I really like Gotham this season
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 May 2016 16:13 (eight years ago) link
Limitless has def become top tier. v smart show. Just finished the double ep finale with the wife last weekend.
Also watching Black Sails due to forks thread, loving that. about halfway through the latest season.
Just wrapped up the latest season of iZombie which is pretty fun.
All caught up for the series finale of Banshee. This season def the worst but still good and gonna miss the show.
Finished the latest Rectify still a great slow show
Game of Thrones is still fun
Finished up The Good Wife which up through season 5 is one of my fav shows ever but really piddled out after that. glad it ended.
Lots to catch up on: Americans s4, Happy Vally s2, Daredevil (altho not hearing good things) s2, Hannibal s3, Leftovers s2
― Spottie, Thursday, 19 May 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link
imo, fast track hannibal season 3 over everything else on your list
― ulysses, Thursday, 19 May 2016 17:27 (eight years ago) link
alright
― Spottie, Thursday, 19 May 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
glad black sails has been treating you well. I think they wrap up season three very well and have the table well set (literally in the final episode!) for A+ Game of Thrones shifting allegiances / internecine warfare for another year or two
― ulysses, Thursday, 19 May 2016 17:33 (eight years ago) link
seems like the kind of show that can sustain a good long run. there's been big reveals but you can always introduce more back story with other characters or bring in new villains and what not.
― Spottie, Thursday, 19 May 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
and they're willing to kill major characters and then have them back on irregularly as ghosts which i always think is the best way to handle fanservice vs. lowering the stakesexhibit a: game of thrones. if you're gonna start resurrecting characters (and at least one more major one is likely on the way based on my understanding of the books, yes?) it becomes hard to give a shit about people being killed or not.
― ulysses, Thursday, 19 May 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
aye
― Spottie, Thursday, 19 May 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link
its soo dark and nasty, and yet still hugely enjoyable.i think it's much better than any of the other comic book spin offs that i have seen.the bloke who play penguin is just fantastic to watch, and pee wee h as his dad was a stroke of casting genius.
― mark e, Thursday, 19 May 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
they are really leaning into the ott character acting now, it's bonkers & fun
the guy who is the riddler is so great, and i freaking love bd wong as the crazy doctor
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link
they are really leaning into the ott character acting now, it's bonkers & funthe guy who is the riddler is so great, and i freaking love bd wong as the crazy doctor
agreed.every week i watch it and think this has to start getting lighter with an indication of resolution to the chaos, but no, they just ramp up the insanity more and more.i properly love it.
― mark e, Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link
this is not an original observation but the sheer volume is quality tv is staggering/ridiculous/certainly untenable
― always be charging (rip van wanko), Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
my shows atm are
gothamagents of shieldfull frontal w sam beew kamau bell's united shades of america vikingsgame of thronesnashvilleblacklist*flash**hatewatching
am behind on almost everything because i am mainly just bingeing west wing on netflix and gunsmoke reruns on tivo
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
xp re 2 much tv
http://www.vulture.com/2016/05/peak-tv-business-c-v-r.html
― ulysses, Friday, 20 May 2016 14:27 (eight years ago) link
i watched the first ep of limitless and it was terrible.It's really improved? Somebody wanna sell me on it?
― ulysses, Friday, 20 May 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
Limitless was great from the jump and continues to be great, I suspect the problem is that it doesn't fit your sensibilities and likely never will.
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Friday, 20 May 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
never saw the pilot tbh. My wife was watching it one night and I jumped on board. Probably a handful of episodes in. It's lightweight fun for the most part but the end of the season really picked up and even got kinda dark.
― Spottie, Friday, 20 May 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
w kamau bell's united shades of america
Didn't know this existed until about a week ago. I don't get CNN anymore (and didn't watch it anyway), but glad to see he's back on tv. First three episodes have been very solid, particularly the prison one.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 20 May 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
I suspect the problem is that it doesn't fit your sensibilities and likely never will.
― ulysses, Friday, 20 May 2016 18:24 (eight years ago) link
xpost
episode 4 on camden police is p good
it errs on the middle-ground a lot but its cnn so you take what you can get, but i really like kamau, love him hosting a show like this
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 May 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
klan episode was creepy as fuck
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 May 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link
Not watching a lot at the moment but I should mention that, after feeling like I was just going through the motions while watching most of last season, this season of Orphan Black has been legitimately good + gripping + also very funny at times.
― Corn Elephant, Jr. (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 May 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link
oh shit i forgot to put orphan black on my list
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 May 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
I never even watched the entirety of last season of Orphan Black ;_;
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Friday, 20 May 2016 19:43 (eight years ago) link
it wasnt my fave
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 May 2016 21:59 (eight years ago) link
new season is v dope tho
Couldn't ever finish the first season of that
― Spottie, Friday, 20 May 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
GOTSilicon ValleyUnbreakable Kimmy SchmidtHalt and Catch Fire (just binge-watched the first 5 episodes of S1, love it)Watch some of Flaked on Netflix, it was dreadful
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Saturday, 21 May 2016 01:13 (eight years ago) link
i've tried to get several people into Halt and Catch Fire. I think it's great, especially season 2, but no takers so far.
― ryan, Saturday, 21 May 2016 01:22 (eight years ago) link
Been wanting to try it
― Spottie, Saturday, 21 May 2016 01:24 (eight years ago) link
season 2 is phenomenal agreed
― Clay, Saturday, 21 May 2016 01:29 (eight years ago) link
first episode was atrocious, would really need a tidal wave of interest to engage
― ulysses, Saturday, 21 May 2016 02:02 (eight years ago) link
I was a big fan of S1 but I lost interest in S2 toward the last third and never finished it.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 21 May 2016 03:46 (eight years ago) link
Is no one watching Penny Dreadful anymore?
Wait also, what happened to the Knick? I watched a few of the new season.... is it still going?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 21 May 2016 05:57 (eight years ago) link
To explain: we get fuckall of this stuff "properly" in aus (tho I'm sure sic will come and correct me and he may be right) so we just torrent all these shows.
Theres too many. Who has the time?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 21 May 2016 05:59 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah halt and catch fire is great - i shotgunned the first two seasons in a few days recently. there's a bit too much mad men-style 'mystery man haunted by his past' in s1 but s2 is really good. the cast is fantastic.
― (main prostitute from Game Of Thrones) (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 22 May 2016 20:28 (eight years ago) link
Binged on bith seasons of The Hollow Crown. Ben Whishaw great great GREAT as Richard II and then somewhat diminishing returns in the leads moving forward ( Hiddleston as Henry V, Benedict Cumberbund as Richard III). Overall pretty excellent TV Shakespeare.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 22 May 2016 22:55 (eight years ago) link
yeah Whishaw is really good in that
didn't know the new ones had been on yet
― Number None, Sunday, 22 May 2016 22:58 (eight years ago) link
I've been torrenting since am in US and "Richard III" was up yesterday. Not sure when they will air in the US.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 22 May 2016 23:01 (eight years ago) link
Cumberbatch does a fine job but he's a li'l bit hammier than I would've liked. The language, though... It's wonderful how these folks make it flow.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 22 May 2016 23:05 (eight years ago) link
re: HaCF, s2 is really good. I actually started there and skipped s1 entirely.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 22 May 2016 23:07 (eight years ago) link
anyone watch outlander? i was surprised how much i liked the first season, even though the last couple of episodes veered unexpectedly into torture porn
― (main prostitute from Game Of Thrones) (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 22 May 2016 23:10 (eight years ago) link
shows I intend to watch but have failed to keep up on:
Daredevil (second half of season 1, season 2)The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (s2)Orphan Black (last season, this season)Game of Thrones
I am totally up to speed on Thomas & Friends, though! (please send help)
― DJP, Monday, 23 May 2016 14:47 (eight years ago) link
Yerman diesel is some prick
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Monday, 23 May 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link
Diesel is terrible; this is mitigated by all of the other engines also being terrible
― DJP, Monday, 23 May 2016 15:17 (eight years ago) link
almost makes u sympathize w/ sir topham hatt
― Mordy, Monday, 23 May 2016 15:23 (eight years ago) link
You can definitely see why he decided to brick one of them up in a tunnel
― DJP, Monday, 23 May 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
I didn't realise The Fat Controller had been renamed Sir Topham Hatt, political correctness gone mad blah blah
Skarloey ftw
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Monday, 23 May 2016 15:37 (eight years ago) link
― DJP, Monday, May 23, 2016 7:47 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no no no stop it. anything but thomas
― Spottie, Monday, 23 May 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
is hollow crown on netflix/amazon yet?
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 May 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link