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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-11 10:22 PM
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What is your favourite drama currently running on the tv? What network is it on?
I like "Weeds" but don't get the network so I have to wait for it to come out on dvd.
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Rob H. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 12:20 AM
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1. 'Justified' on FX
Edited on Mon Sep-19-11 12:22 AM by Rob H.
I actually bought the second season on iTunes because I got tired of waiting for it to come out on DVD. (I'm cheap, and I still bought it on iTunes! :P )

Edited for clarity.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 04:51 AM
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8. FX also has "Wilfred" and "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
"Wilfred" just finished their 1st season. It's an Australian remake; FX's version is 1000% better. "Sunny" just started their 8th season; Comedy Channel has been playing re-runs all summer. Both great comedies.

Never even heard of "Justified" before tonight's Emmys but will definitely check it out. Thanks for the recommendation.
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siligut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 05:54 AM
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10. Now that True Blood is over, I think Wilfred is my favorite
We usually watch it On Demand over the weekend though. Also, I haven't seen anyone mention Psych, which is just plain fun with enjoyable characters.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 11:03 PM
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32. Always Sunny is actually the 7th season. Season premiere was fucking ridiculous.
Fat Mac... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 04:52 AM
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42. Fat "I'm Cultivating Mass" Mac
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 11:55 AM
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44. "You are becoming a chimichanga!!"
:rofl:
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 12:10 AM
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35. That's an excellent show.
Though I only know one other person who watches it. I think a lot of folks don't know about it.
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Rob H. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 01:15 AM
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40. A friend of mine actually turned me on to it
after the first season ended and came out on DVD. I was less than halfway through the pilot episode before I thought, "Oh, yeah, I'm watching the rest of these."
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hibbing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 12:35 AM
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2. Breaking Bad - AMC
Hi,
A rather complex show in my opinion, I always like shows with a lot of characters. If you watch you would have to start from the very start. I'm watching the current season, which I think is the last and am still confused by some events. I would highly recommend it though.

Peace
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Systematic Chaos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 12:55 AM
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3. Nope, not the last.
Next season will be the last, but the longest yet with 16 episodes. :)
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hibbing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 02:49 AM
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5. wow
Hey,
Cool, just got done with tonight's episode, crazy stuff, glad there will be one more season. Good golly, I can't even imagine what all can take place in 16 episodes. Who is your favorite character?

Besides the main ones, I love the the lawyer.

Peace
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Systematic Chaos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 04:27 AM
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7. The lawyer rocks, and I love Gus' whole demeanor.
And Pinkman trying to hold himself together is quite the spectacle. The way he took care of the cartel chemist in tonight's episode was hilarious!

I never thought I would want to watch the show, until I was flipping through channels a couple years ago and managed to land in the middle of a tense moment of an early episode being shown as a rerun. I watched it until the end and then downloaded the first two seasons, and my wife and I watched all of it almost nonstop over the next couple of days.

It's one of the best shows I've ever watched.
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 05:18 PM
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21. Gus has got to be one of the most fascinating characters ever written
And they're all great characters.

I love Breaking Bad. And all the other AMC shows. Walking Dead, The Killing, all of them. I wish they hadn't taken The Rubicon away.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 12:54 AM
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39. You do not fuck with Los Pollos Hermanos!
:scared:
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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 02:41 AM
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41. How many remember him from "Bakersfield PD"?
Edited on Tue Sep-20-11 02:41 AM by Duer 157099
I used to love that show

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105947/





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slay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 10:55 PM
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29. Breaking Bad is easily the best show on TV right now
there used to be great shows like Rome, The Shield, Deadwood, The Sopranos, LOST.. but all those are gone now. much of tv sucks.

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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 11:02 PM
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31. I love Breaking Bad, it's one of the best shows on TV right now.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 12:59 AM
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4. Boardwalk Empire, on hache-be-o.
Edited on Mon Sep-19-11 12:59 AM by Iggo
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 04:53 AM
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9. I'm a member of the First Church of Buscemi.
:thumbsup:
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tblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 02:23 PM
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15. Me, too! What's gonna happen to the pregnant girl & Agent Nelson?
:popcorn:
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AngryOldDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 03:47 PM
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19. How's this....
Lucy has the baby and Nelson is suddenly overcome with righteous guilt and visions of damnation and hellfire. Just like with Sebso, his departed Internal Revenue partner, Lucy winds up dead (although it's an open question whether she dies in the course of a "religious conversion," a la Sebso, or goes in a fit of Nelson's rage). Nelson then passes off the baby as a foundling to his wife, who has been hectoring him for quite some time about having a baby and her apparent inability to conceive. (I also saw a second-week episode synopsis that says Van Alden brings his wife to Atlantic City.) So, as far as Van Alden's concerned, two problems neatly solved -- just how he likes it.

The only possible wrinkle in this scenario is that I think Lucy Danziger actually existed, so perhaps killing her off would be too much. But there are other plot devices that can be used to take her out of the picture.

Myself, I'm anxious to see just how much deep shit Nucky is in this year.
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EmeraldCityGrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 03:55 AM
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6. Breaking Bad, The Big C and waiting for The Walking Dead
to return in Oct.
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 06:20 AM
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11. Downton Abbey started back up yesterday. Treme just ended.
Weeds.

I am looking forward to the returns of:

The Killing
Game of Thrones
Hung and
Nurse Jackie.
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IcyPeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 02:05 PM
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12. where did Downton Abbey start? I didn't notice it?
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 02:24 PM
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16. In the UK... nt
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 02:32 PM
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17. Here:
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 12:11 AM
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36. Cool! Someone else who watches Hung!
I never even hear that show talked about.
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hamsterjill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 02:19 PM
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13. Criminal Minds
CBS, I think. I usually watch the season DVD's.
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Curmudgeoness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 05:25 PM
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22. Agreed. I suppose we are sick puppies, because
that is a really depressing drama. Of course, I don't have cable/satellite, so I am very limited in what I have options to watch. I have never heard of most of the other choices.
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 10:49 PM
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28. .....
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 02:20 PM
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14. Walking Dead. Though curious about Terry O'Quinn joining Hawaii Five-0
I'll definitely check it out tonight to see what he brings to the show. Also curious about Michael Emmerson's new show "Person of Interest" on CBS. Will probably check that out as well.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 03:49 PM
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20. Probably my favorite as well
but, I don't have HBO, so have only seen a limited about of A Game of Thrones.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 02:33 PM
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18. Good old Burn Notice. nt
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slay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 10:57 PM
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30. Burn Notice is surprisingly good
all the actors are great - the characters are fun - and for a show that follows the same formula every episode - it still manages to be highly entertaining. it's not going to win critic awards the way The Wire did, but it is my second favorite show on tv - behind Breaking Bad. :hi:

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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 11:04 PM
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33. Burn Notice is great. I just watched the TV movie "The Fall Of Sam Axe".
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slay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 11:26 PM
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34. I saw that too - pretty good - noticed that Jeffrey Donovan directed it
dude who plays Michael Westen - and he had that small part at the bar in it. good stuff - Bruce Campbell rules!

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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 05:51 PM
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23. Game of Thrones
Best drama on TV. What's addictive about it is the political intrigue. You can set that show in any era, and it would still be a great story.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 05:00 AM
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43. Great story line
... and a wicked awesome ending of the 1st season:

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WilmywoodNCparalegal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 05:52 PM
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24. Dexter on Showtime
bar none.
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blueamy66 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 06:02 PM
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25. Boston Legal on TV Land at 5 am
love that show!
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 06:08 PM
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26. Breaking Bad
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lifesbeautifulmagic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 06:52 PM
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27. Mad Men
Walking Dead.

Who would have thought AMC (the formerly lame old movie channel) would be turning out such wonderful shows.
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 12:12 AM
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37. Boardwalk Empire and Dexter, on opposite each other of course.
And since I don't get the stations, I can only watch them at my boyfriend's. Also love Weeds, the Big C, Nurse Jackie, Justified.
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juajen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 12:49 AM
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38. Castle on ABC. Also Body of Proof on ABC.
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whistler162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 12:00 PM
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45. Everything on C-SPAN....
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ceile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 12:03 PM
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46. The Closer on TNT
Actually it just went on it's Fall break, but should be back in Dec. Castle started last night (ABC) and I think Body of Proof (ABC) starts this week too. But I'm still partial to L&O: SVU- curious to see what the new cast members are like.
Was really impressed by Necessary Roughness and Suits on USA this season. Suits won't be back until next summer- bummer.
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 01:13 PM
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47. Ein Fall für Zwei
It's on ZDF

Wilsberg and the ARD series Tatort are usually good, too, especially when they are situated in Münster, Berlin, Hannopver or Ludwigshafen.
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 01:17 PM
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48. Mad Men
or Californication
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 01:18 PM
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49. True Blood - Showtime
:D
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Little Star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 04:36 PM
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50. Justified. Some of the best TV in a long time, imho. n/t
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Mudoria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 09:29 PM
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51. Suits, The Glades and Justified
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 12:27 AM
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52. Sons of Anarchy n/t
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 11:09 AM
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53. The Good Wife-CBS
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