What TV Have You Seen?

[Dave Boy]

Just watched SUPERGIRL S2 EP1.
Great fun as always...with Superman as well.

....and JESSICA JONES S1 EP1.
That was very good. Seedy, gritty, dark. I loved it.

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Dave Boy

Just watched SUPERGIRL S2 EP1.
Great fun as always...with Superman as well.

....and JESSICA JONES S1 EP1.
That was very good. Seedy, gritty, dark. I loved it.

Its just strange how superman looks a foot shorter than jimmy olsen! still think the actor playing superman looks like a serial killer, but i did like the references to the reeves movie and that he is more like the superman we know from those films and not the thuggish brute from the new films

just started the golden girls, so i'm expecting to be told to collect my coat and that i'm barred!

[Inspector Abberline]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

Its just strange how superman looks a foot shorter than jimmy olsen! still think the actor playing superman looks like a serial killer, but i did like the references to the reeves movie and that he is more like the superman we know from those films and not the thuggish brute from the new films

just started the golden girls, so i'm expecting to be told to collect my coat and that i'm barred!

Just as long as your not pleasuring yourself,while watching The Golden Girls your fine.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Rik

Watched the first episode from Season 2 of Ash vs Evil Dead last night, still just as good as the last Season

Second episode was even better, disgustingly hilarious

[iank]

The Bill: Take It Or Leave It. DC Kerry Holmes is investigating a money laundering operation when she unknowingly stumbles onto a thread that is linked to one of DS Don Beech's corrupt activities. Don is sailing closer and closer to the wind in this gripping episode!

[trebor8273]

two episodes in to the new season of arrow and its not looking good at all, if it doesn't improve i'm going to stop watching. i really hating the whole team arrow thing they need to get back to the shows roots and have Arrow going solo most of the time

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Dracula (2013)

A ten part series which re-imagines Stoker's Dracula as he arrives in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who maintains that he wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. In reality, he hopes to wreak revenge on the people who ruined his life centuries earlier. However, his plan is complicated when he falls in love with a woman who seems to be a reincarnation of his dead wife.

I enjoyed this series, Jonathan Rhys Meyers made a fine Dracula, he even looked the part, certainly more so than any of the recognized actors playing the count for Universal or Hammer. In terms of the book the series is nothing like it. In fact it's final scene sets up the story we know and love with Van Helsing (Thomas Kretschmann) sending Jonathan Harker (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) to find and kill Dracula, so everything that goes before it is new fiction. New fiction with vigorous splashes of steamy sex and copious blood shed naturally.

So much is new and different and so much works. Van Helsing works with Dracula on a solar vaccine to allow Dracula to walk in the daylight, their partnership adds a whole new dimension to proceedings as does Dracula's relationship with Renfield - a charming hulk of a man played by Nonso Anozie - and the main plot with Dracula searching to destroy the Order of the Dragon now operating in London, the religious group responsible for the death of his wife, is wholly enjoyable as are the performances by Ben Miles who leads the order and Victoria Smurfit as Lady Jayne Wetherby, a fashionable huntswoman out to kill vampires (imagine Seline from the Underworld films but with a heaving cleavage).

The wireless electricity technology subplot isn't as compelling as it should be and i think the Mina Murray / Lucy Westenra love triangle at times slowed things to a near standstill, however on the whole Dracula worked rather nicely and came across as a better reinvention of classic horror characters than Penny Dreadful's first season for example. It's a shame it wasn't taken up for a second outing.

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Dracula (2013)

A ten part series which re-imagines Stoker's Dracula as he arrives in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who maintains that he wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. In reality, he hopes to wreak revenge on the people who ruined his life centuries earlier. However, his plan is complicated when he falls in love with a woman who seems to be a reincarnation of his dead wife.

I enjoyed this series, Jonathan Rhys Meyers made a fine Dracula, he even looked the part, certainly more so than any of the recognized actors playing the count for Universal or Hammer. In terms of the book the series is nothing like it. In fact it's final scene sets up the story we know and love with Van Helsing (Thomas Kretschmann) sending Jonathan Harker (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) to find and kill Dracula, so everything that goes before it is new fiction. New fiction with vigorous splashes of steamy sex and copious blood shed naturally.

So much is new and different and so much works. Van Helsing works with Dracula on a solar vaccine to allow Dracula to walk in the daylight, their partnership adds a whole new dimension to proceedings as does Dracula's relationship with Renfield - a charming hulk of a man played by Nonso Anozie - and the main plot with Dracula searching to destroy the Order of the Dragon now operating in London, the religious group responsible for the death of his wife, is wholly enjoyable as are the performances by Ben Miles who leads the order and Victoria Smurfit as Lady Jayne Wetherby, a fashionable huntswoman out to kill vampires (imagine Seline from the Underworld films but with a heaving cleavage).

The wireless electricity technology subplot isn't as compelling as it should be and i think the Mina Murray / Lucy Westenra love triangle at times slowed things to a near standstill, however on the whole Dracula worked rather nicely and came across as a better reinvention of classic horror characters than Penny Dreadful's first season for example. It's a shame it wasn't taken up for a second outing.

i enjoyed it and as you said its a shame it didn't get a second season

[trebor8273]

finished first season of person of interest, look forward to the others.

tried some new shows all were dire.

Macgyver
Van Helsing
Aftermath.

but the second episode of the second season of Ash vs the evil dead was even better than the first, sick, gross and hilarious, the mortuary scene has to be seen to be believed. you seem to be able to get away with more on TV than you can with films now

[iank]

Person of Interest only gets better and better!