Series and Shows

I’m not a big TV person. But I can tell you that the show “shameless” is pretty entertaining. When you start to watch it, you think, “this is unrealistic nonsense”. Then as it goes on you think, “wait, this is actually more true to life than most people want to believe”.

Mr. Robot
Mindhunter

Both are good, Mr. Robot is a masterpiece in my opinion.

Speaking of McMafia: insightcrime.org/news/brief … ismantled/

Legendary scene. Major spoiler.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IjrX5BdllQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ks8gh00DQo[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de63CaxYnno[/youtube]

Seems like a decent show. Ill give that a try.
As far as non American shows go, Italian ones are the best. This one is not bad.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq_0qJoUzvU[/youtube]

I very much dislike British shows, like Sherlock and Utopia and what not. Self consciously wannabe clever, utterly pointless, gutless, spineless pedantry.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJOO9I9kvwo[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLT3YUALJno[/youtube]
The Leftovers, an HBO series

Incorporated
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbbFJ6YNcL8[/youtube]

Fixed, you should watch Anthony Bourdain, Parts Unknown.

Critic’s rating?

not in any order

Breaking bad, though I lost some interest after a certain ‘bad’ guy died.
Game of Thrones
Walking Dead
Sopranos
The Wire
Top of the Lake
True Detective
Narcos - not as good as the others, but his character is so extreme and interesting, I put it in
The Handmaid’s Tale -only seen one season
Taboo - one season

I liked it. I’d give it 8/10. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled after 1st season.

Reverie. 7/10
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EEyzUyQjvE[/youtube]
What I like the most about this show is the idea itself, which is not only potentially realistic, but quite scary as well; specifically the part in which an implanted AI, acting as a surrogate subconscious of sorts, learns the individual’s reactions and adjusts accordingly, thereby, essentially, facilitating a psychosis (or derealization, as they call it in the series), so not only does one go into his dream world, but the dream world comes out into the real word, thus blurring the distinctions between the two.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDi3fki9IRM[/youtube]
The Good Place (I love this show! Joker even loves this show! OMG! All about philosophy too. :mrgreen: )

Currently keen on…

Gotham
Swat
Hollyoaks
Come Dine With Me
The Undateables
Buying and Selling
Lip Sync Battle
Jools Holland
The Jonathan Ross Show
Sunday Brunch
New Made in Chelsea: Croatia
Ninja Warrior UK

Most of these are weekly (sadly), and most of the remainder… half an hour. I don’t spend all day watching TV. :laughing:

Homeland is definitely my fav

I also like the wire

The Terror.
youtube.com/watch?v=l328p5sSEmc
I thought it was well-done. I liked the main actors in this series. It got me thinking: how do we go about imagining what it must have been like, in real life? (btw, Erebus was finally found in 2014, and Terror in 2016)

Currently on my radar:

Weekday year round airing
Hollyoaks
Seasonal airing
House of Saudi: A Family at War
Celebs Go dating
Celebrity Hunted
Zapped
Made In Chelsea
The Apprentice
The Graham Norton Show