Sons of Anarchy is insane, Kurt Sutter is a genius. Sucks the show has come to its final season but at least it won't be dragging out.
The History Channel is at it again. Mermaids, megalodon, and now some completely fictional fakumentary about magnetic vortices that threaten to destroy the planet if this team of scientists don't fix them. It was as bad a bad B movie Earth-is-in-danger trope can get. http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/the-devils-graveyards/708117 The channel needs to change its name to the Ridiculous Fiction channel.
I look at it as a blend of reality TV shows and documentaries about fantasy creatures. It could be worse, it could be The Hitler Channel all over again.
At the recommendation of fellow forumites, I got season one and two of "Orphan Black" from the library (hooray for libraries!). What an excellent series, so far anyway. I'm not sure how long you can carry on a mystery adding new elements without ever giving the audience the big payout, but so far this show rocks! And Tatiana Maslany plays 4 different characters (plus one that wasn't on long before dying, impersonating another that died early on, and who knows how many more to come) well enough you really do believe they are different characters. Highly recommended.
I've actually seen her in costume for certain characters in behind-the-scenes interviews, and more than once I've thought "I wonder if the other actresses were busy that day, maybe that's why they weren't interviewed."
Oooooh man. I could start a proper, capitalized Conversation about SPN, but all I'll say is - if you wanna try, seasons 1-5 are some of the best TV I've seen. Chuck seasons 6-10 in the trash. Don't bother.
It's oddly addictive. Anybody else find Once Upon a Time live-acting Disney's Frozen a little... stupid? Sure, the whole show is full of stupid plot twists and mentally deficient characters, but it had an odd charm to it. Now they're repeating a Disney fairy tale (supposedly based on The Snow Queen) which feels way too modern next to Grimm, Andersen and Perrault tales. I also expected some trickster fable to come up at some point but it's way too saturated by disney right now, for me anyway.
I like Orphan Black as well. Anyone else seen Black Mirror? A UK show, with each episode a self-contained story. Quite interesting and very well done.
Supernatural is pretty great XD But yeah Once Upon a Time bites imo Did you know they apparently just made it cause an adaptation of Fables (comic series) would be to expensive or something
Orphan Black is the only tv show I watch now, it has more twists in 1 episode than a lot of shows have in a season. The first 3 seasons of Primeval are good too.
If you like paranormal and haven't checked out Penny Dreadful yet, I highly recommend it. While it was at times a tad too serious to my taste, it handled tropes like vampires, exorcism and werewolves in a refreshing way, and the actors are really good, especially the totally creepy Eva Green with her star-y dead fish eyes. What was more, none of the characters were angels, but they were still sympathetic. It also treated male and female nudity surprisingly fairly. Often TV shows, especially if American producers are involved, focus on the female nude while bashfully avoiding the guys, which really irks me (Penny Dreadful is British-American). Some shows have made me wonder if there's some rule you can't show a dong but you can show a pussy?
I believe the issue is partly the male (directors, producers, actors) ego and the problem of showing an aroused penis. The mons pubis in the human female appears the same externally whether aroused or not. The penis, on the other hand, looks different when limp. Were they to show the penis there is a dilemma, show it erect which is one step further than just showing genitals, or show it limp which men have more issues with.
Personally, I disliked the last season. I dunno, the constant killings turned me off. I became desensitized and the major deaths of the series didn't really have an impact on me. Jax was able to do whatever he pleased for the most part. He killed anyone he wanted, whenever he wanted without any major setbacks.
Person of Interest continues to impress, easily my favourite show on network television. Tonight's episode, as the show so often is, was equal parts thought-provoking and heartbreaking. @Steerpike I haven't caught up with the second season of Black Mirror, but the first season was excellent, especially the 2nd episode, '15 Million Merits.' Black Mirror is kind of like a modern Twilight Zone, and one of these days I really need to catch up with it.
Watching Carter, Agent of SHIELD at the moment. Not half bad but the males among us may not feel the same. There's a lot of sexism revenge. But it's set in the mid 1940s and the sexism, while exaggerated, is not that unrealistic. Lots of double agents, interesting plot.
I suspected as much. I'm not sure how it's "one step further", though? Like closer to porn? But the dong does the thang even when it's not preparing for the naughty. And the size of a limpy doesn't really reflect its size when erect. You just can't tell from that if the dude is well-endowed or not, so if the actor is worried that the audience will think he's got a tiny, that's a bit... Like, use a body-double, that's what women do when they don't wanna show their own parts. I'm only saying 'cause in many TV shows especially on this side of the pond it's not unusual to see a dong. They also showed it in Penny Dreadful (limp), and I've seen them in some video games too (Outlast comes to mind), though of course then it's not on a real person. I guess I just don't see that much of a difference there. Either it's just me or it's some cultural peculiarity. I'm not bothered by female nudity at all, I nothing it. Neither do I want-want to see dongs on TV as such (I'd watch porn if I wanted just that), but sometimes I get a bit miffed when it seems like men are some precious things that have to be shielded from the prying eye of the audience.
That's funny I felt the exact same way during the last season. I hated how they killed off Unser and Juice, two of my favorite characters yet their deaths didn't really bring out any real feeling or emotion for me, as they were done poorly in my opinion. Also at the end how they just squeezed together Jax killing off all of his rivals just like that. I expected better, still an awesome series though, maybe I expected a little too much.
