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We haven't done one of these in a while, whats got your attention on Netflix, Amazon or telly recently?
I enjoyed Bloodline and Person of Interest on netflix, watched a lot of Sons of Anarchy over christmas - it is really, really awful but for some reason I keep watching.
This is Us on telly has been good, planet earth too but I guess that goes without saying.
What you got?
Best things watched recently were Fleabag and The Night Of.
Currently, black sails, vikings, it's always sunny and the daily show
Just finished Travelers on Netflix, recommended
Just finished "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". Really enjoyed it.
I got sidetracked into Things On Motortrend- lots of Roadkill and Hotrod Garage and the like, pretty simple pleasures.
But next in the Proper TV pile is daredevil, because my brother bought me it and I'll get killed if I don't watch it.
Series 1 of Fortitude....
And the latest Homeland Season.
I really didn't want to like The Crown but it really is rather good with a fantastic collection of pantomime villains.
Just discovered Catastrophe on 4 OD. Brilliant.
Really enjoyed Love and Master of None. expecting 2nd series of both soon...
watched Stranger Things and The OA too, both good, both trying to out-weird each other.
Really didnt think it'd be my cuppa but The Crown is not bad either.
and theres always Still Game to go at!
thats all Netflix, but I loved Mr Robot too. Not sure what medium its on officially but all available on kodi...
Just motored through the second series of Man in The High Castle (not bad) and decided last night, for shits and giggles, to see what Sherlock was like. So, despite coming into it at Series 4, I find it's actually not bad.
I'm going to potentially watch the rest of it now.
YouTube has been mainly Initial D with a bit of Roadkill thrown in for good measure.
onto the 4th episode of black mirror, really enjoying it so far
Apple Tree Yard.
I've just completed my second session watching all of Westworld, I loved that.
I've tried to watch Fortitude but it didn't really grab me as special or something to continue with.
The Young Pope, well that was abysmal. Jude Law was almost there, but it took too long to get going and I lost heart in it.
The Whispers I've started to watch, only into E2 but I think I'll continue with it unless it gets gory (which it started to in E1)
Delicious was, by my reckoning, a good short series. Initially I thought it all about shagging and panoramic shots of the Tamar, but it grew into a nice little watch.
Enjoyed sneaky pete on amazon, looking at vikings next
Started the second series of The Affair after binge watching the first. A lot better than I thought is was going to be.
Just finished second series of Gomorrah as well which was brilliant.
Luke Cage - absolutely brilliant
Quarry (Now TV)
Travellers (Netflix)
The Expanse (Netflix)
Vikings (Amazon)
Noble (Netflix) was pretty good. Norwegian series with a mix of subtitles and english
Did both series of Man in the High Castle over Christmas. Followed up with Preacher and now onto Sneaky Pete
Been recommended Taboo too
Just finished Travelers on Netflix, recommended
Not finished yet but definitely +1
Looking forward to S2 of The Last Kingdom coming soon to BBC
Mr. Robot. Best thing I've watched for ages.
Taboo is also good. Mud, blood, violence and magic, just up my street.
Sitting on my hands rocking back and forth like a madman, waiting for new GOT and House of Cards.
Tries to get into Man in the High Castle, but only done a few episodes. Maybe I need to persevere ?
I'm half interested in Dirk Gently as a TV series, as I am the upcoming American Gods, but I'd invariably rather read the books than sit and watch stuff on a laptop (Haven't owned a telly in the past 10 years and haven't missed it)
The Mrs has got us watching Outlander, as a lover of Scotland and boobs it ticks those boxes very nicely. I think there might be a plot too, not sure yet.
Finishing off Boardwalk Empire in my lunch breaks, it's taken ages to get through the last 2 series
Sneaky Pete is on the list, and still haven't watched Stranger Things or the man in the high castle but will get round to it soon.
The Preacher - odd but excellent
Just started watching Sneaky Pete - three episodes in and I'm liking it.
Also, Unforgotten (series 2) currently on ITV.
We haven't done one of these in a while
We have, but anyhoo.
Everything on telly recently has been hugely disappointing recently, exceptions being Gomorrah, Stranger Things and Taboo.
The sooner that
a) the new GoT comes out
and
b) a time machine is invented to take me back to a time before The Wire came out, so I can go back and watch it again afresh, although it will basically ruin all telly for me from that point on (again)
the better.
Michael Portillo's American rail road journey.
Dunno if I mentioned it... Quarry on Sky Atlantic is superb. Up there with True Detective imo.
Nothing else has grabbed me, tried Stranger Things, Westworld and Mr Robot and found them very uninteresting (apart from Mr Robot, which was just stooopid "You've got a rootkit virus, I'll login as admin and stop it spreading!" Thrills.)
I am the upcoming American Gods
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease don't let them ruin it.
Up there qith True Detective imo
Excellent series 1, or jumbled nonsense series 2?
Every now and then, there seems to be a cluster of excellent TV series all coming along at the same time.
Internet catch up takes care of the weekend's viewing - currently Endeavour, Taboo and Homeland...
[i]Excellent series 1, or jumbled nonsense series 2?[/i]
Somewhere between the two probably. But then I liked 2, but yeah it makes more sense than that. There was a 70s racism theme in this week's that just made your guts tie in knots with frustration and anger!
As I am the upcoming American Gods
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease don't let them ruin it.
Could be good, could be shit. Ian McShane as Mr Wednesday could be promising.
Every now and then, there seems to be a cluster of excellent TV series all coming along at the same time.
I think we're currently in a lull between those times
Dez - I actually downloaded the first episode of Quarry of the back of your recommendation last week. Yet to watch it, will report back
The first series of The Last Kingdom is available on i-player if anyone missed it. Its quite good.
I am quite liking Designated Survivor. And yes, Kiefer Sutherland gets to say 'dammit'.
🙂
Most of the way through the second series of Fortitude. Starting to warm up nicely, though not as good as the first.
[i]Yet to watch it, will report back[/i]
Cool. At least one person listens to me 🙂
...and decided last night, for shits and giggles, to see what Sherlock was like. So, despite coming into it at Series 4, I find it's actually not bad.
We're smashing our way through them, started series one after Christmas and we've almost finished series three - really, really enjoying it (cringeworthy violin miming aside).
On a slightly different note, we've got a Tivo box through Virgin, rather nicely if you put a series link on something (like we did with Sherlock over Christmas), Tivo will go looking through other sources, so when we settled down to start watching series four, Tivo also served us up links to the first three series on the BBC and Netflix. It's very slow to launch, but I like the convenience - it's a function on the new V6 box (which probably does the same thing in nanoseconds), but I like that they've ported it out to existing customers.
At least one person listens to me
Only about telly, your music sense is $hite 😉
Travelers was surprisingly good.
The OA was ace, hope there is a second series
Our favourite of the last few years is The Almighty Johnsons, it's a similar premise to American gods, but a chilled out funny Kiwi version. Gotta love the Kiwi accent!
Watched The Widower on Netflix over the weekend, based on a true story.
English version of Wallander being shown on Drama, maybe not as good as the Swedish version but the lack of subtitles helps.
Also watched In Plain Sight over Christmas think it might be on ITV Encore at some point, again based on a true story.
Started watching The OA but fell asleep about 10 minutes into it, whilst my other half watched the whole episode so I must catch up.
Currently binge watching Adventure Time.
Last series I watched was The OA. Which I am still. It sure what I think about it.
Cool. At least one person listens to me
Dez I have listened to you. Me and the Mrs listened to every track on the recent Rap thread. We both liked the tracks you posted.
If you have kids (not mandatory), I recommend A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Hoping Person Of Interest comes back soon, just watched the first episode of the new series of Agents Of Shield, looks good with Ghost Rider showing up, driving a flaming black supercharged '69 Dodge Charger, a la Fast And Furious.
Recorded the first episode of Fortitude series 2, just finished watching Endeavour, then there's a whole bunch of other odds'n'sods.
Borrowed the first three seasons of Game of Thrones at the start of the month having never seen it.
Hooked, currently two episodes in to the third season, hoping to find someone we know with the other three seasons.
Also half way through the ninth season of The Big Bang Theory having started from the beginning in October ish.
I know neither are hidden gems but loving both.
[i]. We both liked the tracks you posted.[/i]
Ha! IHN - wrong 😆
Just finished watching Goliath and the third series of Ray Donovan. Really enjoyed both. I'm now on a weekly fix of Vikings and Black Sails whilst watching The Last Man On Earth inbetween.
Amercian Horror Story.
I though the first series was grim, until I started on the second series 😯
Need a strong stomach to get through it, but it's also addictive to watch so I need to finish it!
Been reading a lot of John le Carre books recently and watched the old tinker tailer series with Alec Guinness and the sequel , brilliant TV . Very low key and different to the modern stuff but well worth watching .
Vikings is good but I'm not sure as good as it was , preacher did enough to make me think the second series will be awesome and west world was pretty good as was stranger things .
Sopranos and the shield still the best for me
30 Degrees in February - Swedish people living in Thailand, fantastic on Netflix.
Sneaky Pete - Amazon
Troll hunters - Netflix
Cannabis on Netflix - superb
I just watched In Bruges. I'd not seen it before. I enjoyed it a lot.
Sopranos and the shield still the best for me
Not tried The Shield, might have a look
I lost track of the shield but my brother made me watch the last few episodes and it is awesome. Did need a fair bit of suspension of disbelief tbh but still.
Also, everyone who's not watched Oz, go and watch Oz. It goes a bit stupid in the middle and it's phenomenally grim, but as a whole it's pretty incredible.
[i]Not tried The Shield, might have a look[/i]
Ooh, you lucky git! I'd love to see all that again, fresh. It's good stuff.
Is it is as good as The Wire? Well, of course it's not, nothing is, but is it anywhere near as good?
vikings
black sails
man in the high castle
mr robot
11.22.63 ( we've really loved this one )
re-watching star trek voyager on netflix as well.
Re the shield I think it's better overall than the wire as if has a more satisfying ending . It's also one of the only programmes I have watched from start to finish that didn't run out of steam , Dexter , sons , and nowmaybe Vikings and walking dead all struggled towards the end to wrap things up whereas the shield doesn't drop at all .
Honourable mention to boardwalk empire which I loved but I'm not sure is for everyone as it is pretty slow at times and game of thrones which seems to be better every year
Sick days recently I watched all of Master of none, it was good but if you have seen Aziz Ansari in standup then it's just a dramatisation of that.
On the train recently been watching Narco's - excellent. Black Mirror, very good recent series. Cuckoo which I missed on TV, but I've really enjoyed that too.
Just started Dirk Gentley's which has started well. Not sure I could watch American Gods, but I'll probably be tempted as the book was excellent.
If you haven't seen it then Justified was really entertaining too.
Interested in the Timthy Olyphant and Drew Barrymore Netflix thing too.
think i will re-visit Veep next. never carried on after the first series dunno why but i love Thick of It and Ianucci's other stuff. big fan of JLD too!
Veep is excellent, so can 100% recommend watching the whole lot. It's ended now, so you get a nice conclusion as well.
Veep is excellent.
Just finished Occupied - if you are OK with subtitles as some is in Norweigan - especially scary with Prez Fart in the US now.
Enjoyed "The Night Manager", "The Man in the High Castle" too.
A bit late to the table but just finished binge-watching House Of Cards. Wow!
On the advice of a friend I was watching 'The Wire' over Xmas and got to season five episode eight when Sky pulled the box set........fantastic entertainment IMHO but i was somewhat unhappy at the time. Alternative providers are not in HD and 5.1 Dolby surround if the episodes are available at all!
I would like to watch sopranos and shield at some point.
I'll 2nd Neb's recommendation of The Almighty Johnsons, that was a fantastic series, really wish they'd made more of them. Might have to watch it again.
Currently flitting between Sherlock and House of Cards and enjoying both.
Also currently re-watching the Wire when Mrs-g is not around and I am not allowed to watch the above.
Agree that the Shield and Sopranos are up there, also liked Southland which I think is very underated.
Six feet under, another under rated blast from the past that is top drawer, probably the best ending to a TV show ever, its been years since I watched it and it still sticks with me
EDIT - Draw(er)
Sky keep dropping boxsets that we are trying to watch - first Game of Thrones, then House. Loved House - brilliant but sadly gone for a bit.
Currently wrapped up in Sneaky Pete on Amazon - lots of little stories intertwining - brilliant...
Really enjoyed Sneaky Pete on Amazon recently too.
A few that i don't think have been suggested.
The Brink - hilarious american politics/war mongering p*ss take with jack Black, which i think is available on Netflix and Amazon
Braquo - great french gritty police drama.
Hell on Wheels - western about trying to get the rail road through the US, quite violent and dark.
have not checked but dont think anyone has mentioned Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul yet.....
I enjoyed The Get Down on Netflix. bit of a cheddar storyline but some quality music!!