What are we all watching?

[AgentC]

So were almost out of the mid season doldrums. What have everyone been watching?

Any winners for the fall seasons?
Shows you think need to go?
Any replacements you are looking forward to?

[BriarRose0708]

I think I just had a realization I need to cancel my cable service because the only shows I can think of that I even care about anymore are all on PBS and major networks I can either stream or get on Netflix/Hulu. :blush:

Downton Abbey
Grantchester
Agent Carter
The Black List (I need to catch up!)
SVU
Game of Thrones (coming back in April!)
Mr. Selfridge
Call the Midwife
Orange is the New Black

[Tink1]

I just started The Fall with Gillian Anderson on Netflix. It is a BBC crime drama with the first 2 seasons available.

The Blacklist, Downton, Call the Midwife, Madam Secretary, Reign, and most importantly.....

Waiting patiently for GoT and OITNB


Nanc

[AgentC]

I've been missing The Blacklist. I love James Spader in it so much that no matter how absurd or how much they string me along, I will still watch.

I've been enjoying Downton this season but I am getting tired of the Bates story line and poor Edith. Should I start a new Downton thread?

I'm probably the last person in the US who hasn't seen Game of Thrones or Orange is the New Black. I really need to catch them sometime.

[BriarRose0708]

OOOOOO yes please start a Downton Season 5 discussion, Cindy! Thanks!

[Tink1]

I was watching GOT on my computer and my husband walked in - thought I was watching porn LOL

This past summer I rec'd the DVD's from Netflix and had him sit and watch the first 2. Needless to say, he is hooked as well and waiting for the next season!

Nanc

[BriarRose0708]

I was watching GOT on my computer and my husband walked in - thought I was watching porn LOL

Nanc

:funny: I had a similar moment watching When Harry Met Sally. Mom thought the scene in the diner was something else!

I've read the books in the Song of Ice and Fire series, and while I really like the GoT show, they really exaggerate most of the violence and racy scenes.

[i'm grumpy]

Mike & Molly, NCIS NO, Big Bang Theory. Have to choose between Keith Urban on Idol or the Mentalist. :drama:

[TheDuckRocks]

I started thinking of my list of what I'm watching and I basically need to get a life other than in front of the TV. :blush:

Currently I'm watching;
American Idol for the audition part, last year I gave up before the finals
Project Runway All Stars
Real Housewives from anywhere
All NCISs
Criminal Minds
The final Mentalists

From DVDs and streaming;
we just finished The Bomb Girls and Blue Murders
now on to Last Tango In Halifax and The Killing

Looking forward to starting soon;
House of Cards
Amazing Race
Suvivor

[MNNHFLTX]

I'm really not watching much of anything right now. Downton Abbey, Big Bang Theory, Mike and Molly, House Hunters/House Hunters International/Tiny House Hunters 60 Minutes and General Hospital episodes that I record during the day. Looking forward to the new season of The Amazing Race in February. In March I will be watching Once Upon a Time, Call the Midwife and am interested in that new show, Dig. In April it will be Outlander (yay!) and the 1/2 season of Mad Men (boo!)

Really, that's it right now. There are shows that I would like to get into, like The Good Wife and The Walking Dead, but I know I really need to start back at the beginning and I just don't have time for that right now. But maybe in a month or two I will try.

[MNNHFLTX]

From DVDs and streaming;
we just finished The Bomb Girls and Blue Murders
now on to Last Tango In Halifax
Oh, I love Last Tango in Halifax and hate that they don't even have an air date in the U.S. for the third season (which is airing in the U.K. right now). I'll have to look into streaming the episodes also.

[SBETigg]

I just binge watched True Detective and now I've started The Affair. True Detective was great. The Affair, I like it so far, but I just think the main guy should pay more attention to his family and less to the woman who intrigues him (not his wife). His teenage daughter is a spoiled brat and I want to make someone pay attention to her in time to change her ways. To his credit, his wife seems fairly out of it, too. But that girl is distracting me from... The Affair.

[TheDuckRocks]

Put this in the wacka-doodle column for me. I can not make myself watch The Affair. I can not stand the actress who played Alice on Luther. I have seen her in other roles, the mother in Saving Mr. Banks for one. Still don't like her.

[barnaby]

Watched season 1 of both Salem and Z Nation on Netflix.
Just started watching Helix.

Waiting for the second half of season 5 for Walking Dead to come back on AMC.

And waiting for the final season of Sons of Anarchy to come to Netflix.

[NJGIRL]

I'm really not watching much of anything right now. Downton Abbey, Big Bang Theory, Mike and Molly, House Hunters/House Hunters International/Tiny House Hunters 60 Minutes and General Hospital episodes that I record during the day. Looking forward to the new season of The Amazing Race in February. In March I will be watching Once Upon a Time, Call the Midwife and am interested in that new show, Dig. In April it will be Outlander (yay!) and the 1/2 season of Mad Men (boo!)

Really, that's it right now. There are shows that I would like to get into, like The Good Wife and The Walking Dead, but I know I really need to start back at the beginning and I just don't have time for that right now. But maybe in a month or two I will try.

Beth I love Tiny House Hunters....I keep telling John I want to downsize to one of those houses. He just rolls his eyes.

I have been big into Love It or List It....but only the original not "Too"

[NJGIRL]

Watched season 1 of both Salem and Z Nation on Netflix.
Just started watching Helix.

Waiting for the second half of season 5 for Walking Dead to come back on AMC.

And waiting for the final season of Sons of Anarchy to come to Netflix.

Not a Spoiler..........









SOA had a great but gory last season....but I didn't care for the ending.

[jennbunn]

For me it is walking dead,orange is the new black,law & order svu,modern family,and criminal minds. My to start watching list is : shameless,game of thrones, house of cards, and parenthood.

[MNNHFLTX]

I have been big into Love It or It....but only the original not "Too"
:ditto:

I agree, Rita, it's fascinating to see all the features and amenities they can fit into the houses on Tiny House Hunters. But I'm not sure that I could live in one full-time as I tend to like my space. But as a vacation home--:thumbsup:

[PirateLover]

It's hard to keep up on shows with a newborn! My husband and I watch a lot of shows together, so finding the time has been difficult. We are caught up on Grimm and Gotham, two episodes behind on Agent Carter, and all but given up on Sleepy Hollow :(
We LOVED Sleepy Hollow for the longest time, but I think it took a turn for the worse when they changed writers and changed the whole direction of the show.

One new show we've managed to catch is 12 Monkeys on SyFy. We like it, although I admit with tending to the baby sometimes while watching TV, it's a little more difficult to follow.
We are looking forward to the return of The Walking Dead and House of Cards as well. Oh and Game of Thrones! (Wow we watch a lot of TV).

On my own, I've discovered Gilmore Girls on Netflix and I'm hooked! I'm already halfway through season 5 and had to stop binging when I'm home alone with the baby because I don't want to run out of episodes. :blush:

[dnickels]

The Walking Dead is all I watch so I'm excited for that to come back. I get all kinds of weird looks when people hear that's literally the only thing my TV gets turned on for all week but I already work on a computer all day in my career so the idea of spending more hours staring at a screen in the evening doesn't appeal to me.

[SBETigg]

The Walking Dead is all I watch so I'm excited for that to come back. I get all kinds of weird looks when people hear that's literally the only thing my TV gets turned on for all week but I already work on a computer all day in my career so the idea of spending more hours staring at a screen in the evening doesn't appeal to me.

I love Walking Dead, too! Last half season was so intense! I can't wait to see where they go from that.

[Ian]

I was actually thinking today what a miserable wasteland TV is these days. The only network shows we really watch religiously are Amazing Race and Survivor. Not a single other network show I watch that isn't sports. ;)

I'll tell you what I did watch recently, though, and really enjoyed was Sons of Liberty. It was a History Channel three part mini-series that dramatized the events leading up to the Revolutionary War. It was hardly historically accurate, but it was very well done and quite riveting!

[Disney4us2]

At the moment...nothing. Having Direct TV installed. I like to watch NatGeo Wild, Animal Planet, Smithsonian, TLC, Discovery Life, WGN, and Disney Channels. Not too many network stations except for Survivor, Biggest Loser, shark tank, Bachelor.

[PirateLover]

I was actually thinking today what a miserable wasteland TV is these days. The only network shows we really watch religiously are Amazing Race and Survivor. Not a single other network show I watch that isn't sports. ;)

I'll tell you what I did watch recently, though, and really enjoyed was Sons of Liberty. It was a History Channel three part mini-series that dramatized the events leading up to the Revolutionary War. It was hardly historically accurate, but it was very well done and quite riveting!
Production value was great but I couldn't get past the ridiculous historical innacuracies so I had to shut it off 3/4 through the first episode. As a Social Studies educator with a Masters in history I'm all for making history more exciting, but I wish they would've done it more within the framework of what actually happened. It's not like the actual history is boring! But Sam Adams was not Captain Jack Sparrow! What drives me most bonkers is it was presented by History (although what can you expect these days from the home of Ancient Aliens marathons?) HBO finds the right blend of fact and fiction with their mini series offerings and they are useful classroom tools. I would only consider using this at the end of the year as a challenge to my students to find all the innacuracies... Hey there's an idea 😉.

[cer]

As a Social Studies educator with a Masters in history I'm all for making history more exciting, but I wish they would've done it more within the framework of what actually happened. It's not like the actual history is boring! But Sam Adams was not Captain Jack Sparrow! What drives me most bonkers is it was presented by History (although what can you expect these days from the home of Ancient Aliens marathons?) HBO finds the right blend of fact and fiction with their mini series offerings and they are useful classroom tools. I would only consider using this at the end of the year as a challenge to my students to find all the innacuracies... Hey there's an idea 😉.

If so, you may want to make sure you edit it. My 8th grader seemed interested in it (which at the time I found encouraging) - until we had to turn it off for the inappropriate material...:shake:

[PirateLover]

If so, you may want to make sure you edit it. My 8th grader seemed interested in it (which at the time I found encouraging) - until we had to turn it off for the inappropriate material...:shake:

Oh of course! Like I said I only made it through 3/4 of part 1. But whenever I show something in a classroom setting I pay close attention and avoid certain scenes. I doubt I will ever actually use this, but thanks for the heads up!

[The Hitchhiking Ghost]

Justified just started up again for its final season, definitely worth watching, love the show.

Every time I turn on the tv, its tuned to one of my wifes unending "househunter" shows. Seriously, how many ways can you find to buy, rent, visit, restore a house?

As far as regular network programming, I regularly record and watch Person of Interest (both of our favorites), Hawaii 5-0 and Castle. I'll record Elementary, Bones, Sleepy Hollow and Blacklist and get to them eventually.

Kind of started to get into the superhero/comic genre. I've enjoyed Gotham and because I watched The Flash, I've gone back and watched the two first seasons of The Arrow, which is way better than I ever imagined possible.

Watching Downton of course and am looking forward to Amazing Race firing up again soon, and Survivor, but am not as enthused about that as I used to be.

[SBETigg]

I started watching Empire last night, and I was kind of hooked. I love Taraji P. Henson and she just chews up that set. She's fantastic. Can't stand Terrence Howard, but I think I can endure him for what Taraji brings to the show.

[Ian]

Production value was great but I couldn't get past the ridiculous historical inaccuracies so I had to shut it off 3/4 through the first episode. lol I actually had the same reaction at first ... the Sam Adams character was especially hard to swallow.

I decided I was just going to accept it as entertainment and not let it bother me that much. It really was very well written, acted, and the production values were amazing for a TV mini series.

I will say this, though ... it kind of makes me shake my head a bit that Hollywood thinks the real story of the American Revolution isn't compelling enough for their audience. :rolleyes:

[PirateLover]

I will say this, though ... it kind of makes me shake my head a bit that Hollywood thinks the real story of the American Revolution isn't compelling enough for their audience. :rolleyes:
Exactly!

We also watch Gotham, and DH watches Arrow and Flash. I don't watch those religiously, but I will watch from time to time with him.

[SBETigg]

My appreciation for Empire ended fairly abruptly. Two shows in, there was just too much slapping, spite, and stomping around. Overwrought drama. Just in case anyone was going to check it out on my earlier recommendation.

[PirateLover]

My appreciation for Empire ended fairly abruptly. Two shows in, there was just too much slapping, spite, and stomping around. Overwrought drama. Just in case anyone was going to check it out on my earlier recommendation.

Thanks for the update. I was considering checking it out. It has ridiculously good ratings for a network show, but from your latest description, it does not sound like something I'd be interested in.

[Mrs Bus Driver]

Production value was great but I couldn't get past the ridiculous historical innacuracies so I had to shut it off 3/4 through the first episode. As a Social Studies educator with a Masters in history I'm all for making history more exciting, but I wish they would've done it more within the framework of what actually happened. It's not like the actual history is boring! But Sam Adams was not Captain Jack Sparrow! What drives me most bonkers is it was presented by History (although what can you expect these days from the home of Ancient Aliens marathons?) HBO finds the right blend of fact and fiction with their mini series offerings and they are useful classroom tools. I would only consider using this at the end of the year as a challenge to my students to find all the inaccuracies... Hey there's an idea 😉.

I am not a history expert but also found the inaccuracies to be a bit much. I really wanted to like it but only made it to the beginning of the 2nd episode before turning it off. The sets, costumes and actors were wonderful, too bad they couldn't have written a better script. It felt as if I was watching a movie of the week. Your comment about Adams as Sparrow got me thinking about the number of Samuel Adams beer commercials there were. Every commercial break started with one. Perhaps a little influence the sponsors? Who knows, just very disappointed. :(