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Post subject: Best HBO Series  Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:28 pm |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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Really liking Game of Thrones, but True Detective may overtake it.
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Bobson Dugnutt
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:34 pm |
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The Newsroom? Veep? Girls? Eastbound and Down? Big Love? Rome? Treme? Flight of the Conchords? Larry Sanders?
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Bolgani Gogo
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:35 pm |
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I'll pick Game of Thrones, but I also like The Newsroom, The Wire and True Detective.
EDIT: I didn't read carefully, and missed Deadwood. That's probably my favorite show of all time. Oh well.
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Bobson Dugnutt
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:37 pm |
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MLVGB Champion, '92-'94
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Six Feet Under was pretty widely acclaimed, too.
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Night Owl
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:37 pm |
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Veep is a very good show.
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Bobson Dugnutt
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:38 pm |
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The first show that made me wonder if HBO might actually have a shot at competing with networks was Oz.
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Bobson Dugnutt
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:39 pm |
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MLVGB Champion, '92-'94
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What was the mid-90s show about the nebbish guy that had an overactive imagination and would imagine himself in TV shows or something?
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:46 pm |
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It scorched
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I'm going to have to sit the bench because I haven't seen enough of the good ones. Not Game of Thrones, though.
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Marcus
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:50 pm |
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RobertSwanderson
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 6:36 pm |
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Bigger and Better!
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1) Sopranos
2) Six Feet Under
3) Carnivale
4) Rome
5) Deadwood
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Greg McPhee
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 6:41 pm |
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Bobson Dugnutt wrote: What was the mid-90s show about the nebbish guy that had an overactive imagination and would imagine himself in TV shows or something? Dream On starring Brian Benben
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Greg McPhee
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 6:42 pm |
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King of the Wicker People
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No love for 1980's NFL comedy "1st & Ten"?
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RobertSwanderson
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 6:52 pm |
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Bigger and Better!
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I left out Big Love. That would make my list.
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Kid Nemo
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 7:33 pm |
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Mr. Show
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Night Owl
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 8:03 pm |
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Bobson Dugnutt wrote: The first show that made me wonder if HBO might actually have a shot at competing with networks was Oz. I thought Oz was outstanding in the beginning, evoking a fear that I had never felt before. Like Queer as Folk, though, Oz became a parody of itself. How many times can a prisoner kill, rape or set another prisoner on fire another because the guards aren't doing their job?
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Tenebrae
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 8:28 pm |
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The tightrope between suicide and aggressive joy.
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Bobson Dugnutt wrote: The Newsroom? Veep? Girls? Eastbound and Down? Big Love? Rome? Treme? Flight of the Conchords? Larry Sanders? Flight of the Conchords! Best episode: Girlfriends.
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Tenebrae
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 8:29 pm |
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The tightrope between suicide and aggressive joy.
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RobertSwanderson wrote: 1) Sopranos
2) Six Feet Under
3) Carnivale
4) Rome
5) Deadwood Carnivale was awesome. So bummed they cancelled it.
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Rick Lundeen
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:31 pm |
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Sopranos.
Deadwood would have my vote if it had been able to properly end, because it was amazing.
GOT is intriguing at times but it really is like a big board game---"My army is going to fight you and take YOUR throne! Rotate! Now kill all the good guys!" Step and repeat, step and repeat. And for christ sake, kill Geoffrey already!!!!!
Boardwalk is also a quality show but Buscemi is not a lead guy and it shows.
True Detective is AWESOME---but so far, only 5 episodes, so I can't really compare it any of the others.
Curb is a great comedy but apples and oranges here.
Entourage---eh.
The rest I've never watched except maybe an ep each. Didn't have a clue what was going on in Wire, and I couldn't stand the accents in True Blood.
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Steve Kipling
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:33 pm |
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The Sopranos.
Its a shame that the actress who played Tony's mother died....it would have been even better with that character still in it.
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Bishop Hammer
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:41 pm |
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Write your own destiny
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Can't believe Oz wasn't listed. 
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Fortune's always hiding,
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:41 pm |
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The Sopranos by a mile. It is HBO's pinnacle and a shame if one didn't get to experience it.
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Bishop Hammer
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Post subject: Best HBO Series Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:43 pm |
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Write your own destiny
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JohnG wrote: The Sopranos by a mile. It is HBO's pinnacle and a shame if one didn't get to experience it. I'm sorry I just can't get into The Sopranos. I couldn't even make it halfway through the first season. Whatever switched needed to be click to make it one of the greatest shows of all time never connected with me.
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I'm forever blowing bubbles,
pretty bubbles in the air,
they fly so high,
nearly reach the sky,
then like my dreams,
they fade and die.
Fortune's always hiding,
I've looked everywhere,
I'm forever blowing bubbles,
pretty bubbles in the air.
UNITED! UNITED!
West Ham United fight song.
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