General Purpose US TV thread

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Feb 07, 2010 23:35

I'd forgotten how funny the "Stimpy's Pregnant" episode of Ren and Stimpy's Lost Episodes was. I've just almost haemorrhaged laughing.

kalmar · **Posted:** Sun Feb 07, 2010 23:42

Just watched episode 11, season 2 of Breaking Bad. It's left me quite jumpy with tension!

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Feb 08, 2010 0:28

kalmar wrote:

Just watched episode 11, season 2 of Breaking Bad. It's left me quite jumpy with tension!

I need to watch Season 2. Annoyingly I missed it due to FX being shit.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Feb 09, 2010 16:01

DavPaz wrote:

if you like funny names, look down the list of the main cast of dollhouse. Apart from Olivia Williams... well, you'll see

DS9 is quite good for that, too.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38541

True.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14503

Another new Chuck out and you can see how he's getting closer to being a real spy at a cost - loved

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The Ring's shadow base - with the ring symbol and everyone hidden + the hand with the gun killing the main bad guy.
Oh and the 'he's superman' comments for ... well superman :-)

Grim... · **Posted:** Sun Feb 14, 2010 21:41

Finished S1 of Castle. About to give Dexter a try.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Feb 15, 2010 0:14

Oh dear. Dexter has some issues, doesn't he?
Where do I recognise his sister from?

Malabelm · **Posted:** Mon Feb 15, 2010 0:18

Grim... wrote:

Oh dear. Dexter has some issues, doesn't he?
Where do I recognise his sister from?

Have you only just started, from season one? It's a brilliant, programme, that.

Here's his sister on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1358539/ have a see what she's been in. That's his wife in real life, you know.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Feb 15, 2010 0:20

Ah! She's Emily Rose.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14503

Grim... wrote:

Finished S1 of Castle. About to give Dexter a try.

Dexter Season 1 , or Dexter Season 4 ?

Big difference , and yes he has issues regardless of the answer.

I only started watching it earlier this year and did basically seasons 1-3 back to back then watched S4 as it was shown in the US

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:43

I figured I'd start with S1.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14503

Grim... wrote:

I figured I'd start with S1.

Hey i'm not reading 1 post ........

Okay - a bit too early for that - i really enjoyed S1 of Dexter , theres a lot going on and the way they have everything all connecting works really well , personally i'd watch S1 and then go to something else before going on to the later Seasons.

They all have an overarching theme and they have managed to keep the quality up all the way through to the end of S4 - although there are a few poor episodes along the way (Season 4 won a number of awards at the last Emmy's and they have commited to Season 5)

Blucey · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1891

Recent/current stuffs:

Dollhouse. Thought it ended poorly. Cramming it all in was an impossible task but in the end they went all Battlestar/T:SCC and fucked with your trust of the characters. Left Epitath 1 and 2 until yesterday. They were surprisingly good.

Smallville. This season has been brilliant. I only really liked Lex Luthor in the previous seasons and more or less hated everyone else. But in this season everything is great. Bigger stories, bigger effects, bigger characters. All the whiney emo characters are gone or much darker. I'm not a comics fan particularly so the impact of certain DC faves turning up is lost on me, but so far it's been a great season.

Bones. Finally getting its shit together after some really inconsistent seasons. Funny, clever and interesting. The episode that was basically an advert for Avatar can fuck off though. Fuck off a lot.

Glee. It's basically a kid's show with a couple of adult themes. The music is horrible. The vocals are auto-tuned so heavily that every note sounds like a dying Terminator. Every character in it is stupid or completely unlikeable. The butch woman is good though. One scene (a 'diva off' between Neurotic Brunette and Gayer Than Pie) was genuinely terrifying and upsetting (although it wasn't intended to be). Avoid avoid avoid.

Family Guy. Still good but overdoing the ironic racism a bit too much now.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49236

What is up with US TV scheduling? Bones, Chuck, Castle, and House all taking a month off?

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14503

Craster wrote:

What is up with US TV scheduling? Bones, Chuck, Castle, and House all taking a month off?

The Olympics , although a lot of US series all take odd breaks at times for 'sweeps' week n stuff

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Feb 21, 2010 18:50

Dirty sets?

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sun Feb 21, 2010 18:58

Craster wrote:

What is up with US TV scheduling? Bones, Chuck, Castle, and House all taking a month off?

What the buggery hell happened to 'Lie to Me' too?

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

House continues after Easter, Lie to Me is June. They are both mid series though. I guess this is the downside of having the same programme schedule as the states.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sun Feb 21, 2010 20:16

I miss Lie to Me. I was enjoying it more than House by the end of last year.

Also, Stargate Universe. They said it'd be back with new episodes in January, and all we're getting is repeats. US TV schedules are crap!

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14503

In case people havent noticed most of the US tv shows are now back after the Olympics.

2 new eps of Chuck (including the return of Jeffster!)

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First one was a little disapointing and i do feel sorry for Hannah but the 2nd one was much better and now we have the fact that the Ring used Awesome as a decoy knew Chuck was Carmichael and worked out where Castle was - theres no reason other Ring agents couldnt do the same - we do also now have Morgan as a potential leak for any Chuck info and whats he going to do if Ellie asks him something in that way she has with him.

There is also a new Castle episode as well (which I havent watched yet)

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49236

New House as well

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Some stuff about his biological dad - possible story arc for the latter part of the series?

nickachu · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 15:41

Craster wrote:

New House as well

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Some stuff about his biological dad - possible story arc for the latter part of the series?

It was a good-un

maybe a romance between 13 and chase forming?
The wilson stuff was funny as well.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14503

New Southpark last night as well

I really want the new EA Tiger Woods 11 game :-)

Kenny died in an intresting way and Butters was excellent as always

Blucey · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1891

Recently watched 4 seasons of Desp Housewives to get myself completely up to date with it.

It's really good although they're recylcing their plots a little now.

Also, just started Burn Notice. The first two eps have been utterly fantastic.

It screams 'spy caper of the week' though, so I'm guessing it'll be thin on overall story arc but I'm liking it.

Have got a few days leave to use up this month. Will rinse through Generation Kill.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14503

Quite a fun Chuck this week with a few new character points and things touched on

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Mar 22, 2010 15:16

Castle will be shown in the UK on Alibi at the beginning of April.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Mar 23, 2010 14:22

I am still adoring 'Glee'. Sue Sylvester is a superb character, and Jane Lynch plays her perfectly.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Mar 23, 2010 14:26

Curiosity wrote:

I am still adoring 'Glee'. Sue Sylvester is a superb character, and Jane Lynch plays her perfectly.

I am very impressed with it, been watching all the reruns fon E4, as I only started watching about 4 episodes in.

Any one still watching Flash Forward?

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14503

I watched the first 'run' of it and caught the 2 new eps last night - at least they tried to do something in there but i'm not sure what their hook is going to be.

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So Charlie <ahem> Simon is a baddie but has his reasons and is suspect zero
Plank man (fines) is going to start drinking cause he has to have worked with soppy man and due to some magic drugs now has extra stuff for his flash forward
His wife takes care of the kids
Theres a preacher man who thinks its all a sign from above
"Ghost partner" has some issues with the CIA type guy whos now working with them

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10106

I watched the recommencement double expecting it to be its last chance, but now I'm looking forward to the rest of the season.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Mar 23, 2010 15:29

I sky+ them, and will watch this week..

Runcle · **Posted:** Tue Mar 23, 2010 16:35

breaking bad has started again in the states dudes.

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue Mar 23, 2010 16:45

Excellent. To the torrentmobile.

nickachu · **Posted:** Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:37

New castle very good.

Beckett just gets more and more lovely.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:44

Dexter's dad was the worst dad (and cop) ever!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:45

Grim... wrote:

Dexter's dad was the worst dad (and cop) ever!

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14503

Grim... wrote:

Dexter's dad was the worst dad (and cop) ever!

But are you basing that on seeing just the first season ? , there are more horrors to come :-)

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14503

Quite an interesting week for both Chuck and Castle this week

Chuck

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Despite the baddie double crossing chuck a number of times he just couldnt kill someone who was pleading for their life , although people think he did.

I still come back to the thought that at some stage he's going to have to choose between killing someone and saving Sarah and at that point he'll pull the trigger

Castle

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An explosive end - did she jump back to the bathtub ? is this tied in to her mothers death in any way ? are we going to spend time tracking down this SK ?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49236

zaphod79 wrote:

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I still come back to the thought that at some stage he's going to have to choose between killing someone and saving Sarah and at that point he'll pull the trigger

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Disagree. See, "good Chuck" is the one that can't shoot someone, and that's the Chuck that Sarah loves. That's why she's upset that he appears to have done so. So basically, it'll come out that he didn't, then they'll smooch.

Aren't we about at the end of Chuck? The agreement was for S3 to be a half-season, wasn't it? And that was ep11.

sdg · **Posted:** Thu Mar 25, 2010 15:22

Is this Castle programme starting on Alibi from season one then? The only thing I've heard about is occasional mentions in this thread but if I remember I will set the Sky+ for it.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu Mar 25, 2010 15:23

superdupergill wrote:

Is this Castle programme starting on Alibi from season one then? The only thing I've heard about is occasional mentions in this thread but if I remember I will set the Sky+ for it.

When does it start?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49236

superdupergill wrote:

Is this Castle programme starting on Alibi from season one then? The only thing I've heard about is occasional mentions in this thread but if I remember I will set the Sky+ for it.

All you need to know is that it's brilliant and has superb tottie.

sdg · **Posted:** Thu Mar 25, 2010 15:27

SOLD!

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Mar 25, 2010 15:30

Good point, I need to leech season 2. If only we had an alley for that sort of thing!

House is good, totty-wise, at the moment*. Female doctor '13' is going through a crisis and appears to be dealing with it by picking up hot chicks in clubs.

*Wherever I'm up to in Season 5.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14503

Craster wrote:

superdupergill wrote:

Is this Castle programme starting on Alibi from season one then? The only thing I've heard about is occasional mentions in this thread but if I remember I will set the Sky+ for it.

All you need to know is that it's brilliant and has superb tottie.

Nathan Fillion ?

All you need to know is its brilliant and you should watch it.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14503

Craster wrote:

zaphod79 wrote:

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I still come back to the thought that at some stage he's going to have to choose between killing someone and saving Sarah and at that point he'll pull the trigger

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Disagree. See, "good Chuck" is the one that can't shoot someone, and that's the Chuck that Sarah loves. That's why she's upset that he appears to have done so. So basically, it'll come out that he didn't, then they'll smooch.

Aren't we about at the end of Chuck? The agreement was for S3 to be a half-season, wasn't it? And that was ep11.

19 episodes and we've just had number 11

And i can see your point for Chuck , however I wonder if they really can keep that going.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49236

kalmar wrote:

Good point, I need to leech season 2. If only we had an alley for that sort of thing!

Oh, I've got it. I'll get it added to the Alley.

Quote:

Nathan Fillion ?

Not so much.

nickachu · **Posted:** Thu Mar 25, 2010 15:38

zaphod79 wrote:

Castle

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An explosive end - did she jump back to the bathtub ? is this tied in to her mothers death in any way ? are we going to spend time tracking down this SK ?

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It's a 2 parter. The next episiode is called "Boom" and this one was called "Tick,tick,tick" maybe she wasnt at her apartment when the bomb went off... she'll obviously survive the explosion, but I don't think it's tied to her mothers death, haven't they already done that storyline?

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14503

kalmar wrote:

Good point, I need to leech season 2. If only we had an alley for that sort of thing!

I can sort that out if i remember tonight - however Season 2 hasnt finished yet 24 episodes scheduled and we've just had episode 17

Did you enjoy Season 1 ?

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