The Last TV Series You Watched

[AvatarDK]

The first 14-15 episodes are still excellent I think. Rewatched the whole mess a year ago or so I think. It has its flaws of course but I pretty much think it is a series in a league of its own and comparing it or putting it in a basket called "20th century tv dramas" is unfair I think.

[last.caress]

Yes, well each to their own of course but I think it looks dated now. Everything about it felt in front of the game a quarter of a century ago and the concepts are still absolutely outstanding for a network TV show but the execution simply isn't comparable with present TV standards, IMO.

comparing it or putting it in a basket called "20th century tv dramas" is unfair I think

No, it's not unfair to call it a 20th century TV drama; it IS a 20th century TV drama. You may of course suggest that it's many other things besides and I'd likely agree with many of those other things - I have been a fan since it first aired - but it's a matter of fact that Twin Peaks (the first two seasons) is a 20th century TV drama. In addition, it's my opinion that most of those - Twin Peaks among them - have dated quite badly in their presentation, probably I suppose because of the greater budgets and attention lavished on TV dramas since, say, The Sopranos or maybe Oz. IMO.

Season three is something totally different. Not the same series at all.

I would certainly imagine so; I'm enormously looking forward to something as forward thinking as Twin Peaks getting the treatment afforded to the best TV dramas of today. I'm not sure I can think of a show more deserving of a televisual revisit/update.

A good ideia for a holiday watch, not Game of Thrones that's for sure,

Again, each to their own but personally I think Game of Thrones is f*cking excellent; maybe the greatest TV show ever, with the possible exception of Breaking Bad. Of course, as good as those shows are, maybe both will look fairly quaint by the standards against which TV shows are measured 27 years hence. Who knows?

[El_Topo]

Don't got me wrong I like game of thrones, finnaly the inner geek in me came out of the closet , I was just giving an exemple of something totally contrary to Twin Peaks, maybe not the best one.
Still not the greatest TV show ever for me of course, can't beat those classic British TV series, like Danger UXB, The Jewel in the Crown or Brideshead Revisited. but for 8 million by episode you're probably right

[last.caress]

I was just giving an exemple of something totally contrary to Twin Peaks

Ha, EVERYTHING is totally contrary to Twin Peaks. Except for maybe the movies of David Lynch.

[Admin]

Done with Bloodline and done with American Odyssee. Still stuck in latest seasons of Fargo and House of Cards. Will have a peek into Berlin Station, and then I also need to get back into The Affair, where I'm somewhere close to the end of season one All these TV shows... they keep you from watching movies. Damn them.

[El_Topo]

it's a all new world, the online streaming tv to smartphone series

[Lone_Gringo]

" AMERICAN GODS"

I was curious about this series, so last night i watched two episodes.

Well, from what i saw so far, it's not bad, but there's a lot of weird shit going on and somewhat confusing but it's well shot with strange images with blood, violence and sex . Six more episodes to go...soon.

[kit_saginaw]

Blue Light... Lavish production. Probably too lavish for the budget. Tense, realistic, but out-of-sync with historical events, Robert Goulet is Hitler's top Gestapo-troubleshooter, masquerading as a playboy-journalist. But he's really an American intelligence-agent; the last living member of the Blue Light 18 unit..

Running at 26-minutes, the 'movie-like' plots and top Euro acting-talent couldn't sustain American viewers, who didn't seem to welcome tuning-in to the Gestapo's inner-circle every week. Even though the side-plots featured a secret British assassination-team's attempts to kill Goulet. The series has aged beautifully though. Easily watchable today. Filmed in Munich and Bavaria... from 1966. 8-out-of-10. .

[last.caress]

" AMERICAN GODS"

I want to give this a look myself. Not sure what to make of it just yet. Feels to me as though it premiered to huge fanfare which petered out as the show went on. On the other hand, it appears to have been very well reviewed.

We've got most of the long second season of old Twin Peaks to do before we run straight into the new Twin Peaks, then we're probably going to do season two of Preacher. After that, I reckon we'll give American Gods a try. I'll be interested to hear your further thoughts on it as you go through the season, LG.

[Lone_Gringo]

Had enough of "American Gods" , after watching the third episode i've decided that it's not for me. The pacing and the weirdness got even more awkward, especially with one scene where a Muslim gay salesman gets banged by a cab driver who happens to be a gay genie. F this!

[scherpschutter]

ØYEVITNE

Øyevitne (meaning: Eyewitness) is a Norwegian thriller-drama in 6 parts about two small-town teenage boys who witness a massacre. A man was brought to the woods by a group of bikers, apparently to be executed, but he managed to disarm one of them and instead of being executed, he executed his executioners. The investigation is carried out by the foster mom of one of the two boys, but the boys are lovers in a community where homosexuality is not really accepted: they want to keep their relationship a secret and therefore decide not to tell anything to anybody ...

This is one of the better Nordic thrillers I've seen in the recent past, but I do have some reservations. We get to see the face of the killer in the opening minutes, but only find out much later who he is and what the reasons for his planned execution were. It's only after this revelation that the story really takes off. The first two or three episodes are rather convoluted, with too many characters and subplots. Once the cards are on the table the series had me hooked, but the finale is again a bit of a letdown. We seem to heading for a smashing climax, but all of a sudden it's all over. In other words: Øyevitne is good ànd bad. A mixed bag.

Note: Øyevitne was remade for US Network as Eyewitness; both the original Norwegian series and the remake are available on DVD. Øyevitne is also available on You Tube (original version, English subtitles)

[last.caress]

the weirdness got even more awkward, especially with one scene where a Muslim gay salesman gets banged by a cab driver who happens to be a gay genie.

Sounds terrific!

[last.caress]

Midway through season two of "old" Twin Peaks and it's becoming tougher going. Will I ever watch this old season right through ever again? Maybe, but I doubt it.

Also midway through the new season of Game of Thrones, and it's going through the gears now. Sad to think that there are only nine episodes of this show remaining. Some John Ford-esque scenes this week, which was a new aesthetic for the show.