08-06-2005, 02:40 AM | #1 |
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Favourite Television Series
I have found that the best way - by FAR - of enjoying a TV series is to rent (or buy) the entire season or seasons on DVD, and just watch them like that. I have no patience for normal TV; I cannot abide the constant deluge of advertising or the annoying tendency I'll get to flip channels forever. So, I get them all at once on DVD and THEN it's fun.
Lately, it's been "Alias", such guilty fun! Last year, it was all about "The Sopranos", which I am unashamed to admit I am thoroughly addicted to. Anyone else have any faves that are noteworthy?
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08-06-2005, 06:10 AM | #3 |
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I was actually contemplating buying Smallville seasons 1 - 4, but then I got thinking: How many times will I actually watch them?, they are rather expensive you see, nearly 800 SEK per season, and that's a bit much for a bunch of dvd's.
My favourite tv-series are these: the first 100 ep's of Friends and the first - fourth seasons of Gilmore Girls and the first - third seasons of Ed. And, of course, Charmed. CSI, CSI: New York, Navy CIS, JAG. Midsomer Murders, Morse, Frost and Murder City. |
08-06-2005, 11:58 AM | #4 |
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The thing is, Grey Wolf, you can go into any large-chain video rental store and just rent the episodes, rather than having to buy them. I have no idea what you've got available to you there in Sweden, but here in L.A. there's quite a few; the place I've got a membership is blockbuster video which is a great place for stuff like new releases & TV shows. It's a terrible store for classic films and foreign stuff, though; I go to a small independent video rental store for the more eclectic, artistic or cerebral stuff.
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08-06-2005, 12:00 PM | #5 |
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I used to love the show JAG! Those CSI shows look kinda interesting - probably a little gruesome, what with all the autopsy/forensics shots, though.
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CSI is a pretty good show. The characters are interesting and the forensics aren't too terribly gruesome or I wouldn't be able to watch it. |
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08-06-2005, 05:02 PM | #7 |
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Does anybody happen to know when they're going to show a new season of "The Sopranos"? It hasn't been on in AGES, and I'm going through some lengthy, painful withdrawal symptoms, waiting for a new episode.
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08-08-2005, 02:03 AM | #9 |
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Three Christmases ago I got a 16-disc box set of three full seasons of my favourite television programme, that being the old British spy show The Avengers. After several years, I'm finally only an episode away from the whole collection.
I love the trend of entire series being released on DVD, though. It's also good if you want to find out more about a series that isn't on television often, as you can go rent a whole season and watch it sequentially. I did that yesterday with Samurai Jack, which I now think is one of the best series I've encountered in years.
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08-08-2005, 09:36 AM | #11 |
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DVD boxsets are a godsend for those of us who love US programmes and hate UK scheduling. The West Wing is hardly ever on terrestrial here, but I've got series 3-5 (5 hasn't even been shown here yet, and probably never will be...). Ditto Seinfeld, which I never would have seen if they hadn't started releasing the early series on DVD. Other favourites: The OC (guilty pleasure ), Friends, Frasier, Inspector Morse and Midsomer Murders (mainly because they're set in and around Oxford), The Simpsons, etc. Loved the new Dr Who series too.
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08-08-2005, 01:04 PM | #13 |
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*sings* The Simpsons..... do do do *cough* sorry but hands down my favorite is the Simpsons.. I grew up watching them! hehe
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08-08-2005, 01:43 PM | #14 |
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Yeah! The Simpsons do definitely rock - all those wry philosophical statements and that inimitable tongue-in-cheek satire!
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08-09-2005, 12:01 AM | #17 |
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Ahh, yes, Emma Peel! I have read about The Avengers, and the Peel character. Wish my video store had this show available on DVD to rent; I'd love to check it out.
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08-09-2005, 08:34 AM | #18 |
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'Edge of Darkness' by a light year. If you haven't seen it I envy you cos you can go and buy the DVD and watch if for the first time. The best plot, the best script, the best acting and the best score for a TV series I have ever seen. After seeing it the last 20 years have been quite a televisual anticlimax to be honest.
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I've got both seasons of the Lonesome Dove TV series, though I am partial to the seond season. I also got the trhee seasons of Tour of Duty, but they had to change the soundtrack due to royalty issues. I'm glad I still have my old wornout but very much playable VHS tapes I made back in the day. I'll have to master my own to DVD when I get the proper computer equipment and software.
I got Secret Agent Man, and The Prisoner. If they come out with the new Kojack series first season I'll get that.
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