What was the last TV show you watched?

[MisterCairo]

Episodes 9 and 10 of season 4 of Hell on Wheels. Number 10 is perhaps the best episode of the show I've seen so far!

 

[Zombie_61]

Episodes 9 and 10 of season 4 of Hell on Wheels. Number 10 is perhaps the best episode of the show I've seen so far!

Episodes 10, 11, and 12 of season four are high points of the series in my opinion. They almost make up for the weak way they wrote Elam Ferguson (Common) out of the show.

 

[MisterCairo]

Episodes 10, 11, and 12 of season four are high points of the series in my opinion. They almost make up for the weak way they wrote Elam Ferguson (Common) out of the show.

It was rather odd, wasn't it?!

 

[MisterCairo]

Still playing catch up, and saw two more episodes of Gotham.

This season has so far been nothing short of amazing. And I REALLY enjoyed season one!

 

[Edward]

I need to check in on Gotham. I'm hoping Season 2 will see the end of Fish Mooney... I very much enjoyed some of the portrayals, especially Alfred (nice to see him as a younger man, and to have his background fleshed out), and Penguin. Most screen Penguins have made him a joke - I much prefer this dangerous version. IT'll be interesting to see whether we eventually get an origin story for the Joker in there.

Most recent show I've been watching has been Ru Paul's Drag Race - we've not long discovered it via Netflx (had heard about it before, but previously no opportunity to view). It's great fun. Also still enjoying both Dickensian and Tattoo Fixers on UK broadcast TV (though we really just watch on online catchup now).

 

[Fading Fast]

...They almost make up for the weak way they wrote Elam Ferguson (Common) out of the show.

That was awkward. A study in how to overdo something.

 

[AmateisGal]

Supernatural.

 

[MisterCairo]

I need to check in on Gotham. I'm hoping Season 2 will see the end of Fish Mooney... I very much enjoyed some of the portrayals, especially Alfred (nice to see him as a younger man, and to have his background fleshed out), and Penguin. Most screen Penguins have made him a joke - I much prefer this dangerous version. IT'll be interesting to see whether we eventually get an origin story for the Joker in there.

Most recent show I've been watching has been Ru Paul's Drag Race - we've not long discovered it via Netflx (had heard about it before, but previously no opportunity to view). It's great fun. Also still enjoying both Dickensian and Tattoo Fixers on UK broadcast TV (though we really just watch on online catchup now).

In quite enjoyed Fish, I try to avoid spoilers, but I can say that after her disappearance at the end of last year, she has as yet to make an appearance. She may or may not be back, from what I hear about Jada Pinkett Smith's career progression.

I love Sean Pertwee as Alfred, I keep seeing a younger Dr. Who!

 

[JimWagner]

Catching up on Fargo on Hulu.

Edit- Originally said Netflix. Sorry for my confusion.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

A study in how to overdo something.

Or a great example of a show with no predetermined direction, writing story by the half-season, if not episode to episode, and hanging on by the skin of their teeth as they wait for the network to buy more episodes. They can't just comfortably write an arc that develops. They're in a pressure cooker to somehow hit ratings (and likely within assigned age groups), thus being forced into poor ideas and fingers crossed. It's the misfortune of riding a show on the cusp of being dropped at any moment. The collision of the [arguable] Golden Age of TV and market bean counters studying ticker audience response tape. Every show is under pressure to produce viewership, but some of these networks cut everything so close that their shows have even less chance than normal to survive. I love AMC, but I also feel it is one of the more desperate networks. Even The Walking Dead, one of the biggest shows on TV, is busying manipulating audience with split seasons and haphazard ideas to create drama that they don't trust to the writers' room and original story.

Mercy Street. It's early, and I'm liking it well enough so far. I'm not crazy about some of the casting, and they're definitely in no rush to give the show substance beyond the expected. No surprises. Not much depth. None of the characters are standing out as particularly interesting. The relationship between Dr.Hale and Nurse Hastings is already a snore, and though they're supposed to funny on some level, that too is banal. One of those cases when I'm loyal to PBS and I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Zombie_61]

It was rather odd, wasn't it?!

That was awkward. A study in how to overdo something.

I'd rather they had simply left it as it was in the final episode of season three--he left the camp, got attacked by that bear, and nobody knows what happened to him.

Catching up on Fargo on Netflix.

I tried to find this series on Netflix but came up empty. I guess their "search" feature isn't all it's cracked up to be?

 

[JimWagner]

We're watching it right now and my wife won't let me stop and verify this, but it's a series on FX, so find the tv series section and you should be able to navigate to it.

Oops. I forgot we're watching it on Hulu, not Netflix. Apologies.

 

[Zombie_61]

...Oops. I forgot we're watching it on Hulu, not Netflix. Apologies.

Yep, that would explain it.

 

[DesertDan]

The Invaders
I've been watching the series on YouTube.
It drives me nuts that David Vincent hardly ever carries a gun!

 

[AmateisGal]

The Blacklist. A slightly uneven episode, IMO, but still good.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Regarding Susan Sontag doc. Arty and inefficient, but it was put together well enough that I still liked it. A thoughtful, smart pace. As for her, that's another conversation.

An Apology to Elephants doc. This was more of a plea than a doc, but I'm perfectly fine with that. They didn't show much, but it was plenty enough to sicken me. It's great to see children involved. I don't care if it is because their favorite stuffed animal, a cartoon, or what. I don't normally advocate for young people involvement in issues, but in this context, I'm good with it.

The Mine Wars on American Experience doc. All that, and the WV miners achieved nothing for themselves. If you're looking to feel saddened for a people, and then outright frustrated and angry, watch this. Great photos. As they put it, the tyranny that comes from unorganized labor, and we're headed right back there, too.

 

[Zombie_61]

The Blacklist. A slightly uneven episode, IMO, but still good.

*sigh* Sadly, it seems they've returned to shortcutting the main plots so they can include the soap opera drama between Liz and Reddington and Tom and Ressler and Amir and Navabi and Cooper and the baby and the guy at the coffee house and the undercover agent in the ostrich costume and... If this keeps up, even Spader might not save the show for me.

 

[1mach1]

Barrett-Jackson Auction

 

[Stearmen]

The Big Bang Theory.

 

[Edward]

In quite enjoyed Fish, I try to avoid spoilers, but I can say that after her disappearance at the end of last year, she has as yet to make an appearance. She may or may not be back, from what I hear about Jada Pinkett Smith's career progression.

Not a bad character; just plotwise, I think, hwr time has run out.

I love Sean Pertwee as Alfred, I keep seeing a younger Dr. Who!

Ha! He might not have the hair or the ruffled shirt, but there sure is a family resemblence. He could easily play his dad. Mind you, I'd love to see him play the Doctor...