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I'm currently watching InformationTV, which is Sky channel 212.

Usually utterly dreadful films which look like they are being played off a VHS someone got from a bargain bin in 1987, but is currently an old (40's perhaps) cartoon which appears to be Japanese. No subtitles or anything, just exceptional wierdness.
 

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Final episode of season 3 of The Walking Dead, I still hate 95% of the characters but the programme is getting more interesting.
 

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I watched the first few episodes of Twin Peaks and meant to get back to it but never did. For what it's worth, I thought the sequence where her Dad was told the news was powerful and very well done.

Need to get back and do the second series of The Bridge as well as the third is just coming on next weekend. Enjoyed the first a lot. The original version, that is.
 

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I watched the first few episodes of Twin Peaks and meant to get back to it but never did. For what it's worth, I thought the sequence where her Dad was told the news was powerful and very well done.

I'm still working my way through it. I'm about 2/3rds of the way through the second series. I think it's an interesting programme although a little dated. What was probably seen as quite groundbreaking is a little tame by today's standards. I think the first series was much better than the second and as soon as the killer was announced (not a huge shock I didn't think) it started to fall away. Still a good watch and I hope to have completed it within a week or so.

I totally agree about the scene in the first episode when the parents are told. Very moving stuff.
 

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3 episodes into Quantico now. Trashy, but addicting, strangely.

It always gets me when I see 'addicting' used. It just sounds weird. Surely the adjective is 'addictive'.
 
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I'm still working my way through it. I'm about 2/3rds of the way through the second series. I think it's an interesting programme although a little dated. What was probably seen as quite groundbreaking is a little tame by today's standards. I think the first series was much better than the second and as soon as the killer was announced (not a huge shock I didn't think) it started to fall away. Still a good watch and I hope to have completed it within a week or so.

I totally agree about the scene in the first episode when the parents are told. Very moving stuff.


I'm curious what you mean by "tame". Ambitious, event type dramas with pseudo cinematic ambitions are more the norm than the exception nowadays, granted, and Twin Peaks has spawned about a million partial imitators (and they're still going, cf Wayward Pines), but I can't think of any that match its aesthetic rigour, nor any that combine its popularity with the extent of its willingness to be weird/difficult (which makes it doubly depressing that so many people reacted so badly to Fire Walk With Me). It certainly unravelled, and was perhaps best put out of its misery, but "tame" doesn't seem to apply.

Likewise "dated" - there aren't many Sheriff Truman hairstyles knocking around now, I suppose, but setting aside those sorts of trivialities (and even then, like a lot of Lynch's stuff it exists in some calculatedly atemporal netherworld which is as much 1950 as it is 1990) I think it remains as fresh and surprising now as it was back in the day.
 

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I watched Twin Peaks for the first time a few months ago. Thought the first season was brilliant and the start of season two had it moments aswell, but it really went off the boil towards the end, bordering on embarrassing at times. The only way I finished it was by learning to enjoy laughing at it. Fucking Nadine. But I really liked the film and am excited about the upcoming continuation, delighted that Lynch seems to be heavily involved.
 

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I'm curious what you mean by "tame". Ambitious, event type dramas with pseudo cinematic ambitions are more the norm than the exception nowadays, granted, and Twin Peaks has spawned about a million partial imitators (and they're still going, cf Wayward Pines), but I can't think of any that match its aesthetic rigour, nor any that combine its popularity with the extent of its willingness to be weird/difficult (which makes it doubly depressing that so many people reacted so badly to Fire Walk With Me). It certainly unravelled, and was perhaps best put out of its misery, but "tame" doesn't seem to apply.

Likewise "dated" - there aren't many Sheriff Truman hairstyles knocking around now, I suppose, but setting aside those sorts of trivialities (and even then, like a lot of Lynch's stuff it exists in some calculatedly atemporal netherworld which is as much 1950 as it is 1990) I think it remains as fresh and surprising now as it was back in the day.
As always, I'll never be as eloquent as you Carel but here goes.
"Tame" may not be the correct word but I get the feeling my reaction to watching it would have been much different in 1991 than now in 2015 because we're a bit more sanitised to some of the themes
Take the character of Denise. I suppose that would have been a bit more shocking 25 years ago on TV. I suppose it is a product of being a pioneering show that imitations pop up and dilute the genre so as I say, "tame" may not be correct.

As for dated, I just get the impression that some of the comedy bits wouldn't fit in to a show these days. The bits with Nadine, Dick Lucy and Andy, Leo etc just seem a little worn and a bit too slapstick rather than a genuine comic relief from the drama.

Anyway, I still have a few episodes to watch. I'm glad I did buy it and I hope the ending doesn't disappoint. It does seem to have the American knack of dragging on too long though.
 

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Watched the first episode of The Man in the High Castle earlier. They've deviated from the book a bit but at the same time the core story seems to have remained intact and it looks promising.
 

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Watched the first 3 of Jessica Jones, it's alright so far - the only interesting parts seem to have involved Tennant being on-screen and it lacks the ridiculously good fight scenes Daredevil had. Promising if not a bit too dark and intense.
 

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Watched the first episode of The Bridge III before finishing The Bridge II...oops.
 

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Just seen this weeks Homeland, it's ticking along nicely. Been another decent series. Not a patch on last years though.
 
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It's miles better than last season. The best since the first go round. I had no idea why I was still watching it the last 3 seasons, and a few insuperable problems remain (it is fundamentally orientalist, and they are still incapable of writing an even halfway decent b-plot), but, unexpectedly, it has emerged out the other side of that faecal desert as a not-awful spy thriller jobby.
 

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It's miles better than last season. The best since the first go round. I had no idea why I was still watching it the last 3 seasons, and a few insuperable problems remain (it is fundamentally orientalist, and they are still incapable of writing an even halfway decent b-plot), but, unexpectedly, it has emerged out the other side of that faecal desert as a not-awful spy thriller jobby.


Personally thought last season was the best since the 1st, a good comeback after a meh 2nd/3rd seasons. Enjoying this one though.
 

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London Spy. Wasn't going to watch as the worst actor in the world is in it in Jim fucking Broadbent, but I do like Ben Wishaw who is great in everything. Seen two eps so far and it's ok though as usual with the BBC they don't seem to know what a light bulb is and everything is so darkly shot, I couldn't see the climax of the first episode because of it.
 

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Halfway through Sleepy Hollow series 1. not too bad with some gory and some comedy moments but daft as well at times.
 

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Watching Gogglebox and I was amused that the same people who were aghast that cinemas decided not to show the Lord's Prayer were then mocking the Irish guy for believing in fairies.
 

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Watching Gogglebox and I was amused that the same people who were aghast that cinemas decided not to show the Lord's Prayer were then mocking the Irish guy for believing in fairies.
You like watching idiots reviewing what we've been watching all week? You need to get out more. :lol:
 

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I don't watch that much telly that they review, apart from kids stuff with my daughter, so it's rarely anything I've seen.

You must get out loads if you've watched everything all week, mind...
 

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Homeland has really impressed me this series... Getting better and better every week
 

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Ive never seen the 4 previous seasons but wow Im loving this best thing Ive watched in a long long time loved last weeks episode using the Cure's lullaby such an epic scene and Lady Gaga can most defiantly act imo anyway.
 

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