The TV Thread redux

Been watching Your Honor.

Some parallels with breaking bad. Story of a good guy (a judge ) having to break the law to protect his son. The build up of lies, getting caught up in the criminal underworld, having to react and think fast on his feet (to stop being caught). Its pretty good.

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Liked it in the beginning. But I don’t like series that become obsessed with some past issues.

Anyone liked White Collar???

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[quote=ā€œCanuckoLFC, post:161, topic:303, full:trueā€]
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.

Yo CLFC
I suppose I stuck with the Blacklist through thick and thin because the first couple of seasons were so good… Loyalty and all that…!
The writing was bound to drop off a touch as the standard was quite high but not by much though. I felt it was more the ball of string plot/s was/were unravelled, the more difficult it must have been to the writers to keep it knot free… Still an excellent watch though

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Another series I would put into my top ten is JUSTIFIED.
Unusual in its own way, but a really good watch from beginning to end.
With some TV/Films that have become disappointing, it is time you will never retrieve…
With this series, never felt as though I wasted a minute in any episode :+1:

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New Amsterdam is back with S3. This season started off with Ryan Eggold (he played Tom Keen in the Blacklist) first scene portraiting the exhausted and emotional strained Dr. Max Goodwin (medical director of the hospital), with other medical staffs, and patients due to Covid-19, just that few seconds, was fantastic.

If you like medical drama and not bothered with subtitles, Korean drama ā€œDr. Romanticā€ (also named ā€œRomantic doctor Master Kimā€) (1 & 2), and ā€œHospital Playlistā€ are great to watch. (You just have to find the proper source to watch the shows.)

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Thanks CLFC I have watched New Amsterdam… Very Good
Will look out for those others though
Watched the South Korean series Mr Sunshine on Netflix a while back… Excellent!

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I’ve watched a few seasons of The Blacklist. It’s good, but it’s essentially the James Spader show. He’s incredible and elevates an otherwise mediocre series.

I’ve finally got round to starting The Wire recently. Every single bit as good as the hype, the writing is as good as any show I’ve ever seen, it’s hilarious.

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I agree on the Blacklist. Although I think Dembe is pretty cool too when his character is involved. The most off putting thing for me is the main female lead’s character. I can’t make up my mind if it is poor writing and acting, or just one of the two.

I can’t believe you are only now getting round to the Wire. Glad you are enjoying it. It is a fantastic show, that is as dark and serious as it is funny. Many fantastic characters. Let me know what you think of the scene with McNulty and the bridge.

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Miserable, Kim’s thingy isn’t on Netflix France either so reduced to watching Altered Carbon again (which I seem to have soo little recollection of so it’s quite fresh). Tonight will see if ā€˜Your Honor’ is available if not Altered Carbon it is again,. I have to save Broocklyn 99 for really desperate times othewise i’d end up with nothing left to watch in emergencies.

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I don’t know about your preferences, but Anne with an E is a very enjoyable series.

I like allsorts when it comes to series except real girly stuff. My preferred are action, above all simple and easy grunting stuff like ā€˜Punisher’, comedies best of all time ā€˜the Young Ones’ so anything deranged, documentaries … Just anything as long as it isn’t Emmerdale farm, Eastenders and the like. The serie I think I liked the most was NCIS and mix of Detective, action, humor … well a bit of everything but not to be taken seriously.
I started ā€˜Snow Piercer’ but it was such a pale copy of the film I had to give it up.

Sexist! You’re not allowed to say things like that these days!

Agree with you on Snowpiercer; it’s not as good as the film but it’s entertaining all the same.

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Talking of NCIS I once saw a ducumentary following a real NCIS officer. This officer was the fattest person I have ever seen, just couldn’t for the life of me imagine him on a Naval ship, he’d get stuck!

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I just have a very limited vocabulary. Just don’t know any other way to describe ā€˜Girly Stuff’ … Oh wait stuff where all and sundry fall in love and smooch just before getting a grenade tossed at them. Soo frustrating, do people really just realise they are lovers when in ultimate danger (if so I’m leading the wrong life, then again that’s given :rofl:).

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[quote=ā€œFlobs, post:173, topic:303, full:trueā€]
I like allsorts when it comes to series

Yo Flobs… I watched The Sinner on Netflix recently… Starring Bill Pulman
3 Seasons and it was a good watch
Had to enter into the NF search box to find it though :+1:

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Check, seen it. You should see the length of my list, I just can not fathom how you can have a list soo long yet none, except Riverdale, have new episodes. Really hoping for ā€˜Dear White People’ to do a new season I really enjoyed that.

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If you ever looking for some escapism Flobs…
Check out… Once Upon a Time.
The one with Robert Carlyle as Rumpelstiltskin…! :0)
7 seasons long, but, but, but, it is an acquired taste so don’t say you weren’t warned
It is worth watching just for Lana Parrilla…!

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That did my head in, I think mainly because I don’t know my fairy tales well enough and have forgotten the ones I did know. Also I didn’t watch episode by episode as it was on French TV and I so watching was not at my guise. I’ll think about watching from start and in order but it really did do my head in. :rofl:

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[quote=ā€œFlobs, post:180, topic:303, full:trueā€]
That did my head in,

HaHa… It did mine in as well when I went out of sequence in the episodes :0)
Yet it becomes so addictive, because sometimes as a grown man you are constantly asking yourself, what is this i’m watching… then proceed to spend another couple of hours in front of the screen absorbed in where the storyline goes next…! HaHa :0)

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I can not remember really but I have a feeling I started watching it before I medicalised for Lyme desease. That would have made such a series a real head fuck (like watching after 10 spliffs and continueing). Also I missed many episodes and sort of wondered where the dickens did those characters come from.
Your right though it was intregueing stuff when you could follow and during those times very addictive, which doesn’t abide well with just 1 episode per week that you often missed.

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