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TV Show Recommendations *NO DISCUSSION*

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,316 ✭✭✭gavmcg92


    Title: Scandal

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    Cast: Kerry Washington, Columbus Short, Darby Stanchfield, Katie Lowes, Guillermo Díaz, Jeff Perry, Tony Goldwyn, Bellamy Young, Joshua Malina, Scott Foley, Henry Ian Cusick

    Genre: Political Thriller, Political Drama

    Description: Everyone has secrets… and Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the nation’s elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope’s team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these “gladiators in suits,” who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own. The series is created by Shonda Rhimes (Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice). Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers (Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice) and Mark Wilding are executive producers. Judy Smith is co-executive producer.

    Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1837576/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandal_(TV_series)

    Watch this if you like: Suits, The West Wing and any other political/law firm drama.




  • Registered Users Posts: 29 EVILE


    Title: Impractical Jokers (american Version)

    Cast: Brian "Q" Quinn
    James "Murr" Murray
    Joseph "Joe" Gatto
    Salvatore "Sal" Vulcano

    Genre: Comedy

    Description:The show differs from other prank television programs in that the stars of Impractical Jokers do not know the details of the prank until the moment they are performing it on strangers. While one cast-member performs the prank, the other three comedians in the troupe are behind the scenes feeding lines to their friend via microphone (with an earpiece). The lines fed to the prankster are meant to create a humorous and awkward exchange between the prankster and the stranger being pranked.

    wikipedia.org/wiki/Impractical_Jokers
    youtube.com/watch?v=2Szzj6XN6pA


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


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    Title: Banshee

    Cast: Antony Starr, Ivana Miličević, Ulrich Thomsen, Frankie Faison, Hoon Lee

    Genre: Action, crime, thriller, black-comedy

    Description: A nameless criminal (Starr) is released from prison after serving 15 years. Being chased by his former employer, a Ukrainian gangster named Rabbit, the criminal arrives into the town of Banshee, Pennsylvania. While there, he witnesses and intervenes in a bar brawl and gunfight that leaves three men dead. One of them being the new sheriff of Banshee, Lucas Hood. The criminal assumes Hood's identity... and all manner of hell breaks loose.

    Violent and full of sex and profanity, this is not for the faint of heart. But it is a brilliant, pulpy piece of television. The fight scenes are excellent and the plot moves along at breakneck pace as "Hood" struggles to contain his former employers, the local crime kingpin, his own deputies, the uppity locals, the FBI and, of course, the ex-girlfriend who he still holds a torch for. In between all the violence, "Hood" succeeds in bedding nearly every girl in Banshee, including the so-called "chaste" Amish girls.

    Deep, this ain't. Fun, breathtaking and addictive, it is.

    Watch this if you like: Justified, Breaking Bad, No Country For Old Men, Blood Simple... violent crime thrillers, basically.

    Links:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banshee_(TV_series)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017109/

    http://www.cinemax.com/banshee/ (SPOILERS ON THIS WEBSITE)


  • Registered Users Posts: 285 ✭✭Deathwish4


    Detectorists - BBC4


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭bluefinger


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    Title: Utopia

    Cast: Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Alexandra Roach, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett |

    Genre: Black Comedy, Science Fiction, Drama

    Description: Utopia will follow a group of people who find themselves in possession of a manuscript of a cult graphic novel. The tome is rumoured to have predicted the worst disasters of the last century and the group soon find themselves targeted by a shadowy organisation known only as The Network.

    Watch this if you like: Breaking bad, misfits


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  • Registered Users Posts: 166 ✭✭Doubs


    Surprised to see this one not mentioned, is probably my favourite all time series behind The Wire & Breaking Bad. Will have you hooked after one episode.

    Title: The Newsroom
    Cast: Jeff Daniels, Margaret Judson, Emily Mortimer, Dev Patel
    Genre: Drama
    Description: A news team attempts to create a news show that reports the news in an ethical and reasonable way. They take real, newsworthy events from our world as they're happening (such as bin Laden's assassination, NSA spying, etc) and report on them as if they were an actual news station that followed rational and moral guidelines, in a biting criticism of our popular press and a clever blurring of art and reality.
    Links:IMDb
    Watch this if you like: House Of Cards, Suits, The West Wing


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭pH


    Title: Trailer Park Boys
    Cast: Rob Wells, Mike Smith, John Paul tremblay
    Genre: Comedy. Mockumentary
    Description: Following the lives of petty criminals Ricky, Julian and Bubbles in a Canadian trailer park.
    Links:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290988/
    Watch this if you like: Parks & Rec, Extras


  • Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭waxer1986


    pH wrote: »
    Title: Trailer Park Boys
    Cast: Rob Wells, Mike Smith, John Paul tremblay
    Genre: Comedy. Mockumentary
    Description: Following the lives of petty criminals Ricky, Julian and Bubbles in a Canadian trailer park.
    Links:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290988/
    Watch this if you like: Parks & Rec, Extras


    good show i think anyway


  • Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭waxer1986


    The black donnellys i think ia a brill show only 1 season thou


  • Registered Users Posts: 453 ✭✭diarmuid05


    Title: The Assets
    Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Paul Rhys, Harriet Walter
    Genre: Thriller
    Description: Two veteran CIA officers Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille who hunted down CIA officer Aldrich Ames, a mole who fed information to the Soviet Union that contributed to the deaths of at least ten Soviet intelligence officers who had spied for the United States.
    Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3074646/
    Watch this if you like: The Americans


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  • Registered Users Posts: 29 EVILE


    Title: Pot Barons of Colorado

    Cast: Tripp Keber, Dixie Brands CEO; Chuck Smith, Dixie Brands COO: Lindsay Jacobsen, Dixie Brands marketing director; Andy Williams, Medicine Man president/CEO; Pete Williams, Medicine Man COO; Sally Vander Meer, Medicine Man comptroller; Pepe Breton and Jamie Perino, Euflora co-owners; Bob Eschino, Incredibles owner; Matt Moorman, High Country Healing president; Nick Brown, High Country Healing owner; Julie Dooley, Julie's Baked Goods owner; Brian Rudin, Starbuds owner; Jake Brown. The Cannabist cannabis critic; Alex Stoffel, Maggie's Farm manager.

    Genre: reality TV show

    Description: The wild world of ‘pot barons:’ Savvy entrepreneurs who are turning the new legal marijuana industry in Colorado into a gold mine.

    Links: msnbc.com/pot-barons
    tvrage.com/shows/id-46652
    imdb.com/title/tt4191478/


  • Registered Users Posts: 285 ✭✭Deathwish4


    30 Degrees in February - Sky Arts


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 936 ✭✭✭JaseBelleVie


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    Title: Generation War

    Cast: Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schuttler, Miriam Stein, Ludwig Trepte

    Genre: War, Drama, TV-Miniseries

    Description: The series tells the story of five German friends, aged around 20, on their different paths through Nazi Germany and World War II: As Wehrmacht soldiers on the Eastern Front, war nurse, aspiring singer, and Jewish tailor respectively. The narrative spans over five years starting in 1941 Berlin, when the friends meet up for a last time before embarking on their journeys, enthusiastically vowing to meet up again the following Christmas. The story's conclusion is set in a time shortly after the end of the war in 1945/46.

    One of the best representations of the savage fighting that took place on the Eastern Front as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia squared off. The German version of Band Of Brothers, essentially. And it comes very close to being as good.

    A brilliant mini-series, but a controversial one, as it garnered a lot of criticism for showing German soldiers of WWII in a semi-heroic light.

    Watch this if you like: Band Of Brothers, The Pacific, World War II films/tv-series in general

    Links:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1883092/?ref_=nv_sr_1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_War

    http://www.betafilm.com/en/product/do/detail.html?id=3237

    http://www.musicboxfilms.com/generation-war-movies-80.php?showPressPage=true


  • Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭descheness


    Any new recommendations on TV series to watch online? I'm up for any suggestions!





    Mod Note


    Moving this thread to the existing - Television Recommendation thread/sticky.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    descheness wrote: »
    Any new recommendations on TV series to watch online? I'm up for any suggestions!

    I've heard great things about a German series called Generation War. It's on Netflix.


  • Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭descheness


    Awesome, I'll look into it! Thanks!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭GottaGetGatt


    descheness wrote: »
    Any new recommendations on TV series to watch online? I'm up for any suggestions!

    Black Sails & Peaky Blinders , very short seasons in both.


  • Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭descheness


    Thank you!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,834 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Southland, one of the most underrated TV shows ever. It's great.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,350 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    true detective was very good, quite a short series, 8 episodes.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 473 ✭✭ríomhaire


    Saw Fargo pop up on Netflix a couple of weeks ago and gave it a go as I'm a big fan of the film. Great show.


  • Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭FaulknersFav


    The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.

    A HBO mini-series documentary about a property tycoon heir who's implicated in a number of murders. Loved it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Trond


    As its not been mentioned here before it sort of backs up my belief that this may well be the most underrated show out there......

    Title: Early Doors

    Cast: Craig Cash, Phil Mealey, John Henshaw, Rita May, Mark Benton, James McAvoy, Rodney Litchfield, Maxine Peake

    Genre: Comedy

    Description: An utterly fantastic comedy that brings a tear to the eye but not always from laughter. Its set around the life of a landlord based in a tiny pub in Manchester. Its regulars, the local police and the interactions between all of them on a daily basis. Written by the same writers that wrote The Royle Family. An absolute gem and available in its entirety on youtube! One of my all time favourites...

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366010/

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Doors

    Watch this if you like: Royle Family, Shameless, The Fast Show, Phoenix Nights.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Trond


    Black Sails & Peaky Blinders , very short seasons in both.

    Peaky Blinders has 2 seasons thus far and has really improved as its gone on. The climax to Season 2 is fantastic.

    Very interested to see what they do next. Its been v successful abroad for the BBC already. I believe its available on Netflix as well....


  • Registered Users Posts: 60,119 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


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    Title: Granite Flats

    Cast: Richard Gunn, Christopher Lloyd, Cary Elwes, Parker Posey.

    Genre: Mystery, Cold War Espionage

    Description: The show is set in a small Colorado town in the early 1960s during the Cold War, and follows several of the town's citizens as mysterious and potentially dangerous circumstances arise

    Watch this if you like: Eureka

    All three seasons on Netflix Ireland.

    Links;

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2624370/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Flats


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 mike arrigan


    Does anyone know if the usa tv series 'Transparent' is planned to be shown on tv in UK / Ireland soon ??


  • Registered Users Posts: 404 ✭✭BRYAN Is Ainm Dom


    Title: Zoo
    Cast: James Wolk, Kristen Connolly
    Genre: Drama/Sci Fi
    Description: A young scientist searches to find out what's causing a rash of violent animal attacks.
    Links:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3250026/

    Just watched first episode of this last night, seems alright, there is about 5 episodes already.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2 TV Box


    Title:The American
    Cast:Keri Russell,Matthew Rhys
    Genre:Period drama,Serial drama, Spy thriller
    Description: produced by former CIA officer Focusing on the spy war between KGB Russia and FBI USA/
    Links:TV.com
    IMDB.com


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,614 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    The excellent but mostly unknown LAWMAN (1971) is on Tg4 tonight at 9:35

    Fab.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭bluefinger


    Title: Mr Robot

    Cast: Rami Malek, Carly Chaikin, Portia Doubleday, Christian Slater.

    Genre: Drama/Thriller

    Description: The story of a young computer programmer (Malek) who suffers from social anxiety disorder and forms connections through hacking. He's recruited by a mysterious anarchist, who calls himself Mr. Robot.

    This is a ten episode series with the finale being aired this week. A drama with lots of twists and turns, super performances throughout, lots of pop culture references, excellent soundtrack. Very highly recommended!

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158110/


    Watch this if you like: Utopia, Fight Club, Breaking Bad.


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