I Need a Series to Watch

[botfly10]

Boardwalk empire takes place in the prohibition era in a fledgling Atlantic City. It traces how basically organized crime got started there and built the city into what it is today. Kind of sopranos in the 20's.

 

[botfly10]

Oh I forgot about Newsroom. If people haven't watched that, they should NAO! I put it up there with Breaking bad and the wire.

 

[Flacco4Prez]

Now that Breaking Bad is done I'm gonna go onto House of Cards for my drama but if that's good I'll be done by the end of the month

 

[DC]

Boardwalk empire takes place in the prohibition era in a fledgling Atlantic City. It traces how basically organized crime got started there and built the city into what it is today. Kind of sopranos in the 20's.

Thanks

 

[Monk]

I know it's a comedy but I really like Psych. New season on netflix sometime this month.

 

[Chris Sojka]

Boardwalk Empire

just finishing up on season 3... this show is fucking awesome

 

[Chris Sojka]

Synopsis of Boardwalk Empire?

The early 1920's prohibition mobsters... Capone Thompson Rothstein Torrio Luciano and a bunch of other old bootleggers and criminals... No one will ever really know what happened back then because it was hush hush... but this is a story based of stories from that time period surrounding those characters and there interactions with each other...

 

[Chris Sojka]

Oh I forgot about Newsroom. If people haven't watched that, they should NAO! I put it up there with Breaking bad and the wire.

Netflix or HBO?

 

[Heidenlarm]

Truth Bomb.

Yep.

 

[Heidenlarm]

Six Feet Under.

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

Oh shit, forgot about house of cards. Is that cool?

House of cards is the shit! I liked Fringe. (I'm a nerd at heart) Thought The Americans was a good show. (just started last year) Think all my other shows have been listed before by someone else in this thread.

This might help. Its a list of series that were highly rated on IMDB.

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?at...user_rating,desc&start=1&title_type=tv_series

 

[Scoot26]

You guys really hate the walking dead. I didn't like season a lot but the first 2 were great

I hated season 2 with a passion.

 

[Scoot26]

Netflix or HBO?

HBO.

 

[Monk]

I hated season 2 with a passion.

I didn't like season 3 very much. I think season 2 was good but I cam remember what all happened at the moment

 

[BNB]

I hated season 2 with a passion.

Really? I loved all the seasons... I don't get the hate for season 2. People complain that it started if off too slow, but I liked it. I think it would have been boring if they were constantly killing zombies or some shit. The first half was great for character development, and the second half got intense as hell

 

[Ares]

Really? I loved all the seasons... I don't get the hate for season 2. People complain that it started if off too slow, but I liked it. I think it would have been boring if they were constantly killing zombies or some shit. The first half was great for character development, and the second half got intense as hell

I think the reason people start to hate The Walking Dead is the fact that the character development and stories and relationships have taken over the show, so now its less a zombie movie in the form of a TV show and more of a TV Drama set in the middle of the zombie apocalypse.

If you look at how season 1 went, with Rick waking up in the hospital and traveling around, then gets in trouble in Atlanta and meets up with a group.... then they go back and eventually decide to try and seek out salvation.... it was all very much like the zombie movies people think of.... but they had to get beyond that stuff, cause a TV show covers a heck of alot more than 2 hours.

I do think they need to shift a little and make the zombies be a bigger element in the story, but I still really enjoy the show.

I think the other big negative with this show last season and for much of season 2 is that they have made several characters in the show unlikable IMO.... people are used to heroes and villains.... but this show goes for realism.... Rick is not just some knight in shining armor who saves his princess Wife and rides off into the sunset.... all the characters have serious flaws that make them darker people especially in the context of the zombie apocalypse. I think people get turned off by a show when they don't have characters they can love and hang on to.... the characters who you count on surviving are the darkest and hardest to like at times.

I think people who thought the show would be a zombie movie turned TV series are flaking off.

 

[Scoot26]

I think the reason people start to hate The Walking Dead is the fact that the character development and stories and relationships have taken over the show, so now its less a zombie movie in the form of a TV show and more of a TV Drama set in the middle of the zombie apocalypse.

If you look at how season 1 went, with Rick waking up in the hospital and traveling around, then gets in trouble in Atlanta and meets up with a group.... then they go back and eventually decide to try and seek out salvation.... it was all very much like the zombie movies people think of.... but they had to get beyond that stuff, cause a TV show covers a heck of alot more than 2 hours.

I do think they need to shift a little and make the zombies be a bigger element in the story, but I still really enjoy the show.

I think the other big negative with this show last season and for much of season 2 is that they have made several characters in the show unlikable IMO.... people are used to heroes and villains.... but this show goes for realism.... Rick is not just some knight in shining armor who saves his princess Wife and rides off into the sunset.... all the characters have serious flaws that make them darker people especially in the context of the zombie apocalypse. I think people get turned off by a show when they don't have characters they can love and hang on to.... the characters who you count on surviving are the darkest and hardest to like at times.

I think people who thought the show would be a zombie movie turned TV series are flaking off.

You do have a point. Season 2 just got really slow and I understand that its a TV show, but it just seemed like they spent way too much time on that farm and too many episodes looking for that girl and that seemed to just be the major plot point. The end of season 2 made things more tolerable and I actually enjoyed season 3, even without much of the focus on zombies. I know many people who have simply stopped watching the show because they stopped killing zombies all the time, but I wasn't one, that said I still hated much of season 2.

 

[Monk]

Really? I loved all the seasons... I don't get the hate for season 2. People complain that it started if off too slow, but I liked it. I think it would have been boring if they were constantly killing zombies or some shit. The first half was great for character development, and the second half got intense as hell

I do remember one episode where Rick and Glen go to town to get the old guy and meet another group and get in a shoot out. Glen gets pinned down by an dumpster and that guy from the other group falls on the fence. That whole succession of episodes was pretty intense to me. I liked it. Or was that even in season 2? I don't remember.

My thing against season 3 were episodes like the one where Andrea is trying to get to the prison and pretty much the whole episode is her going from the town to the prison. Nothing really took place.

 

[BNB]

I think the other big negative with this show last season and for much of season 2 is that they have made several characters in the show unlikable IMO.... people are used to heroes and villains.... but this show goes for realism.... Rick is not just some knight in shining armor who saves his princess Wife and rides off into the sunset.... all the characters have serious flaws that make them darker people especially in the context of the zombie apocalypse. I think people get turned off by a show when they don't have characters they can love and hang on to.... the characters who you count on surviving are the darkest and hardest to like at times.

I think people who thought the show would be a zombie movie turned TV series are flaking off.

See, that isn't a negative for me at all. It's actually a huge positive, IMO. I get sick of the fairy tale type stories. I remember some of my friends talking about how they wished Shane never died and that him and Rick became best friends again and they were disappointed that he died. I kinda wished Shane lived too, but not for that reason. I thought it was awesome how they just killed off a main character like that, and that rick was the one that did it. It's a harsh world they live in, so of course all of them will have a darker side. They weren't all like that initially. The world changed them... and they needed the time to show how it changed them, so the audience understands.

I personally still root for Rick and Darryl [spelling?].

I started watching The Walking Dead late. The reason why was because I thought it would be like a zombie movie and they'd be killing zombies every other episode. But it's not like that at all, which is why I really love it.

A zombie apocalypse is never gonna happen.. but if it could, The Walking Dead makes it seem like that's exactly how it would be.

 

[BNB]

I do remember one episode where Rick and Glen go to town to get the old guy and meet another group and get in a shoot out. Glen gets pinned down by an dumpster and that guy from the other group falls on the fence. That whole succession of episodes was pretty intense to me. I liked it. Or was that even in season 2? I don't remember.

My thing against season 3 were episodes like the one where Andrea is trying to get to the prison and pretty much the whole episode is her going from the town to the prison. Nothing really took place.

Yeah, that was season 2.

I really liked season 3 too. My only problem with that season was how much time they spent on Rick being all zoned out.