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[Legbreaker]

I agree that season two was screwed around with far too much. If they'd stuck with the 1st season forumla they'd have had a damn fine post apoc series.

[Targan]

I enjoyed Jeramiah. I'm a huge fan of Firefly/Serenity (own all of them on BluRay).

If you can find the old UK series Threads that is a very realistic and gritty portrayal of life after a nuclear war. Very grim though. Don't expect too many laughs.

[WallShadow]

Originally Posted by Targan

I enjoyed Jeramiah. I'm a huge fan of Firefly/Serenity (own all of them on BluRay).

If you can find the old UK series Threads that is a very realistic and gritty portrayal of life after a nuclear war. Very grim though. Don't expect too many laughs.

I thought "Threads" was a film, and "The Survivors" was the BBC series about a bioagent that depopulated the world.
I would call "Threads" more than gritty--it made you want to take a bath after watching it.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by WallShadow

I would call "Threads" more than gritty--it made you want to take a bath after watching it.

It gave both me and my girlfriend at the time nightmares.

[TiggerCCW UK]

Same here Paul. Terrifying film. Its available on youtube;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQo0BQM3OlQ

as is its forerunner The War Game;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58NmAzQzRjk

[95th Rifleman]

I remember threads, it gave me goosebumps. Very much recomended

[HorseSoldier]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

I agree that season two was screwed around with far too much. If they'd stuck with the 1st season forumla they'd have had a damn fine post apoc series.

Dark Angel got the same network "fixing" -- how can you screw up Jessica Alba as a kick-ass super assassin in a semi-apocalyptic world? I mean how can you screw up a show where Jessica Alba just sits there watching paint dry? The geniuses at Fox found a way to screw it up and season 2 was a radical departure and tanked the show.

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by HorseSoldier

I mean how can you screw up a show where Jessica Alba just sits there watching paint dry?

Mmmmmmmm, Jessica............

[Arrissen]

Ha! Tales of the Golden Monkey, I loved that show as a kid. Very Indiana Jones. Baa Baa Black Sheep about the the Black Sheep Squadron and later called Black Sheep Squadron, set in the South Pacific in WWII was classic too.

And yeah Dark Angel was good at first til they stuffed it up. Ahh really good memories!

[kcdusk]

I have Threads, looks ................ old! I actually thought this was going to be something else, the program/movie i thought it was going to be is "The Day after" which is something else i'll look up.

I want to watch Deadwood and The Wire but dont think the wifey is going to watch it with me due to language.

I have seen the first series of Jerico and thought it was the closest thing to T2K we've seen, but i dont think the second series made it to australia.

[Arrissen]

The Wire was really good and yeah it has bad/street language but Deadwood takes the cake in the bad or filthy talk category. Funny as hell bad language though IMO. If Shakespeare had of wrote a western I reckon it would have been like that show! I think they really managed to capture the vernacular of those good ol' times. Very gritty stuff.

Chris Ryan's Strike Back was not too bad. A BBC series about an ex-SAS bloke. They are making another season of that later this year.

[kcdusk]

I've seen Strike Back. Good tv series. But i havent been a fan of Ryans books. Glad to hear theres another series of it coming.

Kidnap and Ransom was a 3 part teleseries that was good too.

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

I agree that season two was screwed around with far too much. If they'd stuck with the 1st season forumla they'd have had a damn fine post apoc series.

I'll have to take your word for it...season one got such low ratings when it was broadcast on Sky One that I don't think season two ever got shown in the UK.

[copeab]

Here are some series I own, which are not T2K related at all, but worth watching:

Dexter: I only have seen own season one, but S1 is self-contained and, had the series not been renewed, would have left you feeling everything important was wrapped up. I only saw it because CBS was desperate for programming back during the writers' strike a couple of years ago and were airing edited episodes on Sundays nights. The first episode hooked me to the series and after the second I ordered the S1 DVDs from Amazon. Never regretted it.

Tales Of The Gold Monkey: Another show that suffered from network interference, but was mainly canceled because it cost too much, despite decent ratings. It's a pulp series, set in the South Pacific in 1938, with the pilot of a Grumman Goose as the main character. A Japanese princess and German secret agent also factor into the series. There are some technical mistakes (mostly involving the Flying Tigers) but mostly forgivable given the genre. There is even one episode which is a remake of a Battlestar Galactica episode

Day Break: One of many shows that followed Lost on ABC over the years and failed. It was pulled after 6 or 7 episodes but was only supposed to run 13 episodes anyway. It was a bit like 24 mixed with Groundhog Day, as a cop was reliving the same day over and over. The series was a little tedious at first, but after he accumulated enough knowledge about what was really going on, the series began to pick up. There was also one twist to his time loop I hadn't seen in previous stories of the type.

[HorseSoldier]

I remember Tales of the Gold Monkey very vaguely from early childhood -- I think it followed Magnum PI in timeslot (?). The cost angle makes sense, since otherwise it kind of seems to have been a nice combo of then very trendy Magnum/Hawaii 5-0 enthusiasm for the far Pacific plus Indiana Jones.