This might still be a bit early; but I'm always on the lookout for any new tv series that might actually be worth watching (and it seems like there's less and less of these, and thus harder to find them in the steaming ocean of crap that TV has turned into, every year). If you think there's a new show out that shows promise, let me know.
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I'm curious to see how Revolution is. I think it starts next Monday. They are definitely taking advantage of the whole Hunger Games survivalist popularity going around.
Other that than, I really like Grimm. The 2nd season just started. But I'm a bit biased since they do some of the filming downstairs from me in my building.
Quote from: Sacrosanct;581840Other that than, I really like Grimm. The 2nd season just started. But I'm a bit biased since they do some of the filming downstairs from me in my building.
I tried watching that but after giving it about 5/6 episodes thought it was a bit rubbish. Still, plenty of people didn't as it got a second series.
I'm happy The Republic of Doyle is coming back for season 4. After Russell Crowe was in an episode of season 3 everyone will be lining up to do it.
Revolution has me interested. My favorite show is Walking Dead though it's been on for 3 years already iirc.
Copper isnt bad It's set in new york back when it was a lawless hellhole(kinda gangs of new york sorta era) and is a BBC America production which is a first for them.
Other than that Arrow looks like it'll either be really good or complete crap(given its by CW) so may be worth a look once it begins in october.
If you havent already give Hell on Wheels a look its pretty darned good imo.
I may give Revolution a nosey for a few episodes since the premise sounds interesting though it has the potential to suck ballz just as easily if the writers get all preachy on us instead of exploring the concepts the setting presents.
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If you havent already give Hell on Wheels a look its pretty darned good imo.
Yep, Hell on Wheels is good.
I enjoyed the first season of Hell on Wheels. Haven't started watching the second season yet.
I must say Copper sounds kind of interesting. Does one have to be familiar with historical facts to make sense of what's going on?
Both of these are also interesting for me because of my late 1860s western campaign that I plan to run.
White Collar and The Mentalist are my two current guilty pleasures.
But I must say that Strike Back has been my go-to show for pure action-adventure. Once a week I get to just sit back and enjoy the ride...
Vikings by the BBC is pretty good. Only 3 parts, mind. Presented by the same guy who does Coast (which is also very interesting if you haven't sought it out already).
Other than that, i'm reaching. I have next to nothing that i regularly watch anymore. I'm working my way through the Rockford Files at the moment.
I just watched the pilot episode of Revolution. It was pretty good. They established a bunch of characters very well. Parts of it were a bit goofy or maybe over-simplified, but I think this show has some real potential.
Quote from: danbuter;583868I just watched the pilot episode of Revolution. It was pretty good. They established a bunch of characters very well. Parts of it were a bit goofy or maybe over-simplified, but I think this show has some real potential.
Heh. I did too. Literally just finished it. You're right. Pretty decent show.
I'm tuned in to Supernatural, Warehouse 13, Merlin, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Legend of Korra, and Fringe. Or I will be when the next seasons come out.
Just Game of Thrones, Walking Dead and Fringe here.
Oh, and Modern Family.
My sister assures me that Parks & Recreation is the bee's knees, and my mother and stepfather swear by Sons of Anarchy.
Quote from: The Traveller;584157I'm tuned in to Supernatural, Warehouse 13, Merlin, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Legend of Korra, and Fringe. Or I will be when the next seasons come out.
That there's a darn good list of shows.
I've seen "Hatfields & McCoys" is coming to the UK this autumn. Was it any good?
The Guild Season 5 was quite funny. But now every other recommendation on youtube has felicia day in it.
Quote from: Simon W;584210I've seen "Hatfields & McCoys" is coming to the UK this autumn. Was it any good?
Are you talking about the mini series with Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton? Yes, I thought it was pretty good, and I'm no fan of Costner. It sparked my interest enough that I had to go look up the actual historical accounts and compare them against the movie. But it was a good series.
Quote from: danbuter;583868I just watched the pilot episode of Revolution. It was pretty good. They established a bunch of characters very well. Parts of it were a bit goofy or maybe over-simplified, but I think this show has some real potential.
I thought it was kind mediocre, myself. Good enough that I'll keep watching it but it shares a lot of the naïveté of life without electricity and other infrastructure and a less civilized social order of shows like The Walking Dead and Falling Skies.
I have Copper on my TiVo but not sure if I'm going to watch it or delete it.
Of all the new shows, I'm most curious what they are going to do with Last Resort (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDSttA64KGU). Not sure how well the premise is going to sit with the audience and if it's heavy-handed with the messages, I can see it sinking pretty quickly.
Other genre shows coming up in the next few weeks are Elementary (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YvuZ4Msh50), 666 Park Avenue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXiu-oEGydk), Beauty and the Beast (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spnz-QNhUcE), and (next year) Defiance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAmEhNJ4rLM) on SyFy with an MMO tie in.
I'm watching ep2 of Revolution and the cartoony evil bad guy is ridiculous.
Quote from: One Horse Town;583836Vikings by the BBC is pretty good. Only 3 parts, mind. Presented by the same guy who does Coast (which is also very interesting if you haven't sought it out already).
Yes, Vikings has been excellent.
Quote from: Ghost Whistler;585937I'm watching ep2 of Revolution and the cartoony evil bad guy is ridiculous.
The show is definitely a bit over the top. The acting is generally good, though. It's just amazing how stupid that girl is, and how many problems she's causing (though this is standard fare for TV, unfortunately).
It's too oppressive: in the post electricity world everyone is a rotten child punching scumbag who will steal your food. The Militia, as somehow founded by what would appear a mere seargant with his initial tattooed onto his forearm (and the forearms of his secret agents!) and are torturing monsters and psychos. Meanwhile Miles is a fucking ninja!
Interesting premise, but I'm unconvinced. I can see the show having a lot of filler.
Quote from: danbuter;586108The show is definitely a bit over the top. The acting is generally good, though. It's just amazing how stupid that girl is, and how many problems she's causing (though this is standard fare for TV, unfortunately).
I was talking with my wife yesterday about that show and I said, "You know what the girl really needs? A therapist. Think about it. So far she's seen her mom shoot someone in the back, had to deal with the grief of not only not being there like she was supposed to when her father died, but let her brother who she was supposed to be watching get captured. And then, for most likely the first time, had to kill two people. That has 'therapy' written all over it."
I think anyone who'd managed to survive till the start of the show probably needs therapy. If you look around, out of the billions of people who existed only 15? years earlier, only small groups are left. That's what I find hard to believe. How could this girl still be alive and not had to deal with anything before now?
Quote from: danbuter;586278I think anyone who'd managed to survive till the start of the show probably needs therapy. If you look around, out of the billions of people who existed only 15? years earlier, only small groups are left. That's what I find hard to believe. How could this girl still be alive and not had to deal with anything before now?
Yeah, I imagine for a "realistic" version, over that past 15 years the majority of the population died from starvation and infection due to no access to antibiotics. You figure she would have had to seen plenty of people fall to those two things.
Quote from: Sacrosanct;586312Yeah, I imagine for a "realistic" version, over that past 15 years the majority of the population died from starvation and infection due to no access to antibiotics. You figure she would have had to seen plenty of people fall to those two things.
Given the amount of empty space shown in that show combined with how difficult it is to grow enough food using pre-modern agriculture, I would estimate that around 90% the people would have died off. The 1850 census put the US population at around 23 million, which doubled to 50 million in 1880. So I'd expect something in that range, down from around 312 million now.
I thought that Last Resort (http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/11/watch-the-full-last-resort-pilot) was better than expected and worth watching. You can still watch the full pilot (at least from the US) here (http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/11/watch-the-full-last-resort-pilot). The plot is that a nuclear missile sub given questionable orders to fire nuclear missiles at Pakistan goes rogue. This could be a great series but also has serious potential to go off the rails given the conspiracy theory-like story elements.
Quote from: danbuter;586278I think anyone who'd managed to survive till the start of the show probably needs therapy. If you look around, out of the billions of people who existed only 15? years earlier, only small groups are left. That's what I find hard to believe. How could this girl still be alive and not had to deal with anything before now?
This is why Call of Cthulhu is the best RPG for a post-apocalyptic game. I used it for a zombie apocalypse scenario, but it might be worth using it (or at least the SAN subsystem) for any sort of gritty early PA game.
Just watched ep1 of the new series of the Big Bang Theory.
Funny, but Howard's mother is getting tedious now.
Raj's creeping (and creepy) homo-but-not-sexuality is uncomortable.
Sheldon is now just an asshole, although the line about the Kraken was funny.
I'm sure Penny marries Lenny in the end and we move on....
Quote from: danbuter;586108The show is definitely a bit over the top. The acting is generally good, though. It's just amazing how stupid that girl is, and how many problems she's causing (though this is standard fare for TV, unfortunately).
Quite honeslty her and her brother are asshats. I couldn't help thinking the best thing would have been for Daddy to go with badass black cowboy militia dude and just give Monroe the mcguffin. Then there would be POWER and stupid children don't need to be stupid and get everyone shot.
I like the way the town doctor woman decided it would be ok to just leave all the gunshot victims to die a painful death when they needed her the most.
Ok, I get that Monroe getting the secret of electricity would be a bad thing. But surely that would be better than noone having it? He would still need a powerbase of people which means having to share his new toy. Either that or he's so comically evil that the whole thing falls down.
I watched the season 3 premiere of Blue Bloods last night. It was pretty good. Michael Madsen was the bad guy (and I actually felt bad for him). It's still my favorite cop show.
Last night was the season 2 premiere of Once Upon a Time. It was pretty good. I hope the show can maintain it's quality over this season.
A new series of old favourite Red Dwarf starts on Thursday on obscure channel Dave. Hopefully it's not awful.
Just saw Fringe season 5 episode 1 last night. Didn't really like it. Spoilers ahoy.
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Of course, every mystery unveiled carries with it the risk of disappointment, and I much preferred the Observers when they were Men In Black straight out of urban legend rather than, well, a whole race of Kang The Conquerors.
Also the writing for Walter Bishop is very inconsistent; I loved it that in "Letters of Transit", when Forster implants back the frozen brain tissue (removed by William Bell at Walter's behest, many, many moons ago), John Noble stopped playing silly old Walter and went into ruthless genius (a la Walternate) mode. Now he's obstinate, calculating Walter one moment, and silly Walter the next.
On the science front, it's as full of holes as usual, but... I don't know about everyone else, but the less entertaining a movie or series gets, the more grating the handwavium gets. Is it just me, or is this a thing?
Dunno if Pundit is interested in this kind of stuff, but i caught a new show on the BBC tonight - Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip - The Emotional History of Britain.
It was the first in a series of 3 and was very interesting if you're a history/literature buff (and can ignore Hislop's smugness).
Couple of shows I really like even if they're "light" are Castle and Rizzoli and Isles. Burn Notice and Leverage are fun in predictable ways also.
I've given up on Revolution after the third episode, both for the lousy acting and holey plots, but more importantly because I feel like I'm watching a Lifetime original series, full of "Strong Independent Women" who are always right no matter how irrational they are, and all the men are ineffectual buffoons at best, and the only competent ones are the villains.
Walking Dead starts tonight, that's what I'm looking forward to most. Once Upon a Time started a couple of weeks ago, but I haven't had the chance to watch the episodes I DVR'd. I'm curious to see how they handle it now that the entire town is aware of the show's big secret.
One that I was surprised to find I enjoyed was Beauty and the Beast, the remake of the old 80s series with Linda Hamilton and Ron Pearlman. This time, the beast is not some mysterious lion-man, but a military experiment gone wrong. It definitely has that young pretty person angst the CW likes, but it looks like it could be fun in a mindless sort of way.
Tried Last Resort, didn't care for it. Neither the plot nor the characters hold up for me, and I don't get the special forces dude who spends all his time in the bar.
Revenge is kind of a guilty pleasure of mine, but if you haven't been watching it you might have a a hard time following it.
Quote from: The Butcher;588587Just saw Fringe season 5 episode 1 last night. Didn't really like it.
I think with this being the final season they have just decided to take all the wackiness and craziness they can think of and roll with it, have some fun with it.
I too am giving up on Revolution. I was on the fence a couple days ago anyway, but now after reading that cracked.com article where they compare it against Star Wars (and how the plots match almost perfectly), I think I'm done. As the writer says, I would not be surprised at all to see Captain Nevil throw Monroe down a well in order to save what's her face (see, I can't even recall the main character's name).
Quote from: One Horse Town;588768Dunno if Pundit is interested in this kind of stuff, but i caught a new show on the BBC tonight - Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip - The Emotional History of Britain.
It was the first in a series of 3 and was very interesting if you're a history/literature buff (and can ignore Hislop's smugness).
There's History of the World (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xnr43) too, which is quite light (And has too much Andrew Marr), but picks up some interesting lesser-known historical stories to dramatise. Worth an hour of time to see the first episode, at least.
Quote from: Ladybird;592610There's History of the World (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xnr43) too, which is quite light (And has too much Andrew Marr), but picks up some interesting lesser-known historical stories to dramatise. Worth an hour of time to see the first episode, at least.
I'm not very impressed with it.
It's basically a tv version of History for Dummies.
Quote from: One Horse Town;592613It's basically a tv version of History for Dummies.
I think you've absolutely nailed it.