1. Being in the UK, I had heard somewhere that it was worth watching. The first couple of episodes confirmed that: intelligent, interesting, and well-acted long-form story telling. Had the episode I am trying to forget been one of those - the one that was such an insult to the viewers' intelligence - I may well not have bothered with the rest.
I have not seen most other US series. I thought Sopranos was wonderful to the end. I am at the break in season four of the Battlestar Galatica re-imagining and I suspect it jumped the shark at the very end of series three. I am mid-way through series two of Breaking Bad. At some point, I must do Man Men (just seen the first few). All of these have very flawed characters as their 'heroes'.
I gave up on Desperate Housewives on the plane crash. I don't think I got past series four or five of West Wing. I look at the list of primetime Emmy winners and go 'nah' to most of them.
I despaired at the US remakes of two fabulous UK series: Being Human (drama, very very good until two episodes of the last series) and The Inbetweeners (comedy). I am delighted that the attempt to remake Peep Show (comedy) failed.
2. I don't know that it will get here. I probably cannot be bothered to search it out.
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Date: 2014-01-07 12:04 pm (UTC)1. Being in the UK, I had heard somewhere that it was worth watching. The first couple of episodes confirmed that: intelligent, interesting, and well-acted long-form story telling. Had the episode I am trying to forget been one of those - the one that was such an insult to the viewers' intelligence - I may well not have bothered with the rest.
I have not seen most other US series. I thought Sopranos was wonderful to the end. I am at the break in season four of the Battlestar Galatica re-imagining and I suspect it jumped the shark at the very end of series three. I am mid-way through series two of Breaking Bad. At some point, I must do Man Men (just seen the first few). All of these have very flawed characters as their 'heroes'.
I gave up on Desperate Housewives on the plane crash. I don't think I got past series four or five of West Wing. I look at the list of primetime Emmy winners and go 'nah' to most of them.
I despaired at the US remakes of two fabulous UK series: Being Human (drama, very very good until two episodes of the last series) and The Inbetweeners (comedy). I am delighted that the attempt to remake Peep Show (comedy) failed.
2. I don't know that it will get here. I probably cannot be bothered to search it out.