Shawn Posted August 22, 2013 Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 The Newsroom - Season 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricia Posted August 24, 2013 Report Share Posted August 24, 2013 OK, Sons of Anarchy wasn't meant to be. After dinner, I watched Breaking Bad season one episode one. I'm going to have a Breaking Bad marathon alongside the final eight episodes of season 5. There are enough allusions to just season 1 episode 1 in season 5 so far to make this exciting. Brilliant. I'm watching "Breaking Bad" on Netflix and have purposely not watched the new season on TV. My curiosity about how this all ends is almost unbearable, but I'm staying strong. The evolution of the two main characters as the series progresses is nothing short of brilliant!! They are real people, which is the highest praise I can give actors in a long-running role. Season 4 is just as well written and well acted as the earlier ones. These people are not riding on the coat-tails of their previous accolades for the series. They bring it with every line and every scene. The only series, for me, that comes close is BBC's "Luther." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted August 25, 2013 Report Share Posted August 25, 2013 (edited) Had this on the magic machine that stores TV programmes for nearly a year and finally got round to it. Read the book sometime towards the end of the last Ice Age so only vaguely recall the story. As with all these TV adaptations suffers from a sense of being compressed and hurried through but I'm enjoying it. A bit Downtown Abbey. Edited August 25, 2013 by A Lark Ascending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwbol Posted August 25, 2013 Report Share Posted August 25, 2013 Intriguing thriller set in rural New Zealand with Elisabeth Moss from Mad Men in the main role, Very strange. One of those series where no-one is normal. Everyone seems to have disturbing pasts (and presents!). Reminds me of those films set in inaccessible communities in the Appalachians. Or Wales. Sick subject matter. Of course the pervs got what was coming. This is television. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted August 25, 2013 Report Share Posted August 25, 2013 Is it sicker than Hannibal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjb Posted August 25, 2013 Report Share Posted August 25, 2013 Seasons 2 and 3 of a Canadian series, "The Newsroom" and the follow-up series, "Escape From The Newsroom." This series ran in the U.S. some years ago as well, I think on PBS and it is excellent. Ken Finkleman, who wrote and starred in the ongoing story of the most dysfunctional news organization imaginable chose to have no laughtrack and have the whole cast play their roles totally straight. It's hilarious, once you get into the rhythm of the utter madness. I sent a copy of the first year of the series to a friend in New York and he was intrigued as well as amused by it's originality. Highly recommended. Absolutely agree Patricia. Ken Finkleman is a national treasure (Airplane II, Grease 2, Good God and a Fellini obsession notwithstanding!) Did you see his Good Dog - same character different environment? Different but I really really liked it. Then Good God - so over the top and (sadly, considering the topic) stunningly obvious. Shockingly awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricia Posted August 25, 2013 Report Share Posted August 25, 2013 (edited) Seasons 2 and 3 of a Canadian series, "The Newsroom" and the follow-up series, "Escape From The Newsroom." This series ran in the U.S. some years ago as well, I think on PBS and it is excellent. Ken Finkleman, who wrote and starred in the ongoing story of the most dysfunctional news organization imaginable chose to have no laughtrack and have the whole cast play their roles totally straight. It's hilarious, once you get into the rhythm of the utter madness. I sent a copy of the first year of the series to a friend in New York and he was intrigued as well as amused by it's originality. Highly recommended. Absolutely agree Patricia. Ken Finkleman is a national treasure (Airplane II, Grease 2, Good God and a Fellini obsession notwithstanding!) Did you see his Good Dog - same character different environment? Different but I really really liked it. Then Good God - so over the top and (sadly, considering the topic) stunningly obvious. Shockingly awful. Yes, I did see "Good Dog" and it carries on with Finkleman's personality as a self-absorbed, picky narcissist. I loved it. The actress who plays his much younger girlfriend [Lauren Lee Smith] is also in another Canadian series, "The Listener, " which is into it's fourth season. The humor in "Good Dog" as in "The Newsroom is typically Canadian, understated and witty. My friend in NY was thrown off a little bit when there was no laughtrack on "The Newsroom", but laughed anyway. I agree with your assessment of "Good God." Edited August 25, 2013 by patricia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 (edited) "Gypsy Soul" a BBC 4 programme about flamenco. Probably too simplistic for the specialist but as someone who knows little about the music I found it really interesting. Great to see really young kids getting completely absorbed into the music and dance. And they used bits of Sketches of Spain in places as link music between scenes. Nice section filming a religious procession in Seville (Corpus Christi?) which seemed like the sort of event that inspired 'Saeta' on SkofSp. I also leant how to pronounce Cadithhhh. There was also an interesting documentary a couple of days back about how 'World Music' as a marketing genre came into being in the UK. Both on replayer for those with access. Edited August 26, 2013 by A Lark Ascending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Nothing. Taking a break until the fall season starts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted August 28, 2013 Report Share Posted August 28, 2013 Excellent new documentary on the March on Washington for the 50th anniversary. I'd seen very little of the footage shown previously. Now if they could just get round to putting out 'Eyes on the Prize' on DVD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted August 29, 2013 Report Share Posted August 29, 2013 Sons of Anarchy, Season Five Blu-ray. This was intense on broadcast. Enjoying the discs as much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim McG Posted August 29, 2013 Report Share Posted August 29, 2013 Sons of Anarchy, Season Five Blu-ray. This was intense on broadcast. Enjoying the discs as much. I've been watching the Sons of Arthritis. I'm a charter member. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted August 29, 2013 Report Share Posted August 29, 2013 Episode 7 - season 5 of Damages on DVD.3 to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted August 29, 2013 Report Share Posted August 29, 2013 I got that season of Damages in . . . will start it soon. Sons of Anarchy, Season Five Blu-ray. This was intense on broadcast. Enjoying the discs as much. I've been watching the Sons of Arthritis. I'm a charter member. Sons of Anarchy, Season Five Blu-ray. This was intense on broadcast. Enjoying the discs as much. I've been watching the Sons of Arthritis. I'm a charter member. Sons of Anarchy, Season Five Blu-ray. This was intense on broadcast. Enjoying the discs as much. I've been watching the Sons of Arthritis. I'm a charter member. My friend David and I were going to start a Sons of Malarchy chapter. Then he got in an accident, and it wasn't funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jazzbo Posted September 8, 2013 Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 Watching Spartacus final season, and about to watch the third season of Luther (all four episodes on the DVR!) Been watching Hell on Wheels as well, which is an entertaining AMC show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted September 8, 2013 Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 A little while back, TCM showed this movie; watching it was a strange experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted September 8, 2013 Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 Yeah, otoh, low-budget cheesey concept (and often, execution). OTOH, oddly prescient in its depiction of WE WANT IT NOW student protests of the 60s and how the kid with the beach house doesn't wanna hear it when his dad tells him that the beach house is there because Dad plays politics. One wonders where the kid is 20 years later, what kind of beach house he does or doesn't have now and how happy he is about it, and oh yeah, Kent State, that's right, The Man WILL kill your ass if it comes to that, so maybe a beach house is better than getting killed for being right, or at least a reasonable-enough consolation, being right is only what you want when you can predict the consequences, depends on how you look at it, and from where. Maybe. But it's a trip to watch this from a 1961 perspective, and then superimpose the realities of 1971, and then 1981, and so forth and so forth. This is not a juvenile deliquescent sex film, this is about student idealism trumping all, and in 1961, that was not a widely considered notion, never mind a widely acted-upon impulse. It ended up being a lot better than I was expecting, and it had kind of a "Western" feel to it, what with Right vs Wrong Ultimate showdowns and stuff like that. But...early on when the kids are speeding to school The Day After, is that a Rolls parked on the street, just casually sitting there amongst all the other occasional cars? That tripped my wife and myself out! Streaming Netflix. Loving it, for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted September 9, 2013 Report Share Posted September 9, 2013 Breaking Bad, episode 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted September 9, 2013 Report Share Posted September 9, 2013 Busman's holiday. Fly on the wall look at a standard British state school serving a working class area. This is what it's really like! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwbol Posted September 9, 2013 Report Share Posted September 9, 2013 Breaking Bad, episode 5. "So What." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 9, 2013 Report Share Posted September 9, 2013 I bet Bruce is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jazzbo Posted September 9, 2013 Report Share Posted September 9, 2013 T shirt I'm wearing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted September 10, 2013 Report Share Posted September 10, 2013 Yesterday's episode was good. Best ciffhangers on TV right now. (Hank and Gomie sure look fucked.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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