What TV SHOWS are you watching ARCHIVE

Columbob wrote: Has anyone watched the first couple of episodes of 12 Monkeys? I'm wondering if that's any good, the episodes are still available online for the time being (Showcase in Canada). The Gilliam movie blew me away at 17.

I've watched all of them so far. It starts out quite a bit like the movie, and only gets good once it starts to stray. I like it enough to stick with it, but don't expect acting on the caliber of the movie.

Better Call Saul... First ep was a decent introduction to the feel of the show, but the second has kicked it up to Breaking Bad territory. Saul's (Jimmy at this point) negotiation scene was truly twisted fun.

Favorite shows of 2014. I can't wait until the new 2015 seasons.
1. Game of Thrones
2. Vikings
3. True Detectives
4. Fargo

I'm watching The Americans and the final season of Justified. Sometimes The Americans is trying too hard to be edgy or loudly announce that it is a cable show, but it's at its strongest when it shows the relationships (as opposed to hiding bodies in suitcases by cracking their arms or showing us Philips 1970s spy sex, over and over).

Justified's last season was sort of scattered, but this final season is off to a good start. i hope they don't try too hard to shift completely away from the show's comic moments, although we all know that Important Characters are going to kill each other. Fans know that people we have grown to love are going to die violently.

Everything else I'm watching, and there is way too much, is just methadone until one of the above two shows comes back on. Justified and the Americans are so prone to use cliff hangers that I'm tempted (but ultimately too weak) to wait a month or two and just binge watch them, which would be very fun, but potentially dangerous, like shooting up when you get out of rehab.

Better Call Saul, which hit the ground running, quality-wise. I'm so happy to be back "in" this world. My favourite thing on telly right now is Black Sails, though. And it looks like they got some budget for ship battles (or they blew it all on the first episodes).

dying to see next Game of Thrones season this August (that's when I binge-watch the entire season in a week)

still watching DAILY SHOW each night, was surprised and yet not surprised to hear Jon Stewart announcing he's leaving the show this year. Going to be a big year for late night. No more Letterman, no more Stewart, new Colbert, new Larry Wilmore.

still enjoying the first bit of the NIGHTLY SHOW with LARRY WILMORE. Once he hits the panel discussion, I can't watch it anymore.

I wish the ST:Next Gen would play at times other than 4pm weekdays and 5am. I get the itch to watch it sometimes...


gave up on The WALKING DEAD after the first episode this season. I've sort of just had it. I feel like the cannibal stuff is just them scrambling for new shock value stuff. I know it's probably from the comics and stuff, but I've had it. (non-spoilers) i heard about the last two deaths on the show and I wasn't really affected by it. I imagine the mid-season finale must have been pretty good but I didn't see it.

Black Sails...... major twist revealed in season 2 episode 5. Anyone else floored by it?

I didn't see it coming. In retrospect, it all makes perfect sense and was excellently played out. For me, this is the best show on TV right now.

Just finished season 1 of Black Mirror. Wow.... episodes 1 and 3 were something else! Episode 2 didn't do much for me, but man those others were wild.

JEM wrote: I didn't see it coming. In retrospect, it all makes perfect sense and was excellently played out. For me, this is the best show on TV right now.

I googled the show to see if I wanted to watch it and someone put the spoiler in the headline. Thanks!

Alastair MacDirk wrote: Black Sails...... major twist revealed in season 2 episode 5. Anyone else floored by it?

I wasn't floored, but I'm more than a little concerned.

The new subject matter has the tendency to consume all the oxygen in the room, and has been the downfall of more than a few TV shows. They need to make it one more supporting player in the complex storyline they have going, not become the primary point of focus. I'm crossing my fingers.

It could be worse, they could have had him have a baby. That's the true kiss of death for TV shows.

As for it "making sense" . . . it kind of neuters a prior part of the character's motivations and background, so I didn't see it as a neat fit. It's fine for what it is, but I think it stepped on some of the prior work.

S.

I really don't see any cause for concern on that score.

Well I just got off the phone with Verizon about my bill being $80 too high, and part of the resolution means I won't see any more episodes of Black Sails until it comes out on Netflix. So let me know how it goes.

S.

“The TV business is a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There is also a negative side.” --Hunter S. Thompson

Just watched ep 1 of the new season of House of Cards. Top shelf television, as expected. Certainly not as explosive a premier as season 2.

Also, the latest episode of Archer was hilarious.