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Ghostchase 08.15.2012 03:42 PM

Probably not in Canada, I'll check.

LifeDistortion 08.15.2012 08:38 PM

Been watching Game of Thrones, I'm about halfway through season 2. I'm about 200 pages away to the end of "A Storm of Swords".

Torn Curtain 08.16.2012 02:44 AM

House season 7.

dale_gribble 08.20.2012 02:20 AM

 

!@#$%! 08.20.2012 09:16 AM

 


first short episode was pretty good, though in retrospective i'm getting a whiff of californication plagiarism

Hip Priest 09.09.2012 10:46 AM

The Sweeney, because ITV4 have been showing stuff all weekend. Superb series.

There's a documentary about the Intercity 125 on this week, Thursday evening I think.

Torn Curtain 09.29.2012 04:55 PM

Breaking Bad season 1.

h8kurdt 09.29.2012 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Torn Curtain
Breaking Bad season 1.


Good lad. Such a great tv series. How is america after all the shit film they produce able to bring out so many watchable, brilliant tv series?

!@#$%! 10.21.2012 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt
Good lad. Such a great tv series. How is america after all the shit film they produce able to bring out so many watchable, brilliant tv series?


all the talent has migrated. in tv the stakes are lower and writers/directors have more creative freedom, i.e., less cooks = better broth.

speaking of that, i'm in the middle of a walking dead marathon today (season 2). i know tv is not documentary, but fuck, are georgia rednecks mentally challenged as a population or what?

EVOLghost 10.30.2012 04:52 PM

 

Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro chan
(Killer Beating Angel)

Started watching this...pretty fucking fun...bloody too :D


Oh and the animation hilarious!!!!!

startur 11.03.2012 10:25 PM

the thick of it has been over for a week now. ill miss it but i feel like it was time for the show to come to end. i found that the fourth season showed instances of the characters just being parodies of themselves. i found the final episode to be a pretty good wrap-up, would have liked to see ollie, glenn and nicola in the same room again but i think that would have been asking too much. i'd say the fourth season was the worst season of the bunch, it was still good but just not as good as the others. would have also liked to see jamie one last time...

anyone watch Veep? i havent given a chance, im just always hesitant when it comes to "americanized" version of things...i didn't think In the Loop was very good and it sorta tarnished the series. i read the iannucci is working on a movie adaptation of alan partridge, woo....

floatingslowly 11.15.2012 11:23 AM

Dr. Who

I wanted to hate the new series, but thanks to deaddiscodickhole, I'm hooked.

Netflix is missing heaps of specials, so my coverage is spotty, but I'm so glad that we stuck with it.

Hell, I even like that ranga, Amy Pond, and damn if I don't like rangas; soulless beasts that they are.

EVOLghost 11.15.2012 11:38 AM

Wrong thread.



Delete that post.

EVOLghost 11.15.2012 11:39 AM

Lol.

!@#$%! 11.15.2012 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by foreverasskiss
i would say yeah, but they're very skillfull when it comes to anything that involves being out doors, working on cars, or building SHIT.

so yeah, that show is pretty much dead on and accurate in it's protrayal of "rednecks". and they got the southern accent and swagger down packed. trust me. i know.


and that one cocky redneck...Daryl? yeah, he's a dime a dozen around here.


actually the redneck is the most reasonable of the bunch. the supposedly semi-educated people are the ones who act most fucking retarded (up to season 2 anyway).


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anyway, been watching "spy" (the british show) on hulu and the 2nd season doesn't disappoint. the latest episode was very funny.

i only wish they weren't so fucking lazy and called 6 episodes a season... no, what is it called, a... "series". "second series". for fucks sakes. add at least 6 more!

Rob Instigator 11.15.2012 12:56 PM

My wife has me watching Mad Men. Good melodrama so far. Nothing earth-shattering, but good.

!@#$%! 11.15.2012 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
My wife has me watching Mad Men. Good melodrama so far. Nothing earth-shattering, but good.


teh historical reconstruction of mores and attitudes is pretty fucking great.

also, christina hendricks is most definitely earth-shattering.

Rob Instigator 11.15.2012 02:16 PM

My issue with television like Mad Men is that a good portion of their audience does not understand that what they are watching is a historical reconstruction, and take it to be something they should model their personal views after.

Remember Seinfeld? That show was about 4 HORRIBLE human beings, selfish, immoral, unrepentantly self-absorbed, with no cares for the rest of humanity. So many of that show's fans did not see this. instead, they saw mirrors of themselves and used Seinfeld as a get-out-of-jail free care for all their personal bullshit they lay on people. It helped them rationalize their own horrible behavior. "I'm just like Elaine!" "I'm not so bad compared to Costanza!"

Those same assholes did not understand the finale of Seinfeld, how they truly deserved to rot in jail for the untold horrors.

I wonder if Mad men is so highly thought of by the old white men that vote for the Emmy's because it directly mirrors what they truly believe and feel inside their secret minds, what they can no longer share with the world because it is not currently "acceptable."

It really is like Happy Days (made in the 70's but set in 50's), That 70's show (made in 90's but set in 70's), or other such rewrites of recent history, but it is a well-crafted drama with good acting.

Torn Curtain 11.16.2012 06:27 PM

Dexter season 2.

the ikara cult 11.16.2012 06:35 PM

There's a wonderful documentary on BBC Four right now called "Sound it Out" about a record shop in the North East of England. Its making me swell with happiness, if you can find it online, i reccomend you do.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nwfxx


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