I just recently discovered The Big Bang.
Anyone have any good recommendations for a good tv series to download? I'm starting to run out of ideas. My taste generally runs in comedy, but I wouldn't mind some other suggestions as well. Currently I'm watching (in no particular order):
...top gear...
How about the British show Coupling? It is no longer being aired but did have three seasons. They tried to do this in the US but it never took. I think it is because the British version was raunchier with more innuendos.
This show is about several couples and their relationships. Think of it as friends on steroids. It is definitely one of the funnier shows out there.
I just watched the first episode of the new Showtime series The Borgias and it looks like it'll be good. Very dark and sexy, full of intrigue, and also very visually pleasing what with all the period era costumes and sets. It will be interesting to see if they stick closer to historical fact than they did with The Tudors, which at times was almost more like a Henry VIII fan-fic than anything resembling history.
{I thought I have seen this site mentioned in the Saloon before, but it does not show up in Search}
FixPlay
http://fixplay.ninemsn.com.au/
It:
- is Australian (if I can handle that I am sure you can!)
- comes compliments of Ninemsn.au
- was streaming a really good picture
- has 30sec advertising breaks ... but seemed a small price to pay for a programme i watched this morning
Programmmes include:
The Middle - USA
Doctor Who - UK
Day of the Triffids - UK
The Vampire Diaries - USA
Naked Chef - UK
Nikita - USA
Spooks - UK
plus Australian programmes
{I thought I have seen this site mentioned in the Saloon before, but it does not show up in Search}
FixPlay
http://fixplay.ninemsn.com.au/
It:
- is Australian (if I can handle that I am sure you can!)
- comes compliments of Ninemsn.au
- was streaming a really good picture
- has 30sec advertising breaks ... but seemed a small price to pay for a programme i watched this morning
Programmmes include:
The Middle - USA
Doctor Who - UK
Day of the Triffids - UK
The Vampire Diaries - USA
Naked Chef - UK
Nikita - USA
Spooks - UK
plus Australian programmes
Thanks. Was in the mood to watch a movie, and am giving Blood Brothers a try at the moment. Good quality, too.
FixPlay
http://fixplay.ninemsn.com.au/
I loved Life on Mars :)
Anyone else seen "Big Train"? Just discovered it and found it suitably Pythonish for my tastes.
lately I have mostly watching the following:
... then I watched another period drama, Call the Midwife, which I really enjoyed (as the name implies, it is about midwives, set in the 1950s)....
fox - where'd you download this doc from? I tried isohunt but no dice
Drama -Lie To Me -Leverage -Hustle -House -Bones -Sherlock -Downton Abbey -Call the Midwife -Spooks -The Middle -Day of the Triffids -Castle | Drama, cable -The Borgias -Boardwalk Empire -In Treatment -Mad Men -The Hour (UK) -House of Cards | Drama - Lawyers -The Defenders -Harry's Law -The Good Wife | Violent or gritty Drama -Game of Thrones -Breaking Bad -Deadwood -Dexter -The Walking Dead -Luther -Rome -American Horror Story -The Following | Cops and Crime -The Wire -Sons of Anarchy -Southland -Criminal Minds -Forbrydelsen (aka The Killing) -The Killing (US) -Wallander (UK) -Life on Mars -Awake -The Shield -Alcatraz -The Blue Rose -Justified -Foyle's War -The Americans -Longmire | ||||
Sci-fi -Firefly -Battlestar Galactica -Doctor Who -Stargate Universe -Continuum -Revolution -Orphan Black -The Twilight Zone -The Prisoner (1967) | Fantasy -The Secret Circle -Vampire Diaries -Once Upon a Time -Heroes -Fringe -Grimm | |||||||
Comedy -Outsourced -How I Met Your Mother -The Big Bang -30 Rock -Glee -Better off Ted -The Office (US) -3rd Rock from the Sun -Shameless (US) -Seven Periods with Mr. Gormsby -WKRP in Cincinati -Freaks and Geeks -Mystery Science Theater 3000, Early seasons | Comedy, cable -True Blood -Bored to Death -Weeds -The Big C -Curb Your Enthusiasm -The Sarah Silverman Program -Eastbound and Down -Trailer Park Boys -It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. -Californication | Comedy (UK) -Shameless (UK) -Black Adder -Absolutely Fabulous -Skins (UK) -Coupling -The Thick of It -Joking Apart -Traffic Light -Doc Martin -The IT Crowd -Misfits -Peep Show -Big Train -The Office (UK) -Black Books | Animated Comedy -Drawn Together -Harvey Birdman -Aqua Teen Hunger Force -Family Guy -Futurama -American Dad -Venture Bros. -Frisky Dingo -Archer | |||||
Documentaries -Wild China (BBC) -China Rises -Mekong: Soul Of A River -China Triumph and Turmoil | Infotainment -Top Gear (If you're unfamiliar, I'd suggest watching the 1st Africa special.) -Mythbusters -Bang Goes the Theory -How TV Ruined Your Life -Locked Up Abroad -The Dog Whisperer | Kid stuff -Star Wars - The Clone Wars | ||||||
Desperate? -Terra Nova -Buffy the Vampire Slayer -Camelot |
Watched both seasons of Game of Thrones in a week. Might have to read the books cos I don't think I can wait for them to film the rest to find out what happens next
Watched both seasons of Game of Thrones in a week. Might have to read the books cos I don't think I can wait for them to film the rest to find out what happens next
The next book is probably the best and apparently will be split into 2 seasons.
Time for a compilation? Put almost all of the shows mentioned here, and attempted some sort of categorization. Maybe it will spur some memories out there :)
WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-81)One of my favorite shows of the 70's and 80's. Clean entertainment with minimal amount of negative messages mixed in. Characters and actors consistent throughout entire series.
Without a doubt, one of the greatest shows ever. As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could flyThe writing and acting in that show was so perfect for TV comedy.
If you like animation,
Drawn Together
Harvey Birdman
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Comedy:
- The IT Crowd
- The Office
- Black Adder
- Absolutely Fabulous
Other:
- Dexter
- The Wire
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Breaking Bad
I don't see F-Troop on that list. ananananan
I don't see F-Troop on that list. ananananan
Breaking Bad is great. I will watch it through to the end. But what they're doing with it now... is it just me, or has it been just so by the numbers for everyone? The second half of season five has been like it's some other show.
Why not call it "Rip van Winkle, Apocalypse Stopper"?
I didn't get Walt's transformation. He spent five years pretty much ignoring every other person alive but then losing weight in snow changes him? I mean sure, he's used to New Mexico, snow must strain the soul. But it leeches the Heisenberg out of him too?
I didn't get Walt's transformation. He spent five years pretty much ignoring every other person alive but then losing weight in snow changes him? I mean sure, he's used to New Mexico, snow must strain the soul. But it leeches the Heisenberg out of him too?
That might have been the cancer.
Dexter;s final season was pretty poor to me.
"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.
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... agagagagag
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 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,.
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.
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'.Quote"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.
I only watched Deadwood this year, total mystery why they cancelled it to me, what there was of it was brilliant.
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...
What amuses me is that I didn't know that the Norsemen had Irish accents
The show is definitely promising, except for one thing and that is Dracula's American accent. It is horrible. Halfway through the episode, I so desperately wanted Rex Harrison in his role as Henry Higgins to jump out, put Drac in a leg-lock and shout "Longer vowels, old chum, let me hear it...come on...the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain...no, not uncle, come, come, there's a good chap, let me hear those long, beautiful vowels". It is, I must clarify, not American accents in general I have a problem with, just the way it is spoken by mr. Meyers. He is not very good at it.
I thought it entertaining too. However, as for historical accuracy, it is about as true and factual as Wodehouse's depiction of Edwardian society. A fun show, nonetheless. agagagagag agagagagag agagagagag
Ever since watching "The Tudors" I have been wondering why someone has not cast that Rhys-Meyers chap as a vampire.
Hmm..sometimes one has to wonder who writes or researches TV shows.
if they really want a good show with good characters and plot set in the Victorian era, why not just turn "No Name" or "Armadale" into a series?
So this is starting to suck: I've caught up with all the Person of Interest episodes and got used to watching two a day but new episodes are hard to come by. CBS in it/their wisdom has rationed them to once a fortnight. IT IS NOT ENOUGH! I NEED MY STORIES!
I need a new show. I like Person of Interest, Revolution, Continuum, and taking walks in the rain. When they were on I liked Dexter and Breaking Bad. Going back a bit, West Wing was cool, so was The Wire. Also Dollhouse and Buffy.
WHAT IS THERE LEFT?!?
I'm just glad Game of Thrones sucks so much. I mean, sure, it's great, but they have a billion story lines and every episode reads like a complication of five minute skits. If there's some over-arching narrative, it gets skewered every time. Plus, is it actually still on? It feels like years since I saw an ep....
Anyway, Imma try out Orphan Black and Hannibal.
Episodic tv is the new novel.
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzExNDIwMTk2.html
Well, it's that time of year again - all my shows have finale'd. And it seems like movie season has been woeful. So I don't know what to watch. Started on Fargo instead.
As for American series, based on your posts I think you'll completely hate this next one, but I kind of like 'The Last Ship' which has started recently. Hammy acting. Lots of action. Sort of like a mix between transformers and an advert for the American Navy, but me like the 1st 2 episodes.
Line of Duty was excellent. I agree that the second season was better than the first but the first was good too.
Fargo was also really good.
I've just watched the first two episodes of Tyrant about a despot in a fictional Arab country. They weren't quite brave enough to make it completely Arab, so there is the family member that grew up in America as the lead. It could go either way really but it's different at least.
The first episode of The Leftovers was interesting. 2% of the worlds population disappears in an instant but instead of focusing on the why and how, the show seems to more interested in the effect the disappearance has on the people that are dealing with the loss. Not exactly a cheer you up kind of show but I'm looking forward to more.
The rest is fluff but that doesn't mean not enjoyable. Gang Related is a new show. Falling Skies is back and so is Jack Bauer in 24: Live Another Day, which is a fun show.
In the running for stupidest concept for a show ever, is Taxi Brooklyn. It's a police procedural. A pretty detective who is sometimes reckless and a terrible driver gets put on foot patrol because she can't be trusted to drive and no will partner with her. Through a series of increasing unbelievable events, she ends up helping a French immigrant taxi driver. He offers to drive her anywhere, whenever she needs, and so becomes her new unofficial partner. With her detective skills and determination and his awesome driving abilities and worldliness, they fight crime in Brooklyn. Meanwhile her cougar mother has the hots for the taxi driver.
This show really has to be seen to believed.
I just realized that we watched the same new shows. That's what I get for not reading upthread.
I rather liked The Leftovers but I am kind of wondering how it will play out as a multi-season series. It doesn't immediately strike me as having massive amounts of plot to develop, but I guess we'll see.
Stil, I agree with everything you said about Taxi Brooklyn but you left out how every single line in the show is a cliche and delivered with what can only be called melodramatic, overacted pathos, the characters are so flat you could slide them under a door and there is not a single element of the plot that hasn't been lifted from somewhere else. In actual fact, this is a good show...if one wanted to use a TV show in class to show how bad something can be by over-usage of stereotypes, cliches and cut-and-paste plot formulas. agagagagag agagagagag
Currently I've just started watching Defiance.
Currently I've just started watching Defiance.
Is it any good? I kept seeing promos for it on the end of Continuum and wondered.
Meanwhile, I have accepted the Line of Doody challenge and sought out the first episode. We shall see,
Doctor Who - (new) season 8 - twelfth doctor - episode 1
I AM NOT CONVINCED!
Plus, all the languages they use. English, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin and Japanese so far by my count.
“I want to look in their eyes while I salt the Earth with their blood.”
How did you know about the zombie cafe without watching the first episode all the way to the end?
So, to erase these unfortunate spoilers from my mmory, I tape the exposed ends of the lamp cord to my temples, plug it into the wall socket (extra safe because it has a power switch!), and then flip the . . .
aqaqaqaqaq aoaoaoaoao
I recently binge watched UnReal also Stil and it is, as you say, excellent. It was picked up for a second season too!
I found The Good Wife surprisingly good.
Hearing goodish things, and I know it premieres today, but haven't found it yet.
Is it just me or has Game of Thrones turned into some other tv show? Season six has an almost Brady Bunch vibe.
Is it just me or has Game of Thrones turned into some other tv show? Season six has an almost Brady Bunch vibe.
What is going on with this show? Last night on Game of Thrones, along with guest spots from the Terminator and Jason Voorhees, basically one thing happened. The rest seemed like fluff.
I only complain because the vibe of these recent episodes seems to me so un-GoT that I'd like to know what's going on.
Also, personally speaking, one of the enduring wtf things in the books is Lady Stoneheart, and in the tv show.... pffft.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
The one dude who uploads HD episodes of Wentworth has ragequit Kickass
That's it, man. That's it. game over.
Have you tried signing up for theempire.bz?
They have australian, canadian, etc commonwealth programmes.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
The one dude who uploads HD episodes of Wentworth has ragequit Kickass
That's it, man. That's it. game over.
I don't know what to think anymore. I have grown accustomed to mostly accessible timely releases of high quality video, and one day that will all come to an end. Some day, when piracy finally gets choked off[...]
better late than never... digging Sherlock.
I binge watched all 3 seasons... so good!
Guess I need to check the pirates for the rest of Season 3.
Yes, there really are only 3. They decided to try to make each one extremely high quality.
Just finished watching season 1 of Westworld on the weekend.
Mind bhbhbhbhbh all around - on the "hosts", the park employees, and the viewers. Think I spotted an early clue to one of the biggest ones, but need to rewatch to be sure.
Grab your 6 shooter, a big bowl of popcorn, and enjoy!
I can't wait for Season 2.
No spoilers please.. i'm waiting to have a whole day so I can binge watch it.
A mad max ripoff, yes, but a tv show, not a movie, with life after the apocalypse trading cell phones and virgins. bfbfbfbfbf
Just watched the series finale of 'The Leftovers'.
人民的名义 aka In the Name of [The] People
55 episodes of this exist.... and it's some kind of runaway hit for Hunan TV... and I don't know the broadcast schedule but I believe the finale for the first (55 episode) season aired recently.
And there're no subs!!
Season 3.... generalised spoilers, I guess.
Watch out below.
Thus far:
Exceptionally tiresome outros. Bugs me every time. That'll probably continue for the whole season unfortunately. But the lengthy, time-wasting, not very informative wiling away of the hour on lengthy stays with boring characters seems finished by episode 4. Goodness, the first three eps included some tedious stretches, I was wondering if I hadn't been had. The intensity wasn't there. But then along comes episode 4. Worth it. By episode 3 I was wondering if I'd keep watching. With episode 4, I'm looking forward to 5.
Shall take a look at Nirvana in Fire and see if it's good like everyone says [...]
Hyori's Bed and Breakfast - 효리네 민박 - (2017/2018)
(https://www.allkpop.com/upload/2017/12/af_org/07210501/Lee-Hyori-IU.jpg)
Hyori's Bed and Breakfast - 효리네 민박 - (2017/2018)
(https://www.allkpop.com/upload/2017/12/af_org/07210501/Lee-Hyori-IU.jpg)
Also a hypnotic salve, and a reality show to boot.
Check out "Iris", a Korean political drama currently on Netflix. (English subtitles).
Better Than Us - Лучше, чем люди - (2019)
In non-Soviet Russia, all appliances obey Asimov's Three laws of Robotics, except for that one robot who doesn't.
Started watching this:
Twin Peaks ACTUALLY EXPLAINED (No, Really) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AYnF5hOhuM)
Started watching this:
Twin Peaks ACTUALLY EXPLAINED (No, Really) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AYnF5hOhuM)
That could take some of the fun out of it.