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Danger UXB is a British TV show about the bomb squad during the Blitz. I watched the first two episodes. I liked the atmosphere of dread during the defusing, and the short lifespan of the bomb squad hanging over everyone's heads, but the characters didn't much grab me and the only significant female character was such a caricature of a nymphomaniac that I was seriously expecting her to suddenly vamp out and suck the life blood from the hero while she was wriggling all over him during an air raid, explaining that bombs made her all... you know... excited. EW.
Cracker is a mystery/cop show starring Robbie Coltrane and-- the reason I tried it-- Christopher Eccleston. I couldn't even get through all of the first episode, but maybe I was in the wrong mood. It wasn't bad or anything, I was just totally uninterested... again, perhaps that was me, not the show.
I think I'm in the mood for something lively and fun, or possibly super-angsty and intense, or very action-y. Or all of the above, which would be Naruto.
I can't watch season two of Doctor Who because my local video store doesn't have it, and Netflix has pulled it due to a violent scene from Texas Chainsaw Massacre getting spliced into their copies. Oops. I do have Sandbaggers in my queue, and also Joan of Arcadia, La Femme Nikita, Alias, Dead Like Me, The 4400, and Scrubs. Any suggestions for prioritizing, or of other TV shows I should be flixing, either live-action or anime?
Cracker is a mystery/cop show starring Robbie Coltrane and-- the reason I tried it-- Christopher Eccleston. I couldn't even get through all of the first episode, but maybe I was in the wrong mood. It wasn't bad or anything, I was just totally uninterested... again, perhaps that was me, not the show.
I think I'm in the mood for something lively and fun, or possibly super-angsty and intense, or very action-y. Or all of the above, which would be Naruto.
I can't watch season two of Doctor Who because my local video store doesn't have it, and Netflix has pulled it due to a violent scene from Texas Chainsaw Massacre getting spliced into their copies. Oops. I do have Sandbaggers in my queue, and also Joan of Arcadia, La Femme Nikita, Alias, Dead Like Me, The 4400, and Scrubs. Any suggestions for prioritizing, or of other TV shows I should be flixing, either live-action or anime?
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I can't remember--have you watched Ultraviolet, the BBC vampire show from the late 90s?
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Have you already seen the BBC series Neverwhere? If not, then that.
Sandbaggers is the very definition of super-angsty and intense. I highly recommend it.
Out of the rest of that list, I'd recommend Joan of Arcadia and Dead Like Me, at least the first season of each. And add Firefly but not so much the movie that followed it, Serenity. Also add Deadwood season 1 and 2 (if you don't mind a LOT of cursing), and perhaps American Gothic.
I'm not a fan of Alias or La Femme Nikita but perhaps your milage may differ.
I've heard good things about Life on Mars but haven't seen it yet, since it's not out on DVD in the US yet as far as I know.
Anime recommendations, the usual Suspects:
Twelve Kingdoms: All 3, plus the first novel comes out March 13th!
Fruits Basket: Lively and Fun, Super-angsty and intense.
Azumanga Daioh: Super-lively and Fun.
Haibene Renmei: Fun, some intense angst, not much action.
Full Metal Alchemist: All 3, but it's hard to imagine you haven't already seen it.
If you don't mind making mortally offended voice actor Greg Ayres cry, then add these fansubs to the list:
Nana: Lively and fun, super-angsty, lots of romantic action.
Monster: Angsty action and doomful secrets, and there's a lot of it.
xxxHoLIC is in the sad limbo between a license being announced and not yet out on DVD, or otherwise I'd suggest that.
But most of all, Twelve Kingdoms.
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1) Second Sight (http://www.amazon.com/Second-Sight-Vol-1-2/dp/B0002XVRWK/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/102-2959090-8308926?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1173587143&sr=8-3): there are only a couple of seasons, each 6 or 8 episodes long. Clive Owen plays DCI Tanner, a brilliant cop with a broken marriage, who, unbeknownst to his team, is slowly going blind from a rare eye disease. It's a smart drama with interesting, self-contained cases, but it's more of a character piece than a procedural, and Owen is wonderful in it. Lots of angst and intensity, some action, and in series 1, there is a rather interesting female character -- DI Tully -- who finds out about Tanner's secret.
In a similar vein, there is Touching Evil (http://www.amazon.com/Touching-Evil-1-3/dp/B0002XVRZC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2959090-8308926?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1173587485&sr=1-1), which is an arc-y police drama, and has the excellent Nicola Walker (Ruth from Spooks) as the partner to the main character, Creegan, who's shot in the head at the beginning of the series. They have an excellent, no-nonsense partnership, without irritating forced sexual tension . I remember that the climactic part of the series 1 as particularly gripping.
It's not out on DVD stateside yet, but you should try to see if someone could get you burned files of Life on Mars, which is buddy-cop drama with a fish-out-of-water element mixed with Sci-Fi: it has a modern day cop who has an automobile accident and somehow ends up in 1973 Manchester. Fun action, sparkly dialog, some angst. fabulous actors -- great stuff.
Of the dramas you have on you Netflix list, I have a particular fondness for Joan of Arcadia (season 1 is as perfect as dramas go) and Dead Like Me. The 4400 is fine, but rather workman-like instead of brilliant, and Alias is fun, if absolutely preposterous.
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There was a remake made in the USA (well, produced by the USA, but shot in Vancouver), which from what little I saw of / heard about it had a very different style (making Creegan's head injury give him excessively quirky personality traits, for one thing).
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No, I have nothing else to say except for minor squee.
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Robson Green, the actor who plays Creegan, also stars in the series Wire in the Blood as a psychologist who works part time as a profiler for the police. His partner on the force is a detective named Carol Jordan (Hermione Norris), and there is sexual tension between them, but it's not forced, and it's well done.
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Without spoiling you, Christopher Eccleston isn't in the entire run of Cracker, and he's amazing in a certain episode. If you want more details, I can track down the episode name.
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The 4400 starts off great, then kind of loses steam, and then it got cancelled.
I like
Zap BranniganZach Braff, who I first noticed from Garden State, but I regard Scrubs almost more as entertaining filler rather than something to watch for itself.I suggest trying Dead Like Me.
I think La Femme Nikita might work better as a weekly show rather than something rented and gulped down in mini-marathons.
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Dead Like Me gets better than the first episodes seem to be and thankfully stops going into the stupid worldbuilding and the cartoony deaths, but I am not totally hooked yet.
You know what I think of LFN and Alias ;).
I love Scrubs, but it's more something that I watch for fun and not fannishly, if that makes sense. But it's funny and sweet and makes me laugh and go awwww.
The first season of Joan of Arcadia is pretty good and touching, but I ended up bailing during S2.
I would be pushing H&C really really hard for the lively and fun and touching, but I suspect that is the package you are going to get from
I just started Rose of Versailles, and it has truly awful production values and 70s animation and bad music, but Oscar's voice actor is really compelling, and I'm sort of hooked.
I can't remember if you've seen Battlestar Galactica, but the miniseries is definitely worth watching for explosions and action and intense drama and some pretty kickass female characters. And it's only around 6 hours! Then you can decide if you like the series, which is where I can't help you because I fell out of it six eps. into S1. But I love the miniseries.
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I loved Danger UXB when I was a kid which tells you how very very very old it is.
Cracker and Prime Suspect are my two favourite UK crime TV shows loved them.
Going way back Callan is amazing. Edward Woodhouse at his very best. I just rewatched it with Scott and couldn't believe how well it stood up, given that it had a budget of like nothing and only about four actors. Lonely is still one of the best characters of all time.
If you want great Australian crime television see if you can get hold of Phoenix, Janus and most especially Blue Murder. They're all extraordinary.
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I can't find a listing for Callan on Netflix, alas, nor for the others you mention except Blue Murder (which I added.) What are the others about?
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You have to get your mitts on Callan it influenced so much that followed it. Very very classically wonderful.
Phoenix was a cops and robber show that was such a departure from any Oz cop shows before it that we were all in shock. Awesome acting and fabbie scripts. Janus is a law and order show that was a billion cuts above any crime shows ever shown in Australian. Even better than Phoeniix. Plus I had a major crush on Simon Westaway. I can't remember which one of them specialised in awkward scenes in lifts but they were the best lift scenes of all time. In spirit they're closer to Homicide: Life on the Streets than any other cop shows (though don't be expecting Australian Homicides---they're very different). They certainly did not have the budgets of Homicide.
And now that the federal government has completely gutted the budget of the ABC (Australia's national broadcaster) we are unlikely to see shows like Blue Murder, Phoenix or Janus ever again.
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Anime: Genshiken, Kyou Kara Maou (watch only for cute/characterization/slash/fluff, as the plot is jaw-droppingly awful), Mai-HiME, Monster, Naruto Shippuuden/Hurricane Chronicles (I cried; also the commercial break teasers alone are the CUTEST THINGS EVER IN LIFE), Victorian Romance Emma
soooomebody's been watching Champloo:
Naruto Shippuuden OP
Naruto Shippuuden EP
(Spoilers for Naruto Part 2 & Basket Retrieval Arc)