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@Master_Dahark, I'm sure there've been people out there who've made parallels between Jane's Frank Castle and the man he plays in "Hung," just like some have for Bryan Cranston's characters in "Malcolm in the Middle" and "Breaking Bad."
The backstory to "Hung" could be something along the lines of Frank surviving a deadly attack on his life post Punisher that made him relocate and use a new identity to start to build his life again with a new family in a new area. The raunchiness of the show would compliment his dark world and the care he has for his family in that show would be the same strong care he had for his wife and kids in the Punisher film.
By the way, there's rumors that Jon Berenthal's Punisher is going to be getting his own series (a prequel to who he becomes in Daredevil season two, I presume), so that must have you absolutely bonkers excited. I know @haserot is big into the character as well. I'd love to see a series that explores his life before the mob hit, and afterward, his journey to seek vengeance. That has me really excited, if the rumors are in fact true.
I was really excited to see an Iron Fist standalone series, because he's one of the characters I know very, very little about.
Well the other day I was actually watching The Punisher and she came home from work during the diner scene with Harry Heck
and she goes '...this is a weird episode...'
=))
Didn't take her long after that though to realize!
Imagine if she came in during the fight with the Russian.
Her: "Hi honey, oh, watching "Hung" again? *Fight picks up* Oh my, why is Tom's character being beaten to a pulp?!"
You: "Well you see, on the last episode he was almost seduced by one of the housewives across the street and...needless to say her body builder husband found out and has come to teach him a lesson."
:D
http://deadline.com/2016/02/macgyver-reboot-dr-phil-drama-bull-cbs-pilot-1201695415/
so a reboot is happeing maybe it's because I grew up with 007 and yes and batman but I am not as upset as others about the reboot I think in this age of dark gritty espionage and reboots.. Macgyver should fit right at home (I am honestly hoping the series takes inspiration from Casino Royale personally)
The story follows Parsons as she starts off at Hewes's firm, learns the ropes and skills, and then eventually moves on to become a competitor of Hewes's. Each season focuses on a different case that Hewes's firm is working on, and there are interrelated family stories that play a part.
Ultimately Parsons has to figure out whether she wants to become like her mentor, who has ruthlessly sacrificed everything for success, or be normal.
I didn't think I would enjoy this show as much as I did. It had me gripped for all 5 seasons. It's a different kind of law show, in that it doesn't really focus on court scenes (there are hardly any) but rather the machinations that inevitably result from a relentless drive to succeed.
Highly recommended
I always wanted to see this show because the source material seemed interesting and I loved the cast.
I just finished watching the latest season of this brilliant show. I am totally hooked on this. Along with Homeland, Masters of Sex & House of Cards, it's my favourite at the moment.
Liev Schreiber is the man. What an intense guy. Rivals Craig for sheer machismo.
I am linking below to my review of Season 2 for more info on this show, but to summarize, think Get Shorty meets Heat meets Breaking Bad. It's just great.
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/457681/#Comment_457681
Caligula is one of the most horrendous villains of any tv series. I remember certain scenes vividly, although I was just a kid when I saw it.
Lately I have been watching Mammon, second season of a Norwegian thriller series. I skipped the first season as I thought it was shit, but this one soon got me caught up. Surprisingly well made and exciting.
I heard Giamatti's character is loosely based on Preet Bharara, the New York D.A., who seems to be Elliot Spitzer without the prostitutes.
Have your seen it? How is it? I'll watch it for Lewis & Giamatti alone.
Brilliant episode....
The cast was impressive and Paul Dano was superb in the lead, James Norton was suitably stoic and noble, although I'm more looking forward to him returning to his calling card role, Tommy Lee Royce in series 2 of Happy Valley starting tomorrow night.
Series 1 was one of the best things the BBC done in years and I hope series 2 doesn't do a Broadchurch on us, although I have a feeling it won't.
X files must admit when Spooky Mulder left the show so did I, so not familiar with the later seasons. I did watch both movies which were mixed. Watched first episode of season 10 mini series, good to see the characters again though felt a bit forced and rushed. Admittedly they are setting things up and cater to a new audience. I will certainly keep watching, some interesting ideas were presented.
Right, another seven hours vaporised over the illusion that watching a TV series actually pays off. With a few notable exceptions, it doesn't in my experience.
Not a single property seems safe from the curse of being serialised these days but where's the quality control? Forget 24 and Sherlock for a moment, and you mostly have the exact same stuff repeated on a slightly different canvas. Seen one - seen them all. Take Dracula for example. With the book now nearly 120 years old and tons of film adaptations already sucking the blood from collectors' wallets and storage space, I wish that some film and TV producers would pay closer attention to the quality of their next Dracula product, not to the quantity. I'm a sucker - this pun not intended - for all things Dracula, but even I care for finesse. Taking the Stoker novel and putting a different spin on it is one thing. Keeping it fresh and alive (despite the vampires) is another thing entirely.
Even then, Dracula is still one of the better shows as it doesn't completely fall into the usual traps. Most TV series set up interesting conflicts in their pilot episode and then wait about 15 episodes before they pick those original threads up again for the sudden conclusion. What happens in between is usually the same thing: episode x introduces an issue, episode x + 1 solves the issue, episode x + 2 has forgotten about the issue. Meanwhile, a 42 minute episode is about 40 minutes of dialogue. The same dialogue. Over and over and over again. Also, there's one school of composers for TV series and they all produce the same music.
Dracula has good intentions. We go back to Vlad Tepes because it seems 'cool' lately to always explore the "real" Dracula - unfortunately, as Dracula Untold has shown, it's difficult to stick to that without going dark and vampiric soon enough, and it's also rather boring to be frank. Disguised as an innovative American scientist-industrialist called Grayson, Dracula tries to make it in modern day London but falls in love with Mina and then there's Lucy and Jonathan and a slightly different but nevertheless dull Van Helsing and a big terminator Renfield and a gazillion forgettable other characters including a Blade II type bloodpack of vampire hunters and ... Tired? So was I, trust me. Because these people have absolutely nothing of any interest to do. By the time we get to the final episode, hardly anything is resolved and from what I understand, there's not going to be a second season. So if that's true, I really wasted my time on this thing. (Some seem to speculate that we might get a second season. I'm not sure.)
Fleming at least was short and concise. Firefly didn't last long enough to become boring. 24 remains adrenalised and provides cool action beats every episode. Sherlock is of a standalone brilliance. But looking back on Heroes, Battlestar Galactica (remake), Gotham (oh dear) and even Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (though I rather liked that one for other reasons), most of these series could have been cut to about 30 % and then, perhaps, none of it would have felt like a total waste of time. Television series have become incredibly successful these last few years but I just don't understand why. People seem to enjoy listening to the same endless dialogues and watching the same conflicts and ... everything is the same! Whether in Dracula or in Battlestar Galactica or in Gotham or... people sleep with other people, their partners find out, they argue (episde x), fight over it (episode x + 1) and make up again (episode x + 2); business competitors are plotting against our main protagonists, someone dies, ...
But who am I to talk? I never saw Boston Legal or Breaking Bad or Prison Break or ... And it's not like I'm not trying. I am keeping up with The Walking Dead and enjoying most episodes but again not all. I guess I've had enough of the 'talkies', the episodes in which, in hindsight, nothing's transpired, people have just talked, and talked and talked some more and I'm sick of being told by the world that "oh my god you have to watch so and so because it's soooo cool!" You know what's cool? A 90 minute film, cut to perfection, where every scene and in fact every shot serves a purpose. But working out some ideas for a story and then stretching it beyond 300 % of what it could provide, is not - repeat, not cool. That's why I'm not even interested in those Hannibal Lecter or Bates Motel shows. I'll happily stick to two Lecter films and two Psycho films, thank you.
So in conclusion, Dracula, while certainly well performed by the likes of Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Thomas Kreitchman, never engaged me but never really put me off either. If there's ever going to be a second season, fine, as with Gotham I might actually give it a try if for no other reason than at least to validate the time I spent on the first season. But if it never happens, I won't lose sleep over it.
I plan on watching a few season 1 and season 2 episodes