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Finally thought I'd give Sons of Anarchy a whirl about a week ago. Almost gave up after the first few episodes, seemed a little farfetched and I had trouble relating but then it pulled me in. Really good IMO. I'm early in season 3 and I really need to quit watching every night into the wee hours. I'm sleep deprived. It's not quite as good as Breaking Bad or Sopranos but pretty close. From some of the other comments sounds like there's a couple stinker seasons coming up but really enjoying it so far. I would sure recommend to anyone who hasn't watched it yet.

 
Sons of Anarchy didn't really do much for me. I'd skip out on it, at least in terms of the three you mentioned. Breaking Bad and The Sopranos are probably two of the best television shows in history. Sons of Anarchy is nowhere close to being in their league.

 
teachercd said:
SOA, started off really well but it gets so lame as it goes on...like so lame.

Schitt's Creek is very funny.
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Schitt's Creek is great

SOA is good. But i always find myself wondering why they work so hard to be criminals. Like there is always something bad happening to them.

Breaking Bad is great television although I can't stand Walter's wife

Shameless is great

The Netflix Marvel shows are all great

Deadwood is very good. Al Swearingen is probably top 3 all time TV characters

Red Oaks is on Amazon Prime-Worth the watch if you have that

Sopranos is GOAT

Nurse Jackie is very very good.

 
I agree SOA is not in the same league as Breaking Bad or Sopranos but what I've seen, so far through s3e3 anyway, is solid entertainment. But I do see where some of the negative comments are coming from. At first I had trouble with believability and relating to the characters. Now the thing bothering me is that it is just one bad thing after the other and the whole baby kidnapping storyline is a little lame imo. Show could use a few more feel good moments.

 
El Diaco said:
I agree SOA is not in the same league as Breaking Bad or Sopranos but what I've seen, so far through s3e3 anyway, is solid entertainment. But I do see where some of the negative comments are coming from. At first I had trouble with believability and relating to the characters. Now the thing bothering me is that it is just one bad thing after the other and the whole baby kidnapping storyline is a little lame imo. Show could use a few more feel good moments.
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Did they go to Ireland yet? That was brutally bad.

I, like you, could not stop watching it though. There was something still entertaining about it

 
teachercd said:
El Diaco said:
I agree SOA is not in the same league as Breaking Bad or Sopranos but what I've seen, so far through s3e3 anyway, is solid entertainment. But I do see where some of the negative comments are coming from. At first I had trouble with believability and relating to the characters. Now the thing bothering me is that it is just one bad thing after the other and the whole baby kidnapping storyline is a little lame imo. Show could use a few more feel good moments.
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Did they go to Ireland yet? That was brutally bad.

I, like you, could not stop watching it though. There was something still entertaining about it
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Season 3 in Ireland was meh. Season 4 got better.

 
El Diaco said:
Now the thing bothering me is that it is just one bad thing after the other and the whole baby kidnapping storyline is a little lame imo. Show could use a few more feel good moments.
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It's interesting you mention this. I listen to a gaming podcast called Mega 64 and they were having a very similar to discussion to this, about how a lot of television has strayed so far into the "everything is terrible" genre. It's just one calamity after another after another, and their hope (on the podcast) is that we're coming to end of those shows and that soon we may get back to more balanced creativity.

 
In the 1980s we had this cloud of gloom overhanging all of society. We legit thought there was going to be nuclear war with the Soviet Union at any time. Reagan was all about brash talk, we heard the same thing back from the Kremlin, and overall everything was just gloomy and meh.

The entertainment of the time reflected that. LOTS of calamity movies, lots of dystopian futures, lots of scenes of destruction.

Then the 1990s hit, the Soviet Union collapsed, and everything was happy-go-lucky & more fun. Entertainment reflects life. I think we're going to continue to have calamity after calamity in movies & games until the end of the Trump era, or at least until Trump convinces everyone he's not driving us to the cliff.

 
The Big Nebrowski said:
El Diaco said:
The Big Nebrowski said:
The Young Pope is a superb production, highly recommend it.

The Americans

Better Call Saul

Good Behavior
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Better Call Saul is good and of course it's required viewing for Breaking Bad fans.
I can't stand The Young Pope. My wife has been watching it but I find it extremely boring and uninteresting. It seems to be well made but I just don't like it at all.
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I love Saul!
I think the YP is excellent in every respect and pretty much gives an inside look into the freak show that is the Catholic Church and Vatican, of which I'm not a fan at all. I think they're all a buncha delusional cross dressing fools...and that's why I like it! Great production though, real hip music.

Americans is my fav, I love that spy stuff and kerry russell is hot!
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Figures.

 
Call the Midwife has been a surprise. It's about a group of Nurse midwives working with Anglican Nun midwives in 1950s East-end London. This is the early days of the National Health Service (i.e. free healthcare), post-WWII rebuilding, and massive social change. My wife picked it and I was skeptical going into it; it starts off a little slow but it is very good. We are just getting into season 3 and season 6 just started in UK. Makes me want to read the memoirs on which it is based. We are streaming via PBS online subscription but also available on Amazon...

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