What are you watching on the television?

The slightly niche The Bridge II, which is a lovely Danish/Swedish crime thriller on BBC Four. It's fine work.

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The slightly niche The Bridge II, which is a lovely Danish/Swedish crime thriller on BBC Four. It's fine work.

Well, you've made me feel stupid for watching the entirely un-niche Brooklyn 99, a fun but unspectacular cop comedy from the US of A.

House Of Fools, Vic & Bob's new BBC2 sitcom. Which is very very silly.

Federer vs Nadal, the rematch I've been waiting for at the Australian open for so long is finally happening!   

Edit: well, that was a lot shorter than I was expecting. Really there was nothing Federer could do to stop that, that was truly phenomenal tennis from Nadal.

Okay, I'm not exactly watching it right now for obvious reasons, but Episodes is back in April!

Sweet, I need to catch up on the last episode or so of the last series mind.

After all these years I'm finally going to finish a series I'd stopped watching with the final three seasons I never saw, and that would be season 6 of House, I just finished episode 3. It's been great so far.

House was brilliant in the final seasons

Hostages, the thing on Channel 4. It's another American remake of a Middle Eastern TV show, like Homeland... which also has 8 letters and begins with 'ho'! WEird.

I've been rewatching 'Thrones, one episode a day, ready for season three on Monday. Hmmm, dat khaleesi...

I've been going on a big Stargate marathon, Plan to get through all the series

Season seven is down, that finale was intense as all else.  So was the episode before the finale, that scene was just nightmare fuel plain and simple.  I don't normally react when watching shows, but I was practically yelling "stop stop!  Ah!" when that happened.  

For those that don't remember the scene or haven't watched it:

Now onward to season 8!

Just finished Season 3 of Thrones. Fuck.
I read the books already but it still hit me right in the gut.

Easily the best book, and the best season.

Buska:

Spoiler:

House of Cards - close to wrapping up the first season, it's filled the Breaking Bad shaped hole in my heart.

Tried the new tv show of from dusk till dawn (on netflix) earlier & was pleasantly surprised when I actually enjoyed it, some of the nods to the movie made me smile but I just hope they don't rely on that too much.

I guess I'll spoiler this next bit....

Spoiler:

Death Note.  One of the most interesting things was that for once the protagonist had nothing redeemable about them, we were never supposed to sympathize with them, none of that tripe.  They were a potentially good person completely corrupted in to a evil psychopath and that was that.  And yet despite how utterly appalling Light was I couldn't help but want him to win in the last arc.  

Overall I'd give it a 9 out of 10, a surprisingly compelling and addictive series, it gets an extra point for pretty much spitting on typical corny themes seen in anime and especially not something I'd expect to originate from shounen jump.

Okay, who else is up to date with How I Met Your Mother? There are only three episodes left ever and basically...

genuine spoilers, go careful:

I'm pretty sure, come March 31st, I'll be in tears.

I agree with you totally. If it does end like that I'm not sure I'll make it into uni that day as I'll be devastated. I really hope this is a massive curve ball...

Recently watched ep 2 of from dusk till dawn & it was even better than the first, this could well become the best vampire TV show out there.

(Side note: I think you definitely have to be a fan of the film though)

I've been watching Genius Game, a Korean reality gameshow.

The premise, based on the manga series Liar Game, is thirteen people- a mix of celebs and plebs- playing a series of games in order to eliminate one another and take home a cash prize.

I know the 'reality' tag will drag out a lot of people's inner snob, but unlike something like The Apprentice or Big Brother, it's all very friendly (I'm two-thirds of the way through the first series and there's only been one real argument- and even then it was nothing), and unlike the tasks of Big Brother/I'm A Celeb which tend to be either eating weird shit or a jumped up version of something from Fun House all the games are deceptively simple parlour games of logic and strategy- which in turn means production concentrates more on gameplay than the interpersonal relationships of the contestants.

The game "Open, Pass", for instance created some brilliant heart-in-mouth moments as what seemed like a foregone conclusion very much turned out not to be the case, helped by some solid production.

On that subject, the show can feel a touch overproduced, but considering the complexity of some of the games, it can be forgiven- and it's got a fantastic soundtrack which makes up for it.