TV series review

New thread, not for films but for series.

I wonder what you guys thought about new British spy series MI5.

I find it recoilingly immature I wonder if I'm missing something. It"s like "teens go spy".

When is it on and what channel? Haven't heard of it.

Haven't seen it - do you recommend giving it a miss then? I'm watching the third episode of "The Unit" as we speak. It's dodgy...

I download my episodes.

I recommend watching the first 5 minutes of episode 01. Excellent premisses. Then the teenagers appear...

Well, sort of teenagers in their twenties, with the intelligence of primary school. Even more disgusting than teenagers.

Are you not wracked with guilt when you deprive poor actors of a dollar by using those .. sites which you're not going to mention here, are you?

Why are there teenagers on an M15 show?

Normally I feel guilty.

But in the case of MI5 I dumped the episode before it was finished. So it"s not really stealing is it?

Plus I hated their English accent.

Damages is fantastic.

evercloserunion wrote:

Damages is fantastic.

If it's like the X-Files then I'll rent the boxset next year.

Auditor #9 wrote:

Why are there teenagers on an M15 show?

It's because it's Spooks: Code 9. It's a spin-off from the previous series Spooks by the BBC. The programme is set in 2013 Britain just after a major terrorist attack by younger bombers. In reaction to this, MI5 and MI6 are now creating a youth unit. That much I have gleaned from my weekly Culture magazine in the Sunday Times.

Yes, sorry for not giving you the real name sooner.

Sounds a bit like 24 hours: agit prop for neo cons(ervatives) - ushering in the new Cameron era.

SeathrúnCetinne recommended "Deadwood" the other day. Anyone else seen it?

Auditor #9 wrote:

evercloserunion wrote:

Damages is fantastic.

If it's like the X-Files then I'll rent the boxset next year.

Dunno, I was never a bif X-files fan. It's not about aliens anyway. The plot is all twisty turny though, and in a good way.

evercloserunion wrote:

Auditor #9 wrote:

evercloserunion wrote:

Damages is fantastic.

If it's like the X-Files then I'll rent the boxset next year.

Dunno, I was never a bif X-files fan. It's not about aliens anyway. The plot is all twisty turny though, and in a good way.

If it's police then I don't like police or crime scene investigation stuff - bo ring.

I'm watching the Unit now and it's just about ok. Is Damages Uk or USA?

Auditor #9 wrote:

evercloserunion wrote:

Auditor #9 wrote:

evercloserunion wrote:

Damages is fantastic.

If it's like the X-Files then I'll rent the boxset next year.

Dunno, I was never a bif X-files fan. It's not about aliens anyway. The plot is all twisty turny though, and in a good way.

If it's police then I don't like police or crime scene investigation stuff - bo ring.

I'm watching the Unit now and it's just about ok. Is Damages Uk or USA?

US. It's not police, the thing is basically centred around this massive case taken by a load of employees against their corrupt former employee which could ruin the employer and he resorts to doing all kinds of dastardly things to try and jeopardize the case. The employees are being represented by this awesome-o hotshot lawyer, for whom the main character has just started working. And there's all this behind the scenes wheeling and dealing and you don't know who can trust who, and to top it all off it keeps flashing forward to six months after all the events start where the main character appears to have murdered her fiancé or something without any explanation (that's not a spoiler, you see it in the first few episodes). Top-notch stuff altogether.

cactus flower wrote:

Sounds a bit like 24 hours: agit prop for neo cons(ervatives) - ushering in the new Cameron era.

SeathrúnCetinne recommended "Deadwood" the other day. Anyone else seen it?

24, that stuff is cool. The variety of ways you can torture someone is simply ingenious! God bless the PATRIOT ACT for giving us this much fun!

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

Sounds a bit like 24 hours: agit prop for neo cons(ervatives) - ushering in the new Cameron era.

SeathrúnCetinne recommended "Deadwood" the other day. Anyone else seen it?

24, that stuff is cool. The variety of ways you can torture someone is simply ingenious! God bless the PATRIOT ACT for giving us this much fun!

Is the guy's shit-hot daughter still in it?

evercloserunion wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

Sounds a bit like 24 hours: agit prop for neo cons(ervatives) - ushering in the new Cameron era.

SeathrúnCetinne recommended "Deadwood" the other day. Anyone else seen it?

24, that stuff is cool. The variety of ways you can torture someone is simply ingenious! God bless the PATRIOT ACT for giving us this much fun!

Is the guy's shit-hot daughter still in it?

The pouty blonde one who got kidnapped three times in the first show? i.e. kidnapped three times in a day?? She's hot alright.

I wonder is the thing to do with 24 to watch it an entire season in real-time? Only €6 to rent at Xtravision for two nights !

arnaudherve wrote:

New thread, not for films but for series.

I wonder what you guys thought about new British spy series MI5.

I find it recoilingly immature I wonder if I'm missing something. It"s like "teens go spy".

Noo! Arnaudherve, you want to forget this rubbish and enjoy the much superior tosh that was "Spooks" - the thing you have seen is an inferior spin-off from Spooks. My favourite character in Spooks was always Malcolm, a 21st century version of what's-his-name in the Bond films.

Atticus wrote:

arnaudherve wrote:

New thread, not for films but for series.

I wonder what you guys thought about new British spy series MI5.

I find it recoilingly immature I wonder if I'm missing something. It"s like "teens go spy".

Noo! Arnaudherve, you want to forget this rubbish and enjoy the much superior tosh that was "Spooks" - the thing you have seen is an inferior spin-off from Spooks. My favourite character in Spooks was always Malcolm, a 21st century version of what's-his-name in the Bond films.

nick nack?

evercloserunion wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

Sounds a bit like 24 hours: agit prop for neo cons(ervatives) - ushering in the new Cameron era.

SeathrúnCetinne recommended "Deadwood" the other day. Anyone else seen it?

24, that stuff is cool. The variety of ways you can torture someone is simply ingenious! God bless the PATRIOT ACT for giving us this much fun!

Is the guy's shit-hot daughter still in it?

I think so, I watch to see just how many ways they can squeeze info out of the turrsts while breaking the Geneva Convention! It's the quagmire of post-9/11 moralistic relativism defined!

Auditor #9 wrote:

I wonder is the thing to do with 24 to watch it an entire season in real-time? Only €6 to rent at Xtravision for two nights !

Hmm, I got through 1 year of Jed Bartlet's Administration in three days, I'd say I could do 24 in one!

the west wing is the best television series in HISTORY!!!!

God I love that show.

cookiemonster wrote:

the west wing is the best television series in HISTORY!!!!

God I love that show.

As do I. If you could pick someone in the show, who would you be?

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

the west wing is the best television series in HISTORY!!!!

God I love that show.

As do I. If you could pick someone in the show, who would you be?

Sam.

Though recently I seem to be emulating Donna with her box issues.

cookiemonster wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

the west wing is the best television series in HISTORY!!!!

God I love that show.

As do I. If you could pick someone in the show, who would you be?

Sam.

Though recently I seem to be emulating Donna with her box issues.

I think I'd be Josh, I'd like to be Deputy Chief of Staff in one administration and then go to being Chief in the next. You'd be in the White House for 16 years which is pretty amazing.