Rate the last TV Show you watched

[Baresi]

3 minutes ago, Don Balon said:

Done the Wire and B.B.

 

First time someone’s put forward The Shield as a top level show? 

The Shield is the greatest show ever made.

[lifetime fan]

8 minutes ago, Naby's Nuts said:

The Shield is the greatest show ever made.

It’s not quite in the very top echelon with The Wire, The Sopranos and The West Wing but it’s excellent and bloody addictive. 

[Barrington Womble]

Lilyhammer is great, underated imo. I would say The Wire is OK - but I think it is massively overrated, people pitch it as up there with the Sopranos, I don't get that myself. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

Yeah, I think The Wire is overrated too. And the say The Shield is the best show ever is, in my opinion, ludicrous. Each to their own though. 

[manwiththestick]

13 hours ago, Don Balon said:

Just finished Soprano’s.  What the fuck do I do now.

 

Lillyhammer any good?

In a word, yes.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

The Frozen Dead

French serial killer Netflix thriller. It's well acted and pretty well shot, but the story itself is standard fare, with troubled coppers doing lousy policework, plot holes and lots of "Why didn't they just do x?" moments. It loses an extra point for murdering Hurt, by having it sung by a choir.

5/10

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

Jack Ryan any good?

 

Woman at work said it's boss, but I need a 2nd or 3rd opinion.

[Numero Veinticinco]

5 minutes ago, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

Jack Ryan any good?

 

Woman at work said it's boss, but I need a 2nd or 3rd opinion.

Enjoyable, well acted, a little bit by-numbers with the plot. Worth a watch. 7/10 probably. 

[cloggypop]

Why did nobody tell me The Deuce is back? 

[Strontium]

That reminds me, South Park is back next week.

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

1 hour ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

Enjoyable, well acted, a little bit by-numbers with the plot. Worth a watch. 7/10 probably. 

Ta.

[The Golden Eel]

1 hour ago, cloggypop said:

Why did nobody tell me The Deuce is back? 

I'm still debating whether I can be arsed watching the 2nd series of this. The first series wasn't bad but it was a bit of a slog. Would be nice if something more happened 

[cloggypop]

1 hour ago, DimReaper said:

I'm still debating whether I can be arsed watching the 2nd series of this. The first series wasn't bad but it was a bit of a slog. Would be nice if something more happened 

When we are dismissing a David Simon drama before the second season has had a chance to gain traction then surely we are living in a golden age

[The Golden Eel]

11 hours ago, cloggypop said:

When we are dismissing a David Simon drama before the second season has had a chance to gain traction then surely we are living in a golden age

Just had to Google him... I've never seen The Wire or anything else he's done. Though I'm inferring that you think this will unravel itself into something great. I mean, I didn't dislike the first series of this, it was decent and it seem like it was just scene setting, but it didn't leave me thinking that I can't wait for it to come back. I think I'll watch it and if it's shit, blame you. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

I've never really enjoyed much of what David Simon has done. Some of it is good, but it's not that enjoyable to me. 

[redheart]

The Deuce is two episodes in and rather good.

 

Maggie Gyllenhaal looks much hotter as a blonde in this.

 

 

[cloggypop]

28 minutes ago, DimReaper said:

Just had to Google him... I've never seen The Wire or anything else he's done. Though I'm inferring that you think this will unravel itself into something great. I mean, I didn't dislike the first series of this, it was decent and it seem like it was just scene setting, but it didn't leave me thinking that I can't wait for it to come back. I think I'll watch it and if it's shit, blame you. 

That seems fair enough. Now go and watch The Wire you blert 

[VladimirIlyich]

36 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

I've never really enjoyed much of what David Simon has done. Some of it is good, but it's not that enjoyable to me. 

This is a fair answer. I enjoyed The Wire but could never really get into The Corner and  I agree with Dim Reaper that The Deuce is good but nothing spectacular. I will watch the second series due to the dearth of superior series that I haven't seen on telly at the moment.

[Captain Turdseye]

1 hour ago, DimReaper said:

Just had to Google him... I've never seen The Wire or anything else he's done. Though I'm inferring that you think this will unravel itself into something great. I mean, I didn't dislike the first series of this, it was decent and it seem like it was just scene setting, but it didn't leave me thinking that I can't wait for it to come back. I think I'll watch it and if it's shit, blame you. 

 

You've got to watch The Wire, man. It’s superb. 

[Rico1304]

American High School on iPlayer 

 

A bit Friday Night Lights if it were a documentary. 

[SasaS]

If David Simon took minutes from a district council meeting and made it into a mini-series, I'd watch it.

Actually, I already did. The man is a genius.

[VladimirIlyich]

4 hours ago, SasaS said:

If David Simon took minutes from a district council meeting and made it into a mini-series, I'd watch it.

 

 

Actually, I already did. The man is a genius.

 

 

You mean 'Show Me a Hero?' Pretty weak show in my opinion. I also didn't like Treme. Best thing he did recently in my view was the documentary,The House I Live In.

[littletedwest]

Couldn't get into the duece largely due to all the sex scenes , possibly one for the you know you're getting older thread

[The Golden Eel]

Well, I watched the first episode of the new series and it's brought back the same feeling I had when I watched the first series... It's well acted and it seems to be doing a good job at recreating the era it's set in but it just seems to be the same people doing similar things over and over. Pimps ordering prostitutes about, prostitutes moping around, Maggie Gyllenhall moping around making porn videos, one of James Franco's characters moping around in a bar moaning about his brother, police doing things that seem irrelevant. I'm starting to think that whatever people see in this is something that I'm not going to ever see. 

[cloggypop]

The Jim Jefferies Show has far lower production values than John Olivers Last Week Tonight but I find it much funnier. New one was boss.