What was the last TV show you watched?

[Stearmen]

Humongous Moves. The National Railroad Museum in York, England wanted to get all six surviving LNER Class A4 steam locomotives back together. They had to haul The Dwight D Eisenhower from Green Bay, Wisconsin, and The Dominion Of Canada from Quebec, Canada. Very fascinating logistics!

 

[Edward]

Humongous Moves. The National Railroad Museum in York, England wanted to get all six surviving LNER Class A4 steam locomotives back together. They had to haul The Dwight D Eisenhower from Green Bay, Wisconsin, and The Dominion Of Canada from Quebec, Canada. Very fascinating logistics!

Cracking museum, that. We went to visit it when on holiday in the area back in 87, and spent an entire day there.

 

[Otter]

@ Zombie and Dr Strange, I have the theme music to Firefly as my phone ringtone ! It is quite confusing that they showed some of the episodes out of order when aired.

 

[Worf]

"One Punch Man" - Great Japanese anime... It both skewers and pays homage to the whole genre at the same time.

Worf

 

[Fading Fast]

"Call the Midwife" season premier.

The time travel feel of this show is what holds me (East End of London early '60s) and the characters are the other attraction as some have become friends (and have grown and developed over the seasons like real people), but the stories by now have, unfortunately, become wash, rinse, repeat.

That said, I've always been surprised - owing to the outstanding period sets, clothes, cars, architecture - that the show seems to have almost no following at Fedora.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Opening Day 2017. Hahahahhahahaha, 161 to go.

 

[Harp]

Gonzaga vs North Carolina...A crap shoot with parity loaded dice, but some solid three-point marksmanship and foul freebies, and my dog lost.

 

[Zombie_61]

@ Zombie and Dr Strange, I have the theme music to Firefly as my phone ringtone!

I really liked both the theme song and the musical scores produced for the various episodes. I think they suited the show, and I have the soundtrack CD in my truck so I can listen to it when the mood strikes.

...It is quite confusing that they showed some of the episodes out of order when aired.

Anecdotal evidence seems to support the prevalent theory that the execs at Fox never understood the show. They rejected the pilot episode, which is why "The Train Job" aired first and the original pilot aired last in the show's original 11-episode run (with the final three episodes airing eight months after the show had been cancelled). They constantly complained that the show was "too dark", but wanted Mal to shoot more people. They initially rejected the show because they didn't like the fact that Wash and Zoe were married--they wanted a romantic connection between Mal and Zoe instead. And Joss Whedon and the showrunners were constantly at odds with the Fox execs, who wanted changes made to the storyline.

I don't know exactly when the cast and crew were informed of the show's cancellation, but I think Whedon knew it was coming because the final moments of the last episode "Objects in Space" with Mal casually strolling through the ship observing his crew has a definite "final episode" feeling to it.

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

Home Fires, episode 1 of the new season. Quite a few stories for one viewing, but done with inimitable style-

 

[Babydoll]

We are making our way thru "Boardwalk Empire" for the first time, currently in Season 4. Hubby's choice.

 

[Fading Fast]

Home Fires, episode 1 of the new season. Quite a few stories for one viewing, but done with inimitable style-

Watched it last night and, like you, thought they handled a lot of moving parts very well. They seemed to have upped their game a bit so far this season as the stories, dialogue and characters have a bit more depth / a bit more nuance than last season. And the show is just beautifully filmed and wonderful time travel with the detailed period sets, clothes, cars and architecture.

I was really disappointed to learn from AmateisGal in an earlier post in this thread that the show is done after this season.

We are making our way thru "Boardwalk Empire" for the first time, currently in Season 4. Hubby's choice.

Hubby's choice, but what do you think?

 

[Doctor Strange]

Latest episode of The Americans (great, as usual). And on Netflix, the new Louis C.K. standup special (good) and the first hour of the new documentary Five Came Back (excellent).

 

[Frunobulax]

Started watching the Amazon series, The Patriot. We're three episodes in now. Very dark humor, interesting pacing. Dry, sardonic and more than a little weird. It's growing on me.

 

[Benzadmiral]

One of my long-time favorite Man from U.N.C.L.E. episodes, "The Dove Affair," featuring Ricardo Montalban as a secretive spymaster in a (fictional) Eastern European country, and his now-an-ally, now-an-enemy struggle with Napoleon Solo over a silver figurine of a dove containing vital secrets. June Lockhart, fresh off her Lassie gig, plays a pretty schoolteacher who volunteers to help Solo. There's no Illya; the episode comes from the early days of the show, when the producers were not quite sure how Bondian it should be. It's rather dark and film-noirish in look, though with the series' trademark tongue-in-cheekiness.

Also noteworthy: It was written by Robert Towne, 10 years before Chinatown and 30 before he cannibalized some elements of this script for use in the Tom Cruise big-screen Mission: Impossible.

 

[AmateisGal]

First episode of the Netflix original series, Five Came Back about five Hollywood film directors in World War II. Quite good.

 

[AmateisGal]

Watched it last night and, like you, thought they handled a lot of moving parts very well. They seemed to have upped their game a bit so far this season as the stories, dialogue and characters have a bit more depth / a bit more nuance than last season. And the show is just beautifully filmed and wonderful time travel with the detailed period sets, clothes, cars and architecture.

I was really disappointed to learn from AmateisGal in an earlier post in this thread that the show is done after this season.

A LOT of people were disappointed when they canceled it. Fortunately, they are continuing the story in a book series. While I'd rather watch the show, at least I'll know what happened to the characters.

 

[Fading Fast]

A LOT of people were disappointed when they canceled it. Fortunately, they are continuing the story in a book series. While I'd rather watch the show, at least I'll know what happened to the characters.

That's kinda neat - agreed, rather see the show, but the book series is a fun idea. Is it out yet?

 

[BobHufford]

Started watching the Amazon series, The Patriot. We're three episodes in now. Very dark humor, interesting pacing. Dry, sardonic and more than a little weird. It's growing on me.

I liked this quite a bit. My wife ... not so much.

 

[Frunobulax]

I liked this quite a bit. My wife ... not so much.

My wife wants to know if she can get. CD of his "folk songs."


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Feud. No knowledge of the actual situation. I wouldn't bother to recommend it to anyone, but I enjoy it.