Recommend me a tv show

[kcdusk]

I'm looking for a tv series to get into. Something worthwhile, non-CSI related, hopefully with a t2k bent.

Can you recommend me anything? Is the Colony any good? What are the options?

[HorseSoldier]

Colony, seasons 1 and 2, aren't bad but aren't superb. Recognize going into them that it's lower case "reality."

Survivors, from the UK, is pretty good -- apocalyptic plague, not war, but still pretty good post apocalyptic show. (I'm speaking for the new version, I have never seen the 1970s? version, but have heard it's good for 70s TV as well.) And it's Netflixable and watchable on demand through that company, maybe others.

Walking Dead was zombies, but good apocalyptic stuff for all that.

I never got into Jericho, but it's also available on Netflix these days and seemed to be about as close to a show about the Twilight War (or effects CONUS side, anyway) as Hollywood is ever likely to roll out.

[Panther Al]

Jericho was surprisingly good all things considered. Yes, its Hollywood. Yes, it plays loose with a few things. But the focus on a small town, where the info available to (most) of the people there is very limited, and how they deal with food shortages, marauders/contractors, health, deserters (Sorta), and what have you makes me think of what it would be like in any small town off the beaten path of the major military ops in the T2K 'verse.


Heck. More I think about it, it should be the official T2K show: In addition to all the above, you have two US governments, fighting each other, as well as two towns fighting each other, one with homemade mortars (Wojo anyone?), and the other with a scrounged M1 with little fuel and no ammo. Damn. It is Twilight 2000 in America.

[copeab]

Originally Posted by Panther Al

Heck. More I think about it, it should be the official T2K show: In addition to all the above, you have two US governments, fighting each other, as well as two towns fighting each other, one with homemade mortars (Wojo anyone?), and the other with a scrounged M1 with little fuel and no ammo. Damn. It is Twilight 2000 in America.

And one of the towns has a nuke. Well, not town, but someone in it

The problem with Jericho is that it only had one full season, plus one seven episode "wrap-up" season, so you're only looking at ~30 episodes.

[Arrissen]

Anything HBO - quality viewing; from scripting, casting, acting, prodution values the lot.

Generation Kill - read the book first - then Nate Fick's book; One Bullet Away - both are accounts focusing on the same USMC platoon in Iraq and the seven part mini series follows both books quite closely. Rudy Reyes, a Scout/ Sniper plays Himself in the show.

Here are some I've really enjoyed, not all HBO and not T2Kish but still good:

Deadwood
Trailer Park Boys
True Blood
Sons of Anarchy
Breaking Bad
Dexter
The Sopranos
Spartacus
Entourage
Californication
Burn Notice
Walking Dead
Parks And Recreation
Carnivale
Burn Notice

[adimar]

A very cool (Literally) TV series is Game of Thrones, a HBO writeup to Song of Fire & Ice.
Note that this seires is currently being showed for the first time so no multi season downloads (though the spaceballs instant cassette would have been quite welcome)

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