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[titaniumbean]

Band of Brothers is UTTERLY INCREDIBLE

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Yeah its amaze, The Pacific is almost as good too, for some reason I didn't appreciate how good that one was the first time I watched it, but the second time, incred.

yup totally agree, I was spoilt having watched BoB so often and being so much more familiar with the history of it and specific scenarios, whereas Pacific with it's policy of focusing alot more on the relationship and emotional aspects felt alot harder to watch. Having watched it back again I definitely enjoyed it more the second time.


My main issues with HBO stuff is that it is done so well and at such expense that they can't do enough seasons.

Rome and Deadwood are excellent examples, Rome was co produced with BBC help and the writers had planned something like 5 seasons and half way through season 2 is told btw this is your last we're busto. So has to rush it and try to get everything important into a massively truncated time line. Deadwood was pretty similar in that they filmed I think 3 seasons but then didn't resign all the actors and with so many well known actors giving them a year or two and hoping they would all be free to film at the same time for the same length of time was ridiculously hopeful, they then wanted to finish it with 2 films but even that couldn't find the traction. booooooooooo  It's pretty ridic the way the 3rd season finishes purely because it's setting up for the most amazingest best tv show season ever....

Stupidly enough having said all that I would still highly recommend both Rome and Deadwood.

[titaniumbean]

Should i watch Deadwood or Sons of anarchy next?

Deadwood is amazing, if you have any interest in the Wild West, Cowboys, drinking whiskey likes it's water, or Lovejoy then you'll find it incredible.

The theme of Deadwood put me off for a long time but once I watched it I spent a lot of time looking into the Wild West etc.  A truly great series and if you are not normally into historical dramas etc don't let it put you off.

I've always been massively into Wild West, Cowboys/horses/ dem guns etc.  So I found it easy to watch Sopranos/Deadwood/The Wire because they all intrigued me so much. Shows like Treme which is set in post Katrina New Orleans focusing on the people and the place and the history of it pre Katrina and the music scene etc etc, having little knowledge if not interest in that put me off for quite a while but then I watched an episode or two and remembered why i've struggled to ever not enjoy an HBO program (this includes frigging SITC fml).

[Marky147]

I totally agree, it's just when in the same breath as Sopranos/Wire we're being told how good 24/Lost is my head actually asplodes.

Band of Brothers is UTTERLY INCREDIBLE, if you have any interest in the war, any respect for those who died and what happened you cannot fail to be moved and amazed. you know the ending and it's still amazing. At uni I kept rewatching it with people who hadn't seen it, all thanked me, I probably watched it right through 6-7 times in 4 years.

Generation Kill is really interesting, whilst Rome is pure class.

I still have a few HBO on my list of things to watch - Boardwalk Empire, Luck, Eastbound and Down and I can't wait!

Also the fact most shows have full 1 hours episodes 

24 is great for what it was, there was definitely no genius in the writing. There was genius in how they kept the same plot running through 8 seasons though essentially and Bauer just made Chuck Norris look like one of the Chuckle brothers

Lost however we'll have to agree to disagree because I just love everything about it and that's even with the fact so much was left unanswered. I looked at it from a different point of view, one which many will differ from and that's the reason it created such vastly differing opinions of it.

NCIS has just been shelved then, I'll put those on my iPad and this summers Vegas viewing will be HBO exclusively. (What an absolute life having all those in the locker too unwatched)

[titaniumbean]

Tbh if I had watched Lost 'in a vacuum' (lol PHA) I could well have actually enjoyed it.

It's when it goes hand in hand with a load of people who have no concept of a good tv show who then rave about it constantly.

was pretty similar to Prison Break. that should have stopped after one series, absolute joke that it was continued. Again I have seen a tonne of PB only because of smashed morning afters at house parties etc where we've just ground a tonne of episodes unable to move. Cant say I remember much or enjoyed it enough to need to see more though. Again it's the sort of thing you can watch turn away for 10  mins turn back and it doesn't matter.


I'm so excited for Boardwalk Empire I dare not watch it because then I will have seen it lol. Tis exactly the same as when people tell me they haven't seen Sopranos or the Wire and I just get so jealous.



OZ is an absolute HBO classic and shows how good HBO are that they can make a show with about 4 female characters and a tonne of male nudity/bumming/murder etc (it's set in a prison ldo) and still be so enthralling.

[superwomble]

Really enjoying GoT. Lost was pretty darn good up until the final episode, which still makes me angry whenever I think about it. Awful, awful ending.

Life on Mars was one of the best shows.

[Marky147]

I think on the whole I'm a pretty good judge of good shows and I still love it and am glad it ran the way it did.

Prison Break season 1 is one of the best debut seasons of a show ever, season 2 was good and that should have been it. They absolutely butchered it by continuing it and I was just in pain waiting for it to end from then on. I had to carry on to just see what happened and as expected it was just clueless nonsense 

I spent most of 2003-2008 smashed so had plenty of viewing whilst on the same planet some of these writers must have been and still can't figure out why they continued with the shows.

As for the ones you haven't, just watch them and enjoy it. New shows will always be coming, I don't like he change so hold off for ages and then when I watch think why did I neglect myself so long.

Oz was great for sure, I watched it after I had seen several other shows and it's com to see characters I've seen popping up in Emerald City

[The Baron]

After a night out instead of whacking on babestation I watch reruns of MvF. That show is pure sex.

Walking dead would also be added to my list of great series, also prison break season 1 was incred!

There are other good season 1's out there which didn't get better.

Heroes. Spartacus (although the prequel series was awesome series 2 was average).

[The Baron]

He came to England recently to film a show, cant wait for that one.

This is incred.

Although tbf the Brick Lane Curry House challenge was basically British.

[The Baron]

HBO are great no doubt about it, one mans pleasure is another mans pain though and just because you don't like something it doesn't mean it's not great to that person.


Some of the HBO stuff just doesn't appeal to me, I'm not going to watch it just because it's made by them. I will admit to watching most of Tell Me You Love Me because Penny from lost was in it though and naked for much of it

I'll agree with Baron on some shows being rewatchable and others not so, I've seen FNL a few times now and absolutely loved it as much the 2nd time even though I knew what was happening, same with Sopranos and The Wire.

I do have Band of Brothers, Generation Kill and Rome on my hard drive to watch, they're gonna have to wait now while I watch GoT and start NCIS.


Can't say I've ever watched Man vs Food though and don't expect to

I totally agree, it's just when in the same breath as Sopranos/Wire we're being told how good 24/Lost is my head actually asplodes.

Band of Brothers is UTTERLY INCREDIBLE, if you have any interest in the war, any respect for those who died and what happened you cannot fail to be moved and amazed. you know the ending and it's still amazing. At uni I kept rewatching it with people who hadn't seen it, all thanked me, I probably watched it right through 6-7 times in 4 years.

Generation Kill is really interesting, whilst Rome is pure class.

I still have a few HBO on my list of things to watch - Boardwalk Empire, Luck, Eastbound and Down and I can't wait!




Also the fact most shows have full 1 hours episodes 

Boardwalk is definitely in my top 3 series. If you like Sopranos you'll like this.

[The Baron]

Should i watch Deadwood or Sons of anarchy next?

Deadwood by a mile.

[titaniumbean]

I think on the whole I'm a pretty good judge of good shows and I still love it and am glad it ran the way it did.

Prison Break season 1 is one of the best debut seasons of a show ever, season 2 was good and that should have been it. They absolutely butchered it by continuing it and I was just in pain waiting for it to end from then on. I had to carry on to just see what happened and as expected it was just clueless nonsense 

I spent most of 2003-2008 smashed so had plenty of viewing whilst on the same planet some of these writers must have been and still can't figure out why they continued with the shows.

As for the ones you haven't, just watch them and enjoy it. New shows will always be coming, I don't like he change so hold off for ages and then when I watch think why did I neglect myself so long.

Oz was great for sure, I watched it after I had seen several other shows and it's com to see characters I've seen popping up in Emerald City

late 1990s channel 4 viewing of OZ was amazing. I think it was the first HBO program i'd ever seen.


Absolutely love the grey screen of static at the start. you just know shits gonna get gud.


I deffo will watch BE soon I just don't like watching things and having to wait for episodes to come out.

And ya seeing OZ characters everywhere is such fun. Wangler. Adebisi. Shillinger etc etc


When I see Verne in something else he will always be a Nazi Bummer rofl

[The Baron]

It's pretty ridic the way the 3rd season finishes purely because it's setting up for the most amazingest best tv show season ever....

Best (and as it was discontinued also the worst) ending ever. My life is incomplete.

[titaniumbean]

It's pretty ridic the way the 3rd season finishes purely because it's setting up for the most amazingest best tv show season ever....

Best (and as it was discontinued also the worst) ending ever. My life is incomplete.

ya that's what I meant.

as in it's still watchable just be fore warned that you will be left feeling empty inside.


The limey probably did this face when he heard

[Marky147]

late 1990s channel 4 viewing of OZ was amazing. I think it was the first HBO program i'd ever seen.


Absolutely love the grey screen of static at the start. you just know shits gonna get gud.


I deffo will watch BE soon I just don't like watching things and having to wait for episodes to come out.

And ya seeing OZ characters everywhere is such fun. Wangler. Adebisi. Shillinger etc etc


When I see Verne in something else he will always be a Nazi Bummer rofl

Haha yeah, HBO are the  OG  of television.

I have backed myself into a corner with most shows nowadays as I am on a week by week with them, the upside is that I watch so damn many I always get by

I was waiting for Lock and Michael to duke it out for the wheelchair on the island, Ecko to start selling Charlie smack or Batista to put a hit on La Guerta once she jogged him on in Dexter

[titaniumbean]

<3 Dexter!

so many times i've sat at the live poker table and just though zomg where is my clear plastic and needle/knife set. roflmao