The TV Thread redux

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This is why I miss watching Japanese TVā€¦even though much of it is abysmal, there is so much that is entertaining

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I finished watching channel 4ā€™s Itā€™s A Sin.
What a marvellous production, excellent witty script and fantastic acting and music is from my era. I can resonate with that time because there were so many misconceptions about AIDS.
The storyline is fantastic and you feel really sad and inspired by the characters and you are rooting for them. I was bawling my eyes out after episode 3, by the end was on the 2nd box of Kleenex.
A riveting watch and highly recommended. We need more Jillā€™s in this world.

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Resident Alien is not a bad series

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Sir Trevor McDonald! :heart_eyes:

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I never realised just how much like alan partridge Richard Madeley is

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just learned this week, one of my favourite tv shows has been cancelled. Kimā€™s Convenience is a Canadian sitcom following the lives of a Korean family living in Toronto I think Season 5 aired in January (usually comes to Netflix in the UK in April) but one of the actors tweeted a day or two that they were expecting to start filming season 6 shortly but instead got told it was ending.

I absolutely loved this one. :sob:

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I have watched few seasons, pretty cool.

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Iā€™ll give it a go if itā€™s on Netflix France. I am reduced to watching Broocklyn 99 to pass the time now so need something new and 5 seasons of something else will help.

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The writers want to move onto different projects.

Binged the show last year to catch up to the current seasonā€¦and now it ends. :cry:
Binged Schittā€™s Creek last month. It was good.

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It started well but wasnā€™t that enjoyable in the later seasons (Iā€™m still watching). Same with Kimā€™s Convenience, was really interesting and had a different vibe in the beginning.

Would you recommend it? I started but couldnā€™t go beyond few episodes.

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Thatā€™s understandable. The first season is a story about shitty people acting horribly. Itā€™s still genuinely funny, but a lot of people have some difficulty getting into it because of that fundamental premise. However, it turns into one of the best shows ever of its genre because of the growth of the characters. Itā€™s difficult to see it happening from the first few episodes, but by the middle of the run itā€™s not just funny, but itā€™s genuinely heart warming. There are several scenes that people will rewatch simply for the purpose of lifting their spirits when they feel down.

I think there are levels it works on even beyond that which helped make it such a favourite, but I dont think the issues of representation and authenticity need to be examined to appreciate how wonderful a show it became by as early as the second season.

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Thanks for the brief @Limiescouse . And just to be sure, you are talking about Schittā€™s Creek, right!

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Within the top ten of my recommended series, these three are definitely in there

  1. The Blacklist
  2. Criminal Minds
  3. Person of Interest
    Not sure if they still streaming for free, but worth checking them out
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Ha yes. sorry

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Schittā€™s Creek took a few episodes for me to warm up to it. I enjoyed it.

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I am getting a bit tired of The Blacklist. I think that they should have ended the series a couple of seasons ago. It felt like we are chasing ghost for the main storyline, if there ever was one.

Perhaps that is why I am turning towards British, Korean or Mainland Chinese series. They rarely have multiple seasons, and if they do, the series per season tends to be reasonably short.

Nevertheless, there were some really great North American series, e.g. ā€œDead Like Meā€, ā€œUnited States of Taraā€ to name just a fewā€¦but their demises were quality of writings declined after the 2nd season.

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Schittā€™s Creek isnā€™t on Netflix France so itā€™s Kimā€™s Convenience next after it took me a whole episode to realise Iā€™ve already watched Altered Carbon before (what wonders having a sieve for a memory can throw up). Thatā€™s because my son kept going on about Altered Carbon and I couldnā€™t remember if I had watched it, not liked it, ā€¦ whatever (must have watched it in French with one of my daughters boyfriends (anyway thatā€™s my excuse)).
If Kimā€™s thingy isnā€™t available Iā€™ll get back to rewatching all my films one by one over again. Watched all the TRansformers recently excellent stuff and my daughter commented ā€˜not againā€™ just another thing I drove her mad with then.

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