What TV series are you currently watching?

[milk]

I am shocked that anyone would see this series and not remember it.

I saw the series for the first time last year and thought it was excellent.

She doesn't remember the details. Maybe this is funny but my wife is Vietnamese and I showed this whole thing to her on my iPad in Vietnam. It was a kind of crazy thing to show her because I think she had not much context for it at the time, leaving aside language problems. Now it's years later and we live in Japan and my wife has so much more context for it. She remembers the characters anyway. 

[George]

Late to this show, but really enjoying it.

[The new erato]

Me too, though s 3 seem to be weaker, I'm watching it now.

[VonStupp]

Eleventh Hour (2006)
Patrick Stewart & Ashley Jensen

This week, we decided to hunker down and watch these four, 70-minute episodes, the entirety of its run. Decent mystery yarns mixed with pseudo science.

VS

[George]

Oh my goodness, this show is incredible! 

[Florestan]

Oh my goodness, this show is incredible!

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Fuck! 

[SonicMan46]

Oh my goodness, this show is incredible!

Hey George - all of our TV series are in-between episodes it seems -    SO, believe that we will start the one above tonight - Dave 

[George]

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Fuck! 

I don't understand. 

Hey George - all of our TV series are in-between episodes it seems -    SO, believe that we will start the one above tonight - Dave 

It is an incredible show, Dave. Edge of your seat, dramatic and darkly comedic. Hope you like it!

[Todd]

Reacher.  I've never seen the Tom Cruise movies, nor have I read the 26 tales published in 25 years, so this is my first exposure to this character drawn from a literary tradition just a half-notch below William Faulkner qualitatively.  Some B-list beefcake actor gamely plays the title character, more than occasionally shirtless, in his best American accented version of an Arnold character who shoots and beats people to death in the name of justice.  There's one scene perhaps meant to be shocking or graphic, but The Americans had a nastier version a few years back.  A very attractive, very petite Willa Fitzgerald plays the romantic interest/tough as nails cop sidekick, with a character name so absurdly delicious I burst out laughing when it was uttered - Roscoe Conklin.  Just awesome!  There are some other actors who do stuff, and there's criminal activity, and beatings, and shootings, some stabbings to keep things lively, and various plot twists and turns, and so on.  The show is so incredibly stupid that one can't help but enjoy it for its stupidity and well executed medium budget look. 

[Fëanor]

Reacher.  I've never seen the Tom Cruise movies, nor have I read the 26 tales published in 25 years, so this is my first exposure to this character drawn from a literary tradition just a half-notch below William Faulkner qualitatively.  Some B-list beefcake actor gamely plays the title character, more than occasionally shirtless, in his best American accented version of an Arnold character who shoots and beats people to death in the name of justice.  There's one scene perhaps meant to be shocking or graphic, but The Americans had a nastier version a few years back.  A very attractive, very petite Willa Fitzgerald plays the romantic interest/tough as nails cop sidekick, with a character name so absurdly delicious I burst out laughing when it was uttered - Roscoe Conklin.  Just awesome!  There are some other actors who do stuff, and there's criminal activity, and beatings, and shootings, some stabbings to keep things lively, and various plot twists and turns, and so on.  The show is so incredibly stupid that one can't help but enjoy it for its stupidity and well executed medium budget look.

On the contrary, I enjoyed it but I'll admit that I had to "suspend disbelieve" basically all the time.  There is something vaguely disquieting about miraculously endowed, (mentally as well as physically), macho good guy who can ignore the law supposedly in the cause of justice -- an inherent contradiction as it seems to me.

As for the Americans, I gave up somewhere in Season 3.  I found I simply couldn't find any empathy for the main protagonists being as they were, completely ruthless in their methods that included casual murder of innocents.

[Roy Bland]

[SonicMan46]

OH MY!    Not aware of that British TV series from the late '50s (at that time I was watching a LOT of these old TV 'adventure' series, e.g. Robin Hood, Cisco Kid, Superman, and others).  Now I just upgraded my Ivanhoe movie to blu-ray which looks fabulous in the color filming of the day.  Dave

Ivanhoe is a British television adventure series first shown on ITV network in 1958–1959. The show features Roger Moore in his first starring role, as Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in a series of adventures aimed at a children's audience. The characters were drawn loosely from Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel Ivanhoe. (Source)

[JBS]

Question for those that have seen either series: do you think either or both are worth watching?



Prompted by seeing these DVD sets on sale relatively cheaply (especially Merlin) at Barnes and Noble.

[George]

Rip Torn is an absolute delight on this show!

[Roy Bland]

[Biffo]

Question for those that have seen either series: do you think either or both are worth watching?



Prompted by seeing these DVD sets on sale relatively cheaply (especially Merlin) at Barnes and Noble.

Don't recall seeing any of this Robin Hood. Merlin starts off well but for me outstayed its welcome - too many episodes. I stuck with it to the end though.

[milk]

Rip Torn is an absolute delight on this show!

I love that show.

[Papy Oli]

   

Wiki : Based on the best-selling non-fiction memoir of the same name, the series follows junior doctor Adam Kay in his chaotic job in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. As well as managing the disorder and fatigue of hospital life, from unexpectedly assisting in bloody births to dealing with the unexpected deaths of patients, Adam must navigate his personal relationships, including with his parents who he has not come out to. All the while, the vicious cycle of working exacts a cumulative effect on his ability to handle it all.

On BBC I-player.

Warts and all, at times sarcastically comedic, heart warming often heart breaking and harrowing drama.
Top cast & acting throughout. Ben Wishaw and Ambika Mod are simply outstanding.

As a UK viewer, this depiction of the NHS is ultimately very unsettling to say the least (It's all there: lack of staff, lack of budget, under equipment, ministerial visits, staff chargeable car parks, private clinics, etc...). They should duct-tape some politicians to their chair to watch it all in one go and see if they can still justify insulting pay rises for the NHS staff. That's if, sadly, that duct tape is not already used to hold that ward together!!

Highly recommended, even if you'll likely be left shaken by it.

[George]

I love that show.

It really is something special!

[George]

I love that show.

During a staff meeting on an episode I saw today, a network exec says something about how the network is a family. Artie replies "don't give me that family crap! Manson had a family!"