Pls... dexter wud have been a great show, if they hadnt gone about moralizing the guy. He only kills serial killers... and suddenly, miami is filled with them! How convenient that there's a psycho junkie ex girlfriend to save dexter, and provide dexter his fix to tie up loose ends... oh god, that was crap! Season one atleast had some cred, but season 2 was a soap... The same with weeds... somewhere along season 2, with everybody sleeping with everybody else... gawd! If u want good shows, LOST, Heroes, House are the few I can recommend. If u havent seen it, Coupling (the original brit one), How I met ur mother and Big Bang Theory are time pass comedy... There's a new series starting up called 'The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency', the pilot of which was really good...
RE:dexter & weeds?
by jack scofield on Jul 29, 2008 07:31 PM
i totally agree with u dude dexter s1 was amazing coz it was 4m the novel s2 they made it on their own and weeds just lost its charisma after s2 after ur suggestion 'll watch 'coupling' lets c hw it goes.
Oh well the first five minutes of Calfornication was just just too amazing. Now that's another show added to my to-be-watched list!
Well, I ve been given the final push to go watch weeds, so much so that I already started, at work :)
Well, there used to be a show called Titus, a long time back on Fox, which I liked back then bcos it was just a weird sitcom about a dysfunctional family. You might wanna see how that is.
Well a big thank you from a TV addict for an article about TV shows :) I loved it
Each one of the items this columnist lists out reads like "what you should not watch on TV"... Pose the weekly episodic dexter type of content vis a vis a movie with the same stuff - a few of us might watch it and forget it. The constant reinforcement of the tv kind is likely to cause an impression on maladjusted individuals and propagate unwanted behavior...couchpotato might just transform into some else...hmmm? Of the next item one cant say much - perhaps yet another manifestation of the roadlessness that american adults seem to be experiencing in the middle of their ultra-progress...the third is not talkworthy too.
Therefore best for us are our eminently forgettable, , divine mother saaas goody 2shoes bahu scheming other woman, spoilt scions...and all that jhingalala bang...dipped in ad-sauce. That or the reality productions that keep mushrooming by the week - mr and ms TV is the latest to come up - with model hostess, movie star judges and TV soap star-contestants... what a good life for the desi couchpotato!
Boss our idea of mature televison died a good while ago...when buniyaad... nukkad... yeh jo hai zindagi et al stopped airing... all this stuff you talk about (and conveniently point to the Youtube) is mal-content more than mature...
RE:Better Saas bahu crap than all this extreme stuff...
by seema rani on Apr 03, 2008 02:39 AM
well said even in America shows like Dexter carry mature content warning b.c American adolescents are much impressionable especially what they see on tv or video games. let's not bring the violent content of american culture into India..think of the economic costs as consequence for trying to help some maniacs who wanted to be like dexter
RE:best tv shows
by Raja Sen on Apr 02, 2008 10:08 AM
hi jack. love most of the stuff mentioned (haven't seen The Wire yet, must admit) but this column wasn't trying to be any sort of top ten list -- it was just a pointer towards three shows which really push the envelope in terms of smart, adult content.
have you seen these ones? and yeah, I agree with you on Sarabhai :)
RE:best tv shows
by heavy bison on Apr 09, 2008 03:07 PM
Raja....does that mean you acknowledge being called stupid? I must admit, the only show i watched out there was The Monk. But then again, i only watched movies and VH1.
I download the following shows via bittorrent. Smallville Stargate - SG1 Stargate - Atlantis Two and a half men How I met your mother Til Death The Universe (History Channel) Terminator Series(Sarah Conor)New Knight Rider(New)
After watching these serials its becomes a torture to watch ANY Indian TV Channel. The downloads are ad free and the color quality is superb. They files are all HDTV quality converted to Divx.
RE:Shows to follow and forget Indian Channels.
by Raja Sen on Apr 02, 2008 10:03 AM
Thanks for the reccos, dude. I need to catch up with the latest season of 'How I Met...', it's good fun.
RE:Shows to follow and forget Indian Channels.
by Gautam Joshi on Apr 03, 2008 01:32 PM
Well thats your opinion very few may agree or may not agree with it.
