TV Show recommendations

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The Stallion

Quote from: leenie on April 22, 2017, 11:34:59 AM
Like others I'm always behind when it comes to shows...
Finished boardwalk empire .. brilliant show and fantastic ending - never expected that.. well impressed.

Now I need a new one ?


A few suggestions, happy to narrow it down if you're after a certain genre:

Drama:
The Wire
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
True Detective (Season 1)
Fargo
Black Mirror
In Treatment

Comedy:
The Trip
Curb your Enthusiasm
Flight of the Conchords
Veep
Silicon Valley

One to watch with the wife /girlfriend that turns out to be better than you expected:
The Good Wife
Orange is the new Black
Big Little Lies

Subtitled Drama:
The Bridge
The Killing
Spiral

Owen Brannigan

Happy Valley (Seasons 1& 2)

nrico2006

Gus was in the latest episode of Saul. Also the possibility of the show going beyond BB as there are clips of Saul in the future keeping a low profile.
'To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal, light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle.'

leenie

Quote from: The Stallion on April 22, 2017, 11:51:52 AM
Quote from: leenie on April 22, 2017, 11:34:59 AM
Like others I'm always behind when it comes to shows...
Finished boardwalk empire .. brilliant show and fantastic ending - never expected that.. well impressed.

Now I need a new one ?


A few suggestions, happy to narrow it down if you're after a certain genre:

Drama:
The Wire
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
True Detective (Season 1)
Fargo
Black Mirror
In Treatment

Comedy:
The Trip
Curb your Enthusiasm
Flight of the Conchords
Veep
Silicon Valley

One to watch with the wife /girlfriend that turns out to be better than you expected:
The Good Wife
Orange is the new Black
Big Little Lies

Subtitled Drama
The Bridge
The Killing
Spiral
Not a bb fan but loved mad men - black mirror
I'd say the next one Is between either the wire / fargo ..

As a female ;D - I like well written / well acted shows - v fussy on my comedy's - but will give one of them a go
I'm trying to decide on a really meaningful message..

JimStynes

Watched Good Behaviour on a flight home from America. 9 episodes I think. Decent show about a girl out of prison trying to win back her son but also gets mixed up along with a hitman.

macdanger2

Just finished the first season of Ray Donovan, very good series

The Stallion

Quote from: leenie on April 23, 2017, 10:33:40 AM
Quote from: The Stallion on April 22, 2017, 11:51:52 AM
Quote from: leenie on April 22, 2017, 11:34:59 AM
Like others I'm always behind when it comes to shows...
Finished boardwalk empire .. brilliant show and fantastic ending - never expected that.. well impressed.

Now I need a new one ?


A few suggestions, happy to narrow it down if you're after a certain genre:

Drama:
The Wire
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
True Detective (Season 1)
Fargo
Black Mirror
In Treatment

Comedy:
The Trip
Curb your Enthusiasm
Flight of the Conchords
Veep
Silicon Valley

One to watch with the wife /girlfriend that turns out to be better than you expected:
The Good Wife
Orange is the new Black
Big Little Lies

Subtitled Drama
The Bridge
The Killing
Spiral
Not a bb fan but loved mad men - black mirror
I'd say the next one Is between either the wire / fargo ..

As a female ;D - I like well written / well acted shows - v fussy on my comedy's - but will give one of them a go


If you decide to watch the Wire be sure to persevere theough the first couple of episodes which aren't great to be honest. After that it gets a lot better. Well written and some brilliant characters.

Main Street

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Quote from: Hound on April 18, 2017, 03:04:23 PM
Quote from: Main Street on April 12, 2017, 01:08:09 PM
He's back - 
Better Call Saul S.3 just started the other day.
I'm a very late comer to Breaking Bad. Not long into Season 3. Do I watch them all to very end first, or does Better Call Saul start before the final series of BB ends? 

BCS is Saul's life (as Jimmy McGill, his real name) before BB starts. It's not necessary to watch BB to understand and fully appreciate BCS in its own right and the storylines don't interlink at all, so far. Inevitably, familiarity with Saul in BB enriches the BCS experience but it's not in any way necessary to see all of BB before watching BCS. Mike from BB is also a leading character in BCS and we're told Gus Fring makes his appearance this series.
I'd say Hound should stay on the trail to the end with BB seeing as he's at S3 and don't intermingle BB with BCS.
He can watch BCS after he's finished with BB.

The storylines from both series do naturally interlink because BCS is a prequel not a spin off, but the storylines are not interlinked to a spoiling extent. Knowing what happens in BB does not  spoil your viewing of BCS.


Newbridge Exile

Line of duty maintaining  the high standards of the first 3 series , brilliant show

Milltown Row2

Quote from: Newbridge Exile on April 24, 2017, 01:26:08 PM
Line of duty maintaining  the high standards of the first 3 series , brilliant show

But who da hell has killed the girls? or anyone for that matter??? is a cracking show

the lawyer has had two brilliant lines (put downs) calling Dunbar Pasley and your man Ironside
None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Ea

johnneycool

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on April 24, 2017, 01:35:10 PM
Quote from: Newbridge Exile on April 24, 2017, 01:26:08 PM
Line of duty maintaining  the high standards of the first 3 series , brilliant show

But who da hell has killed the girls? or anyone for that matter??? is a cracking show

the lawyer has had two brilliant lines (put downs) calling Dunbar Pasley and your man Ironside

I'm late to it and don't know who's been killed and by whom, but its gripping in fairness will all the skullduggery and backhandedness, you don't know who's covering for who all the time.


Milltown Row2

Quote from: johnneycool on April 24, 2017, 01:37:51 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on April 24, 2017, 01:35:10 PM
Quote from: Newbridge Exile on April 24, 2017, 01:26:08 PM
Line of duty maintaining  the high standards of the first 3 series , brilliant show

But who da hell has killed the girls? or anyone for that matter??? is a cracking show

the lawyer has had two brilliant lines (put downs) calling Dunbar Pasley and your man Ironside

I'm late to it and don't know who's been killed and by whom, but its gripping in fairness will all the skullduggery and backhandedness, you don't know who's covering for who all the time.

You're ok Johnney, know one knows
None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Ea

Tony Baloney

Quote from: Newbridge Exile on April 24, 2017, 01:26:08 PM
Line of duty maintaining  the high standards of the first 3 series , brilliant show
Super stuff. I have watched it since S1 E1 years ago and it helps with some of the back-story they are referencing but it certainly sheds no light on who is the baddy in this series! Hastings was certainly suspected a couple of series ago due to his masonic links etc. It's great stuff.

If you lads ever get an infection in your arm (or anywhere else that you value  :o) make sure and get it seen about!

screenexile

Dunbar's character is brilliant... laddies!

Main Street

The LOD s4 lawyer had a main role in a medic drama
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on April 24, 2017, 01:38:53 PM
Quote from: johnneycool on April 24, 2017, 01:37:51 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on April 24, 2017, 01:35:10 PM
Quote from: Newbridge Exile on April 24, 2017, 01:26:08 PM
Line of duty maintaining  the high standards of the first 3 series , brilliant show

But who da hell has killed the girls? or anyone for that matter??? is a cracking show

the lawyer has had two brilliant lines (put downs) calling Dunbar Pasley and your man Ironside

I'm late to it and don't know who's been killed and by whom, but its gripping in fairness will all the skullduggery and backhandedness, you don't know who's covering for who all the time.

You're ok Johnney, know one knows
We can rule out Steve,Ted and Kate,
however, 'I suspect everyone else and I suspect no one' ;D
If it's chronic narcissist Roz, that would be too obvious, wouldn't it?
That creepy assistant Chief Constable Derek has emerged into the top of the suspect zone, him being Tony's chief from S1. Tony who was blackmailed because of a body stored in a freezer which contained his dna and was there not a balaclava attacker in S1?  The suspense's on a par with the sight of Dave O'Leary as he placed the ball for that 5th penalty, a tv audience holds its breath.

Why did Maneet betray the AC squad and lay the false trail? Who's putting the squeeze on her? was there a clue I missed?