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Aug 4, 2017 9:35:01 GMT -5
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Post by loki on Aug 4, 2017 9:35:01 GMT -5
Parks & Rec. old, but man it makes me laugh out loud.
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Post by c4ndlelight on Aug 4, 2017 12:38:39 GMT -5
On Netflix, there's a French series called The Returned/Les Revenants, that is very good and quite intriguing. Just make sure you don't end up watching the crappy American remake!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 12:47:23 GMT -5
Halfway through The Night Of. Very good so far. Wire-ishly good, if on a smaller scale.
I liked WestWorld. Just not sure it all held together. Watching for a 2nd time with the better half.
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Post by c4ndlelight on Aug 4, 2017 13:01:08 GMT -5
I did not like WestWorld. I thought it was just very contrived and wasn't invested in the "mysteries." Also, so predictable for an HBO series to spend so much time in a whorehouse...
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Post by gnu2vball on Aug 4, 2017 18:17:55 GMT -5
I did not like WestWorld. I thought it was just very contrived and wasn't invested in the "mysteries." Also, so predictable for an HBO series to spend so much time in a whorehouse... It would be especially contrived for HBO to have spent time in a church.... Wait, didn't they recently do some "Pope thing?"
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Post by gnu2vball on Aug 19, 2017 12:43:57 GMT -5
Just finished binge-watching "Ozark" on Netflix. It's excellent. Premise is a Chicago-based Financial Planner/money launderer has to leave town quickly and selects Lake of the Ozarks as "the place." Complications weren't left behind in the Windy City and the locals aren't as unsophisticated as they first seem.
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 19, 2017 17:51:30 GMT -5
I did not like WestWorld. I thought it was just very contrived and wasn't invested in the "mysteries." Also, so predictable for an HBO series to spend so much time in a whorehouse... It would be especially contrived for HBO to have spent time in a church.... Wait, didn't they recently do some "Pope thing?" There were actually some key scenes in Westworld that involved a church (and particularly a confessional inside the church).
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Post by bigdfromla on Aug 31, 2017 13:52:10 GMT -5
I have been watching the excellent "Incredible Hulk" TV series from 1978-1982 with Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno.
I kind of saw it by accident one day, flipping the channels. It airs on the El Rey Network (Director Robert Rodriguez' cable channel) three times a day from 10 AM to 1 PM. I am not a comic book fan, but this show had a strong human element and interesting stories. Bixby is outstanding and Ferrigno is great in a non-speaking role.
Interestingly, when the show originally aired, I was in grades 7 through 11 and I just never saw it then, though I would have been in the show's demographic. I think I appreciate it more now than I would have back then. It's a great show!
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 31, 2017 14:02:13 GMT -5
I have been watching the excellent "Incredible Hulk" TV series from 1978-1982 with Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno. I kind of saw it by accident one day, flipping the channels. It airs on the El Rey Network (Director Robert Rodriguez' cable channel) three times a day from 10 AM to 1 PM. I am not a comic book fan, but this show had a strong human element and interesting stories. Bixby is outstanding and Ferrigno is great in a non-speaking role. Interestingly, when the show originally aired, I was in grades 7 through 11 and I just never saw it then, though I would have been in the show's demographic. I think I appreciate it more now than I would have back then. It's a great show! You never saw it back then? It was reasonably popular. I don't remember watching it avidly, but I do remember watching it.
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Post by Wolfgang on Aug 31, 2017 17:10:24 GMT -5
I have been watching the excellent "Incredible Hulk" TV series from 1978-1982 with Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno. I kind of saw it by accident one day, flipping the channels. It airs on the El Rey Network (Director Robert Rodriguez' cable channel) three times a day from 10 AM to 1 PM. I am not a comic book fan, but this show had a strong human element and interesting stories. Bixby is outstanding and Ferrigno is great in a non-speaking role. Interestingly, when the show originally aired, I was in grades 7 through 11 and I just never saw it then, though I would have been in the show's demographic. I think I appreciate it more now than I would have back then. It's a great show! I remember liking this show, too back when it first aired. It's essentially The Fugitive, the old TV show from the 1960s with David Janssen. Exact same premise: protagonist using fake names goes from town to town, city to city, working odd jobs here and there while unable to stop himself from helping people he meets along the way, all the while pursued by a relentless man (journalist in The Hulk, FBI agent in the original Fugitive TV show).
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 31, 2017 18:24:41 GMT -5
I have been watching the excellent "Incredible Hulk" TV series from 1978-1982 with Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno. I kind of saw it by accident one day, flipping the channels. It airs on the El Rey Network (Director Robert Rodriguez' cable channel) three times a day from 10 AM to 1 PM. I am not a comic book fan, but this show had a strong human element and interesting stories. Bixby is outstanding and Ferrigno is great in a non-speaking role. Interestingly, when the show originally aired, I was in grades 7 through 11 and I just never saw it then, though I would have been in the show's demographic. I think I appreciate it more now than I would have back then. It's a great show! I remember liking this show, too back when it first aired. It's essentially The Fugitive, the old TV show from the 1960s with David Janssen. Exact same premise: protagonist using fake names goes from town to town, city to city, working odd jobs here and there while unable to stop himself from helping people he meets along the way, all the while pursued by a relentless man (journalist in The Hulk, FBI agent in the original Fugitive TV show). Different McGuffin though. The fugitive was searching for the one-armed man while Banner was searching for the cure to his Hulk-ness.
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Post by Wolfgang on Aug 31, 2017 21:12:58 GMT -5
I watched The Fugitive in syndication in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s -- all of them in the afternoons. Despite this productive TV viewing accomplishment, I'm pretty sure I haven't seen every episode. I'd mostly catch an episode here and an episode there whenever I was watching TV in the afternoons. Other shows I watched in the afternoons:
Gilligan's Island Brady Bunch The Andy Griffith Show Mayberry RFD Gomer Pyle USMC Star Trek (the original series)
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Post by bigdfromla on Sept 1, 2017 3:15:42 GMT -5
I don't know why I didn't watch the Incredible Hulk when it aired while I was in middle school and high school. I watched a lot of TV at the time, but I was part of a large family and didn't always have final say on what was watched...we did not get cable TV until my Junior year of high school. At the time, I think my favorite show would have been "Vega$" with Robert Urich, and some of the other shows I remember watching at the time were "Quincy M.E.", "Soap", "The Love Boat", "Emergency", "CHiPs"...and I really liked both "Streets of San Francisco" and "Barnaby Jones", which I think were on before I was in middle school.
I have never ever seen "The Fugitive", but it seems interesting. David Janssen was really good in the show "Harry O".
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 1, 2017 3:28:40 GMT -5
I don't know why I didn't watch the Incredible Hulk when it aired while I was in middle school and high school. I watched a lot of TV at the time, but I was part of a large family and didn't always have final say on what was watched...we did not get cable TV until my Junior year of high school. At the time, I think my favorite show would have been "Vega$" with Robert Urich, and some of the other shows I remember watching at the time were "Quincy M.E.", "Soap", "The Love Boat", "Emergency", "CHiPs"...and I really liked both "Streets of San Francisco" and "Barnaby Jones", which I think were on before I was in middle school. I have never ever seen "The Fugitive", but it seems interesting. David Janssen was really good in the show "Harry O". In my house, we never watched Vega$. As was normal back in the day, we had only one TV for the whole family, so I understand the issue of not always having had the choice of what you watched.
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 1, 2017 4:10:39 GMT -5
You guys really take me back. No Internet. Just the one TV. Well, we actually had two -- the big one in the family room and a small one in the master bedroom (my parents' room). If I couldn't watch what I wanted in the family room, I just used the other TV in the master bedroom. The problem was that the second TV wasn't as good. I had to always fiddle with the rabbit ears -- yeah, back when we had to worry about good reception -- as well as the color adjustments (e.g., tint, brightness) which were NEVER perfect.
I watched all the sports championship games on that small TV -- NBA titles, NCAA basketball championships, bowl games, NFL. Lying on my parents' bed with ice cream and chocolate chip cookies. Those were the days.
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