JDFP
29-Nov-2009, 09:13 PM
Is anyone else here into this show? And, secondly, what's your favorite shows on TV right now and why?
"Sons of Anarchy" is my favorite television series right now, and honestly one of the best shows I have ever seen before. I haven't watched any of the second season yet (I do the DVD sets when they come out for shows generally), but I just wanted to give a "Hell Yeah" to stating my opinion on this show.
A friend of mine and I were discussing this the other day and she mentioned that she doesn't think she'd be into a show about a biker gang. Dad actually picked up the first season and I felt the same way at first: "Eh, a show about a bunch of bikers, eh..." but then after watching the first few episodes, all I had to say was: "Wow. This is incredible." Man, this is so much more than a show about a biker gang, it's about life, love, death, redemption (mostly redemption -- the show itself is a take on "Hamlet" in the 21st century and very well done at that), and everything in-between. It's also addictive once you start watching it.
Anyway, Ron Perlman and Katey Segal (Sp?) are both incredible. It's hard to imagine Peggie Bundy from "Married With Children" in such a dramatic role, but she's absolutely perfect for the role. What I like so much about this show is the realism to it. It doesn't attempt to paint people as black and white as being "good" or being "bad". There are layers to every person, there's a great episode in the first season where the gang goes after a predator that is a perfect example. Love or hate most of these people, they have both overwhelming shades of good/evil within them. That's probably the reason I dig it so much.
Anyway, there's only a few other shows I've been into recently. "Big Love", "Supernatural", "The Office", "Breaking Bad", and "The Vampire Diaries". Before you all point your fingers and laugh at me about getting into "Vampire Diaries" I will state that my intention in watching the first episode was to laugh at it as a show that social outcast teenaged girls can get into (like the atrociously bad "Twilight" series). The show is a hell of alot better than the "Twilight" flicks (and books for that matter, but that's a different matter all together). Surprisingly, the story and the writing in "V.D." is actually really good. It's good to know I'll have a horror-show "fix" after "Supernatural" probably ends after this year.
Anyway, what are you all into right now?
j.p.
"Sons of Anarchy" is my favorite television series right now, and honestly one of the best shows I have ever seen before. I haven't watched any of the second season yet (I do the DVD sets when they come out for shows generally), but I just wanted to give a "Hell Yeah" to stating my opinion on this show.
A friend of mine and I were discussing this the other day and she mentioned that she doesn't think she'd be into a show about a biker gang. Dad actually picked up the first season and I felt the same way at first: "Eh, a show about a bunch of bikers, eh..." but then after watching the first few episodes, all I had to say was: "Wow. This is incredible." Man, this is so much more than a show about a biker gang, it's about life, love, death, redemption (mostly redemption -- the show itself is a take on "Hamlet" in the 21st century and very well done at that), and everything in-between. It's also addictive once you start watching it.
Anyway, Ron Perlman and Katey Segal (Sp?) are both incredible. It's hard to imagine Peggie Bundy from "Married With Children" in such a dramatic role, but she's absolutely perfect for the role. What I like so much about this show is the realism to it. It doesn't attempt to paint people as black and white as being "good" or being "bad". There are layers to every person, there's a great episode in the first season where the gang goes after a predator that is a perfect example. Love or hate most of these people, they have both overwhelming shades of good/evil within them. That's probably the reason I dig it so much.
Anyway, there's only a few other shows I've been into recently. "Big Love", "Supernatural", "The Office", "Breaking Bad", and "The Vampire Diaries". Before you all point your fingers and laugh at me about getting into "Vampire Diaries" I will state that my intention in watching the first episode was to laugh at it as a show that social outcast teenaged girls can get into (like the atrociously bad "Twilight" series). The show is a hell of alot better than the "Twilight" flicks (and books for that matter, but that's a different matter all together). Surprisingly, the story and the writing in "V.D." is actually really good. It's good to know I'll have a horror-show "fix" after "Supernatural" probably ends after this year.
Anyway, what are you all into right now?
j.p.