Topic: Rate the last TV show you've seen

[broodwars]

Soul Eater is great. Who is it that you can't stand?

Black Star.  His personality just grates on me, as if someone took the worst traits of Naruto and multiplied them x100.  Tsubaki, quite possibly the best and most versatile of the Weapons, is pretty much wasted on him.  I'm 10 episodes in, though, and he's starting to approach "tolerable".

[Caliban]

Black Star is one of my favorites lol, but his character does get better.

[Stogi]

What is a hip/hop group doing in an Anime show?

[BlackNMild2k1]

Carnivale

This show is much like that TV show Jericho in that it just took too long to get you invested into the show before it became really interesting. The characters seem interesting, but everything just slowly moved along slowly pulling back the curtain while they try to build the individual characters of the show. Problem is that it just took a little too long and it didn't help that there wasn't a single attractive person on the show... not even the ones that were getting naked.

Fortunately, things picked up in the second season, With all the character building out of the way, they were able to focus on the real story. The bad part is that the season ends leaving you wanting to know what was gonna happen next, but sadly we will never know since it was cancelled.


Currently enjoying Breaking Bad.

[NWR_insanolord]

I just finished the second season of The Wire. If BnM is right and it is the weakest season, this is the greatest show in the history of television.

EDIT: Just to be clear, even if he's wrong, it's probably still the best show ever.

[BlackNMild2k1]

s2 is the weakest season of the 5, but that doesn't mean it was bad. The Wire's weakest is still better than most good shows best.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Breaking Bad

I just finished all 3 seasons of Breaking Bad and OMG, when does s4 start? Everytime things seem to start looking up, something has to go wrong or someone has to get greedy and **** everything thing up. Why can't people just be happy getting paid and getting paid good. They are constantly diving in head first and biting off more than they can chew. Constantly trying to compete 2 leagues above their station and always drowning in their own miserable self complicated existence. This show is great, I'm hooked, and if I had to rate the 3 seasons so far it would be 3>1>>2.

And for those wondering what the show is about, it's about a highly overqualified HS Chemistry teacher who finds out he has lung cancer even though he has never smoked or done anything of the sort during his entire life. He figures his time is almost up, his wife is pregnant again with an unexpected baby, his only son has Cerebral Palsy, they have a mortgage on the house and his death benefits are not likely to take care of his family for very long especially considering they don't have enough insurance to cover all his treatments for cancer. After seeing the amount of money that his DEA brother-in-law confiscated from a local Meth dealer, he decided that if some loser junkie flunky could cook up something to make that kind of money, how hard can it be for a very determined Doctorate owning chemistry specialist with a lot of free time and a clock winding down to it's last few ticks?
So he sets out to make his own meth and set his family up with enough cash to pay for his treatments and take care of them in his absence.






Up next on the watch list is Mad Men

[NWR_insanolord]

Breaking Bad was already next on my list once I finish The Wire, and you just got me more excited for it.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Where are you in the Wire?

And is The Shield on your list too? or have you already watched it?

[Halbred]

Breaking Bad

I just finished all 3 seasons of Breaking Bad and OMG, when does s4 start? Everytime things seem to start looking up, something has to go wrong or someone has to get greedy and **** everything thing up. Why can't people just be happy getting paid and getting paid good. They are constantly diving in head first and biting off more than they can chew. Constantly trying to compete 2 leagues above their station and always drowning in their own miserable self complicated existence. This show is great, I'm hooked, and if I had to rate the 3 seasons so far it would be 3>1>>2.

And for those wondering what the show is about, it's about a highly overqualified HS Chemistry teacher who finds out he has lung cancer even though he has never smoked or done anything of the sort during his entire life. He figures his time is almost up, his wife is pregnant again with an unexpected baby, his only son has Cerebral Palsy, they have a mortgage on the house and his death benefits are not likely to take care of his family for very long especially considering they don't have enough insurance to cover all his treatments for cancer. After seeing the amount of money that his DEA brother-in-law confiscated from a local Meth dealer, he decided that if some loser junkie flunky could cook up something to make that kind of money, how hard can it be for a very determined Doctorate owning chemistry specialist with a lot of free time and a clock winding down to it's last few ticks?
So he sets out to make his own meth and set his family up with enough cash to pay for his treatments and take care of them in his absence.

Up next on the watch list is Mad Men

Breaking Bad always seemed like the kind of show that never lets up, like Six Feet Under. I just can't watch shows like that anymore.

Yet I like Mad Men. Go figure. Christina Hendricks helps.

[NWR_insanolord]

Where are you in the Wire?

And is The Shield on your list too? or have you already watched it?

I just finished season 2 yesterday, and am planning on starting the third tomorrow. I've never seen The Shield, but your talk about it earlier in the thread putting it in the same league as The Wire definitely made me interested in it at some point. I want to do Breaking Bad first, since a friend of mine has been bugging me to watch it for a long time (the new season starts in July, to answer your earlier question), and then I'll either watch The Shield or Mad Men, depending on how I'm feeling then.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Breaking Bad

I just finished all 3 seasons of Breaking Bad and OMG, when does s4 start? Everytime things seem to start looking up, something has to go wrong or someone has to get greedy and **** everything thing up. Why can't people just be happy getting paid and getting paid good. They are constantly diving in head first and biting off more than they can chew. Constantly trying to compete 2 leagues above their station and always drowning in their own miserable self complicated existence. This show is great, I'm hooked, and if I had to rate the 3 seasons so far it would be 3>1>>2.

And for those wondering what the show is about, it's about a highly overqualified HS Chemistry teacher who finds out he has lung cancer even though he has never smoked or done anything of the sort during his entire life. He figures his time is almost up, his wife is pregnant again with an unexpected baby, his only son has Cerebral Palsy, they have a mortgage on the house and his death benefits are not likely to take care of his family for very long especially considering they don't have enough insurance to cover all his treatments for cancer. After seeing the amount of money that his DEA brother-in-law confiscated from a local Meth dealer, he decided that if some loser junkie flunky could cook up something to make that kind of money, how hard can it be for a very determined Doctorate owning chemistry specialist with a lot of free time and a clock winding down to it's last few ticks?
So he sets out to make his own meth and set his family up with enough cash to pay for his treatments and take care of them in his absence.

Up next on the watch list is Mad Men

Breaking Bad always seemed like the kind of show that never lets up, like Six Feet Under. I just can't watch shows like that anymore.

Yet I like Mad Men. Go figure. Christina Hendricks helps.

Breaking Bad is NOT Endlessly Depressing. In fact they almost never let you feel bad or depressed about anything or anyone. You watch a desperate man who only wants to provide for his family slowly become everything he never thought in his wildest dreams he would become. You see him transform from a by the book stand up guy just trying to stay within the lines to a bad ass take no ****  C.R.E.A.M. Get The Money Motherf***er.

As a matter of fact, there are so bad ass moments throughout Season 3. Make no mistake, this show is nothing like SixFeetUnder. not in tone, content or depression to the point of suicide storylines. This show is about someone that doesn't want to be depressed, sitting around waiting for death to finally snuff out their light. Someone that doesn't want to sit around and just see where things take him, so he takes life by the horns and and goes out to get his. It's actually quite the opposite to that horribly sad and depressing show, so considering how you feel about SFU, you might want to fast track this show up your list since you had it all wrong.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Holy ****!!! @ the final blow in the opening games in Spartacus: Gods of the Arena.

I almost thought it was a scene straight out of Saw.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Mad Men Season 1

This show is nothing like I was expecting, and because of that, it took me a little while to get over it and enjoy it for what it actually was. I'm not so sure what my expectations were or how they got where they were, but I was expecting some mafioso type situation, not boardroom politics and backroom shenanigans.

This show is about The Advertising Business and more specifically, focusing mostly on one man at an Advertising Firm. It's an interesting, nothing too crazy happened, but Sterling Cooper sounds like the place to work back then (if you are a white male). It actually reminds me of 2 jobs I had where the men would conspire around the women of the office, some even benefiting from what I will refer to as "Office Syndrome"*  & others desperately throwing themselves out there for any sort of attention.

I've actually gotten into this show( and I might have given up if it weren't for my girl liking it), but up until near the end of the 1st season, I had to keep guessing what year it was and how much time was passing since they give you no reference of time. I noticed somewhere around the middle of the season that Peggy looked pregnant since she had a little gut growing on her. My girl thought I was crazy for even mentioning such a thin, But then she went from mousy unattractive to fat rat looking complete with chubby cheeks and second chins. My girl kept thinking I was an ass for thinking that she was pregnant, fat, ugly and disgusting[....and maybe I was, but my suspicions turned out to be true in the end, So whatever. We're still not sure how she could have given birth to a baby that big and healthy looking while barely showing and not even have known she was pregnant at all or that anything was wrong until she was about to pop the baby out

Also I can't stand the way Campbell talks, Cut throat Bitch is the neighbor to the Drapers (from House M.D.), Annie is much cuter on Community(she doesn't even look like the same person), Mrs. Draper looks like a Stepford Wife, Cooper looks like a short fat Colonel Sanders, Campbells secretary is the finest chick in the building and last but not least Christina Hendricks is beautiful on the show as she fits the style perfectly, but WTF is up with that 45^o angled hinge on her neck? She needs posture lessons to bring her head straight up and her shoulders back.

Now having said all that.... On to Season 2.


edit: I forgot to mention that I love the intro music.
It's like a hip hop infused waltz or something. I keep picturing Antonio Banderas teaching a bunch of troubled highschool youth how to dance classically to it.


edit 2: I forgot to explain "Office Syndrome"
It's something that I've first seen explained on a TV show called Working (s1e2) starring Fred Savage. Where you work in an office environment seeing the same people day in and day out. Some you find attractive and some you don't. Eventually the ones you don't start to slowly become attractive as you start overlooking the things that un-attracted you in the first place.

[broodwars]

I'm trying to somehow get through the pilot for the American version of "Being Human", just for something different to watch.  Unfortunately, the show is pretty bad.  The Werewolf is incredibly whiny, the vampire is a Twilight reject sans glitter sparkles (and it frustrated me that this "vampire" has a normal life and job during the day in full sunlight, which makes no sense), and the ghost is just annoying.  Maybe I was just expecting a more refined or interesting show than it is (an angsty drama for the 'tween" demographic), but I just do not like this show so far.  I haven't seen the UK version to compare, though I can't imagine it being any worse than "Siffy's" version.

[SixthAngel]

Soul Eater is great. Who is it that you can't stand?

Black Star.  His personality just grates on me, as if someone took the worst traits of Naruto and multiplied them x100.  Tsubaki, quite possibly the best and most versatile of the Weapons, is pretty much wasted on him.  I'm 10 episodes in, though, and he's starting to approach "tolerable".

I hate Blackstar too.  I've only read the manga but I can't stand him.  One of my favorite parts was when Kid kicked the **** out of him.

[BlackNMild2k1]

I'm trying to somehow get through the pilot for the American version of "Being Human", just for something different to watch.  Unfortunately, the show is pretty bad.  The Werewolf is incredibly whiny, the vampire is a Twilight reject sans glitter sparkles (and it frustrated me that this "vampire" has a normal life and job during the day in full sunlight, which makes no sense), and the ghost is just annoying.  Maybe I was just expecting a more refined or interesting show than it is (an angsty drama for the 'tween" demographic), but I just do not like this show so far.  I haven't seen the UK version to compare, though I can't imagine it being any worse than "Siffy's" version.

Give it a few more episodes. It gets better.
Of course this show would be alot better if it wasn't on SyFy and had been on FX or even premium cable, but it does get better.

[BlackNMild2k1]

About Campbell on Mad Men

I just placed what the way he talks reminds me of. He sounds like Jon Lovits.
All of his lines are delivered like a slightly toned down Jon Lovits.

[RagnaBlade]

Re-watching The West Wing. 14.5/10. Holy **** it's good.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Ah! you just reminded me of the other show I wanted to get around to watching.

The West Wing +added to my TV Queue

[NWR_insanolord]

I absolutely love The West Wing. If I didn't have so many things I wanted to watch that I haven't seen before, I'd love to go back and watch that again.

[RagnaBlade]

It's so amazing. It's one of those shows that everyone should watch.

[broodwars]

*sigh*

Well, I finally got around to finishing my two sets of Xam'd: Lost Memories, and I should have known better than to start watching this show.  Eureka Seven was the anime that proved to me that despite their animation prowess, Studio Bones was perfectly capable of producing boring crap (no, I haven't seen Wolf's Rain, but I hear that was pretty terrible as well).  Fast forward through a few Fullmetal Alchemist series, and here is Bones once again with a show that bears an incredible visual similarity to Eureka Seven, and it sucks as well...and in half the time (E7 was a 2-season series, Xam'd is just one).  Man, where to begin with this show...

Actually, the show starts out fairly decently, also like E7, with a seemingly terrorist attack followed by the main character being granted this mysterious power/curse of Xam'd.  The first dozen or so episodes are pretty decent (even if there are some very nonsensical plot twists with some of the secondary characters), focusing mainly on Akiyuki learning how to deal with this power and learn to live with this strange cast of airborn postal workers.  Then suddenly the series decides it's going to spend 8 or so episodes doing absolutely NOTHING.  Akiyuki gets hit with an affliction that completely removes him as an active character in the story as he just wanders around for the rest of the show.  Then, 5 episodes before the end, the show suddenly (kind of) decides what it wants to be about and dumps every single plot thread and character outside of the main three and just collides into a very typically lame Japanese ending.  And if you've seen the show, I hope you understood what the ^&&*@ was going on with the story and world, because I couldn't tell you after watching 26 episodes of this crap.  This show just had no fracking idea what it wanted to be, so we have a war that's going on for...some reason we're never told; a race of spiritual people persecuted because...of some reason we're never told; we have a ship of postal workers who are important because...of some reason we're never told; we have all this business with creating Xam'ds and "The Quickening" (insert obligatory Highlander joke here) and "The Emperor" that...is never really explained and wrapped-up in a half-assed manner.  At least Eureka Seven, as spectacularly dull as that show got, had the kindness to let the audience in on what is going on for most of the series.

This is one of the worst anime series I have seen in quite some time, despite having a fairly decent opening.  Watching it reminds me of partly why I went on a multi-year hiatus from anime a while back: no respect for how to tell a proper story and no sense of pacing, just filling the void with mindless dialogue.  Bleh, I'm going to have to watch Full Metal Panic or something now to remind myself that the artform isn't beyond redemption.

[UncleBob]

I like all the latest love for Breaking Bad... 1,100+ post later and about a year and a half later. Really... go back and read the first post.

[broodwars]

I absolutely love The West Wing. If I didn't have so many things I wanted to watch that I haven't seen before, I'd love to go back and watch that again.

Ditto.  I'm not a big fan of the show's left-slanted political view (and because of this didn't start watching the show until it started releasing on DVD, and now I have the whole series on DVD), but the show does a good job of feeling fairly inclusive so you can enjoy it regardless of your political affiliation.  Plus, the dialogue is very well-written and frequently hilarious.  Pity the show starts going downhill in the last few seasons.  If it weren't for the fact that I have so much stuff to watch and play, I'd gladly rewatch that series.