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watched first ep of SOA last night, bizaare first ep, they have done it like this is what happened in thier world since the end of the last series...like they have created a storyline form the word go, and looked at how to start it, rather than one developing over the series?
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[quote name='Tim']Yeah, Sons is shit this year. It cannot operate as a heavy handed, "tragic", drama. This week's episode was better though.[/QUOTE]<br />
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[quote name='rustycruiser']I am actually not the best guy for this, cause I am "too cool" for mainstream comedies. I generally loathe formulaic, multi camera, laugh track ones such as Two and Half Men. The new ones this year that are most successful viewer wise and buzz wise are Mike and Molly (Chuck Lorre show who makes BBT, and TAHM), Shit my Dad Says (see twitter/book), and Raising Hope (Greg Garcia show, who made My Name is Earl). Of those, I checked out Raising Hope, and left after one episode. [B] To give you an idea of my taste, I think Arrested Development was unadulterated genius, Better off Ted almost as good, and Community and Park and Recreation (2nd season reboot) are the best comedies on TV at the moment. I also think 30 Rock is on the down swing for the last year or so, and the Office is a shell of it's former self and pretty meh.[/B]<br />
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TR. Terriers name, and happy theme music along with the way Fx marketed it here made you think you were going to be watching a peppy buddy detective show type weekly procedural. Instead it is so much more, with a dark season long arc and broken characters just trying to make it and reconstruct their lives. I have been a Donal Logue fan since the Tao of Steve a decade ago, and he really has a chance to shine here. It is very much worth a watch and only a 13 episode commitment.[/QUOTE]<br />
Me too - I think all those shows are great. But then, I'm not a snob, I like mainstream as well. I think that 30 Rock has improved this year over the last.<br />
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The Terriers first episode did that as well. I nearly stopped watching after the 2nd Ep because the tone of the show seemed to change. I'm glad I stuck with and I'm going to be very disappointed when they cancel it.<br />
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Edit: I stopped watching SOA after the first Irish ep, so will now watch the last few Eps just for the finale. -
I have the final ep of SOA to watch, and yep, the whole Irish thing got tiring quick, although the music they did over some of the scenes was pretty cool!<br />
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They cancel Terriers? I have the 1st ep to watch, but not sure if I'll bother if it is left hanging! -
Not canceled yet, but might be due to anemic ratings. Even if they cancel it, you should still watch it the first season. Bloody good stuff, and they do a good job wrapping up things.
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final ep of SOA was pretty damn good! Redeemed enough for me to carry on with the next series, which is obvious as to what that will be largely about....
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I just wanted to say i love The Amazing Race. I love watching stupid americans thrust into the middle of Bangledesh, trying to find their way around, and interacting with the locals. The scenery is cool too, but mainly i watch it for inter-partner meltdowns and culture shocks. <br />
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"What country do you think you are in now?"<br />
"London?"<br />
"The country of London?"<br />
"yea"<br />
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S5 of Dexter<br />
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little disappointing, not as dark as previously, almost light hearted in places. Am struggling to see how he manages to juggle his private life, work life and his dark passenger -
[quote name='taniwharugby']S5 of Dexter<br />
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little disappointing, not as dark as previously, almost light hearted in places. Am struggling to see how he manages to juggle his private life, work life and his dark passenger[/QUOTE]<br />
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Thought it was still 1000x better than season 4 (thought it was pretty shitty except for Lithgow), and also better than season 3. Returned the focus to Dexter, his "pursuits", and the possibility that he may be caught. There was pretty good chemistry between the Dexter character and Julia Stiles' character as well. -
[quote name='Tim']Thought it was still 1000x better than season 4 (thought it was pretty shitty except for Lithgow), and also better than season 3. Returned the focus to Dexter, his "pursuits", and the possibility that he may be caught. There was pretty good chemistry between the Dexter character and Julia Stiles' character as well.[/QUOTE]<br />
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So disappointed they cancelled Terriers. But any ferners out there who haven't watched it should do so anyway.<br />
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It sits on my top rung of shows (like the Wire, Band of Brothers [Grrr, not the bloody Pacific though], West Wing, Community, First 3 seasons of HIMYM etc etc). -
[quote name='rustycruiser']The writing was terrible though. Slapped together. Dexter dumbed down.[/QUOTE]<br />
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Yeah, I had pretty low expectations going into the season and watched it in one big chunk over a weekend though. Season 4 was just so diabolical that I was prepared to give it a lot of leeway. -
I thought the final 4 episodes of S4 were very good, really tense, but yeah S3 was pants, much like most of S5.<br />
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He either needs to give up his serial killer days, or ditch the whanau, it simply becomes to unbelievable for him to play the good dad, have a job and be a vigilante serial killer.<br />
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I see on IMDB there is a S6 link there, but nothing there yet, I suspect we havent heard the last of the Quinn - Dexter side of things, which if they do right could make for a great S6, where there are 2 outcomes.... -
Season 7 of 24!! Jake Bauer v The Government never gets old. Best TV character ever. Every saturday night we get 2 hours, which is a pretty good way to watch it.
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Just watched the first series of Sons of Anarchy this week on DVD. Found it totally unrealistic but compelling viewing and it got me hook, line and sinker. Watched the first three episodes of series Two last night and have been completely underwhelmed so far. I do love the cancer ridden dope smoking police chief though. Every town needs one of them. But Jacks with his 12 year old boys body (60 kgs dripping wet) and white shoes looks more skateboarder than patched member. Opie does remind me of a few OCs I have met though. Still its great chill out TV.
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but for me that was the whole point about Jax, he simply didnt fit, was conflicted and he was still trying to work out if the direction they were heading was right...that said, they probably over do it just a tad, but then what TV is realistic <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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into S4 (assume they cant drag it past his 6th wife...) of the Tudors (annoyed TVNZ dropped this) as they have all been pretty good quality, good acting and good 'storylines'
