I really liked the X-files except for the last couple of seasons. I was a big fan of the Sopranos. I'm quite fond of Dexter but I've only seen the first two seasons. I have Futurama on DVD. I can enjoy the Closer. When I was a kid I always watched Roswell.
Nowadays I don't watch TV that much.
You know I had brain fever, and that is to be mad.
X files is amazing. Which reminds me: I recently watched the series of Bleak House which starred Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock. It was absolutely superb. Great adaptation.
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I recommend the following:
Breaking Bad
There are two lead on the show. Walter who lived his entire life in a straight line who finds out he has cancer. it throws him off course with no understanding of how a "clean" guy like him get this kind of "punishment". he is a chemistry teacher. he meets Jesse, a p crystal meth seller whose life is in complete disarray. Walter ends up helping Jesse. using his skills in chemistry, he makes the finest crytsal meth and starts selling. it explores how one effed up tries to makes sense of everything by trying to fix another effed up life. in the process you understand, with objectivity, how misery really attracts company and how one fundamental need to be needed pushes man to go beyond his bounds in order to feel he matters.
Perfect Strangers
Before Friends, before How I Met Your Mother, before The Big Bang Theory, there was Perfect Strangers. The ultimate story of a disastrously beautiful and funny friendship of two people from different worlds. Balky is from a town no one has heard of before whose sense of family extends to a community. He is innocent and kind to a fault. Larry is the typical American guy drowning in modernity in ambition. Together they find the worst in each other and encourages the best in each other.
Colonial House
This is a reality show inspired by history, for a change. People were made to live the 1628 life where there were no TV and other forms of technology. They discover how people were forced to commune because there was nothing else to do. Their source of entertainment were community bonfire with dancing and singing. Among the points of dissension that arise in the colony were: the rigid class and gender roles, mandatory religious observance, and the puritanical civil laws of the era, particularly those pertaining to profanity. "Not only does 'Colonial House' capture the drama of everyday life in a small colony but it also shows how ordinary people cope -- or in many cases, don't cope -- when removed from all that is familiar and comforting to them in the modern world," said series producer Sallie Clement.
Nip Tuck for the high quality soap opera, but average writing.
Sapphire and Steel, The Prisoner from the late '60s, M*A*S*H*.
Fawlty Towers, Sopranos, and Mash.
Anyone for Spartacus?
Spartacus and Eureka are the only shows I watch these days.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Spartacus is a great show. It has really good writing and great cast of characters. Can't wait for season 2.Anyone for Spartacus?
Spartacus and Eureka are the only shows I watch these days.
I was heartbroken last year because I started watching it after the fifth episode, I think.Originally Posted by Venerable Bede
This year started from the start, rewatching the Season 1.
Are you in the UK, Bede?
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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No I live in Canada. By the time I decided to watch the show, the first season was already on DVD, so I watched it from episode one. So have you seen the entire season yet or just the episodes after five?
I have seen them all now and watching the reruns as well.
The second season is a prequel, right?
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Yeah, it deals with a younger Batiatus taking control of his father's ludus. It also shows Crixus's rise from an inexperienced recruit to the champion of Capua. Unfortunately it's not a full season, it's only six episodes, but it is still very good.The second season is a prequel, right?
At the minute I'm enjoying the BBC's new crime thriller, The Shadow-Line - which is currently up to episode 5 of 7. It's all on the iPlayer for any Brits out there.
If you can deal with the rather slow first episode, it's very good indeed. A marvellous cast, combined with some wonderful cinematography, a nice noir style, and a script that, while hardly naturalistic, is well thoughfully constructed.
The story revolves around a major London crimelord who is assassinated within hours of obtaining a royal pardon. Following this, both the police and his criminal associates start investigating his murder. It is a slow series, but well worth sticking with, and the twists and turns of the plot are hard to predict.
Also, a certain villainous character is quite possibly simultaneously the coolest and creepiest man I've ever seen on TV...
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
Does anyone like the old family sit-coms lilke Leave it to Beaver?
I have to say Mad Men, Sopranos and Seinfeld.
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