Current TV Boxset Addiction

[Devons Daddy]

BLACK SAILS

dam we more need tv like this,
PIRATES, nudity,PIRATES, great script, PIRATES,great acting,PIRATES,more nudity,PIRATES,great characters,PIRATES great sets,PIRATES,lots of violence, PIRATES, did i mention its about PIRATES.
the last episode of season 3
one of those get up and clap moments.

on STARZ network, and iTunes truly worthy of your hard earned credits and groats.

[Mardroid]

Peaky Blinders series 2.

A great series. [spoiler]I think they overdid with the repeated female abuse though.[/spoiler]

Mr. Solomons of Camden Town is a great character.

Considering how many of these series have come out they're way behind on Netflix. Wish they'd get their skates on.

[Professor Bear]

A great series. [spoiler]I think they overdid with the repeated female abuse though.[/spoiler]

I liked season 1, but I gave up on Peaky Blinders after the end of the first episode of series two precisely because of [spoiler]the writers' gleeful trips to Rape Town for plots.[/spoiler]

[Devons Daddy]

Peaky Blinders very very good!
just completed S1 and S2
some great moments overall, worthy of our time.

Rewatching Deep Space Nine,
have to say, its holding up quite well,
on S3 now,
has all the elements I enjoy in a good sci fi but not too campy soap manner.
works for me.

[Mardroid]

Z-Nation on Netflix. Not so much an addiction, but entertaining, nonetheless. I mentally rolled my eyes* what with The Walking Dead series. Tonally this is quite different though. Much more humorous for one thing. Some of the acting, particularly in the early episodes was a bit dodgy (it has a bit of  b-movie feel. Not that that's a bad thing.), but overall it's rather fun, and even touching in places.

*Is that possible?

[radiator]

American Crime Story: The People V OJ Simpson - a dramatised retelling of the OJ Simpson murder trial.

This is surprisingly great. It was pitched to me as a sort of trashy 'guilty pleasure' kind of show, but I think that's doing it down somewhat - though its a little sensationalist and has some hammy moments, it's a hugely entertaining and well-made show, and in a cast of huge names doing great work - Cuba Gooding Jr, David Schwimmer, John Travolta et al, it's the relatively unknown actors that make a big impression - in particular the two leads playing the prosecution team are fantastic.

The story itself is just fascinating whichever angle you come at it from. Seeing how this crack team of lawyers set about winning an unwinnable case is absolutely gripping, and in a wider sense the case signifies a kind of ground zero of rolling 24 hour news coverage and the point where pop culture shifted to new heights of celebrity obsession, as well as packing a serious early 90s nostalgia punch.

Burned through the first six episodes last night. Really good stuff.

[Hawkmumbler]

Soooo, i've just watched the first...erm, 3 I think. Episodes of the new Powerpuff Girls reboot (i'm sure as hell now it isn't a continuation because ooohhh boy) and i'm going to have to write up a long post about this later, but a forewarning to Tordelback should his daughter get him to watch it. It's awful. Like, insultingly bad.

Remember all the satirical humour and character development in the original series, all the cool monster designs and up beat but not belittling family friendly tone? All gone, now all we have is a post Smosh internet meme shite storm. Urgh.

[TordelBack]

Soooo, i've just watched the first...erm, 3 I think. Episodes of the new Powerpuff Girls reboot (i'm sure as hell now it isn't a continuation because ooohhh boy) and i'm going to have to write up a long post about this later, but a forewarning to Tordelback should his daughter get him to watch it. It's awful. Like, insultingly bad.

Remember all the satirical humour and character development in the original series, all the cool monster designs and up beat but not belittling family friendly tone? All gone, now all we have is a post Smosh internet meme shite storm. Urgh.

You'll be reassured to know that my daughter hates it.  'Where are the real Powerpuff Girls?' was her muted reaction to the first episode, she watched a second one and refuses to watch more.  And this is a girl who can watch four very distinct iterations of Scooby Doo in a row without complaint. What a shame, we were really looking forward to this.

[Satanist]

Does anyone watch The Last Man on Earth? It's a comedy about a complete arsehole who's the last survivor of a plague that killed humanity. Or is he?

Lots of nice pop culture references as he travels America in a Winnebago stealing everything that isn't nailed down including a Sarcophagus, T-Rex skull, the Rug from the Oval office and as much porn as he can lay his hands on. Once he gets it all home and realising he doesn't know plumbing he just shits in the swimming pool. That's the first ep.

Imagine a comedy-cringe inducing Y the Last Man and you're about there.

Just finished the second series and I think it's brilliant.

[Dandontdare]

I really enjoyed this, but it did get a bit exhausting by just how much of a douchebag he was. His "wife" was the best thing in it - the overly talky honeymoon sex in S.1 was hilarious. I think I missed the last few episodes of series 2 - did the astronaut brother (and his worm friends) ever get back to Earth?

[Satanist]

"did the astronaut brother (and his worm friends) ever get back to Earth?"

The answer is [spoiler]yes he gets back and they meet up and thats when it gets even better[/spoiler].

Seriously the second series is great.

[Mardroid]

Watching IZombie on Netflix at the moment. (Well, not right this minute, but I'm sure you get what I mean.) Now on series 2.

I wasn't too sure when I saw it advertised. "Yet another Zombie series?" I thought. And the cute main character made me wonder if it would be another Twilight/Vampire Diairis type thing except with zombies instead of vampires.

It turns out its more of a quirky detective series with plenty of comedy and a bit of supernatural thrown in. Not unlike the premise of Chew* actually. And most of the characters are very likeable and amusing  including the bad guys.

And that actress who plays Peyton might be one of the sexiest women I've seen.

*I haven't read much of that, although I did read the first issue, I think.

[TordelBack]

It's a fun show, iZombie. I'm still on the first season, and I really enjoyed how it threw you in at the deep end at the start. It sometimes doesn't seem to make the best use of the clever situations it sets up in any given episode, but as a light-hearted police procedural with cute characters and a touch of supernatural mystery it works well. Some nice dialogue too, and Mardroid is spot on comparing it to Chew rather than iZombie itself.

[Mardroid]

I confess I've never read any of the iZombie comics, while I have read a bit of Chew. So that's why.

I wasn't even aware of the comics before I saw it although I guessed it  was based on a comic when I saw that interesting  way of framing each  chapter in the episode with a comic frame and shifting to live action. So to speak.

In hindsight, it rang a bell, so I've likely seen it mentioned and just never followed up.

I see it's a vertigo series...

So I'm guessing they're not much alike?

[Hawkmumbler]

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Season 1.

It's about a milk shake, a meatball and a box of fries...wierd shit happens. It's also awesome.