What are you into at the moment? What do you recommend? What are you looking forward to? I am patiently waiting for the new seasons (or resumption) of: - Revenge - Once Upon a Time - Person of Interest - Homeland - South Park I have started watching: - Revolution I am looking forward to giving the following a try: - 666 Park Avenue - Arrow - Beauty and the Beast What about you?
"Fringe" has 13 episodes to wrap things up and it looks like an epic story about the Observers taking over the Earth in 2036 and Olivia and company trying to stop them. The first episode was very good. I watched the first episode of "Revolution" and found the lead teen characters annoying, cardboard, and ineffective. The villain is a direct rip-off of the horrible Kevin Costner movie "The Postman". Some critics have pointed out that if electricity really did turn off in the world, as it does in the premise of this show, that every living thing with a nervous system would be dead. "The Walking Dead" starts October 14 and I'm really looking forward to that. I never thought that I would enjoy a zombie show as I eschew horror movies, but I really like this show. I am starting to watch "Breaking Bad" on DVD. The first season was quite good. What I really want is a new "Star Trek" tv series, but will have to make due with the new movie that is coming out in May 2013. Has anybody heard when the new season of "Terra Nova" starts?
@Nanoboy: New episodes of Person of Interest started airing a couple of weeks ago in Australia, after Underbelly:Badness. NCIS Underbelly:Badness Puberty Blues Dr Who But I enjoy a lot of the old series: Star Trek (all franchises), the original Dr Who series, the revamped Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, The Professionals, Farscape, Blake's 7, Frontline, MASH etc. Hix
@ DavidBrown: A new season of Terra Nova? Now you are just trying to wind me up. I will have to check out Breaking Bad some time. I too find Revolution to be annoying - it seems like it is trying to be a cross between Falling Skies and Hunger Games. When the other shows start, I will probably stop watching it. 'The Walking Dead' sounds good so I will keep an eye out for that. @ Hix: The 'new' episodes on TV are actually old episodes from Season 1 I believe. Only one episode from Season 2 has aired in America, and that was a few days ago. I never really got into the Underbelly franchise for some reason. I am looking forward to the upcoming movie on Julian Assange though.
I'm a uni student so I have a lot of time to watch tv when I should be studying. Some of my favourite series are Community, 30 Rock, and Miranda but most of all I love Game of Thrones. It's like a more grown up Lord of the Rings but in TV series form. It's based on the book series A Song of Ice and Fire. Unfortunately all of these shows are in the interim between seasons so I've not had much to watch.
* Once Upon a Time * Modern Family * The New Normal * Glee (guilty pleasure, despite its ups and downs) A little off topic, but talking about TV, I've been so annoyed with Animal Planet lately. Their "surprisingly human" title has made their shows reality based mostly on humans. I swear every time I turn into it it's either the hillbilly alligator wrestler or animals invading homes.
Perhaps I am reading this wrong, but how is this possible? How did living beings exist then before electricity?
Our nervous systems essentially use electrical charges to fire signals between our neurons. If electricity "stopped working" like it does in Revolution then everyone's brains would stop working and they would drop dead.
Ongoing American series which I'm currently watching as soon as a new episode is aired: South Park White Collar Suits The Newsroom
Electricity is the movement of electrons, it started as soon as electrons appeared, a split second after the Big Bang. To get on topic, I am really enjoying the current series of 'The Thick of It', but that's only for Brits. Alan
I enjoyed this series for only a few episodes. I found it to be quite irritating that they only show 10 episodes in a season and then you have to wait an entire year for the next season to start. In addition, I found the different clans to be quite difficult to follow - Baratheons, Lanisters, crazy smoke monster? I categorise myself as a former fan. Every weeknight they show Modern Family reruns which I watch if I finish my chores in time, but one of the problems with Aussie TV is that you can never tell when it is a new episode! They do the same thing with 'Big Bang Theory' and 'Have I Met Your Mother'. Is anyone into reality shows - like The Kardashians or X Factor? Statistically, there is bound to be a few people here who love those shows.
I suspect that they will explain it away as the series progresses. Maybe they will say that only man-made electricity stopped working.
I actually do not own a television, which most fellow Americans I mention it to cannot wrap their minds around. However, I watch some shows on the free (non-subscription version) of Hulu.com. The one that I am currently hooked on is an Australian drama called Sea Patrol. Hulu posts the full season once it is available (instead of one episode at a time as they do with some others), so I just powered through season two. The other one I like (which they post one at a time) is an American drama called White Collar.
You won't be a former fan come March I agree that it gets confusing and it doesn't help that there are multiple characters with the same first names. I guess reading the books helps to make sense of it all though.
ArizonaDocent, I think that Sea Patrol got cancelled, but I am happy to hear that you are watching an Aussie show. PAT, my wife likes Game of Thrones, so I will probably have to watch it come March anyway. Are there any Homeland fans out there?
Last night I managed to watch '666 Park Avenue', and I must admit that I was hooked from the first scene even before they rolled the opening credits! I was a huge fan of LOST, and I did not mind the occasional episode of 'Supernatural'. The writers from these shows pooled their creative juices to concoct a scary and dramatic series set in a posh apartment building in Manhattan. I am really looking forward to seeing where this series goes, and I highly recommend that you at least give the first episode a try to see if it's your cup of tea.
I basically don't watch anything on TV, with the exception of The Zoo and the David Attenborough docos they have put on recently here. I do, however, watch lots of DVDs and some pirated series my friends give me. My favourite genres are British Comedies (I watch Absolutely Fabulous, Miranda, 'Allo 'Allo, Mr. Bean, Vicar of Dibley, etc, endlessly on DVD) and Teen Dramas (just finishing up the sixth season of Dawson's Creek and then I need to catch up on more recent seasons of Skins and Vampire Diaries, then I might start the OC & Smallville). I have just got the first 3 eps of Homeland, which I might watch this weekend if I get a chance, and series five of True Blood, which I started watching on TV, but it was on too late and had too many ads for my liking.
