TV Shows you started watching long after they ended? - General Discussion Discussion

[–] chilone (18291) 5 years ago

Twin Peaks.

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[–] Artisan (3464) 5 years ago

I tried watching that but couldn't get into it.

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[–] chilone (18291) 5 years ago

I'm sill on the fence about it. I've taken a break to see if I am drawn back. It's a bit slow.

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[–] Artisan (3464) 5 years ago

I found it odd which I know it's supposed to be but there is a scene early on where a character in the background starts to moonwalk for no reason and that coupled with the bad acting just lost me.

A lot of shows from back then are really slow compared to now.

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[–] chilone (18291) 5 years ago

David Lynch is definitely an odd duck!

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[–] Stratego (31052) 5 years ago

The Twilight Zone.

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[–] Artisan (3464) 5 years ago

I used to watch the re runs as a kid. Great show.

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[–] Stratego (31052) 5 years ago

They never showed reruns over here, but since there are so many references in American tv shows and movies, I decided to check it out. Kind of a hit-or-miss show for me. Some good, original episodes, but also some boring duds.

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[–] Artisan (3464) 5 years ago

A lot of those anthology series could be hit and miss. Not many stand up well now either.

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[–] Vastuntitled (5699) 5 years ago

I was just talking to a friend about this...rod serling is one of his all time faves, so he may be just a get-off-my-lawn type, but he just thinks the writing on new anthology genre shows is “awful”....his word, not mine....I think it’s hit-and-miss also, but with a lot of miss...

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[–] Artisan (3464) 5 years ago

Back when I was a kid I used to watch them a lot when they were on TV in the 80's over summer, Tales of the Crypt, Tales of the Darkside etc When I tried to watch them again a few years I found that most of the eps were really bad lol.

The new Twilight Zone is a SJW fest and a lot of the eps don't even have that twist element. I tried watching the new Creepshow and that didn't do anything for me either.

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[–] Vastuntitled (5699) 5 years ago

Twilight Zone, the obvious one....

And not too long after it was over, but Breaking Bad, binged it for about 2-3 weeks....good show....

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[–] Artisan (3464) 5 years ago

I watched Breaking Bad after it's original run too, was pretty good.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (78490) 5 years ago

The Wire
It really is as good as most people say

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[–] Vastuntitled (5699) 5 years ago

I still need to finish The Wire, but I liked the first 3 seasons, s2 was excellent...

Morning, uncle shogie..

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (78490) 5 years ago

Morning to you my favorite nephew😊

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[–] AndyKing1967 (39757) 5 years ago

Quite a few including: -
24
Battlestar
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
Sons of Anarchy
Sopranos
Star Trek TNG
The Office (UK)

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[–] Artisan (3464) 5 years ago

I loved Mad Men. Very slow but there was something comforting about that.

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[–] AndyKing1967 (39757) 5 years ago

A sloooooooow burn for sure.

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[–] Vastuntitled (5699) 5 years ago

That’s why Andy is the King!....mad men, pound-for-pound, probably my favorite show of all-time...I’ve watched it all the way through, seasons 1-7, at least 10 times, maybe even more...

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[–] Kowalski (78763) 5 years ago

BUT ITS SOOOOO BORING...AND EVERYONE IS AWFUL...THE HAMM ESPECIALLY....DUDE IS AN AWFUL HUSBAND AND WORSE FATHER.

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[–] Vastuntitled (5699) 5 years ago

I know, ain’t it somethin’?

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[–] Artisan (3464) 5 years ago

I love the ep where his second wife, the scrawny one decides to sing to him at his birthday party and he scolds her for embarrassing him!

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[–] Vastuntitled (5699) 5 years ago

I know the Megan character (Jessica Paré) got a lotta stick, but I thought her elevation to the main cast was okay...I get why some don’t like her, she could be whiny and entitled, but look who she had to deal with...Draper was a difficult dude...

My favorite of hers is from the opener to Season 7... https://youtu.be/7hgcNejkwTo

I’m tellin’ ya, the cinematography and music selection for this TV SHOW was top notch at times....just a great scene...

A young Stevie Winwood and the Spencer Davis Group, cooool song!....get some bey-beh!

Good times!

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[–] Artisan (3464) 5 years ago

She had the right look and waif figure for the era. She looks ok with make up when she is more understated like in SEAL Team she is rather plain.

That was a cool intro too. I love that song.

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[–] Vastuntitled (5699) 5 years ago

A slow burn, not plot-driven, a total character-study....I never thought glib, WASPy, misogynistic, New York ad world would be my thing, but it’s just so much more than that...it’s okay my brother KOWALSKI, we still have Curb together, which is PRET-TAY, PRET-TAY, PRET-TAY GOOD!

And Jon Hamm was cool on Curb...

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[–] Kowalski (78763) 5 years ago

HAMM IS COOL IN EVERYTHING...DUDE ALMOST STOLE BABY DRIVER RIGHT OUT FROM UNDER ANSOL ENGELBERTDICKBIGBIRDGUY...EVERYTHING EXCEPT MAD MEN,WHICH JUST DOESNT WORK FOR ME...OH WELL.

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[–] AndyKing1967 (39757) 5 years ago

It has my favourite ending to a TV show ever.

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[–] Vastuntitled (5699) 5 years ago

Interesting, many were underwhelmed....I liked it, if a bit sad that it was ending for us viewers...I thought it was a solid and fitting ending....with the exception of Breaking Bad and a few others, endings always seem to disappoint a certain segment of the loyal fan base...

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[–] AndyKing1967 (39757) 5 years ago

I thought the whole tie in with the real life Coca-Cola ad (which I grew up with) was genius.

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[–] Vastuntitled (5699) 5 years ago

My thoughts exactly...

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[–] Vastuntitled (5699) 5 years ago

I watched a little of One Tree Hill, not lately but mostly about 10 years ago on reruns in the states on the now-defunct SOAP channel....definitely a soap opera....I’ll say this, Dan Scott (Paul Johansson) is one of the more underrated bad guys for a TV show....

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[–] Artisan (3464) 5 years ago

He is very twisted, like a horror character found their way into a teen soapie. Very unexpected.

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[–] Vastuntitled (5699) 5 years ago

Twisted, and funny too....I used to like when someone was drunk and sauced up, he’d say something like, “how you feeling , boozy?” or “have another one, boozy”...just the way he said it, his playful and mocking intonation, lol...

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[–] Artisan (3464) 5 years ago

A character that I can't see being allowed anymore. He would be considered way too offensive for this type of show now.

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[–] Furienna (3375) 5 years ago

There are some '80s shows, that I never really watched until the '90s or even the '00s.
Since I was born in 1984, I was only interested in children's shows and cartoons until the mid-90s.
"Alf" and "Dynasty" and "Family Ties" and "Dallas" and "The Cosby Show" are just a few examples of classic '80s shows, that I couldn't get into because I was just a small child. So I could only appreciate them during re-runs years later.
But there is also "Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman". Somehow, I missed out on it during its original run in the '90s.
My mother and I didn't watch it until we discovered it in the '10s and got addicted to it.

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[–] Artisan (3464) 5 years ago

The 80's were great. It was hard keeping up with stuff back then as the networks would move shows around and leave out eps at times.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 3 years ago

The fucking sports programming, which always ran overtime. “We now join our regularly scheduled programming, already in progress.”

The last 2 minutes on a football game’s clock can take up an hour to complete.

Baseball? A game takes THREE YEARS. The dictionary should have a picture of a baseball next to the word “boring.”

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[–] Artisan (3464) 5 years ago

It was such a huge show during it's initial run but I was never interested at the time to even watch it for a second. By the time I did I think I was put off by how dated it felt.

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