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Seven episodes into Orange.

Last season they turned it into a porn show and went the big baddy of the season route that's so popular. It wasn't bad but for me, it wasn't as great.

First few eps into this season they were still in porn mode but have gotten back to what I liked most about Season 1, human stories where the "bad guy" is the situation. Everyone has mommy issues but other than that, lots of good characterization and they're letting some of the lesser used characters shine.


The actors really seem to get to strut their stuff on this show.

WAtching buffy again and some of the stuff is just damn stupid and has nothing to do with the storyline.

Buffy's dead and they have a robot running around to keep dawn around, and to get the bad guys to think Buffy's still there protecting them. And yet...they have a freakin' headstone with her name and death date on it at the cemetary, and they put a body in a coffin, and talked about her funeral service.

WTF?

Last season, the new principal goes down to the basement of a BRAND NEW HIGHSCHOOL and yet the doors look like they've been rusted and rotting for years. People asleep at the wheel.

Oh, and it's a show about vampires, right? So whats with the werewolf call in the opening credits?

Lowest bidder.

Everything after Season 5 was a mess to me. There were undoubtedly some high points, but you could tell the creativity and the drive wasn't there anymore. While Angel kept ramping up, Buffy fell apart.

In recent months:

Watched HBO's The Jinx about Robert Durst and found it to be a brilliant documentary that I was totally engrossed in. I've watched every type of horror committed on television from zombies to torture but this scared me more than all of that.

Did a full rewatch of all 7 seasons of Sons of Anarchy so I could appreciate the brilliance of one of television's greatest crime drama's ever. An epic tragedy that is as gritty as it gets, I highly recommend.

Recently watched the first 3 seasons of Hell on Wheels which is another phenomenal show. Layered with complex performances and relationships, it's an incredible western that says so much about not only the Reconstruction / westward expansion era, but more importantly about today.

Also caught up with season 5 of Pretty Little Liars which remains just damn good television. Every single one of you should be watching this show because from what I've seen you all post all these years, it fits the criteria to be loved by you all. Brilliant drama with incredible mystery, it can be both light-hearted and then deadly serious. I never expected to sit through the entire first episode let alone become a huge fan of the subsequent 120 episodes to follow. Actually this series feels like it would be the perfect series for Lash, Ester and Teeds. And I wonder if Mr. Dave Hackett's daughter has become aware of PLL mania?

Up next is Suits season 4, which should be awesome as usual, and then from there a full rewatch of all six seasons of Justified now that the final season is out. Then catching up on The Americans.

Meanwhile, I'm considering halting my Game of Thrones watching on the off-chance Martin can finish the books because the show has finally caught up to the books. And while the show is great, the books are always so much better, so I don't want to have the show spoil things for me.

Are you caught up on Orphan Black, Cobie?

Been waiting until it gets right up until the end of the season and then plan to binge watch with the wife. We *LOVE* that show and tend to watch 3-4 eps at a clip. Can't wait too, because it sounds like its been an awesome season with our girl just knocking it out of the park as usual.

Yeah, I reviewed it a page or so ago (not too spoilery) on this thread. It's still awesome! And there's 1000% more Donnie (Alison's husband) this season! Love it!

Donnie and Allison = awesome, hilarious television! Great to hear!

Is that Orphan a comedy?


12 Eps into Orange, one more to go. SO good, more like Season one. Big Boo BABY!!! She got something cooked up for the final. Can't wait.

Well actually I can. I'm thinking of holding off on the last episode for tomorrow as a treat.

Am I really the only one watching this?

My son and I watched the second season opener of Star Wars Rebels tonight. It feels like it might break open like Clone Wars did when it found it's feet. Darth Vader made an appearance and I realized how little we ever saw of him in action in the original movies. Vader in a dogfight felt like watching Anakin in a dogfight. Kind of cool.

The youngest tells me that Rebels has really gotten pretty good, which surprises me, since that first episode, particularly coming on the heels of the brilliance that was Clone Wars, was six kinds of terrible.

I'm going to have to watch it, eventually.

It is neat that they apparently got James Earl Jones to voice Vader!

Not to be too spoilery, but there are a few unfinished plot threads from Clone Wars that are/will be addressed in Rebels.

Watched Gone Girl last night and it was excellent. Well-written with killer acting performances, it was twisty and twisted enough to really stand out. One of the better modern films I've seen in awhile.

I'm 10 episodes deep in the first season of Mad Men and am addicted! I love the swinging 60's setting. I love the morally grey characters! I love it all!

I started in on Mad Men but seemed to have gotten off-track. Guess it didn't grab my attention quickly enough. I recall thinking the characters a bit lacking personality, then the cliche of the guy cheating on his wife... I think that's the one that led to the drop. It has too much good vibe though, I have to imagine I'll give it another try.



Ascension: Really cool premise (no spoilers version) but the acting, pacing, just not working for me.


Dark Matter: what happens when a 14 year old gets to write a script after watching one episode of Firefly and any number of angsty teen club shows in order to get down their stereotypes and tropes.

Stalgie, I've been a huge fan of Mad Men since it first debuted. It's an excellent show with some really powerful commentary on a variety of topics. The characters are just great--well written and with great performances. Several episodes, including a few more down the road from where you are, stand out as some of the best television ever.

I haven't watched the final two seasons yet, and once they're all out on DVD, my wife and I are going to give the show a full blown rewatch.

In the "maybe I'm missing something" role, I watched the next ep, the 3rd of season one.


Still not getting it. The characters all seem kind of droll and stereotypical to me. Granted, 3 episodes isn't a lot but I can't see what attracted people to see a 4th. For those in their 60s I suppose I could see it, kind of like what if tv shows then were made like they are now: Dick Van Dyke with more...

This has been more my speed. I didn't know it existed. Thanks.

Clones Wars was amazing, really hard to live up to its episode to episode quality and storylines.


About halfway through Rebels Season One. The animation, character expressions and use of familiar Star Wars themes continue to be amazing. The stories don't have that human quality I found in so many of the Clone Wars stories and the characters are unfamiliar and use heavy stereotype but they're for the most part interesting and fun (OK, a few are a bit annoying) to be around. Plot points could rely a bit less on chance.

I'm still interested to see where they're heading with this. Hopefully they'll have some backstory to the first (fourth) Star Wars.

I just saw Jurassic World with my older son. Overall, I liked it. That said, many of Nostalgia Lad's criticisms were very valid. I agree that the characters were pretty paper-thin, for example. However, I would argue that none of the previous JP films featured very deep characters. Some, like, Alan Grant and Ian Malcolm were entertaining, but compared to, say, the characters in Jaws, even they were pretty much straw men by comparison and in terms of nuance. And, yeah, all four movies feature children pivotal in the plot, and none have exactly mesmerized us with their acting skills, to put it kindly.

The Jurassic Park movies have always been all about the dinosaurs, the chases, the scares and even the body count, above all else. This new one is more of the same and delivers many things we've seen before combined with ones that we haven't. In short, it's above all a thrilling spectacle, and that's probably what 99% of its audience really wants out of it.

That said, I do think the new movie does actually have something new to say thematically from the other films. In actually having established a working theme park that never came to fruition in the first film, we see the reality that even the existence of something so wonderful would simply not be enough to sustain it. If there were a real theme park like it, the exact problem it presents would actually happen: eventually, the public would get bored, and the park would have to find new ways to attract visitors to keep it running. Bigger, scarier dinosaurs would be demanded to keep people coming because the public can never be satisfied.

It totally works thematically and is different from what the others present, even while being consistent with the 'science gone too far' elements of the originals. And, yeah, weaponising dinosaurs would totally happen as well, even if you'd hope for a less hammy and obvious moustache-twirling performance from Vincent D'Onofrio. But again, the villains of the JP movies haven't exactly been anything more than one-dimensional, themselves. So that's something else consistent.

So really, Jurassic World is mostly what you'd expect to see in the series, and that's not altogether a bad thing. It's entertaining, thrilling and keeps you watching. Add in the spectacle of it being an actual working theme park for the first time and the addition of some new themes, and I think you get enough of the new to go along with what you expect.

I can see where you're coming from with your analysis, Lardy. I probably would have enjoyed more too if I could have put my personal bias aside.

i really dug and devoured sense8 ... you humans and your evolution! so fascinating!

Rebels: Finished up to Season 2, Ep 1.

Clone Wars I watched with the feeling they were covering new ground. Not just Star War ground, but human concepts.

Rebels is pretty standard fair. Its interests lies in the personalities and some old friends. I think I would have enjoyed an approach parallel to Clone Wars, where seasons and half seasons followed different people and groups and their unique situations. Still, I'm enjoying it for what's been given.

I don't know if you've seen the trailers for the rest of Season 2, but there's more Clone Wars related stuff coming up.