Favourite TV Shows??

[Dil Bert]

Nikita - So bad I couldn't make it through the first episode. 

[dormeg]

Mad Men (Season 1) - Love the look of the show and the vintage props.  Not crazy about Don Draper's completely needless backstory and some of the show's plots.  IIRC, Terry Gross/Fresh Air had a number of shows about Mad Men.

I <3 Mad Men! Backstory and all. The character development is the best I've seen in a long time.

[Dolce~oro]

Mad Men (Season 1) - Love the look of the show and the vintage props.  Not crazy about Don Draper's completely needless backstory and some of the show's plots.  IIRC, Terry Gross/Fresh Air had a number of shows about Mad Men.

Don Draper's back story becomes very important in Seasons 3 and 4. This show is very detail oriented that way, not everything that happens in an episode will have a consequence in the episode right after, but for sure it will in the next season. There's only one scene that I can think of that I would describe as needless (involving Joanie), and even that I'm not sure won't come back full circle in Season 5, so just stick with it.

[annous]

 started watching White Collar, and I adore it.. it's fun, dialogue is snappy and witty, and protagonists are adorable.

I am still following How I met your mother,  because I love the Barney character.

Homeland, very edgy, multilayered, and very dark.

[latishya]

I am still following How I met your mother,  because I love the Barney character.

The last episode was superb, I thought, the best yet from the Robin character.

[corbie]

I started watching How I met Your Mother last week. I am at episode 10 and hooked. I usually do not watch sitcoms. But I am enjoying it so far.

Also in the last 5 weeks I am up to the end of season 3 of Lost. Second time for Lost. It is fascinating the second time through knowing the story.

Wishing some new Bollywood DVD's would come out. I have nothing to watch.    I watched 3 to 4 a week for years and literally ran out. When I finish Lost, I am going to go back and rewatch some of my favorite Bollywood for  second, or third etc.

 

Am I the only one who is a fan of House but wants the show to end this season? There really isn't much for it to ride on anymore without it being an overkill if it continues.

Agreed. Finish it while still has some life. 

[victoria]

I've been doing a rewatch of Grey's Anatomy. It definitely went downhill a bit in later seasons, but gosh, the first few were brilliant. I've been crying my eyes out every episode

[corbie]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20111215/D9RL6NJG1.html

I found this!  Not sure where to put it. We record everything so we don't have to listen to the commercials.

I have mentioned I am a 800 number addict. Before I was a letter writer. In the 70's I wrote on of the networks about the noise. What they wrote back was they didn't turn up the volume on commercials, they turned down the sound for the programs so get it was all legal.

[Dil Bert]

Don Draper's back story becomes very important in Seasons 3 and 4.

Yeah, but it just makes him more of an alien being among the mortals than his revolving bedroom door does.

[...]so just stick with it.

I watched the rest of the seasons (Netflix Instant can be like crack sometimes, esp. when you're on vacation but sick) and think I'm not going to watch Season 5.  Don's character is ridiculous, Elizabeth Moss I find hard to look at, I've no interest in the kids, the show is spending more and more time in generic soap-opera land, and the show has already covered most of the history of the 60's I'm interested in.  I like the style of the cool, early-mid 1960's vs. the turbulent, psychedelic late 1960's.

Bits and pieces of the show after the first season were great, and January Jones and Christina Hendricks look lovely on screen.  It was certainly interesting seeing a modern interpretation of the 1960's (Kennedy assassination vs 9/11, for ex).

[rubicon]

Yeah, but it just makes him more of an alien being among the mortals than his revolving bedroom door does.
I watched the rest of the seasons (Netflix Instant can be like crack sometimes, esp. when you're on vacation but sick) and think I'm not going to watch Season 5.  Don's character is ridiculous, Elizabeth Moss I find hard to look at, I've no interest in the kids, the show is spending more and more time in generic soap-opera land, and the show has already covered most of the history of the 60's I'm interested in.  I like the style of the cool, early-mid 1960's vs. the turbulent, psychedelic late 1960's.

Bits and pieces of the show after the first season were great, and January Jones and Christina Hendricks look lovely on screen.  It was certainly interesting seeing a modern interpretation of the 1960's (Kennedy assassination vs 9/11, for ex).

I know what you mean about Mad Men. I found the fourth season very weak. The writers lost control of Don's character, and the

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Don-Megan romance

was a very self-indulgent move. I'll probably still continue watching, though. The actresses on the show are great, and I enjoy the way the show explores the changing gender norms of the 60s.

[latishya]

The new episode of Sherlock confirmed that Moffat's still on top of his game. His relationship with Irene Adler and with Mycroft both perfectly drawn. Simply superb.

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The new episode of Sherlock confirmed that Moffat's still on top of his game. His relationship with Irene Adler and with Mycroft both perfectly drawn. Simply superb.

I stayed up till five downloading and watching it. Loved it! I think one of the things I enjoy about the show is that there are little mysteries in the dialogue and leaps of logic that the audience have to figure out for themselves. I feel I have to be on my toes to keep up with those moments.

And I'm glad to see that they've started to let Sherlock express more fondness for people like Mrs. Hudson. This show always gets casting spot-on and Lara Pulver was perfect as Irene Adler. In the scenes with her and Benedict Cumberbatch, they looked like male and female mirrors of each other with their high cheekbones and light eyes and hair arranged similarly.

[Usha]

"Once upon a time" has started here. I watched the pilot and thought it interesting and am curious how they are going to weave the fairytales in to the series ( esp. the ones I am fond of from my childhood <3 ) and wether they are going to use western stories only or use fairytales from other parts of the world aswell.

I read that the series are made from the creators of "Lost", and they use effects from that series into this ( the focused camera angle on the "eye", the "numbers" , the "smoke monster" )

The making has good quality so I`m hopefull ( besides, it also stars Ginnifer Godwin, one of my faves from HW   )

[elizabethbennet]

I couldn't get into Once Upon a Time for some reason. I really like Ginnifer Goodwin too but the series felt too forced (to me).

I have started a show called Revenge and the first two episodes were decent. I really like revenge stories (maybe because I never felt this feeling in real life) but the lead girl is kind of wooden. Anyway I decided to stick to it for the sake of the story.

[mirth]

The new episode of Sherlock confirmed that Moffat's still on top of his game. His relationship with Irene Adler and with Mycroft both perfectly drawn. Simply superb.

I loved the new episode too but not as much as I wanted to. I think that the relationship between Sherlock and Irene Adler did ultimately become a bit cliched.

These blog posts by others express how I feel.
http://www.dispositio.net/archives/810
http://slatternly.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/sherlock-a-scandal-in-belgravia-or-the-fall-of-irene-adler/
http://captainsway.tumblr.com/post/15192869286/ok-i-keep-seeing-posts-about-how-sexuality

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^^Thanks for the articles. I really enjoyed reading them. This show is so full of race, gender and sexual orientation fail, I think my expectations were always pretty low. I thought Irene Adler was going to be a mess after the way Sgt. Donovan and Mrs. Hudson were treated last series.

But I was so delighted to have female characters who weren't completely dismissed and ridiculed that I was willing to overlook how cliched the relationship between Sherlock and Irene Adler became. I did cringe at the part where she was made to beg. I had to turn it off and come back to it later at the point.

ETA: Uh oh, I just found this post where the writer critiquing Moffat's work is told that all her concerns are ridiculous by Moffat on twitter.
http://willinglycrazy.blogspot.com/2012/01/scandal-in-belgravia-or-how-not-to.html
This makes me question whether I even want to continue watching this show. I hate people like that who aren't even willing to look at the criticism of their work carefully. It reminds me of the Siddharth-Striker debacle.

[odadune]

Let's see...miniseries...

Neverland: British-American(-Canadian?) coproduction, miniseries setting itself up as a prequel to Peter Pan.  I found it charming, inspite of the hit and miss cgi and the abrupt jump from

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"Jimmy Hook, gliding down the slippery slope of piracy" to "Jimmy Hook, VILLAIN!"  I suppose the latter could be justified by the source material, where Captain Hook is kind of a drama queen, in love with his own angstiness and tragic villainness, if that makes any sense.  They also had an interesting plot element transitioning Peter from the relatively responsible figure of the miniseries to the entertaining narcissist we all know and love, but they reverse it almost immediately.

I also rewatched Tin Man, a Wizard of Oz "reimagining" from some of the same people as Neverland.  It's pretty inane on the plot level, and downright messy on the worldbuilding level, but I like it anyway.  Some of it's the characters, some of it's the fact that if it had more than two songs and zero romance, it could maybe pass for a lost and found masala.

[mirth]

But I was so delighted to have female characters who weren't completely dismissed and ridiculed that I was willing to overlook how cliched the relationship between Sherlock and Irene Adler became. I did cringe at the part where she was made to beg. I had to turn it off and come back to it later at the point.

I enjoyed the episode right until that part. After that it just went downhill and that last scene was a bit too much. Now thinking back about the Irene Adler character some more and reading all those articles, I am loving the episode a lot less.

There seem to be more articles popping up on Moffat's sexism.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/03/sherlock-sexist-steven-moffat
http://stavvers.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/irene-adler-how-to-butcher-a-brilliant-woman-character/
I expect even more such articles/blog posts to come.

It is quite fun to read John Watson's blog (http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/) and Sherlock's website (http://www.thescienceofdeduction.co.uk/). I like that the blog and the website are updated to reflect what has been happening in their lives.

[latishya]

I enjoyed the episode right until that part. After that it just went downhill and that last scene was a bit too much. Now thinking back about the Irene Adler character some more and reading all those articles, I am loving the episode a lot less.

That's kind of my reaction now, too. It was that "Shelocked" thing that was the downer , before that, I think she was good.

[kmemphis]

The begging was bad but the end...

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She could have faked her own death, she didn't need anyone's help! Also, terrorists? Really?

Now, what royal was it? I vote Beatrice.

[corbie]

Well, I know what one of my husbands favorite is. We need to replace the door from the kitchen to the garage. He asked me if I would mind if he painted it blue and turned it into a tardis. What the hell. I said ok.

I am now on the last two episodes of season 5 of Lost.

[veracious]

I happened to catch the first episode of Eternal Law, a supernatural crime/legal drama by the same writers who wrote Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes - two favourites of mine. It's basically "what if angels were defence attorneys" which sounds pretty silly but the execution is intriguing, the writing good and just based on the first episode I found myself intrigued by the characters.

So I'll definitely continue watching, though nothing will top Life on Mars - I don't have expectations that high.

[Usha]

So after the fourth episode of "Once upon a time" I`m starting to get bored. It doesn`t feel that anything is happening  

On the other hand, I´m totally addicted to "Chuck"   now
It gets a little bit confusing since I`m watching 3 different seasons at the same time   but it`s so fun and Zachary Levi is so adorable and fun  

[corbie]

Husband keeps watching Once Upon a time with breakfast. It is so seriously not holding my interest. Grimm is much better.

I am on episode three of Chuck and am hooked. Also about to start season two of How I met Your Mother.

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Anyone catch the series 4 premiere of Being Human? This is one show where I trust TPTB completely and I knew I could trust them to go through this transition with the show's spirit intact. So far, I feel like my trust has been well-placed.