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Old 10-16-2012, 11:29 PM   #1571 (permalink)
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It's also the one of the greatest television shows ever made, so it has that going for it.
As far as "dramas" Twin Peaks is tops for me. But I also have Arrested Development, Dead Like Me, Reaper, and Doctor Who on my list for top shows of any genre.

And for dramas, Boardwalk Empire and Breaking Bad are kind of the man.

DLM is kinda a dramedy, and Doctor Who is sci-fi, but yeah.
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Old 10-17-2012, 09:35 AM   #1572 (permalink)
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Terrible ending on mine.
Lost was okay for a few episodes, but the horrible acting just made it unwatchable for me. And after it just went on and on, I lost interest in even finding out what happened. There is no way on god's green earth that any mystery is worth waiting ten seasons for.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 10-17-2012, 10:05 AM   #1573 (permalink)
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I watched several episodes of Lost and found them so boring. Didn't get the appeal at all...
I started watching the show around the mid-point of season 2 and had to be brought up to speed. It was enjoyable even if the season finale totally confused the shit out of me, but I was still hopeful that season 3 would explain some more things. That didn't happen, and after raising more questions than answering, then disappearing for 8 weeks or so I decided that it wasn't worth it and haven't looked back on it ever since.

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Old 10-18-2012, 07:25 PM   #1574 (permalink)
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Have started working my way through my episodes of "The Newsroom". Only up to second ep but I have to admit so far I'm a little underwhelmed. I was expecting "Studio 60" if not quite "The West Wing", but this hasn't really grabbed me so far. Anyone watched it feel that way, and if you've watched it all the way to the end is it worth persevering with, or will this be the first Sorkin drama I end up not liking?
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Old 10-18-2012, 08:23 PM   #1575 (permalink)
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From what I've heard the reviews have been pretty mixed, I'm not even sure if it's been picked up for a second season. I was definitely intrigued when I was watching the trailer every time I watched Game of Thrones, but I never actually sat down and watched it. Maybe if the DVD release is cheap or it shows up on Netflix I'll give it a go, but for right now I'm just not going to bother.

As far as my viewing habits, I think I'm going to plow through the first and second season of Homicide: Life on the Streets. I picked it up yesterday for $18 so I'm pretty stocked considering I've only read about it. I'm not the biggest fan of network tv procedurals, but apparently the writers really went out of their way to demystify the noble detective and portray them in a more realistic light in regards to their views on violence and their victims.
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Old 10-20-2012, 05:06 AM   #1576 (permalink)
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I watched quite a lot of the first season, missed a lot, then tried to come back in the third or so - I was so "Lost" that I couldn't even figure out what was going on, pardon the pun. I'm going to go back and watch it, but I can think of lots of shows that grabbed me more than this one did from the get-go.

If you want something for a bizarre and secluded setting that's character driven with some weirdness, definitely check out "Twin Peaks."

IMO, way more cerebral, bizarre, and interesting.
I've heard the name "Twin Peaks" being thrown around here and there. Didn't realise it was a tv show. Sounds like some interesting mystery and seems to be more appealing than Lost. Thanks I'll check it out.

I'll try watch the whole 1st season of Lost and give it another chance....
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Old 10-22-2012, 12:19 PM   #1577 (permalink)
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I started following this new series "REVOLUTION" from the creators of Supernatural. It's a good mystery-sci-fi production with a lot of good actors. It's like the continue of Fight Club when after the explosion everybody is back to 0. Has anybody watched it and what do you think of it.
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Old 10-22-2012, 01:52 PM   #1578 (permalink)
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super sick anime. Very vague and the story barely holds together but there's lots of laughs and cool action.


man this show is just so real. Sometimes they try to squeeze in dismantling of every racial stereotype it almost feels contrived but the its a super sick show
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Old 10-22-2012, 03:43 PM   #1579 (permalink)
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I cannot wait for Derren Browns new show, which is a two part show that starts on Friday.

For those who don't know Derren Brown is an illusionist/mentalist who started off with a mind control and magic type show set on the streets with unsuspecting audiences. In recent years his shows have become much bigger and more controversial. He has manipulated people into doing things they believe they are doing for real, such as shoot and kill Stephen Fry, commit armed robbery, land a packed passenger plane and confess to a murder they never commited. He also done a series of live shows where he has predicted the National Lottery, held an obviously fake seance and played Russian Roulette where, infront of live cameras, has pulled the trigger of a gun aimed at his own temple.

His new show sounds like a simply staggering, ambitious attempt where he takes a man who has previously volunteered to be used in a future show of his, whom he describes as having a "lazy sense of entitlement" and aims to give him what he calls a "second chance"....by making him believe the world has ended.

There has been apparently months of preparation, including casting over a hundred actors, for a weekends worth of filming where, due to things like convincing legitimate news reporters to film stories and reports exclusively for the subjects benefit, and a genuine meteor shower that happened in August to firstly plant the seed that the end of the world could really be a possibility and then when he goes to sleep he wakes up two weeks later in the middle of an "actual" apocalypse.

His repertoire of psychological experiments and stunts includes everything from performing Russian roulette live on TV to successfully predicting the National Lottery. But as his projects get bigger and bolder, so does the role played by those taking part.

His next venture is a case in point. He begins a new series of specials with a two-part show, which is a journey into a living nightmare, where the planet has been devastated by a catastrophic meteorite strike, zombies roam the wasteland and he is one of a handful of survivors.

He said: “The show is about taking somebody who basically takes his life for granted, and suffers from that lazy sense of entitlement that many of us do, and giving him a second chance at discovering the value of what he has. So what we do is end the world for him.

“It’s over two episodes, which I’ve never done before. The first part is getting him to believe that this is going to happen, that the world is going to end, or at least has a chance of ending.

“It was based on a seed of truth, because there was a meteor shower around August, so we just used the idea that this shower was masking a much bigger potential collision.

“The end of the world happens. And he wakes seemingly two weeks later in an abandoned military hospital, in a post-apocalyptic world, and goes through a meticulously-crafted horror movie plot. The point of the plot, aside from being exciting to watch, is that it takes him through various lessons that are going to be useful for him, in terms of teaching him things that he needs to know. Are his family still alive? Is he going to get back to them?”

It’s a jaw-dropping concept that involved months of planning, hacking into his phone, controlling his Twitter and news feeds, having TV and radio presenters record special versions of their programmes just for him, and more than 100 actors.
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I started following this new series "REVOLUTION" from the creators of Supernatural. It's a good mystery-sci-fi production with a lot of good actors. It's like the continue of Fight Club when after the explosion everybody is back to 0. Has anybody watched it and what do you think of it.
I watched two episodes of it, then went back to watching Castle (Nathan Fillion is like my crack). The idea of the show was cool, one of the villains (the guy who kidnapped the brother) was pretty epic, the settings were excellently done (I particularly loved it when they came upon a playground in the middle of a forest), but I just didn't give any kind of a **** about the characters. I can't watch a show with characters that I don't feel anything towards.
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