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Post by holcs Mon 06 Oct 2008, 15:06

I'm up to speed on all my Favorite TV shows at the moment:

Criminal Minds
Prison Break
Supernatural

And am looking for a new one to get my teeth into. Any ideas??
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Post by doremi Mon 06 Oct 2008, 15:14

Try Avatar:the last airbender. Childish (runs on Nickelodeon), but absorbing storyline, and as good a fantasy as I've read.
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Post by Naeem Mon 06 Oct 2008, 15:18

Heroes !

Prison break is awesome this season.
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Post by holcs Mon 06 Oct 2008, 15:21

Watched the first of the new Heroes series last week. So may try that!

Will let do-boy off as its his birthday!!
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Post by Henry Nolonga Mon 06 Oct 2008, 15:26

Dexter, Lost, House?
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Post by holcs Mon 06 Oct 2008, 15:31

Could get into House as watched an episode of that last week...
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Post by JKLever Mon 06 Oct 2008, 15:37

Carnivale

The Shield

The Wire

Deadwood

Nothing new, but if you haven't seen them - i'd recommend
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Post by holcs Mon 06 Oct 2008, 15:43

What are they JK - know The Shield!?
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Post by furriner Mon 06 Oct 2008, 15:56

I'm with JKL on The Wire.

Try it.
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Post by JKLever Mon 06 Oct 2008, 16:02

holcs wrote:What are they JK - know The Shield!?

Carnivale is a really weird series from HBO about a boy who joins a travelling circus and has a talent which can be used for good or evil

Really difficult to explain the genre of this... here's the trailer anyhow



The Wire - how do you not know about it!!?

Synopsis from IMDB

Set in Baltimore, this show centers around the city's inner-city drug scene. It starts as mid-level drug dealer, D'Angelo Barksdale beats a murder rap. After a conversation with a judge, Det. James McNulty has been assigned to lead a joint homicide and narcotics team, in order to bring down drug kingpin Avon Barksdale. Avon Barksdale, accompanied by his right-hand man Stringer Bell, enforcer Wee-Bey and many lieutenants (including his own nephew, D'Angelo Barksdale), has to deal with law enforcement, informants in his own camp, and competition with a local rival, Omar, who's been robbing Barksdale's dealers and reselling the drugs. The supervisor of the investigation, Lt. Cedric Daniels, has to deal with his own problems, such as a corrupt bureaucracy, some of his detectives beating suspects, hard-headed but determined Det. McNulty, and a blackmailing deputy. The show depicts the lives of every part of the drug "food chain", from junkies to dealers, and from cops to politicians

Got some great characters throughout the series...
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Post by JKLever Mon 06 Oct 2008, 16:03

Deadwood is like Sopranos set in the wild west, spawned one of the best villains of all time with copious amounts of use of swearing and the word 'cocksucker'

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Post by Steve Mon 06 Oct 2008, 16:08

The Wire is brilliant, just finished series 3. Watched it after working my way through the Sopranos and didn't think anything could top that but the Wire might just have done it.

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Post by Henry Mon 06 Oct 2008, 16:17

Considering that I can barely understand Japanese TV, I've been watching a lot of old British comedies on youtube since I arrived in Tokyo - Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Allo Allo, Dad's Army......
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Post by LeFromage Mon 06 Oct 2008, 21:49

holcs wrote:I'm up to speed on all my Favorite TV shows at the moment:

Criminal Minds
Prison Break
Supernatural

And am looking for a new one to get my teeth into. Any ideas??

Dexter. It's aces. And easy to start with from scratch as - although the third season has just begun - the seasons are only ten (or is it twelve?) high-quality episodes long, so you'll be all caught up in no time.
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Post by G.Wood Mon 06 Oct 2008, 23:32

JKLever wrote:

Carnivale is a really weird series from HBO about a boy who joins a travelling circus and has a talent which can be used for good or evil

...

and there is a lezzo bit
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Post by JKLever Mon 06 Oct 2008, 23:40

Always helps sell a programme...
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Post by G.Wood Mon 06 Oct 2008, 23:57

Beats me why more people haven't caught on

Love Thy Neighbour could have gone on for another 2 seasons
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Post by JGK Tue 07 Oct 2008, 02:16

Heroes has always been disappointing to me. Too many threads happening for anything particularly interesting to happen in any one episode. It's a bit like reading a Robert Jordan book.

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Post by JKLever Tue 07 Oct 2008, 02:18

Just caught up with the first 2 eps of series 3 of Dexter - good stuff
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Post by holcs Tue 07 Oct 2008, 10:09

Well, I will try The Wire and Dexter next.

Cheers guys.
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Post by holcs Wed 08 Oct 2008, 16:25

Ok, so have tried:

Dexter - its pretty good if not a little creepy!

The Wire - only halfway through the first episode, but its seems ok

House - Brilliant, love it!! So will work my way through how ever many episodes of this!
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Post by JKLever Wed 08 Oct 2008, 16:27

holcs wrote:Ok, so have tried:

Dexter - its pretty good if not a little creepy!

The Wire - only halfway through the first episode, but its seems ok

House - Brilliant, love it!! So will work my way through how ever many episodes of this!

Stick with the Wire - first season really builds the characters up, gets going later on
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Post by holcs Wed 08 Oct 2008, 16:37

I shall indeed.

House has a great soundtrack to House as well BTW!
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Post by LeFromage Wed 08 Oct 2008, 19:16

JKLever wrote:Just caught up with the first 2 eps of series 3 of Dexter - good stuff

It's oddly comforting to know that everyone's favourite, cuddly serial killer is still on form.

Deb's still annoying to the nth degree, though. When's he going to chop her up?
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Post by LeFromage Wed 08 Oct 2008, 19:24

JGK wrote:Heroes has always been disappointing to me. Too many threads happening for anything particularly interesting to happen in any one episode. It's a bit like reading a Robert Jordan book.

NBC are supposedly the butt of many jokes in American TV land for their inability to make TV shows. Heroes is kind of an example of that: a good initial idea, some decent early "buzz" and interest surrounding it, followed by a complete mess of muddled story-lines and re-heated (or totally stolen) scenes from better sci-fi series and movies - not to mention the constant promises to "the fans" to do better and learn from their mistakes.

The Suresh storyline that has started the current series isn't just a nod-and-a-wink to The Fly, it's almost a word-for-word, shot-by-shot remake.

It's very watchable, but doesn't feel remotely like a quality, intelligently-plotted series. It's more like an extended advert. I wonder when the action figures will come out...
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