What television series are you currently making your way through? (3 Viewers)

[David Kronenbourg]

Started re-watching The Sopranos last night. One thing that struck me was how filmic it is compared to current tv shows. The lighting, locations, camerawork are all feature film quality. Also how young James Gandolfini young in the first season. He was only 38 or something when the show debuted. Great stuff altogether.

 

[Unicron]

Started re-watching The Sopranos last night. One thing that struck me was how filmic it is compared to current tv shows. The lighting, locations, camerawork are all feature film quality. Also how young James Gandolfini young in the first season. He was only 38 or something when the show debuted. Great stuff altogether.

I rewatched it all over the past couple of months too. I agree. What struck me about the early episodes was how darkly lit it was.

Approaching it a second time also had an impact on how I viewed the characters, rarely found any of them sympathetic because I was familiar with their character arcs. Except for Paulie Walnuts, the first time I saw it I thought he was a bollocks, thought he was quite sad this time around.

Since the series ended I've spent a bit of time in North Jersey as I have a friend from there. Spotted loads of locations in the show that I've been to.

 

[hermie]

Started re-watching The Sopranos last night. One thing that struck me was how filmic it is compared to current tv shows. The lighting, locations, camerawork are all feature film quality. Also how young James Gandolfini young in the first season. He was only 38 or something when the show debuted. Great stuff altogether.

It really is the creme de la creme. No other show matches it for me in terms of consistent quality.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I get really annoyed when directors put modern pop music in historical films/dramas. They do it loads on this BBC show I'm watching, Peaky Blinders. It totally takes me out of the moment. One minute you're engrossed in this beautifully shot gangster saga set in post WWI Birmingham and suddenly the fucking White Stripes come on the soundtrack and completely ruin the mood the filmmakers have created. It's incredibly jarring.

 

[Unicron]

I get really annoyed when directors put modern pop music in historical films/dramas. They do it loads on this BBC show I'm watching, Peaky Blinders. It totally takes me out of the moment. One minute you're engrossed in this beautifully shot gangster saga set in post WWI Birmingham and suddenly the fucking White Stripes come on the soundtrack and completely ruin the mood the filmmakers have created. It's incredibly jarring.

Is the show any good? My dad has been telling me to watch it.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Is the show any good? My dad has been telling me to watch it.

Yeah it's pretty good. There's a couple of annoying stylistic devices like the music and some annoying/weird framing but it's mostly well shot and cillian murphy is deadly in it. Sam Neill however is a different story. He's a good actor but casting him as a Belfast man was a massive error. His accent is awful. I cringe whenever he speaks.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

American Horror Story: Coven. Good to have this show back. It's as mad as ever.

 

[Jill Hives]

American Horror Story: Coven. Good to have this show back. It's as mad as ever.

That started? Must go find it.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

That started? Must go find it.

yep, it started last night

 

[Lili Marlene]

I've been re-watching Buffy these past few weeks. It's kind of fun filling in all the blanks from ten years ago, 'ah, so that's how they entered the show'

I'm reliving 2010 right now.

@annpost you cared a lot back then

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Love/Hate

Two seasons in.

Glad that they killed off Aiden Gillen, but he was a great prick to watch.

Love what's happening with the Nidge character.

And thank fuck they switched off the hip-hop from season one. I like hip-hop, but what they were doing was so damn obvious. 99 Problems? Come on.

 

[dudley]

Fringe

It's so dumb. I love it!

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

My friend is begging me to try Hell On Wheels. I'm way too far behind in Justified though.

 

[pete]

Just finished S3 of The (US) Killing, which was better than the first two series, only to discover it's been cancelled by AMC.

Peter Sarsgaard was great in it.

Netflix Resurrects 'The Killing' for Short Final Season

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Tudor monastery farm on BBC2. Not very hip.

 

[GO]

I'm stuck into the west wing..

First three episodes of season two...some of the greatest telly I've ever seen...bar none.

This shit is powerful fucking viewing.Even me Da likes it,although he watched it when it was on telly.

 

[hermie]

Re-watching The Trip, so good.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

So I gave a friend Love/Hate and she loved it. Now she wants me to recommend something else.
I asked her what else she likes. She says "Mad Men and Downton Abbey".

What do I recommend? Boardwalk Empire? Luther?

 

[washingcattle]

So I gave a friend Love/Hate and she loved it. Now she wants me to recommend something else.
I asked her what else she likes. She says "Mad Men and Downton Abbey".

What do I recommend? Boardwalk Empire? Luther?

Has she seen The Wire and The Sopranos ? Start at the very top end of the scale like.

 

[PunchMan]

Two - Homeland series 1 - instantly hooked.

Elementary series 2 - Has suffered from comparisons to BBC1's Sherlock, but if you don't compare them, it's possible to enjoy them as two really enjoyable, but different, takes on the same bunch of characters.