good tv shows i havent seen?
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Sandpit Fan
Nev Cottrell (35)
That would be a gold mine for another 4-6 season run I would say. There is so much that touches back on that.
Sandpit Fan
Nev Cottrell (35)
Really enjoyed True Detective. Harrelson and McConaghy will be a hard pairing to top, it's a pity the way the series is written they can't continue.
Dismal Pillock
Simon Poidevin (60)
SoA **spoiler**
Limped over the finish line having divested all dramatic intensity from their characters over the course of a girlie overwrought penultimate season and a flat-out lame final season. Remember the very first scene from ep1 season 1, the dead body that was such a big deal? A homicide investigation! In little Charming, pop. 26! This season the main characters were shooting faces off like they were popping tic-tacs. The body count was outlandish. Unser said he fired his gun once in 20 years? In a real life time frame of, what, 2 weeks (?), realistically the club must've shot about 80% of the whole fucking town.
The last 15 mins were a giant wft. Mayhem vote for Jax then wft, they shoot Happy in the arm and mumble some shit about covering Jax while he runs away? Zero intensity. Fittingly, Happy reacts to getting shot as if he'd just had a tic-tac thrown at him.
They tried to ramp it up with 10 mins of weepy man hugs, sorry fellas, the horse had bolted when the ensemble woodenly sleepwalked thru a season of casual, consequence-free murderings.
Jax and his jesus christ pose into a truck, I almost felt bad for the producers there, maybe they had completely run out of money? That cgi looked like me barking my shins on my MS Paint set. In 1998.
Limped over the finish line having divested all dramatic intensity from their characters over the course of a girlie overwrought penultimate season and a flat-out lame final season. Remember the very first scene from ep1 season 1, the dead body that was such a big deal? A homicide investigation! In little Charming, pop. 26! This season the main characters were shooting faces off like they were popping tic-tacs. The body count was outlandish. Unser said he fired his gun once in 20 years? In a real life time frame of, what, 2 weeks (?), realistically the club must've shot about 80% of the whole fucking town.
The last 15 mins were a giant wft. Mayhem vote for Jax then wft, they shoot Happy in the arm and mumble some shit about covering Jax while he runs away? Zero intensity. Fittingly, Happy reacts to getting shot as if he'd just had a tic-tac thrown at him.
They tried to ramp it up with 10 mins of weepy man hugs, sorry fellas, the horse had bolted when the ensemble woodenly sleepwalked thru a season of casual, consequence-free murderings.
Jax and his jesus christ pose into a truck, I almost felt bad for the producers there, maybe they had completely run out of money? That cgi looked like me barking my shins on my MS Paint set. In 1998.
I've just noticed this thread.
Sob, one more episode to go now - what am I going to do afterwards?
Just as good as Series 1 - outstanding.
Top show - just as well she got rodgered: the suspense was killing me.
Outstanding TV - and bears watching a second time for "now I get it" moments.
Other good shows I have watched/am watching recently:
Orphan Black
Peaky Blinders
Fargo - Like the movie, claims to be a true story but isn't, though it doesn't stop it being great TV. It's silly to make the claims though. Billy Bob Thornton is the best baddy.
The Pacific - (the Pacific version of "Band of Brothers") - watched it over two days after recording it on the Box Sets channel. A powerful series.
The Nick - The Clive Owen character is brilliant in this Soderbergh show, that may not be for everybody.
It's about a New York hospital about 1900 which does surgical innovations - and everybody seems to hate each other.
It sounds like serious stuff but there's a few funny lines in it. This one, in the first episode, should not be too much of a spoiler.
There's a scene where an audience of doctors is watching an early epidural procedure (the patient is listening):
Sob, one more episode to go now - what am I going to do afterwards?
Just as good as Series 1 - outstanding.
Top show - just as well she got rodgered: the suspense was killing me.
Outstanding TV - and bears watching a second time for "now I get it" moments.
Other good shows I have watched/am watching recently:
Orphan Black
Peaky Blinders
Fargo - Like the movie, claims to be a true story but isn't, though it doesn't stop it being great TV. It's silly to make the claims though. Billy Bob Thornton is the best baddy.
The Pacific - (the Pacific version of "Band of Brothers") - watched it over two days after recording it on the Box Sets channel. A powerful series.
The Nick - The Clive Owen character is brilliant in this Soderbergh show, that may not be for everybody.
It's about a New York hospital about 1900 which does surgical innovations - and everybody seems to hate each other.
It sounds like serious stuff but there's a few funny lines in it. This one, in the first episode, should not be too much of a spoiler.
There's a scene where an audience of doctors is watching an early epidural procedure (the patient is listening):
Surgeon: This procedure has been tried just once before - on a labrador.
Someone else: Was it successful?
Surgeon: There's not a day that goes by that I don't miss that dog.
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Bairdy
Peter Fenwicke (45)
You have fine taste in television, sir.
http://www.tv.com/m/shows/sons-of-a...st-9---prequel-to-sons-of-anarchy-1418124847/
The prequal series will be called 'the first 9', but will only be a 12-part thing...at t his stage. Still, will be awesome.
I agree that the last two seasons really went downhill. Perhaps everything could have been wound up a season earlier with half the ridiculous destruction that occurred. In the last season, the only episode that I thought was really up there with the best of the whole show was episode 10, Faith and Despondency where they took revenge for Bobby Elvis.
It still goes down as one of my favourite shows. There really was some brilliant TV along the way and some excellent characters.
It suffered from the fact that it seemed like there could really only be one ending and it unfolded fairly predictably (except for a few fairly ridiculous things you've pointed out).
This could potentially be a loaded question, or it could even start it's own thread. I tend to agree seasons 6 and 7 were a little predictable and the earlier ones were the most surprising. For me season three was the best in terms of storyline, action and plot twists. The season finale and all of the shenanigans that happened is still my favorite episode. The story arc (rescue Abel, go to Ireland, thwart the ATF agent etc...) was solid throughout the season and was nicely concluded.
Highlander35
Andrew Slack (58)
Season 1 is better than season 2. White Bear (Episode 2) is probably the best, although Tobias Menzies is excellent in #3.
Need to get around to watching the Christmas special.
Need to get around to watching the Christmas special.
It's completely off the wall but very good. I've got only the first series and watched two episodes (out of three).
It's completely whacko - satire with a twist and each episode separate.
It's not for everbody but OK if you want to be gobsmacked.
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Dismal Pillock
Simon Poidevin (60)
Black Mirror would be one of the greatest things I've ever seen.
woah, The Knick, didnt last long there, flagged it at the first gruesome experimental surgery scene, replete with slurpy bloody noises.
started on MadMen, bit of a soapie but the writing is sharp. Does it go downhill a few seasons down the line? The profuse smoking is a bit comical, holy shit, why don't they just be done with it and smoke 2 fags at once. You know they want to.
woah, The Knick, didnt last long there, flagged it at the first gruesome experimental surgery scene, replete with slurpy bloody noises.
started on MadMen, bit of a soapie but the writing is sharp. Does it go downhill a few seasons down the line? The profuse smoking is a bit comical, holy shit, why don't they just be done with it and smoke 2 fags at once. You know they want to.
Inside Shoulder
Nathan Sharpe (72)
Fargo is/was brilliant - found my self watching Martin Freeman ("Lester") in "Nativity" on Xmas Day just because of Fargo.
Another US "series" that seems to have run out of cash is "Hung" - ridiculous premise but well done.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It's great stuff - lot's of blood and gore, vampires and characters like Dr. Frankenstein and Dorian Gray in it - plus a good measure of rodgering which I find essential to the plot of a good TV show: makes it more stimulating.
Who are the next "guests" for Series 2 - Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde? Jack the Ripper?
I see that the third season of "The Killing" (US version) is on Soho HD now. The first season was a knock-off of the Scandinavian "Forbrydelsen" which was sensational in Europe when it came out. Every girl in Sweden started wearing the same kind of sweater that the female detective did on TV, apparently.
They've also had a fourth US season which I haven't seen - and a third Scandinavian series, but I've seen the first two only. I find the Scandinavian productions better than the US versions but the American series are top-quality viewing.
If you get a chance watch "The Bridge" which was also a highly rated Scandinavian crime TV production - but again the English language US knock-off version is top notch. The plots are completely different, though Series 1 of both had the same grisly start.
There were two US series, which I have seen. There were four Scandinavian series but I've seen only two of them.
Great viewing - don't miss.
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It's great stuff - lot's of blood and gore, vampires and characters like Dr. Frankenstein and Dorian Gray in it - plus a good measure of rodgering which I find essential to the plot of a good TV show: makes it more stimulating.
Who are the next "guests" for Series 2 - Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde? Jack the Ripper?
I see that the third season of "The Killing" (US version) is on Soho HD now. The first season was a knock-off of the Scandinavian "Forbrydelsen" which was sensational in Europe when it came out. Every girl in Sweden started wearing the same kind of sweater that the female detective did on TV, apparently.
They've also had a fourth US season which I haven't seen - and a third Scandinavian series, but I've seen the first two only. I find the Scandinavian productions better than the US versions but the American series are top-quality viewing.
If you get a chance watch "The Bridge" which was also a highly rated Scandinavian crime TV production - but again the English language US knock-off version is top notch. The plots are completely different, though Series 1 of both had the same grisly start.
There were two US series, which I have seen. There were four Scandinavian series but I've seen only two of them.
Great viewing - don't miss.
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boyo
Mark Ella (57)
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/28691011734/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo
The Girl Who Played With Fire
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/239111747987/the-girl-who-played-with-fire
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/246450243952/the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest
All of the above are the Swedish versions.
Recommended.
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/28691011734/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo
The Girl Who Played With Fire
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/239111747987/the-girl-who-played-with-fire
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/246450243952/the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest
All of the above are the Swedish versions.
Recommended.