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Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Have we had Dexter Yet?

Forensics expert working for police, also a serial killer.

mid way into its second season. fucking awesome.

Really? I remember the adverts on SkyOne (before Virgin decided to be cuntish), looked interesting but I couldn't see how they'd keep interest in what's essentially a vigilante (he kills killers who the Plod can't nick)

DeadWood

OMFG this is fucking awesome! Just finished the first season and i can safely say it's one of the best dramas on tv.

It's a western set in the small town of Deadwood in the 1870's (based on a real town of the same name). The show follows its evolution from a small prospecters camp to a regular town. A lot of the characters are also based on real life people like Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Wyatt Earp.

Some of the dialogue is almost Shakespearean so it can be a bit hard to follow what's going on at times. But this doesn't seem to matter as the characters and acting is so good. And it's got lots of swearing.

Charlie Brooker reviews it just over half way through this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkgsUHxlL6Y
some of which i copied for my mini review

yeah, deadwood is good. Ian McShane ... who'd a thought?

yeah it's quite wierd seeing Lovejoy call people cunting cocksuckers

This thread needs more suggestions.

Fucking WGA strike.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:This thread needs more suggestions.

Fucking WGA strike.

seriously, I'm now enduring a whole year of no BSG*.


*Razor doesn't count, it was meh.

deject wrote:Razor doesn't count, it was meh.

I avoided Season 3 of BSG for quite a long time because of several bad reviews I read. Turns out they were wrong - I thought it was pretty darn good.

Well after Exodus it was only mediocre-to-good, but the Finale just fucking blew my mind and got me all excited for Season 4, but now I have to wait like 3 more months.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Have we had Dexter Yet?

Forensics expert working for police, also a serial killer.

mid way into its second season. fucking awesome.

I totally agree with Berk

Can't wait until Season 3 starts as I could care less about anything else on TV here in the states. Although, I give S1 a A+ but S2 a A-. I just hope it doesn't succumb to mediocracy too soon...usually takes about 5 seasons to do that...

deject wrote:Well after Exodus it was only mediocre-to-good, but the Finale just fucking blew my mind and got me all excited for Season 4, but now I have to wait like 3 more months.

Don't talk about it, I got to 3 or 4 before end of Series 3, and I left the dvd's 130 miles away at home, I think a trip home before series 4 starts (and is therefore available on the internets) is needed.

Trip home? Wuh, what are people like parcel horse for?

Hehulk wrote:Trip home? Wuh, what are people like parcel horse for?

Parcelfarce? they're for ruining expensive stuff, then making you spend 3 months trying to get your money back.

Some oldies an one or 2 new ones

Farscape

Cracking scifi about a somewhat annoying american test pilot shot through a wormhole and ending up with a band of complete misfits. Sounds formulaic but isn't. Sadly got canned suddenly at the end of S5 by those whores at SCIFI channel, something to do with it costing 1M per episode to make, which explains why the last 4 episodes make no sense whatsoever. Got ressurected thanks to DVD sales and a miniseries (peacekeeper wars) was released to better tie up the plot arc. The completion of teh whole arc was a great loss to television imo although possibly not as big a loss as another mentionable (see below). I have seen all of this but bought the box set for myself my wife for christmas and so am just about to start watching it from the beginning again.

Buffy the vampire slayer

My mate once spent 2 hours in the pub talking with a new work colleague about their mutual love of all things scifi and (decent) fantasy before one of them broached the subject of "errrm, so do you like Buffy then?" Another boxed set that I "bought for the wife" worth every minute of the 4 months it took us to get through the whole thing. Joss Whedon for President

Angel

Buffy spinoff about her boyfriend the friendly vampire. Not as original as buffy but still good

Firefly

more cracking scifi but rather than cutting this one down in its prime, SCIFI Channel performed a late abortion and cut it off at 9 episodes, with only 6 having aired. cunts. Take BtVS mix in some Farscape adding a pinch of Deadwood and you have the glory that could almost have been Firefly. Again, DVD sales revived interest and the movie Serenity was released in 2005. I believe that Serenity tries to describe the whole plot arc planned for the original TV show, but in a couple of hours. As such, it doesn't stand on its own but needs to be viewed with the surviving episodes to aid characterisations. Joss whedon for god.

Morse

Essential watching for anyone who's ever spent time in Oxford and frankly for anyone who hasn't either. John Thaw is the acerbic classically trained and cultured Chief Inspector Morse with Kevin Whatley as his long suffering Sergeant Lewis. How Lewis managed to support a family while buying all those beers (food fro teh brain, Lewis) for Morse, I will never know. Superb. For any of you across the pond; watch this, that's what we're all like. Honestly.

House M.D.

House (Hugh Lawrie, aka Stupid Prince George) is a diagnostics specialist at some American hospital. Part hospital drama, part detective show, I love this for the comic dark side of Hugh.

Lost

I'm hooked on this. Plane crashes on a tropical island. Several (about 40) passengers make a very unlikely survival. Each character has his own past and secrets, some clearly relevant to the island itself, some less so (or as yet unclarified, I've only seen S1). The biggest secret of all is the island itself, which makes some very odd and threating noises indeed, especially at night. Best summed up by the radio signal the survivors manage to pick up of a French woman repeating the phrase "they came and killed us all" over and over for 16 years.

Heroes

Plenty of talk about this elsewhere on the forums. This is brilliant. Watch it. Hiro for president (now Joss Whedon is God)

Thanks for reminding me about buffy bomber, I must watch that again.

As far as older stuff goes.

Red Dwarf

Seven and a Half serieses of fucking awesome, half a series of good enough.

You've all seen it, but you should watch it again. so there.

I usually end up watching the whole lot and all extras etc. twice a year.

I finished up watching all 3 series of Weeds recently. American Drama about a late 30s-early 40s mom who down on her luck turns to drug dealing to get by.

Most episodes ended with a cliffhanger, which narf was something I enjoyed as it kept me wanting more.

aah Buffy, everyone's secret vice. When it was first on I used to lie to my parents about why I watched. Rather than say it was for the gripping storytelling, superb characters and wonderfully written plots, I said that I was just perving on the sexy girls*.




*Which of course isn't true in the slightest. No sir, honest.**



**A young Buffy, still with a bit of puppy fat, still makes me quiver at the knees (and other places).

Did anyone mention the sarah connor chronicles anywhere? I randomly decided to watch the pilot, was good, has big bangs, summer glau's boobies (although you don't really see, but I can hope) and was very entertaining. Can only seem to find one episode though, did it fail? Or is it being affected by this bloody writers strike?

hmm...Well, 1st episode premieres this Sunday here in the states. Looks like they are splitting it two days...Sunday/Monday.