Topic: Awesome TV shows you should be watching

I know, no one had time to sneeze in this day and age, but I wanted to point a giant red arrow at 3 fantastic TV series that may have slipped past some of your radars. All are historical dramas, very violent (sex, nudity, blood, gore--hey, it was the Times of Yore. Waddya expect?)

First is:

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A 20th Century woman finds herself 200+ years in the past in 18th century Scotland. The time-travel aspect is down-played. This is mostly a romance. Has the MOST HATED villain I have seen in any--ANY--movie or TV program. Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall  (You will hate him more than Archibald Cunningham from "Rob Roy". Yeah.)

Second is:

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Pirates of the Caribbean--GoT style!  This ain't no Johnny Depp thing.  Bloody.  Fantastic story telling!



Last is:

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All I can say is they got a camera, a ring of invisibility and a fookin time machine! That's the only way I can accept how real this looks.  (And someone put a Babble Fish in my ear while I slept for the language.) Hands down the most amazing female protagonist ever, ever EVER!

Lagertha

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If you have not seen these shows, do it! Movies are dead.  TV is where it's at, my friends. 

(Books are still good, too. Especially mine, available --I hope--in a few months)

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This is what I'm really looking forward to in 2016. The Shannara Chronicles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjkQHnDYu0

Other than that, my current obsessions have been of the more modern variety, Elementary and Blacklist. I've also just finished the most recent Game of Thrones, but I'm a bit peeved at it right now, so we're just going to exclude it from the list.

-Elisheva

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Elisheva Free wrote:

I've also just finished the most recent Game of Thrones, but I'm a bit peeved at it right now, so we're just going to exclude it from the list.-Elisheva

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Why are we watching TV when we should be writing or reading?

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Interesting thought. I pretty much stopped reading when I started writing with intent. Television is something that I watch when I don't have the energy to write. These days, those days are few and far between.

Though that bit about the white walkers is pretty hilarious.

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I'm two seasons behind with GOT. That says something. Time for another binge weekend to catch up I think. And that's the only way to watch tele - recorded/DVD/Netflix - no ads. Ads are time sucking suckers. Since I've started writing, I'm watching even less TV. I'm down to 3 shows a year (max).

Once GOT runs out, if not sooner, I'll try and watch Outlander. Curious to see how that would compare. Thanks for the heads up! smile

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For me, TV time basically counts as cuddle time with the boyfriend (plus a few intrusions from the cat), but I still don't watch a whole lot. There's the occasional binge-day when I get sick and that's probably when I watch TV the most. Plus, some shows can actually spawn inspiration. smile

I agree with no commercials, though. I usually wait until something is out on DVD or on Netflix before I watch it. It's just not worth the commercial time.

-Elisheva

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Commercials are the best way to find out that something better is on. And when I've run out of news channels, I surf my dozen free HBO channels and realize the commercials were actually better. That's when I bring out the big guns: Wolf Blitzer doing 24/7 coverage of the latest minority group that Donald Trump has insulted, including new camera angles of that squirrel on Donald's head.

I'd laugh at what he's doing to the Republican party, but then I watch the Democrats and realize that the smartest person among both parties is the one who likes to call himself a socialist. Do I renew the U.S. Green Card or the Canadian passport?

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Norm d'Plume wrote:

Commercials are the best way to find out that something better is on. And when I've run out of news channels, I surf my dozen free HBO channels and realize the commercials were actually better. That's when I bring out the big guns: Wolf Blitzer doing 24/7 coverage of the latest minority group that Donald Trump has insulted, including new camera angles of that squirrel on Donald's head.

I'd laugh at what he's doing to the Republican party, but then I watch the Democrats and realize that the smartest person among both parties is the one who likes to call himself a socialist. Do I renew the U.S. Green Card or the Canadian passport?

Unfortunately, I don't follow politics and news very well, but that last bit almost made me snort my root beer float. tongue

-Elisheva

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