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Loofa08 posted:I have the hardest time getting my friends to watch Friday Night Lights. Even the ones who enjoy football. They always look at me with this dumbfounded look like "A football show...you?" Because I'm not really much of a football fan. That's because it's not really a show about football. People going into it thinking it's a sports show probably won't like it.
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Mu Zeta posted:That's because it's not really a show about football. People going into it thinking it's a sports show probably won't like it. This is the same problem with Sports Night, which was a pretty drat awesome show. However, most people who would have enjoyed it didn't watch it because they thought it was a show about sports, which it wasn't.
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Mu Zeta posted:That's because it's not really a show about football. People going into it thinking it's a sports show probably won't like it. Yeah I know, and I tell them that...they just don't care to believe me. gently caress em' I guess. Their loss.
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Just binged through Dexter, Mad Men, Battlestar Galactica, The Wire, and Breaking Bad over the course of Spring/Summer and drat... what a ride. I feel like I've just finished covering the pantheon of television subjects and I don't even know where to start gushing over each of them. I most recently got all caught up with Mad Men thanks to Netflix and DVR and I can't begin to talk about the amazing quality and attention to detail of that show. When it first started I suppose it never piqued my interest and I let it slip by, like an idiot. The slower story driven nature of everything is such a great thing to experience in quick succession though so I suppose I'm glad it did slip by. Next up: Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Spaced.
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I just started Breaking Bad and I really like it, but every time Walter's wife does anything I want to turn the dvd off and never turn it back on. Does she get better or more nuanced at all? I really want to enjoy this show but I feel like I'm watching an awesome drama with a random cartoon figure of every negative stereotype about women ever thrown in and it's ruining ~*~*~my viewing experience~*~*~. EDIT: I'm also binging through Strangers With Candy on Netflix Instant and loving it. "I GOT SOMETHIN' TO SAY!"
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ChirpChirpCheep posted:I just started Breaking Bad and I really like it, but every time Walter's wife does anything I want to turn the dvd off and never turn it back on. Does she get better or more nuanced at all? I really want to enjoy this show but I feel like I'm watching an awesome drama with a random cartoon figure of every negative stereotype about women ever thrown in and it's ruining ~*~*~my viewing experience~*~*~. This is a common sentiment, and I don't think it's limited to her character. I thought that Skyler, Marie, and Hank were all fairly one-dimensional and unlikeable early on, but their characters do get filled in quite a bit. Now as to whether you like Skyler or not as her character gets filled in more, I wouldn't venture to guess. Some people do, some people don't. I personally think she's a good character, and more importantly plays a necessary role in the show.
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Veronica Mars showed up on Netflix streaming and I'm going through it. It's really quite good. The only thing I hate is when it gets way to quirky for its own good. Super rich preppy schoolgirls aren't going to be singing "Don't Stand So Close To Me" to a girl that allegedly hosed a teacher, much less know any of the lyrics.
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I've just finished series 2 of Friday Night Lights and it kind of reminds me of series 3 of Dexter or series 5 of The West Wing, in that it's disappointing when held up to the standards the show previously set itself but still of a much higher standard than most of the shows on television. There's a lot I didn't like about it, mainly the overblown and 90210-esque plots like Tim falling foul of a meth addict, Smash getting drawn into a racist brawl and Landry murdering a guy but I still enjoyed watching it and I'm looking forward to starting series 3.
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Lost marathon update: We finished season 4 a couple of days ago, circumstances (and the desire to give it a break) mean we probably won't start 5 for a little while yet. What's the general consensus on seasons 5 and 6? I've been reading 'Lost sucks now' comments... well, ever since I heard about Lost. Is there any noticeable drop/difference in quality after season 4? In terms of my enjoyment, I thought season 4 was probably my favourite so far. The Constant was really really great - in fact, the whole character of Desmond is really very well done - and all the new characters work well. I liked having my suspicions proved that the Island moves, and that it really does operate outside of normal space-time. The only let-downs were the way Locke's been handled since season 2 (though his conversation with Jack before he went down to the Orchid really did a lot to redeem him), and a bit of the Widmore stuff. The flash-forwards were a really cool technique. Oh, and Kate sucks.
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Mitthrawnuruodo posted:Lost marathon update: We finished season 4 a couple of days ago, circumstances (and the desire to give it a break) mean we probably won't start 5 for a little while yet. What's the general consensus on seasons 5 and 6? I've been reading 'Lost sucks now' comments... well, ever since I heard about Lost. Is there any noticeable drop/difference in quality after season 4? 4 is my favorite as well, and it seems like we liked the show for the same reasons. I feel that it keeps that top notch quality all the way through the end of the show. As for the characters, Locke turns out ten times more awesome and interesting and Kate even ends up likable. fakeedit: And if you enjoy the music in Lost, season 5 is pretty much non-stop epic Lost music. The soundtrack really shines throughout the season.
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Kilometers Davis posted:4 is my favorite as well, and it seems like we liked the show for the same reasons. I feel that it keeps that top notch quality all the way through the end of the show. As for the characters, Locke turns out ten times more awesome and interesting and Kate even ends up likable. Yeah, I heard that a lot of fans of the early seasons were annoyed when the balance tipped from castaway drama to mystical genre show, but I dunno - I always saw the Island as the 'place where miracles happen' that Locke describes in that conversation. In fact, if there's anything I'm annoyed about in that respect, it's that they occasionally go too far out of their way to explain things. I want to watch a show about a place where a symbol from someone's past can literally be there (Kate's horse, Jack's dad, though that's becoming a little harder to swallow), not one where people put things on an island.
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Mitthrawnuruodo posted:Lost marathon update: We finished season 4 a couple of days ago, circumstances (and the desire to give it a break) mean we probably won't start 5 for a little while yet. What's the general consensus on seasons 5 and 6? I've been reading 'Lost sucks now' comments... well, ever since I heard about Lost. Is there any noticeable drop/difference in quality after season 4? 4 is a really good season, 5 and 6 carry on at not quite the same pace (4 was compressed about 3 or 4 episodes bcause of the writer's striker). Opinions on seasons 5 and 6 are split - some people love 5 and don't like season 6, some didn't like season 5 but loved season 6, and obviously some like both. When I watched it I thought season 5 was kind of middling as Lost goes but the last few minutes of the finale put a new spin on the season and makes it more interesting in retrospect and I thought season 6 was great the whole way through. And yeah, The Constant tends to be the favourite episode for a very large number of people.
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I recently watched all of Fringe, Eureka, and Warehouse 13. I started The 4400, but hit an episode in season 2 where the main character was an insufferable prick the entire time, and it completely killed any interest in the series after that. Also the evil baby was stupid. Fringe, Eureka, and Warehouse 13, however, are awesome.
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Kruller posted:I recently watched all of Fringe, Eureka, and Warehouse 13. I started The 4400, but hit an episode in season 2 where the main character was an insufferable prick the entire time, and it completely killed any interest in the series after that. Also the evil baby was stupid. I picked up Fringe Season 1 on Blu ray and powered through it. While I found it somewhat enjoyable... it's really a more boring version of the X-Files. I told myself I liked it enough to watch season 2...but that first episode of season 2 really turned me off. I haven't returned since. The shows monster of the week stuff is really poorly done. I just don't buy it. It's at its best when it sticks to the main story arc. For those of you who have seen season 2, is it worth coming back?
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I started Arrsted Developtment a couple of years ago...was okay but I didn't love it and I dropped it a few episodes in. Had nothing to watch last week, decided to give it another go and binged trough all seasons in two days. Holy poo poo that show was amazing. I started to watch True Blood when it originally came out, but due to a lack of time I had to drop it to keep watching my "old shows". Now I started again and I'm in late season 3 two days after I started. Holy poo poo I _LOVE_ this show. Apparently they are based on books, are the books any good? Still deciding what to watch next. I really have to watch the other 6 seasons of the Sopranos, I need to finish "The Wire", I liked "The trailer park boys" and never finished them, I should watch the other seasons of Dexter AND I'm in dire need of a new sitcom to binge trough. So...what should I watch?
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Popelmon posted:So...what should I watch? I want to be the first and only person to suggest Life on Mars (UK). There are only 16 episodes (by design, it didn't get cancelled) and almost everything about it is amazing.
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Superrodan posted:I want to be the first and only person to suggest Life on Mars (UK). There are only 16 episodes (by design, it didn't get cancelled) and almost everything about it is amazing. Life on Mars is awesome and if you like it the sequel Ashes to Ashes is awesome
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Loofa08 posted:I picked up Fringe Season 1 on Blu ray and powered through it. While I found it somewhat enjoyable... it's really a more boring version of the X-Files. I told myself I liked it enough to watch season 2...but that first episode of season 2 really turned me off. I haven't returned since. The shows monster of the week stuff is really poorly done. I just don't buy it. It's at its best when it sticks to the main story arc. For those of you who have seen season 2, is it worth coming back? Absolutely. The MotW stuff drops off significantly through season 2 as it focuses more and more on the major arc of the series. The season 2 finale was pretty amazing. I highly suggest watching all of season 2 before starting up with 3, as even the MotW stuff has great character moments, and more Walter is awesome. There is one episode in 2 that you could probably skip. I want to say it's episode 11. It was filmed during season 1 and was pushed to season 2, and it's EXTREMELY out of place. You'll understand.
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Popelmon posted:I started Arrsted Developtment a couple of years ago...was okay but I didn't love it and I dropped it a few episodes in. I haven't read the books myself, but by all accounts, they're pretty ok romance novels with some cool supernatural stuff going on, and the show just runs with the cool supernatural stuff. For example, in the novels, Tara is is Sookie's BFF who owns Sookie's favorite clothing shop, Lafayette was supposed to be that corpse in the car at the end of S1/beginning of S2, and Jessica doesn't exist .
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I was working my way through Lost. I stopped watching at the beginning of season three and with the seasons on Netflix it seemed like a good opportunity to catch up. So I was halfway through season three and when I came home from work I found that Netflix had dropped everything before season five from their watch instantly list. So I guess I won't be seeing the rest of the series anytime soon.
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Superrodan posted:I want to be the first and only person to suggest Life on Mars (UK). Then you're a few dozen pages too late.
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Random Stranger posted:I was working my way through Lost. I stopped watching at the beginning of season three and with the seasons on Netflix it seemed like a good opportunity to catch up. Seasons 1-5 are still available for streaming on ABC.com! http://abc.go.com/watch/lost/SH559062
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Aside from the opening miniseries, Razor, and The Plan,  has been added to Netflix instant. Definitely worth a binge if you haven't seen it yet.
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Kekekela posted:Then you're a few dozen pages too late. I meant recommend to Popelmon, who I was quoting.
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JVO posted:Aside from the opening miniseries, Razor, and The Plan, Why the hell isn't the miniseries on there? Cause you know all that poo poo aint important......
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Seasons 1-5 are still available for streaming on ABC.com! But I can't send that to my big screen TV. And sure Netflix, take away the series I was watching for the one that I own on DVD. 
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Kashew posted:I'm working through every episode of The Simpsons...in order. You and me both, buddy! Although thanks to the volume of tv out there, I've managed the first 5 seasons in almost a year. At least it's providing a crazy nostalgia trip. I imagine I'll stop around Season 10, tho.
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Finished season II of Veronica Mars. 20 episodes of a pretty good series, 1 episode of disappointment, and 1 episode of sheer  awful. Seriously, how did they think that was a good finale?
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Just finished up the end of series 3 of True Blood and my God this has to be the worst show I can't stop myself watching. I mean don't get me wrong, it's better than Lie to Me/the billions of CSI's/Chuck/Glee and the usual parade of Bad American Television, but from HBO? The people who gave me Rome? The Wire? In Treatment (please don't gently caress series 3)? A show so badly written that when a scene starts, 9/10 times you can think "What is the most annoying/cliched thing that can happen" answer yourself, then watch it unfold. It's trash. I'd single out just one character that's 180'd more than once when it's plot convenient, but no, all of them have. Many many times. The worst thing is you occasionally get the impression that some of them know how poo poo it is (Sookie's face while pouring the guts down the drain, Eric and Edgington high-camping it up), and -worse- you occasionally get amazing scenes (Eric & Godric on the roof). But then you get endless badly written Tara and Ryan Kwanten po-dunking about hicksville shitlington making me wish they were all dead. Jessica though. 
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HBO has had crap/guilty pleasure shows before like Entourage and How to Make it in America. True Blood is trashy as gently caress but that's the only direction you can take a vampire show without it being complete poo poo like Twilight
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God entourage? That pathetic hollywood-insider circlejerk? Christ. Honestly I've seen the first two Twilight films (Guess I've got Brain Problems.jpg) because I have to read/see poo poo like that to find out how/why they got to that size. And yes, the films are utter trainwrecks, however, they're earnest: Yes, this relationship is completely unhealthy. Yes, Rpattz is taking the piss something merciless. Yes, we are as surprised by it's success as you are. But damnit we are going to play this poo poo completely straight and we are going to go to our graves embarrassed. True blood annoys me because it tries to have it both ways, it's bad for the same reason Glee is bad, the same reason Grindhouse was bad, you can't go from winkingly shlocky and poo poo to "and now take this scene/character deadly seriously!" and expect a grown-up not to flick channels. And you could do such great things with a Vampire show! Just adapt Fevre Dream! Or get somebody clever to sit down and look at some White Wolf source books. Hell I haven't seen it since it originally aired but I still have pretty fond memories of Buffy.
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Kipory posted:Finished season II of Veronica Mars. 20 episodes of a pretty good series, 1 episode of disappointment, and 1 episode of sheer Yeah, although...yeah. There's not even that great a payoff to the cliff-hanger. If it makes you feel any better, the third season has few arcs that extend beyond a few episodes, so there's never the chance for them to make things quite that complicated again.
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Ratatozsk posted:Yeah, although...yeah. There's not even that great a payoff to the cliff-hanger. If it makes you feel any better, the third season has few arcs that extend beyond a few episodes, so there's never the chance for them to make things quite that complicated again. I think my biggest problem was the rape and chlamydia, that right there pushed it from poorly written to straight daytime soap territory.
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Liking season 3, save the fact they made Logan a bitch
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Evfedu posted:edgy gently caress your posts are terrible, it's like you're trying to post a blog on SA. Stop trying so hard. Anyway, I've been binging through Dexter. Up to season 4 and loving it. It's a shame I knew from the start of S1 what happens in the big Season 4 finale. 
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I just watched the first 2 seasons of Nip/Tuck in 2 weeks. How in the hell are there 4 more seasons of this? Everything that could possibly happen ever has happened. It makes me want to keep watching just to see how much further they can push it.
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I've started going through Parks and Recreation - just finishing up season 1 at the moment. I'm excited to start season 2, because everyone I've talked to says that the second season is much better than the first. As of now, it's up on Netflix Instant Watch!
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AngryBooch posted:I just watched the first 2 seasons of Nip/Tuck in 2 weeks. How in the hell are there 4 more seasons of this? Everything that could possibly happen ever has happened.  Everything that could possibly happen? Let me assure you, there's plenty more that hasn't happened yet.
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Lascivious Sloth posted:gently caress your posts are terrible, it's like you're trying to post a blog on SA. Stop trying so hard. P.S. Dexter is great till the end of S2 and is pretty rubbish by season 4. Enjoy the good while it lasts!
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