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  • Creating this topic to see what TV shows (or Netflix and all things similar) Wintreans watch, and for them to comment on them.

    I've begun watching The Wire again, after attempting to do so 5 years ago as a teen, and I must say I'm finding it much better the second time around. I just couldn't get into it the first time. It takes place in Baltimore, but the issues at play are universal. I highly recommend it to any fan of TV dramas. It's worth it for the dialogue alone.
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  • Right now I am reliving my College years, watching Melrose Place.  I am waiting for American Horror Story to start again in September.
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  • I finished The Wire today. What a journey it's been. The following scene had me laughing and nearly crying in equal measures, and in the end, sums up everything I've grown to love about this series: the beautiful writing, the dialogue, and the sheer character displayed in every scene. Even at its most absurd, it had me believing in what I was seeing.

    Obviously, don't watch this if you haven't seen the series in its entirety yet but plan to:

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  • The Wire is definitely on my watch list.

    After seeing it recommended on Reddit, I watched the HBO series John Adams for the past few days. It's only 7 episodes of an hourish long, so it's a quick watch.

    I really liked it. It made the whole founding of America story quite interesting, coming from the point of view of one of the lesser talked about founding fathers. The series starts in 1770 with the Boston Massacre and Adams's defense of the British soldiers in court, then goes to the Continental Congress and the talks that led to the Declaration of Independence, Adams's time as an ambassador to France and Britain, his terms as Vice President and President, and finally his retirement years and death in 1826 at the age of 90.

    The cast and acting was very good as well. Paul Giamatti of course played John Adams, Laura Linney as Abigail Adams, Stephen Dillane as Thomas Jefferson, Tom Wilkinson as Benjamin Franklin, David Morse as George Washington, and many more.

    Definitely recommend it to anyone, but especially those who wish to get a better understanding of the founding of the US as well as John Adams himself.

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  • I finally caught up with Person of Interest, and I've now finished it. As procedurals go, this is one of the best I've seen, but I'd say the king is still House. If I had to give it some mark out of 10, I'd give it about a 7. I'd like to note that I don't give out anything beyond a 5 easily, and that I reward these things quite intuitively. A 7 just feels right.

    Now on to my spoiler-filled thoughts:
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    It was a bit underwhelming, to me. The high-point was season 3's finale, in my opinion.

    Perhaps it was just that I had a pre-conceived idea of what would happen after episode 10's ending, with Finch possibly finally going off the rails and doing some truly terrible things to save the day, as Elias predicted he might. John's remark to Shaw in episode 10 reinforced that idea. Finch was the Mary Sue of this series, and Mary Sues bore me. Except if they're lucky enough to be in the shows of my youth, when I was a far happier and less critical person.

    To me, the ending felt far too formulaic. There was nothing whatsoever wrong with it. It just didn't surprise me at all. Unlike season 3's finale. Reese was always going to save Harold's life at the expense of his own, Fusco was always going to pull through against all the odds, and Shaw was always going to follow in Reese's footsteps to a large degree, after Reese's death.

    I will give the show credit where it's due, though. Good or bad choices never really mattered in this show. It was such a subjective thing, after all. These characters simply made choices, and they had to deal with the consequences. Blackwell tried to weasel his way out of this, so of course he got shot and killed. He just didn't get it. Neither did Samaritan. For all its talks about saving humanity, it wasn't prepared to go down with the ship when the going got tough.

    While we're on that subject, I have to remove points for the flimsy way in which they handled Samaritan's end. It would have been nice to get some sort of techno-babble explanation for why exactly The Machine was finally able to defeat it when it really mattered. "Because now I don't have a choice" is the type of useless rationalisation I would only ever expect to find in a lesser show.
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  • Speak sense, man.

    If you're just here to spam and troll, you're going to get banned.
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  • Sometimes you watch a series that you don't really enjoy. The feeling can best be described as horrified fascination. That's how I would say I feel about Mr Robot. The second season is even more bleak, cynical and downright insane than the first.
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  • Since I got sick a few weeks ago, I've been watching The West Wing on Netflix...I have to admit that I'm drawn to this idealistic version of politics, though I highly doubt it's anything like what actually happens. Still, it's preferable to watching the real-life shitstorm going on in this election...


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  • I don't watch much TV, but I like NCIS. I just miss Michael Weatherly. DiNozzo was my favorite character ._.
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  • So my wife and I have been watching House as we'd never actually watched it all front to back. We just finished the finale of season 5 where
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    House realizes he hallucinated having sex with Cuddy and so admits himself into a psychiatric hospital.
    I can't state enough how well written and shot of an episode it was. Might even rewatch parts of it and the previous episode to really see what I missed. Probably my favorite so far. 3 more seasons!
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  • House is pretty much the undisputed king of procedurals. Season 6 and 7 are also amazing. 8 is a bit of a letdown, though,.
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  • I actually thought the series went downhill as it went on, especially after the first few seasons.


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  • I actually thought the series went downhill as it went on, especially after the first few seasons.
    But but but... Olivia Wilde isn't in the first few seasons. I'll have to respectfully disagree.
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  • Westworld is either going to be very good, or very bad.

    Anyway, I'm trying to get behind Luke Cage, and not succeeding. Marvel just raised my expectations so much with Jessica Jones that I can't willingly sit through this dialogue, pace and plot.
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  • But but but... Olivia Wilde isn't in the first few seasons. I'll have to respectfully disagree.
    Sorry, I tend to base my opinions on more than whether one person was on or not. :P


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