Do we have a thread for television shows
Cause I am really getting, ahem, strung out on Weeds and I want to talk about it.
It must be 10 years now since I stopped subscribing to premium cable so I don't have Showtime. So forgive if I seem a little past the sell by date.
They started showing past episodes on the TV guide channel on Sunday night so I have now have reservations for television time (I think maybe this is why I stopped having cable TV (that plus my absolute loathing of the cable company)).
But anyhoo. This show is absolute nuts. They killed off U-Turn last week and had his funeral with him in a hot tub (because the boat wouldn't fit into the building).
Mary Louise Parker is sublime in the role. On the surface she is this suburban soccer Mom but in real life she is hardened hustla slurping starbucks iced coffees while she delivers a trunk full of heroin to the Mexicans under the guise of handing out false identities to illegal aliens at a construction site as her day job.
I love it.
I have cheated ahead a little on Youtube so I know lots of endings but I think this week they go to the Mexicans for protection.
It must be 10 years now since I stopped subscribing to premium cable so I don't have Showtime. So forgive if I seem a little past the sell by date.
They started showing past episodes on the TV guide channel on Sunday night so I have now have reservations for television time (I think maybe this is why I stopped having cable TV (that plus my absolute loathing of the cable company)).
But anyhoo. This show is absolute nuts. They killed off U-Turn last week and had his funeral with him in a hot tub (because the boat wouldn't fit into the building).
Mary Louise Parker is sublime in the role. On the surface she is this suburban soccer Mom but in real life she is hardened hustla slurping starbucks iced coffees while she delivers a trunk full of heroin to the Mexicans under the guise of handing out false identities to illegal aliens at a construction site as her day job.
I love it.
I have cheated ahead a little on Youtube so I know lots of endings but I think this week they go to the Mexicans for protection.
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I'm about 4 seasons behind myself.
Somewhere here, I think it was springtime, there was a discussion of Mad Men. Haven't seen that one either, as I am culturally deprived - no cable. I bought first three seasons ($9.99 per season) from Amazon several days ago, but it hasn't shipped yet. Must have sold a ton of them. I want to have time to pay attention to all the details - clothes, furnishings, colors, etc. - as that was my young adult time.
Based on my synopsis anybody got a guess as to which season I'm watching.
I refuse to buy DVDs of television shows so maybe I will just have come over to your house and watch it ;+)
My kid wants me to buy them DVDs of Glee for Chrismus and my response is why would I do that? You do know that it comes on TV, for free.
Brighternow, I have no clue what that link was about. And here I thought I was the king of random links
Oh, and I thought Luther, the recent BBC-A miniseries was freaking great - real dark twisted Brit crime show, reminded me of Touching Evil from a few years back.
Ellen also gets Big Love for Christmas each year, but we sell it to Half Price Books after we watch it. I'm honestly glad there is only one season of that show left. It too has gotten seriously out there.
Craig
We are getting ready to ditch ye olde cable box. Since Hulu Plus won't let us stream a number of shows to the Roku (which I do like a lot) that will be shifted upstairs and I'll be setting up an HTPC that will let us access our most important shows - Community, The Big Bang Theory, 30 Rock, and How I Met Your Mother.
Just ordered this to help make it happen.
What the hell does it do?
You too Elwood
Got the 1st season of Weeds from the library and after the 3rd episode - I gave it back to them. Just couldn't get into it. Big Love, either - it got too weird, too fast.
pop it in the toaster, ready in minutes
on sale at your local grocer, almost as cheap as a loaf of bread ;+)
The theme song was unbearable to me. Thank godz for DVRs. Fortunately, they stopped using the song for season 4, which rawked. I had stopped watching midway through 3, but was persuaded to try again...and am glad I did. Season 5 was exponentially better, and the just-completed Season 6 was APESHIT. My wife and I spent a long time thinking of when we had seen 13 near-perfect episodes in a row that combined comedy and intensity this way. We kinda settled on Justified -- I can't believe how good the first season was, and am almost beside myself waiting for the second -- but I'm leaning back toward giving it to Weeds. Amazing, amazing season.
And incidentally, 2 major and one almost major character GONE. Another one greatly reduced. Very much worth giving another try, honest.
Last note about buying TV shows: why would you not? Better picture and sound, no commercials, special features, and on demand. I admit that I haven't watched every episode I've ever bought more than once, but I've watched all of the eps of Firefly enough times to make up for it.
I have watched Frasier episodes multiple times. That's the series that has probably made me laugh more than any other.
Same for the three season of Night Court I have. I'm hoping season four will be available in a few months, but it's season six that has the episode that is on my list of best ever.
Hill Street Blues -- Yes! I never get tired of that one.
Rockford Files - bought three seasons for hubby and he has them somewhere in his stash downstairs, so I haven't watched them yet.
I have a few movies that I watch over and over, too, mostly comedies. I really needed them to change my mood when I was still working. Raising Arizona. Planes, Trains and Automobiles. A Christmas Story. The Big Lebowski. That's just the short list.
I love being able to pick up a movie or episode any time I want, at the drop of a hat.
Oh my god, the most beautiful bird just landed outside my window. It was mostly blue with some fashionable streaks of black and gray stripes.
Wow.
Shows that I own on dvd are Hill St. Blues (which they need to friggin' release seasons three and four of), Oz (prison, not Dorothy), West Wing, Reno 911, and X-files. I'm thinking I would like to have NewsRadio, but not entirely sure yet.
My wife owns almost the entire Golden Girls run, Designing Women, That Girl, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Arrested Development. I believe Rosanne is next on her list.
Oh, and we co-own Strangers With Candy the complete series.
As for Reno 911, I learned a few months ago that the acting troupe I was in during high school also had a member by the name of Nick Swardson (aka Terry). I have no memory of him. Either he got A LOT funnier, or I have absolutely no eye for comedy talent.
No beautiful birds landed outside my window during the making of this post.
Craig
agree with Tim on Weeds.
My wife and I have watched since the beginning.
we've started watching "Boardwalk Empire" on HBO with Steve Buscemi and set in Atlantic City
during prohibition; good stuff and great opening tune: "Straight Up and Down" by Brian Jonestown masscre
My only problem with NewsRadio on DVD is the lack of features - specifically no closed captions. Well, there are Portuguese ones. But if all I had to watch on TV was NewsRadio (have the first 3, need the last 3) and Arrested Development (all 3 seasons), I'd be happy.
I might give Weeds another chance, but once I finish up Babylon 5 on Netflix I'll be trying to catch up with Eureka and Burn Notice.
Now that I got my mini keyboard in (it is f'ing cool) I'll be setting up my HTPC with Boxee this weekend. Next I need to figure out an easy way to pump the DVD and Roku to speakers next to us in bed so that we can actually listen to shows after The K is asleep.
If anyone else is interested in Hulu Plus, I discovered this show the other night called Baeble. A number of cool concerts available including the likes of Passion Pit, Two Door Cinema Club, Ra Ra Riot, and Dosh. Looks like they might be up on their website, too.
Craig
http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2008/05/19/reno-911-the-best-of-terry/
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=61131&title=terrys-tacos
Definitely beautiful birds. This winter I will miss taking pictures of them perched in all of the brush that used to suffocate my backyard. But they are some of the nastiest birds out there - always screeching and chasing away the smaller birds.
Craig
picking it up off the ground and placing it on a nearby tree limb; the dirty little SOB grabbed
my finger with its beak and held on like a tiny, pointy head pit bull as I tried to shake it off
while spinning in squealing circles.
Okay, it's been a couple weeks; anybody want to shoot the breeze about season three of Sons of Anarchy?
First of all, this season ended strong. It seemed pretty wishy washy and flat for most of the season, but once they picked up and went to Belfast, it was like the writers finally caught their rhythm and, damn, the story just went fantastic from there. It had a lot of that "Shield" edge to it again, which it really felt like it lost beginning with the season two finale.
Can I just say, Jimmy R.I.P.. You were an evil dude, but I'll miss seeing you on the show. I'm a forty year old man, but I find myself trying to talk and act like the guy. How fucking cool did that actor play the role, yeah?
And the scene at the end where Agent Stahl is killed. First off, the look on Chief Unser's face as he's smoking his joint... Stahl's look of embarrassment for him is brilliant followed by her lack of empathy at his admission to having stage three cancer, but that great acting is easily trumped by the look on Unser's face when he tells her, sweetie, you really should have some of this, and offers her the joint again while the school bus containing the SoA soldiers bears down on them. And then Opie in the backseat and Stahl begging for her life, powerful stuff. Some great acting all around. Opie finally did some himself. It seemed like he'd gotten lazy with his acting in a cloud of depression mannerisms, and when he talked to Stahl and was reliving the death of his wife and trying to get Stahl to feel what his wife must've felt, Opie had a strong acting effort there, real solid, I could really feel it as a viewer, it felt sincere to me, yeah? Ah, Jimmy O.
I wasn't surprised at the whole twist that the SoA knew about Jax involvement all along and were working Stahl. Obviously I couldn't be entirely sure, and there was a real panic in the air when Stahl betrayed Jax's confidence and revealed he was working with her, the acting was good enough to fool me as a viewer, but the show dropped enough hints that maybe it wasn't like that, and well, I just didn't think that the show would actually turn the corner necessary to make Jax really work with the feds without the crew's knowledge. Not unless the show was wrapping up for good.
Very happy the way this show rebounded. Luck of the Irish, yeah?
The season finale was excellent. Back to par with previous seasons. I was bored even when they were in Belfast. Not surprised they killed off Stahl - can you believe that bitch shot her lover? Love love love Katey Sagal - and I loathed her from the 2 episodes I saw her in that horrible "Married With Children" - the Gemma character is wonderful. Giving old lady advice to Opie to get married, advice to Tara, knowing Tara was pregnant....
Speaking of Tara that is an odd character. They wrote some really unbelievable scenes for her this season, I think really otu of her previous season character.
I wasn't surprised at the whole twist that the SoA knew about Jax involvement all along and were working Stahl.
I know what you mean. I was more surprised at Jax telling Stahl that she just signed his death warrant -that whole scene. Made me smile when the bikes beeped and everyone in the bus started laughing. They fooled me!
I thought Uturn was just getting in touch with his inner geek when he was checking out Nancy's Prius.
Turns out he was really getting in touch with his inner gangster. It seems the hybrids are perfect for drive by shootings because they run so quietly.
I now see where the federal government is forcing manufacturers to make their hybrids more noisy under the pretense of protecting blind people and young children from walking out in front of them. But we all know its so they can eliminate the drive by crowd from the market.