Seek it out and watch it, Netflix be damned! Get the series box set and if you regret the purchase I'll send you PayPal for whatever you spent.
Breaking Bad is excellent, but it's not as consistently fresh or as well written as the Wire. Still, it is probably the second best show currently on TV behind Game of Thrones (all IMHO of course) and - at least so far - in my top 10 favorite shows of all time.
The first two seasons of Deadwood are amazing, so yeah - find those (and the still decent Season 3) somewhere too!
I'll see what I can do about watching the Wire. I'm going to check prices. Breaking Bad was a nice surprise as it actually does live up to a lot of the praise it gets, and I have a feeling The Wire does too. So I'm going to make an effort to watch it.
Game of Thrones has been really good. I don't know if I'd rate it above or below Breaking Bad. I'm just glad to have the privilege of watching both shows. I'm hoping to get caught up with Breaking Bad by the time AMC starts airing season 5. I'm quite happy with the state of TV right now. I've been enjoying a lot of good stuff this year with Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Nikita, Once Upon a Time, Fringe, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, The Walking Dead, etc.
RyaNtheSlayA wrote:
Seriously. Screw you Shao Kahn I'm gonna play Animal Crossing.
Watched the complete Star Wars: The Clone Wars today. The original series with the Samurai Jack artwork that came on cartoon network back in the day. I forgot how much I loved it, and it's sad that there was only two seasons. Has anyone here watched the newer clone wars series, and would you recommend it?
Incognito D wrote:Mere months after buying my original GBA, Nintendo trolled me hard by releasing the SP.
sabrage wrote:Give Arrested Development some more time. A lot of the humor comes from repeated gags and in-jokes (which is also a big part of why it got cancelled).
For those who like Arrested Development, how funny was the show to you? Was it your-belly-hurts-so-much-from-laughing funny? I remember having many of those moments with Seinfeld. I have gotten a few chuckles here-and-there with the show but nothing like I had with Seinfeld.
Maybe I'm humor-impaired?
There was one scene that I thought was good. They were visiting the father at prison and parked the flight stairs truck near the fence. You then see a prisoner running up the stairs and jump over the barbed wire fence.
sabrage wrote:Give Arrested Development some more time. A lot of the humor comes from repeated gags and in-jokes (which is also a big part of why it got cancelled).
For those who like Arrested Development, how funny was the show to you? Was it your-belly-hurts-so-much-from-laughing funny? I remember having many of those moments with Seinfeld. I have gotten a few chuckles here-and-there with the show but nothing like I had with Seinfeld.
Maybe I'm humor-impaired?
There was one scene that I thought was good. They were visiting the father at prison and parked the flight stairs truck near the fence. You then see a prisoner running up the stairs and jump over the barbed wire fence.
So here and there, I get some small laughs.
It's belly laughs for me, right from the first episode. I just bought the first season on DVD and I'm having a blast.
prfsnl_gmr wrote:There is nothing feigned about it. What I wrote is a display of actual moral superiority.
I finished devouring Dilbert. It's a damn shame it got cancelled; the last episode was by far the best one. I have to wonder if it got pulled because it was becoming increasingly edgy, but I guess at this point it doesn't really matter.
Anyways, on to Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations (on recommendation from Joe Rogan, of all people). Bourdain comes off as surprisingly insightful and intelligent, given his reputation, and the romanticized portraits of foreign lands make me want to speed my plans to become an ex-pat. Some of his attempts at humor fall flat, though.
I've watched the first series of Sherlock (BBC) on Netflix. I saw a few folks were wondering about it a few pages back and it's very well done in my opinion. You shouldn't be disappointed. Cumberbatch as Holmes comes off more pompous then I remember in the books, but it doesn't detract.
