Comments | tersa: Just a blurby bullet point post about the summer TV show slate

tersa

Just a blurby bullet point post about the summer TV show slate

Jun 12, 2015 08:12

It's summer! This shouldn't be happening! And yet it is. A brief rundown on all the TV shows staring at me in the face at the moment, in the order they occur to me.

( Game of Thrones, True Detective, Daredevil, Orange is the New Black, Sense8, Sleepy Hollow, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Orphan Black, Key & Peele )

tv:key and peele, tv:daredevil, tv:orphan black, tv:gameofthrones, tv:sleepy hollow, tv:true detectives, tv: sense8, tv:orange is the new black, tv:miss fishers murder mysteries

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fifmeister June 12 2015, 17:44:24 UTC

I have such an ambivalent relationship with this show...It's very much a case of "I just can't quit you", but it is tinged with some self-disgust that I can't.

[Spoiler (click to open)]That's pretty much exactly how I felt the whole time I was watching it. This season finally did me in, though. I had been getting HBO for free for most of the season as part of a cable company promotion, but it lapsed toward the end of May. I was going to pay the fee just to finish out the rest of the GoT season, but after the Sansa rape episode I decided against it. It's bad enough to have all that rape and violence against women (and as of the last episode, little girls for good measure!) to begin with, but the fact that it's really only in there for shock value and/or to further male characters' plotlines goes against everything I stand for when it comes to storytelling ( ... )

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tersa June 12 2015, 20:45:06 UTC

(I haven't forgotten I owe you a comment response to TT:GoT. I'll do that, er, soon as I finish writing this. :)

OITNB: FINISH SEASON 2. It started off a little slowly, but the end? The end was fabulous.

Other Netflix shows: Yeaaaaaah, House of Cards. That's a show no one else I watch TV with wants to see, but it's been on my watch list ever since it got Emmy noms back in Season 1. I just don't watch TV shows by myself much anymore. :/

Actually, throw "Marco Polo" on this list, too. E-- watched it and said it reminded her in some ways of what Kohen did with OITNB--come for the stereotypical white 'main character', stay for all the interesting other characters.

Sleepy Hollow Haha, I was like that with DVRed shows before I cancelled my satellite subscription. >.> But I've heard S2 isn't that great, so I'm not really intending to go on past S1.

Orphan Black S3
[Spoiler (click to open)]Super impressed by Ari Millan's ability to play clones - while he's not as a good as Tat (since no one is), I really have enjoyed getting to know the Castor boys.We're in a ( ... )

bkm5191 June 13 2015, 08:45:35 UTC

I'm literally just catching up with misfits.

thistle_chaser June 13 2015, 19:38:12 UTC

Oooh, the British version? That's SO GOOD, especially the first couple seasons!

thistle_chaser June 13 2015, 19:37:42 UTC

Sense8 is really, really good! I'm almost through the first ep (it's killing me that I haven't had a chance to get back to it yet), and I love every moment of it. The one small downside (downside only to me, and not really a downside at all) is that it's so good I can't multitask during it.

I still haven't seen this season's GoT yet (except the first ep), and I'm not horribly bothered by that. I'll probably watch it... eventually.

I'm really looking forward to Orange is the New Black, too! I haven't even seen the teaser for that.

There are so many shows I need to finish or catch up on, I should make a list like this just so I don't forget things.