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Post by Anders on Aug 30, 2009 12:04:32 GMT -8
Currently I'm planning on watching the following:
30 Rock
Big Bang Theory
Californication
Dollhouse
Robot Chicken (if it starts up again)
Sons of Anarchy
South Park (the half-dozen or so episodes I expect to show up)
I might try to catch up on the third season of Burn Notice. (I like the first season and dropped it early in the second but I've heard the third is good so far.)
Is there anything new and poppin' I should know about?
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Post by jensaltmann on Aug 30, 2009 15:00:59 GMT -8
Dexter, but to get the full experience you should start with season 1 (it's about to launch season 4).
Then there's Leverage, which I recomment highly.
And yes, if you don't watch Burn Notice, you're missing out.
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Post by jessebaker on Aug 30, 2009 19:29:00 GMT -8
The new season of Robot Chicken has started up already.
The Closer is good fun and pretty much self-contained, and has a great cast.
Raising the Bar's second season is pretty good as well, as far as being better than the first season of the show (which was pretty cliched, right down to hiring the mom from Malcom in the Middle to reprise what was basically a live action version of her Simpsons character, Judge Constance Harm).
Breaking Bad is also good.
Psych is also good after a rough first season.
Also Big Love, which IIRC is being rerun on HBO on the weekends so you can catch up for season four.
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Post by Anders on Aug 31, 2009 8:56:04 GMT -8
I've heard about Leverage but I think I lumped it in with some other British con show (or something similar) and didn't check it out further. I'll give it a look.
I tried the first episode of Dexter but I couldn't get past the serial killer thing.
Right, I hadn't realized Robot Chicken was on again. Thanks!
I'll take a look at The Closer, though I generally don't like gimmick cop shows. (Psych looks like one of these too, but I quite liked Dulé Hill on The West Wing.)
Is Raising the Bar all courtroom drama or something more? (Not that that's necessarily bad.)
Is there a lot of fake science in Breaking Bad? If there is, I probably won't be able to stand watching it unless it's truly brilliant otherwise. (I barely made it through one episode of Numbers.)
Big Love is a show I've been meaning to check out but had forgotten all about. Thanks for reminding me!
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Post by jarddavis on Aug 31, 2009 8:56:35 GMT -8
Leverage.
Leverage Leverage Leverage and what's more... Leverage.
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Post by jessebaker on Aug 31, 2009 10:22:01 GMT -8
Sort of; it's about a bunch of young lawyers who graduated law school with half going to work for the DA's office and half going to work as the public defenders office. Lots of the drama involves the PD lawyers defending their clients and their relationships with the judges and DAs that they meet and vice versa.
The first season was heavy with the soap opera crap, which IMHO was bad for the show. But they scaled the soap opera junk in season two to focus more on the cases, which makes for a better show (they also introduced a new evil Judge character as a foil for the rest of the cast).
Don't know about the science angle (I'm the kid who always took biology classes to avoid having to take chemistry in high school/college) but it seems kind of realistic, or as realistic as you can get in a show about a high school chemistry teacher with terminal cancer making meth so his special needs kid and pregnant wife will have the money they need to survive on when he's gone....
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Post by Anders on Sept 6, 2009 11:16:27 GMT -8
I've started catching up on Burn Notice, and while I am enjoying the new episodes I'm also reminded of one of the (few) things that annoyed me about the show: the recurring, pointless bikini shots.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for good-looking girls in bikinis. However, when they're used to make me want to do something (in this case watch the show) it makes me contrary. Also, it ruins the immersion for me since every time they do one of those my brain says "Oh look, there's the cheesecake that's supposed to make me want to watch the show. Yeah, that's right. Remember it's a tv show. Look for the mike on the boom."
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Post by Anders on Sept 9, 2009 7:22:35 GMT -8
Jens, you were right about the new season of Burn Notice. I think the balance between the episode stories and the big arc is better than in the first season, and everything is generally top-notch.
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Post by Anders on Sept 9, 2009 12:00:13 GMT -8
Jard & Jesse, you were right to recommend Leverage. I haven't finished the first episode yet, but I'm loving the cast. Thanks!
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Post by jbhelfrich on Sept 9, 2009 15:49:02 GMT -8
Leverage is a very good show. It's not *quite* as smart as I'd like it, but considering that Rogers says that test audiences show that some absurdly high percentage of people don't understand the cons even after they're spelled out at the end of the show, I'll live with it. It's the brain child of John Rogers, who was the guy who did the Global Frequency pilot, and I think he's mining a lot of ideas that would have been used for GF. He also recently said that Eliot carries another cell phone all the time, and that he needed to talk to Warren about getting that fact into the show to make it canon.  |
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Post by Anders on Sept 9, 2009 22:03:46 GMT -8
I liked the pilot, though I'm not quite sure how they got the money to buy the stocks to get the money at the end.
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Post by jbhelfrich on Sept 10, 2009 12:51:07 GMT -8
They've all been at this a while. I'd assume they tossed in a bit of seed money. Or maybe just Hardison, since he did the trading.
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Post by jensaltmann on Sept 10, 2009 23:25:52 GMT -8
I liked the pilot, though I'm not quite sure how they got the money to buy the stocks to get the money at the end. It's been a while since I saw the pilot, but as I remember it, they skimmed the mark for quite a lot of money (that Nigerian bribe money), and Hardison took that, invested it, probably hacked the stock market computers to help the stocks he had picked along -- instant wealth. Makes you wonder why you go straight, doesn't it? |
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Post by Anders on Sept 11, 2009 8:01:23 GMT -8
I liked the pilot, though I'm not quite sure how they got the money to buy the stocks to get the money at the end. It's been a while since I saw the pilot, but as I remember it, they skimmed the mark for quite a lot of money (that Nigerian bribe money), and Hardison took that, invested it, probably hacked the stock market computers to help the stocks he had picked along -- instant wealth. I think the bribe was supposed to have gone the other way - the check was in the envelope with the paper with the sum IIRC. I think he was arrested for soliciting a bribe, not for trying to bribe someone. Anyway, it doesn't matter that much. |
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Post by Anders on Oct 2, 2009 9:38:13 GMT -8
I'm almost caught up on Leverage, and it's a fun show. It works very well for me as long as I watch it as a comedy and they're not trying to make Gina Bellman act. (Is it ironic that the actress who plays a woman who can't act is so bad at acting or is it just weird?)
I've also watched the first couple of episodes of the first season of Greek, and it's fun so far.
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