theme song tho, London Spy sounds intriguing.
-I don't know why but Season 3 of The Americans, which begins its run in the UK this week, has been relegated to a graveyard channel called ITV Encore which presumably can only be accessed if you have a flying saucer wedged into the roof. I don't know why unless there is a feeling Season 3 shows terminal decline. Not all of these drama series make it past 1 and 2, Orphan Black is one example of something that could go on forever, to nobody's advantage, but given that garbage like House of Cards is into series 3 or 4 or who cares which, one wonders who makes these decisions.Quote:
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I have such a soft spot for Orphan Black.... It's strange, same girl, but I have a favorite, and one I think is sexier than the rest. And it's the same girl. She's pretty talented as an actress. But I think that show is starting to run out of story. It could go on forever, would kind of like to see it go out on a high note.Quote:
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From what I have been reading FTWD is doing very well. I think the 6 episodes was to test the waters and see fan response. I think it will be back.
No idea what FTWD is. I bought seasons 1 and 2 of The Following yesterday and am half-way through season 1. I can't decide if I like it or not. At times it is plain daft -I doubt a mass murderer would be allowed direct access to visitors in prison-, at other times it rings true of the internal dynamics that can take hold of people in a cult. The hand-held camera shots are irritating. I don't think it was shown on UK tv unless it was on one of those satellite channels.
Fear The Walking Dead. FTWD
I'm excited for the Mr. Robot season finale tomorrow (postponed from last week). I love this show. It's an obvious homage to Fight Club, minus the fighting, and there's a bit of American Psycho sprinkled in, as well.
I'm also following FearTWD and I'm looking forward to Fargo season 2.
Season 1 of Fargo just appeared on Hulu. I'm like 6 episodes in and I'm really enjoying it. I like how they tie it in with the movie by showing the fate of the money that Steve Buscemi buried in the snow. I'm looking forward to new seasons of Arrow, The Flash, Backstrom, The Blacklist, The Last Man on Earth...and probably a few more that I can't think of at the moment.
I have spent the last few days watching the first two seasons of The Following, a show which went into a third season before being cancelled this year and which has attracted a good deal of negative comment. It took me a while to get into it, but I never could believe much of it and although it is one of those programmes in which a suspension of belief is essential, that applies to most tv series these days -in fact I can't think of any that bear much comparison to life as it is lived, let alone the way the police and the FBI or for that matter the CIA and MI5/MI6 actually work.
There was a mix of good acting and bad acting, some good writing and some so bad it was risible -how many times in season 2 does Max ask Weston Are you okay? as if there was nothing else to say. I am aware that in the real world there are serial killer groupies, I am not sure why serial killing like paedophile crime (sometimes together) risks becoming the staple 'evil' in cop shows unless it is because they involve repetitive events to justify 30 episodes of tv. Moreover, I was unable to make sense of the violence unless I matched it to the stereotype of the crazed Islamic fanatic who kills people in plain sight and doesn't care if he or she gets killed as a result. It also had the obsession (in fact a cop out, excusing the pun) with death as a route to a better life, although this is also common in Catholic doctrine and plays a key role in Graham Greene's study of the criminal Pinky in Brighton Rock. It does have some splendidly creepy characters, mostly played by English actors, but in the end this went on far too long and crossed too many boundaries of credibility, yet it was watchable for all that, and unlike some I do like Kevin Bacon, be it in 1 or 6 degrees of empathy.
Waiting for Penny Dreadful, Sherlock and Doctor Who to start up again!
I spent most of Saturday watching The Night Of...an HBO show that aired in the US earlier this year. It is derived from a BBC series Criminal Justice which I had not heard of, and gets off to a good start with impressive credits and an opening episode in which a young man through a sequence of unexpected events finds himself standing next to a murdered woman. This should set up a drama with much more tension and twists and turns in the plot than it did, even though it does have an experienced but sloppy detective and a prosecuting attorney who when presented with the possibility that someone else might have been the murderer sticks with the accused they have. And again it does a good job of showing how incarceration badly affects the accused, but in the end I wasn't that bothered, and found the sub-plot around the health of defending lawyer played by John Turturro irritating. The woman playing the prosecuting attorney was poor and there was a lack of depth in the other characters, so in the end this was disappointing. The box set goes to the charity shop. I give it 6/10.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2401256/?ref_=nv_sr_1
I finally finished watching the second season of Marco Polo. Loved it.
However, as much I was into From Dusk 'Til Dawn during the first two seasons, the third isn't doing it for me.
Ever vigilant for True Detective Season 3. Just read that the writers have been told to start figuring out various possibilities, so there is a start.
the man in the high castle.
I have just caught up with the 2011 first season of The Bridge which was one of the first 'scandi noir' tv series that has encouraged a lot -probably too many- more. I persevered with it even though I thought the script and the acting was poor, and the plot predictable and without interest. I didn't care about the people involved and often did not know if the action was taking place in Sweden or Denmark, but I will concede that in architectural and engineering terms, that is a mighty fine bridge.
Shut Eye
Lucifer
Peaky Blinders
SW Rebels
Travelers
The Blacklist
Dirk Gently
Shameless
Doctor Who
Longmire
Game of Thrones
Major Crimes
Dirk Gently
Orville
The Good Place
Ozark....Longmire...walking Dead
Godless is canny good
z nation
wynnoa earp
lucifer
st: discovery
I have been able to watch the final, Season 6 of The Americans, which I rank alongside The Wire as the finest TV drama produced in the USA (I am not sure where in this context one puts Game of Thrones -is it American?)
The Americans has had a peculiar tv history in the UK. Seasons 1 and 2 were broadcast on the terrestrial channel ITV, but Seasons 3-5 were relegated to an online channel called ITV Encore that was inaccessible to me and most viewers. When the final season began it was broadcast on ITV 4 at 10pm on Wednesday for the first half, then pushed back to Midnight. In addition, whereas Seasons 1 and 2 appeared as DVD box sets, Season 3 only became available in the UK in 2017, and none of the other Seasons are available on DVD, certainly not in the UK. Homeland, by contrast, has retained its peak time slot at 9pm on Channel 4.
I don't know why The Americans has been treated so badly, possibly because of the ratings? And yet, even with some of the drama-only, rather than real history moments, it is rare that so much care was taken to give depth to character with regard to both the Jennings family and the FBI trying to find the sleepers. In particular, the use of Russian actors speaking in Russian with English sub-titles gave tremendous authenticity to the kind of drama that even in the 1990s would have had an American with a phony Russian accent standing in for the real thing.
This was a Cold War drama that was based on the real life experiences of Directorate S that sent undercover agent to live in the US to spy and sabotage. The development of character enabled us to see how living in the US 'turned' Philip to warm to life in the US where his wife Elizabeth never did, while their recruitment of their daughter presents perhaps the most tragic case, as at the end having abandoned her parents and unsure of her fate, even her identity, she downs a glass of vodka in a lonely apartment.
Keri Russell has been sensational throughout these 6 seasons, and though she has made some duff films (Planet of the Apes vol 76 or whichever one it is) and was briefly in the second Mission:Impossible, one hopes her talents will now be used to the good. Much as I like Carrie Mathieson, Russell to me has been a fine example of a strong female lead character defining a drama in the absence of the others in US drama series. The last episode in the season was brilliantly done. And again, ignored by the UK media. Such a shame for such a fine show we cannot do in the UK (even the title sequence is superior to anything found on UK tv). Bravo, America. Now give me those box sets so I can watch it all again!
Power
Billions
I need to catch up on Empire and Star
House Hunters (The whole franchise)
Westworld,
The Expanse.
That's pretty much all I've been watching this summer.
shows I watch on tv right now
westworld
pose
supergirl
shows I like to watch in between seasons right now:
twin peaks the return
mosaic
the deuce
big mouth
star trek discovery
veep
grown-ish
jessica jones
atlanta
the good place
master of none
dear white people
shows I don't really care but I watch just to kill time (also in between seasons):
kimmy schimidt
luke cage
daredevil
modern family
stranger things
shows that I want to watch
queen sugar
the chi
the expanse
killing eve
the good fight
angie tribeca
and FINALLY shows that I watched and for some reason I stopped watching and I plan to return to watch it:
THE AMERICANS
legion
broadchurch
fleabag
Since I don't really have much free time just one: Jessica Jones
Waiting for the 2nd season of Goliath to drop on Amazon (6/15) and luke cage on Netflix (6/22). Going to binge Westworld 2 on Hbo and Glitch 2 on Netflix. Finished Altered Carbon on Netflix. Was pretty good.
" POSE "on FX channel . new transgender TV series. Every sunday night.
cloak& dagger
Pose
queen of the south
Into the Badlands
luke cage
iron fist
defenders
jessica jones
midnight texas
stranger things
atlanta
Flash
daredevil
Van Helsing
the Punisher
American Horror Story
7 seconds
A series of unfortunate events
Hemlock Grove
Snowfall
Lost in Space
dear white people
Troy- Fall of a city
roxanne roxanne
normally watch empire and star when premiered.