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My favorite, along with DCI Banks.Watched the last episode of “Line of Duty” Season 3 last night. Excellent series with top notch writing and acting.
My favorite, along with DCI Banks.Watched the last episode of “Line of Duty” Season 3 last night. Excellent series with top notch writing and acting.
[Mods: This is not "spoilers", it's in the summary blurb on Netflix and is learned in the first 10 minutes of episode 1.]
I found that HBOMax has The West Wing available. It was one of my favorite shows when it was on primetime and I watched a few episodes and am hooked again. A great mix of drama and comedy, great writing and acting.. just very well done.
Just a note since you bring it up (and this is to everyone reading this thread as a reminder) Mods don't catch all the spoilers in this thread, your fellow members are helpful keeping the thread clean as well in notifying us. We also certainly don't watch every show, and can't always know where something is truly a spoiler, so prefer to err on the side of removal/edit when there's any doubt.
Sharing to that extent (ie, the blurb) is fine! but beyond that is where other members help decide what's a spoiler. What's more important to most of us is recommendations and why you liked it, without plot points.
Even comments like ... "and then in episode 3 this character does a thing..." can be a spoiler - because some life/death scene in episode 2 now, well... I know they live to next week so it's a bit spoiled. I know more about the how the series will unfold vs. seeing it fresh with my own eyes. We all, I think, know that "and this is how it ends" is a spoiler. But little things along the way, pre-told, can diminish the experience for other viewers.
And so it's always best to keep recommendations to the briefest of summaries, and focus more on why you like them. Not a full review, not a synopsis. Less info is always better. One person's inconsequential reveal is another person's well-you've-ruined-it-for-me-now.
And really, if we love something enough to recommend it to others, we should want everyone to have that same experience from start to finish, as well as all the little twists along the way.
I stopped watching Breaking Bad after 4-5 episodes. Just too gory and disturbing for me. Better Call Saul is much milder with a great lead character. I love how it develops.
City on the hill. HBO. Typical no plot US cop show. Why directors think that lots of bad language, discrimination poor acting, and a big-name actor makes for a good Police Drama. They need to watch more UK Police Dramas and take note. Not sure who their audience is.
We are not anti colourful language folks, but this is ridiculous and pointless.
Dumped after halfway through the first episode. Sorry Kevin Bacon, but your acting sucks in this.
Justified is coming back with a limited series! One of my all time favorite shows!
Just finished the latest two episodes of Station Eleven on HBOMAX. One to go and it is done. Since there is little buzz, I have little hope for a season 2.
I think this series is outstanding. It isn't everyone's cup of tea. But it sure presents any major pandemic in a completely different way, and I love the quirkiness of it all.
Wow, I think City on the Hill is quite good and Kevin Bacon is great portraying a very unlikeable character.
I guess we are just spoilt. We watch WAY too many British Police Dramas, where, although they have their fair share of bad language, their acting and writing are way better. I must admit I was put off by the constant use of profanity for no reason and the continuous focus on discrimination.
We started to watch "Crime" after City on the hill. Not as good as some UK dramas but very watchable. Some folks will have trouble with the deep Scottish Accents.
OK, I wrote the above in January, 2018. Four years later my outlook on the topic is exactly the same. If anything I hate modern fictional TV series even more now than I did; honestly I hardly ever turn on my TVs any more. What a waste of money they turned out to be!I have become seriously disenamored with modern fictional TV series and I don't follow any of them any more. They bore me and often seem preachy to me as well.
They bore me and often seem preachy to me as well.
[...]Granted nothing on Television is going to compare with that... Oh! wait! there was "Twilight Zone" wasn't there.