TV Show recommendations

[Canalman]

After watching the first series on Sky Arts & the hoors not showing the 2nd, I bought Hatufim / Prisoners of War Boxset (directly from Israel, customs charge of £12 too the bastids). For anyone who watched series 1, series 2 is just f**king superb.

(This is the show that Homeland is based on).

Thanks, will watch out for that. S1 was excellent.

[ziggy90]

After watching the first series on Sky Arts & the hoors not showing the 2nd, I bought Hatufim / Prisoners of War Boxset (directly from Israel, customs charge of £12 too the bastids). For anyone who watched series 1, series 2 is just f**king superb.

(This is the show that Homeland is based on).

Thanks, will watch out for that. S1 was excellent.

Same as that, I'd appreciate a heads up if it returns as I tend not to look at the schedule for Sky Arts.

[the Deel Rover]

Missed friday night lights 1st time round . Its on sky atlantic again started this week enjoyed the 1st episode

[gallsman]

Missed friday night lights 1st time round . Its on sky atlantic again started this week enjoyed the 1st episode

First few seasons are very good. Turns a bit shit later on and becomes more of a "teen" drama.

[ballinaman]

Anyone see the latest Walking Dead?....jaysus....fairly dark!

[Bingo]

Anyone see the latest Walking Dead?....jaysus....fairly dark!

That the mid-season finale that was aired in US on Sunday or last Fridays one on over here? Seen all but the mid-season finale.

Homeland has picked up the pace again with Brody back involved and more action. Story is strectching though.

[ballinaman]

Anyone see the latest Walking Dead?....jaysus....fairly dark!

That the mid-season finale that was aired in US on Sunday or last Fridays one on over here? Seen all but the mid-season finale.

Homeland has picked up the pace again with Brody back involved and more action. Story is strectching though.

The US one, I watched it on Monday after downloading it. Brace yourself!

[Bingo]

Anyone see the latest Walking Dead?....jaysus....fairly dark!

That the mid-season finale that was aired in US on Sunday or last Fridays one on over here? Seen all but the mid-season finale.

Homeland has picked up the pace again with Brody back involved and more action. Story is strectching though.

The US one, I watched it on Monday after downloading it. Brace yourself!

This season has been a bit stop/start to date with small stories taking up alot of air time eg the flu, Irish woman with head in the bag, Carol leaving, etc. With the Gov back you'd expect things to push on a bit more, so maybe this will happen now.

[nrico2006]

Anyone see the latest Walking Dead?....jaysus....fairly dark!

That the mid-season finale that was aired in US on Sunday or last Fridays one on over here? Seen all but the mid-season finale.

Homeland has picked up the pace again with Brody back involved and more action. Story is strectching though.

The mid season finale that is on this Friday is apparently nuts, looking forward to it. 

[Main Street]

Generation War tonight on RTE2 looks like it could be very good. Got huge ratings when it was shown in Germany earlier in the year. Subtitle warning for those who don't like foreign shows or movies though.

This is definitely worth a watch and only 3 episodes, all of them still on RTÉ player. It is on the BBC in a few weeks.

Mrs CD and I watched the first instalment of this last night - really enjoyed it. Nicely set up now to see what happens to the five key protagonists. I love the fact that they are all essentially flawed and 3/5 have bought into the Nazi propaganda. The show doesn't attempt to excuse or justify - strongly recommended!

I just finished this mini series last night and rated it very highly but the exceptions sadly bring it down to the gutter.
One of the exceptions was so blatant it destroyed any credibility the series had, and that was the portrayal of the Poles resistance (the AK) as rabid anti semites, afflicted with extreme Jewphobia and any Polish farmer in the series was generally a rabid anti semite and a collaberator with the germans. You'd wonder what perception the german filmmakers or germans in generaL  have of the Polish resistance to Nazi german occupation, but this extreme depiction in the series was so deranged it was beyond belief.
It's almost as if, yes the German were bad but the Polish resistance was worse and the Russians were just pure evil.
Compare to those 2, maybe we were not that bad.
It's not that I expect germans to wearing sackcloth and ashes about WW2, but I'd expect a half way rational account of The Polish resistance.
If you keep in mind that this series is also an exercise in crude revisionism, then it's well worth a look.

[armaghniac]

I just finished this mini series last night and rated it very highly but the exceptions sadly bring it down to the gutter.
One of the exceptions was so blatant it destroyed any credibility the series had, and that was the portrayal of the Poles resistance (the AK) as rabid anti semites, afflicted with extreme Jewphobia and any Polish farmer in the series was generally a rabid anti semite and a collaberator with the germans. You'd wonder what perception the german filmmakers or germans in generaL  have of the Polish resistance to Nazi german occupation, but this extreme depiction in the series was so deranged it was beyond belief.
It's almost as if, yes the German were bad but the Polish resistance was worse and the Russians were just pure evil.
Compare to those 2, maybe we were not that bad.
It's not that I expect germans to wearing sackcloth and ashes about WW2, but I'd expect a half way rational account of The Polish resistance.
If you keep in mind that this series is also an exercise in crude revisionism, then it's well worth a look.

I think the comments about Poland are very valid and this series has caused controversy elsewhere. A scenario where the Polish are more anti Jew than the Germans is a very suspect. Also both the army guys killed their superiors, which is not quite typical either. The out and out Gestapo guy working in public for the Americans sounds like a stretch too. Not sure that the Russians portrayal was unfair.

[Main Street]

I just finished this mini series last night and rated it very highly but the exceptions sadly bring it down to the gutter.
One of the exceptions was so blatant it destroyed any credibility the series had, and that was the portrayal of the Poles resistance (the AK) as rabid anti semites, afflicted with extreme Jewphobia and any Polish farmer in the series was generally a rabid anti semite and a collaberator with the germans. You'd wonder what perception the german filmmakers or germans in generaL  have of the Polish resistance to Nazi german occupation, but this extreme depiction in the series was so deranged it was beyond belief.
It's almost as if, yes the German were bad but the Polish resistance was worse and the Russians were just pure evil.
Compare to those 2, maybe we were not that bad.
It's not that I expect germans to wearing sackcloth and ashes about WW2, but I'd expect a half way rational account of The Polish resistance.
If you keep in mind that this series is also an exercise in crude revisionism, then it's well worth a look.

I think the comments about Poland are very valid and this series has caused controversy elsewhere. A scenario where the Polish are more anti Jew than the Germans is a very suspect. Also both the army guys killed their superiors, which is not quite typical either. The out and out Gestapo guy working in public for the Americans sounds like a stretch too. Not sure that the Russians portrayal was unfair.

You kinda got the impression that they wanted to get over the message that everybody was Nazi,  that Germans were no more Nazi than everybody else, in fact Germans were more honest and had integrity despite the Nazi taint.  And that they thought to portray the absolute US complicity with such a high profile Nazi SS officer getting a desk job where he would be confronting German citizens that he had previously terrified for 15 years.
The more I think about it, the more I'd say chuck the series into the sewer, it doesn't deserve the privilege to be screened on public service tv.

[Billys Boots]

Interesting comments lads; appreciated. 

[ballinaman]

I just finished this mini series last night and rated it very highly but the exceptions sadly bring it down to the gutter.
One of the exceptions was so blatant it destroyed any credibility the series had, and that was the portrayal of the Poles resistance (the AK) as rabid anti semites, afflicted with extreme Jewphobia and any Polish farmer in the series was generally a rabid anti semite and a collaberator with the germans. You'd wonder what perception the german filmmakers or germans in generaL  have of the Polish resistance to Nazi german occupation, but this extreme depiction in the series was so deranged it was beyond belief.
It's almost as if, yes the German were bad but the Polish resistance was worse and the Russians were just pure evil.
Compare to those 2, maybe we were not that bad.
It's not that I expect germans to wearing sackcloth and ashes about WW2, but I'd expect a half way rational account of The Polish resistance.
If you keep in mind that this series is also an exercise in crude revisionism, then it's well worth a look.

I think the comments about Poland are very valid and this series has caused controversy elsewhere. A scenario where the Polish are more anti Jew than the Germans is a very suspect. Also both the army guys killed their superiors, which is not quite typical either. The out and out Gestapo guy working in public for the Americans sounds like a stretch too. Not sure that the Russians portrayal was unfair.

You kinda got the impression that they wanted to get over the message that everybody was Nazi,  that Germans were no more Nazi than everybody else, in fact Germans were more honest and had integrity despite the Nazi taint.  And that they thought to portray the absolute US complicity with such a high profile Nazi SS officer getting a desk job where he would be confronting German citizens that he had previously terrified for 15 years.
The more I think about it, the more I'd say chuck the series into the sewer, it doesn't deserve the privilege to be screened on public service tv.

I'd agree with that, I had a read about it online before seeing it and read how there was outrage in Poland. Seeing as it was made for German TV, couldn't see it portraying themselves as the sum of all evil so I wasn't really surprised by how it panned out. If you are to judge it as a piece of fiction then it was fairly well shot and acted I thought.

[CD]

Obviously these themes weren't immediately evident in the first part lads - I'm going to watch part 2 over the weekend - I'll be interested to see the treatment of Poles and Ukrainians as it develops. I wasn't aware that the series had been the subject of such criticism. I was just reading about it there - loads of discussion online about this.