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canefan

I just finished watching "Slaying the Badger" from the Espn 30 for 30 series about Greg Le Mond and Bernard Hinault. Brilliant work, great story regardless if you are a cycling fan or not. You forget how good Le Mond was. He basically handed Hinault the Tour in '85, and if he had been able to compete in '87 and '88 who knows, he could have possibly won 5 anyway. Without doping. Nice little final bit about Lance at the end too, clearly it was an open secret that he was being "assisted"

Crucial

I assume that everyone is ready for SOA7?
 
This is going to be brutal. Sutter won't be going out with a whimper and if he keeps following the Hamlet path the cast will be reduced considerably in number by the end.

Nepia

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I assume that everyone is ready for SOA7?
 
This is going to be brutal. Sutter won't be going out with a whimper and if he keeps following the Hamlet path the cast will be reduced considerably in number by the end.

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Yep, you'd tend to think it will be a Sopranos style final series of mayhem.

jegga

I'm starting to wonder if there is a point to the Bates motel, its fairly tedious thus far. Is it worth persisting with?

Nepia

Ah man I'm in a Lincoln* like quandary with the series The Knick. On the one hand it's written and directed by Soderbergh who's one of my favourite directors but it stars Clive Owen who I find to be a totally charisma free actor.
 
It's about a hospital at the turn of the century (19th to 20th).
 
 
 
 
 
* I really want to watch it as it's a Spielberg film (who I generally like) but I'm just unable to watch Day Lewis in anything these days.

Crucial

Just read this in a review if it helps Nepia.
 
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">Adding another head to The Knick's powerful hydra is the series' incredible cast of characters. Clive Owen is commanding as Dr. Thackery, a stubborn genius who's teetering on the brink of assholism but doesn't go quite far enough to make us hate him. He's brilliant, but haunted by his inability to conquer nature's way, plus he's dealing with a cripplingâ€”yet invigorating!â€”addiction to cocaine and heroin. In fact, it's so crippling that he had cocaine injected into his dick. Into his dick! This is the man who is going to revolutionize surgery, and he might be performing miracles while whacked out on the Devil's Dandruff
 
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Nepia

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Just read this in a review if it helps Nepia.
 
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Probably worse, if you're going to be an asshole you need some charisma doing it.
 
I'm sure Soderbergh can overcome his shortcomings though, Channing Tatum was thought of as a minor player before teaming up with him and now he's a huge star and acts across genres.

taniwharugby

Finished S3 of Longmire, enjoyed this series more as it went on...nice finale too! 
 
Rena Owen had a very brief (10 sec or so) part in 1 ep as a Native American Medicine Woman.
 
A series starting this week called Legends sounds good (Sean Bean - will he make it out of season 1 alive?)

Virgil

Starting watching Ripper Street recently, not a bad watch, currently nearing the end of the 1st season It doubles as a 'spot the Game of Thrones' star game as well.

mariner4life

TR are you watching season 2 of "The Bridge"? It's ok, but i am still not actually sure what it's about.

Tim

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<div>Hand Of God - World War Z director Marc Forster makes his television debut with Hand Of God, starring Ron Perlman as Judge Pernell Harris. After a brutal rape devastates his family, Harris goes on a good old-fashioned drive-in style revenge spree driven by visions he believes are sent by his favorite call girlâ€s handicapped son.</div>
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Hmmm ...

taniwharugby

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="444629" data-time="1407805639">TR are you watching season 2 of "The Bridge"? It's ok, but i am still not actually sure what it's about. </blockquote>
 
Nah not yet, was waiting until i got a few eps saved up in case it was good and I wanted to bulk watch as I do sometimes.... 
Watching Firefly at moment.

Nepia

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Nah not yet, was waiting until i got a few eps saved up in case it was good and I wanted to bulk watch as I do sometimes.... Watching Firefly at moment.
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I watched the final on Maori TV last night. Which is actually the original pilot.
 
What order have you watched them in?

taniwharugby

A 90 minute ep called serenity showing the war....v

Tim

<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' class="bbc_url" href='http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dexters-michael-c-hall-star-724771?mobile_redirect=false'>'Dexter's' Michael C. Hall to Star in Stanley Kubrick's 'God Fearing Man' Miniseries</a>

Nepia

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When it originally aired they started with the Train Job. Seems weird of Maori TV to play it in the original order considering its over 10 years old.
 
Have you got the actual movie Serenity to watch as well?

NTA

Not a series as such, but they just showed a doco on SBS here called "Wild Arabia" primarily about the Dhofar mountains in Oman. Bloody fascinating stuff including very rare forage of the Arabian Leopard. These two dudes set up cameras with what looked like solar power (maybe motion detectors?) in the mountains to capture the wildlife. They also did some time lapse shots of the region's valleys during the Indian monsoon that sweeps up that part of the Arabian peninsula. I could barely believe that you'd see such greenery in that party if the world, even for a few months. Blew my mind.

Nepia

Looks like this thread needs a bump - it was down with the 1960s stockcar thread.
 
I'm back watching The Walking Dead 2 and Orange is the New Black 2. I'm about six episodes in on both.
 
Orange: Wow, they need to just rename the show the L Word: The Prison Years. Is it just me or have they upped the nudity and lesbian sex scenes quotient? I'm about half way through, things are all going well. The first episode was interesting, it was an extremely condensed version of what was in the book, which was good as I thought it was going to follow the book and I've read it recently so new different stories are better.
 
The Walking Dead 2: Thank god for Lauren Cohen! I'm a bit worried about myself and maybe I'm a misogynist and don't really know it but I can't stand the other women on The Walking Dead, there was one scene where all 3 of them were together, Blondie, Wifey, and Sophia's Mom, and man I wanted the Redneck to put an arrow through my head. In fact, for a show I like there are very few characters I actually like, I like the Redneck and the Asian and don't mind the Old Fulla, but the Sheriff and Shane are both moody dropkicks and the love triangle (or not) is boring as shit. But I'm still enjoying the show and looking forward to the next episode so go figure.

jegga

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Looks like this thread needs a bump - it was down with the 1960s stockcar thread.
 
I'm back watching The Walking Dead 2 and Orange is the New Black 2. I'm about six episodes in on both.
 
Orange: Wow, they need to just rename the show the L Word: The Prison Years. Is it just me or have they upped the nudity and lesbian sex scenes quotient? I'm about half way through, things are all going well. The first episode was interesting, it was an extremely condensed version of what was in the book, which was good as I thought it was going to follow the book and I've read it recently so new different stories are better.
 
The Walking Dead 2: Thank god for Lauren Cohen! I'm a bit worried about myself and maybe I'm a misogynist and don't really know it but I can't stand the other women on The Walking Dead, there was one scene where all 3 of them were together, Blondie, Wifey, and Sophia's Mom, and man I wanted the Redneck to put an arrow through my head. In fact, for a show I like there are very few characters I actually like, I like the Redneck and the Asian and don't mind the Old Fulla, but the Sheriff and Shane are both moody dropkicks and the love triangle (or not) is boring as shit. But I'm still enjoying the show and looking forward to the next episode so go figure.
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You had me at upped the nudity.
 
Sophias mum turns out to be one of the more interesting characters, watching her change over the different series is great. Its similar to the way the sheriff and Darrell change over the series.
The blondie is pretty meh, but Lauren Cohen is damn hot.

taniwharugby

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Looks like this thread needs a bump - it was down with the 1960s stockcar thread.
 
I'm back watching The Walking Dead 2 and Orange is the New Black 2. I'm about six episodes in on both.
 
Orange: Wow, they need to just rename the show the L Word: The Prison Years. Is it just me or have they upped the nudity and lesbian sex scenes quotient? I'm about half way through, things are all going well. The first episode was interesting, it was an extremely condensed version of what was in the book, which was good as I thought it was going to follow the book and I've read it recently so new different stories are better.
 
The Walking Dead 2: Thank god for Lauren Cohen! I'm a bit worried about myself and maybe I'm a misogynist and don't really know it but I can't stand the other women on The Walking Dead, there was one scene where all 3 of them were together, Blondie, Wifey, and Sophia's Mom, and man I wanted the Redneck to put an arrow through my head. In fact, for a show I like there are very few characters I actually like, I like the Redneck and the Asian and don't mind the Old Fulla, but the Sheriff and Shane are both moody dropkicks and the love triangle (or not) is boring as shit. But I'm still enjoying the show and looking forward to the next episode so go figure.
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Having not read the book, the first ep of S2 OITNB was damn confusing! 
 
Am about 8 into Falling Skies, I usually really enjoy this series but by fuck there are a few annoying mo-fo characters this season (one has always been there and finally got killed) is so so this season...
 
Also about 8 eps into Firefly, enjoying it, good bit of cheese! 
 
I watch parliament TV if Lauren Cohen was in it!

The Silver Fern

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