Fans of Television Series

[Cherian]

Anyone following Fargo? The first ep was great...setting the same quirky tone as the movie, with Billy Bob T in top form as the ice cold, evil center of the tale. The second is due today. Hope it keeps up the momentum

Really glad i took up watching TV shows a few years back, beats the hell out of Hollywood these days. At least for me

 

[m2maddy]

Will start watching Fargo from this week. Still finishing up on Blacklist Mentalist and GOT this week

 

[haisaikat]

I just finished watching all episodes of True Detective (only 8 of them).
There is a reason why this is rated 9.4 on IMDB. And of course, the star cast - Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey.

Very highly recommend. Very dark, slow to a fault, but you get used to it, and if you persevere, you will be rewarded with an ending justifying the slow pace. In fact, I found the slow pace a welcome relief from the formula serials nowadays that are so fast paced, I wonder if all of us are suffering from attention deficit disorder.

You should then be testing your attention by watching typical indian soap operas like "SaaS Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi" Jokes apart I think that we are leading a life today where at the end of a hectic office day many a time we get at most 1 hour to relax before going to bed and running for office again next morning. So fast paced, one episode stories, that end with a daily conclusion are indeed easier to watch unless a slower story is a highly exceptional series (like GoT) that will attract you like magnet

 

[technobhatt]

Anyone following Fargo? The first ep was great...setting the same quirky tone as the movie, with Billy Bob T in top form as the ice cold, evil center of the tale. The second is due today. Hope it keeps up the momentum

Really glad i took up watching TV shows a few years back, beats the hell out of Hollywood these days. At least for me

I watched the Pilot of 'Fargo' TV show... It was simply great...
Definitely looking forward to it... I'm gonna catch it on weekly basis...

 

[sam9s]

too bad true detective is not available on Netflix,

BTW, for some reason I continued with Torchwood and I am gald to say, the shows has picked up nicely. If you can get past the catchy/rusty sci fy CGI and tech lab I think you will enjoy the show ..... the performances are good, plot again sometimes a bit rusty but are interesting ......

continuing with torchwood, it somwhow keeps you attracted to the show, though it is very cliched at various points, but keeps the premise interesting. Down with 10 episodes, three left and season 1 complete ....

 

[sam9s]

Finished Torchwood first season, Trust me if you can murk through first 5-6 episodes it really gets interesting, the last couple of episodes were pretty good. The reviews say second season is much better. Going to start off with season 2 ...

 

[krish199]

GOT Season 04 is getting intense with each episode. Lots of plots are thickening now. Waiting for a episode for whole week is just suffocating sometime. Got spoiled by Netflix model of having all the episodes of a season at the same time.

 

[manny9]

Yeah love the way GOT is going....Finished first two episodes of Fargo, really good....you guys should add it to your watch list...

@sam : does netflix has good wife? I can't find it. I am almost finishing Season 1 and looking for the next season...

 

[sam9s]

Yes as far as I remember Netflix had The good wife ......

 

[shibashis]

I am a little surprised there are not more fans here of the murder-mystery drama The Killing.
The Killing (TV Series 2011 ) - IMDb
IMDB rates it at 8.1, but I feel it is underrated, at least for the first two seasons it definitely is. It is a top notch mystery drama, with a slow evolving and twisting plot. Top notch acting , many characters each with their vested interest in an electoral campaign, political conspiracy where an honest politician struggles to remain honest and add to it all the murder of an young girl involving them all.
Politics, commerce, law and order of a city with ethnic considerations, crime, mix them together with carefully written script, that is The Killing.

I have caught the first 2 seasons and I like it a lot.

 

[sam9s]

The killing season 1 is there in my library for long, never bothers to start. Looks like I have to give this a try ...

 

[manny9]

Nope the good wife is not in Netflix, now i have to hunt around after all the good review from you guys.

The killing is good, i will not say really good, but worth the time. I really liked Joel Kinnaman's (Holder) acting and his accent. He is one fine actor. I also liked that moody, rainy atmosphere.

 

[shibashis]

Nope the good wife is not in Netflix, now i have to hunt around after all the good review from you guys.

The killing is good, i will not say really good, but worth the time. I really liked Joel Kinnaman's (Holder) acting and his accent. He is one fine actor. I also liked that moody, rainy atmosphere.

You are right Manny, that rainy and secluded Seattle atmosphere adds to the plot and its development. The 'setting' for the series was cleverly chosen.
The almost omnipresent rain adds prominence to the characters, especially in case of the two detectives trying to solve the murder against odds. Their professional, social and even personal isolation is beautifully heightened by the rain and the gloomy aura of pessimism it casts on the city. On the other hand the same weather element is used as reflection and an opportunity for contemplation. I liked the slow contemplative treatment, which at no point is at odds with the pace of the mystery first developing and then slowly unraveling. As you can tell I liked the first two season quite a lot, yet to start the third.

 

[manny9]

@shibashis , that's a very excellent way to put it. You did total justice to what the show writers are trying to convey.

I just finished season 3 in star world HD, good season, starts of little slow but picks up in the middle and very good ending...

 

[shibashis]

I am sorry, my this particular post should start its own thread seeing that this is a thread for loved and coveted TV shows. Instead I am going to talk about a show that I have come to absolutely loath!

I was unfortunate enough to catch a couple of episode of Mahabharat that is currently airing on Star. Most of you are aware of its existence, I am not sure if any of you would have such strong opinions as I do.
Mahabharat is an epic, in every sense of the word. Not just an epic due to its mythological/religious nature, rather in literary sense, in the sense of its conception when it was conceived, its maturity in handling the shady grays of interplay of good-evil. For everyone who is now ecstatic with Game of Thrones, should read the actual Mahabharat and then it is easy enough to realize the true potential of this epic.
When B R Chopra came with it in late 80s (I was a little older than a toddler then), I distinctly remember that was an epoch making achievement, nothing like that was ever available to the Indian audience (keeping Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan in mind). If one sees it today then it is plainly obvious that it suffered from production deficiencies due to its time, but what on earth can be said about this newer version?
Such a topic / material once used now can not be touched for another say 20 years, and the nincumpoops have just simply destroyed it. Mahabharat has been relegated to just another off-the-mill saas-bahu episodic bitter bitter pill.
Sons of big-rich fathers devoid of any talent even to manage a school play are at it again, and they have decimated the greatest opportunity of TV production to come in the last 20 years, moreover in doing so have ensured that people with true talent can not contemplate embarking on a true creative endeavor of this magnitude for another decade at least.
Shambolic, disastrous, pedestrian, pathetic....fill up the blanks, you all get the drift.

Sorry for the tirade, but such is the times we live in, talent and creativity are not adored, all is swept away in the vitriolic march of commerce and money.

 

[haisaikat]

Shibashis, I agree with you on this new Mahabharat and in no way this comes close in giving the thrill of the epic to the BR Chopra version made 20 years back. But then again it was just the 2nd epic after ramayana at that time and also 90% viewers were tied to DD channel which made the viewership and popularity high. I used to read in newspapers that people used to jump for blessings from Nitish Bharadwaj if he visited any public place during that time. In this age the competition is different with divided viewership and people already having lot more expectations from an epic serial. Nevertheless, this new one is completely screwed up that is for certain, overdose of wardrobe and CG

 

[haisaikat]

Watching Suits, now in season 2. Loving it

 

[sam9s]

I share the same views, this is what I wrote a somewhere in the previous pages ..

I was put down by the same old, "saas bahu" camera gimmick, over the top action, with unnecessary slomo. Plus what ever be the production value Indian camara men somehow dont know how to use the correct color grain tone. None of the out door shots appeared to be of an era that is 1000s of years old. Even though the set, costumes and presentation was good, it didnt leave that impact it should have of being a pre historic story. Perfect example is Games of Thrones what ever camera technique they used it gave the perfect color and texture tone to the scene that actually looked like Medival and Bronze age ..... Unfortunately we indians only measure quality in tearms of melodramatic over emotions and salman kind of action

 

[shibashis]

Shibashis, I agree with you on this new Mahabharat and in no way this comes close in giving the thrill of the epic to the BR Chopra version made 20 years back. But then again it was just the 2nd epic after ramayana at that time and also 90% viewers were tied to DD channel which made the viewership and popularity high. I used to read in newspapers that people used to jump for blessings from Nitish Bharadwaj if he visited any public place during that time. In this age the competition is different with divided viewership and people already having lot more expectations from an epic serial. Nevertheless, this new one is completely screwed up that is for certain, overdose of wardrobe and CG

More the damnation that in today's day and age in spite of being exposed to such brilliant works from around the world they continue to produce pathetic productions such as this and also aspire to play on only the mediocre Indian audiences' ignorance. Purely complacent and clueless mindset, not once did they try to challenge themselves to try anything new, a crying shame.

I happen to have seen some brilliant minds in work among my friends, who armed with only a mobile camera sometimes are capable of stunning works. They could not pursue their dream and almost always that is due to lack of proper financial and systemic backing, that is why I am so enraged.

 

[shibashis]

I share the same views, this is what I wrote a somewhere in the previous pages ..

We are echoing the very same idea here Sam.
In the olden days there used to be DD 3. I caught a Mahabharat there with my father when again I was very little. This was a British production, directed by Peter brook and today reminds me so much of Macbeth by BBC, truly Shakespearean in nature unless you are told this is Mahabharat. Simple and yet tells you the story perfectly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiN_e-24uew

All a good story teller needs is the story itself, the rest is taken care of by his/her genius.