What are you watching?

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JK/SEA said:
watching the Superbowl for the 7th time...

good game.
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I re-watched the Packers last time they won because I blacked out from being too drunk. Everybody says that I was coherent and really happy when they won, but when I woke up the next day I couldn't remember anything from the second half. Thankfully I had it DVR'd. I got to truly enjoy them winning it twice! Don't tell anybody about this. It's not one of my finer moments.
 
Lucille said:
I didn't know they cancelled The Borgias! Bastards.

And Showtime cancels The Borgias in 5, 4, 3...
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?410051-And-Showtime-cancels-The-Borgias-in-5-4-3
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I forgot about that. Nice call!

Still getting caught up on True Detective, but I am keeping up with what's going on. This has already aired:

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http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2014/02/x-best-crackpot-theories-true-detective-theyre-probably-wrong/
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Very interesting!
 
Lucille said:
I didn't know they cancelled The Borgias! Bastards.
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I figured the series must have been very expensive to produce. That appears to be why Showtime cancelled it.

But there was just one more season of the story left to go. Damn, damn, damn! (Well. At least the Catherina Sforza plotline was more or less resolved. I wonder if they had any forewarning of the cancellation before the 3rd season ended production?)

One of the reasons I like compelling historical series like The Borgias is that they lead me to check out particular details of history with which I would not otherwise have become familiar.

Check out this list for some interesting differences between The Borgias & actual history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borgias_(2011_TV_series)#Historical_notes

I had noticed the discrepancy with the music at Rodrigo Borgias' coronation as Pope. (I was like, "Hey! What the hell? That sounds like Handel!")
 
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Speaking of another historical series I really enjoyed, check out The Pillars of the Earth.
(It even has a delightful little "free market" "easter egg" in a minor sub-plot.)

It's an 8-episode mini-series set in 12th-century England. It is based on the novel by Ken Follett.

There's an 8-episode sequel called World Without End (set 200 years after Pillars).

I haven't watched the sequel yet. I'll probably do that next, come to think of it.

Both are available via Netflix - occasionally via streaming.
(It looks like World is currently streaming, but Pillars is not.)
 
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green73 said:
I forgot about that. Nice call!

Very interesting!
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The drawing above it too. Is that the king in yellow?

That book has been selling like hotcakes on amazon. It's at number 9 today.

http://io9.com/the-one-literary-reference-you-must-know-to-appreciate-1523076497

Two episodes into the series, True Detective dropped a reference to one of the strangest, most compelling tales in the canon of weird fiction: Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow, a collection of short stories published in 1895. Knowing this book is key to understanding the dark mystery at the heart of this series.

This collection of stories has influenced writers from H.P. Lovecraft and Raymond Chandler, to Robert Heinlein, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman and George R. R. Martin. The King in Yellow and his legendary city of Carcosa may be the most famous character and setting you've never heard of.
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http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2014/02/16/3292391/true-detective-carcosa/#
 
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Occam's Banana said:
Speaking of another historical series I really enjoyed, check out The Pillars of the Earth.
(It even has a delightful little "free market" "easter egg" in a minor sub-plot.)

It's an 8-episode mini-series set in 12th-century England. It is based on the novel by Ken Follett.

There's an 8-episode sequel called World Without End (set 200 years after Pillars).

I haven't watched the sequel yet. I'll probably do that next, come to think of it.

Both are available via Netflix - occasionally via streaming.
(It looks like World is currently streaming, but Pillars is not.)
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I really enjoyed those shows. The Tudors was pretty good (on streaming Netflix) and I liked the HBO series Rome (it's on Netflix DVD).
 
Finished House of cards, Borgias, and Game of thrones, ill slowly work my way through Board Walk Empire now.
 
Cap said:
I'm watching season 6 of Dexter right now. 2 more to go after this one.
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I didn't know they made 4 additional seasons of Dexter. You know what's weird? I'm starting to imagine what those 4 seasons might be like...


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Well, I recently finished watching all 214 episodes+2 movies of Stargate SG1. I am now watching Stargate Atlantis and American Horror Story.


List queue:

House of card(I need to see S2)

True detectives 7 episodes to go(first episode didn't make me want to keep watching)

Grimm season 3 last few episodes

The Walking Dead S4

And a few more, but I usually only watch one show at a time if it has a lot of episodes like SG1
 
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