[Closed] As the nights draw in....what digital "box set"?

ITYM Engrenages

I actually looked at that and thought that's not right, it's stw I'd better spell it properly before they get pedantic but I couldn't be arsed.. 😆 I even have a French keyboard on the iPad so there was no excuse really!

But yes on 2 counts, 1-3 eas the best and it's hard work using it to practice following French!

Along a similar vein, film not a box set but I really enjoyed the connection when that came out, should be online now it was a few months ago.

Axe Cop is the next big thing. Watch it before all the cool kids do.

The Strain is rather good

Just finished Hannibal fabulously dark and mixed up but is well worth a watch especially as it has Gilliam Anderson!

Peaky Blinders, This is England and Fargo are all brilliant and are really worth watching. Mr Robot I am watching at the minute and enjoying. Broad City is a left field comedy recommendation.

Fargo if you haven't already.

I'm now being made to watch Castle because True Detective S-2 was too traumatic. Not recommended, even for quite serious fans of Croatian women being sarcastic. 🙂

Oh, and good use of "box set".

At what point can we abandon the term for something which hasn't come in a box since Blockbuster gave up?

Other than the mobile phones, Sopranos hasn't dated. It's outstanding. And the same goes for the suits in the West Wing (a bit like Yes Minister 😉 )

I rewatched Band if Brothers recently, it's a lot more schmaltzy than I remember.

I quite like Suits: I know the world of corporate law isn't the most enticing of premise but it's really well written and funny at times. Plus, the paralegals are really hot

I know the world of corporate law isn't the most enticing of premise

Imagine how terrible a series set in an actual corporate law firm would be.

Episode 1: Deal, Or Different Deal?

It is 11:30pm, on Thursday. In a glass building in the dickish part of London, a pouchy man in his 40s raids the vending machine for Wotsits and a Snickers and then dozes on a 3-hour conference call before telling an unhappy single woman with thinning hair to make some inscrutable changes to a word document called "SPA v28" which, at 700+ pages, has never been read in its entirety by anyone and never will be. The unhappy single woman then passes these instructions to a preternaturally cocky 25 year old man called Benjamin who went to Harrow and is a dick, before going to the toilets for a bit of a cry. Benjamin calls his girlfriend to tell her that his career is more important than their relationship. She understands, and carries on watching House on Netflix.

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It is 11:30pm, on Thursday. In a glass building in the dickish part of London, a pouchy man in his 40s raids the vending machine for Wotsits and a Snickers and then dozes on a 3-hour conference call before telling an unhappy single woman with thinning hair to make some inscrutable changes to a word document called "SPA v28" which, at 700+ pages, has never been read in its entirety by anyone and never will be. The unhappy single woman then passes these instructions to a preternaturally cocky 25 year old man called Benjamin who went to Harrow and is a dick, before going to the toilets for a bit of a cry. Benjamin calls his girlfriend to tell her that his career is more important than their relationship. She understands, and carries on watching House on Netflix.

Sublime!

Dusk till dawn series is worth a watch

wallop - Member
Where can one watch Parks & Recreation?

Hannibal was excellent television. Mads Mikkelsen nailed (and sawed and chopped, and then grilled and lightly sautéed) the character of Hannibal Lecter perfectly. Don't watch whilst eating your dinner. Plus you get Lawrence Fishburne, Gillian Anderson and Hugh Dancy for free. That's not a bad ensemble cast.

Just finished re-watching Generation Kill, which even though it's a bit old (and only really a 6 part mini series) is one of the best and brutal pieces of drama I have ever seen. We badly need a British version about our foreign adventures in hot, sandy places.

I know you mentioned you dislike it but Game of Thrones is so good, will be great to watch over winter just in time for the new series early next year. Band of brothers is also great, as is the Pacific.

I've enjoyed Vikings and Black Sails but neither are crime dramas, Hell on Wheels is a fun watch too - kinda a 'dumbed-down' Deadwood.

Fortitude was quite interesting, though not much really happened. I did enjoy it though - possibly worth a look.

Mr Robot is tremendous. All centred around hacking, a group who are Anonymous in all but name, and a huge focus on realism. They've really done their homework, top stuff.

Orphan Black, lead actress plays half a dozen very different characters, she's incredible. Really enjoying it.

Other good ones we've watched recently: Person of Interest, The Blacklist, all the Marvel / DC outings (SHIELD, Arrow, The Flash, Daredevil, Gotham, Agent Carter (surprisingly good)), Continuum.

Dunno what's available where I'm afraid, that lot's from multiple sources (Sky, Netflix etc).

Most of the good ones have been mentioned.
I think Stoner would really enjoy The Bridge.

I'm doing narcos now, which is about Escobar. Really enjoying it.

Band of Brothers is the best series ever made IMHO. It doesn't sugar coat or glamorize anything, it's dark and savage and will bring a tear to the eye. Does more to remind us that war is really, really shit than anything else I've seen. The interviews with the real guys at the end made me well up 😳

The league on Netflix is very easy watching, and amusing, well for me any way

One you can rattle through quickly, as its only 7 episodes, but is the work of unbridled genius....

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Don't think it's a box set but am I the only one who watches and enjoys "The Last man on earth?"

Available on 'Dave' ([url= http://dave.uktv.co.uk/shows/last-man-on-earth/ ]catch up too[/url]).

Have you watched Six Feet Under? If not do so. Comedy but everyone should watch Silicon Valley, absolutely brilliant and gets better in the second series.

I watched the first episodes of Powers and Wayward pines which both looked mildly interesting, but not enough to make me watch the second episode.

Enjoyed Vikings and in a similar but far less PG vein Spartacus was good.

I thought Dusk Til Dawn was pointless rubbish.

Loved the first two Series of Hannibal but the third was a load of tea cup smashing, oh hang on I'm having a vision, pretentious drivel.

Mr Robot is next on my list when I finally get around to finishing the yawn inducing True Detective 2

As for GoT, DOO EEEETT!!! it's got loads of tits, violent MDK, and dragons, what more do you want?

+1 for Peaky Blinders. Just watched all 3 series back to back. Loved it. Great drama, engaging characters, believable fast paced story lines, well produced and visually impressive. Er..it's great.

thank you all.
Narcos was the one Ive been trying to think of as well.

So on my list goes

Mr Robot
Narcos
Generation Kill
(on top of spiral s1 that Ive already bought and lined up)

In the poss pile goes
Orphan black
Hannibal (if only for reasons of gore)

And on the maybe list
GoT and
Sopranos.

That should keep me going a while. Ta

(and thank you BD. In the painful truth lies so much humour eh? 😉 )

Aw, Generation Kill... Yeah, loved that.

Not quite your demographic (but good for your French) is Les Revenants. Je t'aime...

Battlestar Galactica

Have you done the bridge, stoner? I think you'd enjoy it very much.

Indeed, The Bridge is very good but I fear the central character (bit clumsy, awkward in social situations, difficulty in conveying and understanding emotions) might be a bit close to the bone for the OP.

It is 11:30pm, on Thursday. In a glass building in the dickish part of London, a pouchy man in his 40s raids the vending machine for Wotsits and a Snickers and then dozes on a 3-hour conference call before telling an unhappy single woman with thinning hair to make some inscrutable changes to a word document called "SPA v28" which, at 700+ pages, has never been read in its entirety by anyone and never will be. The unhappy single woman then passes these instructions to a preternaturally cocky 25 year old man called Benjamin who went to Harrow and is a dick, before going to the toilets for a bit of a cry. Benjamin calls his girlfriend to tell her that his career is more important than their relationship. She understands, and carries on watching House on Netflix.

Hahaha a perfect example of why the writing in Suits is so good: It could have been soon boring.**

** I appreciate it has been glammed up and dramatised and bears little resemblance to actual law practice.

In the poss pile goes
Orphan black

Bump it, it's better than that.

I very much enjoyed the bridge.

DD on the other hand found Gorillas in the Mist traumatic to watch.

Bump it, it's better than that.

I just tried it. Got about 2/3 through ep1 and I'm a bit mleh.

Eh, give it three or four at least.

Revenge - young girl's father accused of treason/ then gets bumped in prison by his accusers. She disappears only to return years later to exact revenge on his accusers in all manner of amusing ways.

Orphan black is starting to get a bit silly now....
The Game - BBC one cold war spy - watched on a plane so not 100% sure I remember how it went.
+1 for Peaky Blinders
Hanibal was going great but for some reason even Gillian Anderson couldn't keep me interested in the end.

durhambiker - Member
In a totally unrelated to the genres you're after sort of a way, Community. Actual decent American comedy. With Chevy Chase. Different format to each episode, the D&D episodes scattered through the various seasons are particularly great, as is the Law & Order episode.

Watched Hannibal (liked it, some episodes were hard going but on the whole good stuff) and am just about to watch the last episode of Bloodline season 1.

Acquired Narcos / Generation Kill / Mr Robot for viewing next.

It's a bit schmaltzy in places, and formulaic to a degree

It becomes unbearable somewhere during the second series.

A little old now but "The Shield" is great. Starts out ok, starts to look a little predictable towards end of S1 then finds its feet. Harsh ending too!

I started Narcos last night, it's very good - watched 2 on the bounce which is a record for me.

The Strain is very good, it's sold as a vampire thing, but most of the vampires are more zombie like - anyway, it was a plausible story of how/why Vam-bies happen which goes further than the usual "magic" explanation which helps an old cynic like me.

The Walking Dead is very good, peaks an troughs though, series 1 is some of the best TV ever, big falling out with the writer meant that series 2 was made with half the total budget, twice the episodes and not much of a story and it shows - almost nothing happens for 6 episodes - it never really gets back to the heights of the first series again, but it's very good.

Fear the Walking Dead however... I've seen 2 so far, it's not gripping me, it's started so slowly, and it's becoming farcical now how long the writers are attempting to hold off the inevitable panic / apocalypse thing. I'd bet the Buses are still running at the end of series 1.

GoT is brilliant, even if the whole medieval/middle earth/dungeons and dragons thing doesn't appeal, don't worry, it so good it doesn't really matter if the genre isn't for you, the story is great - the downside is a lot of the characters (and it's a huge cast) look and sound similar and have unusual, completely forgettable names - thankfully with a tag line of "all men must die" they're killed with alarming regularity so it gets easier.

Better Call Saul is another slow one, but I can't wait for series 2 - some people say you don't have to have seen Breaking Bad to enjoy it, but I disagree.

Sons of Anarchy

Dexter.

We've just finished Humans. Only ten episodes, so not a huge investment. Really enjoyable.

Person of interest +1, watch a couple of episodes & judge it yourself, don't be put off by what you read as the overview. It just keeps twisting, I love it & Harold, and Lionel and Bear and Shaw and the machine, even a small scary/secret place in my heart for Root (Reece is too cool and has no need of my love)
What the hell happened to Justified*? It complete disappeared from TV

Oh as for The following, just kill me now, FFS it worse that the walking dead for stupidity. At least James Spader's having fun with the Blacklist

*apparently returning to sky in September, after a 2 year gap

Sons of Anarchy
Justified
Friday Night Lights
Parks and Recreation

The above have been the things I have enjoyed the most over the last few years.

I'm sure there is other stuff too...

bumpity bump.

I tried out Narcos on Sunday evening. I then splurged through all 10 episodes over the next 3 nights.

ORSUM!

Highly recommended. I can't wait for the second series.

Pablo Escobar was always a background name as I was growing up (born 1975), or the punchline to some joke I never understood about marching powder and odd-named countries many miles away. I never really learnt his story, and this series brings it 650b+ alive.

Mr Robot is next.

(and also have done series 1 of Des Engrenages (Spirals) with Mrs S and straight into series 2. excellent TV)

I tried Orphan Black, and got to the end of Series 1, but felt no urge to start series 2. Excellent acting, but the story seemed either aimless at times, or becoming very predictable at others. Never interesting.

Thanks for the pointers everyone.

ITYM Engrenages

Caught a late season of that and it was OK. Got the feeling it was passed it's best.

No, it's really not. The last series was terrific.

If you like crime drama then 'The Wire' really is the king of boxsets, the first series is more than 10 years old now so it's almost a period piece now, but it's fantastic TV, some of the dialogue is hard to follow, the accents are think and the 'street talk' doesn't come with subtitles but if you stick with it its very good.

This. The Wire is basically the best thing that has ever been on TV.