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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #780 on: August 22, 2015, 02:23:23 PM »
Has anyone been watching Show Me A Hero. The first episode was soon in the UK in the past few days.
It seems to have a lot of promise, Paul Haggis directing, co-written by David Simon and Oscar Issac in the lead role.



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Yep I agree. I don't think the third series has been as good as the first two, but it's still a gripping/enthralling watch.


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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #781 on: August 26, 2015, 02:22:12 PM »
Watched the first episode of Show Me a Hero last night. Loved it. Great lead by Issac, great supporting cast, great Springsteen.
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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #782 on: August 26, 2015, 09:29:49 PM »
Haven't yet but looking forward to it.
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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #783 on: August 29, 2015, 07:52:57 PM »
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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #784 on: August 29, 2015, 08:13:40 PM »
Watched The Avengers (S4.3), this has nothing to do with the Marvel stuff. As usual a delightful episode with Stead and Peel dealing with a killer robot. The episode has a great example of using just music to create tension. This show is so spare with its explanations it is wonderful to watch.

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #785 on: September 02, 2015, 01:45:08 PM »
Miami Vice s01e01
Had the urge to watch this after reading a great Matt Zoller Seitz write up on Hannibal where he linked to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1o-NWNmQLM

And I was blown away. Awesome show from top to bottom. Full on 80's Michael Mann style. Great music. Lead actors who just have that thing, that confidence, that they're diving headlong into a great role. The dialogue is probably the worst best thing about the pilot. It is often really corny and cliche. But, it's delivered with such conviction and intensity I couldn't help but grin.

I'd put this pilot up there with some of my favorite Mann films. Going to try and make time for the first season.

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #786 on: September 02, 2015, 01:49:13 PM »
There are some fascinating episodes of Miami Vice in the first two seasons and beyond, especially in regards to Michael Mann's career. I'm not going to spoil anything right now, but I might drop some if you feel your interest waining.

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #787 on: September 02, 2015, 03:23:05 PM »
There are some fascinating episodes of Miami Vice in the first two seasons and beyond, especially in regards to Michael Mann's career. I'm not going to spoil anything right now, but I might drop some if you feel your interest waining.

Might take you up on that. We'll see how it goes. I also use graphtv when I'm looking for good episodes of older shows: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #788 on: September 03, 2015, 04:28:23 AM »
Happy 40th Birthday Faulty Towers, considered by some the best sitcom ever.

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #789 on: September 03, 2015, 08:13:34 AM »
Happy 40th Birthday Faulty Towers, considered by some the best sitcom ever.
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