What TV shows are you watching?

[Tevildo]

Watched the first season of Counterpart and it’s been a very good surprise. It takes the best ideas of The Fringe and cross it with cold war spies stories.It’s good, I’m surprised it doesn’t get more attention, I only heard of it because I know somebody involved in it. Really I don’t think I would ever have heard about it otherwise. Which is strange because it’s not that it’s a small production and is more interesting than most SF shows I saw lately. It’s quite clever and the acting is great, better than the Fringe with was mainly held on Walter and Olivia’s shoulders.

The main idea is what builds our personality, nature vs nurture vs fate. Maybe not so unique but the way it’s approached is.

[Sarfrin]

Yes, something almost exactly like that. Except with more "FUCK OFF!!"s thrown in at the end.

I watched the last 25 minutes and I thought it was a bit weaker, but still good.

I saw him on the tour, although it was before he started dropping his trousers for that part in the middle.

[Matt_W]

I assumed it was twee nonsense, of the sort beloved by Pushing Daises fans and their ilk

I really liked Pushing Daisies…

[LexW]

<3 u

My brother loves it too! And I didn’t hate it. But it’s twee nonsense, I mean, by any analysis. Perhaps very high-quality and charming twee nonsense, yet… Lee Pace is amazing and not in enough stuff though. If I was recasting Data in a new TNG he’d be high on my list (that’s high praise from me!).

[BillButNotBen]

I saw him on the tour, although it was before he started dropping his trousers for that part in the middle.

I’d love to have seen it live. Though I did think things went downhill very slightly from the trouser drop point.
It didn’t have the Scooby Doo bit either…

[Sarfrin]

That was from a different tour. I think his shows are often funnier the second time you watch them as you tend to pick up connections you missed the first time.

[Matt_W]

Lee Pace is amazing and not in enough stuff though.

Did you watch Halt and Catch Fire?

[BillButNotBen]

I’ve just realized that I’ve been mixing up Lee Pace and Lee Mack, and have hence been somewhat confused by this thread.

[LexW]

I’ve just realized that I’ve been mixing up Lee Pace and Lee Mack, and have hence been somewhat confused by this thread.

To be fair if you fired some sort of handsome-making ray at Lee Mack you might get Lee Pace.

Did you watch Halt and Catch Fire?

Never got around to it, I probably should.

[somini]

It takes the best ideas of The Fringe

Whoa, that peaks my interest, whishlisted.

Fringe was also pretty much ignored back in the day.

[BillButNotBen]

I’ve kind of started watching Almost Human, the “A Vampire, a Ghost and a Werewolf walk into a bar” show that was on the BBC a few years ago.

I remember being interested about 5 years ago and checking out the pilot and thinking it was ok, but a bit flawed. Then I found out that the real series replaced most of the actors and never really got any further.
Due to being unable to do anything due to the ridiculous heat, and with nothing else that appealed at that instant, I started watching it from the start.

Ehh. It’s ok, but it’s kind of hard going. While it has a few moments of comedy, it also plays it straight with a lot of the darker stuff, so it ends up being somewhat lacking in fun.
It’s not quite horror enough to be horror, not exciting enough to be adventure, not funny enough to be comedy, etc… It’s nice at times to see a fantasy show set in the more familiar setting of Bristol, rather than somewhere like Sunnydale, California… but that British reveling in working class misery combined with grimy horror sure ends up being a bit depressing. It needs a few whedonesque quips or something.

Which reminds me, Charmed is getting a reboot already? Given that Charmed was always a 3rd rate Buffy Knockoff (though not without its charms (geddit?)), i guess this means we can’t be long from the foretold Buffy reboot that will be a sign of the end times.

[LexW]

i guess this means we can’t be long from the foretold Buffy reboot that will be a sign of the end times.

Um. I mean it may even have been announced before the Charmed reboot.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer reboot: All we know so far

It appears from comments by the main writer that it may be more of a revival than a reboot, i.e. “20 years on” (yes it has been that long), but presumably ignoring the comics and somehow resolving the events of the last season so there aren’t zillions of Slayers (magic would do).

[Zephro]

I’m interested so long as it’s not a new Buffy the character I reckon. Reboot or sequel all is fine just don’t call the characters the same names. Maybe it could be mythic cycle kind of a job, but that doesn’t seem to mesh with the feelings people have about the characters quite directly. It’s not like different generations retelling the Batman origin story in a different voice.

[BillButNotBen]

I think I actually knew that, but might have wiped it from my mind in order to safeguard humanity. You have now doomed us all again!

I’d actually be up for a Not-Buffy the next Vampire Slayer. I was up for the suggested Faith show after Buffy finished (but that was partly due to being a big sucker for Eliza Dushku).
Though I’d almost rather they didn’t involve the original cast at all… James Marsters wanting to be in it kind of illustrates why… he was great, but having seen him in Runaways, he’s unfortunately no longer the hunky chiselled-cheekboned dude he once was.
(Plus finding out that your beloved character’s life after screen wasn’t that great is always a bit of a downer. I always like to think that after the show finishes everyone just goes off and is happy).

Name recognition is such a big thing that I wonder if the TV network would let them do a show that wasn’t called Buffy though.

[alms]

Done with the third season of CXGF. That was some good, good laughs, and past the (enlarged) first season, my complaints about varying episode quality basically disappeared.

Now I’m watching The Americans. I didn’t like the first episode much, and there are some things, in the writing, that make raise my eyebrow every now and then, but the setting has a somewhat special flavor that is capturing me.

[Xercies]

Now I’m watching The Americans. I didn’t like the first episode much, and there are some things, in the writing, that make raise my eyebrow every now and then, but the setting has a somewhat special flavor that is capturing me.

Yeah I will say that season 1 is probably the weakest since like every season 1 it starts broad and the writers dont know the chemistry of the cast yet. But it definitely gets better.

[Matt_W]

Yeah I will say that season 1 is probably the weakest since like every season 1 it starts broad and the writers dont know the chemistry of the cast yet. But it definitely gets better.

I’ve watched a few episodes and can’t figure out what the big deal is. They, like all of the main characters in these anti-hero dramas, are bad people doing bad things. The FBI is also bad, but that just makes this another grimdark show like Homeland or Breaking Bad or dozens of others. I can’t dig it.

[Xercies]

I’ve watched a few episodes and can’t figure out what the big deal is. They, like all of the main characters in these anti-hero dramas, are bad people doing bad things. The FBI is also bad, but that just makes this another grimdark show like Homeland or Breaking Bad or dozens of others. I can’t dig it.

To be honest if you don’t like that mold of anti heroes and grey heroes then yeah you definitely won’t like this show.

I guess I loved it because it brought you in their world and their struggle and showed the cracks in their character but that everyone says they are trying to do good and realising though they are not doing good things. Plus the spy stuff is pretty good and realistic from what I’ve heard.

[CSmithKev]

Luke Cage and Shooter Series

[Vandelay]

Oh, I knew that this was happening, but the initial news reported it as very much a reboot.

Buffy still remains my favourite TV show of all time, so I was definitely wary of this happening. It does seem kind of inevitable given all the other old shows and films that have been coming back of late. I’m happy with it being a continuation of the world rather than just going over the same thing again, with new cast in the same roles. Really, the setting was already one up on Doctor Who, with regeneration built in from the very first line of the show “In every generation, a chosen one is born”. You could pick any time period, be it past, present or future, and just run with it. As BillButNotBen says though, the show was remembered not as The Vampire Slayer, but as Buffy, so not having that in the title might be tough.

As much as Whedon might have fallen from grace in the past year, I still think he loves the Buffy-verse too much to do something that would damage it. So, as long as he is involved, I’m willing to give it a shot.