Wanted - some new tellybox shows

[teecee]

2 days and 6 episodes in I find myself really enjoying Sons of Anarchy, a drug running dope smoking biker gang with Ron Perlman doing a good job as the leader of the pack

Trying to like Castle but only because it's got Nathan Fillion (in a brown coat) as the lead. It has a few humorous moments but I'm not entirely convinced as yet - I'd put it on a par with Mentalist - enjoyable but forgettable

Think I'll have to do Breaking Bad next ....or get a a social life

 

[DotCommunist]

The Inbetweeners is fucking hilarious. I haven't laughed so hard at a show since Peep Show

 

[Yetman]

Ron Perlman is the MAN

Will check out 30 rock then, nice one.

 

[damnhippie]

watch Trailer Park Boys, it's great.

 

[Melinda]

The Inbetweeners is fucking hilarious. I haven't laughed so hard at a show since Peep Show

I saw the first ep and gave up. The main boy sounds like he's doing a David Mitchell impersonation, and the other lad with the fucked up highlights makes me feel physically ill.

Is it funny enough to proceed with considering I may vomit?

 

[DotCommunist]

I saw the first ep and gave up. The main boy sounds like he's doing a David Mitchell impersonation, and the other lad with the fucked up highlights makes me feel physically ill.

Is it funny enough to proceed with considering I may vomit?

thrice yes. It's juvenile, amazingly accurate and in some places suprisingly tender. I say 'suprisingly' but all great comedy does that ennit.

 

[Melinda]

Does it help to have been a teenage boy at some stage though?

 

[DotCommunist]

Does it help to have been a teenage boy at some stage though?

very much so

and the kid with the fucked up highlights? totally me at 14

 

[kyser_soze]

Is the Inbetweeners Skins Jnr? I suspect I'm now too old to appreciate the problems of be-gelled spotty adolescents...

 

[Melinda]

very much so

and the kid with the fucked up highlights? totally me at 14

I dont think it's going to be my kinda thing.

 

[yardbird]

Dexter

 

[DotCommunist]

Is the Inbetweeners Skins Jnr? I suspect I'm now too old to appreciate the problems of be-gelled spotty adolescents...

It's like skins would be if skins was funny and self aware.


It's comedy first and foremost. Gags over issues

 

[Maggot]

Is the Inbetweeners Skins Jnr? I suspect I'm now too old to appreciate the problems of be-gelled spotty adolescents...

It's much more like my teenage years than skins ever was. I'm older than you and I enjoy it.

 

[kyser_soze]

BTW Maggot, it was your recommendation that got me looking at 30 Rock, I remembered you'd started a thread on it ages ago...

 

[Yetman]

The Inbetweeners is fucking hilarious. I haven't laughed so hard at a show since Peep Show

Is that the ozzie thing where the geezer plays 3 characters? Cos that is good

 

[DotCommunist]

Is that the ozzie thing where the geezer plays 3 characters? Cos that is good

nah- brit comedy.

 

[Maggot]

BTW Maggot, it was your recommendation that got me looking at 30 Rock, I remembered you'd started a thread on it ages ago...

Cool! I thought everyone ignored my recommendations.

 

[fen_boy]

Dexter

I'm getting fucked off with Dexter, it used to be good when each episode was pretty much self contained with the odd two parter, but now it's got loads of turgid back story and he doesn't even kill someone every week.

 

[yardbird]

I'm getting fucked off with Dexter, it used to be good when each episode was pretty much self contained with the odd two parter, but now it's got loads of turgid back story and he doesn't even kill someone every week.

I'm biased 'cos I've got a thing about Debs

 

[sim667]

Inbetweeners
Summer heights high
Trailer park boys..........

I really want to see all the trailer park boys, but cant afford box sets

 

[sim667]

Is the Inbetweeners Skins Jnr? I suspect I'm now too old to appreciate the problems of be-gelled spotty adolescents...

Skins is more about alternativey kids who take themselves seriously

Inbetweeners is a complete piss take out of the minds of teenage boys.

I like both

 

[Epona]

Inbetweeners is absolutely brilliant and really quite disgusting at the same time - I have never been a teenage boy, but they did comprise half of the school I went to and it certainly reminds me of being that age - in the worst cringeworthy way possible of course, but it is fantastic.

 

[rhod]

Been giggling like an idiot to ABC's comedy show . Quirky family sitcom with very good script, well balanced cast and no canned laughter (which often blights otherwise ok comedy shows).

Has been picked up for a second season, hurrah!

 

[Psychonaut]

ive seen 2 really good crime shows recently

underbelly - historical austrailian ganster drama.
series 1 covers the melbourne gang war that ended in the mid 00s. s2 about the 'mr asia' drug network in the 70s.

sons of anarchy - outlaw biker chapter in a small californian town, plotline based on hamlet.