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Anyone else really fucking disappointed by the last episode of Homeland?<br />
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Yeah, it was a cop out. Would've been better if it had just been one season. On that note, Sleeper Cell handled the seasons situation much better. -
Ok, saw it. This is my rant<br />
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[Spoiler] What a fucking cop out. The great thing about the show was the "is he/isn't he" question of the first half. And the "will they stop him" part of the second. And so we get to the big climax, and what happens? Nothing. He doesn't do his bit, the CIA don't do their bit, and she goes nuts. Awesome.<br />
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As for the set up for the second series, how could they possibley use the same characters? She's nuts, and no longer works for the CIA, so has zero credibility. He hasn't actually done anything except shoot a real terrorist in the head (killing him with his personal weapon was hardly smart). So to continue the story will effectively be a crazy person stalking a congressman/senator for talking to a terrorist. riveting shit.<br />
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The series was great, and if it had stayed at one series i would have loved it, but the ending has left me a little bitter. [/Spoiler] -
Sleeper Cell. Watch it.<br />
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SOA still gets worst finale of the year, easy!<br />
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SOA still gets worst finale of the year, easy!<br />
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Anyone seen Confession?<br />
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Agreed, a good season ruined in an extra long finale, still it was probably better than the crap season that had a good finale in the previous 'Irish' season.<br />
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Never heard of Confession, just looked it up and it has two pretty big names in Sutherland and Hurt. -
in a bit of a lull in terms of series (have stopped The Wire about half way through S1 for now as I wasnt getting into it, may try again later) so had started watching Whitechapel on TV1 (turned out it was the 2nd series) a UK Crime Drama.<br />
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Quite enjoyed it, another of thier 3 episode series, no real names in it, but a few faces I've seen before. -
Sky have announced that they will be showing GoT Series 2 within 48 hrs of its US release.<br />
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I guess this is one of their flagship shows for getting subs on SoHo and they have finally woken up to the need to supply quickly or folks will watch it through other means. They were far to slow in showing GoT 1 and many people had already seen it before they screened it.<br />
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yeah seem to be a few series about now where we are a matter of days or weeks behind instead of months, hasnt taken sky too long to catch on though has it...
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S2 of Game of Thrones...thoughts?<br />
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I liked it, wasnt a wow one, but they are gonna have to manage the new characters well and squeeze it all in -
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S2 of Game of Thrones...thoughts?<br />
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I liked it, wasnt a wow one, but they are gonna have to manage the new characters well and squeeze it all in<br />
[/quote]I have been hanging out for it . Don't tell me I've missed the start . -
it started on Soho the other day (around 48 hours after the US premier I believe) unless you have other ways to access it...
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[quote name='taniwharugby' timestamp='1333138539' post='278085']<br />
started watching Whitechapel on TV1 (turned out it was the 2nd series) a UK Crime Drama.<br />
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Quite enjoyed it, another of thier 3 episode series, no real names in it, but a few faces I've seen before.<br />
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So also got S1 and S3, good crime series, S1 & 2 are only 3 eps each while S3 is 6, S1 & 2 deal with thier own storyline for the series, while S3 has 1 per 2 episodes, good characters and some dark (and familiar) storylines. -
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It is more like The Wire, with the Crowders being the Barksdales. They were the main focus of Season One, and are always part of the underlying show. But the subsequent two seasons both have a different overiding main story/focus.<br />
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The back end of S2 was definitely good. Although I think they were a bit off with their characterisation of Dickie by the end. If someone tells me how to do the spoiler I'll say why.<br />
[spoiler]When we first meet him he seems to be quite competent and on to it as a criminal yet as the series progressed he just became even a caricature useless criminal much like Dewey - which made it funny for me to see them together in S3.[/spoiler]<br />
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I'm nearly mid way through S3 and enjoying it so far. I do like Neil McDonough - although it's funny that he's become a standard bad guy after portraying Buck Compton.<br />
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I think the back story is what makes the show so good.<br />
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Cheers TR re: spoiler, this will make things easier when discussing shows! -
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and to close that off you need to wrap the final text with [b]][/b] -
[quote name='taniwharugby' timestamp='1333607351' post='278978']<br />
S2 of Game of Thrones...thoughts?<br />
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I liked it, wasnt a wow one, but they are gonna have to manage the new characters well and squeeze it all in<br />
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Straight back into it with GoT. Still setting up the story after two episodes but good to watch while doing so.<br />
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Not sure how I managed to see Ep2 as I see it is only just showing now in the US....but I found it and watched it days ago.<br />
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I'm quite enjoying Hell on Wheels about 6 episodes in. a few cartoon characters but the leads have enough depth to make up for it. The settings/ Scenes are (I imagine) very realistic. A lot of effort has gone into the show and has led me to reading more about the actual story of the railroad which is very interesting. -
yeah I found ep 2 the other day too...have not watched it yet.<br />
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Soho not showing it until the 16th I saw, but will start with a double episode. -
I now officially reckon Hell on Wheels is worth watching. Once I hit about ep6 I watched the rest in quick time.<br />
Now I can't wait for Series 2.<br />
It took a little while to find its feet IMO but once it did it was very good. Some beautiful scenery along with the story too.
