What TV shows are people watching?

The Batlord · 02-15-2017, 10:49 AM

I miss The Following too. I don't know who that British guy is but he's wildly entertaining and I'd **** him even if he was actually a serial killer.

FRED HALE SR. · 02-15-2017, 10:54 AM

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I'm so annoyed they cancelled The Following. Bastards. I was looking forward to Bacon taking down that whole "murder club" thing that was going on. ****ing network ****.

I watched one episode of TYP, wanted to like it, hated it. Law was totally disengaging as the young pope, a completely unsympathetic character (at least to me) and I really couldn't see where it was going, even given the pilot episode seemed to be two or three hours long (or maybe it just seemed like that). After checking out episode one, I deleted all the others I had built up. Just not for me.

New series beginning this week or next, and which I'm looking forward to: 24: Legacy/Legion/Madam Secretary season 3/ Alan Partridge's Mid Morning Matters season 2/ Billions season 2

Interesting, I find it absolutely engaging. I also think Law was perfect for the role and I find his character flaws in the show as perfect for the role. He was actually supposed to be unsympathetic, hes an actual villian in the overall plot. I have watched every episode and look forward to the rest.

Trollheart · 02-15-2017, 11:48 AM

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I miss The Following too. I don't know who that British guy is but he's wildly entertaining and I'd **** him even if he was actually a serial killer.

James Purefoy. He was excellent in Rome too. Did you see that, Batty? You'd definitely enjoy it.

Trollheart · 02-15-2017, 11:56 AM

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Interesting, I find it absolutely engaging. I also think Law was perfect for the role and I find his character flaws in the show as perfect for the role. He was actually supposed to be unsympathetic, hes an actual villian in the overall plot. I have watched every episode and look forward to the rest.

Meh, I find it hard to watch a main character I don't connect with. A lot of the time it's what turns me off the show. I either need to understand or be rooting for or even against the guy, but if we don't click, as it were, I find it hard to enjoy the show. I mean, Hannibal Lecter was a villain but I loved him, to say nothing of the likes of Sandoval in Earth: Final Conflict, Joe in The Following and even Morden in Babylon 5, most of the above of which I'm sure you have never seen. But it's the same with any show: a good baddy (as it were) or a sympathetic lead at least is essential to me. Look at Tony Soprano: the guy was evil but we loved him. Don't or didn't get that from Law, not at all. The guy creeped me out. Also had no idea where the show was going; after an hour and a half it seemed to have done just about nothing. Maybe I'm just impatient, or needed the space on my Sky box, but I wasn't prepared to slog through a few episodes to see if maybe I might enjoy it after all. First impressions last, as they say, and my initial impression of this led me to push "delete".

There was another series recently that had that effect on me .. oh yeah. Peaky Binders. Couldn't get that at all. And Whitechapel. And Unforgettable, and Shetland ... quite a few, come to think of it.

Chula Vista · 02-15-2017, 12:24 PM

+1 for The Following. That series had some of the creepiest and terrifying scenes ever.

The Batlord · 02-15-2017, 01:29 PM

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James Purefoy. He was excellent in Rome too. Did you see that, Batty? You'd definitely enjoy it.

I saw the first season and loved it, but it's been years so I didn't remember him being in it.

Trollheart · 02-15-2017, 03:05 PM

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I saw the first season and loved it, but it's been years so I didn't remember him being in it.

Check out season 2.
And he was Mark Anthony.

bulbasaur · 02-18-2017, 12:20 PM

hoping i make it to the next gilmore girls discussion

**Frownland** · 02-22-2017, 09:12 PM

Wow, the Lena Dunham Scientology series is really interesting. She's a horrendous interviewer though, yeesh. I'm glad she got help in both her affiliation with the cult and with her documentary.

Tristan_Geoff · 02-22-2017, 09:13 PM

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hoping i make it to the next gilmore girls discussion

You can discuss it with me if you want

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