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Kostya and I have been watching Peaky Blinders, Brit telly series, enjoying it very much.
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Breaking Bad spoiler alert.  But, funny.

http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/breaking-bad-walter-white-obit-1200694265/

I don't think Breaking Bad comes anywhere near The Wire or even The Sopranos

It was very entertaining and beautifully filmed but the whole story was just ridiculous, Walt had that sort of James Bond luck where he's going up against all these evil people who have been killing people all their lives and yet they can't kill him because he's really good at making drugs?

Well all this talk about the greatest TV show ever is about to become redundant anyway.

Tomorrow is the premiere of 'The People's Couch'.

"The People's Couch" is a new three-episode, limited series that features real people watching and commenting on popular shows and news from the past week. Bravo will deliver the buzziest water-cooler moments of the Fall television season by showcasing avid TV watchers in their homes, as they laugh, cry, talk, gasp, and scream at their TVs.

Hell yeah, bitch.

Wait...hold on..a TV show basically about normal people watching TV? So, essentially, we will be watching people watching TV??? I am not sure but I do think that might actually be the beginning of the Apocalypse, ending with our solar system imploding out of sheer shame...

Wait...hold on..a TV show basically about normal people watching TV? So, essentially, we will be watching people watching TV??? I am not sure but I do think that might actually be the beginning of the Apocalypse, ending with our solar system imploding out of sheer shame...

Admittedly I did watch those Youtube videos of peoples reaction to the Game of Thrones "Red Wedding" episode. That was pretty funny to watch!

I don't think Breaking Bad comes anywhere near The Wire or even The Sopranos

It was very entertaining and beautifully filmed but the whole story was just ridiculous, Walt had that sort of James Bond luck where he's going up against all these evil people who have been killing people all their lives and yet they can't kill him because he's really good at making drugs?

I think the point is that he has a natural flair for criminality,.

Quote from: kitano on October 05, 2013, 11:16:47 PM

I don't think Breaking Bad comes anywhere near The Wire or even The Sopranos

It was very entertaining and beautifully filmed but the whole story was just ridiculous, Walt had that sort of James Bond luck where he's going up against all these evil people who have been killing people all their lives and yet they can't kill him because he's really good at making drugs?

I think the point is that he has a natural flair for criminality,.

Yeah, "The Wire" (and "Deadwood"), set the standard for me.  I've watched three seasons or so of "The Sopranos" and I don't feel like it's much more than just, okay.  I know it gets big props from critics and audiences but it seems to cast a wide net while "Breaking Bad" drills deeper. 

I agree about the McGiver quality to the last episode, but all-in-all I have to put it right up there in the pantheon.  Aside from the production and acting quality, the dialogue dives into some pretty significant issues about a man's role today.  Duty to family vs. personal fulfillment. Especially in an age where we're asked to be specialists.  "Partial" human beings and the rage it can summon from having capabilities and potentials taken, or given away.

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Quote from: kitano on October 05, 2013, 11:16:47 PM

I don't think Breaking Bad comes anywhere near The Wire or even The Sopranos

It was very entertaining and beautifully filmed but the whole story was just ridiculous, Walt had that sort of James Bond luck where he's going up against all these evil people who have been killing people all their lives and yet they can't kill him because he's really good at making drugs?

I think the point is that he has a natural flair for criminality,.

Yeah, "The Wire" (and "Deadwood"), set the standard for me.  I've watched three seasons or so of "The Sopranos" and I don't feel like it's much more than just, okay.  I know it gets big props from critics and audiences but it seems to cast a wide net while "Breaking Bad" drills deeper. 

I agree about the McGiver quality to the last episode, but all-in-all I have to put it right up there in the pantheon.  Aside from the production and acting quality, the dialogue dives into some pretty significant issues about a man's role today.  Duty to family vs. personal fulfillment. Especially in an age where we're asked to be specialists.  "Partial" human beings and the rage it can summon from having capabilities and potentials taken, or given away.

for me Breaking Bad was remarkable in the sense that it started off looking like it was going to be a very entertaining but not brilliant TV show, and then reached heights of excellence as it went on. The Wire and the Sopranos (most of it) and Deadwood are still the benchmark. Agreed.

Just watched the first series of Black Mirror, as recommended above, and it is very very god.

I think one of the reasons that so many people (myself included) rate Sopranos so highly might be because it was the first one of those shows. HBO were heading in that direction, I remember Oz (about the prison) was like that, but Sopranos had top class actors and had a lot more 'normal' people and situations in.

I only watched Deadwood this year, total mystery why they cancelled it to me, what there was of it was brilliant.

Well all this talk about the greatest TV show ever is about to become redundant anyway.

Tomorrow is the premiere of 'The People's Couch'.

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"The People's Couch" is a new three-episode, limited series that features real people watching and commenting on popular shows and news from the past week. Bravo will deliver the buzziest water-cooler moments of the Fall television season by showcasing avid TV watchers in their homes, as they laugh, cry, talk, gasp, and scream at their TVs.

Hell yeah, bitch.

There was a 90s TV show called 'The Royle Family' which was mostly just a working class family in Manchester sitting in the living room watching TV, it worked really well

I'm really enjoying "Hostages", new this season in the States (currently 3 episodes in). It's been panned by critics, but, suspending belief sometimes, it's great escape tv!

Basically, top DC surgeon is about to do surgery on the President, but the day before her entire family is taken hostage by a group led by an FBI agent. They want her to kill the President or else....and lots high up are involved. And every person, family and kidnappers have dirty secrets slowly coming out.

Great fun!

I only watched Deadwood this year, total mystery why they cancelled it to me, what there was of it was brilliant.

I think the director, David Milch, ended it. I believe there were creative differences but, basically, he believed it had run its course. Milch is one weird dude; actually arrested in college for shooting out a police car cherry lights. Here's an interesting interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyl3iswI0Dc

Up until recently I liked "Once Upon a Time" but the plot simply seems to go nowhere. Robin Hood is the soul-mate of the Evil Queen of the Enchanted Forest? I am all for weird and fascinating twists and turns and I have long waited for a show that would, once and for all, reveal Peter Pan for the black-hearted villainous kidnapper that he is, but the show has turned silly and every episode ends with, I assume, a sudden revelation which is only not predictable if the viewer is, well, dead. It was such a promising show...

Up until recently I liked "Once Upon a Time" but the plot simply seems to go nowhere. Robin Hood is the soul-mate of the Evil Queen of the Enchanted Forest? I am all for weird and fascinating twists and turns and I have long waited for a show that would, once and for all, reveal Peter Pan for the black-hearted villainous kidnapper that he is, but the show has turned silly and every episode ends with, I assume, a sudden revelation which is only not predictable if the viewer is, well, dead. It was such a promising show...

I agree (And uh, thanks for the spoiler you bastard, haven't watched the new epsiode yet!) I thought it had a great premise but then it seemed like even the writers were thrown off that it would continue running for so long. Like, they just randomly throw in pieces of the back story willy nilly to create dramatic tension (Snow Whites long-lost favorite nursemaid that was a surrogate mother showed up all of two episodes just so they could kill her, and the "your grandson will be your downfall" appeared and dropped pretty quickly.) 

I love re-telling of fairy tales but this show sucks now.

Meanwhile I am loving the new season of Downton Abbey. Poor Anna!!