rjw63 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Just finished House...all 177 episodes in about 6 weeks. Missus had never seen it, I was up to season 8 episode 3 so went back to the start. Awesome TV. And a great ending...shame the makers of Dexter didn't watch this first! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nath182 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Me the GF have started watching Suits, it's brilliant! Unfortunately Netflix doesn't have season 3 yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 You just got litt up 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Gutted it was the season finale of the mentalist this week as has been a great season. Got to wait until next year for the next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Coming towards the end of series 3 of 24 - just watched the train yard scene with Bauer & Chappelle. Wow! What great TV 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 There is a scene midway through that season that will make you go for entirely different reasons. Yeah, I got there last night and I can confirm you are definitely correct. Thinking back, there was some subtle foreshadowing. Very clever, but yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Coming towards the end of series 3 of 24 - just watched the train yard scene with Bauer & Chappelle. Wow! What great TV I remember being absolutely stunned. I was thinking how are they going to get out of this all the way and then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heffoman Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Gutted it was the season finale of the mentalist this week as has been a great season. Got to wait until next year for the next I like the Mentalist but I thought it built up brilliantly then lost a lot after the cumulation of the Red John story arc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Coming towards the end of series 3 of 24 - just watched the train yard scene with Bauer & Chappelle. Wow! What great TV I remember being absolutely stunned. I was thinking how are they going to get out of this all the way and then... It was a definite hold your breath moment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Gutted it was the season finale of the mentalist this week as has been a great season. Got to wait until next year for the next I like the Mentalist but I thought it built up brilliantly then lost a lot after the cumulation of the Red John story arc. I was surprised it continued after the Red John plot but thought it handled it pretty well - I'm also surprised, considering the finale they're doing another season - it could've been left as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 That Rupert on the Island is a **** tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted June 2, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted June 2, 2014 That Rupert on the Island is a **** tool. Yup, but he just got owned by Sam with that democratic leader comment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted June 2, 2014 Author Share Posted June 2, 2014 (edited) That Rupert on the Island is a **** tool. What one is Rupert, the retired policeman? Edited June 2, 2014 by AVFCforever1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 That Rupert on the Island is a **** tool. What one is Rupert, the retired policeman? Dunno what he did.. He's the one who just wanted to hunt caymen all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted June 2, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted June 2, 2014 That Rupert on the Island is a **** tool. What one is Rupert, the retired policeman? No, this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted June 2, 2014 Author Share Posted June 2, 2014 Oh yeah he's a word removed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted June 2, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted June 2, 2014 Watching Halt and Catch Fire now and really liking it.If Don Draper and Walter White met in 1983Since rebranding itself as a prestige TV showcase with the launch of Mad Men in 2007, AMC has hosted its share of critical gems (Breaking Bad), popular hits (The Walking Dead), and forgettable duds (Low Winter Sun). But its most recent series — The Killing, Hell on Wheels, and Turn – have failed to break out — so there’s some additional pressure on Halt and Catch Fire, which premiered Sunday night.Set in 1983, the show revolves around Lee Pace’s Joe MacMillan, a dynamic former IBM executive who wants to build a fledgling Dallas-based computer company into an outfit that can go toe to toe with Big Blue. One of the drones in the Dallas office is Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), a “misunderstood genius” whose brilliant vision has earned him nothing but a cubicle and a drinking problem. Together, with the help of Cameron (Mackenzie Davis), a pretty programming punk, they set out to reverse-engineer the IBM PC and mass-produce their own rival product.The premiere had a lot of information to sift through, characters to establish, and techno-speak to spoon-feed, so it might take a few episodes to determine whether Halt is a keeper. But it’s clear that creators Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers have studied what works and what doesn’t, and at first glance, they’ve borrowed generously from proven winners. In fact, it didn’t take me long after seeing Joe and Gordon at work to think, “They’re Don Draper and Walter White, right?”Joe is handsome, dapper, and extremely smooth in front of an audience. He knows just enough about his innovative product, but more than that, he’s a born salesman. He talks his way into a job with his IBM pay stub in lieu of a resume, he regales a classroom of aspiring computer engineers, and he is extremely persuasive in front of his new clients, practically challenging their manhood when asking them to give him their business. Did I mention he can also be a Grade-A prick? He treats Gordon like dirt — at least until he knows how much he needs him — and his first encounter with Cameron isn’t so much a courtship as it is a frat-boy stalking and hookup. If Don Draper lived in Dallas in 1983, he could be Joe MacMillan.Gordon is a hard-working schlep, an idealistic computer engineer who has played by the rules and has nothing to show for it. Like Walter White, he’s also bitter about losing out on his greatest intellectual achievement. Walter had Gray Matter Technology; Gordon has the Symphonic, a gizmo that may or may not have been stolen by his wife’s employer, Texas Instruments. Once, he wrote and spoke passionately about the barrier-breaking potential of computers — but now, he’s a sad sack with a disapproving wife (Kelly Bishé, who also played McNairy’s wife in Argo) and two children to feed. But guess what? Gordon has the intelligence to do what Joe needs done — reverse-engineer a PC. It’s illegal, of course, but so’s cooking meth, and maybe breaking the law will invigorate him and remind him that he’s still alive. I’m cool with this path as long as Gordon doesn’t start wearing a pork pie hat.Cameron also resembles a recent break-out television character, but one from off the AMC reservation. Perhaps it’s her particularly rough and raunchy first romantic encounter with Joe, but she immediately reminded me of Zoe Barnes from House of Cards. There’s also more to the comparison than her relationship with the older man: Cameron is a digital maverick in an analog world, and she knows how to play the game. Note her deft negotiating skills for joining Joe and Gordon’s crusade. In an important way, though, Cameron and Joe’s relationship is an inverse of Zoe and Frank Underwood’s: Joe needs Cameron for his professional survival. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted June 3, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted June 3, 2014 Think I'll give that ago. I liked the first episode of Turn, but it got pretty bad pretty fast. Hopefully Halt and Catch Fire will be half decent! Loved yesterdays episode of Silicon Valley too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted June 3, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted June 3, 2014 Started House of Cards. The Spacey love-in is already well underway. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 I finished season two of HoC the other day. It's a bit hard to follow at times, but to say I'm not well-versed in politics would be an understatement. I loved it though, and Spacey is just fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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