Favourite TV Series

I know Leicester is a land of elves and pixies and you may therefore be less acquainted with the harsh ways of the World.

It’s therefore fair to warn you that not everything Tony and his gangster friends do is entirely reasonable. Enjoy.

 

About time. Best series ever. Absolutely peerless IMO.

 

I wouldn't go that far, but it was excellent. Makes up for a pretty flat middle of the season by its own high standards. Still one of, if not the best, tv show around at the moment.

I just love how Jesse Armstrong can make something so gripping, touching and hilarious at exactly the same time, purely through dialogue. The man is an absolute genius.

 

I must the day the first series and a half has been rather good.

Hardly a revelation to almost everyone else I know!

 

I know right, just saw Paulie Walnuts turn down the fare in a Naples restaurant in favour of ‘Spaghetti and gravy’

 

It was strange and I wouldn’t watch it a second time.

 

I’m going to give that a go this weekend, Thewliss is one of those ‘watch him read the phonebook’ actors.

 

The Sopranos is good but The Wire tops it. The best TV series I've ever seen. If you've never seen it then watch it, you'll be in for a real treat. The first few episodes you will be totally lost. You may need to put the subtitles on to fathom the Baltimore patois. However, after a few episodes the hooks start to dig in and they dig in very deeply indeed. Another great thing about it is that each of the 5 series focuses on one particular aspect of life in Baltimore. The first series main focus is about the Police, the second is the docks, the third is local government, the fourth education, and the fifth the printed press. They did consider writing a sixth series about the emergence of the Puerto Rican gangs but the chief writer David Simon felt he wasn't quite up to speed with it so it didn't happen.

 

I agree Reg, best series I've ever seen too. I think Omar is my favourite TV character but there are so many great performances in it. Stephen King said that Snoop was the most terrifying female character in TV history, which is some statement coming from him.
Just finished reading Simon's book "Homicide - a year on the killing streets" which is brilliantly written and inspired a lot of the characters for the earlier Homicide life on the street. Well worth a read

 

There's another book/TV series combo from Simon called "The Corner" that's also very, very good. Simon works with an ensemble cast so it's slightly jarring to watch "The Corner" and see 'familiar faces' in very unexpected roles.

 

I've watched the Wire. If you like that, then watch Oz. It's almost the precursor, with many of the same people involved, I believe, but it is brutal. Not for the faint of heart.

 

Homicide Life on the Street is fantastic. I loved the Wire and think it deserves its place at the top of all series, but Homicide runs it close.

 

The original "best TV series the no-one watched".

 

Yeah The Wire is awesome. Doesn’t look the Homicide Life on the Streets is available to stream anywhere but I’ve heard about how good it is. Might have to order a DVD for the first time in about 7 years!

Oz is on Sky Go, I know it’s got JK Simmons in it so that’s getting watched this Christmas.

 

But I still maintain that Sopranos is better than the Wire. It's a masterpiece.

 

Some Homicide episodes on Daily Motion, including Series 1, Episode 1. For some reason I can’t fathom, it’s back to front.

Edit - scrap that. On YouTube.

 

I got about half way through the Shield. Need to finish that off soon.

 

They are both superb. Some things have got close, like Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul, however it would take something to beat The Wire and the Sopranos, I wouldn't rank them against each other as they are equally good.

 

Yeah you're right. Maybe it's better to say, I enjoyed Sopranos more.

Boardwalk Empire was good, but owed a lot to the Sopranos and seemed a little rushed at the end.

 

The Witcher Season 2 dropped today (At least in America, unsure about Netflix global rollout plans) Good show, though I played the games and read the books and still was thrown by the jumps in time. Idk how someone coming in cold had any idea what/when was happening.

 

I've seen the first episode of Oz and it was pretty brutal. I must find time to watch the rest. Homicide is very good, all the characters puffing away like chimneys, also worth a watch is Generation Kill with James 'Ziggy' Ransome about the 2nd Gulf War. The Corner is good featuring many who would star in The Wire including Clarke 'Morgan Cheapman' Peters. Treme on the other hand left me a bit cold. It focused too much on the music of New Orleans at the expense of the drama. A shame as the cast was really good. An opportunity missed.

 

Gomorrah is another series I would recommend and Romanzo Criminale is good too. The original films of both these Series are also worth watching and are very thought provoking, particularly the former.

 

It was the S01E07 (which I watched last week) where the immortal nature of the two lead characters was 'revealed' so all the flash-backs made some sense. Of the two LotR/GoT 'knock-offs' I've been watching ("The Wheel of Time") "The Witcher" is the more watchable because of the rumpy-pumpy. Henry Cavill's (sp?) channelling of "Judge Dredd" and "The Man With No Name" in his performance has got to get better in S02. I know these were put out after the success of GoT but they still have all the flaws that that show was plagued by: at time a frankly ludicrous, infantile, script that occasionally has some flashes of brilliance.

I suppose these are just the 'horses dooveries' before the main course of the insanely expensive LotR series (rumours of $1 bn so far) arrives.

 

Did you know he sung backing vocals on 'Boogie Nights'

 

Call me retro but still like to watch re runs of the avengers only the ones with Dianna rigg, best comedies Reggie perrin and fawty tourers!

 

I didn’t get where I am today by watching endless retro comedies.

 

Got to say, the movie reboot was a bit different than I remembered the Patrick McNee thing.

 

The New Avengers from the mid-70s was a mixed bag. When they started shooting them in Canada towards the end 'The New Avengers in Canada' made it even more nonsensical.

 

First 2 series of Reggie Perrin were brilliant. The third set in a guest house/therapy centre was way below par. The book was a bit of an eye-opener particularly the affair between Uncle Jimmy and Reggie's daughter Linda which didn't make it to the TV Series.

 

Double Deckers .....ring the bell , toot the horn !!!!!

 

For a moment I thought you meant the homage to the golden age of 70s porn with the same name. He's now married to a UK woman who's brother I met and chatted to in my local a few years ago. He also used to crop up in the BBC Proms coverage if John Wilson was doing one of his Hollwood/Broadway performances. He's very much an Anglophile and obviously available at short notice.

 

Well, he also did backing vocals on Joan Armatrading's Love and Affection

 

The huge green guy, the nordic god and the man in an armoured flying suit were all a bit off.

 

No m8, that was Bob Holness from Blockbusters.