What was the last TV show you watched?

[Edward]

Better Call Saul, iZombie, and RuPaul's Drag Race are our current enjoyments. I hear tell that Penny Dreadful has finally made it to Netflix UK, so we'll look at that next. Still waiting for Season 3 of Gotham on UK Netflix, alas.

Also anxiously waiting for the disc release of the new Twin Peaks series; I loved the original, but I don't want to have to pay for a subscription to satellite television just to see the new series; rather spend less on disc (which I'd doubtless buy anyhow). Amusingly, when I mentioned this recently elsewhere, someone said "Do people still use DVDs?".

 

[Touchofevil]

Finished Game of Thrones and thoroughly enjoyed it. I now understand the hype. It is so well done, it puts many a movie to shame.

 

[Touchofevil]

Fear Walking Dead, Rome, and a couple of episodes of Better Call Saul.

 

[Stearmen]

Air Warriors: U2 Dragon Lady. Still flying high after 62 years of service.

 

[MisterCairo]

On duty in the boonies of the Ottawa valley (Garrison Petawawa). Have been binging Boardwalk Empire over the last week.

Up to season two, episode four.

Oh Jimmy, what tangled webs you are weaving...

 

[Stearmen]

Genius. It is easy to forget with all the atrocities by the Germans, that Jews in prewar were not welcomed with open arms into America either! We were just a little more cleaver, we called them Socialist and Communist, then beat them up and deported them. It was nice to see another unsung hero standing up to Hitler, Raymond Geist!

 

[Benzadmiral]

A second-season episode of The Outer Limits from 1964. "The Invisible Enemy" features the second manned landing on Mars (in, according to the script, 2009!). Part of this 4-man crew's job is to find out what happened to the members of the previous expedition, 3 years before. It features Adam West as a strong expedition commander who is loyal to his men (and vice versa); Rudy Solari (who popped up, usually as villains and thugs, in many other shows of the time) as his first officer; and Ted Knight (6 years before his "Ted Baxter" run began) as a government bureaucrat. Aside from rather unconvincing effects when the alien shows up, it's a good and gripping story written by Jerry Sohl of Star Trek's "Corbomite Maneuver" fame.

 

[Worf]

A second-season episode of The Outer Limits from 1964. "The Invisible Enemy" features the second manned landing on Mars (in, according to the script, 2009!). Part of this 4-man crew's job is to find out what happened to the members of the previous expedition, 3 years before. It features Adam West as a strong expedition commander who is loyal to his men (and vice versa); Rudy Solari (who popped up, usually as villains and thugs, in many other shows of the time) as his first officer; and Ted Knight (6 years before his "Ted Baxter" run began) as a government bureaucrat. Aside from rather unconvincing effects when the alien shows up, it's a good and gripping story written by Jerry Sohl of Star Trek's "Corbomite Maneuver" fame.

Yeah I'm going through the original "Outer Limits" run myself. Truth be told I think, though not a celebrated as "The Twilight Zone"... that more than a few of their episodes are classics in their own right. Especially in Season 2 shortened as it was.

Worf

 

[Benzadmiral]

Yeah I'm going through the original "Outer Limits" run myself. Truth be told I think, though not a celebrated as "The Twilight Zone"... that more than a few of their episodes are classics in their own right. Especially in Season 2 shortened as it was.

Worf

Yes, with "Demon with a Glass Hand" and "Soldier" in that season we really got some decent TV SF.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Don't forget "The Sixth Finger"!

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Finished Game of Thrones and thoroughly enjoyed it. I now understand the hype. It is so well done, it puts many a movie to shame.

The coming season is a short one.

 

[Stearmen]

Combat Trains: The Death Railway!

 

[Stearmen]

I made it through about 15 minutes of Charles III. Has any one watched it in it's entirety? Should I keep watching, or just quit while I'm ahead?

 

[Doctor Strange]

Episode 1 of The Crown on Netflix. So far, it's not doing anything for me.

Jared Harris is great as the dying king, but otherwise, it's just a crazy opulent production of the usual Masterpiece Theater material. Claire Foy looks good, but she hasn't yet emerged as the compelling main character. John Lithgow's Churchill seems like a very broad caricature. People went gaga for this series, so I assume it gets better, right?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The Dawns Here Are Quiet
Russian miniseries set during WWII

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

I made it through about 15 minutes of Charles III. Has any one watched it in it's entirety? Should I keep watching, or just quit while I'm ahead?

We got about as far as you and quit. Is it trying to be a faux-Shakespeare character study? An attack on monarchy, or on the current royal family, or just Charles himself? We will be happy to wait for the return of Victoria...

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

Episode 1 of The Crown on Netflix. So far, it's not doing anything for me.

Jared Harris is great as the dying king, but otherwise, it's just a crazy opulent production of the usual Masterpiece Theater material. Claire Foy looks good, but she hasn't yet emerged as the compelling main character. John Lithgow's Churchill seems like a very broad caricature. People went gaga for this series, so I assume it gets better, right?

We liked it a lot, but you are right about Lithgow's Churchill.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Fargo. season finale. I enjoyed this season. Great character play by Thewlis and Winstead. But...the worst season of the series so far, and a couple of really stupid, absurd plot device/scenes. Those scenes were well acted, but they were still stupid. Really stupid. The final few minutes were especially terrible. I'm not sure if the writers didn't know how to write themselves through the event or if they failed at their artsy-fartsy creative license.

 

[scottyrocks]

Watching Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction now.

 

[EngProf]

The Dawns Here Are Quiet
Russian miniseries set during WWII

"The Dawns Here are Quiet"- or - "Fashion Models at War"