Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.

Anya ,'Get It Done'


Premium Cable: The Cursing Costs Extra

[NAFDA] A thread for the discussion of all original programming on HBO, Showtime, Starz and other premium channels.

This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.


Jon B. - Oct 13, 2012 4:48:27 pm PDT #4747 of 7329
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Lots of Hunted video at the Cinemax site: [link]


sj - Oct 21, 2012 5:00:35 pm PDT #4748 of 7329
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Dexter: Rita's kids are living with their father's parents, right? So they are in no way Harrison's grandparents as was stated in this weeks episode, right?


Jesse - Oct 22, 2012 3:46:55 pm PDT #4749 of 7329
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I kept seeing some headline today about the "shocking" thing that happened on last night's Homeland, so I ran home to watch it (and last week's, too), and....wasn't that shocked! I was honestly starting to wonder if he was going to attack her so she ends up in a hospital bed, due to Danes's pregnancy.


-t - Oct 22, 2012 4:45:27 pm PDT #4750 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I was shocked in that I expected the surveillance to go on for a while, not just wham, arrest.


Jesse - Oct 22, 2012 4:47:34 pm PDT #4751 of 7329
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I was surprised, definitely.


Jessica - Oct 22, 2012 4:53:35 pm PDT #4752 of 7329
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

JUST WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK YOU GUYS.

(I really *really* wish I could talk about this show in real time. But I'm also not willing to wait a week to watch episodes I have access to now...)


Java cat - Oct 22, 2012 7:56:52 pm PDT #4753 of 7329
Not javachik

I was pretty shocked also. One minute it's New Dude and Carrie watching the feed (didn't Saul go home?), five minutes later, there's a CIA Swat team there? I suppose if anyone would have rapid response teams, it would be them. I guess there was a team sitting outside in a van the whole time she was there?

I love-love-love that the show validated Carrie's intuition, both in last week's big reveal, and this week's action on what she saw after he talked about ECT.

Virgil's brother (in law?) is it Tim? Ted? looks like he is going to prove to be a keen observor. It did not go unnoticed that he told Carrie he'd believed in her along (and I believed his sincerity) nor that he was looking keenly at the board and absorbing all the info until he was shoo'd away by someone (who?). Not sure where that's going, but I'll be watching him in the future.

It'll be interesting to see where they go with Mike and Drunk Soldier. I presume Mike will be pursuing this and collide with Carrie et al. at some dramatic time on the same search for info about Walker.


Java cat - Oct 22, 2012 8:06:53 pm PDT #4754 of 7329
Not javachik

I loved the shot with Carrie against the black tablets at CIA HQ with what looked like a coded message, and Goo gle-fu tells me it's Krypos. [link] "Of the four messages, three have been solved, with the fourth remaining one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world."


Java cat - Oct 22, 2012 8:19:29 pm PDT #4755 of 7329
Not javachik

Is anyone else watching The Big C? I'm catching up on On Demand. I like Laura Linney so much I'll probably continue, but even occasionally-foul-mouthed I was offended by the swearing in the ep where her brother comes into her classroom and goes off on a tirade. Then her son started swearing later in the ep also. Sorry Showtime, it doesn't shock, just irritates, and it doesn't add to your show, it detracts - it's lazy writing. It makes "not having ads" a big plus, instead of, you know, good writing, good plotlines.

I was amused by seeing Victor Garber on the show, though again, frat-boy potty mouth and sex stuff is not that amusing. Is that who watches this show? Or I am more the demographic? I wonder.


erikaj - Oct 23, 2012 7:29:20 am PDT #4756 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!

I like it, but, of course I'm watching the DVDs and have no idea what's going on with the current season.Pretty soon, though, right, she'll either die, or resume life with a future again, right? As fun as the show can be, sometimes I get frustrated with with the feeling-great-but-still having no tomorrow fantasyland aspects of it, although the death at the end of last season threw me a curve. Linney sells it pretty well and I love the actress from Precious whose name I can't spell. But sometimes it reminds me of those people who write into little_details looking for a disease for their fanfics that kills you but doesn't make you look disgusting or nothing, and then I get pissed, and I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because lucky people have time to think like that. The rest of us get what we get, whether we stay sexy to the end, or not.