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CCM:
Anyone else watching Homeland on Showtime? It's on Sunday nights after Dexter. So far the first two episodes have been really good.
shmokes:
I just watched the pilot for a show called Misfits and it has a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- ton of potential. It's about these delinquents doing community service when a strange phenomenon embues them all with super powers. So far it's just standard comic book super hero fare. But their powers are all at least somewhat tied to what they were like before. So, like, the weird kid who's always sort of been invisible to everybody can now turn invisible. And the hot, kind of slutty girl's power is that if anybody touches her skin-to-skin, they have an uncontrollable urge to have sex with her right there on the spot and will rape her if possible. So, like, suddenly not not exactly standard comic book fare anymore.
Anyway, the pilot was really well written and it was all a lot of fun . . . great blend of comedy, drama, and action. Like I said, I've only seen the first episode, but I have high hopes for this one. It's off to a great start.
Edit: Btw, it's a Brit show, so I guess you'll most likely have to torrent it or find some legit streaming/DVD option in the U.S.. But I guess it's prob not on any regular channel unless maybe it airs on BBC.
amendonz:
its pretty average imo. best brit show of late i think is Peep Show, just brilliant
emphatic:
As someone here claimed that Pillars Of The Earth was supposed to be better than Game Of Thrones I have now seen the former in full. I cannot recommend it to anyone that expect smart writing or gritty fantasy. It was kinda meh.
Homeland is pretty good, not as good as The Wire but about as good as 24's first seasons.
Grasshopper:
--- Quote from: shmokes on October 27, 2011, 01:24:03 am ---I just watched the pilot for a show called Misfits and it has a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- ton of potential. It's about these delinquents doing community service when a strange phenomenon embues them all with super powers. So far it's just standard comic book super hero fare. But their powers are all at least somewhat tied to what they were like before. So, like, the weird kid who's always sort of been invisible to everybody can now turn invisible. And the hot, kind of slutty girl's power is that if anybody touches her skin-to-skin, they have an uncontrollable urge to have sex with her right there on the spot and will rape her if possible. So, like, suddenly not not exactly standard comic book fare anymore.
Anyway, the pilot was really well written and it was all a lot of fun . . . great blend of comedy, drama, and action. Like I said, I've only seen the first episode, but I have high hopes for this one. It's off to a great start.
Edit: Btw, it's a Brit show, so I guess you'll most likely have to torrent it or find some legit streaming/DVD option in the U.S.. But I guess it's prob not on any regular channel unless maybe it airs on BBC.
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There have been two series shown in the UK and the third starts tonight. I missed the pilot but I've seen most of the subsequent episodes, and based on what I've seen I don't think you'll be disappointed. It's refreshingly original, and surprisingly well written and acted.
That being said, it did take me a couple of episodes to get it. I was initially put off by the deliberately drab inner city locations and the questionable behaviour (to put it mildly) of the main "heroes". But that's basically the whole point. It's about a group of ordinary (and very unheroic) people who just happen to develop superpowers through a quirk of fate.
Oh and there's also quite a lot of gratuitous sex which is always a plus.
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