TV Show recommendations

[AZOffaly]

Anyone ever watch Rookie Blue on Universal? Relax Laoislad, it's not that sort of Blue. It's a fairly easy watch cop show, tracking a set of new recruits into a PD. The lead girl is something else. Missy Peregrym. It's not one for deep thinkers or anything, but I enjoy it.

[Jell 0 Biafra]

Bloodline on Netflix well worth a watch.

4 episodes in, bored out of my mind--does it get any better?

[Main Street]

I had a look at True Detective  season 2, first episode this evening and I really can't figure out how it got to here,  a piece of crap  from what was season 1. It has the brains and complexity of a Charles Bronson revenge vigilante film,
though still a hundred times better than Game of Thrones.
How come the Irish man gets the role of the drunk who can polish off what looks to be a bottle of bushmills, have a little snooze and be good to go an hour later?

I know what you mean MS, but the first series was a slow burner as well, 1st 2.5 episodes were just weird then it started and just kept going and going.
First episodes are always about introducing characters and setting context for each.
I'm prepared to give it multiple chances, loved the first series, it got me through a 14 hour Abu Dhabi - Sydney flight!

With season 1.  it was simple , you had  the crime investigation, the winding path the investigation followed,  Louisiana, music, the detectives' interaction , the work place.  the home situation of both  and  the plot evolved  via the medium of an in-house investigation  bringing it up to a present day investigation, where both detectives had "issues" investigation and personal
But when you think about it, that was a complicated story line , plots, but for us slow people it took its time to evolve and allowed us to absorb the experience.
Season 2 starts off at full throttle by comparison and without the gravitas. In other words, more mainstream, when you'd have hoped that the True Detective series would inhabit another territory less travelled.
I'll still give it a go nonetheless.

[gallsman]

Are you really reading anything into Colin Farrell playing the whiskey drinking alco cop? (It was Johnnie Walker Blue by the way, I think).

In the first season both of them were alcos and one of then adruggie!

I'm not sure what to make of it either but will give it the benefit of the doubt and keep watching.

[nrico2006]

Haven't watched season 2 yet, but going by 1 I was expecting another slow burner.

Hannibal episode 3 of season 3 aired the other night, its floating perilously close to getting the boot if it continues to be as bad.

[JoG2]

Ballers ep 1 last night. Enjoyed it.

[Canalman]

Haven't watched season 2 yet, but going by 1 I was expecting another slow burner.

Hannibal episode 3 of season 3 aired the other night, its floating perilously close to getting the boot if it continues to be as bad.

Got the boot  (Hannibal) I heard on the radio during the week.

Odd tv series, hugely flawed,  but I still watched it all and will watch S3 which I am recording.

Anyone here watched  Bates Motel? Worth a watch?

[nrico2006]

Haven't watched season 2 yet, but going by 1 I was expecting another slow burner.

Hannibal episode 3 of season 3 aired the other night, its floating perilously close to getting the boot if it continues to be as bad.

Got the boot  (Hannibal) I heard on the radio during the week.

Odd tv series, hugely flawed,  but I still watched it all and will watch S3 which I am recording.

Anyone here watched  Bates Motel? Worth a watch?

Far too many dreamy sequences for me now, dominating the majority of episodes and don't know whats the real 'world' at times.

[Main Street]

Are you really reading anything into Colin Farrell playing the whiskey drinking alco cop? (It was Johnnie Walker Blue by the way, I think).

There's probably nothing to  read into the irish actor playing the role of the drunken alco cop, that it  confirms  the institutionalised stereotype image of the drunken Irish, but who knows?  I like observing the use of stereotypes in films, used to get people through various  believability factors via prejudice ( ever watch Dumbo?  the Lion King?).
The believability factor in this episode, was not that Colin was the drunken alco detective,  but  that after speedily polishing off a bottle of  whatever brand whisky (some 28 units), that Colin was good to go  (after a little snooze), looking sober as a sober judge,  to the scene of a crime. I have never drank a bottle of whisky, not even those teeny ones. Maybe someone else could remark  upon the believability factor of that scene?

[screenexile]

Are you really reading anything into Colin Farrell playing the whiskey drinking alco cop? (It was Johnnie Walker Blue by the way, I think).

There's probably nothing to  read into the irish actor playing the role of the drunken alco cop, that it  confirms  the institutionalised stereotype image of the drunken Irish, but who knows?  I like observing the use of stereotypes in films, used to get people through various  believability factors via prejudice ( ever watch Dumbo?  the Lion King?).
The believability factor in this episode, was not that Colin was the drunken alco detective,  but  that after speedily polishing off a bottle of  whatever brand whisky (some 28 units), that Colin was good to go  (after a little snooze), looking sober as a sober judge,  to the scene of a crime. I have never drank a bottle of whisky, not even those teeny ones. Maybe someone else could remark  upon the believability factor of that scene?

Does the Irish stereotype thing apply saying he's playing an American cop? I wouldn't say he was sober as a judge but I would imagine it's possible to drive a car having had a feed of whiskey!

[Tony Baloney]

Are you really reading anything into Colin Farrell playing the whiskey drinking alco cop? (It was Johnnie Walker Blue by the way, I think).

There's probably nothing to  read into the irish actor playing the role of the drunken alco cop, that it  confirms  the institutionalised stereotype image of the drunken Irish, but who knows?  I like observing the use of stereotypes in films, used to get people through various  believability factors via prejudice ( ever watch Dumbo?  the Lion King?).
The believability factor in this episode, was not that Colin was the drunken alco detective,  but  that after speedily polishing off a bottle of  whatever brand whisky (some 28 units), that Colin was good to go  (after a little snooze), looking sober as a sober judge,  to the scene of a crime. I have never drank a bottle of whisky, not even those teeny ones. Maybe someone else could remark  upon the believability factor of that scene?

Does the Irish stereotype thing apply saying he's playing an American cop? I wouldn't say he was sober as a judge but I would imagine it's possible to drive a car having had a feed of whiskey!

A fella from home once remarked that driving home he was that drunk he couldn't see the white line. He still made it though 

[Main Street]

Are you really reading anything into Colin Farrell playing the whiskey drinking alco cop? (It was Johnnie Walker Blue by the way, I think).

There's probably nothing to  read into the irish actor playing the role of the drunken alco cop, that it  confirms  the institutionalised stereotype image of the drunken Irish, but who knows?  I like observing the use of stereotypes in films, used to get people through various  believability factors via prejudice ( ever watch Dumbo?  the Lion King?).
The believability factor in this episode, was not that Colin was the drunken alco detective,  but  that after speedily polishing off a bottle of  whatever brand whisky (some 28 units), that Colin was good to go  (after a little snooze), looking sober as a sober judge,  to the scene of a crime. I have never drank a bottle of whisky, not even those teeny ones. Maybe someone else could remark  upon the believability factor of that scene?

Does the Irish stereotype thing apply saying he's playing an American cop?

The institutionalised stereotype image of the drunken Irish,is not restricted to certain occupations
For instance when Robbie Keane as captain of LA galaxy was received in the White House by President Obama, the president could not help himself when referring to Robbie's locker being full to the brim with all sorts of alcohol bottles that there would not be room for another trophy.
That was greeted with much mirth and no one thought any more about it. Imagine the furore if eg  Ropbbie was jew and Obama made some jest about Robbie's attire and joked that he must be investing all his money in Goldman Sachs or too stingy to buy a proper dress for his wife?
That jewish stereotype is not institutionalised.

I wouldn't say he was sober as a judge but I would imagine it's possible to drive a car having had a feed of whiskey!

I can't  imagine what it it would be like to have drunk so much so fast (about 2/3 of a 1.5l bottle of whisky, plus a few beers), then drive  and appear sober as a judge. Would that not be blackout territory?

[The Subbie]

Just seen 2nd episode of True Detective, season 2,no spoilers BUT shit just got real.

[screenexile]

Just seen 2nd episode of True Detective, season 2,no spoilers BUT shit just got real.

+1... f**k!!

[JimStynes]

Couldn't believe it when the aliens landed! Unreal.