The Stuff to watch on TV etc Thread!

Zascar · 24-11-2010 11:21pm #1

Ok this is completely OT for the forum I still think its a good idea...

Stuff you'd recommend on tv etc, with a link or a youtube preview if possible if possible! I'll start.

Breaking Bad:

A high school chemistry teacher find’s out he’s got terminal cancer and so teams up with an ex student, now drug dealer, and starts producing methamphetamine. Subsequently becomes a massive drug kingpin/badass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erZqsV5UJpM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--z4YzxlT8o

Weeds
Not too different to the above!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUZcdiflm_c

jtsuited · 24-11-2010 11:46pm

cannot wait for breaking bad new season (it's bloody ages away though).
enjoyed it more than any other tv drama (including the Wire).

My absolute favourite American comedy ever is Eastbound and Down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgDaVLCaBzQ

Android 666 · 25-11-2010 12:11am

It's always sunny in Philadelphia:

joker77 · 25-11-2010 12:14am

Good idea for a thread Zascar - not sure what to contribute that's not common knowledge.

Have given up on In Treatment - watched the first and second series, am midway through the third and it's just too annoying to stick with it.

+1 on Breaking Bad, Jesse can be very irritating at times, but I suppose that's his character.

Mad Men, for me this is the best drama in recent years. Yes it's slow, yes it's too slick to be real, but the Don is well - The Don.

Boardwalk Empire is ratcheting up to a big series finale. It's at episode 10 in the States at the moment, bit of a slow burner at times, but well worth a watch.

Treme - set in New Orleans in the Treme area, 3 months after Katrina hit. A good few of the cast from the Wire are in it (Bunk and Lester are main characters), created by the same guys (David Simon and Eric Overmyer), features lots of music with real jazz/blues legends making cameos here and there.

joker77 · 25-11-2010 12:19am

Just realised how much American and how little British TV I watch...

ianuss · 25-11-2010 12:25am

I was gonna get In Treatment series 1 the other day as I'd heard it was good. Should I not bother with it?

ianuss · 25-11-2010 12:29am

You could add Dexter to that list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6_qsTCBns8

Probably 6 Feet Under too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEK7-yZovUM

This Life is a classic series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxqiJNkENek

Also Teachers series 1 & 2 if you've not seen them. Can't seem to get any actual clips on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlS4oJ8YY0

milltown · 25-11-2010 12:32am

Modern Family.
The best sit-com on TV at the mo if you ask me. Al bundy is older but still just as funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5uuMr1YEyE

ianuss · 25-11-2010 12:40am

milltown wrote: »

Modern Family.
The best sit-com on TV at the mo if you ask me. Al bundy is older but still just as funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5uuMr1YEyE

I find it can be a bit hit and miss. But I'll continue to watch for Gloria's lovely 'eyes'. Cam's character is gas too.

electrogrimey · 25-11-2010 2:52am

The US Office, Weeds, Nip/Tuck, True Blood, Road Wars, and the Six One News.

Is mise le key · 25-11-2010 9:21am

Anything about the nazi's & about 50% of whats on challenge:)

joker77 · 25-11-2010 9:45am

ianuss wrote: »

I was gonna get In Treatment series 1 the other day as I'd heard it was good. Should I not bother with it?

I enjoyed the first couple yea, but aspects of Gabriel Byrne's character have started to really grate in the third series. The episodes are short - 22-24 minutes maybe, but there's something like 35 in each series.

joker77 · 25-11-2010 9:48am

Oh yea - anything by David Attenborough - Life, Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Nature's Great Events - all suberb

Android 666 · 25-11-2010 10:09am

X Factor. It's about people overcoming startling adversity like a family pet dying, being a pikey or working in Tescos and discovering that they can be a star. Its full of drama because they have these people judging the singing who are always bickering with each other but deep down they all have hearts of gold, except for the one who wears a bit of black shag carpet on his head. He is a monster.

Is mise le key · 25-11-2010 10:14am

Android 666 wrote: »

X Factor. It's about people overcoming startling adversity like a family pet dying, being a pikey .............

Ah ye, so being a pikey is a burden to be overcome now........you wernt saying that when you were buying them gates off me:D

Android 666 · 25-11-2010 10:16am

Is mise le key wrote: »

Ah ye, so being a pikey is a burden to be overcome now........you wernt saying that when you were buying them gates off me:D

Ah sure I had to buy them off you. You were scaring me with your small hands and gypsy ways

Is mise le key · 25-11-2010 10:20am

Android 666 wrote: »

Ah sure I had to buy them off you. You were scaring me with your small hands and gypsy ways

Well, gates & X-Factor aside, do you wanna buy a Dag!

VinylJunkie · 25-11-2010 1:15pm

The complete Season 14 of South Park! Episodes like 'Medicinal Fried Chicken', 'You Have 0 Friends' and the add ons to 'The Coon' have been brilliant.

http://www.watchsouthparkonline.net/

Phoenix Park · 25-11-2010 2:05pm

Off Topic..but can anyone on here tell me something... The Budweiser ad on tv these days, quite a long one, a snooker ball getting pushed from the top of a building with people standing round drinking bottles of beer waaiting for something to happen....can anyone tell me the tune used???. Heard it before,its wrecking my head every time i see it..cheers

tman · 25-11-2010 2:08pm

ianuss wrote: »

This Life is a classic series.

Also Teachers series 1 & 2 if you've not seen them. Can't seem to get any actual clips on youtube.

Andrew Lincoln is a great actor... Kind of weird seeing him play an American in "The Walking Dead" though!
That'd have to be my choice of the moment anyway

ianuss · 25-11-2010 2:12pm

tman wrote: »

Andrew Lincoln is a great actor... Kind of weird seeing him play an American in "The Walking Dead" though!
That'd have to be my choice of the moment anyway

Ye, totally agree. But his accent, as Officer Friendly from 'up the roadaways', is terrible in The Walking Dead. It really bugged me during the first episode but it doesn't anymore. But I still don't quite understand why they don't use US actors.

SteoL · 25-11-2010 3:11pm

Presumably we're talking current stuff? If not, then I'd have to nominate OZ as being THE best television series ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBBFDGaO-w0

ianuss · 25-11-2010 3:15pm

SteoL wrote: »

Presumably we're talking current stuff? If not, then I'd have to nominate OZ as being THE best television series ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBBFDGaO-w0

Ye, good shout.

Actually, Prison Break series 1 was good too. But you have to make sure that you never watch any more as it gets ludicrously retarded.

Diego Smartly · 25-11-2010 4:14pm

More top comedy in the form of Curb Your Enthusiasm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGjElvt4nP8

Larry David is brilliant.

SteveDon · 25-11-2010 4:18pm

Dunno if any of you have seen this film yet but its easily one of the funniest movies ive seen in years.

Its kind of a Dads army version of islamic terrorism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew-SrlQ9tlI

The film was written and directed by chris morris.

If you havent seen the comedy shows hes made in the past like Brasseye, The day today and jam then you dont know what youve been missing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwylBRucU7w

Phoenix Park · 25-11-2010 7:57pm

Found that music from the Bud ad so you can all stop worrying....

BaZmO* · 25-11-2010 10:46pm

Is mise le key wrote: »

Ah ye, so being a pikey is a burden to be overcome now........you wernt saying that when you were buying them gates off me:D

I thought you said you were a nurse!

No,i said i was a ward sister!

jtsuited · 26-11-2010 12:02am

SteveDon wrote: »

Dunno if any of you have seen this film yet but its easily one of the funniest movies ive seen in years.

Its kind of a Dads army version of islamic terrorism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew-SrlQ9tlI

The film was written and directed by chris morris.

If you havent seen the comedy shows hes made in the past like Brasseye, The day today and jam then you dont know what youve been missing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwylBRucU7w

Four Lions had me proper laughing my ass off. One of the funniest films i've ever seen. Rubber Dingy Rapids.

Pandoras Twist · 26-11-2010 12:10am

On top of all the greats mentioned in the thread already, I love QI and Wire in the Blood. I have a weakness for murder/thriller things. Frost and Morse and the likes too. Thank god for the anonymity of the internet.:o

On the subject of TV shows, is it just me that thinks How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory are godawful?

seannash · 26-11-2010 12:13am

Pandoras Twist wrote: »

On the subject of TV shows, is it just me that thinks How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory are godawful?

There complete ****e.
I think they appeal to the sort of audience who like Two and a half men(cue Zascar

)

jtsuited · 26-11-2010 12:18am

Pandoras Twist wrote: »

On top of all the greats mentioned in the thread already, I love QI

By far my favourite thing ever. ever. out of anything. ever.

Pandoras Twist · 26-11-2010 12:28am

I don't think I've ever laughed so much as I did at his impression of the gay german looking for his "Handie"

You have to wonder about some of the things they come up with. I remember one episode where they said Chicken Tikka Masala was actually invented in Scotland. Which I of course passed on as gospel truth in coversation, only to have to justify it with "I saw it on QI". Definitely reduces the clout of one's argument.

jonnny68 · 26-11-2010 12:34am

Football, football and more football

jtsuited · 26-11-2010 12:44am

Pandoras Twist wrote: »

I don't think I've ever laughed so much as I did at his impression of the gay german looking for his "Handie"

You have to wonder about some of the things they come up with. I remember one episode where they said Chicken Tikka Masala was actually invented in Scotland. Which I of course passed on as gospel truth in coversation, only to have to justify it with "I saw it on QI". Definitely reduces the clout of one's argument.

Strangely enough, in 1st year anthropology we did all about the reappropriation of cultures into other things, and lots of serious academic work references glasgow or london as the home of tikka masala. It's a matter of debate right now apparently.

There have been two things I've spotted that were wrong on QI. One was they said some mammal was the only mammal to have poison (can't remember what it was, but it wasn't the pygmy shrew which is poisonous).
Second thing was about helium effecting the pitch of your voice. Fry said it only effected timbre by increasing the frequency, but pitch is determined by frequency not timbre.

Of course, a million other people had got there already by the time I got to the internet so my indignant request for a clarification never happened.

Pandoras Twist · 26-11-2010 12:54am

There is also that undeniable but completely pretentious thrill of getting all the questions right in an episode. It's only happened with like two episodes but I almost felt like I should expect a medal in the post awarding me for my ability to retain completely pointless information

Watching a few episodes before bed now, in absolute stitches!

jtsuited · 26-11-2010 12:56am

Pandoras Twist wrote: »

There is also that undeniable but completely pretentious thrill of getting all the questions right in an episode. It's only happened with like two episodes but I almost felt like I should expect a medal in the post awarding me for my ability to retain completely pointless information

Watching a few episodes before bed now, in absolute stitches!

i would watch QI all day every day if they made enough of them

Pandoras Twist · 26-11-2010 1:00am

Only criticism would be the theme tune does my nut in.

acman · 29-11-2010 2:12am

+1 for Breaking Bad

+1 for QI

+1 for The US Office

The Ricky Gervais Show

Live at the Apollo occasionally has some good acts on it.

Some of the Louis Theroux documentaries are interesting

As for Curb your Enthusiasm, I could never get into that show nor do I understood why it's so popular...

g5fd6ow0hseima · 29-11-2010 3:10am

acman wrote: »

Some of the Louis Theroux documentaries are interesting...

I just watched the episode where he visits the boer nationalists in South Africa. Pretty nuts! The ease in which he angers Eugene Terreblanche (who was subsequently hacked to death by the way) is hilarious in itself.

Tomohawk · 30-11-2010 4:45pm

The TV program that inspires me the most each week is the "Culture Show" on BBC2. Everyone from Squarepusher to Scorsese and much much more is featured and as many of my favourite musicians say it's good to sample from all the arts, not just your particular field.

"QI" entertains me the most each week...

jtsuited · 30-11-2010 4:56pm

acman wrote: »

+1 for Breaking Bad

+1 for QI

+1 for The US Office

The Ricky Gervais Show

Live at the Apollo occasionally has some good acts on it.

Some of the Louis Theroux documentaries are interesting

As for Curb your Enthusiasm, I could never get into that show nor do I understood why it's so popular...

+1 for everything there.
Louis Theroux's documentaries are absolutely fascinating. The way he winds people up in such a non-confrontational way is gas.

Only thing that bugs me about a lot of the Live at the Apollo stuff is that there are a lot of family-friendly comedians who aren't funny or witty. Russel Howard being the finest example.
There is nothing more annoying than a crap comedian. I don't know why that is, but it's true.

Is mise le key · 01-12-2010 10:10am

Someone mentioned Dylan Moran on the Random etc thread & reminded me,

Black books is great

Tomohawk · 02-12-2010 7:49pm

LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy is on the The Culture Show tonight BBC2 23.55 after Buzzcocks which I also watch as its vaguely to do with music isn't it?

DarkJager · 02-12-2010 7:55pm

Picked up season 1 of The Unit. Very good so far, about 6 episodes in. 4 seasons of it so I think I'll be getting more

One show I always recommend is The Shield. Best TV series ever made in my opinion, and anyone who picks up Season 1 just gets instantly hooked on it. Well worth a look if you like your TV gritty, violent and even brutal in some parts.

Tomohawk · 03-12-2010 1:55am

What I learnt from The Culture Show tonight:- James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem refuses to use any digital or a laptop on stage, he much prefers his analogue gear, cheap analog at that and his own home made synths and he even uses a ****ty battered 1980s Squire telecaster as his main axe. I don't know much about the man's music but I like the way he works...

stomprockin · 03-12-2010 11:13am

Downloaded this during the week while at home bored.

RESTREPO: OUTPOST AFGHANISTAN

Currently on national geographic channel.

eaturing unprecedented access to troops in the heat of battle, Restrepo: Outpost Afghanistan reveals the tears, the tragedy, the tedium and, ultimately, the truth about living and fighting on the Afghan frontline.

Once dubbed 'the deadliest place on earth' by CNN, the remote Korengal Valley of eastern Afghanistan has witnessed some of the most brutal fighting of the war on terror. In this Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary, acclaimed British photojournalist Tim Hetherington and author Sebastian Junger offer an unflinching view of life direct from the frontline of this unforgiving territory. Shot over a 15-month period imbedded with the Second Platoon of Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, the film combines first-hand footage with harrowing interviews to tell the story of the soldiers stationed in the Korengal.

Starting in June 2007, the movie follows the platoon's efforts to establish OP Restrepo - a lonely 15-man outpost deep in Taliban territory, named in honour of fallen medic Juan 'Doc' Restrepo. Facing constant fire fights in extreme conditions, the strain on the soldiers is colossal, with Hetherington and Junger sharing every heart-rending experience. As casualties mount, only the filmmakers' close relationship with the men of the platoon allows the cameras to keep rolling resulting in shocking footage beyond the reach of most journalists. More intimate still is their touching portrait of the soldiers themselves, as they struggle to maintain morale in the toughest of circumstances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCPnJaxC17o

joker77 · 08-12-2010 7:13pm

Finished Boardwalk Empire - watched the series finale last night. Have to say - it is excellent. Was reserving my judgement at the start because it was quite slow I thought to get going, everything is very subtle, but it is suberbly put together - I get the feeling you could watch it a few times and pick up little things with each viewing, a lot of thought was put into it.

Would definitely recommend. Sorry it's over now, at a loose end again for stuff to watch. Back to old David Attenborough for me.

Also, with all the snow, I've watched all 5 seasons of The Wire again. Bit of a disappointment. So many holes, there's at least a couple in every episode. It's not suited for multiple viewings if you ask me. And to those who think it's better than The Sopranos, I scoff.

old gregg · 17-12-2010 7:40pm

Based on the recommendation of folks around here I decided to give It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia a look and downloaded the first 4 seasons. I spent the first 2 wondering what the fuss was all about, enjoyed the 3rd and started the 4th season the other night. Then it clicked. That 1st episode about the man-hunt/human meat eating has to be one of the funniest episodes of any show I've ever seen. Hooked and about to start season 5 when I get back from our Christmas piss-up. Thanks to all who suggested the show.

Zascar · 17-12-2010 8:23pm

Someone in another thread mentioned some documentary about the food industry, can anyone remind me what it was I really want to watch it.

This is worth a look:

Food Inc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKYyD14d_0

Another few random doco's I like

Bill Maher - Religulous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMW1u3a2Qd8

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The Corporation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eXqbk9RZk0

Others on Polotics/War/Oil/Religion:

What I learned about American Foreign Policy
Manufacturing Dessent
Jesus Camp
Weapons of Mass Deception
The fog of war
Outfoxed (Fox Network)
Black Gold

I'll add more details/links etc about them tomorrow I gotta run - but they are all worth a watch

g5fd6ow0hseima · 17-12-2010 9:14pm

I watched a bit of that Jesus Camp a while back. I just cant stomach that ****, im better off watching it. Once you become an anti-theist, you're best off retreating from any interest in religious politics. Sadly I cant.

Anyone here a fan of Sam Harris?

BaZmO* · 20-12-2010 3:29pm

Zascar wrote: »

Someone in another thread mentioned some documentary about the food industry, can anyone remind me what it was I really want to watch it.

Think that was me. The documentary series is called The Foods that Make Billions

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