The Telly Thread

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Just started watching Humans, it's about androids. Just reminds me how awesome Asimov was with his Laws Of Robotics.

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Been watching Making A Murderer the past few days, been blistering through it too... got the bug for real-life courtroom drama stuff after watching the brilliant The People vs. OJ Simpson drama that finished showing on the BBC last month - that was nail-biting stuff (even though you know what's going to happen).

Making A Murderer is such an interesting story, told as a real-time documentary rather than a re-enactment - it takes a good few episodes to really get going but I'm enjoying it a lot.  Might have to go on the hunt and find some more after we've finished this.  I've heard about The Jinx and Serial - if they are anywhere near as good as OJ/MaM then I'd be interested in watching them.

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I've just started watching OJ as it goes, difficult to believe that all this happened 20-odd years ago.

OJ IS INNOCENT!!!!

I couldn't get into Making A Murderer, might give it another go if it gets better as it goes along.

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I think Episode 5 is where MaM gets really good.. the first couple are quite slow, but as the episodes go by, you realise that they are quite important as a background to the whole saga... personally I don't know if the documentary is slightly bias in the way it presented some of what happened and perhaps a few things might of been left out - its hard to give an opinion to someone who hasn't watched it without risk of spoiling it slightly.  Lets just say, some of the stuff the prosecution used as "evidence" and some of the stuff that was allowed to happen - you just couldn't make shit up like that lol.

I think I still preferred the OJ trial best though - apart from Travolta who I thought was pretty shit in it (I think his taut face just put me off everytime he was on screen) - I think I preferred it because it wasn't presented as a documentary and you could sit back and enjoy it without having to take a lot of information in - can't believe he got off.. disgusting really.

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Disgusting..? Are you insane..? OJ didn't do it. He was framed, you crazy fool

Will check out Making A Murderer again I reckon.

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Have started watching Orphan Black again. Couldn't get into it when I started to watch it the first time but am giving it another go. Pretty weird that they found so many actresses that look almost identical

And they're not listed in the credits either. I'd be going mad at my agent if that happened to me tbh

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Have also started watching Stitchers. It's about a secret government programme where a tasty blonde bird is connected to a murder victim via a machine and is 'stitched' into their memories so that they can find out who killed them. There's something nefarious going on, it's just a tester for some dodgy use later on.

Quite good so far, and when she's in the machine she's wearing a catsuit type thing and the machine is full of water which frames her boobs VERY nicely

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I think I watched the first episode of that, and binned it. Load of rubbish.

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Have now started watching Killjoys, the female lead is quite the Horn-Bat

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Watched the first series of Killjoys. It was a bit "meh". Watchable, but I'm not sure I'll bother with the second series (if they're in fact doing a second series - I can't rememeber)

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Am now watching the second series of Orphan Black. It's about fucking time that a character decided to fake their death when being drowned or suffocated. Just put up a token struggle and hold your breath and go limp. Whoever is trying to kill you will relax and at worst will leave a hand free to check your pulse or at best both hands and then their attention away and then *BAM* you either blitz attack them, or take out their kidneys or put them in a sleeper hold when their back is turned.

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I think I want to shag the actress that plays Helena, much better than the other actresses that play the other sisters. I wonder if she's just as mental in real life..? The actress that plays Cosima is also pretty hot too, and I don't normally go for dreadlocks either.

Mind you, I wouldn't kick any of them out of bed tbh.

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Have now started watching a new series called Lucifer, it's very funny in places so far

The Devil has left Hell and has been on vacation for 5 years in Los Angeles and has just started working with a female cop who isn't susceptible to his wiles for some reason.

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I love some of the one-liners in Major Crimes (and The Closer before it). A schoolgirl asked one of the characters, 'How many people work here..?' and he replied, 'About half'

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Have been watching How To Get Away With Murder, glad I gave it another go because it got A LOT better after the first couple of episodes so thanks for the recommendation jman