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Anyone watching Ballers? Liking it so far, would recommend. Starring Dwayne Johnson. "A series centered around a group of football players and their families, friends, and handlers."
 
Have also started watching Zoo. Bit crappy, but an easy watch. "A young scientist searches to find out what's causing a rash of violent animal attacks."
 
Also watched the first episode of Humans, not too sure about that one, but will watch another couple and see. "In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live."
 
Also don't mind watching the odd Bojack Horseman when on the train. Not that great, but gets the odd laugh.
 
Oh yeah I might be late to the party but just started on Ray Donovan too, seems pretty good (only watched the pilot). Same goes for Silicon Valley.

gollum

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I am looking forward to seeing one of my favorite series of Novels being bought to life...starting with the 2nd book (chronologically as published) 

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Torn on that, lovede that series as a kid, but now I'm so used to Abercrombie & Martin & seeing good guys disembowled & so on I'm not sure I'd be anywhere near as keen on it now. I feel like it needs to be "realistic" like GoT, or cartoon madness (Spartacus). And either way have tits & violence.
 
Same deal with Terry Goodkinds stuff, I fucking loved that way back when & then they made that series Legend of the Seeker and holy batshit that was terrible. This stuff is really hit (GoT) and miss (Seeker), miss (Under the Dome), huge fucking miss (Camelot), miss (Sinbad), miss (Atlantis), etc for me. 
 
And Camelot had Eva Green naked & it still sucked balls. Eva Green naked & it still sucking is the movie / TV equivelent of open heart massage in ER. Its like "well we just cracked his chest & manually massaged his heart & that didn't work, so he is dead as fuck"

mariner4life

That shannara stuff is fucking light so it's not going to make good adult TV. 
I started watching Ray Donovan and thought it was ppretty good, mean to come on her and see if it was worth going on with 
The second 300 movie also failed the naked Eva green test badly

gollum

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That shannara stuff is fucking light so it's not going to make good adult TV. 

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Yeah, I feel they need to go the Primeval route & make it Sunday afternoon at 5pm telly for the kids. Tho' that was sort of the idea with Seeker.

mariner4life

I knew that seeker thing was going to suck. They never made the chicks hot enough given how much old Terry crapped on about it

Nepia

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Torn on that, lovede that series as a kid, but now I'm so used to Abercrombie & Martin & seeing good guys disembowled & so on I'm not sure I'd be anywhere near as keen on it now. I feel like it needs to be "realistic" like GoT, or cartoon madness (Spartacus). And either way have tits & violence.
 
Same deal with Terry Goodkinds stuff, I fucking loved that way back when & then they made that series Legend of the Seeker and holy batshit that was terrible. This stuff is really hit (GoT) and miss (Seeker), miss (Under the Dome), huge fucking miss (Camelot), miss (Sinbad), miss (Atlantis), etc for me. 
 
And Camelot had Eva Green naked & it still sucked balls. Eva Green naked & it still sucking is the movie / TV equivelent of open heart massage in ER. Its like "well we just cracked his chest & manually massaged his heart & that didn't work, so he is dead as fuck"
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Meh, she's naked all the time and mostly in stuff that sucks so that's just normal service really.

taniwharugby

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That shannara stuff is fucking light so it's not going to make good adult TV. 
I started watching Ray Donovan and thought it was ppretty good, mean to come on her and see if it was worth going on with 
The second 300 movie also failed the naked Eva green test badly
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Just started reading Shannara with TR Jnr, so I am all good with the lighter side of it...sometimes it is cool to have some lighter viewing, and even better if I can watch it with the kids!
 
I started Ray Donovan, but tired of it quickly.

taniwharugby

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Meh, she's naked all the time and mostly in stuff that sucks so that's just normal service really.
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She barely got them out at all in Penny Dreadful!

gollum

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She barely got them out at all in Penny Dreadful!
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But it was good enough it didn't need them.
 
In contrast The Dreamers, an attrocity of a film, so she spent the entire movie buck naked in a valiant attempt to rescue it. I feel like she reads scripts & goes "ok, this is fucking awful, I should be naked" & the director goes "wow, thanks, I know its shithouse but I had no idea how to make it better"
 
Shes like a british Mila Jovavich. 5th Element? This is actually pretty good, I'll stay mostly clothed. Stone? I'm going to need to be naked for most of this or people will just walk out.

jegga

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While it's hard to blame VV for some of the truly awful dialogue he is provided with, his performances show a casting decision gone too far. I get the concept of taking actors with 'light' track records and giving them the chance to show their acting chops but VV just isn't convincing to me. He has one expression and it's the same one he uses in everything he is ever in, serious or silly. 
For McAdams, it works. Her character and lines may be a bit stupid at times but I enjoy the change in seeing her act properly without hamming. Kitsch seems to try way too hard.
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I've caught up now and watched all the episodes, I was wrong about Farrell and he's been great imho particularly the scene where the cop dragged him back into the investigation. MacAdams is hot , probably hotter when shes running around with a gun. I'm tempted to start fast forwarding the scenes with Vaughan and his wife but she's not shy about nudity so I'm not 100% on that yet.
 
That singer is the reason that bar is usually empty.

Nepia

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I've caught up now and watched all the episodes, I was wrong about Farrell and he's been great imho particularly the scene where the cop dragged him back into the investigation. MacAdams is hot , probably hotter when shes running around with a gun. I'm tempted to start fast forwarding the scenes with Vaughan and his wife but she's not shy about nudity so I'm not 100% on that yet.
 
That singer is the reason that bar is usually empty.
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I too think Farrell has gotten better as the season as gone on - I thought his cliched cop was pretty awful for the first two episodes but he's definitely changed up. I also think Kitsch has gotten better too. McAdams is hot - too much smoking though.
 
I think Vaughn without the wife is fine, but whenever the two of them are in a scene it becomes a different show that's a massive handbrake. I don't get the Vaughn hate TBH (it seems manufactured and pre planned from a lot of critics), I don't think of him as a comic character in this which would be the issue, but he's played non light comedy roles in the past. 
 
Still the worst actor and character for me is the Mayor! He's horribly over acting. 
 
I actually thought the last two episodes of the show were quite good as well.

jegga

Yeah I'm not sold on the mayor , Kitsch is heading for a decent meltdown I reckon especially after the scene with his amoral crone of a mother. I thought those scenes with his mum were quite well done . 
Have you watched Episodes yet? I hope Matt Le Blanc isn't really like that but his character is hilarious and they aren't shy about mocking some of thd crap he made like Joey.

Nepia

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Yeah I'm not sold on the mayor , Kitsch is heading for a decent meltdown I reckon especially after the scene with his amoral crone of a mother. I thought those scenes with his mum were quite well done . 
Have you watched Episodes yet? I hope Matt Le Blanc isn't really like that but his character is hilarious and they aren't shy about mocking some of thd crap he made like Joey.
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I'm having a little trouble, um, tracking down Episodes (it doesn't go into search engines very well) - although I do have the pilot sitting around somewhere.
 
I doubt he's like his character in real life.

Siam

Was thinking about Rik Mayall the other day
 
Enjoyed his performance in these series where his character was a bit more cunning

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Was thinking about Rik Mayall the other day
 
Enjoyed his performance in these series where his character was a bit more cunning

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Nigel Planer [Neil] is Matt Le Blancs lawyer is episodes, he plays the part well imho.

jegga

Did anyone else see episodes this week? Matt le Blanc trying to convice his ex to marry her abusive partner so he can stop paying alimony .

taniwharugby

Enjoyed the first episode. It has potential.
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I've started this, 2 eps in, liking it!

gollum

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Did anyone else see episodes this week? Matt le Blanc trying to convice his ex to marry her abusive partner so he can stop paying alimony .
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He has been superb this season. Really worth an Emmy, for playing himself.

jegga

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The scene where he sacked his beach cleaner was even more cringe inducing than the Office , I'm really surprised that it doesn't seem to be that well known , I guess it's not to everyone's taste like Curb your enthusiasm .

jegga

Is anyone else watching Gloriavale? The names are awesome Steady Standtrue etc , I got a frowning for suggesting that Pilgrim Overcomer would be a great pornstar name.

The Silver Fern

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