What Was the Last TV Show You Watched? Volume 2

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More watchings

Raines Season 1 - A detective imagines that he sees murder victims, this was the only season.

The Dresden Files Season 1 - Harry Dresden is a Wizard that helps the police department solve unusual cases. The department doesn't know that wizardry is real, but most of the cases have to do with black magic. Also cancelled after a short season.

Misfits Series 3 - see my earlier post. Still ongoing.

Grimm Season 1 - A police officer and descendant of the Grimms (who wrote the fairy tales) has to deal with the knowledge that there are real monsters disguised as humans. Still ongoing.

Once Upon a Time Season 1 - The "daughter of Snow White" is drawn to a town where her son (given up for adoption) is convinced that every resident is from a book of fairy tales. Still ongoing.

Human Target - A man assumes the identities of those who are in danger, for 1/10th of their yearly income (whether they are a busboy, or a king.)

South Park Season 14 - It's South Park, if you don't know what it is, crawl out from under that rock. I was disappointed with Comedy Central's decision to censor a great portion of episode 201, because of fears of Muslim extremists.

Bizarre eps 1-10 - An early 80s Canadian sketch show with John Byner and Super Dave Osborne.
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The Sopranos, season 6, part 1.

Only eight more episodes to go and then it'll all end... :(
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Dr Frankenollie wrote:
Linden wrote:The reason I came on this thread in the first place, though, was to tell you, Dr. Frankenollie (for Heaven's sake, can I call you something shorter?), that I watched my very first episode of Doctor Who. I decided to start with the episode "Rose," like you recommended. I liked it. I didn't think it was fabulous, but it was enjoyable, if a bit on the silly side. The plastic mannequins gunning down people in the streets was a little hard to buy, but I was very entertained by the Doctor's mannerisms, and I thought Rose was a capable lead. I'm going to keep watching, because from what I hear, it gets better. Right?
You can call me 'Doc', or just 'Frankenollie' or simply 'Frank.' :) Anyway, if you're going to watch more episodes of Doctor Who, I think you should frequently bring suspension of disbelief with you in order to enjoy them as much as possible; and yes, it does get better.
Oh good. :) And thank you kindly for permission to use a nickname. I think I'll go with Doc. It's Disney-ish.
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Friends: Season 6. For the millionth time. These never get old.
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I watched two really great football games yesterday.

Go Giants! 8)
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I just watched some back episodes of New Girl and I like it, really. It is about Jess who just broke up with his boyfriend and needed a place to stay. Then he met this 3 guys who practically did not know and worked things out so that she could live with them. It was great seeing how things are going to work with 3 men and a woman under one roof, though not really working in other senses some guys might see fit.
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Has anyone watched the BBC's modern adaptation of Sherlock Holmes with Benedict Cumberbatch (War Horse) and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit)? It's bloody brilliant, especially their version of 'The Final Problem,' which I dare say is even better than Conan Doyle's original version.

Also: it's hilarious.

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Watson: Are we here to see the Queen?
Mycroft enters.
Sherlock: Apparently, yes.

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It sometimes manages to be both touching and hilarious simultaneously:

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Angel Seasons 1 and 2
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Currently working on The West Wing, season 4, on dvd. This show only gets better and better.

Also re-watched Mirror Mirror on YouTube. Still an awesome series! Completely blew me away the first time I saw it. I just wish it would come out on dvd one day.
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I finished South Park season 15 the other day, and I'm still watching new episodes of Once Upon A Time, Grimm, and Misfits at Hulu.
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I got back around to watching my Star Trek Season 1 blu-ray again the past couple days. I watched the episodes Dagger of the Mind and The Corbomite Maneuver. Both were pretty decent.

I also watched several episodes off The Twilight Zone Season 1 the past several days. It would take too long to name off every episode.
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Animaniacs Volume 1
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Star Trek The Original Series
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I'm doing a Simpsons marathon

Saw season 5 yesterday, tonight going on with season 6 8)
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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - MMMystery on the Friendship Express.

I like the Sherlock Holmes parody part in this episode. Oh, and the James Bond parody.
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I watched the newest episode of Game of Thrones last night. I like how they are still staying true to the books, but it's kind of strange how they are rearranging the events around this season (or shortening them).
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Complete first season of Game of Thrones. Just finished it today and now Im gonna listen to the commentaries.

I dont have HBO, so if anybody can link me to the 2nd season-in HD if possible-i'd be grateful.
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Re-viewing the 6th season of both Scrubs and Roseanne (well, starting with the episode where Sarah Chalke replaced Lecy Goranson) and, really, not because Chalke is in both. Or because I think there's any relation. It's just where I left off on the former on Netflix and the latter because I need a careful refresher.

As expected... there are elements of Scrubs which are truly intolerable. Most of them, actually. Boy- did I back the wrong horse back in that thread where everyone were listing the best shows of each year since 2000. Of course, that was more than 5 years ago. Can't really fault the performers- Zach Braff is the only member of the cast who is so repetitious and limited in his comic range that he can't keep up with everyone else. But this does not make us like the characters. The character writing is... awful. The dialogue (when not trying to write characters, rather when it's focused on witty one-liners and back and forth banter) is still pretty damn sharp- the show's best feature, along with its' production values and music (and the acting). But, if you try for character development and what you end up with are characters as relentlessly dull and uninteresting as these- you're in trouble. The only drama it ever drums up comes from the job and the audience's unease with death. Kind of an easy nerve to pluck. I know I would say the show used to be a lot better in previous seasons (the 4th is the one that really evolved it into this). A far too dated show, given that it's barely a decade old.

Episodes re-watched: "My Friend with Money," "My Musical" (many parts skipped because I just couldn't take it, it was so unbearable), "His Story IV," "My Road to Nowhere," "My Perspective," "My Therapeutic Month," and "My Night to Remember"

As for Roseanne, the opposite appears to be true. Character writing is its' top strength and though the show really peaked in those excellent 4th and 5th seasons (without question or debate some of the strongest television ever made- watch them for yourself), the ideas are still smarter than in the show's shaky first 3 seasons. There remain no sitcoms before this show (and for a long time after) that allowed families to be written as well as this one wrote the Conners. It's just the performing that falls short. By a lot. Mostly because it's a comedy and the actors are not playing their parts subtly enough. Which, of course, is the shift out of 4th & 5th season mode that really downgrades this season by comparison. John Goodman has been out of control since the pot-smoking episode, purposefully playing it up to get bigger laughs (the Thanksgiving episode being a good example). Roseanne herself is really good at dramatic acting but since this season has mostly been cutting down on dramatic storylines after they replaced the former Becky with a Robot (pre-Scrubs Chalke), she's decided to turn Roseanne into some kind of mad scientist creation. She will not stop bugging her eyes out.

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So, I guess what I would say the show is faulting at is tone. I mean, not just the comedy is off- the attempts to bring back the ultra-seriousness of the 5th season have been leaning toward miss over hit. "The Driver's Seat" is not a terrible episode but the show already dealt with domestic abuse three times before and here it comes again. The more interesting story was getting comedy out of Leon trying to take over the restaurant. My problem really was that the best scene of the episode was Dan going to confront Leon and that scene needed more time and more dialogue. Which it could have gotten if the squabbling over patterns of abuse repeating themselves between Roseanne, Jackie, and Dan had been whittled down. Those scenes themselves should have focused more on Jackie's baby and Roseanne's paranoia about the restaurant anyway. Another problem with these scenes is that Jackie comes off like a bit of a harpie. Merely so the scene can have a heavy in it and so Dan can get in a pretty mean joke at her expense. It's not a storyline that treats the characters with the amount of respect they deserve. It's all... well, season filler. To get in the "required" amount of seriousness. Strange to say then that the episode did a better job of this in the first scene with Roseanne, at home arguing with Dan.

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However, I wouldn't be nearly as quick to defend "Suck Up or Shut Up" or "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." The former is one of the worst episodes of the show up to this point. Only slightly redeemed by Glenn O'Quinn, by far one of the best actors in the series before the show turned him into a complete idiot (I think that was the 8th season), as Becky's husband Mark. Oh, and... Roseanne was really well-written here. And the one-liners about the character being perceived as a complete idiot. Like most episodes of the show, it's 2 separate stories together. The latter, about Mark, is problematic enough. The former - about Roseanne trying to charm the town's snooty upper class businesswomen, featuring The Brady Bunch's Florence Henderson as the show's newest replacement for Kathy Bowman and Mrs. Wellman - is entirely useless, apart from one amusing crack ("Elijah Minnelli"). Leon's another weakpoint for this season. He had a strong entrance, as Beverly's puppet master pulling Roseanne's strings to annoy her. And it's been great to finally see him and Laurie Metcalfe interact, their scenes are real winners. But his character doesn't get any good jokes. Whether he's giving or receiving them. I've never been that happy with his character but his best moments were all in season 3.

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Sandra Bernhard has been great for the show though. And she gets horrendously short-changed in "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" with another mopey "I'm not so cool with sharing my life with you guys" plotline and then, on top of that, they screw Roseanne over by making her look uptight (after Nancy's girlfriend kisses her). The drama is thankfully kept at the season's consistent muted level but there has got to be something better to base a gay-themed episode around then every other character criticizing Roseanne for being less progressive than she thinks she is. If they're going to even try this and bring Roseanne down a few pegs, shouldn't Nancy or Leon at least be able to take the higher ground? They don't. When Roseanne shows up at the gay bar, suddenly neither is allowed to fit in. The show makes them both look like huge dorks and Roseanne is a hit. It's an episode where I don't remember a single joke working. Kind of a test-run for season 7's Halloween episode. Oh, well. All of this is still light years ahead of Home Improvement. Another good point over that show: this season's Christmas episode. The Mark and Becky storyline is pretty cliched, but everything else works. Especially Roseanne and Dan's Christmas decoration terrorism.

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However, this section of the season has managed to milk David's pathetic character (that's actually not a crack at the show for writing him poorly even though they sure ruined him in later seasons) for some good jokes and story ideas. Darlene might as well not be in the show at this point after the "Homecoming" episode (her storylines improve later) since they have been making every character more sarcastic in her absense. But, David being brought back to live with Roseanne and Dan (again) is the only story thread that would make Dan and David a good dramatic pairing. It's not insulting to David and you get his character's pretty funny spooked reactions to Dan whenever he enters a room. Also, moving him into Jackie's house was a decent idea. And a good way to weave in later plots between them like him setting up her computer and being the only one who noticed that she was going nuts because of a chat room addiction. David needed another character to interact with besides DJ (this never worked out), Mark (this usually leads to competition between them and... um: talk about one-sided!), Dan, and Darlene (her applying to college is the worst thing to happen to their relationship plot/subplot- I'll probably go into details on this later).

Episodes re-watched: "Homecoming," "Thanksgiving '93," "The Driver's Seat," "White Trash Christmas," "Suck Up or Shut Up," "Busted," "David vs. Goliath," "Everyone Comes to Jackie's," "Don't Make Room for Daddy," and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
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Dr Who

Keys of Marinus episodes 2 and 3
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Torchwood: Children of Earth
(well, the first three parts of five)

Funny, inventive, romantic, suspenseful, clever, intense, horrific and very heart-breaking, this incredible series is one of the best pieces of television I've ever watched (considering however that most TV is garbage, that may not be saying a lot). The core concept is chilling and clever, the reactions of the world governments and press enthralling, and it's mesmerising to watch from start to finish. There are so many things to love about it: the incredible performance by the brilliant Peter Capaldi (aka Malcolm Tucker of ingenious political satire The Thick Of It), the unique and likable characters (well, Lois Habiba is a bit bland at first, but besides that they're all memorable and intriguing) and the sparkling, witty dialogue. Unmissable.

Here's an excellent teaser trailer:

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