The TV Series discussion thread

Din't watch that one (pot and nature is my thing, I'm totally against chemistry, chemicals and anything about it) so can't say if yes or no.

But IMO something light and funny should be the starting point after 15 years long hiatus.
If it should be a longer show to enjoy, I suggest Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis.
If it shouldn't be only one season show, then I'd pick underrated Shit My Dad Says (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1612578/).
 
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No.

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Eight seasons?
Are you mad? :D
 
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If you've not watched television in fifteen years, the first shows that I'd suggest would be the Wire, Twin Peaks, and Fringe. Then top it off with Battlestar Galactica. Assuming you enjoy dramas, if comedy is more your style I wouldn't be a good source.
 
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If you've not watched television in fifteen years, the first shows that I'd suggest would be the Wire, Twin Peaks, and Fringe. Then top it off with Battlestar Galactica. Assuming you enjoy dramas, if comedy is more your style I wouldn't be a good source.
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Also Lost and 24, most people I know would say one or the other is like their favorite TV show ever.
 
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I definitely seem to have very different tastes than Wolfing. I think 24 and Lost were both terrible crap.

I go with The Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Battlestar. Also some of the Scandi noir series, if you like that sort of thing.
 
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Peter Jackson did awesome job translating Lord of the rings books into film while respecting the source material. I will always treasure these films. So I doubt any tv-series could do better job.
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Did we watch the same movies? :)

They weren't terrible, but I thought they could have been a lot better. I also strongly disagree about him respecting the source material. He made significant changes to some of my favorite parts in the books.

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Breaking Bad would be the answer to that question.
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+1 You can't go wrong with that one if you're looking for a good drama.
 
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Did we watch the same movies? :)

They weren't terrible, but I thought they could have been a lot better. I also strongly disagree about him respecting the source material. He made significant changes to some of my favorite parts in the books.
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Well they were near perfect to me. I get that there were changes,but a film based on any book is always an adaption of orginal work and can never reach same level. I just think that as a whole he followed the books quite faithfully and brought Tolkien's world, characters and the mood on big screen extremly well. In this he succeeded. His films touched me deeply. It wasn't a cash grab like the later Hobbit films which left me cold.

Sure there is room for improvement. That is given, but I never expected him to stay 100 % faithfull. Director always has a vision of his own. I don't fully agree with all the changes he did, but most of them just didn't bother me that much.

For me personally, the most dissapointing moment was when Faramir was tempted by the ring... I just think it was entirely unnecessary to add more drama in such cheap way. Corrupting Faramir's character served no purpose other than adding more drama. The corrupting influence of the one ring was hammered a bit too much for my liking. Some people were able to resist the power of the ring atleast for some time which brings me to good old Tom.

Yes I think they should have not cut good old Tom bombadil, but you have to do those cuts and for a filmmaker it makes sense to shorten the hobbits' trip. I could have personally watched even five hours long fellowship movie though. ;)

Also few smaller things like replacing Glorfindel with Arwen... Yes, the scene works, but every time when I see it, I can't stop thinking that this is not how it happened! :)
 
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So I haven't really watched a series on tv in 15+ years. If i were to pick just one which one ? (i did watch game of thrones but not on tv - but rather via blu ray)
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Cupid's Dagger (The Orville) was a riot, and though it may have seemed childish and juvenile to some who just don't get it, it was a valid science fiction premise - the outrageous effect that alien pheromones may have on other races. It reminded me of a little known science fiction story that I'll always remember by Harlan Ellison called How's the Night Life on Cissalda? (one of the few pornographic stories Harlan wrote under his own name) about an unusual alien invasion where the alien lifeforms conquer the earth not by superior technology but by bizarre biomorphic sexual assimilation of the entire human race. Cupid's Dagger was a perfect example of this series going places that the Star Trek universe could never go. Whenever the later Star Trek series' tackeled sexuality and sexual themes it always felt like it was written by slash-fiction fatties from the mid-west.
 
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I tried to watch Lost and 24 several times because people seemed so raving mad about them but it was always an impossible undertaking for me. 24 was one huge annoying gimmick and American right-wing paranoid brain fever dream, and Lost was so ridiculously contrived in its efforts to keep viewers watching each week that it became the very epitome of bad television.
 
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Here are some of my favorite tv series from recent history:

Homeland - its a politically charged series about terrorism, spies and espionage. Very good actors and characters. The first two seasons are the best ones.

The Missing - a great atmospheric mini-series based in Europe with a European flavor about an older man whose son disappears without a trace one day while in a public location. He is desperate to find out what happened to his son. A great sense of mystery.
https://www.amazon.com/Eden/dp/B00S...F8&qid=1510378118&sr=8-2&keywords=the+missing

V - The remake and re-imagining of the cult tv series from the 1980s. Really amazing tv series if you are into sci-fi. I was actually pretty upset when it got canceled.
https://www.amazon.com/V-The-Comple...swatch_1?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1510378235&sr=8-3

The Last Ship - this one was awesome in the first season, but then kind of fell off in quality. The first season was AMAZING though. It is about a navy ship that is out in the deep sea doing a routine assignment, when a worldwide and deadly virus strikes, taking a huge chunk of the world population along with it. The people on the ship are unaffected, and have to return to civilization in the aftermath, and try to pick up the pieces and find a cure for the virus before its too late. https://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Ship-Season-1/dp/B00KPQ7TR6
 
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I thought The Returned (the original french television series) was terrible. I can only imagine, and shudder to think, how bad any even more diluted remake of it would be.
 
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Wait . . . Handmaids Tale is supposed to be good???????

OMG it sucked so bad. Plotting wrong. Acting incongruous. Visuals far to gorgeous for the story its trying to tell. The back and forth story telling reeked of "Look what we can do."

Was this show only made for people who read or are familiar with the book? An American society that has been fundamentally changed needs some quick answers on what happened. Instead it is going to be drippled out to keep me viewing for the next episode? It reminds me of the story of the first Star Wars movie. When it was completed and screened people asked why was everybody at war, where are we. And that is the reason they came up with that long screen crawl at the beginning of the movie. And yes I am familiar with the concept of Media Res. IMO, this was a fail.

Yeah, I guess the show is getting a lot of kudos but I wont be back. Looking to find the movie screening somewhere. Or maybe I'll just re-read the book.
 
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So, what's everyone's opinion on Amazon doing a Lord of the Rings series. I personally can't see the movies needing a remake any time soon. But they did say they would cover unexplored stories as well as spinoffs (Silmarillion?).
 
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Dajjer said:
Wait . . . Handmaids Tale is supposed to be good???????

OMG it sucked so bad. Plotting wrong. Acting incongruous. Visuals far to gorgeous for the story its trying to tell. The back and forth story telling reeked of "Look what we can do."

Was this show only made for people who read or are familiar with the book?
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I've never heard about the book nor read it.

It's horror and should be viewed as such. That's not stated on imdb, for what reason, don't ask me.

And IMO it's a damned masterpiece. :D
I think I've posted - do not binge it. An episode or two per day, not more. You've been warned. :p

Humor me and browse through hateful imdb reviews. You'll spot remarks like "paint everyone of the Christian faith as a totalitarian" or "anti christian propaganda" - these people are bullshitting, trolling, are perhaps stupid to understand anything or didn't watch the series at all. The "new order" that is totalitarian is killing christian priests and nuns. And more. Why, well, now that'd be a major spoiler! Watch and learn. ;)

While it's my #1 series among those I've watched so far in this year, I still didn't watch some highly praised series to be sure there's nothing better. For example korean "While you were sleeping" - I'm waiting till it ends airing so I can binge it.
This one is legally streaming on viki.com (the site operates similar to Crunchyroll, recent episodes are not free to watch, but you can always hit the two week free trial for those):
https://www.viki.com/tv/33538c-while-you-were-sleeping

Speaking of which, japanese giant Rakuten that owns viki (US), plans to merge it with their other two streaming services wuaki (europe) and showtime (japan) under one name - rakuten.tv. Yup, Netflix is supposed to get a proper competition on worldwide market. When exactly the merge is supposed to happen is not specified, wuaki already changed it's name.
I bet you didn't know this. :D
 
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So, what's everyone's opinion on Amazon doing a Lord of the Rings series. I personally can't see the movies needing a remake any time soon. But they did say they would cover unexplored stories as well as spinoffs (Silmarillion?).
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I haven't read it since I was a kid, but I seem to remember that was a lot of history discussed only in fairly broad strokes - a whole origin myth that was very Paradise Lost, with fallen angels and various wars with different levels of spiritual creatures. There'd be tons of room to flesh that background history out in a decent TV series.
 
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I've never heard about the book nor read it.

It's horror and should be viewed as such. That's not stated on imdb, for what reason, don't ask me.

And IMO it's a damned masterpiece. :D
I think I've posted - do not binge it. An episode or two per day, not more. You've been warned. :p
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Hey, its cool you like the mini series. I didn't. One movie I loved but most hated was Michele and Romey's High School reunion. I never tried to change anyone's mind I just felt they missed out on a good story. I guess you feel the same way about Handmaids Tale.

Since you didn't read the book let me tell you how they soft peddled the mini series. In the book, the only people allowed in this new society were white people. The Gilead society was not only sexist but also racist. African American were supposedly relocated to the Midwest and Jews were supposedly allowed to go back to Israel (they were dumped at sea). I'm not advocating the show producers should have went that way (no blacks). But in her novel, the author based the violence and oppression in Gilead on American slavery, but without any black people in the story.

I guess the second season is going to based on the epilogue in the book. Now that might be interesting to see how they turn a mini series into that.
 
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