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genevieve said:
I'm home sick today and got a HULU free trial just so I can watch the series UnREAL, which I'd heard is great. It's pretty dark, but definitely addictive. Shiri Appleby is great, and I always love Constance Zimmer.
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I'm in the library queue for that one on DVD. I heard Zimmer interviewed about it last fall just before it aired, and it sounded like my kind of show. Especially if you despise most reality TV as I do. :D
 
I saw some episode reviews where the reviewer, who has watched a LOT of The Bachelor etc, was bugged by some details that didn't true up with the genre, but I figure that's like FSUers going to see Ice Princess and taking issue with that whole triple axel thing :p The only reality dating shows I've ever watched are the evil ones (Temptation Island, Joe Millionaire, and there was one on NBC like a decade ago where the audience was totally hate-voting the worst person to the end), so this is right up my alley :EVILLE:

Although: apparently Joe Shmo 2 was the most amazing fake dating show ever. Did anyone watch it?
 
I loved North & South. Little Dorrit is another good one with similar setting/themes, I think it's streaming on Amazon (I'm not the main Prime account holder so it shows up to purchase for me).

I'm working my way through Call the Midwife. Really enjoying it. I'll get back to Jessica Jones eventually - I did like it but with Game of Thrones, Outlander and Orphan Black all currently airing, I need some light-hearted shows!
 
I've been on a British comedy kick lately and discovered Miranda starring Call the Midwife's Miranda Hart while marathon re-watching Absolutely Fabulous on Hulu. You can see some of the punchlines a mile away but the cast is so good, especially Hart, and I can't stop watching it. There are times where I burst out laughing.

I also started watching Cuckoo on Netflix starring Andy Samberg (before he got his gig on Brooklyn Nine Nine) playing an American free spirit who disrupts a British family's suburban life when he marries the daughter, and it's seriously funny as well. I think what makes it work is that the suburban Brits (family and neighbors) are just as wacky as Samberg's character is. I love the take on the patriarch who rather than conservative stodgy is a liberal progressive type from the 80s who still tries to cling on to those values but is tested when things don't go his way and when he meets a really unorthodox and actually unstructured character. The mom is also great as she doesn't play the straight man as we often see in American sitcoms. She adds to the hilarity in her own right. A standout character for me is her best friend, who you wouldn't expect just by looking at her (unless she's a semi-famous British comedian character actress I didn't know about).

Since Samberg got the gig on Brooklyn Nine Nine, they had to write his character off and it was replaced by Taylor Lautner who one wouldn't think would replace a Samberg type, but it actually works as they went in a slightly different direction with the Lautner character.
 
I really enjoyed Cuckoo too. It took a couple of episodes for Taylor Lautner to really settle in but he was fabulous after that.
 
Ok, adding Cuckoo to my list ...

Can someone please tell me how season 4 of House of Cards was? I really enjoyed the 1st two seasons, but thought the 3rd one was a huge letdown and a waste of talent. Did 4 get better? TIA
 
I has seen Season 1 of Luther on BBC America - and just watched Season 2 & 3. Season 4 is out, but not on Netflix yet.
I love Idris Elba (Swoon). I love good cop shows and this one is no exception. The crimes are interesting and poor John Luther - no one around him is safe!
 
I just finished watching Dr. Thorne on Amazon Prime and enjoyed it a great deal. The sets and costumes (and of course, the story) are wonderful and the bits Fellowes adds at the start and end of each episode a quite a hoot.

Loved Luther. Elba is excellent.

Encouraging everyone one more time to see Gaskell's North & South (2004 BBC version) if possible. It is a beautiful love story, but it's also so much more. The story operates on multiple levels and it is full of top notch performances.
 
I'm fairly certain PBS will carry season 2 of Home Fires in the fall.

If it were available on a stream that I can access easily I might have watched it sooner, but there's so much else to catch up on I think I'll probably wait for PBS.
 
Nan said:
I just finished watching Dr. Thorne on Amazon Prime and enjoyed it a great deal. The sets and costumes (and of course, the story) are wonderful and the bits Fellowes adds at the start and end of each episode a quite a hoot.

Loved Luther. Elba is excellent.

Encouraging everyone one more time to see Gaskell's North & South (2004 BBC version) if possible. It is a beautiful love story, but it's also so much more. The story operates on multiple levels and it is full of top notch performances.
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I agree Dr. Thorne was very enjoyable, loved the music they used through out it as well. Instantly thought it would be nice to hear in a program too :)
 
Artemis@BC said:
Ok, adding Cuckoo to my list ...

Can someone please tell me how season 4 of House of Cards was? I really enjoyed the 1st two seasons, but thought the 3rd one was a huge letdown and a waste of talent. Did 4 get better? TIA
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I'm trying hard to remember House of Cards 3, :eek: but we enjoyed House of Cards 4. Like all the post season 1 House of Cards, it has story lines I could do without (Claire and her mother, even if it was Ellen Burstyn, what a snooze:shuffle: ) but once Francis comes back (won't tell you from what, in case you watch) it picks up the intrigue.

After it was done, we watched the first British House of Cards which was highly enjoyable. Late to the party, I know. I don't think it was the vastly superior work to Season 1 American HOC that some think, but it was a fine show. And their version of Stamper is priceless:D
 
Finally got around to re-subscribing to Netflix last night (with another free month by using a different email address & credit card from last time!). Watched the 1st episode of season 2 of Kimmie Schmidt, and found it somewhat lacking. But I loved, loved, loved the first two episodes of Jessica Jones.

Looking forward to checking out some of the other series mentioned here.
 
Oh, just remembered another series I'd recommend: The Detectorists. I spotted it among the Netflix offerings as I was browsing last night.

It's a quirky, slow-paced dramedy about a pair of detectorists (people who scour the countryside with their metal detectors) in small-town England. The act of detectoring is, of course, a metaphor for searching for what's important in life. I absolutely loved the 1st season, and am looking forward to the 2nd.
 
Another crime drama with an International cast would be Crossing Lines on Netflix. It apparently wasn't very well received in the States, but I love it! If anyone is interested in a present day Jack The Ripper case I recommend season 1 of Whitechapel on Hulu.
 
I loved the Detectorists so much that I found a download source for the second season. It was as lovely as the first season.
 
I finished watching Jessica Jones last night. Wow. I thought Daredevil would be hard to top as best superhero TV series, but Jessica Jones was phenomenal.

My only criticism: I will now never be able to look at David Tennant (aka my secret boyfriend) the same way again.

Looking forward now to Luke Cage in the fall (previously I didn't give a toss) and The Defenders next year.
 
shsocu said:
Another crime drama with an International cast would be Crossing Lines on Netflix. It apparently wasn't very well received in the States, but I love it! If anyone is interested in a present day Jack The Ripper case I recommend season 1 of Whitechapel on Hulu.
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I really liked Crossing Lines. Of course, the eye-candy helped.
 
Whitechapel was scary! Not in a gore way, but in a messing-with-your-mind way.

The lead actor from WC, Rupert Penry-Jones, also starred in Silk which was very good. It was about solicitors in London. Looks like the first two seasons of 3 are on Amazon.
 
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