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My wife and I watched Aziz Ansari's Master of None this past weekend and really liked it. I know his shtick rubs many folks the wrong way, but I enjoy it.
 
YES!

Salmissra said:
Hubby and I are into The Man in the High Castle - about halfway through. So far so great!
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Superior production quality, great adaptation of a VERY difficult book to turn into a mini-series, great directing, outstanding acting and period clothing and set work is amazing. Very high 90's rating on Amazon for a good reason.
I really need to dig my first edition of the book out of the box and display that sucker in the bookshelf. My favorite alternate fiction/sci-fi book.
 
Finished Man in the High Castle - excellent! Season 2 will hopefully be as good or better.

Last night we started Making a Murderer. It doesn't take long into the first episode before you just have this sinking feeling in your gut that the story is not going to end well.

Spent the rainy, cold day yesterday watching the rest of Season 8 of How I met Your Mother.

In between errands and holiday stuff I watched some current shows I had recorded. I'm caught up on Hawaii 5-0 (great eye candy!), NCIS, and Elementary.
 
After catching up on Outlander, my wife and I were looking for a new series to binge watch. Heard good things about Orange is the New Black and watched the first couple episodes last night. I can already tell it's going to be a good one!
 
This weekend I watched the Netflix original show F is for Family. It's a very raunchy animated sitcom set in the 1970s. I found it pretty amusing. I wish it were more than 6 episodes long though as I got through it pretty quickly.
 
Junior has been binge watching Netflix produced 'Richie Rich'. I saw one episode with him and the show has the look and feel of a really bad 1980's sitcom.
 
Making a Murderer on Netflix. If you liked NPR's Serial podcast you would definitely like this.
 
kjel said:
Making a Murderer on Netflix. If you liked NPR's Serial podcast you would definitely like this.
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I watched a few episodes of that, but it is weird for me because I have been to Manitowoc WI several times, and I think I may have purchased a car door from this guys family in the early 90's when I was fixing up my first car. My sister and I were talking about it and we remember the original local news broadcasts of when he got out of jail because Fox 11 out of green bay is the Fox affiliate in the southern part of the Central UP.


On a side note, we broke down, bought a Roku 3 and got Amazon prime. The wife and I watched all of the first season of Man in the High Castle in 4 days.
 
Maister said:
Started 'Enterprise' yesterday
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"Enterprise" is my favorite of the Star Trek series. It is grittier. Things don't run smoothly always. The story arcs are great. The only Trek series with a theme song.

What I am binge watching now is "Republic of Doyle." Which is a comedy-crime series of a family of private detectives in Newfoundland. What makes the show doubly interesting is the predominance of Newfie dialect by actors from Newfoundland. The Newfie accent is very interesting, still flavors of Irish in it. The police constable has a delightful accent and she is lovely, as well.
 
otterpop said:
"Enterprise" is my favorite of the Star Trek series. It is grittier. Things don't run smoothly always. The story arcs are great. The only Trek series with a theme song.

What I am binge watching now is "Republic of Doyle." Which is a comedy-crime series of a family of private detectives in Newfoundland. What makes the show doubly interesting is the predominance of Newfie dialect by actors from Newfoundland. The Newfie accent is very interesting, still flavors of Irish in it. The police constable has a delightful accent and she is lovely, as well.
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There is one thing in the Star Trek universe that I have gotten mortally tired of and that's the 'impromptu technological solution gambit' ("oh no that [insert threat] is going to destroy us....what if we were to invert the phase coils and direct a stream of tachyon particles at the source we might be able to break free if the polarity changes....") I understand the importance of this premise for a show depicting humans as 'can-do' creatures who use logic to solve their problems but it has been overdone to death. Enterprise has this as well, but so far not as much as shows like TNG (and yes Wesley Crusher was often the guilty party).
If you like "Republic of Doyle" I assume you like "Murdoch Mysteries." If you've not seen the show you should. I believe It's the top-rated show in Canada, and for good reason. It's a (usually light hearted) crime drama set in Toronto during the 1890's.
 
I am on a hiatus from Death in Paradise because the wife wanted to watch Longmire together. I just wanted to finish all four seasons by September when the 5th season should be released. We watched the first three episodes together. She had a sleepless night and a day off. She is now through the first three seasons. I guess we may watch the season 5 together. It's a refreshing change of pace from the typical crime drama that's set in a urban locale.
 
Waiting for the 2nd season of Fargo to get to DVD so I can grab it from the Library.
 
luckless pedestrian said:
just finished persons unknown and starting fringe
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Oooh, loved Fringe. We were on a JJ Abrams kick for a while. Watch all his stuff together; you can see the same themes in everything he does.

I'm working through Castle right now. It's not on netflix but we're trying to beat the on-demand/dvr system. They show reruns all the time. When I saw that Season 1 was coming on again, I told the dvr to tape every episode from every channel. The trick is to watch enough every night to not go over 100% on the dvr. We were at 96% last night. :D
 
Maister said:
Junior has been binge watching Netflix produced 'Richie Rich'. I saw one episode with him and the show has the look and feel of a really bad 1980's sitcom.
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OMGosh, I'd forgotten about Richie Rich! Oh Ricky Schroder!! I'm totally starting it tomorrow!
 
RandomPlanner said:
OMGosh, I'd forgotten about Richie Rich! Oh Ricky Schroder!! I'm totally starting it tomorrow!
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A contractor came in yesterday to get a permit for a room addition on the back of a house. They have a pool back there. I told him he should install a slide from the top story of the addition to the swimming pool like Richie Rich!.


Currently watching the original X-Files. Really good stuff. Halfway through season 2.
 
Oh Yeah.....

Check out Occupied on Netflix
A not so distant future where the US is energy self sufficient and pulls out of NATO, leaving the EU alone. Norway threatens to stop oil production and the EU, Sweden and Russia agree to allow Russia to conduct a "soft" invasion to keep the oil flowing.
Solid acting and decent plot.
 
just finished Dexter and it was awesome - I hope they do a reunion series when his kid grows up

and finished first season of Better Call Saul and it's awesome too

need a new binge so I am checking this thread out, however pathetic I may sound :-$
 
I will finish up Breaking Bad this evening. I wish someone would have told me about it sooner... a show so well done and no media hype of spin offs? :p
 
Since being on my own and spending nights alone with no kids, I re-watched Seinfeld on Hulu.

Right now, I am working my way through Trailer Park Boys (apt for my living in a trailer park ;)

Still need to finish House of Cards
 
Brocktoon said:
I will finish up Breaking Bad this evening. I wish someone would have told me about it sooner... a show so well done and no media hype of spin offs? :p
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I thought Battle Creek was a spinoff of Breaking Bad



On a side note, there are a bunch of shows that I got into only to learn that they were one and done. New Amsterdam, Kings, and Black Donnellys to name a few...
 
My wife and I just watched all The People vs O.J. Simpson episodes over the past couple weeks (the series ended last Tuesday). It was pretty darn great. Courtney B. Vance's Johnny Cochran was really, really, really good. He should get an Emmy. Nathan Lane as F. Lee Bailey was really good too, especially when he was cross examining Mark Fuhrman.

And now just a few more days to wait for the 2nd season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt! :D We actually started re-watching season 1 for the 4th time a couple nights ago.
 
We've been watching Castle from the beginning by leaving the dvr on 'record all' and waiting until they are in order. Almost finished with season 7 and season 8 is only partially on the dvr!! Grrr.

We also started watching Blue Bloods and were divided as to whether to continue. But I might be persuaded -- after every episode, I've been saying "yeah, I could watch one more".
 
Making my way through How I Met Your Mother and watching Animaniacs when the kids are around.
 
I got sucked into watching the The Ranch this past weekend. I would not have watched it if it wasn't for Sam Elliot being in it.
 
dvdneal said:
Making my way through How I Met Your Mother and watching Animaniacs when the kids are around.
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We're watching HIMYM, also. Nearing the end of Season 8, so only one more season to go. Great show!

I think next will either be Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt or Better Call Saul.
 
Been taking forever finishing Leverage (great show) but once we're done with that will probably move on to Galactica
 
I loved Leverage too! House of Cards is the king of all binge watching. I keep up with Blue Bloods on CBS.com. Battle Creek was good, not sure if that was a Breaking Bad spinoff, I thought Better Call Saul was? Better Call Saul was awesome and I haven't done Breaking Bad yet.

Watching Republic of Doyle but I may switch to Occupied
 
luckless pedestrian said:
House of Cards is the king of all binge watching.
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I was watching episode 3 (or 4, I can't remember how many I watched yesterday). The one about the girl dying after being distracted by the Gaffney, SC "peachoid". Frank was barking orders and said something about getting two large billboards put up about texting and driving. I was thinking about the permits and how they would get them. The Mayor promptly said "I'll get on the permits". Show thought of everything!!
 
I recently started watching "Longmire" again. There are not a lot of shows featuring the West (No, I don't mean California, Portland or Seattle - those places are in the West but are not The West). The show really does have a sense of the interior West. The series was and is filmed in New Mexico, but the scenery could easily pass for Wyoming or Montana. The fictional county is somewhere in northern Wyoming - sometimes it seems like northeastern Wyoming (the name of the county -Absaroka -, references to the Big Horns and the proximity of Denver), sometimes it seems like northwestern Wyoming (references to Jackson, Cody and Bozeman). The show deals with issues of the West - oil boom towns, culture and political clashes between Native Americans and whites and the importance of the land and the weather as integral factor you deal with in every day life. Katee Sackhoff is very good as Deputy Vic Moretti - she actually looks like she could be a female cop. It takes a few liberties - one episode had free-ranging bison and the only reservation in Wyoming is located far from fictional Absaroka County. But overall it is a good show and watching it in chronological order aids in the telling of the storyline.
 
So, we started watching MacGuyver. What a blast from the past. You remember MacGuyver, don't you? Richard Dean Anderson played the world's most resourceful human being. If he needed to escape from a gulag he needed only a ball point pen and some lighter fluid! Okay, maybe it didn't rate very high in the realism department, but not many shows did 35 years ago. Set during the cold war, MacGuyver sticks it to the Russkies time and again. With the rise Putin, watching this show almost feels full circle. Anywho, Junior just loves the show. Unfortunately, it's probably only a matter of time before he blows up the kitchen mixing Liquid Plummer with baking soda and pencil lead.
 
Whoa - just finished the first season of Occupied - fantastic show, wow - of course with what's happening with Russian fighter jets and the like, I am now freaked out a little how easy it can happen :-c
 
otterpop said:
I recently started watching "Longmire" again. There are not a lot of shows featuring the West (No, I don't mean California, Portland or Seattle - those places are in the West but are not The West). The show really does have a sense of the interior West. The series was and is filmed in New Mexico, but the scenery could easily pass for Wyoming or Montana. The fictional county is somewhere in northern Wyoming - sometimes it seems like northeastern Wyoming (the name of the county -Absaroka -, references to the Big Horns and the proximity of Denver), sometimes it seems like northwestern Wyoming (references to Jackson, Cody and Bozeman). The show deals with issues of the West - oil boom towns, culture and political clashes between Native Americans and whites and the importance of the land and the weather as integral factor you deal with in every day life. Katee Sackhoff is very good as Deputy Vic Moretti - she actually looks like she could be a female cop. It takes a few liberties - one episode had free-ranging bison and the only reservation in Wyoming is located far from fictional Absaroka County. But overall it is a good show and watching it in chronological order aids in the telling of the storyline.
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This is one of the wife and I's favorite shows. I can't wait till the next season comes out in September.
 
I need to look for the miniseries Fresno - from the mid 80's. Hilarious parady of shows like Dallas, Knots Landing, etc. It had Carol Burnett, Dabney Coleman, Teri Garr, and other supporting characters.

I highly recommend this show for laughter and just over-the-top fun.
 
In the last month, I've binged on four seasons of American Horror Story and the 2 seasons of Legit.
 
Just started Gilmore Girls, this time with the SO (crossing my fingers that he likes it enough to watch it til the end). I'm gearing up for the Gilmore reunion.
 
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