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General Discussion => WHATEVER => Topic started by: ralf_ on April 21, 2022, 07:54:27 AM
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just binged this is England (its all on YouTube) … what's your favorite show? sopranos, the wire… any other masterpieces?
as for this is England… I think its a brilliant formula: feature film, then "every" few years a mini series with a 3-4 episodes to catch up on the characters.
stoked for any answer! lets get out that Netflix boredom!
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Pretty little liars
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Fuk seriously so many I can't even think. Just rewatched a bunch of my favorites 90s and early 00s comedies. father Ted, the royle family, the adventures of Lano and Woodley, people like us, the office (original), peep show, extras
I've noticed in the last ten years so many great series you can really just watch the first series and leave the rest. Tin star, fortitude, Mr Mercedes, true detective, westwrold,
60s batman, monkey, Degrassi high (80s), Raw hide, Columbo, Futurama, Simpsons (s2-9 or so) inside no. 9,
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Best television series of all time in my humble opinion
1. Breaking Bad (just the perfect amount of sympathy for Walt when he does heinous shit. This show was perfection)
2. The Wire (Another one that is just IMO perfect television)
3. Seinfeld (i usually get heat for having a sitcom this high, but dammit this shit was so good from beginning to end and so
different from any other sitcom)
4. The Sopranos (Actually just watched this for the first time during quarantine, fucking incredible but I hate "Don't Stop Believin' as a song so I wasn't a fan of the ending.)
5. Game of Thrones (could have been higher if that last season wasn't so disappointing)
Honorable mentions go out to
-Homeland (i thought this would fall off after Brody died, but the way they ended this was spectacular)
-ESPN 30 for 30 (I'm a sports guy, and these are the best sports docs out, my faves are Ric Flair and the "Catholics vs.
Convicts" episode that covered the Miami/Notre Dame rivalry in the 90's. The four falls of Buffalo is also really really good.)
-The Office (I probably spend 10 hours a week with the Office on my TV.)
-The Simpsons (First 15 or so seasons, I haven't watched a new episode in years)
-Monday Night RAW (Longest running episodic television series of all-time. It has it's peaks and valleys and it is shit right
now, but gotta respect the longevity of the product)
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If you're a fan of Twin Peaks a highly underrated show no one seems to talk about is Carnivale. Very trippy show about a traveling fair set during the great depression. Acting, set design, story, all 10/10.
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If you're a fan of Twin Peaks a highly underrated show no one seems to talk about is Carnivale. Very trippy show about a traveling fair set during the great depression. Acting, set design, story, all 10/10.
Sick I'll check this out. I see the little cunt from another place is in it too
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Friday Night Lights
I'm Alan Partridge
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Plus a bunch already mentioned.
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Fuk seriously so many I can't even think. Just rewatched a bunch of my favorites 90s and early 00s comedies. father Ted, the royle family, the adventures of Lano and Woodley, people like us, the office (original), peep show, extras
I've noticed in the last ten years so many great series you can really just watch the first series and leave the rest. Tin star, fortitude, Mr Mercedes, true detective, westwrold,
60s batman, monkey, Degrassi high (80s), Raw hide, Columbo, Futurama, Simpsons (s2-9 or so) inside no. 9,
uff the role family looks sick! good observation about just watching the first series.
that being said VEEP is a really good show!!
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If you're a fan of Twin Peaks a highly underrated show no one seems to talk about is Carnivale. Very trippy show about a traveling fair set during the great depression. Acting, set design, story, all 10/10.
yo!!! thank you!!
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Mad Men is my number one. Incredibly rich character study about what it's like to be human and coming to terms with who you are. Worthy of many rewatches. Highly influenced by The Sopranos, and its creator even wrote on The Sopranos for a while.
If you like British humor, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is absolutely amazing and it's a crime that there's only six episodes of it.
The Americans has some of the best acting of any recent shows, and a very satisfying ending. Keri Russell is stellar and she and her costar Matthew Rhys ended up getting together in real life, which only served to deepen their performances.
And if you like comedy and haven't seen Nathan for You, what are you doing with your life?
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Arrested Development (the first few seasons), Sopranos, Bloodline, Godless, Better Call Saul, Trailer Park Boys… there’s just so many
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Always Sunny. Up until some of the newest seasons
The Wire. Just good watching.
Other than that i have not watched tv shows in years. My kids are just learning about Family Guy and Rick And Morty. I was more into Adult Swim When i watched tv tho.
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The Killing starting after season 1 is by far the best TV series I've seen. Fleabag, Luther, Atlanta, Pose, The Good Lord Bird, and Mindhunter are all great.
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Mad Men is my number one. Incredibly rich character study about what it's like to be human and coming to terms with who you are. Worthy of many rewatches. Highly influenced by The Sopranos, and its creator even wrote on The Sopranos for a while.
If you like British humor, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is absolutely amazing and it's a crime that there's only six episodes of it.
The Americans has some of the best acting of any recent shows, and a very satisfying ending. Keri Russell is stellar and she and her costar Matthew Rhys ended up getting together in real life, which only served to deepen their performances.
And if you like comedy and haven't seen Nathan for You, what are you doing with your life?
One of my all time favs but I kinda feel like they covered all the cliches in the six eps. (Just incase you haven't seen it) there's sort of a follow up series called man to man with Dean learner. Richard aoyade plays his Dean learner character but has a talk show and segments and Matt Holness does a range of characters as guests.
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Mad Men is my number one. Incredibly rich character study about what it's like to be human and coming to terms with who you are. Worthy of many rewatches. Highly influenced by The Sopranos, and its creator even wrote on The Sopranos for a while.
If you like British humor, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is absolutely amazing and it's a crime that there's only six episodes of it.
The Americans has some of the best acting of any recent shows, and a very satisfying ending. Keri Russell is stellar and she and her costar Matthew Rhys ended up getting together in real life, which only served to deepen their performances.
And if you like comedy and haven't seen Nathan for You, what are you doing with your life?
I dug it, but definitely felt like a lesser work. Snuff Box on the other hand was fantastic and really solidified that not only does Matt Berry have one of the best voices in comedy, but he’s a damn fine musician to boot.
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True Detective season 1 really might be my fav
I feel like Deadwood doesn’t get as much love as some of the other big HBO shows, I love it though
The animated Batman series still holds up surprisingly well
Strangers with Candy might be my fav comedy
Early AD really does still hold up well, such good & well crafted jokes, Always Sunny too
I’ve watched The Jinx a stupid amount of times, think that’s my fav from the semi-recent true crime mini-series trend
How To… fav recent show
Twin Peaks ofc, gonna check out Carnivale, thanks for the rec
& I’ve been watching stupid amounts of Forensic Files & Unsolved Mysteries on yt lately
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Breaking Bad
Mr. Robot
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The Wire, The Sopranos, Bosch, Seinfeld, Curb, The Office, Parks and Rec, Chappelle Show, Tailer Park Boys, Letterkenny.
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We're watching Dark on netflix rn and it's alright. Good enough to hold our attention. I think I'm def giving it a pass on some stuff b/c it's foriegn.
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Sons of Anarchy, Animal Kingdom, The OC, Power
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the wire, breaking bad, game of thrones, peep show and nathan barley.
peace and fucking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LyNrfYKTts
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Home Movies is great
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Curb Your Enthusiasm
Always Sunny
The Wire
Home Movies
American Dad
Rick and Morty
Adventure Bros
Primal
Cowboy Bebop
Samurai Champloo
Frisky Dingo (fucking only one season, sooo bummed).
Twin Peaks
Frontline
Nova (only the space episodes)
HBO Real Sports
Real Time w/Bill Maher (I don't always agree with his boomer take on things)
and
re-runs of M*A*S*H
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For the longest time I thought Always Sunny was just like some vanilla 'how I met your mother' type sitcom because it was just about some people and their bar.
And then I watched it a few years back and geez I missed out for so long.
It's fucked up and hilarious and a great show that's a lot more original than I realised.
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I was never a huge TV series junkie so I probably missed a lot.
Back in the 80s it was Married With Children, we would record those on VHS and bingewatch.
90s was Simpsons golden era.
Recent top shows have been mentioned: Breaking Bad, GoT, The Wire.
Guilty pleasure: Downton Abbey, The Crown, Hercule Poirot. I probably wouldn‘t have watched those if it weren‘t for my wife but they have their moments.
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For the longest time I thought Always Sunny was just like some vanilla 'how I met your mother' type sitcom because it was just about some people and their bar.
And then I watched it a few years back and geez I missed out for so long.
It's fucked up and hilarious and a great show that's a lot more original than I realised.
For the first couple years I thought the same thing. It would play at like 1-3am on commercial tv wedged between other bland sitcoms another of which was also set in a bar.
Also for another all time fav freaks and geeks. I think it's pretty perfect and altho it got cut short I think that kind of makes it better. Easily the best thing Apatow has ever been part of.
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For all of you guys listing Breaking Bad, would highly recommend Better Call Saul.
Personally, I think it's better. Takes the theme of a "moral decline" story from BB but does it better. There comes a point in BB where you kinda stop rooting for Walt and instead are just along for the ride. While Jimmy/Saul is no saint, I think he is a far more compelling character and has a lot more nuisance to his actions and motivations as opposed to "I want all the drug kingpin power and money for my family." motivation in BB. Plus the pre-BB background you get on characters like Gus, the Salamanca's and especially Mike is great stuff.
This isn't to say BB sucks, I fucking love BB, but you guys shouldn't sleep on BCS.
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Rhoda
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New David Simon show could be good
https://variety.com/2022/tv/reviews/we-own-this-city-david-simon-hbo-1235239346/
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New David Simon show could be good
https://variety.com/2022/tv/reviews/we-own-this-city-david-simon-hbo-1235239346/
Keep seeing teasers for this… really liking it.
I want to check out Mayor Of Kingston just not sure i wanna get paramount+
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ah i forgot to say Legion. much darker than usual superhero shit. oh and the Boys, hilarious
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Tv shows usually takes forever to get good or falls off badly, so here are my favorite stretches:
- The middle seasons of Game of Thrones
- The Simpsons during the Clinton administration
- Seasons 3 and 4 of the Wire
- The 2nd half of Breaking Bad
- The first half of Walking Dead season 3 (some excellent character study in these episodes)
- The entire run of Wondershowzen
- Entire run of Chappelle Show
- First two seasons of Boondocks
- NBA on TNT (Their takes on Basketball are a little old school, but Barkley is probably the most entertaining talking head in sports history)
My favorite episode of anything is a tie between “Imagination Land” from South Park, and “The Broodwhich” from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
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Chappelle Show
The Wire
The Sopranos
Breaking Bad/ Better call Saul
Atlanta (this season sucks though)
Deadwood
Curb
Sesame Street
Game of Thrones
Twin Peaks
The Office
SNL, In living Color, Mr. Show
The Simpsons
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I thought the first 3 seasons of Better Call Saul were pretty slow and tough to trudge through, but season 4 and 5 really kicked it into high gear. Love seeing it slowly blend into the Breaking Bad timeline. The desert episode reminded me of the Pine Barrens Sopranos episode. Just finished season 5 and bummed I’ll have to wait another year or however long for season 6 to be on Canadian Netflix.
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The Boondocks (Seasons 1-3) is a masterpiece.
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been watching the OC that shit fuckin rocks
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The Larry Sanders show.
Hank Kingsley is probably my favorite comedic character ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN9tCQsWkdY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN9tCQsWkdY)
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For the longest time I thought Always Sunny was just like some vanilla 'how I met your mother' type sitcom because it was just about some people and their bar.
And then I watched it a few years back and geez I missed out for so long.
It's fucked up and hilarious and a great show that's a lot more original than I realised.
Also for another all time fav freaks and geeks. I think it's pretty perfect and altho it got cut short I think that kind of makes it better. Easily the best thing Apatow has ever been part of.
Ahhhhhh Freaks and Geeks was so fucking good. That show had so many future stars in it. I've definitely been in the mood a couple times in the last five years and will just binge watch it again in a week.
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New show on Showtime called "Yellowjackets."
Really good.
A high school soccer team in the 90's crashes in a plane on the way to a soccer tournament and gets stranded in the wilderness. They survive for like 18 months before getting found.
The show jumps back and forth between that and present time to see how these girls are now because they are all kinda fucked in the head.
Imagine Lord of The Flies but with high school girls.
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I thought the first 3 seasons of Better Call Saul were pretty slow and tough to trudge through, but season 4 and 5 really kicked it into high gear. Love seeing it slowly blend into the Breaking Bad timeline. The desert episode reminded me of the Pine Barrens Sopranos episode. Just finished season 5 and bummed I’ll have to wait another year or however long for season 6 to be on Canadian Netflix.
I'm right there with you, I started it as soon as it came out and after a while my interest waned. Just came back to it flew through seasons 4 and 5 because they were so good. I love Lalo Salamanca, such a great character.
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The actor that plays Lalo is the perfect villain… I’ve enjoyed Mike’s arc the most so far.
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The actor that plays Lalo is the perfect villain… I’ve enjoyed Mike’s arc the most so far.
Yeah he's great. I love the way he switches back and forth from an indistinguishable American accent in English, to Spanish and vice versa in a single scene.
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Inside No. 9
Seriously watching masters at work. It's an anthology show so each episode is completely different and they are better than pretty much anything else. Every genre they do perfectly. Just watched the episode "loves great adventure" and it's a total fucking banger and completely different from every other episode they've done.
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New David Simon show could be good
https://variety.com/2022/tv/reviews/we-own-this-city-david-simon-hbo-1235239346/
Keep seeing teasers for this… really liking it.
I want to check out Mayor Of Kingston just not sure i wanna get paramount+
We own this city is the wire 2017. It’s great, 2 episodes in.
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Most TV shows I watch is for the laugh.
The Office and Seinfeld is rolling heavy these days. Rick and Morty is awesome. I used to be into Southpark but I don’t really have the patience for it these days. Don’t know why.
Twin Peaks was good.
Then there was an animated series that used to be on Comedy Central that not a lot seems to know about, that’s called Ugly Americans. I find it absolutely phenomenal..
Then I watch Vikings on Netflix. I would have the Ragnar Lodbrog sagas read for me as bed time stories as a kid. Definitely not the same as Vikings in any way lol..
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Curb….I’m jealous of people who haven’t seen it…..I wish I was them so I could see it again…
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Arrested development
Whitest Kids U Know (obviously)
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The Inbetweeners
What we do in shadows
King of the hill
Futurama
The IT crowd
Bob’s Burgers
Archer
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Surprised no ones said Ozark yet, the last season was really good. Season 6 of BCS is crazy too, I'm excited to see how it ends
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Raised By Wolves is pretty sick. Strange but a pretty rad sci-fi show. Our Flag Means Death is one of my new favorites.