Suggest a TV series please.

[Homerboy]

Did anyone recommend "The Brink" on HBO yet in this thread?
One of the best recent comedies... and cancelled. I don't recall ever being so bummed when a show was cancelled (mostly due to it's short run)

 

[zinfamous]

Did anyone recommend "The Brink" on HBO yet in this thread?
One of the best recent comedies... and cancelled. I don't recall ever being so bummed when a show was cancelled (mostly due to it's short run)

Yeah it's great. I don't think of it now because of the one season, but it's not like it really left you hanging with anything. The end of that season wasn't so much a cliffhanger as a perfect "well, that's just how shit goes" regarding the plot.

I'm thinking the issue with Veep the last season and ~1/2 is that no longer being Veep really changes the dynamics of the characters. And especially this season wrg to Selena and her daughter (and mother)...she's actually more of a straight-up cold-hearted bitch now than the "delightfully negligent powerful woman" she was before.

Last week, I actually found myself a bit turned-off by the character. She's supposed to be unlikable, but perhaps this more caustic version of her is a necessary evolution into being POTUS--now that she has real power, she can finally be the jerk that she always wanted to be?

 

[Homerboy]

Yeah it's great. I don't think of it now because of the one season, but it's not like it really left you hanging with anything. The end of that season wasn't so much a cliffhanger as a perfect "well, that's just how shit goes" regarding the plot.

I'm thinking the issue with Veep the last season and ~1/2 is that no longer being Veep really changes the dynamics of the characters. And especially this season wrg to Selena and her daughter (and mother)...she's actually more of a straight-up cold-hearted bitch now than the "delightfully negligent powerful woman" she was before.

Last week, I actually found myself a bit turned-off by the character. She's supposed to be unlikable, but perhaps this more caustic version of her is a necessary evolution into being POTUS--now that she has real power, she can finally be the jerk that she always wanted to be?

to paraphrase a great woman: "yadda-yadda-yadda.... Jonah Ryan"

(though I do agree with your thought process... she as "likable" before because you had some sympathy for her being the "oft-neglected VP" instead of the the "bitchy POTUS" she is this season

 

[Perknose]

Did anyone recommend "The Brink" on HBO yet in this thread?
One of the best recent comedies... and cancelled. I don't recall ever being so bummed when a show was cancelled (mostly due to it's short run)

Damn. When I first heard this show's premise, I thought, "culturally insensitive mistake" in the vein of "Springtime for Hitler." And I had never been a huge fan of Jack Black. But it navigated those minefields admirably and delivered. Tim Robbins was FANTASTIC! I'm sorry to see it go. 🙁

 

[Homerboy]

Damn. When I first heard this show's premise, I thought, "culturally insensitive mistake" in the vein of "Springtime for Hitler." And I had never been a huge fan of Jack Black. But it navigated those minefields admirably and delivered. Tim Robbins was FANTASTIC! I'm sorry to see it go. 🙁

Robbins was completely fantastic. Such a great character and he nailed it.
Speaking of "nailing it", having Carla Gugino in the show also helped out 🙂

 

[Apathetic]

You have excellent taste, sir. I'd also like to add Vikings to the list.

Dave

The Shield
The Wire
Sopranos
Spartacus
House of Cards
Game of Thrones

 

[purbeast0]

i started daredevil on netflix sunday. i've watched the first 7 episodes since. the show is really really good. strongly recommended.

 

[CZroe]

Damn. When I first heard this show's premise, I thought, "culturally insensitive mistake" in the vein of "Springtime for Hitler." And I had never been a huge fan of Jack Black. But it navigated those minefields admirably and delivered. Tim Robbins was FANTASTIC! I'm sorry to see it go. 🙁

I felt the same way about Jack until seeing him in "Bernie."

 

[OutHouse]

i got started on The Messengers, (netflix) last night.