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Yvonmukluk posted:Well I know she shows up in the last season since m first episode was the one about the Mother and it was delightful. Kind of looking forward to that, actually. The series finale is one of that you will never forget.
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bobkatt013 posted:The series finale is one of that you will never forget. I already know about the two endings. Well, I know there ARE two endings, (and that the aired one is really controversial) but not the exact details. Also: I'm at the end of Season 1. Lily is kind of a jerk. But everyone else is just super.
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So I'm binging through Fringe at long last, I mention that John Noble is awesome, and it turns out my kids are distantly related to him on their dad's side - third cousins or something. (Watching S3Ep19 now, animated zombies and zeppelins, cool)
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Shadow posted:A Young Doctor's Notebook with Harry Potter and Don Draper was really loving good. I spent the last 2.5 hours watching the entire series. It's super short at 22 minute episodes, 4 per season, 2 seasons. Really clever way of illustrating regret and realizing you hated who you used to be. Popped in to quote this man. I think I've seen this show at least 3 times and it really is good. Perfect example of how can less be more. Highly recommend, especially if you enjoy russian literature or dark comedies. To the goon who recommend it, I'll recommend the book it's based on. If you like dark comedies and can put up with the abomination that is the norwegian language, Dag, about a psychiatrist/marriage counselor who hates people, loves Elvis and eats valium from a PEZ dispenser, is good too. If you don't fancy norwegian and instead is looking for a new quick uk comedy binge, the detectorists is pretty good. I think it won the bafta for best screenplay for a uk comedy series last (this?) year. It's a comedy with toby jones and mackenzie crook about two people walking around in fields with metal detectors hoping to find a big cache of gold, but mainly finding bottlecaps. It's really very sweet. I'd love a new show to binge and continually check the thread for recommendations. Goons really seem to enjoy shows like Spartacus and vikings or even Rome, but I just haven't been able to enjoy either of them. I should probably just start over with the Americans (saw the first season, then forgot about the show until it suddenly became a hit with the follow up seasons), but if anyone can recommend anything a little more esorteric and weird, I'd be thankful. Assume I've seen all the house mds, walking deads, wires, sopranos, rubicons, thick of its, black mirrors, utopias, les revenants, killings, etc. Could be comedy or drama as long as it's good and I haven't seen it. Language doesn't matter either. TV addict in need of a fix here.
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Prinneh, try Banshee. It's on Cinemax, it owns, and there's not really anything on TV like it. First season is on Amazon Prime, too.
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prinneh posted:I'd love a new show to binge and continually check the thread for recommendations. Goons really seem to enjoy shows like Spartacus and vikings or even Rome, but I just haven't been able to enjoy either of them. I should probably just start over with the Americans (saw the first season, then forgot about the show until it suddenly became a hit with the follow up seasons), but if anyone can recommend anything a little more esorteric and weird, I'd be thankful. Assume I've seen all the house mds, walking deads, wires, sopranos, rubicons, thick of its, black mirrors, utopias, les revenants, killings, etc. Could be comedy or drama as long as it's good and I haven't seen it. Language doesn't matter either. TV addict in need of a fix here. Line of Duty is a UK cop show about their internal affairs department. It's 1 case per season, with a bunch of twists but actually good ones unlike most US shows. The Good Wife is about lawyers and I never bothered checking it out until last year because I thought the name is stupid, but I really enjoyed it. It's the only show I can think of atm where I enjoy the office politics. Similarly, I never checked out Don't Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23 because of the name, but Dawson makes that one hilarious. The Red Road is about poo poo happening to people from a Lenope tribe trying to get recognized by the federal government. Has Jason Momoa. I'm guessing Banshee and Strike Back get mentioned often enough in this thread.
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Banshee gets mentioned a lot in this subforum, but it's obscure as poo poo outside of SA, so I'm recommending it anyways 
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Vodos posted:Braquo is a French show about corrupt cops, kinda Shield-y and it's pretty drat good. Braquo is loving AWESOME! LeShield for sure, but a lot darker and everyone is a complete bastard.
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Good shows that don't get recommended too often Just not very well known -You're the Worst -Blue Mountain State Nobody watches shows on MTV -Awkward -Faking It British -Him and Her -The Job Lot -Hustle
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First of all, thank you all for your recommendations  LORD OF BUTT posted:Prinneh, try Banshee. It's on Cinemax, it owns, and there's not really anything on TV like it. First season is on Amazon Prime, too. Vodos posted:Braquo is a French show about corrupt cops, kinda Shield-y and it's pretty drat good. Line of Duty looks to be a sorta like maybe the honourable woman/the shadow line light, so I'll check it out. Plus, season 2 adds Keeley Hawes to the mix and I've enjoyed watching her in other stuff like Ashes to Ashes and Ambassadors. Thank you The Good Wife I'm the opposite of you on this, I like the name, but the show is not for me, I just can't get interested in lawyers. Gave it a few episodes a couple of years back, but it just didn't connect with me. Sorry. I hear the later seasons are a lot better than the earlier, but this show must be around 100+ hours long by now, right? Don't Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23 I agree about the title of this show! That name has kept me firmly away, but I'll give it a go tonight. Thank you! The Red Road Never heard of this before. Does this trailer accurately portray the show? If I heard about Strike Back, I didn't register it :/ I'll look more into it. Thank you. THF13 posted:Good shows that don't get recommended too often I have seen all or at least a few episodes of all these shows. I think You're the worst is brilliant, I'm hearing it'll be back in september The rest of your list I could probably do without ever rewatching or finishing, though I'm sure someone else will go through this thread and find a lot of recommendations to their liking on this list. Thank you for suggesting these. If you enjoy The Job Lot, there's a chance you might like The Smoking Room.Again, thank you everyone, I love you and I love this thread
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Banshee is adolescent male power fantasy bullsshit. It's watchable, but it's certainly nothing more than the adventures of one odd-headed man in a fourteen year old's daydream.
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prinneh posted:I've discarded Banshee before on account of this trailer - does it, in your opinion, accurately portray the show? ...jesus they made it look generic. Here, I'll link you to a fight scene from it and you can judge for yourself. It's well-written, but the key appeal of the show is in the action sequences- there's not really any other shows doing fights like this except maybe Daredevil, and even that's not on the same level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ok3h8E42Qs e: Also, like 90% of the plot of Banshee is life finding new and exciting ways to poo poo all over the protagonist, so if it's a power fantasy it's a rather masochistic one. Seriously, dude is constantly getting screwed by blind luck. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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THF13 posted:Good shows that don't get recommended too often Hustle is my favorite con artist show ever and anyone who hasn't seen it yet should check it out.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:...jesus they made it look generic. Yeah, this is probably a little heavy on the action side for me, I'm a little more Brideshead Revisited than Daredevil  Though I'm always glad to see follow Danes cast as villains, everytime it happens (and it's happening a lot lately), people in the states will see me being just a little more of a sinister character each time I visit 
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prinneh posted:How Shieldey is Braquo? I did not enjoy or even finish first season of The Shield, would that turn me off it? Could you compare it to, say, another French crime show like Spiral? Red Road isn't really anything too special, just thought I'd throw it out there because I liked the setting. It's drama with murder, drugs, racism, interracial relationships, ex-cons getting hosed, natives getting hosed and schizophrenia. Strike Back has a bit of a weird history, it started as a UK (sky?) show, they did a 3 episode season and then it got picked up by Cinemaxx, who dumped the whole cast and turned it into an action buddy series with the best firefights on tv. It kinda goes hand in hand with Banshee, which has the best melee fights on tv.
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Just finished Sense8. Enjoyed it but was making sure the whole time not to think too much about the "sci-fi technicalities" of what exactly was going on, and I think that worked to my benefit in terms of how much I enjoyed the show. The plot was nothing special but I'm getting that feeling of "I'm going to miss these characters" that I usually get after binging character-centric stuff like Six Feet Under, Friday Night Lights or Switched at Birth, and this is only 12 episodes. Plenty of potential here, hoping they dial back the more goofy stuff (I mean of course one of the 8 happens to be a kickass martial arts expert) and knock it out of the park in subsequent seasons. It's the Wachowski's though, so...... they might not do that. If/when the time comes that I'm required, more than now that is, to embrace the crazy if I want to continue watching then I hope it's the good kind of crazy.
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prinneh posted:Don't Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23 I agree about the title of this show! That name has kept me firmly away, but I'll give it a go tonight. Thank you! This is now my new watch while drunk after 00:00 show. I'll read your comments about the shows I asked you about tomorrow. Thank you vodos for being so swift to reply^^
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Vodos posted:Braquo is a lot darker than Shield, it's only comparable because it's about dirty cops. It's also focused on the team, they don't have storylines centered around detectives or patrol, unlike Shield. As was already said, everyone's a bastard. I haven't watched Spiral yet so I can't compare (it's on my Netflix list though). I'll look into the Braquo, thank you, but probably skip Red road then. Is it worth it just watching 3-episode season of Strike Back, or does it end very cliff-hangery?
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My advice is watch Chris Ryan's Strike Back because it is good, but be aware the other series is vastly different in a good way. I'm pretty sure none of the cast carry over. Basically the first is about one guy. The rest is about the military unit he worked for, but based around the two leads. Braquo is hard work if foreign drama isn't your thing. They are a special ops morally ambiguous thug cops, but story aside it's closer to The Wire in look and feel. . Makes Paris look like the poo poo hole that it is.
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Also watch The Leftovers. 2% of the population just up and disappears and people react to it in various ways. Some freak out, others join cults, some act like life has no meaning, others think life has ONLY meaning because they're still here, etc. It's really loving well done. I can't wait for the second season!
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The first season of Strike Back doesn't have three episodes, it's more like ten I think. But it is completely different from the rest of it. The end of season 1 acts as a hook for the second season, but pretty much just for the first episode. You can start at the 2nd season without getting lost. richardfun fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Jul 16, 2015 |
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Shadow posted:Also watch The Leftovers. 2% of the population just up and disappears and people react to it in various ways. Some freak out, others join cults, some act like life has no meaning, others think life has ONLY meaning because they're still here, etc. It's really loving well done. I can't wait for the second season! Have you seen the S2 trailer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZVUU3zbXk
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That trailer for season 2 forgot to say when season 2 was starting... wtf Hmm... I'm withholding judgment right now. So there's a huge line to get into some magical town that lost no one. I'm sure there's tons of towns that haven't lost anyone. It'd be statistically impossible (and formulate a pattern) if whatever caused the disappearance decided that every arbitrary, manmade border must lose at least one person.
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Shadow posted:That trailer for season 2 forgot to say when season 2 was starting... wtf You can't reason with fanatics or zealots. I have a feeling that after everyone gets into the whole 'this city is safe', it'll come out that they did lose someone, and everything just goes to poo poo.
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I feel like that city is only safe if you think it's going to happen again... and even then....Rupert Buttermilk posted:You can't reason with fanatics or zealots.
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Just started binging Bloodline and I'm having an intensely negative reaction to almost every character on it, perhaps coming straight off Sense8 where I liked most of them has something to do with it.Rupert Buttermilk posted:You can't reason with fanatics or zealots. I have a feeling that after everyone gets into the whole 'this city is safe', it'll come out that they did lose someone, and everything just goes to poo poo. But are they fanatics when the fantastic has already actually happened?
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Cactus posted:Just started binging Bloodline and I'm having an intensely negative reaction to almost every character on it, perhaps coming straight off Sense8 where I liked most of them has something to do with it. Basically every character is a piece of poo poo but they are consistent about it at least.
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Shadow posted:Also watch The Leftovers. 2% of the population just up and disappears and people react to it in various ways. Some freak out, others join cults, some act like life has no meaning, others think life has ONLY meaning because they're still here, etc. It's really loving well done. I can't wait for the second season! Haha, I saw this when it first came out. It was alright, initially I wasn't going to watch because I read a review that basically said "When watching this show you'll soon find yourself wishing you were one of the people who were plucked from the story within the first 10 minutes and therefore not having to go through any more of this show" Very harsh haha, but then a friend made me watch it. It's ok, but it's not one of those shows where I can't wait to rewatch season 1 when season 2 premieres.
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prinneh posted:I did not enjoy or even finish first season of The Shield Sounds like you have up right when it was about to start getting good. You should give it another shot, it gets a lot better in the second season or maybe the second half of the first. It's been a while and I can't remember when exactly but it gets less and less procedural as you get further in.
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Wafflecopper posted:Sounds like you have up right when it was about to start getting good. You should give it another shot, it gets a lot better in the second season or maybe the second half of the first. It's been a while and I can't remember when exactly but it gets less and less procedural as you get further in. And that ending is just so 
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Cactus posted:The Americans is so good. And this year's season contains the most violent, disturbing scene I've seen on telly and I've watched most of the other shows people say that about. Fantastic stuff, I'd say it's like a cross between Breaking Bad and season 1 Homeland. i binged through all 3 seasons in less than a week. i love spy shows and this show is just beyond amazing.
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Slaapaav posted:i binged through all 3 seasons in less than a week. i love spy shows and this show is just beyond amazing. Yeah when people say "the suitcase" in the context of TV shows a lot of people think of Mad Men and smile. A small number now think of the Americans instead, and it is a whole different reaction.
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Just finished Justified season 1, that was really good. Does the show keep being that good?
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Justified is a solid B+ show and it's a lot of fun. I think it gets much better after season 1 and way less crime of the week.
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ZZZorcerer posted:Just finished Justified season 1, that was really good. Does the show keep being that good? It gets much, much better. You're in for a hell of a ride.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:And that ending is just so Lem 
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Flatscan posted:Lem Why ya gotta be that guy?
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Shadow posted:That trailer for season 2 forgot to say when season 2 was starting... wtf That's kind of what I thought, but the fact that a town with over 9,000 people did not lose around 180 people, but 0, is a bit of a mindfuck.
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prinneh posted:I'd love a new show to binge and continually check the thread for recommendations. Goons really seem to enjoy shows like Spartacus and vikings or even Rome, but I just haven't been able to enjoy either of them. I should probably just start over with the Americans (saw the first season, then forgot about the show until it suddenly became a hit with the follow up seasons), but if anyone can recommend anything a little more esorteric and weird, I'd be thankful. Assume I've seen all the house mds, walking deads, wires, sopranos, rubicons, thick of its, black mirrors, utopias, les revenants, killings, etc. Could be comedy or drama as long as it's good and I haven't seen it. Language doesn't matter either. TV addict in need of a fix here. I dunno if it was here that I heard about it but I recently watched Mr Sloane and I kind of enjoyed it. Not laugh out loud funny, more of slightly depressing comedy.
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Laverna posted:I dunno if it was here that I heard about it but I recently watched Mr Sloane and I kind of enjoyed it. Not laugh out loud funny, more of slightly depressing comedy. I've seen it, but thats a good recommendation. Solid cast, good story. I was sad to hear it was cancelled, which was the most depressing bit about it
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