TV Confessions

Mr E

There is a fun thread in the Games forum for Games Confessions. I think the premise will transfer well to this forum.

What are your TV Confessions? What are you ashamed of?

I've never watched Band of Brothers.
I've seen Snot dead in Episode 1 of the Wire 3 times now. One of these days I'll get to Episode 2.

ahlookit

I've never seen the west wing. I like political stuff, just never got round to it.

Zaph

I've never seen The Sopranos or The Shield, and only a couple of episodes of The Wire.

However I have seen Band of Brothers (several times) and The West Wing and you guys should be ashamed of yourselves.

Canis Lupus

Never seen Breaking Bad

Lovely Bloke

Didn't finish West Wing, it's good but I find it kind of saccharine most of the time, and some of the left wing pontificating can get up your nose a bit.

Didn't finish The Wire, Season 5 is shíte really. There's too mush suspension of disbelief when it comes to McNulty and his ridiculous actions, and being backed up by, of all people, Lester. So yeah, I stopped in the middle of Season 5, doubt if I'll ever go back.

Skid X

I remember watching Benedict Cumberbatch in more than one pre-Sherlock series, and not rating him at all as an actor. I can't remember what shows they were but I cringe when I think how convinced I was that he wasn't any good.

Obviously, I could not have been more wrong. I did a search to see what nonsense I might have posted here about him here, I'm relieved to see it wasn't as bad as I feared (after the first Sherlock Episode) ...

Skid wrote: »

Thought this might be one Sherlock Holmes too many, after the recent Hollywood movie.

Not at all, Steven Moffat scores again, really enjoyed it.

I reckon if you weren't familiar with Sherlock Holmes, you would think this an original screenplay. Holmes and Watson looked right at home in 2010.

Never liked Benedict Cumberbatch in anything before, but he was excellent, as was Martin Freeman.

Hope next weeks episode is as good.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=67113042&postcount=24

Penn

Mystery Diners is completely fake. Everything about it is fake. The businesses involved just let them fake it all up as a way to advertise their business. The guy who presents it has the charisma of a lamp. Even though it's faked, it's acted so poorly by everyone involved. It's completely bland, predictable and fake.

Love it.

Fr Tod Umptious

I have found myself laughing at Mrs Brown's Boys.

I'm college educated, lived internationally, a professional, yet any time I have seen it on I have found myself have a bit of a giggle at some of it.

CastorTroy

I personally don't think Breaking Bad is as great as everyone makes it out to be. Maybe was the hype or maybe because I watched it sporadically at first. But I'd say it''s mainly Skyler's fault.

Also I seem to be one of the unusual people that watches a tv series without thinking how the creator is trying to shove their religious/political views down my throat. I tend to watch it for what it is. Only real world influences I really think of is references/digs to other shows and injokes.

Yamanoto

I regularly tune in to the mawkish banter fest that is DIY SOS: The Big Build.

Also enjoy Portillo poncing about with his Bradshaw's guide.

Skid X

Every time I flick through the channels and see Tipping Point is on

"Not this rubbish again, worst programme on Television, Urrrghhh ..."



Twenty minutes later ...

"That token filled the awkward gap on the top tier, so he's still got a chance for the Jackpot. If he lands the next one just left of centre it's still on"


Every. Time.

:mad:

Utah

I love:
Fast N' Loud
Only Connect

I have never seen:
The Sopranos
Band of Brothers
The West Wing
Six Feet Under

Lovely Bloke

Loving "Only Connect" is hardly a confession?

A good looking, intelligent woman at the helm? It's why I also love Countdown.

That and it's a proper brain taxing quiz show devoid of the glitz and glamour and loud music sequence changes.

I really look forward to BBC2 "Quizzy Monday" - University Challenge, where getting one question right of an evening is enough to warrant an extra biscuit to dunk in your tea, and Paxo being kind of friendly, but strict, with the crusty students, followed by Victoria C-M.

Bliss!

Duggie2012

i used to watch The Hills and wasn't a stranger to the odd episode of KUWTK from time to time. Seriously though anyone who has never seen The Sopranos really hasn't lived.

_Kaiser_

- Gave The West Wing 4 seasons and gave up on it as it was a chore with the same formula every week
- Tried The Wire and couldn't get into it. Tried again about 2 years back and enjoyed the first season but the 2nd was so different I gave up halfway though. Haven't picked it up since. The Shield FTW
- Watched all of The Sopranos and it's hugely overrated. It only gets good when they ramp up the whole mob side later in the series. Until then it's boring teenage angst and yer one's almost affair
- I was disappointed when they cancelled the Dallas revival (as someone who watched the original as a kid - didn't everyone have to watch it in the 80s? )
- I cannot abide all forms of Reality TV (except The Apprentice/Dragons Den UK - the Irish versions are/were shyte)

pixelburp

- Never seen Sopranos; that's preference though - mob stories don't interest me
- Miranda makes me laugh when I watch it despite being aggressively 'old school': though on a similar note...
- Morecambe & Wise are the greatest TV comedy pairing ever.
- I prefer Elementary to Sherlock, think it's the better Holmes adaptation & deserves more fandom than it gets.
- I watched 2 seasons of Breaking Bad but gave up because it was a miserable, dreary show about horrible people.
- Same comment for Game of Thrones, only lasted 3 seasons.
- I used to watch Hollyoaks in my foolish youth; was on the TV when I came in & left it babble away while making dinner

Duggie2012

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

- Gave The West Wing 4 seasons and gave up on it as it was a chore with the same formula every week
- Tried The Wire and couldn't get into it. Tried again about 2 years back and enjoyed the first season but the 2nd was so different I gave up halfway though. Haven't picked it up since. The Shield FTW
- Watched all of The Sopranos and it's hugely overrated. It only gets good when they ramp up the whole mob side later in the series. Until then it's boring teenage angst and yer one's almost affair
- I was disappointed when they cancelled the Dallas revival (as someone who watched the original as a kid - didn't everyone have to watch it in the 80s? )
- I cannot abide all forms of Reality TV (except The Apprentice/Dragons Den UK - the Irish versions are/were shyte)

hmmmm widely regarded as the greatest show of all time. come on man.

Go Harvey Go

I watched just about all of the call-and-lose quizzes that dominated late nights during the second half of the 2000s... and I still watch clips of them on YouTube from time to time.

It wasn't the dodgy questions that got me watching, but the presenters - particularly the female ones.

The only one I did watch for the questions rather than the presenters was PlayTV - which, of course, was even dodgier than the ones made in the UK.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=61042109

The Wire isn't the best TV show ever made.

Deep Space 9 is the best of the Trek franchise.

Lovely Bloke

pixelburp wrote: »

- Morecambe & Wise are the greatest TV comedy pairing ever.

Correct, but Reeves & Mortimer are a close, close second.

Bob Mortimer on WILTY is absolute genius.

Ol' Donie

Lovely Bloke wrote: »

Bob Mortimer on WILTY is absolute genius.

Absolute genius. Funniest thing ever.

gitzy16v

I've never seen a single episode of Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones,and I've no intention to either or The Wire I'm not even sure what it's about.
Addicted to Ice Road Truckers and most of the weird Alaskan documentaries.

Go Harvey Go

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Many people hate Kay Burley... but I can't bring myself to do the same.

To me, she doesn't come across as dumb, or intentionally horrid and selfish - she simply comes across as a lady who loves her job and the perils of live TV. Also, she does have a sense of humour - and she looks good for her age.

And she's liked by just about all her current and former Sky News colleagues - including Eamonn Holmes, Dermot Murnaghan, Jeremy Thompson and Mark Austin (who's just joined as US Correspondent after many years at ITV). Jeremy Vine, Dermot O'Leary and even Richard Osman like her, too...

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