What was the last TV show you watched?

[Ernest P Shackleton]

The Diplomat. Decent doc about Richard Holbrooke. He always struck me as both the rock star and artist of diplomacy. One of the few diplomats I know by name and face. No need for it to be 1.75hrs. There must be a time requirement to be sold as a feature or to get a prime spot at a film festival. A lot of docs suffer from unnecessary longwindedness.

The Knick, as it is a free Cinemax weekend. Why aren't more people talking about this show? Enjoyed it immensely.

 

[Stearmen]

To quate the great Yogi Berra, "it's like deja vu all over again!" I watched The Librarians.

 

[Formeruser012523]

Parks and Recreation.

 

[1mach1]

Doctor Who. Saturday's episode.

 

[navetsea]

I recently watched South of Hell, hoping it would be the next True Blood, the opening song suggests it... but no... this one is a letdown...

about Mena Suvari has a demon alter ego (by demon means bright green contacts, callgirl style makeup, and coffee/ choco stained teeth), and then wrestle with another demons wearing different bright color lenses, and lots of wind blower so their hair is blowing and they jump on to the wall or upside down on the ceiling and the hair allover the place, they don't seem to posses telekinetic or any magical power, they just go feral, and the winner so far Mena is winning would pull something out from the host of the losing demon and then eat it sometime a bug like thing sometime a rotting thing, etc. mostly off screen too, never clearly shown from where she pulls them out, before the host can turn normal.

 

[swanson_eyes]

All in the Family

 

[BobHufford]

Neil Young documentary "Here We Are In The Years".

I could have swore I saw FL member Bob Roberts in there for a second.

 

[DNO]

Fargo. Just keeps getting better.

 

[Stearmen]

Jamestown's Dark Winter. Very riveting!

 

[HoosierDaddy]

UFC
Aldo/Edgar

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Fargo. Just keeps getting better.

Agreed

 

[AmateisGal]

HBO documentary called He Has Seen War (2011) about how WW2 veterans tried to readjust to civilian life, the obstacles they faced, and the memories they carried. Available on YouTube for anyone interested:

 

[BobHufford]

"Mission Impossible" pilot episode. The mission recording was on vinyl (self-destructing of course).

 

[HoosierDaddy]

The Ultimate Fighter
UFC

 

[Touchofevil]

The Walking Dead and Into the Badlands

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Fargo is easily the best comedy on TV. Kirsten Dunst is amazing. Thank goodness these higher sought movie stars want to be on TV now. I wasn't a fan before, but I am now. She's nailing it.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Fargo is a comedy?
I must be watching a different Fargo.

 

[AmateisGal]

Supernatural

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Fargo is a comedy?
I must be watching a different Fargo.

I think it is very much designed to be a comedy. A lot of the dialog timing, for a lack of a better way to put it, is delivered in a comedic way. The camera angles/panning are an homage to sort of classic movie comedy techniques and deliveries. Bear. Dodd. Ed. Peggy. Mike Milligan's monologues. The way they shoot Floyd a lot of the time is straight out of period comedy. The intimidated detective (forgetting his name now). Heck, almost every character has a strong comedic element. The conversation between Ed and Peggy in the car on the way to the cabin and most of the cabin sequence had me laughing so hard I had to keep rewinding to hear things I missed. It has only gotten funnier as we've moved along. Even the opening sequences, when they're dropping in the headers (this is a true story etc), is upbeat and setting the tone you find in comedies from that period. It's a big reason why the show is so fun and not merely grim or your typical crime affair.

 

[DNO]

re Fargo:

With the Coen Brothers involved, it seems that they are making references to their own films. Two episodes ago, most of the music was from The Big Lebowski, albeit by different performers. This week's episode had that tense scene between Hanzee and the gas station fellow...very reminiscent of the scene between Anton and the gas station attendant in No Country For Old Men. There are probably more but I didn't start noticing them until Simone Gerhardt was listening to 'I just dropped in...' on her car radio.