TV shows

[ayascythe]

So ... it's time to buy a new TV show DVD box, because I need something new to watch. I'm thinking about the following shows:

- Dead like me
- Six Feet Under
- The Tudors

Has anyone seen one or more of them? Are they good?

(PS: Listening to ooold cassettes I taped years ago is kind of fun. :D There are songs I had almost forgotten but remember instantly the moment they're on.)

Comments

[ninamalfoy]

Six Feet Under. So totally. This show is the best I've seen in a fucking long time, and it ends just like it's supposed to, none of this, "oh, the ratings are too low, we'll pull it from air after the 1st/2nd season, fuck you, viewers," shit. (Because, okay, it was fucking amazing from the start.)

I've seen a bit of the other two shows, but really - SFU is jaw-dropping awesome. And the cast is overall brilliant. I could gush on for hours and hours, but really, you don't want to get spoiled, do you? ;-)

[ayascythe.livejournal.com]

SFU is on my To-Buy-list now. I was already curious before, but your gushing definitely convinced me. ;)

[ninamalfoy]

Well, if you go for character development and what family actually means, then this is the series for you. Oh, and the cast and the writing is excellent.

Some more gushing from back then when I was a total SFU stan as I discovered the series (around 2005/06):

Damn, why didn't anyone tell me how fucking great this series is? Like, totally. Gah. I've OD'd on it since yesterday evening (until 4 am in the morning) and have just now finished the last ep of the first season. Damn. So many truths and lies and obfuscations and such a fucking honesty in there that it just pains me, and it cheers me up and saddens me and ah, I've not felt like that in a long time watching anything. Ah, perfect.

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This series is so fucked up and at the same time, so real. Man, every time you think it couldn't get worse, BANG! there you are. Gargh, I was alternating between going 'OH NO YOU FUCKTARD/BITCH/WHORESON/HOMOPHOBE WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DO THAT?!?' and 'AW YOU POOR WOOBIE COME LET ME HUG YOU REALLY TIGHT...', both often applying to the same person. It's so alive and so dysfunctional and so messed up that it's actually normal. And there is so much psychobabble in there that you just have to love it for this. And, yes, I'm biased. ;-)

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Six Feet Under still owns my soul. Gah. The series is totally the best I ever watched. The people are so achingly human - nothing of that black/white stuff; no, it's all about the shades of grey with splashes of color and hurt and joy and life and death, but well, these are just two sides of a coin, and the faster it spins the faster they blur until they become one, and that's what Six Feet Under is about. Yes.

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(after I watched the series finale) It's - even if I sound horribly geek-ish here - been one of the best experiences in my life. A fucking television series, yes, but oh my God. So intricately done. So fucking with my mind in both a terrifying and liberating way at the same time.

Damn, now you're making me want to rewatch the series! *laughs and shakes her head* I so DO NOT have the time for this.