Galt's Gulch

Suggestions, please.

Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 8 months ago to Entertainment
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Over dinner, my wife and I like to log into netflix and watch an episode of a television series.

But most series are the same, fair to great episodes at the beginning, then somewhere before the second season the progressive drum comes out and each episode is yet another excursion into social issues pontification land.

I was really getting into "House, M.D.", but then we got to the second season.

Can anyone suggest any television content on Netflix which actually wants to tell a damned story, not beat me over the head with the same tired sermons?

Thanks.

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  • Posted by LaMuse 9 years, 8 months ago
    I think Fargo was one of the best mini series ever shown on television, and I believe you can get the first (and so far only) season streamed through Netflix. I can't remember any progressive slants; in fact the show got better as it unfolded. The characters were quirky and memorable, and Billy Bob Thornton was magnificent! There were more twists and turns in this show than a Russian gymnast, and a few characters that you love to hate!
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  • Posted by empedocles 9 years, 8 months ago
    Farscape, Breaking Bad, Orange is the New Black, Alias, Buffy, Angel, Vampire Diaries, Copper, Ripper Street, the Fades. There's a lot of good content.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 8 months ago
    I resisted the updated Battlestar Gallactica for a few seasons until my son was watching it one day and I got hooked. Binge watched the entire series over last summer. It is something that you need to follow, as there are long storylines. Hard to jump around and keep abreast of what's going on.
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  • Posted by AdmNelson 9 years, 8 months ago
    It is said that Cecil B DeMille, when asked why there were no social messages in his epic films, replied, "If you want to send a message, call Western Union."
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 9 years, 8 months ago
    A couple of addictive TV series are the Murdoch Mysteries, a Canadian Victorian-era police series; and Doc Martin, a UK series about a London surgeon who develops a phobia about blood and relocates to the quaint village of his aunt.
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  • Posted by XenokRoy 9 years, 8 months ago
    I do not know if these are on netflix or not, but if you have not seen them I have found these to be entertaining shows:

    Stargate SG1
    Continuum
    Burn Notice
    Blood Ties
    Castle
    Falling Skies
    Grimm
    The Men Who Built America
    Suits

    I do not know which of those are available on Netflix but it gives you a few to take a look at. I like each of them for different reasons, and its about everything I have watched more than an episode or two of in the last 20 years or so.






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    • Posted by Mitch 9 years, 8 months ago
      I like Continuum as well but the Syfy series is starting to become one of those political statements about corporate greed…
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      • Posted by XenokRoy 9 years, 8 months ago
        Potential spoiler alert:

        I am wondering which way that will go with it. Seems like they are both talking of corporate greed and government greed. By greed I mean the desire to have the unearned wealth by individuals within both corporations and government.

        It seems to me that the last season ended on a note of one gives us tyrants and the other a financial collapse and war. Cameron seems to be looking for a third option. I am wondering if she will find it.
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    • Posted by Hiraghm 9 years, 8 months ago
      I like Burn Notice. I turned against Castle when they had a storyline of US. soldiers trying to 'fake' a terrorist attack in order to renew fear of Moslems and interest in conducting the war.

      I've seen a few episodes of Suits, after having turned the channel on the pilot, and I'm liking it better than I did originally.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 9 years, 8 months ago
    I think it was Bones I was watching the other day, when one character asked, "who said she could carry a gun!?"

    Another character replied, "The Second Amendment"
    I've started watching it a bit then. I think people here would like it.

    I've been watching NCIS lately, cause Ziva is annoying, Tony is annoying, Jethro is annoying, Illya Kuryakin* is entertaining and Abby is cute.


    * David McCallum's character in "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."... in this he's called "Dr Donald Mallard" aka "ducky".
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    • Posted by mccannon01 9 years, 8 months ago
      Well, Hiraghm, after reading most of this thread down to here, I think I'm in your corner regarding much of this. That is, when the Hollywood types start shoveling too much PC into a story line or screw around with historical events by injecting too much modern behavior (again late 20th century PC or history rewriting), I shut off the TV or change the channel. With that said, I'll vote for B5, Firefly, and Chuck (just started watching Chuck even though the series ended some time ago). Never saw Brimstone.
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  • Posted by woodlema 9 years, 8 months ago
    Scrap it all and watch MeTV.
    Gunsmoke, Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, M*A*S*H*, Big Valley, Bonanza, Little House on the Prarie...The Brady Bunch....You pretty much have to go back to the 60's and 70's some early 80's TV series to escape that crapola. Back when writing was well done.

    Sanford and Son, Chico and The Man...
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  • Posted by Animal 9 years, 8 months ago
    Petticoat Junction. F-Troop. An of the various Ernie Kovacs shows and specials. For newer stuff: Firefly. Archer. And for some of the best social satire ever done on television, South Park.
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    • Posted by mmb 9 years, 8 months ago
      I loved Earnie Kovacs and still miss him! Also love Firefly and the movie Serenity which cam from it.
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      • Posted by Animal 9 years, 8 months ago
        It's also important to note that Kovacs dies owing thousands of dollars in Federal taxes. He felt the tax system was unfair and oppressive and simply refused to pay; not exactly "going Galt," but certainly a variation on that theme.
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      • Posted by Animal 9 years, 8 months ago
        Ernie Kovacs was cast as the slimy con man Frankie Canon in the 1960 film "North to Alaska" with John Wayne and Stewart Granger, and he was brilliant in the part.

        He really did bring a large part of himself to every role he played; Robert Downey Jr. is the only current actor I can think of that does this in a similar manner.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 8 months ago
    I'll tell you what...I have been watching "Manhattan" and am very impressed with it. I'm not a big TV guy but I really am enjoying this show.
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  • Posted by richkinley 9 years, 8 months ago
    Sons of Anarchy, although everyone's going to die in Season 7 (final year, starts next month). Not recommended for anyone under 18. My 12 YO son knows not to enter my man cave when I'm watching SOA.

    Meg Bundy turns into the matriarch of this biker club...lol. She's pretty damn good, too!
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  • Posted by ISank 9 years, 8 months ago
    For me...and we are all individuals, I enjoy the spy like shows that show how screwed up the CIA is.
    Alias, is enjoyable, burn notice comes to mind.
    I do not enjoy hospital, prison, or courtroom action, seen too much already.

    Still looking myself, but only halfway thru alias.

    Cheers was always fun, we wanna go where everybody knows our name.

    Carpe Diem yo!
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