uncadonego on 23/7/2009 at 03:53
what about the summer season stuff lately? Mental, The Philanthropist, etc. Anybody catch any summer starters? I can take or leave just about everything airing right now. I'm still waiting for Chuck. Man, 2010 seems so far away when you're waiting for a new season......
Matthew on 23/7/2009 at 09:59
I am currently watching Season 1 of Eureka, Moonlight (I like it dammit) and thinking about picking up Big Bang Theory.
Also, finally getting around to watching Battlestar Galactica Season 1.
Vasquez on 23/7/2009 at 12:31
I'm a bit late reporting this, because the last episode was on tv a while back, but Generation Kill was excellent.
During summer Teema channel (science & arts) seems to re-run documents I've already seen, so atm the only thing I'm watching is The Bachelor :p
I'm looking forward to seeing more of BBC's Apparitions that was aired last spring in Finland. Good horror is hard to find, nowadays :)
steo on 23/7/2009 at 13:42
I've been marathoning House MD over the last couple of months. Currently on Season 5, which is perhaps less funny than some of the earlier ones. The biggest problem with the show is that it too often lacks originality - in nearly every episode they get a patient, work their way through the bank of illnesses which they mention every show, treat the patient for something without knowing what it is, they get worse... yadayadayada... they almost kill the patient but in the end save them, the end. Fortunately, the stuff that goes on in between is entertaining enough to make the show good... And the one where Wilson kidnaps House's guitar was priceless.
Also watching True Blood season 2, seems better than season 1 so far, and there's more gratuitous boobs (but I get the feeling that's part of the plot). It took me a while to remember everything that happened at the end of season 1 as well, which is good since they didn't cop out and wrap up every loose end with a neat little bow (I'm looking at you Dexter season 3 :nono:).
EvaUnit02 on 24/7/2009 at 16:25
The unaired 13th episode of Dollhouse ("Epitaph One") is a complete waste of time. Dull as dish water, DC Elseworlds-esque bullshit.
David on 24/7/2009 at 21:14
Comic Con is on this weekend, and the first bit of news I have a vaguely paid attention to (via a tweet from an astronomer, no less) is that The Big Bang Theory has been renewed for a third and fourth series. Hooray!
uncadonego on 25/7/2009 at 02:09
The Big Bang Theory! Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha! I don't watched it regularly, but those guys make me laugh so much! Funny, FUNNY show!:laff:
Fafhrd on 25/7/2009 at 07:09
Been working my way through the first two seasons of Mad Men (season 2 on Blu-Ray looks amazing) over the past couple of weeks, in anticipation of Season 3 starting in August. Best damn show still being produced (and actually having been to New York now, there are some little things that make more sense than they did before).
I've also somewhat guiltily been watching True Blood. It seems to be embracing it's inherent ridiculousness a bit more this season, and the wild tonal fluctuations (it goes from gothic romance to horror to full-on Harlequin romance to comedy to porn and back again in the space of most episodes) seem more intentional now. Or maybe I've just gotten used to it. And 'Hung' is on right after it, and that's pretty great (this may be my mancrush on Tom Jane talking). I fully expect him to say 'I just want my kids back' some time soon.
Muzman on 26/7/2009 at 02:27
I haven't caught Mad Men s2 yet. I thought the first was great, but for some reason have little motivation to hurry on the the next bit.
Breaking Bad so far is a must watch too if you have the vaguest interest in crime drama. I'd even say it's meaner than The Sopranos in many respects, partly because it involves people who aren't super cool, sexually irresistable gangsters from the start and some very nasty villains.
That could be because of where I'm up to in The Sopranos though. I just watched season 2 of that and s1 of The Shield virtually together.
The funny bit is that, despite almost nothing happening for most of the series, The Sopranos was several times more compelling. It could be just me. I like what The Shield is trying to do, being a complex, multilayered sort of story and daring to get right in there with race politics in L.A.. But the whole thing is so "cool" with everyone talking tough and laying it all out; everyone in the box talks back to the cops; there's lots of staring stand-offs between rivals; the extreme ladishness of the strike team is played as likable and funny more than horrific. The end result so far is that's light as a feather; more complex narratively than a CSI, but of no greater impact.
Apparently it gets better as it goes along. (part of the problem is also the opening "gotcha" hook - setting up the mole plot with a recognisable faced actor and then killing him off in the first episode for an "all bets are off with this show! Phoarr" gimmick - is so ridiculous it sets the whole thing off on the wrong foot.
Mackie and crew aren't into anything so severe for most of the rest of the series that murdering people is a good option, let alone a cop. They, or at least he, are also generally portrayed as smart enough to use knowing they have a mole to their advantage.
Perhaps as memory of that fades it becomes easier to appreciate.
And hopefully something happens in s3 of The Sopranos too.
