The TV shows you've seen recently thread.

[cool breeze]

yeah, I finished up the last four season of dexter since they showed up on netflix and it gets bad.  real bad.  the first four seasons weren't golden either, but season 4 ended on a high note.

[Phoenix Dark]

My brothers started Dexter a couple months ago and always told me to watch it, but I'd say "yo I heard it starts to suck after a few seasons." They told me I was bullshitting. I don't know what season they're on now, but they haven't watch it in weeks 

gonna start House of Cards S2 tonight

[archie4208]

I stuck with Dexter until the final 3-4 episodes where I quit out of disgust.

All those wasted hours.  :'(

In retrospect, season 1 is the only good season.  Season 2 jumps the shark and then it becomes a predictable and boring for the rest of the series.

Also, I finished House of Cards s2.

It's ok.

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Season 3 has to be the final season though.  There's no way Netflix can stretch it out any further.

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[Beezy]

Did Awesom-Bitch just post an important spoiler?

[nudemacusers]

I want to watch House of Cards but I committed to finish watching Dexter before I move on to something else

Speaking of which, holy shit, that show fell apart during its fifth season.  Julia Stiles is a godawful actress, it should have been a warning sign that the people behind the show thought she was capable of exhibiting the emotions necessary to make her character believable.  Season six redeems itself until the two stupid and shitty twists at the end.  Season seven is toilet tier, even Titus Pullo couldn't redeem that steaming pile.  Now I'm working my way through season eight, which is wtf after wtf.

haha i'm actually on season 5 right now, and yeah... ghgh. the warning was there in season 4, but lithgow made up for it. imo this was a 4 season show, max.

[Bebpo]

Marathoned through The Walking Dead Season 2 this past week and pretty conflicted on if it's worth starting Season 3 and devoting 13 hours+ of my time that could be spent watching better shows instead.

Season 2 started reaaaaally slow and boring, got pretty good in the middle but then the last few eps did everything they could to make me dislike almost EVERY DAMN CHARACTER in the show.  So it's a show about a bunch of characters who are dumb and frustrating to watch doing stupid stuff that gets them in trouble.  And S3 is even longer at 16eps and I've heard mixed things about it.  Dunno.  Maybe should watch House of Cards instead.

[Positive Touch]

Marathoned through The Walking Dead Season 2 this past week and pretty conflicted on if it's worth starting Season 3 and devoting 13 hours+ of my time that could be spent watching better shows instead.

Season 2 started reaaaaally slow and boring, got pretty good in the middle but then the last few eps did everything they could to make me dislike almost EVERY DAMN CHARACTER in the show.  So it's a show about a bunch of characters who are dumb and frustrating to watch doing stupid stuff that gets them in trouble.  And S3 is even longer at 16eps and I've heard mixed things about it.  Dunno.  Maybe should watch House of Cards instead.

season 3 mostly fixes the slowness, but it doesnt make the characters any more likable. by the end of it i was rooting for almost every single character to die. fuck all of them, especially that dickwad kid.

oh and i saw a spoiler for a recent ep of season 4 and it sounds like the writers still fucking suck at making believable sympathetic characters

[Phoenix Dark]

First episode of House Of Cards S2...

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not sure if that's a shark jump moment and I haven't read any reviews for fear of spoilers, but I don't care. She was a horrible character with no redeeming qualities and I'm glad she's gone for good. Even if it's rather ridiculous...but then again Frank chose the time and place for a reason, he made sure no one saw shit.

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[Eel O'Brian]

True Detective spoilerish comment:

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Obviously rust didn't do it, he just never stopped working the case, but I'll be sorely disappointed if it's the preacher. A fucked-up killer preacher is one of the oldest cliche plot points in crime fiction.

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[cool breeze]

True Detective spoilerish comment:

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Obviously rust didn't do it, he just never stopped working the case, but I'll be sorely disappointed if it's the preacher. A fucked-up killer preacher is one of the oldest cliche plot points in crime fiction.

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reiterating that these are true detective episode 5 spoilers

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the two 2012 detectives mention that the preacher, Tuttle, died back in 2010, and imply to Marty that Rust did it.  if these murders are happening in 2012, it's probably not him, or at least he's not the yellow king.

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[TakingBackSunday]

pretty sure eel meant

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theriot, not tuttle.  Tuttle was the well-connected preacher, Theriot was the fire and brimstone tent preacher

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[CatsCatsCats]

Ugh will someone please share their HBO go pass with me?

Actually nevermind, torrent started

[Phoenix Dark]

Ugh will someone please share their HBO go pass with me?

Actually nevermind, torrent started

fuck torrents

http://www.icefilms.info/

[Eric P]

i just want all of True Detective at once like...right the fuck now.

[Human Snorenado]

i just want all of True Detective at once like...right the fuck now.

I resisted the urge until the fourth episode aired, I think. Then I watched the first two in one night, and the third and fourth the next. Now I'm like, freaking out and shit. NEED MOAR.

[ZephyrFate]

Most recent episode of Looking had the most realistic, normal portrayal of a gay male date that TV has ever seen or will see for a bit.

[etiolate]

So constant fucking?

[ZephyrFate]

yes

[brawndolicious]

Is Looking a #zephyrapporved show?

[CatsCatsCats]

Ugh will someone please share their HBO go pass with me?

Actually nevermind, torrent started

fuck torrents

http://www.icefilms.info/

No streaming site will ever match the speed, ease and quality of a good private tracker close to the scene.

[Dickie Dee]

True Detective was up on Pirate Bay about 15 min after it ended 

[ZephyrFate]

Is Looking a #zephyrapporved show?

yes

I apporve it

[Phoenix Dark]

I saw some of the first episode of Looking. Including a really awkward scene where two guys were on a date, and one mentioned he had visited some park where guys go to bang, just to see what it was like, and the other guy was like "oh you're just looking for sex? GTFO."

[chronovore]

Continuing my lttp obsession with BBC's Nevermind the Buzzcocks, I got cross-linked into Was It Something I Said?

Does anyone else here like these? What other shows should I be watching, along this vein?

[etiolate]

That year-end big quiz show they do for news from the past year. It's a lot of the same comedians and same general format.

[Madrun Badrun]

QI is amazing; 8 out of 10 cats is ok.  The big fat quiz shows are good too.

[Dickie Dee]

Continuing my lttp obsession with BBC's Nevermind the Buzzcocks, I got cross-linked into Was It Something I Said?

Does anyone else here like these? What other shows should I be watching, along this vein?

The only one I watch is QI, which I quite love

[Madrun Badrun]

Also if you start on QI, do the XL versions which start like 5 or 7 series in. 

One of my favorite QI moments

[Human Snorenado]

True Detective spoilerish comment:

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Obviously rust didn't do it, he just never stopped working the case, but I'll be sorely disappointed if it's the preacher. A fucked-up killer preacher is one of the oldest cliche plot points in crime fiction.

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In the Yellow King literary inspiration article, it specifically mentions Theriot and how he crosses himself backwards when Rust tells him about Dora Lange being murdered.  I somehow don't see a series this obsessed with detail having that be nothing.  So, I'm willing to bet he's involved somehow if not the actual killer.

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[chronovore]

That year-end big quiz show they do for news from the past year. It's a lot of the same comedians and same general format.

I thought, "I should ask what the name of that show is," then thought to use your description as a search query; so, before anyone squirts it at me:

http://bit.ly/1jaGQjO

[ZephyrFate]

I saw some of the first episode of Looking. Including a really awkward scene where two guys were on a date, and one mentioned he had visited some park where guys go to bang, just to see what it was like, and the other guy was like "oh you're just looking for sex? GTFO."

this seriously happens really often. there are more than a few guys totally averse to the promiscuous side of the gay community (and to humanity, really, lesbihonest), so if you even hint that you hooked up or went to a park for a handjob (which, though not common anymore, still happens in SF and anywhere else) it could definitely kill a date. Also, Patrick is super awk about everything so of course he would bring this up on a first date, even if he had nothing in common with the guy to begin with

[Human Snorenado]

Can't hate the player 

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I want to watch House of Cards but I committed to finish watching Dexter before I move on to something else

Speaking of which, holy shit, that show fell apart during its fifth season.  Julia Stiles is a godawful actress, it should have been a warning sign that the people behind the show thought she was capable of exhibiting the emotions necessary to make her character believable.  Season six redeems itself until the two stupid and shitty twists at the end.  Season seven is toilet tier, even Titus Pullo couldn't redeem that steaming pile.  Now I'm working my way through season eight, which is wtf after wtf.

Well, I finished it.  To be honest, I'm not sure Dexter was really good for any of the seasons.  There were a number of high points but a number of lows that keep it from The Wire-The Shield-Breaking Bad tier of television.

Season 1 - Great season although a lot of the flashback scenes got to be repetitive

Season 2 - Should have ended it here, the antagonist's storyline became increasing convoluted and muddled as it tried to keep the viewer in suspense

Season 3 - A mostly nonsensical plot although Jimmy Smits put in a good performance

Season 4 - The first good season since the first but John Lithgow deserves most of the credit.  A shitty twist at the end but I can see the point: they needed to start cutting away at a lot of the increasingly dead weight that was going to drag the show down further.  There was also one scene that was disturbingly hot for perverts like myself.

Season 5 - A dumb revenge plot featuring a shitty actress

Season 6 - Reminds me a lot of seasons 1 and 4 in which they were good and somewhat entertaining.  Then the show burns through that good will by having three stupid and shitty twists at the end.  Again, the writers are perverts and one of the twists is pretty entertaining.

Season 7 - A fucking terrible season.  Lots of tits being shown so there you go.

Season 8 - The writers basically said "fuck it" this season and went all out in terms of weird and stupid shit.  I'm not a canon obsessed nerd but good thing this show never had much of a nerd following because they just shat upon the already wonky canon of the show.  Little of it made sense but if you watched seasons 1-7, I doubt the baffling decisions made for season 8 would keep people from seeing it through to the end.  Also a shitty cop out ending although not as bad as what AV Club made it out to be.

[Phoenix Dark]

True Detective just keeps getting better. Wow.

[Human Snorenado]

True Detective just keeps getting better. Wow.

Only thing that sucks about True Detective: only 3 more episodes.

[Yeti]

Wow, short season

[Eric P]

True Detective just keeps getting better. Wow.

Only thing that sucks about True Detective: only 3 more episodes.

i'd much rather have short good seasons rather than them creating these bloated AHS seasons

[Diunx]

First episode of House Of Cards S2...

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not sure if that's a shark jump moment and I haven't read any reviews for fear of spoilers, but I don't care. She was a horrible character with no redeeming qualities and I'm glad she's gone for good. Even if it's rather ridiculous...but then again Frank chose the time and place for a reason, he made sure no one saw shit.

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it's kinda ridiculous how Frank can get away with two murders that would take a real police departmen two minutes to close, even with the help of the commissioner theres so much shit you can do still the show is so entertaining that I look past shit like that.

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[CajoleJuice]

True Detective spoilerish comment:

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Obviously rust didn't do it, he just never stopped working the case, but I'll be sorely disappointed if it's the preacher. A fucked-up killer preacher is one of the oldest cliche plot points in crime fiction.

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In the Yellow King literary inspiration article, it specifically mentions Theriot and how he crosses himself backwards when Rust tells him about Dora Lange being murdered.  I somehow don't see a series this obsessed with detail having that be nothing.  So, I'm willing to bet he's involved somehow if not the actual killer.

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Maybe he's just Eastern Orthodox. lolz

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[Phoenix Dark]

True Detective just keeps getting better. Wow.

Only thing that sucks about True Detective: only 3 more episodes.

Maybe it'll have a Christmas special, like Downton Abbey

[BobFromPikeCreek]

True Detective just keeps getting better. Wow.

Only thing that sucks about True Detective: only 3 more episodes.

No man. 8-10 episode seasons are perfect. Gargantuan 20 episode network TV seasons mean filler and I'm significantly less likely to rewatch them.

[Eel O'Brian]

True Detective just keeps getting better. Wow.

Only thing that sucks about True Detective: only 3 more episodes.

i'd much rather have short good seasons rather than them creating these bloated AHS seasons

yeah, if anything AHS seasons need to be six episodes, it usually starts shitting the bed right around then

[chronovore]

QI is amazing; 8 out of 10 cats is ok.  The big fat quiz shows are good too.

Continuing my lttp obsession with BBC's Nevermind the Buzzcocks, I got cross-linked into Was It Something I Said?

Does anyone else here like these? What other shows should I be watching, along this vein?

The only one I watch is QI, which I quite love

Thanks for the tips! I am enjoying QI a good deal. Stephen Fry is so charming. You dudes should check out WISIS if you haven't already.

[Mandark]

QI is a really great, easy watch.  Also enjoyed The Bubble, but it looks like that only ever got six episodes.

[chronovore]

QI is a really great, easy watch.  Also enjoyed The Bubble, but it looks like that only ever got six episodes.

Great, thanks! I'll scour YouTube for that as well.

[Human Snorenado]

Alright alright alright

[Human Snorenado]

Snagged it from here. More goodness.

http://trueandconfused.tumblr.com/

[Dickie Dee]

[Phoenix Dark]

Hopefully the show doesn't drop the ball in the final episodes. I have faith.

I wonder what HBO's long term plans are. Boardwalk Empire has one season left, as does True Blood iirc. Game Of Thrones is the flagship money printer right now, whereas most of their other shows seem pretty niche (Girls, Looking, etc). Some of their upcoming shows also seem rather niche, like the Silicone Valley project, plus at least two more comedies.

They're remaking Utopia for US audiences (speaking of which I need to watch the original), but I don't think that will become a major must see  show. Will True Detective become their next hit, or is it going to be a Wire-esque critical darling with middling ratings. We'll see. Seems like it's the only legit great show on HBO's horizon right now; I don't consider Game Of Thrones to be great/comparable to stuff like Breaking Bad, Mad Men, etc. It could be with better writers.

[Eric P]

Original Utopia is some great fucking weird stuff.

[ZephyrFate]

Black Sails had its most Spartacus-esque action episode yet.

[Eel O'Brian]

"Nice hook, Marty."

[cool breeze]

would be line of the true detective episode if not for

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"If you get the opportunity, you should kill yourself."

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[Madrun Badrun]

wHEN WILL td BE UP?  I didn't mean to caplock that but subconsciously I'm in caplock mode.

[Junpei the Tracer!]

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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7405/12737200734_e1cd185412_b.jpg More like true ass amiriteomg

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[Madrun Badrun]

It's up http://thepiratebay.se/search/true%20detective/0/99/0  fuck the Demi-police

[ZephyrFate]

stream it: http://delishows.com/true-detective-season-1-episode-6-haunted-houses.html

[Madrun Badrun]

aw mother fuckers another week

[BobFromPikeCreek]

This show, guys. This fucking show. I can't handle it.

[Oblivion]

Has anyone here seen that Sherlock Holmes show with Lucy Liu? Is it any good? I've been watching the BBC version which is pretty sweet.