Rolling Action/Adventure/Crime/Thriller T.V. Thread

i really like corey stoll on the strain! i almost didn't recognize him either.

Hulu is gonna provide Showtime starting in July. FYI. so, i will be able to see Homeland and Liev Schreiber show.

i liked the first season of The Strain. as far as implausible scenarios go, that show is hard to beat. will watch season two for sure.

started watching Matt Dillon creepy show featuring wife-beating rap mogul terrence howard as sheriff. an M. Night joint. based on books i've never heard of. i fell asleep though, so, i'll have to watch the first episode again.

they're doing a 2nd season of The Strain?! Awesome!

I've been watching this Columbian docudrama on Netflix about the Cali cartel. The acting is uneven, but it's pretty good

i'll check it out. 80 episodes!

Interesting that sci-fi shows are listed but not in the thread title - is that a backdrop rather than a genre these days?

Anyway, my favour for a TV show appears to be the kiss of death: I loved crypto-Dredd future cop show Almost Human, and it disappeared after one series, and Resurrection (which is more horror, I suppose?) only made it to two - though the first was a perfectly formed 8 episodes of "wait, what is going on?" that several times does the thing I love where after a scene resolves, the next scene follows the 'wrong' character instead.

Oh I suppose Lost Girl got to 5 series, but I prefer pretending it ended a few back.

i figured nobody would really care if i added sci-fi on here. they are usually action-packed anyway....

was thinking of watching resurrection.

really enjoying Wayward Pines! i won't spoiler here. if you have hulu you should watch it. don't read about it though. cuz it gets weird and its more fun if you don't know what the hell is gonna happen.

Sure, it's not like we're discussing TNG :)

I am really looking forward to that in whatever form I eventually see it (torrent / fiddled Hulu / DVD / eventual cable) - there's enough stuff that comes in naturally to my TiVo that I am terrible at actively seeking out other stuff.

I tried Mr. Robot via Hulu, but won't be coming back for more after the premiere. It's kinda Matrix meets Parallax View, and the writing w/r/t the hacker "hero" is better than you'd get on, say, CSI: Cyber, but he's played by this bug-eyed freak I can't stare at for 13 hours, and also the show has Christian Slater in it. Christian Slater is a deal-breaker.

WATCH LINE OF DUTY ON HULU.
IT IS GOOD.
THEY DO THE REST.

hmmm, i could give it a try. i tried New Tricks and didn't get very far. the humor was definitely spelled humour.

there is not really any humor in line of duty. it is real good. 2nd season maybe even better than first. i recommend taking notes cuz things get complicated.

Line of Duty >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> New Tricks.

If you get Happy Valley over there, watch that too.

happy valley is on netflix and i enjoyed it. also broadchurch.

lotsa U.K. shows i''ve never seen on hulu. Vera! George Gently! Kingdom! Injustice! Blue Murder! A Touch Of Frost! and the list goes on and on.

i did love The Wrong Mans.

kinda want to watch the Thorne shows cuz i do love the Governor from the Walking Dead. MY personal choice to play Jack Reacher if they ever make a REAL Jack Reacher movie. or a Jack Reacher t.v. show for that matter. that would be awesome. Netflix-only Reacher series starring Britain's most convincing American.

soooooooooooooooooo Reacher! plus, he's like eight feet tall!

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Reacher much?

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i am reading the reacher book that turned into the movie. i am almost done.
"everyday is a winding road" -- really, jack?!

Oh, Morrissey as Reacher would be good. The Thorne adaptations were decent. I loved The Wrong Mans as well, but don't think it went down too well in general because James Corden.

who wrote the thorne stuff?

also scott did you watch Bosch? i liked bosch.

bosch was good tho i didn't think the plot was very interesting

i can't get bosch on hulu or netflix. i've been reading the books though.

oh, i thought bosch was hulu but maybe it is amazon prime, i have one bosch book but i haven't gotten around to it.

the bosch books are good but LA as a locale is kinda....eh, you know, Hollywood and all that. been done to death plus they are the scariest cops in real life, so, hard to sympathize a lot. but he's a good plot-twister.

i like the Sandford books a lot more.

digging the C.J. Box books i've been reading a lot too. those would make a good series a la Longmire. a game warden! in wyoming! but they are very addictive and entertaining. lots of elk talk.

Thorne books are by Mark Billingham

Virgil Flowers show would be awesome. speaking of Sandford.

I've been reading Sandford lately too. Since I'm unlikely to ever actually move to Minneapolis (as was the plan for a while).

Stitchers on ABC Family is really surprisingly good. the premise is a little wonky -- a gov't agency solves crimes by accessing dead people's memories (hi iZombie) using a weird system where people lay in a pool of water (hi Minority Report) -- but the cast and the writing are really solid.

oh, i thought bosch was hulu but maybe it is amazon prime, i have one bosch book but i haven't gotten around to it.

― ian, Friday, June 26, 2015 5:27 PM (1 hour ago)

yeah it was Amazon Prime. I liked it too! Marlo Stanfield guy playing a sympathetic character

full circle since i started this thread: began by talking about Allegiance starring Hope Davis and who shows up midway through Wayward Pines...you guessed it, next stop wonderland herself.

i would so legally marry matt dillon. can't believe i have to wait until july 3 to see the next episode of wayward pines. one day after broadcast on hulu.

i have the house to myself this week, and i'm finally getting back to Hell On Wheels. 4 seasons up on Netflix and i plan to watch all of them. it's very entertaining. i have no idea how historically accurate it is and i plan to keep it that way. also, thanks to this show and Longmire, i have now seen two modern television dramas that featured a native american bondage piercing sun vision ceremony. thumbs up, hollyweird!

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i have to say, the first episode of season 3 of Hell On Wheels is probably my favorite episode so far and i can't remember the last time i watched a modern show like that where it just got SO good that far in. kudos to the HOW production team. that was seriously such a cool episode. such a good show. there is a thread for it on here but its three posts long, so, i'll just say that here. Mr. Swede! jesus, when has there been a character like that on t.v.? holy toledo.