New telly shows thread

[merman]

Third series of Friday Night Dinner is excellent, as is the third series of Episodes.

[Jonesey]

It was nice to see Gina Carano in last night's Almost Human. I wasn't sure if it was her head in a box I'd seen in an earlier episode! Great casting for a homicidal fembot, though.



(Shame the method of her demise was a bit hackneyed, though..)

[Darkflame]

Constantine leaked (or maybe "leaked") - Not amazing, but not too shabby either. Certainly more in line with the comics then the Keanu Reeves thing. Certainly look forward to where it goes.
Oh, and regarding my question earlier about what parts of DC they are allowed to play in.

Spoiler: show

Dr Fates helmet cameo eh?

[Jonesey]

So Defiance is five episodes in Stateside and yet I haven't seen so much as a mench on the UK SyFy Channel (website says September return). Isn't there a videogame that runs in parallel or something? To torrent or not to torrent - that is the question. It's not noble to suffer the outrageous scheduling of farty channels and err etc.

[Misfit]

Sky making a big deal over the soon to be released Blacklist at the moment, lots of adverts and billboards.

Basic premise is master criminal (James Spader) turns himself into the FBI to help catch other top criminals on the 'Blacklist' but he'll only work with a rookie profiler. His reasons provide an underlying story arc for standalone episodes.

We started watching this a few weeks ago on US Netflix. It's utterly preposterous but really rather enjoyable. Nice to have a show without too much torture and killing.

Each episode is named after the criminal along with their number on the list. The numbers are not in order and we've had one in around the 160 mark already. So they're clearly hoping to run a while! Just starting season 2 in the US so we may get to a few of them.

If you haven't seen Spader in a while, who is rather good in this, you'll be a bit surprised at the aging process...

[Harlequin]

Spader is also playing (the voice of) Ultron in Joss Whedon's Avengers sequel next year.

[gravy]

If you haven't seen Spader in a while, who is rather good in this, you'll be a bit surprised at the aging process...

Spader is awesome in this, pretty much like he is in everything That said I can't suspend belief enough to get past the utterly ludicrous plotting. Which is a shame. Back to Boston Legal repeats then

[RiK]

Sky making a big deal over the soon to be released Blacklist at the moment.

It's pretty good, I'm about half way through S1 at the mo, got the rest of them in the massive queue of unwatched telly..

[Misfit]

Spader is awesome in this, pretty much like he is in everything That said I can't suspend belief enough to get past the utterly ludicrous plotting. Which is a shame. Back to Boston Legal repeats then

It's pretty good, I'm about half way through S1 at the mo, got the rest of them in the massive queue of unwatched telly..

Yes, we're about 8 episodes in and enjoying it. We'll watch a few a week now as it's something we both agree on and that is getting harder to find!

I also agree it is ludicrous, but can live with that for now especially as they've made the underlying arc interesting enough to make you want to know where it's going.

[VNVObit]

I think the ludicrous plotting is part of its charm and Spader is marvellously ott as the arch manipulator.

Loved season 1 (made long commute bearable) though found it difficult to be disciplined enough not to watch it in binge mode.

Season 2 continues the final story arc in the first season which is suppose to shed more
Light on Spader's character

[RiK]

though found it difficult to be disciplined enough not to watch it in binge mode.

Binge mode is one of the advantages of downloading your TV shows..

[Darkflame]

Just finished watching Orphan Black season 2 - really great stuff. Looking forward to Season 3.
Also finished with "Last Resort" - actually pretty solid drama despite being canceled they wraped it up fairly well. Does sag in the middle of the season though.

So...hmm...whats next.

I didn't think much of Gothams first epp. Nothing wrong as such. But just nothing to keep me watching either. No real ongoing intrigue or mystery, and we know how all the characters turn out so...hmm.
Also, aside from the Penguin, the rest of the DC characters felt shoe-horned in. "Have you met future Riddler? Have you met future Ivy?" etc.

Flash is out soon, hopefully that can do a better job. I enjoyed its leaked epp anyway.

New season of Legend of Korra too next week, which as absolutely awesome last season.

[Gorecki]

Just finished watching Orphan Black season 2 - really great stuff. Looking forward to Season 3.

I loved the first series until the final few episodes when it became clear they weren't going to give us a proper ending to the story and instead leave most of it unresolved. it answered just enough questions to not make me feel like I'd wasted my time, though. I can't stand the current American tv format where the object is to churn out constant serial episodes rather than tell a decent story.

I watched a few episodes of series 2 but it seemed a bit sprawling and lacked the laser-like focus and pacing of the first series. Does it get any better and do we actually get some proper plot resolutions this time? The fact that there's a third series planned suggests the answer is 'not really'.


Anyway, talking of tv that tells a story: Marvellous
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... marvellous

Technically it's a tv movie but that carries connotations of cheap, tacky, not-good-enough-for-the-cinema-or-even-video rubbish. Where as this is the best film I've seen all year and only Interstellar looks even remotely likely to be half as good. Toby Jones plays Neil Baldwin, telling the true-life story of 'Nello's' life. It also stars Neil Baldwin as Neil Baldwin and Tony Curran & Lou Macari as Lou Macari.

Funniest thing I've watched all year. Saddest thing I've watched all year. I've hardly stopped thinking about it for days.
"I met a lot of people in my life... and I'm glad I did"

[Harlequin]

Oh, I see that The Blacklist also features Harry Lennix from Dollhouse. This reminds me that his old co-star Enver Gjokaj is due to star in Marvel's Agent Carter series.

[Harlequin]

As for Gotham, narrative journeys are surely more interesting than their destinations, unless one refuses to watch superhero films or series because the villains always lose and the heroes always win without their characters at the end deviating much from how we know them. The pilot was mostly just laying out the background setting. The second episode has a more comicbook storyline involving people working for the Dollmaker. As for other DC characters, Mr Nygma's appearances are justified by his role in police forensics and Ms Kyle (on whom the episode is focused) seems to be playing a major part in the arc. There is still not enough there to addict me yet, though.