Very OT- Looking for a TV series to start watching, need some "mgoadvice"
I think it's safe to say we all share a love for Michigan Football, and Michigan in general around here. But I noticed a lot of "TV talk" as well. With Game Of Thrones ending for a while now, just thought I'd ask the board for some help finding a new show to watch to hold me over for the next couple months while we wait for football season to kick in.
Maybe a Top 3 from everybody?
Perhaps if you told us some other shows you like aside from Game of Thrones it would help us make informed suggestions. Do you want a comedy or something binge-watchable, or a prestige drama?
lame for liking Orange is the New Black - but if you've already seen that, and liked it - I'd recommend the show: 'Wentworth'.
Similar vein but in my opinion a bit more gritty and less touchy feely than OINTB.
So boobs or no boobs on Wentworth?
And the Lesbians are hotter.
I haven't seen that far into the show to have met that one Hatter!
Guess that puts Wentworth on par:
#NTTAWWT
Classic Michigan football games on YouTube.
a bit easier on my blood pressure!
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Yes, what he said. I will also add in Prison Break, The Blacklist and The Shield.
+1 for Prison Break. A new season is coming out in 2017.
Seriously? Oh balls, I might have to actually finish up that last season then.. First season is one of my all-time favorite seasons of Television, probably in my top 5, but I slowly lost interest from there. It was just hard to meet up with the standards set by that first season.
It's pretty good, when you can understand what they are saying.
100% co-sign. Sons of Anarchy was awesome for the first season and then after that became more and more ridiculous, to the point it became really frustrating to watch when balanced against that first season. I really can't recommend starting it.
started out just a bit slow, but I became addicted in 2-3 episodes, pretty good action and plot lines.
Peaky Blinders is amazing.
The Wire
Peep Show (England comedy, it's fucking awesome)
Silicon Valley (comedy, pretty good)
True Detective - Season 1 is amazing
Breaking Bad
Walking Dead
I've even gone back and re-watched Cheers and Roseanne recently. Good shit.
Heard Horace and Pete is pretty good but havent gotten to it yet.
Peaky Blinders: TOO LOW.
If OP is looking for intense action/drama, I think PB is right up there in terms of quality of television with GOT.
EDIT: Forgot about Silicon Valley. This show is on Arrested Development (pre season 4) level for me.
Peaky Blinders and Silicon Valley are must-watches if you need a new show.
Also, Parks and Rec legit made me sad when it ended because I thought it was amazing.
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Peaky Fuckin Blinders!
so many episodes with very good acting.
Billions; I loved that show, hope it comes back. Some of the insults in that show; the one-liners, the rants, are epic.
+1 for The Wire. Amazing show.
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This was the best show on TV. Really well done.
alone, "Boyd" was a fucking classic character; so well done.
Definitely one of the best shows ever on television!
Great snappy dialogue, great characters good and bad, excellent ensemble. Graham Yost is listed as lead writer, but Elmore Leonard—who wrote the short story the series is based on—was one of the exec producers and I have to imagine had some impact on the writing.
Just be careful if somebody offers you apple pie to drink.
House of Cards
Dexter (except for the last season)
Preacher (first season is ongoing)
Dexter is my favorite. It left you on the edge of seat every season.
I loved Dexter also until the ending. But still a very solid show. Most seasons I couldn't tear my self away from the show.
An actual physical book not a kindle edition, lets you read, then set the book down and contemplate what you've read.
Why can't you set your Kindle device down and contemplate? I read e-books on my phone, iPad, and iPod without missing a beat. I always have a device with me, but don't always have the "storage" capability to lug a book along. If you prefer a hardcopy, that's fine but you absolutely CAN put your eReader down.
To each their own, but.
-Books have a smell
-The texture of the paper
-the dog-eared pages or underlines tell a story
-the cover graphic/material, shape size and weight
-the paper type, font-type, and typeset have personality
And before you criticize this, ask yourself, is their a smell in the air in the Fall during michigan games? Does the sound of the marching band, playing in the distance not give you a full-feeling? Is being in the stadium, watching a game live--despite objectively having a worse view than a Television broadcast--an irreplaceable experience? Is there something so sweet about the week following a great win? An upbeat and optimism about everything else, even though it has nothing to do with M-Football (e.g. work, your dog, the future)?
Well, a book is just like that to me.
An e-reader just does not replace that experience.
Not to mention, my e-readers DO run out of batteries--a book never will, HAVE crack screens from being careless with my backpack--books don't crack. And DO have to WORRY about getting wet--a book page getting wet doesn't compromise the entire book.
So obviously I use a kindle. I just would, every single time without question, prefer a physical text. Even traveling (cracked screens a couple times)
Also, from reading enough about neurosci-research there absolutely is, and will be more research about how our brain approaches computers and e-readers much differently, with much different attention-centers becoming active and cognitive patterns (which we already do when reading/watching/using computers).
I can feel my brain approaching an e-reader differently than a physical book, just like I watch an M-Football game on TV differently than in-person.
I do both gladly, but prefer one immensely.
I'm going to start a service. Printed hard copies of MGoBlog. Mail me your comments on a postcard and I'll post them.
Sad part is I would probably subscribe to this service
Stupidly, I hurriedly stuffed my money into an envelope, licked it, and dropped it into a mailbox.
For the address part, I just scribbledhis User-name, Join-date, and MGoPoint count.
Guess I'll never see that $49.95 again...
Sad, can't even tell the difference between a magazine and a book.
Haaaaa.