What are you watching on the television?

masofdas wrote:

Started to watch Revolution series 2, the Americans are coming the Americans are coming.

I'm really enjoying this series at the moment.

Just watched Doctor Who. Pretty good stuff.

Before this discussion overpowers the thread again, let me just highlight a thread of me own!

Person of Interest season 2, I'm in the middle of it right now, I'm not sure how much longer they're going to be able to keep Reese out of the fire this time, the net has almost caught him.

Edit: And now I've just finished. This series is rapidly becoming one of my favourite tv series now, those last four or so episodes were fantastic. The cliffhanger was also great, so big it makes you want to know what happens next but also not so great that the ending wasn't satisfying, which is something most shows tend not to be able to nail in my opinion.

Ripper Street. Love this show.

Season finale of Homeland.   

Airplane, again. Something of a Christmas tradition now. Great film.

Not watched that one in years. I usually watch Die Hard, Raiders of the Lost Ark & Flash Gordon.

A couple nights ago I watched back to the future part 1 & 2 back to back

Classics. Which of the two do you prefer over the other?

Part two is my favourite out of all three films, these days I really can't help but marvel at the actors & the casting especially the guy who plays Biff & all his other variations.

The Incredibles. Where is our sequel Pixar? I'll be following that up by watching The Fifth Element shortly.

Home alone 2 is on channel 4 today at 6:15pm

Sherlock, natch. I only ever really watch this and Doctor Who, and the difference in writing is so so noticeable. Sherlock and Watson are brilliant. The actual case was a little disappointing, mind, and I'd like to have a proper resolution of the "suicide" as opposed to the apparently fake reasoning given to Anderson.

I did like the send-up of all the Sherlock fangirls, though.

Oooh yeah, Tenderloin was fabulous. You can see why Who has been slipping, it's obvious which one Moffat actually care about at this point.
Hopefully we'll get better cases in the other two episodes, this one was more about Sherlock coming back than it was about everything else.

The writing was spot on in that - witty, fast-paced and fully aware of its audience with the nods to the crazy theorists and the fangirls.

Looking forward to watching Sherlock in the next few days. On the same subject, does anyone watch Elementary? Really, really love this show   

Another Tenderloiner here. Didn't really give it my full attention (curse you, A Link Between Worlds!) but it seemed fine enough, if a little self-indulgent in places.

I'd agree with that self-indulgent remark - but having been exposed to the Tumblr fanaticism surrounding the show, I found it hilarious. I totally understand how it'd be off-putting to others though.

Going on NaNo and knowing one of my sister's friends, I thought it was bang on. Especially the "kiss".

Just caught a rerun of that "How Videogames Changed the World" that Charlie Brooker did recently. It's always refreshing to see games on telly, and for those naysayers who dismiss the inclusion of gaming on TV, my dad and uncle were both very interested in the show and were asking me questions throughout.

Similarly refreshing to hear them as non-gamers fob off the "GAMING MAKES YOU A SERIAL KILLER" argument as complete tosh and also complimenting the positive influence that games like Minecraft can have upon a child. My dad also expressed an urge to play Mortal Kombat 9, which was worrying, considering the clip they used was of a woman getting cut in half through her nether regions. So, my dad might have deep-rooted issues there.

He's clearly hiding (not well I might add) the fact he's a seriel killer.

Okay not on TV but it's a TV show, watched disc 1 of the firefly blu ray boxset. Summer doing a English accent is just so strange.

I did a similar thing to mas- I watched the entire first season of himym last night. I can see myself watching the rest within about a week.

I've seen it all before on tv, but I've always wanted to power through it like this. There's so much foreshadowing and calling back and so on. In a polar opposite of Big Bang Theory, the writers never forget anything and it all adds up. Even if it wasn't funny, the way it makes me feel everything Ted feels and want him to meet her would be enough for me to be addicted. Definitely in my top five tv shows, probably top three.

Waterloo Road starts again this week. It's drivel of the highest order, but for some reason I watch it.

 

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Also: Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe starts again this week too, unless I'm much mistaken.