What TV SHOWS are you watching?

metalface13 wrote:
I finished watching The Night Manager last week. Great miniseries. Tom Hiddlestone and Hugh Laurie are great as ever. Olivia Colman is also really great in it, didn't even make me think about her role in Peep Show for a minute. Well, maybe for a second when I thought about how she didn't make me think about her character in Peep Show.

The Night Manager was brilliant. Completely agree about Hiddleston and Laurie. No clue about Peep Show as I've never seen it. Every actor was at their best for that show. The suspense was great. John Le Carre is Genius at it. Highly recommend Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy for great spy suspense but slow burning.

GoT

Also, as a counterpoint to the Battle of the Bastards...

Black Barney wrote: My two favourite TV shows are Game of Thrones and ST: Next Generation. i don't see anyway to mash those up. I don't think there is a better example than Westeros for how the Prime Directive needs to be respected. Picard looks at King's Landing....looks North of the Wall.... yeah....we're not getting in the middle of this and orders the ship to leave orbit as Riker is super pissed that he didn't get to sleep with the Mother of Dragons.

And we know for damn sure that Riker wouldn't be able to sit on the Iron Throne.

i just binged the first season of Angie Tribeca. My girls, who have never seen Airplane, or Naked Gun, thought it was the most amazing original thing ever.....kids these days.

Like most of these spoof-vehicles it;s hit or miss - It hit more than it missed with me -

I just finished the first season of Peaky Blinders, whose name probably cost it 50 percent of its potential viewership. Wonderful gang movie that is really about post WWI PTSD, sort of. I started to watch the second season, but it's starting to feel like, as one of you put it, "Terrible people doing things to terrible people" so I may stop here, and just read the episode summaries, although I do want to see Inspector Campbell get his just desserts. Sometimes the sex, old school f-bombs and violence feel like they've been sprinkled on as an afterthought.

I've completed half of season 3 of Peaky Blinders. I enjoy the show and think it's well done, with a unique setting. Sometimes it's a challenge to understand what these pikeys are saying.

hotseatgames wrote: I've completed half of season 3 of Peaky Blinders. I enjoy the show and think it's well done, with a unique setting. Sometimes it's a challenge to understand what these pikeys are saying.

I actually use the close captioning, in part because of the historical accent, and because guns, q-tips and infections have left me with tinnitus in one ear.

I am binging on Agent Carter this week. Overall, I am enjoying the show, even though it was probably pitched as a cross between Mad Men and Agents of SHIELD or something like that. Maybe like Mad Men if Peggy got to kick some dude's ass every week.

Though I've never been a big fan of Post-WWII America, this show sells the era well. Period music, period fashion, all wonderfully glamorous and shadowy. Even the star has those qualities, plus actual good looks according to period standards. I think the choice to make her British (going back to the first MCU Captain America movie, I assume) is unfortunate since they have her teaming up with Edwin Jarvis every episode. That gives us two main characters with British accents in NYC, whereas the comic book version of Peggy Carter was actually from Virginia. I was hoping for more Marvel easter eggs, but so far nothing except repeated references to Cap, Howard Stark (Iron Man's rich daddy), Jarvis, and the Roxxon Corporation.

Ah well, the show is good anyway, like an unusually exciting and violent noir detective thing. There is also some decent social commentary on the time period, and some humor. One recurring gag is that Peggy keeps encountering radios tuned into a serial adventure program about her MIA boyfriend Captain America, punched up cliches and cheesy sound voice acting.

"See University Challenge last night?"

Going a second round with Detectorists. This time it's sorta on in the background while I mini hobby. Perfect combo and I see it being in regular rotation during these periods from here on. Likely going to buy the set. It'll complete a trinity of BBC favorites joining Robin of Sherwood and Father Ted (while bumping The Young Ones).

Shellhead wrote: I am binging on Agent Carter this week. Overall, I am enjoying the show, even though it was probably pitched as a cross between Mad Men and Agents of SHIELD or something like that. Maybe like Mad Men if Peggy got to kick some dude's ass every week.

Though I've never been a big fan of Post-WWII America, this show sells the era well. Period music, period fashion, all wonderfully glamorous and shadowy. Even the star has those qualities, plus actual good looks according to period standards. I think the choice to make her British (going back to the first MCU Captain America movie, I assume) is unfortunate since they have her teaming up with Edwin Jarvis every episode. That gives us two main characters with British accents in NYC, whereas the comic book version of Peggy Carter was actually from Virginia. I was hoping for more Marvel easter eggs, but so far nothing except repeated references to Cap, Howard Stark (Iron Man's rich daddy), Jarvis, and the Roxxon Corporation.

Ah well, the show is good anyway, like an unusually exciting and violent noir detective thing. There is also some decent social commentary on the time period, and some humor. One recurring gag is that Peggy keeps encountering radios tuned into a serial adventure program about her MIA boyfriend Captain America, punched up cliches and cheesy sound voice acting.

I really liked the show and was sad to see it not get renewed after Season 2. Both James D'Arcy ( who played Crowes second in command in MASTER AND COMMANDER ) and Haley Atwell were great when paired up .

Finished Silicon Valley yesterday. This season was the least funny so far; they spent far too much time being "dramatic" and working on the story, which frankly isn't as entertaining as them just goofing on each other.

Mr. White wrote: "See University Challenge last night?"

Going a second round with Detectorists. This time it's sorta on in the background while I mini hobby. Perfect combo and I see it being in regular rotation during these periods from here on. Likely going to buy the set. It'll complete a trinity of BBC favorites joining Robin of Sherwood and Father Ted (while bumping The Young Ones).

I almost got it.

In the interests of beardy pedantry I'll point out that RoS was ITV and FT was Channel 4.

JEM wrote:

Mr. White wrote: "See University Challenge last night?"

Going a second round with Detectorists. This time it's sorta on in the background while I mini hobby. Perfect combo and I see it being in regular rotation during these periods from here on. Likely going to buy the set. It'll complete a trinity of BBC favorites joining Robin of Sherwood and Father Ted (while bumping The Young Ones).

I almost got it.

In the interests of beardy pedantry I'll point out that RoS was ITV and FT was Channel 4.

Ha! Didn't know that. Guess there's no trinity. Just some British shows I enjoy...
(wait, they are all British, no?)

Best season of Game of Thrones. Season finale had many great moments, all earned and powerful.

Mr. White wrote:
Ha! Didn't know that. Guess there's no trinity. Just some British shows I enjoy...
(wait, they are all British, no?)

It might be fairer to say Father Ted is an Irish show, though it was produced by a British company for a British channel. I started watching The Detectorists. I really like the gentle comedy and It's made me nostalgic for Little England, countryside not full of stuff that can bite and/or kill you, etc. I could watch Toby Jones in anything, I think.