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USA's Graceland started out kinda/sorta the average USA show, vaguely hinting at the formula that seems to be working for them with Burn Notice and Suits and White Collar, etc. but, as of episode 7, it's off and running.

Some apparent 'gotchas' and 'shocking reveals' turned out to be explainable or justifiable or whatever, but the applecart has been overturned well and good this time, and the apples are flying everywhere. I'm kind of impressed by the potential here, because it could *still* just be a 'oh, it's all part of a plan' deal, and turn out okay, or it could be not just a shocking reveal, but the tip of a Machiavellian Xanatos Roulette mindjob of epic proportions, with implications going back to the 1st episode, as every scene suddenly can be seen in an entirely different (and totally sinister!) light.

USA shows can be mindless formulaic fun, but this one seems to be trying for a level of intrigue and characterization that you'd normally only see on much better funded pay cable channel series.

The uncensored video for Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines".

Definitely made me a fan of the song.

I'm watching Awake. It is pretty interesting in its premise, and the acting is good.

I enjoyed that show last year. First time I ever saw Jason Isaacs (a.k.a. Lucius Malfoy and the bad guy from "The Patriot") in a good guy role!

The ending to the series is...interesting...and obviously dictated by its cancellation. It's hard to justify within the series' context.

Newsroom and Breaking Bad are both back on TV and rocking it.(as is Dexter, but that's more out of habit now).

Canadian Netflix also just got season 1 of Homeland and we're working through it. It's much better than I expected.

I'm so tempted to watch Breaking Bad, but I'm sticking to my guns and watching them only when I can do it all in a row without waiting weekly. It remains the single best show in terms of pure quality out there these days.

My wife and I just got around watching the final season of House, which ended on a strong note. Always a very interesting show with great performances, the final season did not disappoint by going in directions I hadn't considered.

Up next for my wife and I: the last season of Mad Men, which we'll finally get around to watching.

I watched the pilot and first two episodes of Breaking Bad without seeing the attraction. So I set it aside until some others convinced me to try it again. The next episode or two, I liked it but then it started to d r a g.

I get a show where I just want to shoot everyone in it for being stupid, I don't enjoy it. This trend to try and make all the characters of a show "grey" because that is supposed to be more lifelike, rarely works for me. I don't know people that act this obsessively stupid and the obvious attempts at "outrageous" like the hopping lowrider scene are just opportunities to fast forward. The brother in law is starting to show some depth but his wife, her sister, the son annoy me. It's taken me two days to get part way through the next episode.

Tuko's dad. Even though he would be considered an over the top character, him I like.

I'll see where it heads.

Good evening. My name is Rockhopper Lad and I'm a Gleek.

The fact that there is a successful TV series in which the characters break into song for no apparent reason is quite possibly one of the things that most makes me happy.

Cop Rock

Avatar: The Legend of Korra. Marathoned in one evening!

Being a musical fan, I was just wondering if you had ever watched the BBC show Blackpool? It was remade in the US as Viva Laughlin... but let's never mention that name again.

I've just re-watched Blackpool this weekend with my parents (who had never seen it before) and we all loved it. I'd actually forgotten just how amazingly wonderful it was - originality, writing, acting, choice of songs... I have no qualms about giving this show 10/10.

I thought you might like it RL since it seems like a more grown up version of Glee to me (proviso though: I'm not a big Glee fan) but I recommend it to everyone else in this thread too.

For those who don't know anything about it - it's a musical murder mystery love triangle comedy drama starring actors from two of the biggest genre shows on TV - David Tennant (Doctor Who) and David Morrissey (The Walking Dead).

Rent it. Watch it. Love it.

It' s a show that took my wife a bit to get into before it really grabbed her (than it REALLY did). Skylar gets a lot more development (though whether that makes you like or loathe her more is a dividing point among fans). I love the writing as compared to a show like Dexter where the writers find a way to put everything implausibly back in the box at the end of each episode or season, in Breaking bad, when the characters make bad decisions (and they make a lot of them), there are consequences and the messier things get, the deeper they go.

I've started watching the first season of Drop Dead Diva on Netflix. Yeah, yeah... it's brimming over with "Lifetime"-isms and the usual goofball courtroom drama, but it has good performances and Margaret Cho being fabulous so shut up.

Skyler is probably the character I like the least so that's probably not too promising. That's an interesting comparison you make with Dexter. I hadn't thought about it that way but it is pretty much dead on.

I'll probably watch a couple more Breaking Bad episodes once I get caught up on other things. Beginning of the school year is always a not enough time no matter how much I seem to prepare over summer.

The Sapphires

This is the kind of movie I'm a sucker for. Underdog with a little self-righteous indignation, no-nonsense personalities against full of nonsense personalities. Even better, a period "biopic" based upon...

And has a final scene that makes me say, "didn't see THAT coming."

Also gives a nice where are they now about the real people.

I watched it on the laptop while working on lessons but it'd be a good cuddle up movie.

The Justice League cartoon. I particularly love the second season, which was when we got to know a lot more about some of the characters (Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, Flash in particular).

Orange is the New Black

FINALLY a show where all the characters aren't shades of jerk. There are actually likable people.

Any new cool looking shows this fall? I realize I haven't been paying attention much.

From what I've seen, this seems to be the least interesting crop of new shows we've had in awhile.

The Awesomes, on Hulu, is pretty funny. It deals with a 'Subs' like team of superhero rejects, attempting to fill in for a recently departed 'A-list' team that was essentially their world's Justice League. It's certainly not standard superhero fare, although it's got a *ton* of Silver Age silliness, and, thankfully, lack the rougher edges of Hulu's last foray into super-teen stuff, with Misfits.

As for new this fall, I'm intrigued by;

Agents of SHIELD coming out in four days.

Almost Human which seems to be retreading some of the character beats from I, Robot, although with some interesting actors.

Intelligence has a few episodes to draw me in. It's not interesting enough a concept, to me, at the start.

Tomorrow People, WB's latest crop of hot young special people. Yay!

I'm usually psychologically incapable of *not* watching anything to do with vampires, but neither Dracula nor The Originals is blowing my skirt up. (True story, I couldn't even watch the *trailer* for The Originals. The suckage is strong with this one.)

And there'll be the shows returning. I'm on board for Arrow and Grimm, and will probably catch episodes of Elementary, Supernatural and the Vampire Diaries (shut up, it's a sickness!) as the mood takes me.

Intelligence actually sounds like the premise was taken from our "Miscasting Classics" game (Chuck starring Josh Holloway?), but it does have some potential, if only because "Sawyer" is just full of charm, whatever he's in. I don't think it actually starts until spring, though?

Agents of SHIELD

Is it true that they're going to ret-con one of the greatest deaths in comicbook-movie history?

Seriously, that movie would never be the same to me.

I've heard a rumor (a rumor on the internet, so take that with a block of salt big enough to sink the Titanic) that there's a secret that has to be kept from Agent Coulson at all costs, and follow-up speculation that the secret is tied to Stark mentioning at the beginning of the Avengers movie the words 'Life Model Decoy.'

So Coulson might indeed be dead.

And not know it.

If the mean, "robot," it's creepy but about the only thing that would even remotely not change the movie for me. That was THE scene. I'm sure the actor is happy to have the series work but I think the better way would have been to set the series BEFORE the movie with the inevitable death in the future.

BB, Set hit the nail right on the head. The big rumor is Coulson is an LMD, and doesn't know it.

And a second rumor is Robert Downey Jr will show up to break the news to him towards the end of the season.

So it could leave your feelings towards the death intact and be quite awesome as well!

(Coming from someone who shares your exact feelings over that incredible scene).