Favourite TV Series

Anyone who likes Ancient History Meet The Romans with (the appropriately named) Mary Beard was good.

 

Facejacker is amazing. So so funny. BURHHHH.

 

I didn't realize Das Boot was originally a tv show. Interesting.
The person at left is Buck Compton and the person on the right is the guy who played Buck Compton in Band of Brothers.
Compton passed about a month ago...vey interesting person. Among many other things, he was one of the prosecutors that handled the assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, Sirhan Sirhan.

 

Anyone else watching A Game of Thrones?

It's absolutely fantastic stuff. For those of you who haven't been watching, it's been described as like Lord of the Rings, but with a far better story, more in depth characters, far more sex and nudity and lots of blood and gore.

Truly fantastic show. It's on HBO and the yanks have quite a fanbase I'm told.

I just watched episode 4 in the 2nd season. So good!

 

Yeah, watching GOT and even read all the ASOIAF books. I'm that much of a nerd that I use acronyms for it now.

 

Indeed an excellent program, but to compare it to the level of Lord of the Rings is criminal.

 

Just started watching skins on Netflix, kind of upset the ditched the main characters after season 2, for all new ones.

 

They're not all new. You still have effy and pandora, and tonys family and things.

Skins is one of the best series of all time, if not the best in my opinion. Series 3 and 4 are brilliant, as are 5 and 6 which also have a new cast.

If you have time check out the Skins US, its their take on series 1, with strange alterations such as maxxi is a lesbian.

 

I saw someone reading one of those the other day - any good? What's the gist?

 

Ugh I can't stand Skins. It's so depressing.

 

Skins is a woeful excuse for a form of entertainment. I literally can't stand 'The Big Bang Theory' either - my housemates at uni watch it, but I don't think I have actually laughed once whilst watching it, ever.

For me it's got to be the classics: 'Friends' & 'Scrubs'

Currently watching 'How I met Your Mother' which is also proving to be a pretty decent watch.

 

I would say the opposite. Friends and scrubs just repeat the same sort of joke time and time again, and every episode is practically the formula.

 

Little bit different, but I am a huge fan of Deadliest Catch on Discovery. Not entirely sure why, but I love it. Never miss an episode.

 

I love Friends. Hate Scrubs.

I see Friends as a timeless classic. It's funny, the characters are great, the script is funny and it's easy watching.

You would like Skins Simms, being a hipster and all... :]]

 

Scrubs is amazing, I like friends and a big fan of HIMYM.
Skins on the other hand, is horrendous television. It's the biggest load of nonsense bulls**t television.

 

I dislike easy watching comedies. It's the fact that it engages with you, and you can empathise with characters that makes things funny for me.

Skins is one of the least hipster programmes around.

 

I've read exactly two fantasy series in my life: Tolkien and ASOIAF, and both are very good, and very comparable in quality, though different in many ways.

It's fantasy, which is a huge turnoff on the surface. Fantasy writing tends to be horrible, boring and cliche. However, the usual go to moves of fantasy books, powerful magic, dragons blowing **** up, and damsels in distress saved by dashing Princes Charming...all those moves get turned on their head. No one is good, except one family who get crushed as a result of their honor... The bad guys are variations of good, the good guys often the worst...there are are glimpses and sightings and threats of dragons but they are mostly an implied part of the story...there was magic, but now it's gone, yet shows signs of coming back. All of which is prelude to (seriously) a huge invasion of ice zombies which all but a very very small number of people are ignorant of...doom is just around the corner, while all the noble houses squabble over petty seats of power and screw each other literally and figuratively as deviantly as possible. Finding who is good, and in fact, who will even survive to the end, and how they do it, is what keeps people reading and speculating about the future books.

The writing is incredibly detailed, with no spare characters, despite literally dozens of first person perspectives. It is almost gothic in structure because so many plots and characters interweaving tie back to one another. It is utterly ridiculous. Yet, an easy and compelling read.

The author is an old fat nerd who in all likelihood will go Stieg Larsson on us before he finishes penning the goddam series. So yeah...

 

OK Fitz, I am probably being dumb here, but what is ASOIAF ???

 

Game of Thrones is the name of the first book in the series called A Song Of Ice And Fire. GOT is book one of ASOIAF. Acronyms are for the real nerds. Be proud you didn't know!

 

I did not realise GOT was just the first book of a series of books, that is great news :sign15:

Perhaps we can look forward to a few years of this excellent format!!!

 

Started The Sopranos last night. First episode was pretty good. With the summer about to roll round, seemed like the perfect time to pick up a new show to keep me occupied when it's too hot to be by the pool.

 

I hate you.

 

Don't hate him...pity him. Texas, Houston in particular, is inhumane in summer.

 

I envy you for never having seen the Sopranos and now being about to discover it.

And I also envy the heat. My favourite ever holiday for weather was Egypt in over 50 degree celsius heat. For Fitz, that's like, 1200 Farenheit or something.

 

Enjoyed the first 2 episodes. In typical HBO fashion, I like the way they slowly build characters and each episode contributes to a bigger picture that doesn't become clear until later on. It's going to have to be pretty good to beat The Wire though.

As for the weather, the heat is fine with me. It's the humidity that is the killer. Can't step outside for a second without being drenched in sweat when the summer comes around, whilst breathing becomes an issue pretty quickly. I don't know how Egypt is in terms of humidity though. If it's dry heat, then that is great. If it's humid like here, then you're mental. Usual temp here through July and August is about 45 degrees Celsius.

 

Anybody else love Dexter? I'm just getting into it.

 

Big fan. Really good show.

 

It is but I can see it getting very samey, and I've only seen the first 2 episodes of series 1.

 

Depends what you define as "samey", but I don't think it is. It's an excellent, unique program.

 

I think Harry's Law is good, anyone agree?