I finished watching DareDevil the other day. I loved it! Some slight complains but mainly they're nitpicky. Won't share those since it doesn't seem to be out everywhere yet though. ~Thylo
I watched Heroes when it first came out. You know, years ago! I got sick of it pretty quick after the first season.
Has anyone been watching Vikings? I watched the entire first series on Sunday, and it is brilliant! It is well-made, well-acted, and appears generally-historically-close-enough although it probably isn't (and I'm not entirely sure that an 8th century English king would have a pit full of pythons, boas and kingsnakes, but that is probably a picky complaint). The lead actor kept reminding me of Brad Pitt and his wife of Scarlett Johanssen; and the scenery kept making me think it was filmed in New Zealand but it was actually mostly Ireland. I am looking forward to watching the next two seasons. I think I might become a Viking too. I used to want to be a pirate but I think that might be an unattainable dream now. I'm more of a flintlock-carrying and parrot-wearing guy, out looking for mermaids and chasing booty, but today's modern pirate is all about speedboats and machine-guns. They have lost their way. And don't even get me started on internet pirates!! I can't say I know a lot about Scandinavia but I assume the Norsemen still rule up there. I might throw my lot in with them, and then I can make detours to visit Chester Zoo when making raids on the Saxon lands. At the very least I'm going to grow a Viking beard.
Lots of Viking descendants visit Chester Zoo. I'm probably one myself, at least in part In the 10th Century the Wirral was settled by Viking farmers with the encouragement of Aethelflaed, the daughter of Alfred the Great and widow of the last king of Mercia, to act as buffer between the Vikings raiding from Dublin and the burgh of Chester which protected the heartland of Mercia in the West Midlands. Chester has been a frontier town since Roman times. But I haven't see the TV Vikings. Alan
Hate it. Couldn't get past 2 episodes. This is one of those shows like 'Breaking Bad' that critics and every person I know loves, yet I find to be slow and pointless.
Was it screened on NZ's only channel as a marathon? Yes, this is on Netflix, so I am looking forward to seeing it. I think that there are two seasons there. I think I'll have to wait for the season break of some of the other show I need to catch up on, like 'Revenge', 'Once Upon a Time', 'Person of Interest' etc. Other than 'Daredevil' there are two Netflix original series that I came across. 'Hemlock Grove' (about werewolves and vampires in a small town) is horrible, and I need to give 'Marco Polo' a try some time.
I finished watching Heroes. Awesome series, beginning to end. A shame they cancelled it without giving the series a chance to tie up loose ends. I just started watching a Netflix original series that was released yesterday: Sense8. It was written (directed? Produced?) by the Wachowski brothers - the guys that brought us the genre-defining Matrix movies. Sense8 is an excellent show, but only if you enjoyed the Matrix and Lost. It's one of those shows that makes you ask, "why am I here? What is my purpose? Is any of this real?" If you are after a show that does your head in where you're wondering what the hell is going on, then be sure to check it out!!
Sense8 was fantastic! Go watch it - but be patient, because it is indeed slow in parts. 'Revenge' is all done. The second half of the season felt a bit rushed, but they wrapped it all up nicely in the end since everyone got what they deserved. 'Once Upon a Time' is on break. They also wrapped that up nicely, so if they get cancelled, it wouldn't be a major loss. 'Person of Interest' ended on a cliffhanger so I am looking forward to next season. I have a backlog of other shows to catch up on, including 'Gotham', '12 Monkeys', 'The Blacklist', and 'The Last Ship'. I drift in and out of sleep while my wife watches 'American Horror Story Season 2', so I have a working knowledge of what's happening. I am looking forward to the 'Heroes' and 'X-Files' miniseries, plus the new 'Walking Dead' spinoff ('Fear the Walking Dead') - all of which should be released some time this summer (northern hemisphere summer, that is). Perhaps I might get into 'Orange is the New Black' sometime - I have heard good things about it.
I recently started watching at my friend's recommendation. It's very good and I'm hooked! Definitely not what I expected and it's quite dramatic and funny at the same time. Though be warned, they're not exactly sigh to go all in on the- err- interactions that goes on between inmates at times.. ~Thylo
Orange is the New Black is awesome, although the new third season is somwhat lighter (so far) compared with the previous two. Sense8 is similarly brilliant, and very interesting. Obviously we have Netflix in Australia and NZ now, meaning the above shows and many others are immediately watchable. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is one, an excellent comedy too. There are also many older shows, so I'm watching Stargate Atlantis, Weeds and How I Met Your Mother. James Patterson's Zoo started here on network TV last night, same week as USA, and is rather interesting so far, although it seems a rather ridiculous premise. I'll watch the second episode and see how it goes. The two shows I was watching and enjoying here (Gotham and How to Get Away with Murder) have disappeared from the channels they aired on, although they may have been more recently put back on at unadvertised and stupid times. Empire has finished, and I am looking forward to the second season of that.
I saw an ad for Gotham, but not on one of the regular channels, one of the secondary or tertiary digitals (like Go!, Gem or SevenTwo). Haven't seen anything pertaining to HTGAW Murder since it started airing some time back, and I think it lasted only a few weeks. @Nanoboy: I am really enjoying "The Last Ship", season two currently being broadcast here on Wednesday nights. Hix
The first 9 episodes of HTGAWM aired in weekly installments, but then I missed its return, which (looking at TV websites) was on a Tuesday at 8.30pm the first week, then bumped to Monday at 10.40pm two weeks later, and I'm not sure what happened to the last three episodes (but they aired). Certainly seems like a bungled viewing schedule, before the break they were averaging ~500,000 viewers per ep, but the return only had 182,000 viewers, so they replaced it with double episodes of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares... I think something similar happened with Gotham, where they do nothing to advertise the show upon its return and then wonder why no-one watched it. Its certainly enough to put me off network TV, although at least they're trying to fast-track these shows. EDIT: Apparently Gotham is on Go at 8.30pm Sundays, which is a good time, but now I've missed too many episodes to catch up online.
Teen Wolf S5 just started this past Monday. It aired EP 1 and 2 on Monday and Tuesday. There was such a long hiatus between the seasons. It was hard to get comfortable with the first episode. By the second episode, the next day, everything was fine and rolling. This season has a Dr. Moreau effect. Penny Dreadful S2 ends here in the U.S. on Sunday night. This season was better than the first. Bloody and gruesome. They also showed more Mr. Chandler (Josh Hartnett, hubba hubba) as his lycan-self during the full moon. He's even dreamier! After this ends, Ray Donovan comes back. Hey, Ray! Great show. HBO has been disappointing. GOT, I gave up on. Too many characters and not enough time to explore the story line. Save yourself and just read the books. They are better. True Detective Season 2. Is slow. Really slow. I think if it doesn't pick up, it may not get picked up for S3. Then again, the one and done first season between Matt and Woody had such chemistry. Hard to replicate. Mostly all the other shows mentioned I have seen. I'll wait to add more as not to reveal anything. I did catch Zoo. It was like, bad Syfy CGI and felt cheesy. There are just some things that are not possible. If a group of male lions is 20' away, there is no way to outrun them all whilst some woman trips and you help her up and safely make it to the Defender.
I'm currently enjoying 'Humans' airing on Channel Four, then that's about it (although I watch loads of TV).
Binge watched Orange is the New Black season 3, finished the first few days it came out, ha ha. BUT NOW I CAN'T WAIT FOR SEASON 4 My cartoons are all coming back in less than 2 weeks. New Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, and Rick & Morty. Shark Week is coming up. I generally don't get excited, but a while back, the new head of Discovery Channel promised they would stop doing stupid stuff like the Megalodon and mermaid mockumentaries. Since then, I haven't seen anything like that come out of the channel. I'm gonna keep an eye on Shark Week and see if it's any good this time around.
I hope to get to 'Last Ship' one day. So many other shows to watch though, especially since local TV shows episodes when they want and if they want. I started watching 'The 100', a Netflix original, but I don't think that I will go past Episode 4. The plot is that earth's population was wiped out by nuclear war, so some people escaped to a space station, where they have lived for 100 years while the earth heals itself. To test whether or not the earth is inhabitable, they send 100 juvenile delinquents to try to settle the planet. The series follows the teenagers on earth. It reminds me of 'Hunger Games' with a bit of 'Terra Nova' thrown in. It's not really for me.
The 100 is on the CW here in the states along with Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Flash, Arrow, Supernatural, IZombie, Beauty and the Beast, etc. The 100 finished it's freshman run and has been picked up for S2. The CW line-up in prime season rivals the other networks. The addition of DCTVU shows and the new Legends of Tomorrow spinoff, have further solidified the CW with their bread and butter shows like Supernatural, Vamp Diaries, etc. The 100 is interesting and goes ways you'd think they wouldn't. The choices and consequences weigh heavy on the young ones. Adapt, Survive or Die.
