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What TV SHOWS are you watching?
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A Game of Thrones (via torrents)
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The Defenders
Reliable Quality:
NCIS
Waiting for the New Season:
True Blood
Sons of Anarchy
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iguanaDitty wrote:
hotseatgames wrote: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a really cool BBC show about two magic users in the 1800's. I've never seen a more gorgeous show with the exception of Downton Abbey, and this show is more engaging than that one.
Ooh I've been looking forward to this one. Tried to read the book ages ago and kinda bogged down in the unrelenting period drama-ness of it, which I find slightly more palatable in video form.
Total opposite for me on the book, I really enjoyed it. The unrelenting footnotes were a feature for me, not a distraction.
I'll definitely have to check this out, I had no idea it existed until this thread.
(but I think your experience with the book is more typical. Most of my friends abandoned it quite quickly.)
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Not Sure wrote:
iguanaDitty wrote:
hotseatgames wrote: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a really cool BBC show about two magic users in the 1800's. I've never seen a more gorgeous show with the exception of Downton Abbey, and this show is more engaging than that one.
Ooh I've been looking forward to this one. Tried to read the book ages ago and kinda bogged down in the unrelenting period drama-ness of it, which I find slightly more palatable in video form.
Total opposite for me on the book, I really enjoyed it. The unrelenting footnotes were a feature for me, not a distraction.
I'll definitely have to check this out, I had no idea it existed until this thread.
(but I think your experience with the book is more typical. Most of my friends abandoned it quite quickly.)
It is one of my favourite books but I understand that a lot of people just don't get it. I didn't know about the series either so it will be watched very soon.
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Mad Dog wrote: I watched the first episode of Jonathan Strange. Never read the book. Its a slow burn, which I like. I don't need constant stimuli to enjoy a good story. I like that Norrell spends most of his time studying books. Not sure what to think of Strange yet. The Raven King herald was cool. I will definitely see where this goes.
woop, you've got some character building ahead of you....
Maybe I can get my wife to watch this. She was a serious Downton Abbey watcher (I never got into it), but she and I don't usually agree on shows.
I think Silicon Valley is goddamn hilarious, the best thing since Community was good. She hated it.
At least we agree on Orange is the New Black, so we're watching Season 3 now.
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Not Sure wrote:
iguanaDitty wrote:
hotseatgames wrote: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a really cool BBC show about two magic users in the 1800's. I've never seen a more gorgeous show with the exception of Downton Abbey, and this show is more engaging than that one.
Ooh I've been looking forward to this one. Tried to read the book ages ago and kinda bogged down in the unrelenting period drama-ness of it, which I find slightly more palatable in video form.
Total opposite for me on the book, I really enjoyed it. The unrelenting footnotes were a feature for me, not a distraction.
I'll definitely have to check this out, I had no idea it existed until this thread.
(but I think your experience with the book is more typical. Most of my friends abandoned it quite quickly.)
I think I liked the footnotes more than the main story for the bits I read, actually. It just took so long to get anywhere; I tend to have patience but either I didn't when I read it or I ran out.
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Homeland was absolutely brilliant.
Not interested in GoT which just seems to me to be torture porn in a different suit. Allows people to watch it and talk about it without getting too embarrassed over the cooler. Can't get past Episode 1 Season 1 so I'm done with it, I think.
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