Absolutely horrible. Watched first episode and have no interest to continue.

Is Rosemary's Baby any good? As there is no thread, I guess no?

Hannibal omg

Apparently CBS turned down How I Met Your Dad. But Fox TV is very committed to the show and it is pretty likely someone will pick it up, if not then Fox themselves probably will.

So that could either be the best new comedy in the Fall or the worst new comedy in the fall, depending on whether they can actually pull it off.

I really enjoyed the last season of HIMYM and the The Goodwin Games so I am hopeful, I wanted more of what this concept is squeezed into the last season of HIMYM rather than some of the dead wood that distracted from the best bits. But at the same time this really screams That 80s Show (which FTR I actually quite liked) as they desperately and obviously try to keep the successful franchise going.

Turn has been a very pleasant surprise. I'm looking forward to the rest of the season.

Fargo is flat out crazy. Billy Bob is killing it and the rest of the cast is excellent. One of the top shows going right now.

Is The Americans worth watching? What level of quality is it and how much is it about a spy couple doing spy stuff rather than it being a family who just happen to be spies as a secondary thing?

I can read it has critical acclaim, is obviously popular enough given its about to close the second season and has had a third ordered already and its production staff includes a former CIA guy and so its supposed to be pretty accurate from a technical POV. But the fact I havent heard much about it puts me off, I'm one of like fifteen people in the world who watched Rectify when it first came out so its rare good shows pass me by.

i gave up on the americans towards the end of the first season iirc. i enjoyed the first few episodes quite a bit. i loved the old soviet stuff and they did a good job with recreating 80s america. i *think* it was mostly about spy stuff with just a little bit of family soap opera at first. but then i got bored and quit watching.

a lot of people love the show though, and even i liked it at first. i would recommend giving it a try and seeing for yourself. it's worth a shot. i might even try picking it back up myself at some point. i liked how kerri russel was a proud soviet patriot/80s housewife in suburbian america.

off the top of my head the only tv show i can think of that was able to pull off spy stuff was 24. and at times that show is very silly, but it works. the new season is fun if you're a fan.

i LOVED rectify btw.

s2 of The Americans has been a lot better than s1, I'd say it's def worth powering thru the rest of s1 to get to s2. And it is def way more focused on the spy stuff than family stuff. Plus it has Annet Mahendru, hottest woman on tv.

This is going to be a funny recommendation. Skip season 1, and just watch season 2. You're smart enough that you should be able to get a lot of what happens (if you like season 2, and want to see season 1 after the fact, it wouldn't hurt you). Season 1 was barely watchable, and incredibly contrived. Season 2 is much better (haven't seen the last episode), but it still has a way to go to reach its full potential. It makes zero sense that it got renewed, but it was.

Season 2 was a big reboot, so all you really need to know is the characters, how they are, and who they're interacting with. You might be able to get most of what you need to know from the recap at the beginning of the first episode the second season.

The guy who created the show was a former CIA officer. When the show originally came out, I tried to do research on the guy, and all signs point to him being in his mid-40s, so there's no chance he was around when this stuff was really happening. It's a nice gimmick for them to pump that, but there's absolutely no evidence that this show is accurate in so many lol ways (plus it takes place in the counter-intelligence unit of the FBI, not CIA).

The main problem the show has always had has that it's undermined its own writing. Every time during season 1 that I thought the show would become something it would pull the rug out from under itself. It doesn't really happen that way in season 2, but it's still pretty messy.

I just heard there's an AMC show about Revolutionary War spies called Turn. Anybody seen it and have an opinion? AMC website has several complete episodes but not the first 2.

Its generally been fairly solid. A couple episodes around e4 were a little meh but its picked up again. Worth watching if you like the premise.

Dennis Duffy GOAT

Liz: (about a Great Dane) Whose horse is that?
Dennis: Thats my cousin Teddy's Great Dane. I told him I'd watch him for a couple of weeks 'cause Teddy broke his ankle running from some black guys who pulled a gun on him.
Liz: Now why is it important to tell me that the muggers were black?
Dennis: They weren't muggers, they were cops.
Liz: So why don't you just say that he was running from some cops?
Dennis: I don't know. I mean, you're racist for assuming that they weren't cops.

lol I just saw previous posts about Turn, sorry about that. Looks promising.

I love the premise. I eat up that American history.

god that was so great.
really miss 30 rock. such an elite show.

Goatofthrones

I stopped watching The Americans after the first couple of episodes but my OH kept watching so I gave it another go. Season 2 is much better but I did really enjoy the Soviet perspective from Kerri Russel as filthyvermin pointed out.
Rectify was truly awesome, I was surprised how unwatched it was initially.

I'm only an episode in but it seems reasonably solid if you like that historical genre.

Other shows I'm watching and enjoying
Fargo
Orphan Black
Penny Dreadful
Mad Men
In The Flesh
Silicon Valley

Generally +1'ing the love for 30 Rock. Miss this show.

for all the closet Vampire Diaries fans out there what did you think of the finale? With the other side gone they finally going all in with killing characters assuming they don't pull some bull ****. I really hope Damon and bonnie stay dead besides for the flash backs they will have. Enzo will make an interesting and bringing back Aleric *****************casting spoiler*****************************************fu ll time should be GOAT. Human Tyler shout be interesting.
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Alaric coming back basically with the strength of the originals should be interesting as well. Glad the Silas angle was a fake out, was ready to nuke the show from orbit if he came back.

I thought it was good but it hard to buy that anyone is dead.

vampire diaries- i would enjoy it if everyone that died stayed dead also. but this is a soap opera of sorts, so can't trust any of that. glad to get alaric back, and the switch in love triangles from stefan-elena-damon, to possibly elena-stefan-caroline.. plus the return of human tyler.

Vampire Diaries dropped off my DVR because I've been too busy lately to watch shows I don't 100% love. How did Alaric come back?

A little traveler and witch magic mixed in with a large sacrifice of a bunch of people allowed someone to come back from the other side. Damon and Elena used the same trick against the followers by killing a huge group of them and themselves. Damon didn't get back but Alaric did but the process also killed Bonnie and destroyed the other side closing the loophole and meaning no more ghosts. I am sure they do reserve the right to create some other future loophole to bring back Damon and Bonnie, but for now they are dead with no way of ever coming back.

i was kinda hoping Lexi would make it also. maybe it would have given Matt a nice vampire love interest.