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Post by Hey Man on Oct 3, 2014 12:57:34 GMT -5
With the fall season having started - what brand new shows have you watched so far and like or hated?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2014 13:02:30 GMT -5
Watched the first 2 episodes of Scorpion, thought it was okay. I'll give it a few more. The first 2 eps of Person of Interest were bit disappointing, looks like they are trying to de-serialize a bit.
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Post by R&ROVER on Oct 3, 2014 13:39:10 GMT -5
The Knick is some fucking great TV. My new Boardwalk Empire.
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Post by Justlee on Oct 3, 2014 14:11:11 GMT -5
The Knick is some fucking great TV. My new Boardwalk Empire. I guess I will have to check this one out. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2014 17:36:27 GMT -5
Nothing. I tried watching The Strain, gave up after several episodes. Awful...
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Post by Steve on Oct 3, 2014 22:33:36 GMT -5
Heard good things about The Leftovers and looking forward to Constantine.
Didn't think I'd like the latest season of New Tricks with only one original cast member left, but the new team is working out well so far and Tamzin Outhwaite is gorgeous.
Two weeks behind on Doctor Who. Don't much care.
I haven't watched The Strain because I'm sick of vampires, but I had quite a nerdgasm the other day when I found Forever Knight on iTunes. An acquaintance (I hesitate to use the word friend because she bugs the living piss out me) intorduced me to the show years ago. It's one of few things we ever agreed on.
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Post by Hey Man on Oct 3, 2014 22:45:15 GMT -5
Heard good things about The Leftovers and looking forward to Constantine. Didn't think I'd like the latest season of New Tricks with only one original cast member left, but the new team is working out well so far and Tamzin Outhwaite is gorgeous. Two weeks behind on Doctor Who. Don't much care. I haven't watched The Strain because I'm sick of vampires, but I had quite a nerdgasm the other day when I found Forever Knight on iTunes. An acquaintance (I hesitate to use the word friend because she bugs the living piss out me) intorduced me to the show years ago. It's one of few things we ever agreed on. Wait a minute - the supreme Dr. Who fan isn't liking Dr. Who? Don't like the new doctor? |
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Post by Vandelay Industries on Oct 3, 2014 23:02:42 GMT -5
every time i'm about to give up on 'the strain', something will happen that ropes me back in, lol....
i usually don't bother with vampire shows, but these are more 'blade 2'-type creatures than "typical" vampires...so it has that going for it, silly dialogue notwithstanding...
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Post by Steve on Oct 3, 2014 23:18:32 GMT -5
Love the new Doctor but, as I've said before, the writing is shit. The same team have stuck around too long and they're all out of ideas.
I'm recording the eps and I'll catch up sometime. Too busy just now teaching myself how to use iTunes.
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Post by Vandelay Industries on Oct 4, 2014 7:23:24 GMT -5
every time i'm about to give up on 'the strain', something will happen that ropes me back in, lol.... i usually don't bother with vampire shows, but these are more 'blade 2'-type creatures than "typical" vampires...so it has that going for it, silly dialogue notwithstanding... Making the big boss vampire have giant ridiculous fish lips doesn't help any. yeah, i can't argue that, lol....however, i've read a few posts elsewhere by people who read the books (which i didn't do), and they say the backstory of his character looking that way actually makes sense. i'm still one episode behind, so i don't know if they explained it yet, but i'm expecting one hell of an explanation  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2014 20:51:02 GMT -5
Not really a new show, but based on a recommendation I started watching Manhattan (WGN of all stations), really good show. Started off a bit slow, but by the end of Ep 2, it really starts moving.
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WGN America retells the story of the Manhattan Project
By Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Jul. 24, 2014
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – It’s difficult to imagine that the more sophisticated, adult drama “Manhattan” (9 p.m. Sunday, WGN America) comes from the same network that just a few months ago debuted the silly, supernatural drama “Salem.”
Perhaps WGN America, new to original scripted series, is pursuing a let’s-throw-anything-against-the-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks programming strategy because these two series could not be more different.
Both shows are rooted in history, but “Salem” posits an alternate history where witches were real and masterfully manipulated events in 17th-century Massachusetts.
Newcomer “Manhattan” takes the real history of the Manhattan Project and retells the story of the creation of the first atomic bomb with fictional characters.
“Manhattan” clearly seems to be positioned as a serious cable show, and although it lacks the psychological depth of “Mad Men” or the edgy vibe of “Breaking Bad,” this new drama is easily one of the best new summer series.
John Benjamin Hickey, who played Laura Linney’s brother on “The Big C,” stars in “Manhattan” as fictional Frank Winter, a science researcher on one of several teams trying to develop an atomic weapon under the direction of real-life figure Robert Oppenheimer (Daniel London) in a no-name town in New Mexico (Los Alamos).
Winter’s team is not the team preferred by Oppenheimer and the U.S. Army; they are the underdogs. But Winter doggedly pursues any approach that will shave time off the development of a weapon because he sees every passing hour reflected in an increased number of dead American service members. He’s so worried about ending the war that he even considers sacrificing a rule-breaking colleague in the pilot.
Charlie Isaacs (Ashley Zukerman) and wife Abby (Rachel Brosnahan) are new to “the Hill,” and Charlie, although an admirer of Winter’s work, is recruited by the rival team. Charlie is haunted by his own worries: Once America develops this weapon, what’s to stop another, less enlightened country from making a bomb of its own?
One researcher on the same team brags, “We have the highest combined IQ of any town in America and more Jews than Babylon. You’ll be wined and dined by the U.S. Army until Hitler and the Japs say uncle.”
The pilot episode, written by series creator Sam Shaw (“Masters of Sex”) and directed by Thomas Schlamme (“The West Wing”), offers some beautiful desert vistas and crane shots out of a Steven Spielberg film. It’s easily one of the most beautiful hours of television to come along this year. (As is often the case, a subsequent episode is less cinematic.)
The first hour is a little slow, somewhat pacey at times — it clocks in at 56 minutes, not the usual 42 minutes, and will run one hour and 10 minutes with commercials — but it does a fine job of setting up the story and introducing the characters. “Manhattan” is not just about the scientists, but also their wives.
Winter’s wife, Liza (Olivia Williams, “Dollhouse,” who can’t seem to shake her British accent), is the most anarchic wife, doing anything to ease her boredom. She has a doctorate but has put her career on hold for her husband. She takes newcomer Abby under her wing in episode two and shows her one way to get some kitchen equipment that involves trading tampons for peyote for a hot plate.
In two episodes made available for review, the homefront stories of the wives actually come off better than many of the lab scenes because the wives are better drawn. Winter’s lab is full of scientists, but viewers barely learn their names, let alone personalities, in these early episodes.
But Winter is a compelling character and the stakes of his work are high, which gives “Manhattan” a leg up on another summer workplace drama, AMC’s “Halt and Catch Fire,” which began with a strong premiere and immediately grew dull with no interesting places for its stories to go.
But will viewers who tuned in to “Salem” in large enough numbers for that series to get a second-season renewal be likely to come to the more historically plausible, reality-rooted “Manhattan”? If they don’t, WGN America may have an altogether different kind of bomb on its hands.
Producers on ‘Manhattan’
After a “Manhattan” press conference earlier this month, Mr. Schlamme said WGN America executives acknowledged there may not be a lot of crossover between the “Salem” audience and the “Manhattan” audience.
“What they wanted was a great show,” he said. “They’ve been unbelievably supportive. They said, ‘If we can get a quality television show, that is what we want to do.’ And honestly, they’ve never winked. It’s never been, ‘Well, we said that, but what we really mean is the other.’ ”
“Manhattan” was filmed at an old New Mexico U.S. Army hospital that was days away from being torn down. The production came in and took over 12 acres of buildings that were reconfigured for the show. Mr. Schlamme said 85-90 percent of the series is shot on that location and much of it is shot outdoors.
“We created a world,” he said. “And part of that hope was to create a world that [the actors] could walk into that didn’t feel like a soundstage. It’s what it would have felt like for the [real-life] men and women who were transported from their homes on the East Coast, on the West Coast, and just plopped into the desert.”
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2014 20:51:40 GMT -5
... as usual South Park has been good so far this year. The Gluten Free Ebola episode was fantastic.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2014 22:48:57 GMT -5
... as usual South Park has been good so far this year. The Gluten Free Ebola episode was fantastic. Much better than last season so far. |
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Post by R&ROVER on Oct 6, 2014 8:46:46 GMT -5
I'm not huge on animated or cartoon shows, but I do enjoy South Park from time-to-time.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2014 11:00:54 GMT -5
Watched the first three episodes of Star Wars: Rebels. Pretty good. Off to a stronger start than Season 1 of Clone Wars. It's very... uhh, "Disney". The main character is Aladdin minus the flying carpet and there's more humor in it than the later seasons of TCW (where some of the arcs were darker than the actual movies), but the upbeat, fun tone works here and I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would.
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Post by Ford GT on Oct 7, 2014 21:54:10 GMT -5
Selfie is funny. I'm still on board with Agents of Shield and so far season 2 hasn't disappointed me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2014 8:21:17 GMT -5
I'm still on board with Agents of Shield and so far season 2 hasn't disappointed me. I finally made it through Season 1 a few weeks ago. The show does get a lot better around 10 episodes in, but I'm still in no rush to watch the second season anytime soon. I'll probably binge-watch it when all 22 episodes are available. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2014 13:12:21 GMT -5
South Park Ep 3 was great ... they are on a roll this year
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2014 8:25:56 GMT -5
I am now 6 Episodes into Season 1 Bates Motel (Netflix) ... much better than I was expecting
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2014 8:56:55 GMT -5
I'm waiting for Constantine. Looks like it will be good.
I've been watching Bones & Supernatural on Netflix.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2014 9:21:24 GMT -5
Watched the first episode of 'The Flash'. Yikes...  |
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Post by B5Erik on Oct 15, 2014 10:22:43 GMT -5
Gotham is pretty good, and I'd like to watch Forever, but I haven't had the chance yet.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 19:12:21 GMT -5
The new Simpsons Tree House of Horror was fantastic ... one of the better ones they have done IMO.
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Post by Vandelay Industries on Oct 23, 2014 20:39:48 GMT -5
technically not a "new" show, but i've been watching the latest installment of 'american horror story' and am liking it so far. one of the creepiest clowns i've ever seen |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 22:14:18 GMT -5
technically not a "new" show, but i've been watching the latest installment of 'american horror story' and am liking it so far. one of the creepiest clowns i've ever seen Jessica Lange is terrible this season though. That German accent is fucking atrocious. |
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Post by Vandelay Industries on Oct 24, 2014 8:57:50 GMT -5
i'm sure i've mentioned before how tough a room this place is |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2014 9:15:14 GMT -5
Jessica Lange is terrible this season though. That German accent is fucking atrocious. Oh is that what accent she's trying to do? LOL My life likes this shit, fucking hell. It is very entertaining seeing how horrible the CGI of the siamese twin chick is though. Like the creepy clown's makeup design. Really the only decent season is the first one, but you have to watch it from start to finish for it to make any sense, otherwise it's almost impossible to follow. Asylum started out okay. First few episodes were brilliant. Then they introduced aliens for no reason and other random shit that made no fucking sense... Coven is more like a CW series than a horror. Good for what it is, I guess. Freak Show is terrible so far. Lange needs to fuck off. Seriously sick of her playing the same fucking characters every season. And yes, that is apparently "German". She even says 'scheiße' several times, I guess it's to help people figure it out. "Ahh. So she's not drunk; just German". |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2014 9:28:29 GMT -5
First season bored me quickly so I didn't watch. How much did you watch? It goes fucking nuts after the first three or four episodes. Really clever how it ties everything up so neatly. Great season. |
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Post by Steve on Oct 24, 2014 10:02:34 GMT -5
Any love for Resurrection? I saw a bit of it in a doctor's surgery today waiting to get my very swollen knee drained (again. Ow.) and it didn't look too terrible.
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Post by Justlee on Oct 24, 2014 12:18:00 GMT -5
Any love for Resurrection? I saw a bit of it in a doctor's surgery today waiting to get my very swollen knee drained (again. Ow.) and it didn't look too terrible. My wife loves this show. It has an interesting storyline...but man it is fucking slow moving for me. Not the worst thing on T.V., but leaves a lot to be desired in my opinion. |
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