Just finished season four of BOARDWALK EMPIRE, fantastic.
There are so many fantastic TV-shows running these last years. They are too many to mention but the last ones Iāve seen is Vikings season 2, really love that one. Sherlock the third season, really great and Californicaton season two, I love that sex humour. Now I started enjoying True detective season one. A little bit late maybe, but there are more movies and TV-shows to watch than there is timeā¦
Iām a bit behind on Boardwalk Empire. Only just started Season 3. Still holding my interest as before.
I also really enjoyed the first season of Black Sails which I just finished. Wasnāt sure to begin with but it got better and better with every episode I think. Looking forward to season 2 now which I think is due out in January.
[quote=āPhil H, post:263, topic:1822ā]Iām a bit behind on Boardwalk Empire. Only just started Season 3. Still holding my interest as before.[/quote]Season 3 has the best villain so far, Gyp Rosetti. Bobby Cannavale is fantastic in the role.
Finished season 4 of Hell on Wheels. The reason why i still follow the series, is how intriguing the main characters still are.
Black Sails Season 2 Premieres this coming Saturday. My hope is that itāll have more sea/swordplay action and less landlocked.
Currently rewatching :
[size=12pt]MASADA[/size], the mini-series from the 80ās starring Peter OāToole, Peter Strauss, Anthony Quayle and Barbara Carrera
Donāt know if anyone else here is following it, but Better Call Saul has been very good so far, and was particularly outstanding this week.
Anyone seen Banshee?
Itās baaaadasss! One of the best modern series Iāve seen.
Iāve just finished watching Gamorra, good Italian crime drama, looking forward to watching the second series when it comes out.
Also just watched the second series of Peaky Blinders which was better than the first.
Just started watching Homeland, five episodes into the first season, enjoying it so far.
Weāve only just started Homeland here at casa.caress as well. Better late than never I guess. Only watched the first episode so far but it was good stuff.
Started watching Ray Donovan (TV Series) with Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight. Iām only four episodes in, but so far itās pretty good.
[quote=āLone Gringo, post:272, topic:1822ā]Started watching Ray Donovan (TV Series) with Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight. Iām only four episodes in, but so far itās pretty good.[/quote]I really liked it, loved Voight as his father.
Series wise Iāve recently watched THE KNICK, a fantastic drama set in 1900 about the medical profession starring Clive Owen, all episodes were directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Iām late starting it but Iām currently watching SONS OF ANARCHY, watched the first two seasons so far.
Just viewed the first episode of Ash Vs Evil Dead directed by Sam Rami.
Bruce Campbell returns aswell to his famous role, and apart from a bit of extra weight the mans style and humour has not changed. This has always been an essential element of the Evil Dead films, and it still works. Good fun and looking forward to the next installment.
In no particular order:
Twin Peaks
Frasier
Iām Alan Partridge
Bottom
Planet of the Apes
Loganās Run
Quantum Leap
South Park
Porridge
Two Ronnies
The Young Ones
The High Chaparral
Goodnight Sweetheart
Steptoe and Son
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Bob and Margaret
3rd Rock From the Sun
Fawlty Towers
Only Fools and Horses
On the Buses
Everybody Loves Raymond
Friends (especially the first four seasons)
Home Improvement
Miniseries:
Lonesome Dove
Comanche Moon
V: Original miniseries & Final Battle
One Summer
Iāve just started watching Love Thy Neighbour. Enjoying it so far, so weāll see if it makes the list.
After watching Narcos, Ray Donovan and Fargo, pretty much anything else is a big letdown. A show needs to hook me right away, which the aforementioned nailed splendidly, or Iāll turn it off within 30 minutes and will never watch it again. Of course I also watch sitcoms and cartoons, but thatās a different way of viewing.
Weāre a couple of seasons into Battlestar Galactica (2004) at the moment, itās good stuff. We recently finished the single season of Daredevil on Netflix, that was very good too, quite a bit darker than I thought it was going to be. Weāve just started on Jessica Jones as well; seems rather adult for a show thatās supposed to sit inside the āMarvel Cinematic Universeā, but looks promising.
For me , it was UFO, loved Space 1999 with Martin Landau, Wild Wild West because of Ross Martin as Artimus Gordon
I love the Daredevil and Jessica Jones series, I wish they would hurry up with season 2 of DD
The Walking Dead - This show is at a real crossroads with me now, I hope I havenāt wasted my time with it. I hate the āmid-season breakā format, it forces ābigā events into certain episodes. And the show which wasnāt afraid to off its principal characters has now become the show which steadfastly WONāT off any of its principal characters. Itās more like the original Star Trek in that regard now. How many times does Glenn need to nearly-but-not-quite die? And I donāt give a sh*t about Alexandria, or anybody from Alexandria. I still donāt think I even properly know any of the Alexandria characters. Will this much-overhyped Negan business pick things up? It had better do.
Fear the Walking Dead - Watched the first season, havenāt caught up with the second season yet, but I wasnāt especially taken with what Iād seen so far. Again, didnāt really care for any of the characters. Well, maybe Kim Dickensā character (donāt know the characterās name), but only because sheās Joanie from Deadwood. Iāll definitely be giving season two a try though, soon. The Walking Dead has hit a bit of a slump for me at the moment but it has been a cracking show and it deserves a little more time, as does its spin-off. I want to like both of them.
DareDevil - Enjoyed season two more than season one, although it definitely became bit more bogged down as focus shifted toward The Hand and away from Frank Castle, played fantastically btw by former The Walking Dead star Jon Bernthal. Fourth actor Iāve seen now playing The Punisher, and by far the best.
Jessica Jones - Liked this quite a bit more than I thought I would, liking this whole āHellās Kitchenā televisual area of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general and looking forward to the Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Punisher and Defenders series still to come. As with DareDevil though, Jessica Jones had a few āpaddingā episodes in there; both shows could probably have done with having 10 episodes per season instead of 13.
Homeland - Last time I mentioned Homeland Iād only seen one episode. Iāve since seen the first four seasons. I loved the first two, the third got a bit bogged down (hated any of the stuff with Brodyās wife and kid) but it served as a good bit of closure to that whole arc. However, I really didnāt take to the āall newā season four at all, and that was a shame since the general consensus appears to be that season four was seen as a big fat return to form. As a result, Iāve swerved season five so far. Iāll get to it at some point though, no doubt.
Better Call Saul - When the action shifts to the Mike Ehrmantraut arc, BCS really bares its teeth and reminds us itās a spin-off of the greatest show ever made. But, as much as I love Bob Odenkirk and the character of Jimmy/Saul, I donāt think I give much of a stuff about the legal representative shenanigans prevalent in the show, which is kind-of fundamental really since the showās about a lawyer. I donāt care about HHM, or Davis & Main, and I canāt stand Kim Wexler. I like Mike McKean as Chuck, though, and I believe things will really pick up in the next season with the arrival of Gus Fring, which should start to pull Mike and Jimmy/Saulās arcs together.
Game of Thrones - Following its weakest season to date, GoT is back with real venom this year, imo. A lot of the logistics still make not a lick of sense if you look at the maps long enough but this is undoubtedly for me the best thing on the television by a country mile. Great to see Sandor āThe Houndā Clegane back in the mix, and this Sundayās episode has the potential to be one of the best of the entire series.
Battlestar Galactica - Finally finished this bad boy having started it almost seven years after it ended,but Iām really glad I did it at last, it was a terrific show. Frack me!
Luther - Blasted through this show in its entirety, and I have to say I didnāt mind it as much as I thought I would (this was more of a mrs.caress pick). Idris Elba is good in pretty much anything.
Fargo - I finished season one but for reasons I canāt quite grasp, I found it a real slog, and I shouldnāt have done. All the ingredients are in place with this show for it to really resonate with me, but I struggled to become truly invested. As a result, Iāve dragged my feet in taking on season two, although again Iām led to understand itās a belter. Iāll definitely take it on at some stage, probably sooner than later too.
Iāve started on The Flash and Gotham but Iāve no real love for either as yet and, for now, theyāve gone on the āIncompleteā pile along with ***Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.***. I havenāt abandoned them altogether - yet - but Iām not persisting with them right now, either.
Tried Gracepoint - the long-cancelled US version of Broadchurch - but I gave up after two episodes. Iāve given up on Broadchurch too, that last series was absolutely laughable.
I canāt even be bothered to try season two of True Detective, Iāve heard pretty much naught but bad things about it, it doesnāt intrigue me at all.
Iām two episodes into the first season of Wayward Pines and, so far, itās fantastic. Matt Dillon (does he age, ever?), Melissa Leo, Terrence Howard, Juliette Lewis (briefly), Toby Jones, Carla Guginoā¦ everyone is doing the business here. I understand though that ratings are down considerably at the moment (Wayward Pines is currently airing its second season) so Iām hoping I donāt become invested just in time for it to get cancelled.
Another two new shows Iāve been looking at are Outcast, the new one from The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, and Preacher, the comic book adaptation brought to us by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg of all people. Both look very good; Preacher in particular looks every inch a modern classic in the making.