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September 3, 2018
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The Official TV Thread

Just thought I'd start a thread where we can all share what we've all been watching.

I'm just finishing the fifth and final series of The Gentle Touch starring the lovely Jill Gascoigne as DI Maggie Forbes. It's a programme from the 80s and is excellent.

Next up for me is the second series of Monkey, known as Monkey Magic in the States I think. If you haven't seen it then you HAVE to check it out. It's a Japanese programme from the 80s that tells the legend of Monkey, Piggsy, Sandy and Tripitaka who travel through Asia to pick up the Buddhist Sacred Scrolls. Some may be familiar of the legend from the video game Enslaved: Odyssey Of The West.

I love rewatching stuff from the 70s and 80s regularly, they don't make telly like that any more which is a real shame. All we seem to see these days is mostly reality TV bollocks with the odd gem hidden here and there. :(

So what are you guys and girls watching?

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    RuneSR2
    RuneSR2
    Honored Contributor
    March 17, 2019
    Just finished watching Manhunt: Unabomber, which was kinda great, at least better than the Ted Bundy tapes (where they left out tons of info making Bundy look way too nice). The Jinx may still be my favorite (within the genre of documentaries about serial killers).

    https://youtu.be/nsd_LMDlzhI

    https://youtu.be/tEPG9z9rHsc
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    Anonymous
    March 17, 2019
    I love watching real crime documentary and drama series, particularly involving cults and serial killers.

    I keep on thinking about either starting my own cult (loads of money and sex on tap!) or becoming a serial killer (If I kill enough people then people will remember my name FOREVER and start making films and TV series about me!!!) but I haven't got around to it yet.

    The problem with the latter is that my brain is so superior compared to everyone else's that I won't end up getting caught so I won't end up being famous.
    Zenbane
    Zenbane
    Honored Contributor
    March 18, 2019

    Everyone in this thread needs to start watching Love Death and Robots on Netflix. OMG

    I describe it as, "This is like Black Mirror meets Heavy Metal (the classic 1981 film). Absolutely brilliant!"



    Digikid1
    Honored Contributor
    March 18, 2019
    I’m starting up Smallville again. Brilliant show!!!!
    RuneSR2
    RuneSR2
    Honored Contributor
    March 19, 2019
    I'll probably switch to Love Death + Robots soon, but one of my colleagues had also watched the Ted Bundy Tapes and the Unabomber, and she recommended Dirty John. Did see the first 4 episodes last night, kinda boring, not much happening - so the last 4 episodes need to be truly awesome... 

    https://youtu.be/fG70KroYlik
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    CrashFu
    Inspiring
    March 21, 2019

    Zenbane said:


    Everyone in this thread needs to start watching Love Death and Robots on Netflix. OMG

    I describe it as, "This is like Black Mirror meets Heavy Metal (the classic 1981 film). Absolutely brilliant!"





    One of the best things about that series:

    There's an episode titled "Beyond the Aquila Rift", and I strongly suspect that title is no coincidence.  I won't dare spoil it, but watch and you'll see why.

    Oh, bit of warning:  Some episodes contain very graphic violence, graphic nudity / sex, and harsh subject matter.   They're all completely different and unrelated from each other though (besides some loose recurring themes), and some are far "safer" than others. (2 and 4, for instance)

    Edit:  Okay apparently "episode numbers" are meaningless for this show, because Netflix presents them in randomized order for each viewer???   Because that's not completely insane and confusing at all.

    Also I've now finished the entire series and holy shit most of these were awesome.  "Blindspot" was my fuckin' JAM and I want it to be a whole thing as much as I do "Suits".   Secret War was also pretty rad.  I may have cried a little at the end of Lucky Thirteen.  (over an inanimate object, no less). 
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    RuneSR2
    RuneSR2
    Honored Contributor
    March 21, 2019

    RuneSR2 said:

    I'll probably switch to Love Death + Robots soon, but one of my colleagues had also watched the Ted Bundy Tapes and the Unabomber, and she recommended Dirty John. Did see the first 4 episodes last night, kinda boring, not much happening - so the last 4 episodes need to be truly awesome... 

    https://youtu.be/fG70KroYlik



    And don't watch Dirty John - or if you insist, I'd recommend skipping episodes 3 to 6, maybe even skipping 2 to 7 - there're 8 episodes. Quite boring show and way too long, could have been made into a nice 90 min Netflix-movie though.  
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    Zenbane
    Zenbane
    Honored Contributor
    March 21, 2019

    CrashFu said:

    There's an episode titled "Beyond the Aquila Rift", and I strongly suspect that title is no coincidence.  I won't dare spoil it, but watch and you'll see why.




    Loved the Aquila Rift episode. As well as the episode titled, Shape-Shifters. Amazing stuff in this series.
    Epona0000
    Participant
    March 21, 2019

    snowdog said:

    Am now watching series 2 of The Expanse. So glad that Amazon have rescued it from the dead. I watched the first series when it first came out but that was ages ago so I watched it all from the beginning again.

    There have been so many great programmes that SyFy have killed off. It's borderline criminal imo. Ascension was another one that was amazing that they decided to kill off.

    I should send them a turd in a box at some point, that'll teach them!!!


    There have been a few SyFy (SciFi) shows that have been actually pretty good.. which is always surprising to me.  The Expanse got better in season 2, imho.  And The Magicians is one of our favorites. But then.. the last SyFy show that I thought was good was Stargate.

    Don't send them one of your turds.. send one of Drax'.. his are famously large, or so I hear.
    Vaneianu
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    March 29, 2019
    I watch now Castle series. before it I watched Bones
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