What Are You Watching Now?

[Red Celt]

For those of you who have watched (and enjoyed) The Wire, I'd like to recommend The Shield.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286486/

It's finished now, and ran to 7 seasons. It is similar (in some ways) to The Wire. It is very well written with very strong characters.

[macdoc]

Re Wallander - read the books, watched the BBC versions - I didn't have a problem with him being portrayed a wreck - there is just a study going on now showing the devastations that post traumatic stress wreaks on police families and officers.
There is an Icelandic novel in the genre with similar real life stresses from family etc.
The books portray Wallander a complete mess and walking wounded - the one he is close to being committed. So I'd say Branagh was bang on. The characters home life is a wreck, he drinks then doesn't, health is a mess and eats badly and he's haunted by what he's put his family through particularly his father and daughter.

real life limed a bit iconic for drama......why they are popular.

[rachelbean]

For those of you who have watched (and enjoyed) The Wire, I'd like to recommend The Shield.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286486/

It's finished now, and ran to 7 seasons. It is similar (in some ways) to The Wire. It is very well written with very strong characters.

Love the shield...I think it's darker and more brutal than the wire though!

[rasetsu]

Hunh. I love Branagh's Wallander.

I definitely prefer the original, but the Branagh one was pretty good too.

I watched all of the "original" Swedish TV programmes (not watched the movies, yet) and then I watched Brannagh.

He was fucking awful... an emotional mess, from start to finish. And I'm not knocking him for being in touch with his feelings, as there's nothing wrong with being compassionate - but that works very badly in some professions. There is no way that that character could play a senior cop in any police force.

The Swedish (TV) version had issues, too, but he managed to be professional about it.

That's why I just read the books...

The movie plays out inside my head...

So you're a horror buff then?

[rasetsu]

The Big Lebowski for about the hundredth time. I was looking forward to watching one scene: the dream scene. It so happens the DVD menu title sequence is take from that scene! Ahahahaha!

[Clinton Huxley]

The Big Lebowski for about the hundredth time. I was looking forward to watching one scene: the dream scene. It so happens the DVD menu title sequence is take from that scene! Ahahahaha!

Possibly my favourite film.

[Clinton Huxley]

Series 2 of Homeland. Preposterous but entertaining. Great British Bake Off.

[Pappa]

The Walking Dead

[SteveB]

I watched Shame with Michael Fassbender a few days ago. Pretty good, especially if you like dick.

[JimC]

Re Wallander - read the books, watched the BBC versions - I didn't have a problem with him being portrayed a wreck - there is just a study going on now showing the devastations that post traumatic stress wreaks on police families and officers.
There is an Icelandic novel in the genre with similar real life stresses from family etc.
The books portray Wallander a complete mess and walking wounded - the one he is close to being committed. So I'd say Branagh was bang on. The characters home life is a wreck, he drinks then doesn't, health is a mess and eats badly and he's haunted by what he's put his family through particularly his father and daughter.

real life limed a bit iconic for drama......why they are popular.

Agree 100%

[rasetsu]

Time Between Dog and Wolf. A crime, spy, syndicate K-drama.

[SteveB]

Time Between Dog and Wolf. A crime, spy, syndicate K-drama.

Oh yah, I've heard of that.

[Bella Fortuna]

Watching a documentary on a huge post-war housing project in St. Louis in the 50s and 60s, and how it went from a model to a slum within 20 years. Sounds completely dull but it's really interesting!

[macdoc]

Wildest Africa on Oasis HD

[Jason]

Beverly Hills Cop II on MovieTime apparently.. I think I'll play Mass Effect instead.