Recommend me an American tv series

[Orang Utan]

Eastbound and Down

looks crap - sell it to me
there's no point posting the titles of shows if you don't say a few words about them

 

[DJ Squelch]

Eastbound and Down

I was gonna mention that, I think it tailed off a bit in the last 2 episodes but still pretty damn funny.
Also the US version of The Office can be well hilarious at times.

 

[Biglittlefish]

Looks like you've seen most of the good stuff. What about Dirt the one where monica from friends plays a tabloid editor. Sounds awful but is v good.

 

[D'wards]

The Wire? Can't say I've heard of it? Is it good, then?

I think i've heard of that show - supposed to be like an American The Bill.

Mate of mine keeps waxing lyrical about "Sons of Anarchy", reckons its the best series on currently

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124373/

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I saw an episode of Weeds the other night. I thought that was quite good. Not sure whether I want to get hooked into watching another tv series though.

Whatever you do, don't bother watching Saving Grace with Holly Hunter. She's a detective. With some random ghost called Earl who keeps popping up. I think Holly Hunter produces it as well, can't imagine how she got involved in such a dreadful project.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Looks like you've seen most of the good stuff. What about Dirt the one where monica from friends plays a tabloid editor. Sounds awful but is v good.

Didn't Dirt get cancelled after only one series or something though?

Courtney Cox Arquette is apparently now in a series called Cougar Town, about older women and younger men. Don't know if it's broadcast in the UK though.

 

[Pie 1]

You seen Mad Men yet OU?

It's really rather excellent.

 

[Orang Utan]

yeah, but stalled at the second series - need to give that another go, but s2 didn't compel me in the same way s1 did

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Season 3? Of Mad Men? Not out, is it?

 

[Ms T]

In Therapy with Gabriel Byrne is the hot new ticket, I think.

I thought we were running out of American TV series as well, having almost finished Battlestar Galactica, but True Blood is going to fill the hole nicely.

 

[Belushi]

I quite enjoyed Studio 60, shame it was cancelled after only the one season.

 

[Orang Utan]

Season 3? Of Mad Men? Not out, is it?

sorry, re-edited the typo - i meant s2

 

[Belushi]

Oh and the Full Metal Jacket thread reminds me I watch Criminal Intent just for Vincent d'Onofrio

 

[8den]

ALF

I just read this fucking awesome article about ALF.

In his Inferno, Dante never described a torture with which to punish 80s sitcom stars. But if he did, working on ALF for all eternity would win hands down.

ALF creator and head puppeteer Paul Fusco epitomized eccentricity. By "eccentricity," we mean "he sorta fuckin' believed ALF was real" and demanded nothing but the best for his cash cow. In practical terms, this meant that multiple puppeteers needed 14 trap doors built into the show's set to manipulate the puppet.

Keep in mind, the set was living-room sized. Take a glance at your living room floor, and imagine it's riddled with over one dozen Viet Cong tiger traps. Now imagine having to walk around that space without ever looking down because you're too busy making eye contact with a horrifying puppet with a syphilitic phallus for a nose.

Resetting the trap doors was an arduous process, as the only alternative was to let actors randomly fall to their deaths. Shoots, therefore, took much longer than usual, which exhausted the actors, but was the only way to avoid being the subject of a "broken neck" storyline next week.

The cast did this deadly waltz for five long years causing Andrea Elson, who played daughter Lynn Tanner, to say, "If ALF had gone one more year, everybody would have lost it." It's worth noting that Elson went on to appear regularly in absolutely nothing else. When someone whose career highlights include guest spots on Step by Step and something called Frankenstein: The College Years says her only starring role in a TV Show sucked, we believe her.

ALF is much more funny if you know the set was a fucking death trap.

 

[phildwyer]

"Alf" was written by Jerry Stahl, who was permanently off his head on crack and smack. A hole in the floor was probably the least of their worries.

 

[Biglittlefish]

Didn't Dirt get cancelled after only one series or something though?

Courtney Cox Arquette is apparently now in a series called Cougar Town, about older women and younger men. Don't know if it's broadcast in the UK though.

Was canceled yeah but that is no reflection of quality.

Hearing things about In treatment. Anyone seen it?

 

[Pie 1]

yeah, but stalled at the second series - need to give that another go, but s2 didn't compel me in the same way s1 did

Just finished S2 earlier this week. It is a slow burner, but well worth it.

Season 3? Of Mad Men? Not out, is it?

Half way through. Gonna start Dl-ing today

 

[AverageJoe]

4 pages in and no mention of The Sopranos or My Name Is Earl.

Sheesh

 

[Orang Utan]

4 pages in and no mention of The Sopranos or My Name Is Earl.

Sheesh

no need to mention them - everyone's seen them - they've been on terrestrial uk telly.

 

[AverageJoe]

Oh OK - my bad

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I just read this fucking awesome article about ALF.

ALF is much more funny if you know the set was a fucking death trap.

Not to mention that the actor who played the fun loving Dad on ALF, ended up busted in a crackhouse. Maybe the pressure of all those trap doors finally got to him.

 

[D'wards]

Anyone mentioned the shield yet? I find it to be the Morphine alongside the Wire Heroin. Most other shows are simply codeine

 

[Orang Utan]

Anyone mentioned the shield yet? I find it to be the Morphine alongside the Wire Heroin. Most other shows are simply codeine

yeah seen that up to s6

 

[D'wards]

yeah seen that up to s6

Aha - have you thought about Sons of Anarchy that i posted before? Just downloading it now, the quotes on imdb about it are very good, and has the always-superb Ron Perlman in it.

Torrent S1

 

[Orang Utan]

yeah, saw a bit of that on fox - intriguing...

 

[8den]

Aha - have you thought about Sons of Anarchy that i posted before? Just downloading it now, the quotes on imdb about it are very good, and has the always-superb Ron Perlman in it.

Torrent S1

I'm loving this and it has Henry Rollins playing a Neo Nazi skinhead. Between himself and Perlman as the aging head of a gang of gun running bikers these are the best casting choices ever.

They are linked with a IRA fringe group who they sell guns for. The accents are excellent, theres even a Scottish biker EX army who's relationship with the terrorists is excellent. It's really good to hear someone say "Tiocfaidh ár lá" without explanation or context being mapped out.

 

[Iguana]

Season 3? Of Mad Men? Not out, is it?

Yeah, episode 9 of the 3rd series airs tomorrow on AMC.

Almost nobody watches it, but Big Love is a great show. A fundamentalist mormon and his three wives live their secretly polygamist life in Sandy, Utah. It starts out quite lightheartedly but as the series goes on the darker side of things becomes apparent. From the heartache of his first wife and their children to the crazy shit on the FLDS compounds, including the trafficking of young girls.

 

[8den]

Yeah, episode 9 of the 3rd series airs tomorrow on AMC.

Almost nobody watches it, but Big Love is a great show. A fundamentalist mormon and his three wives live their secretly polygamist life in Sandy, Utah. It starts out quite lightheartedly but as the series goes on the darker side of things becomes apparent. From the heartache of his first wife and their children to the crazy shit on the FLDS compounds, including the trafficking of young girls.

I' ignore her, she's been downloading "how I met your mother" FFS.

 

[Orang Utan]

is burn notice any good?

 

[Stoat Boy]

"Sons of Anarchy" is very good. Its a sort of white trash version of the Sopranos focusing on a Motorcycle gang in California. Really enjoying it.

And there is a new series of 'Californication'.