I just watched a show called 60 Days In. I don't normally watch reality shows but this one was pretty good. Seven people are sent "undercover" in a county jail in America for sixty days, pretending to be inmates in order to spy on the other inmates and the guards. The season is 12 episodes long (and then a 13th which is like a "reunion" of the particpants - I haven't seen that one yet though) but it could have been done in two or three because each episode has so much re-capping and filler footage to stretch it out. It's difficult to tell how much of it is "real" and how much is "set up" because it is obvious a lot of separate bits of footage are edited together to give a certain impression for each scene (especially "reaction" shots from inmates are recycled in different scenes). Fun show though.
I watched a "review" of this on Gogglebox Australia last week. It looked bizarre and ridiculous, and I can't really believe it was real. Not something I would watch. Apparently a second season was filmed before the first aired, as otherwise it would be hard for the volunteers to be undercover.
I'm watching a reality show called 'Mystery Diners' at the moment. The basic premise is that restaurants that notice decrease in profits, missing inventory etc, call in a consultant who places cameras throughout the restaurant and sends in undercover patrons and employees. It's fantastic TV seeing how employees try to defend their actions. It's worth watching, but note that there are many allegations that, like 'Operation Repo', it's dramatisations of actual events (read: actors!!).
I watched a miniseries recently called 'Ascension' on Netflix. Done in six parts, it's a space soap opera about a group of people on a spacecraft that was launched in the 1960's to arrive at a habitable planet in a hundred years. The spaceship is self-sufficient (food, water medicine etc), and the original passengers will never see the planet, but their children and grandchildren will. The show is set in present times (50 years after launch), and we see what's happening on the ship (trysts, power plays, disasters etc), as well as their interaction with the NASA control room on earth. Oh, there is a huge, mind blowing twist, and for that reason alone, watch it!
We're watching 'Arrow' at the moment, and we are almost done with Season 1. We watched it about three years ago and never pursued it further, but 'Flash' is an excellent crossover series, so we are back into it, and enjoying it.
2015 - 2016: The Walking Dead (currently season 3) Under the Dome (bout to start season 3) Gotham The Strain Zoo
I'm ~halfway through the second season on Netflix, its pretty good (although first season better). Also watching latest Orange is the New Black, and catching up on Community, both of which are superb.
I'm just finishing up the eighth season of M*A*S*H*. Ascension sounds good - is it available on DVD? Hix
Looks like it is: Ascension 2015 DVD NEW | eBay Note that it's on Netflix, which, at $12pm, is much much cheaper than buying the DVD.
I'm up to date on 'Walking Dead' and 'Gotham'; I couldn't get into Season 2 of 'Under the Dome'; I think I only watched Season 1 of 'The Strain'; never watched 'The Zoo'.
Note that I'm on Christmas Island, which, with dodgy internet and no Netflix, means a DVD if I want to watch it. I can't even watch tenplay. Hix
If anyone on the board ever needs to know anything, and I mean anything, about South Park on Comedy Central, it's been an obsession of mine for ten years now and I know just about everything out there short of being an official member of the crew, so feel free to come to me if you need it?
Ah, I see. If you get a secondhand DVD on eBay for a couple bucks, then it's worth a watch. But don't buy it brand new - I could recommend a few other shows instead!
Have you tried 'Arrow'? It's not your feel good superhero movie. It's dark, there are lots of flashbacks about 'the island' which reminds me of LOST. 11/22/63 mini series was a good time travel story.
