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[Quint]

The last scene at the door with Susie was punch the air satisfying. I laughed like Bruce Campbell did when his severed hand got caught in the mousetrap, it was that good.

[Jason LeBlanc]

I am smiling just remembering it

But I like the Season 7 finale more

[Quint]

Ooo, now I'm intrigued. But I'll be genuinely impressed if they can manage THREE barnstorming finales. I don't think they can.

[publicist]

Hung is also very good, I'm so bummed they didn't renew it. The season 3 finale was a non-finale!

Boardwalk Empire only works if you watch every episode in order. Otherwise nothing will make sense

But if it does, it's a hell of a saga. Think of ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA spun over 30 hours.

[Incanus]

I have been having a Jeeves and Wooster marathon this week. Despite the very repetive plot lines, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry keep the show alive and oh so funny. The upper classes, as exaggerated as their foibles might be in the show, give endless amount of opporturnities for lampoon.The rather sorry line of hapless loons, excentrics, lovelorn men and women and aristocratic fops dancing around Bertie Wooster, Bertie getting embroiled in plots for money or acceptance of marriage or trying himself to avoid imbending doom of marriage (usually arranged by aunt Agatha) offers great comedy in classic British fashion. The main pair could not have been chosen better, Laurie's performance a masterpiece of absent minded ease and ineptitude, Fry as the ever stone faced yet suave butler with perfect diction working brilliantly. I also love the production values and again the way they create the time and place of manor halls, luxurious flats and other haunts of the upper classes in the beginning of the century through to 1940's, the world a mix of different decades.

The cast is excellent, playing their roles at times with exaggerated glee and for their part enforce the spirit of Wodehouse's stories that seem to paint these people with broad strokes, leaving the actors and writers a lot of room to invent all kind of colorful details for their personalities, appearances and manner. The adaptation is done imaginatively, weaving several short stories into unified plots, producing some very succesful plot lines that flow quite naturally from tale to tale. Bertie's near escapes finishing off each episode become a life affirming trope for the show, Jeeves and our befuddled bon vivant driving into the sunset, escaping marriages, aunt Agatha or angry mobs or resolving predicaments and learning some airy light lesson in the process.

[Quint]

Laurie's performance a masterpiece of absent minded ease and ineptitude,

Before House came along, it was the only role he knew. He literally did the same routine in everything he was in

[Stefancos]

Indeed. In that way House was a stunning revelation. Not so much because of the flawless American accent, but because Laurie could play someone with a brain.

[Koray Savas]

Hung is also very good, I'm so bummed they didn't renew it. The season 3 finale was a non-finale!

Boardwalk Empire only works if you watch every episode in order. Otherwise nothing will make sense

But if it does, it's a hell of a saga. Think of ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA spun over 30 hours.

I think Once Upon A Time In America is great just the way it is, at 4 hours.

[Incanus]

Laurie's performance a masterpiece of absent minded ease and ineptitude,

Before House came along, it was the only role he knew. He literally did the same routine in everything he was in

Yeah that was a bit the case. But I think Bertie Wooster is the epitome of this particular style and really fits the character like a glove. Especially his eyes bulging with disbelief and horror are so funny And funnily Fry and Laurie reminisced in a recent documentary how Laurie gets so beaten up in all these comedic roles. As Fry put it, people just love to beat the crap out of him.

[Michael]

I think Once Upon A Time In America is great just the way it is, at 4 hours.

This.

[Jason LeBlanc]

Boardwalk Empire is nothing like Once Upon A Time In America

[Stefancos]

It more then 26 hours longer, for one thing.

[Alexcremers]

I hope it's better.

[Koray Savas]

Better than Leone? Surely you must be joking?

[Quint]

Once Upon a Time was good, but I thought it was one of his more melodramatic and bloated movies. I'd be expecting Boardwalk to be superior.

[Koray Savas]

You can't beat Leone's eye and Morricone's hand.

[Stefancos]

I never knew he made a good film after Once Upon A Time In The West....

[Michael]

I never knew he made a good film after Once Upon A Time In The West....

Once Upon a Time in the Revolution and America disagree with you...

[Wojo]

I never knew he made a film after Once Upon A Time In The West....

[KK.]

Anyone watch Mildred Pierce? Its fantastic with some exceptional acting on Kate Winslet's part (as to be expected). Yes, it starts off a bit slow, but the series is so engrossing and engaging in its strong narrative and haunting characters. I love this loyal adaption!

[Alexcremers]

Once Upon a Time was good, but I thought it was one of his more melodramatic and bloated movies. I'd be expecting Boardwalk to be superior.

Also, the last segment where all the actors are wearing makeup to look older is so fake. I never like it when actors wear wigs and heavy makeup to look 20 years older. I'm sure there must be some instances when it was done in a believable or convincing way, but personally, I would avoid it like I would avoid filming Star Wars in a forest.


Alex

[Koray Savas]

Back To The Future and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button are the first two to jump to mind.

[Trent Hoyt]

I started watching ER again. Just finished season 1, 14 more to go. It is possibly the best drama of the 90s.

[Pasi Tiitinen]

Terra Nova. Started here.

Fits perfectly to the topic: Possibly THE last TV series I watched. Ever.

[Chaac]

I'd look at it as motivation to look for good TV instead.

I'm looking for a fantasy, science-fiction or horror show. I'd like it to have an ambitious story well thought from beginning to end, that isn't looking for political correction, a diverse cast of entertaining characters, good special effects etc. I've already seen Game of Thrones and Firefly. I was thinking on checking out Cowboy Bebop.

[Quint]

Chaac, if you have half the taste I think you have, watch Twin Peaks. If your young arse is capable of looking past (and allowing yourself to see the absolute charm in) the dated aesthetics, you won't be disappointed. Three episodes is what it takes to be hooked.

Twin Peaks is so fucking great I've not finished it yet... with just three more episodes to go. I'm delaying The End - because I shall be sad when it's finished.

[Pasi Tiitinen]

But.There.Is.No.End.

You are screwed!!

[Quint]

That's the beauty of it! It's the only show EVER that ends with an ambiguously brilliant finale (boxed off by the painfully tantalising film).

If only tat like Heroes, or Jerico were afforded a similarly rewarding resolution.

[Pasi Tiitinen]

Well, in LOST the ending was obscure but I just love the beautiful trip until the anticlimax.

[Richard]

Recently, I've been convalescing, and I've been watching "The Professionals" on ITV4.
I just love this show: I love it for its look (brown), its production design (brown), and its costume design (brown). It's a snapshot of life in late '70s England, when life was...er...brown! Add to that some wonderful "leave it aaht, guv'nor!" - type lines, and some truly expert direction by a very young Martin Campbell, and you have a very exciting show. Lewis Collins would have made a superb James Bond.

[Wojo]

I watched the pilot to Earth 2 today on Netflix. I know the show was canned and it got really weird towards the end...ok, it got really weird in the pilot with the dream plane being reality...but I vividly remember tuning in each week to watch the show, and I liked it. It filled in the hole in my weekly TV sci-fi craving after TNG ended, and DS9 and B5 were shown too infrequently on the few network stations that I could get.

But I enjoyed this re-watch. Clancy Brown made everything more enjoyable to watch. The little muppet looked fake, but all in all, I think the special effects inside the spaceship and on the planet held up pretty well for the show being almost 18 years old. I could have done without the blatant product placement of the Hummer vehicle they found waiting for them on the planet, but the show had a really good cast and Debra Farentino...fabulously attractive woman. Even the music was very good, and I'd love to get my hands on a promo album. And the closing shot of a devious Tim Curry watching over the party was just awesome.

Just one thing upsets me. The girl who played Clancy Brown's daughter True was a very cute little girl, and I wanted to know why I haven't seen her career advance. She had a heart condition and required a transplant, and ultimately died of a heart attack right before she turned 22. Very sad.

[Quint]

Just watched the wheelchair episode of Curb. It's a classic.

[Jason LeBlanc]

I loved Earth 2 as a kid watchig it live every sunday night at 7. Was sad when it didnt get a second season.

Would be curious to watch it again now and see how I feel about it.


OMG that ep of Curb was hilarious!!

[Incanus]

I seem to be watching more of the old TV series than current ones these days. The only moderns shows I have been watching regularly are The Boardwalk Empire and The Game of Thrones.

[Alexcremers]

[Stefancos]

Looks boring.

[Chaac]

Mmm, I do have to check out Twin Peaks.

[Alexcremers]

Looks boring.

My son would say the same.

[Stefancos]

Smart kid!

[Quint]

I've got three episodes left of Twin Peaks (I'm delaying finishing it because I'll be genuinely gutted when it's over). Contender for my favourite show EVER.

Mad Men season 4 is waaaay ahead of me. That's on temp hold as well.

I'm only finding time in the evenings for 30mins of Larry David and Arrested Development.