I'm also watching the third season of the BBC's Sherlock.
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I'm also watching the third season of the BBC's Sherlock.
Luther is excellent. Idris Alba one of my favorite Actors.
My List
The Olympics
Chicago Fire
Person Of Interest
Banshee
Shark Tank
Blue Bloods
NCIS L.A.
That's it for now
Thought last night was the best episode so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by buttslinger
Are either of you watching Line of Duty?Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Caught up with episode one last night. Powerful stuffQuote:
Originally Posted by robertlouis
But I am beginning to agree with David hare, dame Helen and Howard Jacobson on all of this ultra violence
I didn't see the first series but I watched the first episode of In the Line of Duty, not surprised by the regulation canned muzak, the layers of corruption in the police service, the plot that presumably will end up somewhere in 'the establishment' whereas most police corruption centres around local gangs and criminals rather than 'high politics'. I also think the diet of murders is beyond parody and wonder if it is even possible to make a drama in which someone isn't slashed to ribbons or thrown or windows. It is one of the many reasons why I do not watch tv much these days. In fact I dont think tv has done justice to itself as an artistic medium since the 1960s and 1970s when plays were made with tv in mind, rather than the cinema. The tetralogy by John Hopkins, Talking to a Stranger, remains the high point of tv, since then it has decayed into cliches and tedious detective shows which all do the same thing. And where, after all, are the dramas about ordinary people and money, given that most relationships when they fail revolve around and sexual infidelity, money/and the lack of it, and arguments about children? Money has surely been one of the most dominant factors in people's lives, and most people don't plan to rob a bank or a mint of millions either.
It is the huge and bloody body count that David Hare and Howard Jacobson were talking about - and it was the dominance amidst this slaughter of women that Dame Helen was referring to.
From the Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...e-9129353.html
Currently:
Shameless
The Walking Dead
Deadwood
I've never been a Western kind of guy, but I have one more episode to watch before wrapping up season one. I like it a lot.
I have spent the last two days working my way through the whole of the first series of House of Cards. I recall the original version on the BBC which was set in the Houses of Parliament, it had some good acting but was poorly written so I was hoping the American version would be an improvement. I paid £20 for the boxed set and I reckon it is worth £2. Who ever thought politics could be this clean?
One small point -when Zoe Barnes starts coming into the Herald with exclusives, the politics editor can't work out who her source is. One thing we have learned from the hacking scandal here is that newspapers -specifically the Murdoch press in these cases- used private detectives (some of whom were corrupt ex-policemen and their criminal friends)- so I can't work out why Janine didn't just hire a dick to follow Zoe Barnes, not least because the Chief Whip regularly meets Zoe in public places...like they do...and someone tell me where Kevin Spacey gets that accent -South Carolina via the Old Vic? And that re-union at the Sentinel -why didn't they sing Dixie?