What TV series are you currently watching?

[SimonNZ]

Recently:



Sorry to see The Bridge is stopping there at season 4. Not sorry to see House Of Cards finish, having gone from silly to ridiculous.

Hard Sun should have been so much better than it was.

[George]

As a Jew, you're almost a Methodist...

I'm wetting myself.

[Ciaccona]

Now viewing:

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Cardinal - Series #1


Just started on this Canadian show - only a couple of episodes in so far but I really like it.
3 Series of this to watch...

[Draško]

Line of Duty series 2 & 3

Second series was excellent (Keeley Hawes especially), and the most of the third. Didn't like shoot-em-up cowboy heroics ending. And the way bad guy gave him self away was bit flimsy compared with minuteness of all the previous plotting throughout the season.

It's quite intense show. I'll take a little break before the 4th series.

[Todd]

Over the past three or so months, I rewatched the first seven seasons of Boobs & Swords in preparation for the grand final season.  The show peaks with seasons three and four, and heads south thereafter.  As I finished up the last episode, I realized that I just don't care who sits on the iron throne.

[PerfectWagnerite]

Over the past three or so months, I rewatched the first seven seasons of Boobs & Swords in preparation for the grand final season.  The show peaks with seasons three and four, and heads south thereafter.  As I finished up the last episode, I realized that I just don't care who sits on the iron throne.

I am still waiting for a good time to start watching that. I will bing watch that all at once.

[SimonNZ]

Enjoyed this far more than other recent adaptations

The Brussels / Waterloo stuff was especially well done

[Ken B]

Enjoyed this far more than other recent adaptations

The Brussels / Waterloo stuff was especially well done

Another? They seem to adapt that regularly.

[Papy Oli]

Line of Duty series 2 & 3

Second series was excellent (Keeley Hawes especially), and the most of the third. Didn't like shoot-em-up cowboy heroics ending. And the way bad guy gave him self away was bit flimsy compared with minuteness of all the previous plotting throughout the season.

It's quite intense show. I'll take a little break before the 4th series.

All 4 series were gripping throughout. Series 5 starts on the BBC this coming Sunday evening by the way, really looking forward to this.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

Over the past three or so months, I rewatched the first seven seasons of Boobs & Swords in preparation for the grand final season.  The show peaks with seasons three and four, and heads south thereafter.  As I finished up the last episode, I realized that I just don't care who sits on the iron throne.

I would not have said there was a peak. I would say a linear decay starting with season 1. It's about 1/3 as entertaining as when they started. The more super-natural hijinks the less I am entertained. Pessimistic that the final season will dominated by special effects. I will watch it nevertheless.

My guess is that the big reveal of the final season will be that Bran Stark turn out to be the ice king (?) through some hokey non-linear time gimic involving the three eyed raven (what is that all about anyway?). The big heartbreak of the finale season will that Sansa is killed (stabbed, impaled, throat cut, poisoned, head cut offf or squashed by the mountain, etc). Or that Bran is not killed.

[Papy Oli]

Finished After Life (Ricky Gervais) on Netflix a few days back.



An absolute rollercoaster of emotions, this. Laughed out loud, bawled my eyes out, it hits hard too... It will make you hold your loved one that little bit closer.

[Ken B]

All 4 series were gripping throughout. Series 5 starts on the BBC this coming Sunday evening by the way, really looking forward to this.

I thought there was a steady but gentle decline season to season, as the twistiness took over the plots. But a good series overall.

[drogulus]

     I'm watching The Bureau, about French spies. It's very well done and has a high uncertainty factor. Things are not what they seem and you're aren't even sure what the seemings are.

[Sef]

Finished After Life (Ricky Gervais) on Netflix a few days back.



An absolute rollercoaster of emotions, this. Laughed out loud, bawled my eyes out, it hits hard too... It will make you hold your loved one that little bit closer.

Ditto - Finished it in one sitting a couple of weeks back. Remiss of me not to share this before, but I endorse your comments.

[Draško]

[Todd]

After Life.  Loved the fifth episode where Gervais' character interviews a woman who makes homemade desserts.  Ashley Jensen does excellent work in her part.  I'm not sure a second season is needed, but I'd watch if one materializes.

[NikF4]

A Very Peculiar Practice (1986) written by Andrew Davies.

"... a black comedy with surreal elements about an idealistic young doctor, Stephen Daker (Peter Davison), taking up a post as a member of a university medical centre. The centre is staffed by a group of misfits including the bisexual Rose Marie (Barbara Flynn), self-absorbed Bob Buzzard (David Troughton) and decrepit Scot, Jock McCannon (Graham Crowden) who heads the team in the first series. A leitmotif is the commercialisation of higher education in Britain following the government cuts of the early 1980s"

I could leave it at that, but won't.

It held up far better than I could have hoped for, in part to to the calibre of those involved - Peter Davidson, Barbara Flynn, Graham Crowden (tenuous link to Davidson, in that Crowden was offered the role of Doctor Who, turned it down and in the process gave Tom Baker his number one gig) but more than all that, the writing of BBC 'Play for Today' stalwart, Andrew Davies - hugely disciplined to the point of being tasked by the BBC with adapting War & Peace, Middlemarch and Pride and Prejudice, with that attribute apparent here in a series that could have either sunk to soap opera levels or tried to rise above the charming quirkiness.
Not without faults of course, as the decades have been less than kind in a few depictions and views which at the time were seen as open minded and progressive. But I don't feel that they're an obstacle in the way of enjoyment.

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[lisa needs braces]

Looks amazing. Can't wait.  (Game of Thrones final season.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGQhMhkbwXM

[North Star]

Just finished the Les Misérables with Dominic West as Jean Valjean and David Oyelowo as Javert. Liked it rather a lot, especially the main cast.

[SimonNZ]

Mars, season two