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Hey, one of those bots diguised itself as zig and is promoting HBO! Wait, the links work, its actually zig.

Seriously though some of those sound pretty cool. If I had HBO or an internet connection that didn't suck (when it works its fast, but it never works for a sustained period of time), I would check some of those out.

Last edited by HappyNoodleBoy (Jun.12.06 01:40)

The Sopranos ended last week, doesn't start up again until 2007.  Therefore, fuck the sopranos!

You totally forgot about Big Love, which is super awesome.  It ended last week though, so I have to wait until next season to see what happens next.  Also, I watched that Lucky Louie thing last night and cracked up, but maybe that's just me.

I'm also quite a fan Carnivale, but I missed all of last season, so I'm totally behind on the haps.

Last edited by Daisy (Jun.12.06 20:56)

Apparently I have HBO now, I should probably check some stuff out.

idk, the whole commune aspect started getting really good.

Lucky Louie was hilarious.  I sometimes wonder if HBO's lack of censorship is what makes things funny.  Like, most of the jokes would be funny even if it was censored to fit network TV, but I sometimes wonder if just having the ability to not have someone looking over your shoulder frees up writers to do better work.

I mean, the show was pretty amateurish and it wasn't phenomenal, but I laughed a lot more than I have at any sitcom in recent memory, so I hope they keep making more.

That good? Hm. Sounds like I should probably look into it.

Awwweeesome, thanks zig.

Uhm, for the great advice about supporting HBO.

I'm willing to wait. It would suck to miss out on the last 2 episodes of an entire series.

Thanks again

I started watching the Wire. I'm still pretty early into it but its still pretty good. Some of the acting seems a little off but for the most part its pretty great for a TV show. Enjoying it thus far.

Good god that extremely long hiatus has made me realize how shitty The Sopranos really is, or at least has become (it started back up last Sunday for its final run).  There are zero likable characters, nobody to root for, they're yuppie scumbags but their job just happens to involves stealing and murder.  The only reason I'm going to continue watching is because I have hope that they will all be killed and/or jailed before the end.

Well, I would say the characters are a big part of what makes The Wire likable, but their personal lives are usually just a sub-plot of an episode here and there so it's not really a soap opera type thing.  It's good because it feels like an authentic portrayal of inner-city (more specifically Baltimore) crime (both big-time and small-time) from both the police side and the regular people/criminal side.  It has a different focus each season, the first season was about drug-dealing gangs, the second season was about blue-collar crime on a shipping yard (and drugs), season 3 went back to focusing on drugs but in a more "War On Drugs" type way instead of "street level action" thing that was season 1.  And Season 4 was about politics (and drugs).  In all of the seasons the police side is focused on the Major Crimes Unit which are assigned these types of big cases which take a season or more to be resolved.  It's not like CSI or whatever cop show where every episode has a self-contained plot and every criminal from the beginning of the episode has had justice served to him an hour later.
Basically the writing is really great and a lot of the big story points are based on things that really happened in Baltimore, the show's main creator and writer was a reporter integrated with the Baltimore Police for a few years.  And there are some extremely memorable characters on the show that I think would keep people who really don't give a shit about any of this interested.  I've watched the first 3 seasons three times (the 4th season just ended last year and it has such a bitter ending that I have trouble thinking about watching it again), and now that I bought the season 1 dvd I'll probably end up going through the entire show up to this point to make it a fourth.


Oh yeah and after some time to think about it and discuss it with other people, I didn't totally hate this recent episode of The Sopranos, but it's really going to have an uphill battle for me to feel involved before the end of the show.  The Sopranos is definitely more of a soap opera type case.  I've watched these characters for 8 years off and on, there's a certain amount of interest I'll always have.