What are you watching & why? (splain)

I concur with all those listed as excellent shows....kinda embarrassed by how many I have watched.
I can add The Wire as the best police drama, ever. Incredibly well written and acted. It is an older show.
A Handmaid's Tale is quite riveting, albeit the fluff & non stop close ups of Elisabeth Moss gets tiresome.
Just started Warrior, which seems to have a good story line and "believable" martial arts scenes (& FF nudity, NOT for children).
Superstore for an awkward "The Office" type show.
Modern Family just because Sofía Vergara.
The Big Bang and Young Sheldon for time gap fillers/before bed shows.
As a grown man, I adore Adventure Time :oops:
 
I haven’t watched the Wire, but will have to at some point! I think I that was among maybe 2 people in the U.S who had never watched any single episode of Breaking Bad!!! But fret not me amigos & amigas because I binged watched the heck out of it hen I got Netflix :thumbsup: and of course thereafter I had to watch Better Call Saul :D

Ashamedly, I must also admit that I have never watched either Mad Men or Walking Dead :rolleyes: :eek: I dunno what it is, but I don’t watch much network TV till they go syndicated! Have never watched House of Cards and never watched Veep which are supposed to very highly acclaimed but I’m eschewing anything political these days. I don’t have Hulu so No Handsmaid tales for me.

I have never watched Babylon Berlin. It has very good reviews and supposedly one of the biggest, if not the biggest none-English language Netflix production. Anyway one watched it and recommends it? I’ll be watching in the native tongue German with subtitles :)
 
Casinostocks said:
I haven’t watched the Wire, but will have to at some point! I think I that was among maybe 2 people in the U.S who had never watched any single episode of Breaking Bad!!! But fret not me amigos & amigas because I binged watched the heck out of it hen I got Netflix :thumbsup: and of course thereafter I had to watch Better Call Saul :D

Ashamedly, I must also admit that I have never watched either Mad Men or Walking Dead :rolleyes: :eek: I dunno what it is, but I don’t watch much network TV till they go syndicated! Have never watched House of Cards and never watched Veep which are supposed to very highly acclaimed but I’m eschewing anything political these days. I don’t have Hulu so No Handsmaid tales for me.

I have never watched Babylon Berlin. It has very good reviews and supposedly one of the biggest, if not the biggest none-English language Netflix production. Anyway one watched it and recommends it? I’ll be watching in the native tongue German with subtitles :)
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You need to watch the wire, mad men and breaking bad, those are like the best 3 tv shows of all time man lol
 
Too bad that we will have to wait for West World till at least 2020 :(

That show grew on me even more than GoT, specially when I felt that GoT in the absence of further baseline material from George R R Martin, was going to take a life of its own in the hands of David Benioff & D.B. Weiss!

I think that S2 Ep5 (Akane no Mai) remains one of the most artistically beautiful productions which I have ever seen on TV (the episode staged in Shogun World when they replicate the original Sweetwater in the Japanese parallel universe with mirroring characters!). The Samurai, the Geisha girls, the set, the Edo period costumes, the acting; all beautifully exquisite.

I can't wait for Season 3 :)
 
Casinostocks said:
Ashamedly, I must also admit that I have never watched either Mad Men or Walking Dead :rolleyes: :eek:
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Opinions obviously vary, but I watched the TWD, and finally couldn't take it anymore.

I understand that a show like that relies on the characters continually finding themselves in positions of peril, in order to retain viewership, but when the characters are constantly finding themselves in peril due to their own stupidity, and especially, from repeating the same stupid actions and not learning from them, it got too exasperating to continue watching.
 
^ some of these (above bluemax's post) I can't sample / watch because they are not in the streaming services which I use :(

Regarding what you said about long running shows such as TWD, we all know that popular shows inevitably jump the shark that is why I start feeling leery about getting into unwatched popular shows which keep running on and on and on, because from experience I always know that at some point they crap their beds and end up badly leaving a lot to be desired!

I still think that LOST takes the cake in the modern era when it comes to capping the bed :D I also used to also watch Heroes for a while way back when but don't know whatever finally happened to that show!

ETA: Glad that Homeland is coming to an end after this last and final 8th season. I used to like Billions (SHO) but that one turned into a real convoluted sh*tshow. I completely lost interest this year.
 
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I just watched the series Warrior.
'Warrior is an American action television series created by Jonathan Tropper and Justin Lin that premiered on April 5, 2019, on Cinemax. It is based on an original concept by Bruce Lee'
I really enjoyed it. Good fight scenes.
 
And Banshee was good too, that's also a Cinemax one.
'A recently paroled master thief assumes the identity of Sheriff Lucas Hood in Banshee, Pa., where his former lover and partner in crime relocated years ago and reinvented herself as Carrie Hopewell, the wife of the town's prosecutor'
 
As a Brummie, I’ve of course watched Peaky Blinders, although it’s gone a bit wayward in the later seasons. For those who don’t know Birmingham, it’s the UK’s second city, birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, and hitherto generally ignored or at best mocked in contemporary British culture.

There’s another good show available on Netflix set in Birmingham, or at least a generic midlands city that most closely resembles Birmingham - Line of Duty - a police internal affairs drama.
 
fkctrjt121 said:
I just watched the series Warrior.
'Warrior is an American action television series created by Jonathan Tropper and Justin Lin that premiered on April 5, 2019, on Cinemax. It is based on an original concept by Bruce Lee'
I really enjoyed it. Good fight scenes.
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Warrior is awesome, even my wife really got into it...impressive for a spaghetti western kung fu mashup.

Just started a couple new shows that came out last week, "The Rook" and "Years & years" ...both show a lot of promise:)
 
fkctrjt121 said:
And Banshee was good too, that's also a Cinemax one.
'A recently paroled master thief assumes the identity of Sheriff Lucas Hood in Banshee, Pa., where his former lover and partner in crime relocated years ago and reinvented herself as Carrie Hopewell, the wife of the town's prosecutor'
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Fun fact, that was filmed here in Mooresville. That was our depot and parts of it was filmed less than a mile away. :)

I am super-excited for the return of Stranger Things tomorrow!!
 
bluemax_1 said:
Opinions obviously vary, but I watched the TWD, and finally couldn't take it anymore.

I understand that a show like that relies on the characters continually finding themselves in positions of peril, in order to retain viewership, but when the characters are constantly finding themselves in peril due to their own stupidity, and especially, from repeating the same stupid actions and not learning from them, it got too exasperating to continue watching.
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That’s exactly how I’ve felt about it for years!
Just last night I was going through my recorded shows and realized I never watched the last episode and had an epiphany that I was tired of forcing myself to keep up with it.
I not only erased the episode but canceled the series in my DVR.
If they’d have stuck to the struggle against the undead, failing or scarce resources, weather, disease, etc. I may have stayed more interested but all the show turned into was war porn of one battle after another with other survivors that played out so slowly that it became absolutely boring.
 
I'm watching Jessica Jones right now. Why? I don't know, it's something to watch. I like watching damaged people make the best of things I guess. Reminds me of me.

I tried to get into Peaky Blinders but just couldn't. The first episode of Black Mirror was beyond the pale for me, so I didn't watch any more.
Favorite show? Firefly. Still pissed at Fox for screwing that up with the out of sequence episodes. When my kids were old enough to appreciate it, we watched the whole series (in the correct order) and then the movie. They LOVED it.
 
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