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Breaking Bad - I am patient and can wait to next year.<br />
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SOA5. Just watched Ep1 and I really don't care if some people seem to think Sutter farked up with last season's ending, I like it. The characters are great and the subtle battle between Jax and Clay looks like it's going to be very good.<br />
The series takes up where S4 left off and there are a couple of bullshit devices to tidy up some of the mess from last seasons convoluted mess, but it looks to be set up again for a good storyline.<br />
Watching Clay shuffle around like a hunched over broken man while, all the time knowing that the cunning bastard is biding his time, is a real highlight and you can now see why killing him off would have been killing off the underlying story.<br />
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Sorry I haven't scanned through this thread, but is anyone else watching Hell on Wheels? I started watching it last week and machine gunned the episodes. I like it very much. The characters are morally ambiguous, but interesting enough to keep me hooked.
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Anyone seen Perception? Sounds like it could be quite good.<br />
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Watched ep1 and was pretty ave...won't be bothering any further.<br />
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Sorry I haven't scanned through this thread, but is anyone else watching Hell on Wheels? I started watching it last week and machine gunned the episodes. I like it very much. The characters are morally ambiguous, but interesting enough to keep me hooked.<br />
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Watched Season 1 and thought it became very formulaic very quickly. Have recorded S2 but not got round to watching it yet. Which TBF is my pattern. I have stuff I think I mite be interested and then give up part way through.. Homeland, Magic City, HoW, Newsroom the list is exhausting.<br />
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Did indulge my guilty Dr Who habit last nite.......<br />
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[quote name='Kehua o Jury' timestamp='1347538112' post='310623']<br />
Sorry I haven't scanned through this thread, but is anyone else watching Hell on Wheels? I started watching it last week and machine gunned the episodes. I like it very much. The characters are morally ambiguous, but interesting enough to keep me hooked.<br />
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I liked it. A bit of a slow burner and a mixture of cartoon characters and others with depth. As I've mentioned before the cinematography alone is worth watching. Some of it is stunning.<br />
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Enjoying season 2 of Falling Skies, quite a bit better than season 1 IMO.<br />
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Really trying to enjoy it, but I find myself fast forwarding through any dialogue not involving the hot doctor lady or hard-nosed cancer survivor blondie. The rest of it is getting a bit thin until the guns go bang-bang and the alien things go boom-boom.<br />
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[quote]Also half way through season 1 of Battlestar Galactica, quite enjoying it, surprised I've never picked it up before...[/quote]<br />
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Have all the eps and it is a great series, though it suffers under its own bullshit at times ... Some of the best "camera" work with the space battles though. -
Some of BSG is pure cheese, and I thought some of the battle scenes looked a bit like something I could cobble together with some toy planes, string and a video camera, that said, enjoying it, 5 eps into s2.<br />
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Crucial, I watched SOA last night, and yeah that was brutal alright, although I don't think Tig is the best actor TBH. -
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Just a note on SOA5, if you haven't seen it already. Tig is just awesome with a very harrowing scene.<br />
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[spoiler]I can't get the scene out of my head. Pretty nasty stuff to see your daughter killed like that.[/spoiler]<br />
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Are you shitting me? I was laughing my ass off. The actor couldn't even remotely commit to that. He was barely trying.<br />
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[quote name='Tim' timestamp='1347665718' post='310861']<br />
Are you shitting me? I was laughing my ass off. The actor couldn't even remotely commit to that. He was barely trying.<br />
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Now the opening shot of the boys on the road was exceptional though. Good sound too.<br />
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Funny, because I read it entirely differently. It was a scene that could be easily hammed up and I thought the way he approached it was very unexpected. I admit that at first his reactions weren't quite as I expected, but I put that down to expecting a cliche.<br />
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Just read that TV3 has woken up to the fact that they need to get their shows on air before everyone that is interested has already watched them by other means.<br />
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Homeland Series 2 will be shown only hours after each episode airs in the US. That's better than even SoHo manage to do.<br />
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Well done TV3.<br />
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On the flip side, I now have the wife suggesting that I find a way she can watch the latest series of Downton. I'm surprised that Prime/ Sky haven't managed to negotiate this one better. I can imagine them not showing it until early 2013. -
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Just read that TV3 has woken up to the fact that they need to get their shows on air before everyone that is interested has already watched them by other means.<br />
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Homeland Series 2 will be shown only hours after each episode airs in the US. That's better than even SoHo manage to do.<br />
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Well done TV3.<br />
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On the flip side, I now have the wife suggesting that I find a way she can watch the latest series of Downton. I'm surprised that Prime/ Sky haven't managed to negotiate this one better. I can imagine them not showing it until early 2013.<br />
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Yeah I only saw the new series of Downton the other day when I was looking at somethign else.<br />
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I have plenty of stuff to watch (not those I simply cant wait, but ones I enjoy) like Downton (for the wife of course) Bones, Dexter, Person of Interest, SOA, Homeland.<br />
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My brother said he watched a new one called Revolution, only 1 ep so far and he said it seemed pretty good. only aired recently, said it was pretty good. -
I am enjoying Strike Back, not sure why.
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I am enjoying Strike Back, not sure why.<br />
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Pretty much what my brother said...I might have to have a look.<br />
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SOA ep3 - jeez, that was brutal, and very surprising!! Also a bit sad!<br />
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[spoiler]OP has always been one of my fave characters, so a bit sad to have him killed off. Coulda got rid of Clay!!<br />
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What is it with the need to have a character with the bloody tubes coming out the nose!!<br />
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I am enjoying Strike Back, not sure why.<br />
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I watched two hours on Sunday. Great stuff, mainstream TV aimed at blokes, this is a good thing. Two hours of terrorists getting shot, and tits. Awesome! If the rest of the series does not continue in a similar manner i should be lodging a complaint for false advertising.... -
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I watched two hours on Sunday. Great stuff, mainstream TV aimed at blokes, this is a good thing. Two hours of terrorists getting shot, and tits. Awesome! If the rest of the series does not continue in a similar manner i should be lodging a complaint for false advertising....<br />
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After watching the first series of Strikeback which aimed to be a little bit more, um, highbrow, I was initially shocked at seeing boobies in the 2nd series! <br />
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I'm mid way through the 2nd series and find it an enjoyable lark.<br />
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I've finally come round to Mad Men after everyone (in real life and on here) saying how good it was. After watching the first few episodes months back and wondering what everyone was smoking (fans of it, not on the show) I sat myself down and watched a few eps in a row. I'd say about 5 episodes in it started making sense and I'm really enjoying the series. I do find it a wee bit hit and miss though, one episode will be great - up there with The Wire, and the next will be average, but then another great one will come around.
