What was the last TV show you watched?

[jamespowers]

Haunted Collector

 

[Gregg Axley]

MASH "The Moose."

 

[Doctor Strange]

The Americans on FX.

When it started a couple of months ago, I thought it was going to just be a lame clone of Homeland, but I gave it try because I've always been a fan of Keri Russell (yes, I even watched the bizarre final season of Felicity!) But it's turned out to be a very interesting, well done series with excellent suspense and isolated bouts of surprising violence. It gets its late-Cold War (1980) setting - a world of espionage still all about tape recorders and film cameras - just right. It very cleverly combines the themes of spying, duplicity, and illusionary surfaces with the realities and issues of being married long-term.

Definitely recommended!

 

[Neophyte]

Mystery Science Theater 3000. Makes for great white noise during study sessions.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

The Americans on FX.

When it started a couple of months ago, I thought it was going to just be a lame clone of Homeland, but I gave it try because I've always been a fan of Keri Russell (yes, I even watched the bizarre final season of Felicity!) But it's turned out to be a very interesting, well done series with excellent suspense and isolated bouts of surprising violence. It gets its late-Cold War (1980) setting - a world of espionage still all about tape recorders and film cameras - just right. It very cleverly combines the themes of spying, duplicity, and illusionary surfaces with the realities and issues of being married long-term.

Definitely recommended!

I agree! I've found myself getting caught up in it quite easily.
HD

 

[The_Cooler_King]

Just finished Seson 2 of The Walking Dead. Not bad, but rather uneventful and lacking the action of the first season! I'm also nearing the end of Boardwalk Empire Season 1, slow moving but a good show.

Will

 

[Lady Day]

Just finished Seson 2 of The Walking Dead. Not bad, but rather uneventful and lacking the action of the first season! I'm also nearing the end of Boardwalk Empire Season 1, slow moving but a good show.

Will

Season 2 of the Walking dead was pretty bad. There were major changes with the writers and the network wanted the show to be 'cheaper' despite it being the highest rated show on the network. So there was a lot of stuff going on. You could skip season 2 all together and still be able to keep up with season three.

 

[LocktownDog]

Hell On Wheels

 

[Touchofevil]

Hell On Wheels

I like this series. AMC has been my channel of choice for tv series the past few years.

 

[Touchofevil]

Just watched the UFC 158 preliminary bouts on FX.

 

[MisterCairo]

I'm re-watching Our Mutual Friend, the BBC/CBC adaptation of Dickens's last completed novel. A great production, I only wish it had been drawn out over more episodes (there are four, totalling about 350 minutes).

 

[Gregg Axley]

Emergency! Season 6, with a Van Patten in it. What 70's program didn't have one?

 

[Touchofevil]

I Love Lucy

 

[Touchofevil]

The Americans, episode 1 on demand.

 

[scottyrocks]

You know, I'm struck by the fact that so much of our tastes, and our parents' tastes, depended on where we grew up. (And when.)

My parents were both born in NYC, and I grew up right over the border in Westchester. My folks were big fans of the live TV dramas in the fifties, and while we watched a wide range of popular shows when I was a kid in the sixties (Bewitched, Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, Secret Agent, Carol Burnett, etc.), they really dug "classier" fare like The Defenders and early (pre-PBS network) public broadcasting/BBC shows like The Forsyte Saga and The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

But... they had absolutely zero affinity for country-oriented shows like Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, The Andy Griffith Show, and later, Hee Haw or Dukes of Hazzard. They were urbanites with pretentions to being psuedo-intellectuals, and they felt that the country shows just weren't for us: they were silly, and obviously directed at heartland folks who could relate to those farms, little towns, eccentric characters, country music, and rural humor. So... I never watched any of those shows as a kid. And there was no way that I could get into them later on when I was on my own: they were just totally alien to my experiences (and not in a fascinating way like science fiction, westerns, war stories, period costume dramas, etc.)

Anyway, my point is that the "accidents" of your early locale and mindset have an awful lot to do with what you're exposed to, and what you end up liking...

I grew up in 1960s Brooklyn, and I watched all those country-bumpkin shows you mentioned, as well as many others. So I'll agree with the mindset POV, but not the locale. Everything is variable.

 

[scottyrocks]

We switched from Optimum to Fios recently, so now we're catching up on shows on channels we didn't have on Optimum that we now have on Fios because it was the same cost to have everything we didn't have with Opt.

My wife and I watched the first two seasons of Homeland in about 2 weeks. Very intense. We're now working on 6 Feet Under.

 

[esteban68]

just watched the latest version of the lady vanishes done by the BBC that aired tonight ... It was quite good actually with a good feel for the period. IMHO

 

[DNO]

Just watched the latest Walking Dead. One of the best episodes yet.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Just watched the latest Walking Dead. One of the best episodes yet.

I thought sure the governor had been eaten! I do think he was bitten though. What has Andrea gotten herself into?!!! -dixon cannon