Craig H Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Landry is great. Then you see him show up in Breaking Bad and he's the most evil person ever. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoffman Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 If you have never taken the time to watch KOJAK! you should. It's surprisingly dark. It's set in that 70s NY City that was just a crumbling wasteland where everything was corrupt. The whole show is just a slow motion crash of an urban governance machine collapsing while this cop sort of treads water and tries to deal with whatever horror show pops up that week. The greatness of Telly Savalas is a given, but it's because of watching Kojak reruns that I realized how cool his brother George was as well. You put Savalas DNA in the body of Marty Allen, and great things happened. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 I really dug Hell on Wheels despite it not being the type of thing (westerns) I'm typically into. The third season finale was absolutely horrible though. I'm going to watch the first episode of season 4 tonight so we'll see if they've managed to fix things. I've finally caught up on all the HOW episodes. Don't know how I feel about the Cullen marriage storyline. I like that The Swede is back b/c he was one of my favorite characters but the way they brought him back seems a little far fetched. As a Colm Meaney fan, I will say that I'm loving all the stuff they're doing with Durant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Nice AVClub article on why COLUMBO is awesome. http://www.avclub.com/article/10-episodes-show-why-columbo-most-iconic-tv-detect-206159 A good quick history of the character and why the writing was so innovative (still would be today). And rundown of some of the best moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Anytime you saw Culp, McGoohan or Robert Vaughn, it was worth watching. I love the johnny cash episode so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 So many great episodes. There are two types I especially like: 1) The few where Columbo gets genuinely mad. The Leonard Nimoy episode "A Stitch in Crime" and the Robert Conrad "An Exercise in Fatality." He gets tough with a female accomplice in the original movie "Prescription Murder" too. But it almost never happens otherwise. 2) The ones where he sympathizes with the murderer a little: Ruth Gordan in "Catch me if you Can," Donald Pleasence in "Any Old Port," (Falk and Pleasence are so great together) and Janet Leigh in "Forgotten Lady" as an old MGM Musical star suffering from dementia. Also I think he feels some sympathy for Trish Van de Veere as a woman trying to prove herself as a t.v. network executive while all the old boys are trying to make her fail in "Make me a perfect murder." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mco543 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Shark Week this year, somehow, seems like its going to be even more of a disgrace than last year. Discovery should be ashamed at what they've done to something that used to be about education and conservation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I happened to stop on this SHARK OF DARKNESS thing just as it was coming on, and my first thought was, "I liked Shark Week better before they did all this hokey dramatization stuff to spice up the history and science." Shortly thereafter I realized, oh no, this is all 100% bullshit. Shameful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I feel like we did a pretty detailed rundown last year: http://deathvalleydriver.com/forum/index.php?/topic/60-random-tv-thoughts/?p=14644 Funny it started with almost the exact same outcry from mco543. If you follow from there, there is some stuff about the good old years and a link to a year-by-year breakdown of the decline of the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Yeah, I mean, I lived for this stuff when I was a kid. The science of actual sharks and the marine biologists who study them were plenty cool enough for me. No made-up shit was necessary to hold my attention. It's actually slightly infuriating to think that any kids watching tonight, instead of learning something useful, are going to think that this "Submarine" shark really exists. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Did anyone catch The Knick on Cinemax? Loved the score and I am a sucker for the time-period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 http://gawker.com/heres-the-first-released-footage-of-better-call-saul-1619486563 OGOD oGODOGDOO!!!!!! Odenkirk and Banks. It's like someone telling me they could bring back Pryor and Wilder and let them be on my t.v. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 My girlfriend is a huge Helen Mirren fan and has every series of Prime Suspect on DVD. I've been curious about it so we watched the first series tonight and I dug it quite a bit. Watching it felt like seeing the template many other "modern" procedurals use. I also loved how everyone grew to love Mirren's Tennison character, whereas earlier on, things were so male dominated, she barely had a chance. The first series had me guessing until the very end too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 HBO is going to do a reboot of Westworld and Ed Harris is going to be the Man In Black. FUCK YEAH~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Does this generation have a Schmoe as Schmoey as Richard Benjamen, though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 William h macy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Ah Richard Benjamin, just the name makes me want ot watch Love at First Bite but then I'd actually be watching Love At First Bite and no man, woman not child should subject themselves to that James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Comedian Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 A meta-Veronica Mars spin-off about Ryan Hansen trying to make a show about Dick Casablancas?!? Where's Fowler at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Dude dude dude dude dude... Not only that, but it premieres the week of Sept. 15th. MY BIRTHDAY IS SEPTEMBER FIFTEENTH! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Ah Richard Benjamin, just the name makes me want ot watch Love at First Bite but then I'd actually be watching Love At First Bite and no man, woman not child should subject themselves to that James Watch SATURDAY THE 14TH instead. Then you get Jeffrey Tambor too. And Stacey Keach's dad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Nathan For You is the awkwardest show currently on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 I am two episodes into the BBC version of Sherlock. I am enjoying this, but I am not loving this to the degree that others here have mentioned. It may be a case of Sherlock overkill for me in recent years once you consider two movies, House, and Elementary. I also really like Johnny Lee Miller's take on Sherlock, so Cumberbatch's performance is a little jarring for me. I had a hard time buying the pilot episode as well. I felt like Sherlock's first encounter with an antagonist went too far into beating me over the head with "this is who Sherlock Holmes is" and did not do much to add to the stakes because Sherlock could have walked away and brought in the cops at any given time. I understand that's not a decision that Sherlock would make, but I do not need it to be that on the nose. I would rather his intrigue be less forced and more organic. The second episode was a lot better in my mind, but I thought the plot device used with the mystery was a lot more interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 The thing about "Sherlock" is that for the longest time it was lauded for updating Sherlock into the 21st century, with the onscreen texting and what-have-you, but now that's kinda commonplace and the cracks show when you go into it after watching other modern adaptations/procedurals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Nah. It's awesome. All of it. Except for that 2nd episode in series 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 I guess I'm gonna have to catch up on THE LEFTOVERS and start watching that on Sunday nights, because I'm not sure how much more of THE STRAIN I can take. It's worse than THE WALKING DEAD at this point. Dude flushing his balls might be the high water mark of the series. I continue to mourn the death of my Showtime subscription. Praise for THE KNICK has got me wishing I still had Cinemax, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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