TV Show recommendations

[Tony Baloney]

This is a regular discussion in our house. My missus likes all endings tied up in a bow and always has to know how things end - she reads spoilers for everything and in the past read the last chapter of a book before starting the book  I'm the polar opposite and will read nothing about a film or a book and studiously avoid spoilers (have refused to even watch the trailers for Blade Runner 2049).

Endings like The Sopranos drive her nuts whereas I like the fact that it brings the viewer to a crossroads in their imagination - left is assassination, right is (an unlikely) happy ending.

[Billys Boots]

Just after finishing The Sopranos. Brilliant TV. Would have Breaking Bad slightly ahead all the same. I know this has probably being done to death but that ending. WTF. Nobody could be happy with that.

No? I thought it was a perfect ending to the best tv show ever created.

Just the fact that there are at least three possibilities of what might have happened.

I agree.  Great ending, still thinking about it intermittently, years later.  Everything doesn't have to (and rarely does) end with an explosion/mass murder/neat denouement.

But you're applying a real life concept to makey-uppy stuff. Lord Lucan was a "great ending" because nobody really knows what happened and where he went and there are loads of possiblities (might not be the best of analogies, esp for the poor worman murdered, but you get my meaning)

In Soprano's, nothing else happened. There's nothing to think about, pointless wondering about what happened next, because, literally, nothing happend next. It was just a writer taking the mick and pretending its "arty" or something. In my opinion anyway!

It's just using your imagination my friend, like wondering if Dublin would ever win an AI without everything being stacked in their favour ...

[Main Street]

Is much imagination needed? i haven't viewed the last few series of the Sopranos but I guess it's the usual mafia ending.  a boss, past his sell by date for some reason, getting executed in a grubby restaurant in a power shift. Not unlike Joey, "the king of the streets, child of clay".
There is only one end to a mafia drama.

Donnie Brasco is the supreme gold standard of a gritty mafia drama and the bullet with Lefty's name on it was in the chamber from the opening scenes.

[blewuporstuffed]

I wish Dr Foster had left it to our imagination, rather than that sh1te ending last night 

[johnneycool]

I wish Dr Foster had left it to our imagination, rather than that sh1te ending last night 

Fuckin over acted dung IMO.

[Tony Baloney]

I wish Dr Foster had left it to our imagination, rather than that sh1te ending last night 

Agree - it was terrible melodramatic shite.

[gallsman]

Agreed. Was pushed to watch it and thought it was dreadful bollocks altogether. Same for Liar on ITV.

[J70]

Is much imagination needed? i haven't viewed the last few series of the Sopranos but I guess it's the usual mafia ending.  a boss, past his sell by date for some reason, getting executed in a grubby restaurant in a power shift. Not unlike Joey, "the king of the streets, child of clay".
There is only one end to a mafia drama.

Donnie Brasco is the supreme gold standard of a gritty mafia drama and the bullet with Lefty's name on it was in the chamber from the opening scenes.

Sopranos did "end" in a restaurant, to the soundtrack of Journey on the table top jukebox (sparking the resurgence and renewed and enduring popularity of that song).

However, the fate of the boss, unlike the other main characters, was not exactly spelled out.

Whereas even poor Lefty himself (has there ever been a more pathetic character in a film?) knew what was going to happen when he walked out the door, leaving his watch and other valuables in a slightly ajar drawer. No actual depiction (even though they included a gun shot over a black screen) was required.

(Last quality film/performance from Pacino. 20 years ago now!)

[J70]

curb your Enthusiasm back tonight!

Pretty good...

I liked it.

Lesbians, the ayatollah, the disabled... he managed to offend everyone!

Leon rocks! ("I shot a porno constipated!")

[Hound]

curb your Enthusiasm back tonight!

Pretty good...

I liked it.

Lesbians, the ayatollah, the disabled... he managed to offend everyone!

Leon rocks! ("I shot a porno constipated!")

Looking for a good comedy, so I've just started with this, Series 1!
The first few epsiodes have been hard enough work, most of the "funny" bits are set up in a way that you can see them coming, so laughs have been few and far between. But I'll stick with it for a while and hope it improves

[J70]

curb your Enthusiasm back tonight!

Pretty good...

I liked it.

Lesbians, the ayatollah, the disabled... he managed to offend everyone!

Leon rocks! ("I shot a porno constipated!")

Looking for a good comedy, so I've just started with this, Series 1!
The first few epsiodes have been hard enough work, most of the "funny" bits are set up in a way that you can see them coming, so laughs have been few and far between. But I'll stick with it for a while and hope it improves

It's cringe comedy. Either your thing or not.

I think it's genius, especially as it's all improv.

Ski Lift in season 5 is a personal favourite.

[Longshanks]

Curb is one of the few shows I actually think has got better the longer its been on and yes the fact its unscripted and only an outline of a plot is amazing.

[JimStynes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-IZvPS9cEw

Can't wait. If you haven't seen the first two series of Gomorrah then don't watch that link as there are a few spoilers in it.

[Minder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-IZvPS9cEw

Can't wait. If you haven't seen the first two series of Gomorrah then don't watch that link as there are a few spoilers in it.

When is it hitting here Jim?

[JimStynes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-IZvPS9cEw

Can't wait. If you haven't seen the first two series of Gomorrah then don't watch that link as there are a few spoilers in it.

When is it hitting here Jim?

I think it's Nov 17th. Not definitely sure though.