2013 TV Thread: Winter, Spring, definitely Summer - pimp your new finds/threadless wonders here!

It hasn't aired yet but the first ep of Ray Donovan has leaked and it is very good. Liev Schreiber plays a murky leg-breaking hollywood fixer type character and Jon Voight is his just released dad who leers at a breast-feeding lady on a plane. It also has Elliott Gould in there, some good actors on board. Looks like a good series from the first ep.

Everyone seems to love that pilot and I just don't get it. At all.

Whodunit is a very entertaining dumb summer reality show.

Any interest in Under the Dome? Saw the first ep and will probably give it a chance.

im kinda into this (ray donovan). its v over the top & *packed* w/ plot

was just about to post exact same thing - the story is interesting but the acting is so far pretty goddamn terrible. xp

Everyone seems to love that pilot and I just don't get it. At all.

It did suffer from trying to do too much, but there is a decent ensemble in there and I reckon it could be a good one.

Any interest in Under the Dome? Saw the first ep and will probably give it a chance.

It really must irk Stephen King that The Simpons Movie beat him to it, probably while he was still arseing with his novel.

like chuck klosterman/bill simmons are def like *flexing fingers* to bang out 20k words on this ray donovan pilot

"some very powerful people are gonna come after me now very powerful people da vinci code type shit"

Not just The Simpsons, I saw the German movie The Wall just a week ago. Similar scenario on a much more personnal scale.

"It really must irk Stephen King that The Simpons Movie beat him to it, probably while he was still arseing with his novel."

I wonder if that's why in every interview* I've seen with him about it he states he's been working on the story for 17 years (or something like that).

* NB: one or two.

pilot for Under the Dome was kind of fun - definitely got Stand-esque vibes from it

I hope Jeff Fahey didn't die at the end of ep 1 (exploding pacemaker), because he is ace.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9424087/on-set-show-ray-donovan

good line:
Ray Donovan has USA Network bones — not at all a bad thing — but is weighed down by HBO ambition

http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/netflix-bbc-set-start-dates-for-gillian-anderson-series-the-fall-video/

gillian anderson and archie panjabi, in a crime thriller on nextflix soon!

anderson looks soooo perfect in this, my years of adolescent x-files fandom are really paying dividends now

she was awesome and gorgeous in Hannibal

i think you shld watch this quality bbc crime drama, vg

I love The Fall but the Beeb need to realise a lot of their audience have been HBOised and have become accustomed to the season finale. Splitting it into two mini-seasons shows a lack of faith on their part.

The new Luther got off to a cracking start.

srs nightmare material near the end there

Anyone watching 'The Bridge' on FX?

Really, really good imo. First episode off to a ripping start. I was afraid the Aspberger's thing would be a bit on the nose but it seems to be handled ok -- and I seriously love the dude playing the Juarez cop Ruiz. He's so old and grizzled and beaten down, he reminds me a lot of Tommy Lee Jones' character in No Country For Old Men.

xp re: The Fall

I like to think that when the show reappears in 2014, real time will have elapsed. It will be over a year later, and events may or may not have taken place in the interim.

The Bridge is a remake of Broen, right? I only watched a few episodes, but that was okay. Can't say I'm interested in an Americanised version.

Huh, I didn't know it was a remake!

It was originally set on the border of Sweden and Denmark I think? It's the US and Mexico in the FX version. The upcoming UK version will be England and France.

australian version will be Australia / NZ, taking place mainly on the water

tbh border of US + Mexico is much more interesting to me than border of Sweden + Denmark

vikings vs vikings FITE

Israel and Lebanon would be a good one.

It was uptight, by-the-book Swede vs slobbish, band-the-rules Dane, iirc. A lot of the Swedes are like THIS, Danes are like THAT jokes got lost in translation, really.
xp

xp have u seen the flick beaufort?

Haven't, but I'll look into it.

i need to tivo bridge like now

Anyone watching 'The Bridge' on FX?

Really, really good imo. First episode off to a ripping start. I was afraid the Aspberger's thing would be a bit on the nose but it seems to be handled ok -- and I seriously love the dude playing the Juarez cop Ruiz. He's so old and grizzled and beaten down, he reminds me a lot of Tommy Lee Jones' character in No Country For Old Men.

I'm in on this show. Loved the first episode and hope the vague eeriness maintains. I've been to El Paso a couple times and it does feel like the whole city is lit with dust and sodium vapor street lamps.

Actor playing the cop was on Weeds for several seasons. He's better here.

ok what matthew lillard??

yup

he's not bad for a change

this thread is for americans i guess but the french show "revenants" (being shown on the bbc w/ english subs) is remarkable (if you can get yr hands on it)

Les Revenants/The Returned is magnificent.

I'm also watching Top of the Lake, but it's a slog so far.

Top of the Lake is worth seeing out, not that I am saying it is perfect. Whatever you you say about it, you can't accuse Campion of complacency.

Dedicated thread for Revenants/Returned fans: The Returned (French supernatural drama on Channel 4)

is that the smarter, frencher walking dead zombie show i've heard about?

Yes.

The Lying Game was canceled, but Bunheads still hasn't been. They could've announced the fate of Bunheads at the same time, obvs. Pretty sure ABCF is just fucking with me, personally, at this point.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/hey-abc-family-just-renew-bunheads-already,100223/

Wow, that's great!

Finished Top of the Lake. The last episode in particular seemed like it was about 3 hours of tv crammed into 1 hour. I guess I liked it overall, but never even came close to loving it.

^ france in a nutshell imo. there's this weird twinning of over-the-top sentimentality and cold brutality at the heart of pretty much every great french cultural endeavor

say didn't you marry a french lady, what about that cultural endeavor, hey hey

what does france have to do with top of the lake