Exceelent TV Shows

[Erik]

I loved the first three seasons of True Blood. Season 4 was pretty weird and lacked a compelling villain. We don't have HBO so we won't see Season 5 until Netflix has it. But my wife loves it and I don't mind the boobs, so we're probably in for the long haul.

[overkill94]

I loved the first three seasons of True Blood. Season 4 was pretty weird and lacked a compelling villain. We don't have HBO so we won't see Season 5 until Netflix has it. But my wife loves it and I don't mind the boobs, so we're probably in for the long haul.

Yeah, not even any boobs anymore. In the 2 1/2 episodes I watched last night there were absolutely none. If they got Jessica to take her top off then I might start watching again.

[Erik]

Given all the sex scenes she had in Season 4 without showing anything, it's obvious that Debra Ann Woll (Jessica) has a no-nudity clause.

[johnnya24]

Given all the sex scenes she had in Season 4 without showing anything, it's obvious that Debra Ann Woll (Jessica) has a no-nudity clause.

This makes booboo very sad

I've watched all previous series of True Blood ... have not been motivated to watch at all this year. I probably will watch it at some point, but I haven't even had time to watch Mad Men yet.

[ironfist]

Given all the sex scenes she had in Season 4 without showing anything, it's obvious that Debra Ann Woll (Jessica) has a no-nudity clause.

But she did have one episode where I think they showed her topless. The one where her and Jason were in the back of the truck, I believe. Maybe she was uncomfortable in that scene and didn't want to do it again? I don't know.

There's plenty of nudity in this season if that's all you're watching it for, though there were a few episodes without any.

[revo]

Hell on Wheels season 2 tonight!

[johnnya24]

Hell on Wheels season 2 tonight!

I gave up on that ... you can let us know if it gets any better.

[heyelander]

Johnny... Saw commercials for a show "Copper" that is coming out on BBC America here in a couple of weeks. Know anything about it? Production value looked pretty high.

[DMT]

There's plenty of nudity in this season if that's all you're watching it for, though there were a few episodes without any.

Including Luna (Janina Gavinkar) last night...one of the better episodes of the season (which isn't saying much).

[Fresno Bob]

Including Luna (Janina Gavinkar) last night...one of the better episodes of the season (which isn't saying much).

The Shiva!

[johnnya24]

Johnny... Saw commercials for a show "Copper" that is coming out on BBC America here in a couple of weeks. Know anything about it? Production value looked pretty high.

I've probably seen the same previews you have ... let me see if I can find a brief review I read somewhere. Got it:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maureen-ryan/hell-on-wheels-review_b_1749133.html

This is BBC America's first original scripted series, Barry Levinson is an executive producer and its head writer is Tom Fontana ("Oz," "Homicide"), so my expectations were robust when it came to "Copper," in which Tom Weston-Jones plays a New York detective working the rough Five Points district in 1864.

As it is, the decent but unspectacular "Copper" comes off as "Deadwood Cop," minus the Milch: It's more or less a police procedural with added corsets and waistcoats. In the first two episodes, the drama doesn't do much with the character-building opportunities offered by cable, and that's very strange, given that British dramas (especially the top tier of U.K. cop dramas) are usually so meaty in that regard. Weston-Jones' character has a troubled past, but his personal quest feels a little shopworn, and the police cases aren't that complex or unpredictable.

Also, as is the case with "Hell on Wheels," "Copper" makes one appreciate the attention to detail on "Game of Thrones," which allows the viewer to fully submerge himself or herself in the show's world. These shows don't have "Game's" coin or the HBO show's exceptional world-building abilities; I can lose myself in Westeros, but while watching "Copper" and "Wheels." I rarely forgot that I was looking at period-specific sets (watching actors recite occasionally stilted dialogue didn't help matters).

Of the four dramas mentioned here, this is the one I'm most likely to give additional chances, but that leap of faith is based more on the show's pedigree than on the workmanlike episodes I saw.

Didn't fill me full of anticipation ... but worth a shot.

[heyelander]

I've probably seen the same previews you have ... let me see if I can find a brief review I read somewhere. Got it:


Didn't fill me full of anticipation ... but worth a shot.

I set the DVR... we will see.

[johnnya24]

Began watching Spartacus ... really good show so far. John Hannah is brilliant ... I'm so used to watching him play weak a$$ weedy characters on UK TV, it's weird seeing him play a role with some serious balls.

[Erik]

John Hannah is that guy from Four Weddings and a Funeral and Sliding Doors, right? I wondered what happened to him, he doesn't seem to have shown up in much stuff that's made it to the US since then.

[johnnya24]

John Hannah is that guy from Four Weddings and a Funeral and Sliding Doors, right? I wondered what happened to him, he doesn't seem to have shown up in much stuff that's made it to the US since then.

Yeah ... that and The Mummy. Mostly comedic roles ... I suppose you need to a bit of comedy sensibility to be able to make sense of the ridiculousness of the lifestyle.