The TV Series Thread

[Moonlight]

We have a Movie thread but no TV Series thread, so, I'll start the ball rolling.

Number (1) is a bleeding great series, I'm 6 episodes in and this is turning out to be a diamond in a field of horse manure, no heroes, no super humans, it's just survive or die.

Number (2) is not usually what I would watch but as it's supposedly based on a true story I thought I'd give it a go. I'm 3 episodes in and so far it's a bit iffy, (iffy) means I'm not really taken by this series and some of the language she uses wouldn't be heard in a brothel, but I've started it so I'll finish it to the end.

Number (3) this has all the makings of a good series, I'm only 1 episode in but there's a range war on the horizon between ranchers and sheep farmers and I'm thinking the body count is going to spiral upwards. There's only one man who will come out of this a rich man and that's the bleeding Undertaker.

Number (4) I'm once again 1 episode in and I'm thinking this is another iffy one, I just can't believe everyone was a bunch of bleeding savages in the wild west but that's the vibe I'm getting with this series. I'll keep on watching it to the end but I'm thinking I've made another boo boo just like I have with number (2)

(1) The Last Of Us.
Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.

Series Final Rating 8\10



(2) The Law According to Lidia Poët. (based on a true story by all accounts) Hmmmm
In late 19th-century Turin, the young Lidia Poët, fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers. A profession, at the time, reserved exclusively for men. Nevertheless, nothing could stop her dream of becoming the first female lawyer in Italy.

Series Final Rating 7\10



(3) 1923
Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.
I stopped watching this bollocks after Series 1, the writers may have believed they had a "Band of Brothers" smash hit on their hands but the series disappeared up it's own ass.

First Series Rating 5\10



(4) The English
An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, arrives into the new and wild landscape of the West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.

Series Final Rating 6\10

I gave the series an extra 0.5 just because Emily Blunt was in it.

[Commander Wallace]

I'm not sure how much help I can be. I only watched a few series and they were all reruns.



The first was MASH. I have probably seen every episode like 20-25 times. It's still funny to me. MASH had great writers. MASH could be funny and tragically sad, sometimes at the same time. MASH was so eloquent in showing how ugly war can be and why it should be avoided if at all possible.









The second was Cheers. Who would ever believe that you could get 11 seasons out of a bunch of misfit characters whose local bar is the center point of their lives. Again, like MASH, it was great writers and actors who brought the scripts to life.

[Eisenwurst]

Favourite TV Series.......Jeez mate, there's so many....but I'll start with...



A HUGE cult hit here in Australia in the early/mid '60s

[Eichhörnchen]

We don't have Netflix nor do we watch any TV, online or otherwise, so my suggestions will all come from DVD boxed sets.

We just finished binge watching the whole of "Breaking Bad" - the last word in black comedy (bad language warning!)

[Jimbuna]

Anyone genuinely interested in finding out what being a law enforcement officer in the UK other than in a big city is like, Happy Valley (any of the three series but they all continue one another in the overall plot).

ADULT CONTENT

[Platapus]

I stopped watching TV in 1994 when the movers smashed my new TV. Honestly, I don't think I missed much.

[THE_MASK]

Originally Posted by Eisenwurst

Favourite TV Series.......Jeez mate, there's so many....but I'll start with...



A HUGE cult hit here in Australia in the early/mid '60s

We used to make our own throwing stars as kids . I remember blood occasionally .

[Eisenwurst]

Originally Posted by THE_MASK

We used to make our own throwing stars as kids . I remember blood occasionally .

"Bigger than The Beatles" yep. And a really humble man.

[mapuc]

There were some Martial arts series in the 70'ies

I think the most famous of them was Kung Fu Starring David Carradine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_(1972_TV_series)

There were also this smash hit kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

[Moonlight]

3%
In a future where the elite inhabit an island paradise far from the crowded slums, you get one chance to join the 3% saved from squalor.



I'm 6 episodes in with 2 to go, I thought this was going to be a load of tripe and I would be turning it off pretty damned quick but, it has turned out to be quite a decent watch so far. If anyone has seen the TV Serial Squid Game then this is a less violent series on how to be eliminated from achieving their goal of being in the elite 3% who make it through the tests. It was made in 2016 so it isn't a rip off of the violence ridden Squid Game, this TV Series focuses on brain power and sometimes having to work as a unit to get through a test, the wrong answer to a question or scenario will get them eliminated, not killed but, sent back inland to where they came from. There are some violent scenes and some scenarios that involve death but that isn't the normal way a test is conducted.

[Eichhörnchen]

Has a modern feel to it which is rather at odds with the period look at times. For example, when under cannon fire from a shore battery somebody on the ship yells "Incoming!" I'm sure that nobody back then would ever even have heard this expression.

If you can get past this then it's a cracking series with great visuals, stories and music

[Von Due]

Originally Posted by Commander Wallace

I'm not sure how much help I can be. I only watched a few series and they were all reruns.



The first was MASH. I have probably seen every episode like 20-25 times. It's still funny to me. MASH had great writers. MASH could be funny and tragically sad, sometimes at the same time. MASH was so eloquent in showing how ugly war can be and why it should be avoided if at all possible.









The second was Cheers. Who would ever believe that you could get 11 seasons out of a bunch of misfit characters whose local bar is the center point of their lives. Again, like MASH, it was great writers and actors who brought the scripts to life.

MASH, the most British pitch black comedy ever to come out of the US. I absolutely love that one and it is THE main reason I miss not having a TV anymore. It is also the series that sparked my love for helicopters, believe it or not. When I grow up, if ever, I want a scale Bell 47 rc model!

Also totally love The Prisoner, like a cheap James Bond on acid, confusing and mesmerising. As with MASH, rewatching the episodes does not take anything away from it.

[Eisenwurst]

Just another day "at the office" for Public Servant Eliot Ness.

[Eisenwurst]

A lot of movies, tv shows, books too have disappeared for good. Even recent stuff from the 80s !!!!! Have to preserve what's left.