What TV Have You Seen?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Finished Penny Dreadful...for now...roll on May etc!!
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How does series 2 compare with the first, D?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

I finished watching the recent BBC miniseries of War & Peace on Monday. It's a very good adaptation of Tolstoy's novel, of the quality you'd expect from Andrew Davies, the man responsible for the BBC adaptations of other classic works including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Doctor Zhivago, Bleak House, and both the original and recent House of Cards series.

It's long, at over six hours, but (I know my recollection of the novel isn't exactly total recall) it doesn't seem to have the sheer scale of events in the same depth and detail as Tolstoy was able to tell them, and the same goes for characters. It was something I partly expected, but it would be interesting to read the book again this summer and then watch the series a second time to see if going in with all events fresh in my mind would make a difference, and this is something I intend to do.

I also began – and nearly finished – the fifth season of The Wire with the commentaries on six of the episodes, so there are two left to watch tonight. As with the previous seasons, the commentaries involve a good mix of writers, directors, editors, and actors, so there is a healthy variety of information being imparted, and varying degrees of entertainment – there is one with Dominic West in which he and the other actor spend a lot of time laughing about the dialogue being spoken and the quality of the breasts on show! It isn't the most illuminating one, but it's quite funny to listen to highly trained and respected actors reduced to smutty minded schoolboys!

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

How does series 2 compare with the first, D?

Just finished it started of a bit slow for me but it didn't take long for it to improve on the first season, can't wait for the next season with how the last season ended.

Been watching these

Agent Carter season 2
Sleepy hallow season 3
The black list season 3
Supergirl
Lucifer
Once upon a time season 5

And just finished the third season of merlin

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

Just finished it started of a bit slow for me but it didn't take long for it to improve on the first season, can't wait for the next season with how the last season ended.



And just finished the third season of merlin

Thanks, Treb.

Still enjoying Merlin?

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Thanks, Treb.

Still enjoying Merlin?

Yes, as you said it gets better and better

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

Yes, as you said it gets better and better

Good stuff. Just wait until you watch the last episode of series 4.

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Good stuff. Just wait until you watch the last episode of series 4.

Just started the first episode of 4 and looks like it's gong to be a good one, and they have stopped calling merlin a young boy at the beginning! Which I never understood as his not.

Both the actors that played Merlin and Arthur have horror themed shows out soon so will be interesting to see what they are like

The Colin morgon one is the living and the dead
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4928166/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_5

But the the Bradley James one really interests me if it's done right.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4337944/?ref_=tt_rec_tt

With it being done by one of the executive producers of the shield/ walking dead

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

Just started the first episode of 4 and looks like it's gong to be a good one, and they have stopped calling merlin a young boy at the beginning! Which I never understood as his not.

Both the actors that played Merlin and Arthur have horror themed shows out soon so will be interesting to see what they are like

The Colin morgon one is the living and the dead
The Living and the Dead (TV Series 2016– ) - IMDb

By the the Bradley James one really interests me if it's done right.

Damien (TV Series 2016– ) - IMDb

With it being done by one of the executive producers of the shield/ walking dead

Bradley James has the role of Damien too. Nice work.

[trebor8273]

Finished the opening two parter of merlin season 4 and has to be the best episode yet

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

How does series 2 compare with the first, D?

Ramped up to buggery cough. No pun intended either haha. Suspend that disbelief!!!