I’m watching Dark at the moment.
It’s good but its subtitles.
Just saw this top 5 thing and needed to have a ping - not breaking any new ground here but:
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The Wire - As mentioned, the best ever by a mile.
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Arrested Development - The most re-watchable and brilliantly funny show ever.
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The Sopranos - Well, yeah.
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The Leftovers - I got the recommendation for this show from here - thank you to whoever it was. I am not sure if it was the time I watched it or something else but I can’t remember any show that has left a more profound impact on me. I was still thinking about it weeks after is was finished. It is brilliant (including, controversially, the first season).
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Seinfeld - See the Sopranos.
Honourable mentions to Breaking Bad, The Office (UK), Black Mirror and Better Call Saul.
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Philip K ■■■■’s Electric Dreams are adaptations of PK ■■■■ short stories on Stan or elsewhere if you look, a little uneven over 10 eps but generally really quite good if you prefer a British take on your sci-fi. Has Black Mirror tones
And I’m only 1 ep in but German series Babylon Berlin looks brilliant, highly recommend if you liked Man in the High Castle or SSGB, or just like well made noirish, Weimar/Nazi era kind of stuff, if that’s not too specific.
Oh god, PK Dickk
Just finished the series of ‘Bloodline’ and hot damn that is a horrible ending
Turns out, it’s the same guys that did Sopranos - which also got slammed for a horrible ending.
Jumped online to read, I am certainly not alone in my opinion.
For anyone that has more than 1 sibling, Season 1 (and parts of 2) - were something you could relate to with family dynamics. Season 1 was a cracker and Season 2 - tied up chunks of the story line nicely with out overdoing it.
But Season 3, was simply a hot steam, character development was all over the shop and then the last 2 episodes were just a mess and finished like it was going into season 4, but it’s actually the end of the series.
A bit like House of Cards or True Detective, writers need to know when to leave a winner a lone and close up shop.
Really disappointed as it was such a slow show towards the end and you get to the point where you have to watch to find out what happens, but you actually don’t want to.
This seems to be a theme with these series now, draw out 1 or 2 series of content, into 3 or 4
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Agreed. ■■■■ house ending.
Seinfeld
I’m Alan Partridge
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Spaced
(Early) Simpsons
(Peep Show, Black Adder, Arrested Development…)
Yep, all those ran through my head too! Partridge in particular, I’m watching all those again at the moment.
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Norsemen.
It’s a pisstake of Vikings, and similar shows.
They film every scene in Norwegian, then do it again in English
I think you can view full episodes on YouTube, and it’s on Netflix over here.
I gave up after series 2. 1st series was great, Ben Mendolson is a great actor…he just looking like a slimmy prick
yep seen that.
Vikings
Last Kingdom
and Norseman
any others out there.
Plus one. Was really disappointing.
The 3rd series lost it’s way, and IIRC, it got canned and they had to wind it up quickly in the last couple of eps.
Didn’t bother with season 3 myself. The story was done, didn’t care about the characters any more.
Ditto. I’ve gone off shows where a character just knows they’ve stuffed everything up and are unwilling to change their ways.
He’s made a career of it though. Pretty much since The Big Steal when he was an innocent.
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Completed:
The Wire
Breaking Bad
Lost (seasons 1-5)
Band of Brothers
Sopranos
Still going:
Fargo
Better Call Saul
Travelers
Game of Thrones
Mr Robot
Thank you to those who suggested the Wire.
■■■■■■ outstanding.
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Best series ever and ever.
Omar comin’
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I finally got around to watching Stranger Things. Knocked off both seasons this week.
Fantastic show, don’t know why I took so long to get around to it.
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So Stranger Things, … whats the minimum age to watch it do people reckon?
I’m looking to load some movies TV (non FTA stuff) etc onto Laptops I bought for the Grand kids for Xmas.
Girl 12, Boy 14. Any suggestions welcome, coz I have NFI.
I have a fair store of stuff on my Hard Drives, but I reckon almost zero of it fits the bill.
TIA.
Early teens is fine.