All this talk about series, how network TV Sucks, and how hard it is to find quality shows, and some excellent shows that fly under the radar, I need a comprehensive review of all the series I need to see.
For good entertainment, I would be willing to buy DVD sets. But I've recently picked up HBOGO by kiping it from my parents, and recently got Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Here is a listing of shows that I currently own or have seen all the episodes of. If it isn't on the list, just assume I haven't seen it.
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Great Shows – Must See
Game of Thrones
Mad Men
Longmire
Burn Notice
House
Spartacus
House of Cards
Justified
True Detective
Breaking Bad
The Assets
The Wire
Sherlock (BBC)
The Americans
The Walking Dead
Deadwood
Netflix: Daredevil
Jack Taylor
Luther
Bosch
Good shows
Travelers
Ozark
The Leftovers
Conviction
Medici
The Last Kingdom
Firefly
Dollhouse
The Good Wife
Hell on Wheels
Big Bang Theory
Falling Skies
Suits
White Collar
Agents of SHIELD
Arrow
Boss
Rome
Orange is the New Black
Orphan Black
The Knick
Goliath (Amazon)
Iron Fist
Show Me a Hero
Hell on Wheels
Shooter
Mediocre
Robin Hood (BBC)
Vikings
How I met your Mother
Scrubs
Chuck
That 70's Show
Top Gear
Graceland
Hung (HBO)
Gotham
Conviction
Crap Camelot
Top Shot
Defiance
Legends of Tomorrow
Here is a listing of shows that I'm currently watching
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Great
Good
Boardwalk Empire
Westworld
Mediocre
Crap
Here is a listing of shows on my list to watch (mostly due to this thread)
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The Sopranos
24
Fargo (missed getting it on the DVR :-) )
Band of Brothers
The Pacific
The Comeback
6 Feet Under
John Adams
Battlestar Glactica
Friday Night Lights
I work a fuckton, so it is hard for me catch a series while it is on to get it on the DVR, but I recognize the entertainment value and am willing to go after the Must See shows. Accordingly, I'm not necessarily looking for anything that is still running. I'm up for watching stuff that has run its course.
So what say you, Planet? Which shows should I see?
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Depending on your taste, I'd estimate it's well superior to Yellowstone.
Yellowstone is pulpy and soapy and about present day power and politics with all that skin and violence. It's decent enough.
But if you like beautiful vistas and hardscrabble toil to traverse a frontier, 1883 is better visually and narratively.
It's a contained narrative fully told from beginning to end in 10 episodes. It doesn't have to worry about stringing you along to the next episode or next season.
And there are some great thespian performances.
I don't want to spoil it with overexplaining or oversharing, but it's beautiful and gritty and violent and uplifting and nostalgic, . . . if those are things you're looking for in a limited series.
Originally Posted by Coochie liquor:
Well. I’m sold. Thanks BL!
I meant to add, you can pick your way through the Yellowstone thread in this subforum for some contemporary reactions. Whether pre-viewing on contemporaneous with your own viewing.
It kind of got adopted as 'the 1883 thread' while it was airing. [Reply]
Anyone given Outer Range a shot, yet? I'm two episodes in, and I've already reached the WTF place. Josh Brolin is a very underrated performer and pulls off the surly rancher persona perfectly. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bowser:
Anyone given Outer Range a shot, yet? I'm two episodes in, and I've already reached the WTF place. Josh Brolin is a very underrated performer and pulls off the surly rancher persona perfectly.
Just started last night. I'll watch more after episode 1. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bowser:
Anyone given Outer Range a shot, yet? I'm two episodes in, and I've already reached the WTF place. Josh Brolin is a very underrated performer and pulls off the surly rancher persona perfectly.
On my list, but about 3-4 shows from starting it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by sd4chiefs:
The 3rd season of Love, Death, and Robots is out on Netflix. I watched the first two stories last night and they were great but I was pretty stoned.
I'm excited to watch it. The moment i get some "ME" time with the T.V this will most certainly be what i put on.
Loved the 1st season. Enjoyed the 2nd season but thought it had too few episodes. [Reply]
So wild to even contemplate the variables here. Hard to imagine a more sure-fire thing simultaneously being such an enormous gamble.
So many resources invested in what seems like a last gasp of a dying paradigm, . . . I mean when the was last time anyone even uttered the phrase 'big-budget network television programming?'
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
So wild to even contemplate the variables here. Hard to imagine a more sure-fire thing simultaneously being such an enormous gamble.
So many resources invested in what seems like a last gasp of a dying paradigm, . . . I mean when the was last time anyone even uttered the phrase 'big-budget network television programming?'
That looks really good and I love Steve Howey in Shameless. And Ginger Gonzaga is hot as hell. [Reply]
