Re: The TV Series Thread

[NiallQuinnsdiscoPants]

This season of Justified has been allot better than previous seasons IMO

I still say people need to watch Banshee. The final episode of the season was on during the weekend and it was pretty epic.

[McAgger]

Just finished season 3 of Justified

Spoiler:

AMAZING SHOW

[Rebaño Sagrado]

Anyone watching The Americans? I watched the pilot and I'm hooked...

I also watched the pilot for Vikings and it was decent. I'll keep watching since it's only been 3 episodes

[Guest]

Spoiler:

Spoiler alerts, bro. Being that I have already watched that season, there has been no spoil on my end, but you never know who might want to start watching the show.

[Guest]

The dialogue is Justified is out of this world.

[Firenze]

The dialogue is Justified is out of this world.

indeed

this season

[Mamad]

The dialogue is Justified is out of this world.

+100000000000

[RealGunner]

Im gonna watch Justified. The dialogues bit caught my attention

[McAgger]

Im gonna watch Justified. The dialogues bit caught my attention

You'll love it RG. The pilot is GOAT but the couple of episodes after that introduces and develops the main characters, so it's kind of slow but it definitely picks up after that.

[Mamad]

This season has been great. way better than season 3.

[RealGunner]

Im gonna watch Justified. The dialogues bit caught my attention

You'll love it RG. The pilot is GOAT but the couple of episodes after that introduces and develops the main characters, so it's kind of slow but it definitely picks up after that.

I don't mind that at all ( developing characters etc )

[McAgger]

I think Justified deserves its own thread.

[RedOranje]

I don't think that's justified.

[Guest]

RedO

[RealGunner]

dat pun :datass:

[McAgger]

All caught up with Justified!! HOLY MOTHER Season 4 is AMAZING

[McLewis]

Season 4 getting back to the roots of the show

Top notch episodes all around I'd say.

[Kaladin]

Is anyone watching/watched Person of Interest? A lot of people recommending me that show, is it any good?

[Onyx]

Breaking Bad.

On the third episode of the first season. Riveting show.

[Eman]

Based on the first 3 episodes, Vikings looks great honestly. The title character Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) looks and acts just Charlie Hunham's Jax Teller from Sons of Anarchy. Kathryn Winnick is sexy as hell as his wife and a shieldmaiden and I'm not really liking Gabriel Byrne as the Jarl. They could've picked a less esteemed actor for that role honestly.

+1

I'm getting hooked on this show. The preview for next week's episode was very intense. Combined with GoT and the Walking Dead finale, I'm going to have to brace myself for pure epicness.

[BarrileteCosmico]

Leonardo da Vinci gets 'Batman' treatment on Starz

NEW YORK (AP) — In these 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci, he has upstaged every genius multi-tasker in his wake. (OK, not you, Benjamin Franklin and James Franco.)

Da Vinci was a whiz as a painter (hint: "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"), a scientist and engineer, and a futurist dead-set on fighting the gravitational pull of his own times.

He was an intellect, free thinker, vegetarian and a humanist who supported himself designing weapons of war.

He was tall, handsome and a hit with the ladies. He was great with a sword and, being ambidextrous, which hand didn't matter.

"The phrase 'Renaissance Man' was derived from him," says David S. Goyer, who has spent a lot of time studying and pondering him, and has created "Da Vinci's Demons," a sci-fi thriller set in the 1400s.



Another cool thing about da Vinci: He was a man of intrigue, ensconced in secret societies, his paternity unresolved (he was born out of wedlock), perhaps divinely inspired as he clashed with the Roman Catholic Church — a man who seemed to defy the confinements of any simple narrative.

"There's a tantalizing five-year gap, stretching from when he was 27 to 32, where there's almost no record of where he was or what he was doing," says Goyer. "A gap like that is gold when you're the creator of this show."

"Da Vinci's Demons," which premieres on the Starz network on April 12, is a "historical fantasy," says Goyer, who should be up to the challenge.

Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Mich., he remembers spending half each Saturday in a comic book shop, the other half at the city's library.

Now 47, he is wiry and balding and bears a striking resemblance to the actor Stanley Tucci, whom he says he's never met but is often mistaken for.

His credits include the short-lived but ambitious sci-fi thriller "FlashForward," which prematurely fell prey to meddling by its network, ABC. He was script consultant and story developer for the video game "Call of Duty: Black Ops" and its sequel. He co-wrote the 2005 film "Batman Begins" and its two sequels, and wrote the screenplay for the upcoming Zack Snyder-directed "Man of Steel."

In Goyer's view, da Vinci was the prototype of a superhero: "I picture him as one-third Indiana Jones, one-third Sherlock Holmes, one-third Tony Stark (Iron Man) — and he kind of was."

To play this extraordinary chap, Goyer chose English-born actor Tom Riley. The 31-year-old starred in the British TV medical drama "Monroe," and in 2011 performed on Broadway in the revival of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" alongside Billy Crudup and Raul Esparza.

Riley's da Vinci is sexy, mercurial and irrepressible. He savors life in his native Florence: "Chaos and culture are celebrated within these walls," he says lustily. "Florence only demands one thing of its people — to be truly awake!"

But da Vinci suffers from being too awake. He is too driven, too full of ideas, too haunted by doubts about his life's intended mission. He is no stranger to opium, which he uses, he explains, because "I think too much. I need to dull my thoughts or I will be eviscerated by them."



At times he overreaches, stumbles and falls (though ever so dashingly). And he has an eye for a pretty face, including — at high risk — comely Lucrezia Donati (Laura Haddock), the mistress of Lorenzo di Medici (Elliot Cowan), da Vinci's benefactor and one of the city's most powerful figures.

He has an answer for everything, including an accuser who brands him "arrogant."

"Arrogance implies that I exaggerate my own worth," da Vinci fires back. "I don't."

Goyer says he hit upon doing a show about da Vinci only by chance. He had never done anything historical before, and when asked by Starz to create a drama focused on some towering figure from the past, he first demurred.

"I said, 'I'm not — no offense — interested in doing a kind of dry, BBC historical drama.' And they said, 'No, no, no. We don't want THAT!'"

A number of possible candidates were considered for what was now envisioned as a "reinvention-of-history show." There was Cleopatra and Genghis Kahn, "and also on that short list, da Vinci came up," recalls Goyer. "Then I realized, no one's ever done a show about da Vinci! That's crazy! People say he's the most recognized figure in history other than Jesus Christ!"

To prepare for the series, Goyer says he read dozens of biographies, da Vinci's journal pages and many of his letters.

He has written or co-written all eight episodes of season one (with work well under way on a second season's scripts), and directed the first two episodes of the show, which shoots in Wales.

Recapturing 15th-century Florence, not to mention the highfalutin exploits of da Vinci, demands impressive visual effects, and Goyer set the bar high: "My goal was to be at least on par with the production values of 'Game of Thrones,'" he says.

But even as it recaptures the past, the show, like da Vinci, is forward-looking.

"The central conflict is about who controls information," Goyer says. "On the one hand, you've got the Vatican Secret Archives. The Church wants to control the information. On the other hand, shortly before our show starts, Gutenberg invented the printing press.

"This is a modern-day touchstone that viewers can identify with. If da Vinci were alive today, his slogan would be, 'Information wants to be free.'"

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Online:

http://www.starz.com/originals/davincisdemons

This seems like it could be either really good or really bad. Probably the later

[Guest]

I hope your last comment was facetious, this show (and da Vinci) has really peaked my interest. I had no clue that he was so multifaceted and it looks like I have some research to do. Thank you for the share, BC

[CBarca]

I'll wait until after this comes out and it's looked at to give it my own look.

I can't risk my pure love for Da Vinci by watching a show about him that has potential to be bad

If it's good though I'll eat the thing up.

[Guest]

What is the difference between you watching this when it is released and you waiting until it has been reviewed?

At the end of the day, every show has the potential to be good, or to be bad. Good reviews will only raise the bar and potentially disappoint you further. Based upon what I read, it seems to me as if the show has great potential. I will wait until the first season to watch because I prefer not having to wait a week for new episode and my broke self can not afford those fancy channels.

[Onyx]

Is Banshee any good?

[RealGunner]

have you watched prison break mt ?

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