What was the last TV show you watched?

[Stearmen]

American Experience: The Boys of 36. The forgotten story of the working class rowing team from the University of Washington, that showed against all odds their superiority over the master race in the 36 Olympics! I like how they responded to the NAZI salute by saying, "Heil Roosevelt!"

 

[Zombie_61]

That's why it's great it's available on blu-ray and streaming...

That's also problematic for me. I don't have the kind of spare cash to throw at a Blu-Ray set for a show I may or may not like, and so far it's not available on Netflix.

 

[Cocker]

Watched another episode of "Dead Like Me" yesterday, and almost got my a$$ kicked by my girlfriend for doing a couple of pause to check on one jacket... Rube, the character played by Mandy Patinkin, is always sporting some vintage clothings, and yesterday he had this wonderful leather jacket. After checking it a couple times, it looks to me as an Aero Leather 1950's Leather Flight Jacket in Battered Tan Horsehide. Cannot find any really good pictures on the net, here's what I've found so far:

One piece back, sleeves and body have knitted cuffs, pockets with hand warmers, everything seems to match. The only difference is in the bevel of the pockets.

 

[Fading Fast]

That's also problematic for me. I don't have the kind of spare cash to throw at a Blu-Ray set for a show I may or may not like, and so far it's not available on Netflix.

I hear ya. The "Boardwalk Empire" discs are available at Netflix for dvd rental (as you noted, not available for streaming). Being able to rent one disc from Netflix is a couple of bucks a month more than the streaming-only option at Netflix.

We pay that extra amount just for situation likes this. We no longer buy dvds - save a lot of money there - but pay Netflix a few bucks a month so that we can rent the things that aren't available streaming (just saw "Spectre" on a dvd from Netflix). It's a pretty economical way to have access to the physical dvds without buying.

 

[MisterCairo]

That's also problematic for me. I don't have the kind of spare cash to throw at a Blu-Ray set for a show I may or may not like, and so far it's not available on Netflix.

We are lucky enough to still have a video rental store in town, any luck in your neck of the woods?

 

[MisterCairo]

More episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season three.

 

[Zombie_61]

I hear ya. The "Boardwalk Empire" discs are available at Netflix for dvd rental (as you noted, not available for streaming). Being able to rent one disc from Netflix is a couple of bucks a months more than the streaming-only option at Netflix.

I appreciate the suggestion. If I were seriously interested in seeing Boardwalk Empire I might do that, but my wife and I are currently looking to reduce our monthly expenditures, not add to them. Living in California is already expensive enough as it is. I'll probably see it someday, but for now it's not much of a priority.

We are lucky enough to still have a video rental store in town, any luck in your neck of the woods?

We still have two or three nearby, but they're privately owned and, from what we've seen, tend to focus on movies rather than television shows. Also, for whatever reason, we never really got into the whole "video/DVD rental" thing.

 

[Benzadmiral]

A 1961 episode of Thriller, that often-creepy anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff. This one, "The Grim Reaper," adapted by Robert Bloch from a magazine short story by someone else, featured Natalie Schafer ("Mrs. Howell" on Gilligan's Island three years later) as a mystery writer who buys the titular painting, which appears to have a curse on it, and William Shatner as her likable nephew. Quite well done . . . except . . .

Now, don't get me wrong. I am an admirer of Shatner from the get-go. His occasional problem is that he gives a "bigger," stage-level performance at times on film, and those performances are perceived nowadays as "hamming it up" or overacting. My problem with his performance here is that he manages, with one facial expression, to give away the entire plot of the story! A neat trick, if you can manage it. But the director should have squelched him immediately. His character, Paul, displays an expression during the first 20 minutes of the hour-long show: an expression of triumph in a scene where a look of horror would have been more appropriate. And it told me that his likable young nephew is not likable and is hatching a plot. It was not one of the Columbo-style stories in which we see the killing done and know who is guilty; this was supposed to be a supernatural scare story (and it turns out it is). But Shatner's facial expression blew the gaff, as the British used to say. Tsk, tsk.

 

[1mach1]

The First 48

 

[rocketeer]

British TV at it's best.
Cathy Come Home.
A story/play made in a documentary style about the plight of homelessness in the UK during the 1960s that provoked anger both amongst the viewers who were unaware of these situations, and politicians who thought films such as this should not be shown.
Real people and actors make this one of the most distressing but highly watchable pieces of TV you are ever likely to see.

Real punch the screen angry TV. Well done Ken Loach.

 

[Worf]

British TV at it's best.
Cathy Come Home.
A story/play made in a documentary style about the plight of homelessness in the UK during the 1960s that provoked anger both amongst the viewers who were unaware of these situations, and politicians who thought films such as this should not be shown.
Real people and actors make this one of the most distressing but highly watchable pieces of TV you are ever likely to see.

Real punch the screen angry TV. Well done Ken Loach.

Wow.... Any way to get that over here?

Worf

 

[Worf]

A 1961 episode of Thriller, that often-creepy anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff. This one, "The Grim Reaper," adapted by Robert Bloch from a magazine short story by someone else, featured Natalie Schafer ("Mrs. Howell" on Gilligan's Island three years later) as a mystery writer who buys the titular painting, which appears to have a curse on it, and William Shatner as her likable nephew. Quite well done . . . except . . .

Now, don't get me wrong. I am an admirer of Shatner from the get-go. His occasional problem is that he gives a "bigger," stage-level performance at times on film, and those performances are perceived nowadays as "hamming it up" or overacting. My problem with his performance here is that he manages, with one facial expression, to give away the entire plot of the story! A neat trick, if you can manage it. But the director should have squelched him immediately. His character, Paul, displays an expression during the first 20 minutes of the hour-long show: an expression of triumph in a scene where a look of horror would have been more appropriate. And it told me that his likable young nephew is not likable and is hatching a plot. It was not one of the Columbo-style stories in which we see the killing done and know who is guilty; this was supposed to be a supernatural scare story (and it turns out it is). But Shatner's facial expression blew the gaff, as the British used to say. Tsk, tsk.

Plot reminds me of the "Night Gallery" pilot. They had a similar episode with Roddy McDowal and Ozzie Davis. Davis was Portefoy... the loyal butler. Whenever puddin' bother's me for sumthin' I tell her to ask Portefoy to get it.

Worf

 

[rocketeer]

Wow.... Any way to get that over here?

Worf

Can you get BBC Iplayer? I think it is available on DvD though I don't know about a USA version. May be available on YouTube
You end up hating some of the characters as much as Louise Fletchers nurse Ratched in Cuckoo's Nest.
Without giving the plot away, many different subjects are broached, the interview with the old man who can no longer look after himself is particularly distressing.
Unfortunately some of the things examined in this play are still relevant today.

 

[MisterCairo]

I finished off season four of Longmire, along with a bottle of Ontario VQA red wine.

An awesome end to an awesome season! Netflix did a great job rescuing the show and actually improving it somewhat, and I thought it was brilliant before.

 

[AmateisGal]

A bunch of episodes of Misfit Garage on the Discovery Channel last night. Hubby was recuperating from a trip to the ER yesterday, so we didn't do much else!

 

[Benzadmiral]

"Balance of Terror," the Star Trek episode that introduced the Romulans. I know some of you don't care for the updates to the special effects, but I think they serve the stories in the eps I've seen; they don't overwhelm them. Here, the Romulan "bird-of-prey" ship is shown in a gunmetal grey color in several scenes, and the comet that forms an important incident in the plot is much more impressive than in the original. Otherwise, the episode remains unchanged, a space war tale that still works even after 50 years. And it concludes with a serious moment, rather than the often too-jokey tags that popped up so often on the series in its later years.

 

[Touchofevil]

Boardwalk Empire slipped under my radar. I had seen the promotional commercials but neglected to note the date it would premiere, and by the time I realized it was airing it was already somewhere in the tail end of the first season (I think). I tried to watch an episode or two, but I had no idea who the characters were or what relationships existed between them so it didn't grab me.

At some point in Season Three we tried to jump in to Boardwalk and like you it didn't stick. A couple of years later, with a subscription to HBO, through xfinity on demand we started at the beginning. We became addicted.

 

[DavidJones]

Just finished watching the BBC series Poldark. I hope a second season comes out soon.

 

[Stearmen]

HELL BELOW: ATLANTIC SHOWDOWN.

 

[Touchofevil]

Law & Order and The Andy Griffith Show