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Re: tv series recomendations
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2013, 02:01:12 PM »
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"...from what i see we are watching more or less the same"   ;D

Cause they're popular torrents with seeders.

Andy pretty much summed up my pick of picks. I go hire 'em at the video store though, heck I'm dumb.
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Re: tv series recomendations
« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2013, 02:15:44 PM »
i might have used 5 or 6 torrents in my life, none to download a tv serie
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« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2013, 02:21:27 PM »
i might have used 5 or 6 torrents in my life, none to download a tv serie

I did it once to download dvd with meetthegimp episodes.

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Re: tv series recomendations
« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2013, 04:14:04 PM »
Falling Skies is reported to be coming back / it just hasn't said when.

Some other ones>  Nikita, Leverage and of course the old standbys>  CSI - New York, Las Vegas.  Blue Bloods.

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Re: tv series recomendations
« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2013, 06:02:57 PM »
didn't leverage ended this year?

i tried to follow it but never did, it is good but i never found it interesting enough to follow it
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Re: tv series recomendations
« Reply #20 on: February 09, 2013, 06:11:00 PM »
Is anybody still watching Terra Nova? It recently came on tv here in the UK, and I watched the first two episodes, but found it completely uninvolving.
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Re: tv series recomendations
« Reply #21 on: February 09, 2013, 09:52:02 PM »
Is anybody still watching Terra Nova? It recently came on tv here in the UK, and I watched the first two episodes, but found it completely uninvolving.


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« Reply #22 on: February 09, 2013, 10:19:28 PM »
And Leverage ended 12 Dec. 2012.  i'm still 5 episodes from the end...

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Re: tv series recomendations
« Reply #23 on: February 10, 2013, 03:58:17 AM »
Sad to say, there was only one season of Firefly...

Game Of Thrones, is awesome.  but they should make more of them.



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Re: tv series recomendations
« Reply #24 on: February 10, 2013, 05:32:15 AM »
Sad to say, there was only one season of Firefly...

Game Of Thrones, is awesome.  but they should make more of them.

I did enjoyed "Firefly" too. Have You seen "Serenity"? It's a movie that they made to tie some of the loose ends after they have decided to not to continue making the series...

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Re: tv series recomendations
« Reply #25 on: February 10, 2013, 09:02:23 AM »
'The Wire' was a great series, still available by torrent I think. 'The Good Wife' is in Season 4 now. 'Elementary' is a new series that's a different spin on Sherlock Holmes.

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Re: tv series recomendations
« Reply #26 on: February 10, 2013, 09:34:13 AM »
'The Wire' was a great series, still available by torrent I think. 'The Good Wife' is in Season 4 now. 'Elementary' is a new series that's a different spin on Sherlock Holmes.


"The good wife" has THE worse possible title ever. I would never even consider watching it if it wasn't for Steve Gibson's recommendation and he only started watching it by accident. I hear it's great... but the title suggests a soap opera to be honest :D. Thanks for mentioning it ;D. I haven't watched it but I must check it out one day :).

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Leo: Yeah. To me, my favorite way for you to get the show is to subscribe to the downloads. But I want to make it easy for everybody. All right.

Steve: So this is completely random. And so just, you know, completely random. But for years, people whose opinion I respect have been saying, hey, Steve, are you watching "The Good Wife"? Now...

Leo: That's not the first show you would jump to in TV Guide.

Steve: Precisely. That's the problem. Are you watching "The Bedwetters"? No, I'm not. And I realized, if it were named "Cyclotron Crash Hammer," I would have never missed an episode.

Leo: But is it about a cyclotron clash hammer? Or is it about a good wife?

Steve: Well, I kind of thought, how good can it possibly be if it's called "The Good Wife"? Really, I mean, it's just not going to get my attention. "Justified" just started last night was the next season, which is on FX, is, whoo, for those who watch "Justified," you know what I mean. It's wonderful. But "The Good Wife." And so it was a little slow over the holidays. And Sue, who's been with me for, I don't know, 24 years, every so often she'll say, "Hey, have you ever tried, have you ever watched that?" Anyway, it's fantastic. That's all I wanted to say. Just to share something that I find when I do, like the way I found "Homeland."

Leo: Love "Homeland." And I finished it. But, by the way, it's not universal, the love for "Homeland."

Steve: I know.

Leo: And some people are a little tired of Claire Danes's cry face. And I admit, by the end of Season 2, I was a little tired of it, too. But it's still a great show.

Steve: So "The Good Wife" is now in its fourth year. It's about halfway through its fourth season. Up to the end of the third season it had been nominated for 21 Primetime Emmy awards. Julianna Margulies, who's one of the stars, she of course was one of the - really came to fame as the nurse, one of the head nurses in "E.R.," which Michael Creighton of course produced. The executive producers of "The Good Wife" are the Scotts, Ridley Scott and Tony Scott.

Leo: Okay, that's a good start.

Steve: I know.

Leo: That's encouraging.

Steve: I know.

Leo: Creators of "Alien" and "Aliens."

Steve: Exactly. She got a Primetime Emmy, a Golden Globe, two Screen Actors Guild awards, and a TCA award for individual achievement in this series. One of the other actors got another Primetime Emmy. And a third actor or actress got a Primetime Emmy. So it's won a Peabody Award, twice nominated...

Leo: But, Steve, is it science fiction?

Steve: No. It's a courtroom.

Leo: Oh, it's a courtroom. Okay.

Steve: You wouldn't think so. You have "The Good Wife," like what - I'm not going to get myself into any more trouble.

Leo: Good thinking.

Steve: So why do I like it? First of all, I do enjoy the courtroom interaction. I've always found, obviously, that's a genre that appeals to a slice of the viewership in the country because courtroom dramas have had long-running success over the years. But it's very well written. It's very well acted. All the characters are distinct and interesting. And so I'm not saying it's going to curl your toes. It's not the best thing that I've ever found. But I'm really glad I finally - I got the first three seasons on disk, and I'm going through them. And it took maybe eight episodes. I mean, I liked it right off the bat. But it's like, okay, where is this going? And it's got the classic long cross series story arc running in the background with episodic things happening that develop the characters and move them around like chess pieces on the chessboard. So anyway, if other people have told you about it, and you haven't made the move, now you've heard it yet again from one other person. And I like it. Totally random.

Leo: I have to point out something. And it's one of those things that these things happen so gradually, nobody notices. But we have really changed our TV viewing. You could not have said this five years ago. I mean, maybe you could. You could say get the DVDs, I guess. But I would say, at least everybody in our set, very few people are watching live television anymore. Tune in Thursday night for "The Good Wife" on ABC or something or whatever it is. In fact, I don't even know or care what network it's on. Increasingly, we're watching shows on download, on demand, or on DVD. And, much more importantly, not one episode at a time, but like a box of candy that you just snarf up.

Steve: Exactly the way you absorbed the first two seasons of "Homeland."

Leo: Yeah. And I have to say it's a much better, much better experience. There's no advertising. But also there's not this long...

Steve: Continuity.

Leo: Yeah, continuity is much better. Now, I wonder, I'm very interested if people who create these shows are going to kind of think about that and change, because I think until now you really assumed, well, there's going to be six days between these episodes. And they really spend a long time still on "Previously, on 'The Good Wife.'" I don't know if they do it on...

Steve: Actually, none of that.

Leo: Not on the DVD, maybe.

Steve: And I could not watch "24" because every single hour ended with, like, [gasp], you know, and it's like...

Leo: So much better to watch it in one swell foop.

Steve: Yes. Yes.

Leo: And I suspect that that - now, maybe it's just us because we're nerds, and we have the means, and we have the technology. But I suspect there is a sea change in the way people consumer episodic television.

Steve: Well, I do know that I asked my sister, who's got two - now my niece and nephew, her kids, are in college. But they were in high school. And I said, "What TV do Evan and Jenna watch?" And Nancy said, "Oh, they don't watch TV. They watch everything on their laptop."

Leo: They watch YouTube. Yeah, they watch YouTube. My kids watch YouTube. That's it. Very interesting. It's great. I love it. I love being - because you and I like change. Well, I don't know about you. You're kind of a fuddy-duddy.


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AND - I would almost forget about 24 which is AWESOME...

That's another one I would recommend. Seen all the seasons and the movie - it's great.

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Re: tv series recomendations
« Reply #27 on: February 10, 2013, 11:41:59 AM »
Is anybody still watching Terra Nova? It recently came on tv here in the UK, and I watched the first two episodes, but found it completely uninvolving.


Terra Nova was canceled after only one season here in the U.S.
Which doesn't mean a whole lot - so was Firefly, possibly the best sci-fi series ever conceived.

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Re: tv series recomendations
« Reply #28 on: February 10, 2013, 11:49:01 AM »
Is anybody still watching Terra Nova? It recently came on tv here in the UK, and I watched the first two episodes, but found it completely uninvolving.


Terra Nova was canceled after only one season here in the U.S.

Which doesn't mean a whole lot - so was Firefly, possibly the best sci-fi series ever conceived.

It wasn't that good in my honest opinion. It was good - yes but the best? Ehmmm I would have to say no altho I must admit - I am not big on sci-fi series... I am more of a D&D guy rather then Cyberpunk ;)...

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Re: tv series recomendations
« Reply #29 on: February 10, 2013, 12:48:36 PM »
There's a neat site: http://www.tvrage.com -- handy for digging up info on New series, Old ones, and their Seasons/Episode lists, plus when new seasons if any of a show you liked will be coming out.
Plus, of course, http://www.imdb.com/

Seems I'm a bit of an old "Square eyes".  :D

I noticed 'The Game of Thrones' is having a new season in 2013.

I've watched and loved the Joss Wheddon Written and Directed "Firefly", and the Movie "Serenity".
http://www.tvrage.com/Firefly  -- There was some problem with deciding in what order to show the episodes, plus I've seen a 'Reunion - 10th anniversary show' was released recently.

I sat through 'The Wire' which was, "Set in Baltimore, this show centers around the city's inner-city drug scene."
http://www.tvrage.com/The_Wire  -- There are characters from that show popping up in heaps of other shows I note, great cast. Story was pretty grim, which the reality is too.

Have tried to watch "The good wife", but haven't got my head around the Title.  :D   ???

Two shows:
I've enjoyed which haven't been mentioned are 'Eureka', ScyFi series about a Government run Science community that invent something which threatens to destroy the fabric of something or other each episode. A bit 'Disney', but I thoroughly enjoyed the seasons, due to the actors and plot development.

Same goes with 'Warehouse 13', which can be dorky, but great concept. "Artifacts" that trigger dangerous actions are stored over milleniums which have to be collected, or retrieved. Like 'Sherlok Holmes pipe',  if in the wrong hands is dangerous, ...  :o

Also, "Haven"  (Based on a Stephen King story: http://www.tvrage.com/Haven
It takes a village to hide a secret...

Deep in the heart of Maine, Haven is a town where people with supernatural abilities have migrated for generations because it mutes their powers, allowing them to lead normal lives. At least, until recently. When hot-shot FBI agent Audrey Parker is called to Haven to solve the murder of a local ex-con, she catches the killer but uncovers a much deeper mystery about this town. Each week, as the town-peoples’ dormant powers begin to express themselves, Audrey will try to keep these supernatural forces at bay while unraveling the many mysteries of Haven – including one surrounding her own surprising past in this extraordinary place.





If you haven't seen "Dollhouse", I loved it.   -- http://www.tvrage.com/Dollhouse

People 'sell' their lives, have their minds wiped and have pre-packaged ones programmed in for wealthy clients who need someone 'Special'. The show goes a lot deeper than first expected, not knowing who is running the organisation, or how big it is.

"Echo (Eliza Dushku) is a young woman who literally embodies the Army's slogan "Be All You Can Be". She is one of a group of men and women who can be, literally, anyone or fulfill any role -- by getting imprinted with personality packages, including memories, skills, language—even muscle memory—for different assignments. The imprints can take them from role to role -- from super spy to kidnap negotiator, from fun weekend fling to expert bank robber, from devoted lover to earth-mother. When not imprinted with a personality package, Echo and the others are basically mind-wiped, living like uncomplicated, unquestioning children in a futuristic dorm/lab dubbed the Dollhouse, with no memory of their work outside the house—or of much else.

The show revolves around the childlike Echo's burgeoning self-awareness, and her varying ability to recall who she was before, a problem that begins to seep into her various imprinted personalities and puts her in danger both in the field and in the closely monitored confines of the Dollhouse.



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