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Toddy

Am up to the last episode of season 1 of The Wire and it's so fu*ken good. I can't believe it's taken me this long to watch it. Already got season 2 on DVD ready to go. It's cheap as to buy. $21 from most places. 
 
Did it actually play on TV in NZ?

Nepia

[quote name='Toddy' timestamp='1328904917' post='269718'] 
Am up to the last episode of season 1 of The Wire and it's so fu*ken good. I can't believe it's taken me this long to watch it. Already got season 2 on DVD ready to go. It's cheap as to buy. $21 from most places. 
 
Did it actually play on TV in NZ? 
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Yep. 11pm on a Wednesday or something like that. I remember watching it one night and thinking WTF is this shit - how wrong I was. Same with Firefly, watched an episode of that and thought WTF? They are two of my favourite shows. 
 
Let us know what you think of series 2.

Rancid Schnitzel

Modern Family. Just wasted a nights sleep watching the first season on DVD. Brilliant series.

mariner4life

I am about 6 episodes into "Homeland" **** its good. I love the fact that i have pretty much no idea what the hell is going on.

Quo vadis

Walking dead series 2 resumed from it's mid season hiatus. Awesome show and currently the most popular thing on TV by a country mile right now based on downloads. I checked a few places out of curiosity and everywhere - it's like comparing cricket numbers to Don Bradman. It pretty crazy to to see just how popular this show is. 
 
Breaking bad - wow, have seen seasons 1 and 2 in the past couple of weeks and catching up on season 3. watching with the wife, she's as hooked as me! (never saw that coming considering how brutal that show can be)

Immenso Rapido

After the TelstraClear unlimited weekend about 2 months ago, I download about 60gb. 
Combined with a mate telling me I can use my PS2 as a wireless media centre to me telly ....... I'm now sorted 
 
I've never been one for watching TV series downloads before, apart from recordings on the PVR - so I'm probably not going to add much new stuff to this thread as I catch up on classic series I could never be arsed committing myself to in the past. 
 
Done so far; 
Battlestar Galactica season1 
Generation Kill (awesome) 
Deadwood (now partway through season 2) 
Mad Men (with the missus) 
Tinker Tailor, Soldier, Spy - the BBC series from the 70s with Alec Guinness 
 
and some comedy, ...Community (awesome) 
 
I've now got a about a year worth of series still backed up. I need more sleep. 
 
Watched Homeland on TV3 last night, it was good.

scruffy-lookin

Watched the first episode of season two of The Walking Dead - wow. The show builds tension really well and the episode concluded with a bang. We're watching the show through on demand when the sun is still up so that the missus can sleep. 
 
Have also started on Star Gate Universe. Haven't watched any of the two previous shows (Star Gate, Star Gate: Atlantis) but this series was recommended to us and I'm a fan of Robert Carlyle so thought we'd give it a look. Ten episodes in and it's pretty good so far. The basic story is that during an attack a group of seventy-odd military and civillian personell gate out to an unknown destination which turns out to be a dilapidated alien ship on the edge of the universe. Tension between the military and civillians begins immediately with different people vying for control - Robert Carlyle chews scenery. Owes a lot to Battlestar Gallactica in the the way the tensions have been set up. 
 
Also watching Community which is awesome.

taniwharugby

I've just started S6 of Dexter, obviously some very mixed reviews about it, so going in with low expectations... 
 
I only by accident noticed Walking Dead restarting last week, and thought it started well.

Stockcar86

I've caught up on all the Community produced to date. The second series I found better than the first, and the episodes in series three so far have been great. 
 
Fingers crossed for 6 seasons and a movie! 
 
Save Community - 
 
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taniwharugby

I finished with S6 of Dexter, and I didnt think it was that bad, certainly not what some reviews had given it, was a little different to other series, but I thought it was alright. 
 
Next up, The Wire.

Bones

I'm 2/3rds of the way through season 2 of The Wire now. It's pretty intriguing stuff, funny looking at the "technology" they had back then though. McNulty is my hero.

Crucial

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I'm 2/3rds of the way through season 2 of The Wire now. It's pretty intriguing stuff, funny looking at the "technology" they had back then though. McNulty is my hero. 
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There is certainly a lot of fax machine usage.

Nepia

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I finished with S6 of Dexter, and I didnt think it was that bad, certainly not what some reviews had given it, was a little different to other series, but I thought it was alright. 
 
Next up, [b]The Wire.[/b] 
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Bastard! I wish I could watch The Wore for the first time! 
 
[quote][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I've caught up on all the Community produced to date. The second series I found better than the first, and the episodes in series three so far have been great.[/font][/color] 
 
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Fingers crossed for 6 seasons and a movie![/font][/color] 
 
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Save Community - [/font][/color][/quote] 
Community is back on the air soon in the US! But doubt it will get another season - which could be a good thing. 
 
I tried to rank my top 5 - 10 episodes and they go something like this:

Alternate timelines S3. (Remedial Chaos Theory)
Paintball S1. (Modern Warfare)
Goodfellas (Chicken fingers) S1.
The thinking back episode. S2
Paintball S2 (both Eps).
Halloween S2.
Christmas (the one with the bully and the early Xmas) S1.
Troys birthday S2.
Apollo 11/KFC van S2.
Trampoline/Abed being a mean girl S2. 
 
 
Sorry I don't know the real names and am too lazy to look them up at the moment. 
You will notice I don't have many S3 episodes - I think it's a great season overall but just not with stand out episodes.

Tim

You forgot the pool episode. Classic.

Toddy

Finished season 2 of The Wire and thought it was good but I didn't quite get in to it as much as the 1st season. Have watched the 1st episode of season 3 and really like where it's headed.

Stockcar86

[quote name='Nepia' timestamp='1329945864' post='271464'] 
Bastard! I wish I could watch The Wore for the first time! 
 
 
Community is back on the air soon in the US! But doubt it will get another season - which could be a good thing. 
 
I tried to rank my top 5 - 10 episodes and they go something like this:

Alternate timelines S3. (Remedial Chaos Theory)
Paintball S1. (Modern Warfare)
Goodfellas (Chicken fingers) S1.
The thinking back episode. S2
Paintball S2 (both Eps).
Halloween S2.
Christmas (the one with the bully and the early Xmas) S1.
Troys birthday S2.
Apollo 11/KFC van S2.
Trampoline/Abed being a mean girl S2. 
 
 
Sorry I don't know the real names and am too lazy to look them up at the moment. 
You will notice I don't have many S3 episodes - I think it's a great season overall but just not with stand out episodes. 
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I agree that Remedial Chaos theory is the best episode so far. 
 
The other episodes I would add to your list (knocking out the S1 Christmas and Troys birthday) would be: 
 
Consipracy Theories and Interior design (the one with Jeffs made up class run by Professor Professorson, and Abed and Troys blanket fort) 
Advanced Dungeon and Dragons - the origin of Fat Neils nickname, and Pierce getting to be really evil. 
 
I love how Pierce has been getting progressively more evil and unlikeable - he is my favourite character now - overtook Abed. 
 
Edit - and props to them for doing that flashback episode with all newly filmed material

Nepia

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You forgot the pool episode. Classic. 
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Nope, I didn't forget it, it's not one of my highly rated episodes. I'm not a huge Jeff fan so tend not to favour the episodes with a large focus on him. The Abed stuff in it was pretty cool although white Abed freaks me out. What's your top 10? 
 
Edit: Stockcar: See above re Jeff for why Conspiracy Theories missed out. The blanket fort was great. 
 
Also, I think that Jeff is an integral part of the show I just don't think stuff that focuses on him too much is as funny. 
 
Toddy: Looks like you're one of the people who prefer the show to stay within its main community. I really liked S2 and found the setting really interesting despite the fact I hated Ziggy.

Stockcar86

To join together two different topics in this thread... 
 
From series 1 of Community: 
 
[quote]Troy: I think I got half of it, which got me through the half I didn't. 
Abed: Like the first season of The Wire.[/quote] 
 
 
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rustycruiser

[quote name='Stockcar86' timestamp='1329954833' post='271499'] 
Advanced Dungeon and Dragons - the origin of Fat Neils nickname, and Pierce getting to be really evil. 
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rustycruiser

[quote name='Toddy' timestamp='1329954488' post='271495'] 
Finished season 2 of The Wire and thought it was good but I didn't quite get in to it as much as the 1st season. Have watched the 1st episode of season 3 and really like where it's headed. 
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It's been years since I watched The Wire (maybe this summer I need to revisit it). But my favorite seasons in order were the first, and the fourth. Season 2 could never live up to season 1, and the intermingling of the docks story with the drug stories always left me wanting more of the drug side. Probably because of the familiarity of all the characters from season 1 and wanting to see more of goings on there. I just didn't care as much about the plight of the working class in the US. Season 3 was great, cause it went back to the Barksdale organization again. And my boy Omar. One of the best characters on tv in the last decade.

The Silver Fern

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