I've been thinking I'd like a thread to discuss random tv that I've watched that I didn't think would be popular enough to warrant it's own thread for awhile now. (if I've missed a long running one, feel free to let me know so I can go there).

I have a tendency (especially with Brit tv which tends to be made in smaller batches) to binge watch stuff so many of the things I've thought about were watched that way.

Currently I am at a loss for what to start because I just bulled through the UK Being Human. It's not that there aren't any other shows I want to watch, it just comes down to figuring out what I'm in the mood for and whether or not it's readily available.

I don't think I'd call Being Human an amazing show, but I did find myself really getting into it, I think it actually got better as it went on, or at least I found the 2nd vampire to be WAY more enjoyable to watch anyway, also the main villain being Phillip Davis (if you watch UK tv you've probably seen him being horrible in something) in the last season didn't hurt at all. Mr Rook was great and I know I've also liked him in a lot of stuff. I enjoyed him in Luther (which was another show I got really into at one point) where he was playing a creepy serial killing clone of a friend of ours...like really he looked exactly like him and was murdering using RPG logic...we see our friend most often at our bi-weekly RPG game...I'll tell you I felt just a little nervous every time he rolled his dice the day after that.

Well what about you guys? Any shows you've been watching that didn't seem worth it's own thread? I will be back some other time to post more.

Oh actually before that I had another one I was watching that I really wanted to say something about, and then didn't get around to it. The Australian show RAKE (I got the impression from something I'd read that there was an American one, haven't seen it, probably not as good.) I love that show! It's about a barrister that basically screws everything up and only ever passingly gets the notion he should care about stuff. I watched a couple of seasons of it thinking it was awesome before I looked up the main guy to see what else he was in, and found out that he was the upper class twit in Moulin Rouge of all things! I never would have even guessed that! There is apparently another season of it being made, I hope I can find it somewhere whenever it comes out!

I watched the first 2 sesons of Being Human and I loooved it! Unfortunately I missed the preceding 2 seasons and was too far behind to folow anything.

Heh since you popped it back into my memory I might give it a go again on dvd.

I binge watched a British series recently called "Fortitude" which is set in a small Icelandic mining town where there is no crime, until a murder occurs, and slowly causes the idyllic town and it's citizens to unravel. I found it to be incredibly compelling, despite being a little let down by the conclusion.

An amazing cast, and a very tense thriller, with a similar atmosphere and mood to the first season of "True Detective".

I went straight through the Netflix/BBC show "Peaky Blinders" starring Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill and Helen McCrory.. I'm surprised that this one has gone unnoticed by so many.

"Skins" is another great show that seems to pass by adults because it seems like a teen show. Far from it. Great binge viewing.

I watched the remakes of Being Human and Rake. Not the originals, though, so I've no idea if they were better or worse.

BH was pretty good. I liked Rake, too, but that one didn't have the ratings, I guess, to go beyond one season. There are a lot of shows I like but get canceled like that. But in the end, I wouldn't have purchased either one to have for my home library - good story - but not really something I'd want to see more than once.

Being Human, at least, lasted its full intended run, as far as I know. It started - it concluded, and it ran for 4 seasons - so it was good enough to do that. Would I own it? No. Would I recommend it? Well, yeah, if you had nothing better to watch, it's not bad - it's watchable. Lot of things like that out there, too.

If I were one that didn't watch things live, or didn't subscribed to cable or satellite TV, but only bought the better recommended series on DVD to binge watch them and have them to keep or lend, I can't say either of these would make the list amid all the other series one could get into instead.

But if either was playing and hit your scheduled TV viewing time slots, sure.

I wouldn't buy the Brit Being Human either, I did find it very compelling and I absolutely fell in love with some of the actors in it, I might watch it again, but not enough to be worth the price. I might consider Rake if I could find it, I know I wouldn't buy it at the prices I'd likely pay being so far away and all. I know what you mean about things you like being cancelled, that happens to me too often enough. I know the UK being human had an idea of where it might go the next season, but ten didn't get renewed as it was it lead to an ending that I found...okay, but not as satisfying as it could have been.

You were the one I was talking about Missfits with awhile back weren't you? the end of that go quite weird but I liked it in the end, I think Being Human is on par with that and there gets to be a pretty decent crossover where actors are concerned.

Hmmm Fortitude and Peaky Blinders seem like shows I should check out sometime. I've seen skins advertised somewhere but never thought to watch it.

Well, one nice thing about a "failed" series that only runs one or two seasons it that you often CAN pick it up for a song. The whole damn thing, maybe on one disc, or at least in one CD case - and for such little money sometimes, it's hard not to buy it.

Take Rake, for example. If I saw it, all of season one - all of it - on one disc or in one box for $10, or even in a $5 bargain bin, I might be tempted to buy it and watch it again in a few years. Or better, maybe the original would be offered so cheaply - so yeah, I'd buy that to compare them.

Sometimes you find amazing deals. I don't have HBO most of the time, so I never got to watch Game of Thrones, but when Wal-Mart briefly offered the entire first season on DVD for $10 - hell yeah. Normally it's $30 to $40 or more per season. I hope, in the years that follow, season 2, etc. might show up like that, too.

Also recommend Peaky Blinders. Big fan of Cillian Murphy ans Sam Neill.

I enjoyed Being Human UK for a few seasons (I can't recall but when the status quo changed I lost interest). The show was Buffy TVS-esque which I consider a good thing.

Yep - I actually bought the Buffy: TVS series, along with the Angel series, and greatly enjoyed binge rewatching those. Good T.V. Also, nice to see it all and without commercials, no cut scenes, and more reliable CC.

And I'm pretty sure I'll rewatch them all again in the years to come. Also, nice to be able to lend out the whole series to interested friends who "missed" it the first time.

WORTH IT!

Unless things are different there, I doubt the original would be offered so cheaply. My experience with loving UK tv is that it tends to have pretty hefty import prices, and I doubt Australia would be any better. Cheapest I've found was $15 for some really unknown stuff but for 8 episodes a season that's not as good a deal, and that was nowhere near the amount I would pay for a show I would really want like Life on Mars, which I cringed about when I saw the price...but I couldn't help but buy it anyway. The original RAKE is starting up it's 5th season as well, it's probably got a decent following over there, which I supposed tends to be the case with a bunch of stuff that makes it over here. I always say that's probably why I love UK tv so much, it's not that it's that much better, just that there's a filter and they don't tend to try and show us the really bad stuff. Every once in awhile they will try to pass something off to us cause some UK actor has become more popular over here, which I'm guessing is how I ended up with Alfresco, but other than that we mostly get the stuff that's already been noticed elsewhere.

Oh yeah I've got Buffy and Angel in our local used CD store in batches over the years, they're totally the kind of thing that I love to put in sometimes, it got me through night shift the one time in the last decade that I had to do it.

That has happened less with the new Battlestar Galactica, which I was really into at the time and thought owning it was a high priority, but since it's been off the air I haven't put it in. I do still think about it, so I don't consider it a waste yet, at used prices, but I had pictured myself making a lot more use of it.

Yeah I thought that might happen when I saw that it was changing, but personally for me I think what happened was that I was just getting really sick of the main vampires whining, so I was not unhappy when they killed him off. When they brought in a new guy I was all over that, I think he had a lot more charisma too (though it's possible I'm just confusing that with finding him more attractive lol), I kind of want to watch that actor in a bunch of stuff now.

I was less happy about the others but I grew to like them. The new vampire and the new werewolf worked really well together. The new werewolf had more work to do as well, because I had first seen him in Once Upon a Time and thought he was really annoying. I dunno if his comedy style just doesn't work as well with that cast or if it's more that I just don't exactly like that show so much as continue to watch it to find out what's going on and see Robbie Caryle in something. Admittedly once I start a show I often have a hard time giving up on it, even when it annoys me, I'm like that with books too, I just keep wanting to know the end of the story, sometimes it's worked out well for me, others not so much.

Thank Goodness for BBC America, I say. I suspect only the nicer stuff makes its way there, and Doctor Who is amongst them - of course. Pity a show like Doc Who would be too costly to own ALL of it on DVD (even if all of it still existed - darn the practice of over taping old shows to save money in the early years).

There are some shows that I WOULD HAVE liked to own - seasons after seasons of good stuff - but because I was so thoroughly disappointed with their endings, I'm fine not owning them or really ever watching them again. The new Battlestar Galactica and L O S T would be examples of that. There was some mystery to it - a just can't wait for the next episode sense of awe - but at the end, the awe turned to disappointment and the mystery no longer exists. Sure, some episodes stand out as stand alone shows worth rewatching, but the series? Forget about it.

We are watching Murdock Mysteries thru again. Netflix only has the first 3 seasons, tho! Could have sworn I had watched more there - must have -ahem- gotten it -ahem- elsewhere....

Might have to get ACORN again - they have a lot of wonderful Brit stuff.

Peaky Blinders has been on my list, but I haven't been watching much TV lately.

Recently finished binging on Mr.Show,the sketch comedy program from the late '90s.The best stuff is still funny.
Bob Odenkirk and David Cross,the show's creators and stars,have reunited for a new comedy show set to air later this year.

Yeah we talked about Misfits, if the rest of BH is on the same level as it then I should like it.

I watched two seasons of Shetland in a couple of weeks because it was put on Netflix and I had kind of wanted to see it already because it had an actor I liked in it from Being Human and other thing. He doesn't do a lot in it, but the show in general is quite good. It's a UK cop show so I'm bound to like it at least a bit, but I did quite like it. I would not consider it to be quite as entertaining as Scott and Bailey got in places, but still quite good I was disappointed when I got to the last episode on there because for whatever reason I had it in my head that all three seasons were up and that the second season would have the same amount of episodes as the the first one.

I just looked over my thread and realized I had never talked about Scott and Bailey, quite loved that show! It had a bit of a slow start for me, good enough to keep my watching, but I remember not being in love with it at first. The characters really started to grow on me though and I enjoyed seeing a cop procedural with lots of women, though it got to be distracting just how many women there were in it, I looked past that. I loved the captain, she was the best! I already knew that actress from Ashes to Ashes and some other UK tv, but she stands out to me now whenever I see her cause of how great I thought she was, like the female Gene Hunt!

I also got through spurts of binge watching the UK Shameless form time to time. I'll think I've given up on it then go back and start getting into it again. The first couple of seasons I loved, but the trouble with it is the main characters are pretty revolving and the show will change drastically into a different type of show. Once I get used to whatever new thing they are doing I will sometimes get into it again, but then it's never become as good as the first few seasons, though it's come close at times, even if it was brief.