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Post by bigdfromla on Sept 13, 2018 1:22:05 GMT -5
The Purge is a ten-episode series showing Tuesday nights on the USA Network. The second episode just aired last night.
I saw the third Purge movie of four total that have been released, and thought it was pretty good. I like the TV series. It has a good young cast. As Billy Baldwin gets older he really now looks and sounds like his brother Alec.
The show features three storylines from a purge night...one night a year where crimes including murder are legal for a 12-hour period. I just wish it was on Netflix to avoid the commercials and to be able to watch all episodes, as opposed to waiting for ten weeks!
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Post by XAsstCoach on Sept 13, 2018 1:35:19 GMT -5
My wife and I stopped after about half a dozen episodes. It's quite funny actually, but we just felt the stereo-typing to be a bit much. I almost want to continue watching, especially because of Tiger-Mom's singing, but just don't have Not enough hours in life to do so. I can see the stereotyping getting a bit much, but its such a pleasure to watch my wife watch this show. She laughs because the stereotyping is so true regardless of whether its in the US or in China. Wife is not an American and has not been exposed political correctness to the extent of that in the US. |
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Post by ironhammer on Sept 13, 2018 7:06:31 GMT -5
Wife has been nagging me to go buy a TV series we can both enjoy. She pretty much enjoys any genre except horror, I personally am a little more picky. I enjoy watching the occasional comedy or drama, but they don't hold such strong appeal for me in wanting to watch those shows again. The jokes get old and stale after watching a comedy episode (well...I'll make an exception for MASH and Seinfeld). The dramas, I find some to be a bit too soapy to watch again (I suppose the Good Wife would be an exception, that was a great drama series ,but even so, it had it's share of over-the-top melodrama). I want to own a TV series that have a high "re-watchability", otherwise it will just be left collecting dust on the shelf.
So what kind of TV series do you recommend that lent itself to be re-watched again and again without getting old (or at least, does not get old as fast as some less stellar series). So let's see...Adventure (The original MacGuyver?) Thriller (Walking Dead?), Science Fiction (Star Trek?) or Fantasy (hmmm...Game of Thrones come to mind, but even so, some episodes, I don't really want to watch again, if you know what I mean). Hmmmm....
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 13, 2018 12:00:41 GMT -5
So what kind of TV series do you recommend that lent itself to be re-watched again and again without getting old (or at least, does not get old as fast as some less stellar series). So let's see...Adventure (The original MacGuyver?) Thriller (Walking Dead?), Science Fiction (Star Trek?) or Fantasy (hmmm...Game of Thrones come to mind, but even so, some episodes, I don't really want to watch again, if you know what I mean). Hmmmm.... Buffy. |
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 13, 2018 17:53:33 GMT -5
Two shows I started and stopped watching after 2-3 episodes:
The People vs. O. J. Simpson --> I lived through the case already. Seems like old hat.
The Handmaid's Tale --> I read the book already. Any adaptation would be a let-down.
I'm now watching The Son (starring Pierce Brosnan)
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Post by azvb on Sept 13, 2018 19:05:13 GMT -5
Wife has been nagging me to go buy a TV series we can both enjoy. She pretty much enjoys any genre except horror, I personally am a little more picky. I enjoy watching the occasional comedy or drama, but they don't hold such strong appeal for me in wanting to watch those shows again. The jokes get old and stale after watching a comedy episode (well...I'll make an exception for MASH and Seinfeld). The dramas, I find some to be a bit too soapy to watch again (I suppose the Good Wife would be an exception, that was a great drama series ,but even so, it had it's share of over-the-top melodrama). I want to own a TV series that have a high "re-watchability", otherwise it will just be left collecting dust on the shelf. So what kind of TV series do you recommend that lent itself to be re-watched again and again without getting old (or at least, does not get old as fast as some less stellar series). So let's see...Adventure (The original MacGuyver?) Thriller (Walking Dead?), Science Fiction (Star Trek?) or Fantasy (hmmm...Game of Thrones come to mind, but even so, some episodes, I don't really want to watch again, if you know what I mean). Hmmmm.... If you liked the Good Wife, you’d probably like The Good Fight. It’s about how the characters continue after Alicia leaves. It’s on CBS all access. No commercials. The Americans, Madam Secretary are good, too. |
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Post by XAsstCoach on Sept 13, 2018 20:47:10 GMT -5
So what kind of TV series do you recommend that lent itself to be re-watched again and again without getting old (or at least, does not get old as fast as some less stellar series). So let's see...Adventure (The original MacGuyver?) Thriller (Walking Dead?), Science Fiction (Star Trek?) or Fantasy (hmmm...Game of Thrones come to mind, but even so, some episodes, I don't really want to watch again, if you know what I mean). Hmmmm.... For drama, I would go with the original Law & Order. Only thing I didn't like about L&O is that it seems the prosecutors almost ALWAYS get the conviction when in real life, probably not. Good story lines, specially the ones they draw from real life stories. My favorite AADA was Abbie Carmichael played by Angie Harmon. Not sure if its her first episode, but the following quote made me fell in love with her: |
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Post by ironhammer on Sept 13, 2018 21:23:23 GMT -5
So what kind of TV series do you recommend that lent itself to be re-watched again and again without getting old (or at least, does not get old as fast as some less stellar series). So let's see...Adventure (The original MacGuyver?) Thriller (Walking Dead?), Science Fiction (Star Trek?) or Fantasy (hmmm...Game of Thrones come to mind, but even so, some episodes, I don't really want to watch again, if you know what I mean). Hmmmm.... For drama, I would go with the original Law & Order. Only thing I didn't like about L&O is that it seems the prosecutors almost ALWAYS get the conviction when in real life, probably not. Good story lines, specially the ones they draw from real life stories. My favorite AADA was Abbie Carmichael played by Angie Harmon. Not sure if its her first episode, but the following quote made me fell in love with her: They did have the occasional episode where the prosecution lost in the earlier seasons, but that kind of petered out in the later seasons, so that element of suspense was lost. |
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 13, 2018 21:33:13 GMT -5
I can't really recommend any TV shows to purchase for potential repeated viewing. It's so personal. I love many shows but I don't know if they warrant repeat viewings.
The only show I have watched repeatedly was the original Hawaii 5-0 (with Jack Lord) and only because I lived in Honolulu during the time that show was on the air (late 1960s-1970s). The production used extensive on-location shots so that when I look at an episode, I feel like I'm watching a time capsule of my youth. They even had footage of my old neighborhood! The feeling of nostalgia is just overwhelming. I really can't get enough. Sure, the plot was out of control unrealistic and sometimes stupid but I don't watch for that. I watch for all the on-location footages. They're really phenomenal. Captures the time and place of my youth perfectly.
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Post by XAsstCoach on Sept 13, 2018 22:35:21 GMT -5
They did have the occasional episode where the prosecution lost in the earlier seasons, but that kind of petered out in the later seasons, so that element of suspense was lost. Yeah, some of them really burned me up...like the judge who did not particularly like Jack McCoy and ruled against him. I think the early seasons were the best. Show was known for changing main characters after a few seasons, then they only changed the AADA. Think the most moving episodes involved Claire Kincaid being killed in a DUI accident at the end of the season, and in the following season McCoy took a DUI case too personal because of Kincaid and sought the death penalty for the defendant. Thought the weirdest was with Serena Southerlyn...when she left I think her next to final line was "Is this because I am a lesbian?" after being fired. It came out of nowhere |
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 13, 2018 22:40:01 GMT -5
Thought the weirdest was with Serena Southerlyn...when she left I think her next to final line was "Is this because I am a lesbian?" after being fired. It came out of nowhere That would be taking tokenism pretty far, to decide to make some minor character a lesbian in the very episode that you write her out of the show forever. |
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Post by XAsstCoach on Sept 13, 2018 22:45:50 GMT -5
That would be taking tokenism pretty far, to decide to make some minor character a lesbian in the very episode that you write her out of the show forever. Yeah, and they caught a lot of flak for doing it. Was reading up on this and some articles were saying there were "hints" that Serena is gay, but only in 1 or two episodes. |
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Post by ironhammer on Sept 13, 2018 22:47:01 GMT -5
They did have the occasional episode where the prosecution lost in the earlier seasons, but that kind of petered out in the later seasons, so that element of suspense was lost. Yeah, some of them really burned me up...like the judge who did not particularly like Jack McCoy and ruled against him. I think the early seasons were the best. Show was known for changing main characters after a few seasons, then they only changed the AADA. Think the most movie episodes involved Claire Kincaid being killed in a DUI accident at the end of the season, and in the following season McCoy took a DUI case too personal because of Kincaid and sought the death penalty for the defendant. Thought the weirdest was with Serena Southerlyn...when she left I think her next to final line was "Is this because I am a lesbian?" after being fired. It came out of nowhere Kincaid...Jill Hennessy was the best Assistant District Attorney in my opinion. I remember she was so darn hot and smart as hell. On a side note, it was implied she slept with McCoy (I think this was confirmed in one of the later seasons). An odd digression, since L&O, at least in the early seasons, seldom focused on the personal drama of the main characters and the main attention was always on the case in the episode. The show kinda went downhill in the the last few seasons in my opinion, so I stopped watching it. Mind you, McCoy was often portary in the series as going to extremes to secure a conviction. Some of that might be legally questionable in reality, and at the very least is likely to be abusive on ethical grounds, since if the facts of a case don't support a prosecution, but the DA still goes to extreme means to prove someone's guilt, that can be construe as prosecutorial misconduct. |
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Post by bigdfromla on Sept 15, 2018 2:58:25 GMT -5
I liked Law & Order Criminal Intent with Vincent D'Onofrio as Detective Robert Goren.
Goren may be one of the most bizarre, but fascinating characters I have seen on a TV show. Like Joe Friday on Dragnet, his ENTIRE LIFE was being a cop. Every other element of his life was a complete disaster...drug addict screw-up of a brother, a schizophrenic and bipolar mother, a biological father who turned out to be a serial killer. He had a photogenic memory and was an expert on everything (from magic, to European History to Literature, art and everything else). He had a weird fascination/kinship with most criminals, the weirder the more of a connection he had in his mind. Figuring out cases and then having his climactic final confrontation/monologue where he closes the case is what he lives for...probably better than sex for the guy.
My favorite Criminal Intent episodes were Goren's battles with psychopath Nicole Wallace. Also excellent were his therapy sessions (Julia Ormand played his therapist) in the final season. They were reminders of the outstanding Tony Soprano therapy scenes on The Sopranos.
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 16, 2018 19:32:08 GMT -5
13 Reasons Why (s1)
Based on the novel (which I haven't read), the story is about the reasons why a high school girl committed suicide, which she details in 13 audio cassette tapes.
Just finished this show this afternoon. Three things really irritated me about this show:
1. Clay, the protagonist, took waaaaay too long to listen to all 13 tapes. It felt like years even though it may have only been a few weeks. I understand as a plot device why -- 13 episodes and 13 tapes, one tape per episode. And Clay has to do other stuff in between, such as reflect on the tapes and perhaps confront people. I would've been done listening to those tapes in one evening.
2. Hannah, the suicide girl, was waaaaay too emotionally needy. It's possible I may get flak for this comment but that girl was the neediest girl in the world. I mean, she even wanted (and expected) others to read her mind! Jesus!
3. Hannah was also the unluckiest girl in the world. If you can imagine something bad happening to her, well, that bad thing did in fact happen to her.
The show, while generally entertaining, got more and more irritating. Kids...
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