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Current TV Series You'd Like To Recommend

PoS said:
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11.22.63- Stephen King miniseries with James Franco (he's everywhere these days) as a teacher who finds a time portal. He tires to go back in time to prevent the assassination of JFK. starts off okay, but then goes into Twilight Zone. I didnt like it. 5/10



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2442560/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Peaky Blinders Season 4- didnt even know they came out with this until now. I thought it was cancelled. BBC's answer to HBO Boardwalk Empire with gangsters in the 1920's. The new bad guys are led by Adrien Brody and Tom Hardy is back as a Jewish gangster. All in all not bad, but the rock music is anachronistic. 8/10

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4299972/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Jinx: Lie and Deaths of Robert Durst- documentary about a loathsome creature who gets away with not 1 but 3 murders. I couldnt stand watching it so I stopped after the 2nd episode. 5/10
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PEAKY BLINDERS is the best. Completely and totally superb and right now the best drama on TV. I watched all four seasons in a week and loved every one. The star is tremendous.

As far as the Stephen King 11/22/63 adaption - I felt it was uneven. Of course, it would be difficult to match the excellence of the book. But its still worth watching.
 
haymarket said:
As far as the Stephen King 11/22/63 adaption - I felt it was uneven. Of course, it would be difficult to match the excellence of the book. But its still worth watching.
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I have to admit I didnt finish it. The subject matter just wasnt interesting to me.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475784/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Im almost done with Westworld Season 2- While I think the show is well made with very good locales, writing and acting, I find it hard to root for anyone in the series. The robots are supposed to be the good guys since theyre the victims and they want to be free and stuff, but since theyre indestructible, its kind of hard to have any concerns for them.

The humans are mind-numbingly stupid and greedy, so I dont have any sympathy for them either. I used to like Ed Harris's character the man in black- but he keeps trying to be an a-hole all the time. So far, I am going to finish it, but its not on my favorites list. 6/10

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4270492/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Billions Season 3- halfway done. This seemed to be the best season ever, since both main characters were about to go after each other in a no holds barred duel to the death, but then all of a sudden they backed away. I think the major weakness of this show is the US attorney's wife, who is also the lead psychologist for Axelrod's company, and both men are willing to lay down their lives for her, even to the point of forgoing their vendettas just for the sake of staying in her good graces. It's a major letdown.

 
The Expanse season 3- I thought it was much better than the slumping season 2, and Im glad it got picked up by Amazon after the el cheapo SciFy channel cancelled it. Still the best sci-fi TV series currently out there. I dont like any of the lead characters, and I hope Chrisjen and Bobie Draper continue as characters because they remain my favorites out of the whole cast even though theyre just support. 7.5/10

 
PoS said:
The Expanse season 3- I thought it was much better than the slumping season 2, and Im glad it got picked up by Amazon after the el cheapo SciFy channel cancelled it. Still the best sci-fi TV series currently out there. I dont like any of the lead characters, and I hope Chrisjen and Bobie Draper continue as characters because they remain my favorites out of the whole cast even though theyre just support. 7.5/10

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Comes out on Blu-ray on Tuesday. Pre-ordered, pumped, haven't viewed. Though, unlike you, I enjoyed the 2nd season more than the first.

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An old reccommendation:

I, Claudius.

Finally finishing it after starting it years ago. It was the most notable in a series of BBC stage productions during the 1970s. It covers the first few generations of the Roman empire from the Great Man approach to history.

It's scandalous, it's devious, and it's utterly separated from good rulership. Basically, it's "The Tudors" decades before "The Tudors."

As such, it's important to note that its portrayals and people from ancient times are far from the reality of what they were. Much of that isn't the fault of the production itself, but rather the reliance on a novel which substantially grounded itself ancient historical texts. Essentially, what accounts survive are largely the work of Roman-era Michael Wolff's. They believe rumors, and the rumors that are believed are the most scandalous.

Still, great production and John Hurt's Caligula in the 2nd half is something to behold.

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Fiddytree said:
An old reccommendation:

I, Claudius.

Finally finishing it after starting it years ago. It was the most notable in a series of BBC stage productions during the 1970s. It covers the first few generations of the Roman empire from the Great Man approach to history.

It's scandalous, it's devious, and it's utterly separated from good rulership. Basically, it's "The Tudors" decades before "The Tudors."

As such, it's important to note that its portrayals and people from ancient times are far from the reality of what they were. Much of that isn't the fault of the production itself, but rather the reliance on a novel which substantially grounded itself ancient historical texts. Essentially, what accounts survive are largely the work of Roman-era Michael Wolff's. They believe rumors, and the rumors that are believed are the most scandalous.

Still, great production and John Hurt's Caligula in the 2nd half is something to behold.

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I watched I, Claudius during my college days when they showed the whole miniseries on the Bravo Channel. I thought it was one of the best things I've ever seen- it was like Game of Thrones set in the Roman Empire. I have the DVDs, but I have a hard time watching it now because the production values are just awful- it looks like it was done on the cheap and in a TV studio. The acting and the plot is first rate, though.
 
WHO IS AMERICA? on Showtime Sunday nights has been very funny and at times jaw dropping in its first two episodes. How Sasha gets these people to do this stuff and make absolute fools of themselves is amazing.
 
Middleground said:
LOVE LOVE LOVE Black Mirror. Been itchin' for season 4!!!!

What are your fav. episodes?
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White Christmas scared the crap out of me. Nosedive and Hang the DJ have the most replay value and I love the actresses.

But all time favorite, San Junipero; Made me rethink my desire to escape death by downloading my consciousness.
 
Spartacus FPV said:
White Christmas scared the crap out of me. Nosedive and Hang the DJ have the most replay value and I love the actresses.

But all time favorite, San Junipero; Made me rethink my desire to escape death by downloading my consciousness.
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I have re-watched all of them. San Junipero was amazingly done. I like how the story unfolds, layer by layer until it makes complete sense at the end.
 
"Travels in Trumpland" - started today, first episode just finished. It was a real eyeopener and showed the huge variety of unexpected people who voted and will vote again for Trump.

The program follows ex Labour MP Ed Balls who will travel across America meeting and talking, drinking, laughing and crying with ordinary Americans.

Program website - the program will probably not be available in the US.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bdpvh5
 
Sacha Baron Cohen's show. The people who are embarassed have no excuses. It is hilarious though, the things people will agree to. Sometimes scary.
 
Forged in fire, it's a competing show where blade smiths forge a weapon from random hunks of metal and the blades are put through extreme tests.
 
Castlevania- if youre into anime, this is a very short season of only 4 episodes (but I think its been renewed for season 2). Its about Dracula taking his revenge against a region filled with despotic priests and clerics. Not bad at all. Written by Warren Ellis. 7.5/10

 
haymarket said:
PEAKY BLINDERS is the best. Completely and totally superb and right now the best drama on TV. I watched all four seasons in a week and loved every one. The star is tremendous.

As far as the Stephen King 11/22/63 adaption - I felt it was uneven. Of course, it would be difficult to match the excellence of the book. But its still worth watching.
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Just finished season 2.

Polly is awesome! ;)
 
PoS said:
Castlevania- if youre into anime, this is a very short season of only 4 episodes (but I think its been renewed for season 2). Its about Dracula taking his revenge against a region filled with despotic priests and clerics. Not bad at all. Written by Warren Ellis. 7.5/10
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Season 2 drops Oct 26th
 
"Harlots" has been a show the wife and I have been binge watching lately. BBC America, I believe.
 
Lodge 49 is pretty fun, its kind of a Lebowski-esque show, Wyatt Russell (son of Kurt & Goldie) does a good job as a likeable slacker, its held my interest.

Goliath season 2 has been really fun, Billy Bob Thornton is excellent.
 


Jack Ryan Season 1- just started watching it. So far so good. First episode is well done, though I'm starting to feel its falling into the usual dichotomy of the goods guys in the West versus the Arabic bad guys. I hope it starts to bring some nuances, but I'm only done with the first episode. Keeping fingers crossed.
 
Finished Jack Ryan, and it was meh. Stereotypical good guys of the west versus bad guys from the east. Seems every Arab in this show is either a terrorist or a smuggler, and every Arab woman is a slave. The worst part of this franchise is ... Jack Ryan- he is a big boring boy scout- beyond being a genius analyst, he's got no other personality traits. Well made though, and certainly not boring (as long as you skip the Jack Ryan downtime parts). 5/10

Oh, here is one coming up in Netflix that I really want to see. Its about the right wing terror attack in Norway by Anders Breivik. Directed by Paul Greengrass.

 
Catching up on the Castle Rock season. I think we made it to episode 4. I like it. My wife says its too slow. But, she likes snappy dialog crap like OITNB, whereas I like puzzles like Cold Case Files.
 
"Killing Eve" is pretty good, if I haven't mentioned it before.
 
Here's a show I do NOT recommend: Condor



I was actually looking forward to this since the Robert Redford movie 3 Days of the Condor is one of my favorite thrillers.

Terrible adaptation of the Robert Redford/Faye Dunaway movie. In this iteration there is no mystery- the bad guys are revealed within the first episode and everything's been dumbed down. The reason why the movie version was so compelling was because he had no idea why he was being hunted, and the audience went along his journey to find out why. Here, everything is spoon fed in advance, and its so silly that you can't help but laugh at the absurdities as to why.

The dialogue is atrocious- everybody says Joe Turner isn't "kinetically qualified" to escape a very awkward assassination attempt, and the main character has even less personality than in the movie version. Kinetically qualified? WTF?

Even the bad guys are just so cliched, incompetent, and psychopathic they lack any style or substance whatsoever.
 
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