Recommend good HBO series?

Yes, we remember: you're just drawn that way.

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Started watching "Deadwood".....(fabulous) and "Extras"...(fabulous in a different way)





Keep 'em coming!!!!!

In Treatment featuring the lovely pouty lipped "Laura"



played by Melissa George

HBO is currently presenting a mini-series called "Generation Kill". It follows a group of Marines through the invasion of Iraq. It's a documentary-lookalike. It's based on an real story by an embedded reporter, looks very realistic, but it's played by actors.

Depressing, but very good.

Generation Kill is done by Dave Simon and Ed Burns.

Gotta love Dave Simon for The Corner and The Wire, ...and bringing work to Baltimore....
Hope he comes back some day.

Oh, and Homicide, can't forget that one.

And of course there's Flight of the Conchords now. Fucking genius.

Duly noted folks, and thankee.

Keep those cards and letters coming in....

I have just got the first series of "The Wire" since it's mentioned and recommended a lot in the meeja, but I haven't looked at it yet.

What do you think of it?

LOVED it!

Not HBO but Showtime had a good series called Sleeper Cell. A Muslim FBI agent infiltrates a terrorist cell as they plan an attack.

So...I looked at "Rome" as suggested here...fell in love...AND NOW DISCOVER IT WAS CANCELLED AFTER TWO SERIES!!!

I am just about to watch the last episode of series 2.

Really classy soap opera.

Anyone got anything new for me???

Well, I won't recommend Showtime's Californication to you. You already recommended it to me -- and I'm glad you did.

HBO's Big Love inherited The Sopranos' slot after their termination. It follows the Bill Hendrickson, entrepreneur and fundamentalist Mormon, through his live with his huge polygamist family. (Hence the "big" in "Big Love".) It caught my attention through an enthusiastic review on NPR. I watched a few episodes, liked the acting, but didn't catch on to the story yet. I probably lack too much background provided in the first three seasons. Starting from scratch, you wouldn't have this problem.

I like Showtime's Secret Diary of a Callgirl, now in its second season. It's funny, naughty (duh!), but never vulgar.

Did you catch Flight of the Conchords? I got infected when our dagmaraka declared she was in love with it. The series is about a band of two musicians from New Zealand trying to make it in New York. They have a groupie (singular!) and a manager, who in is day job is New Zealand's consul in New York and is the butt of mean jokes from his colleagues at the Australian consulate, who share an office suite with him.

I've watched Big Love.....seen a bit of Flight opf the Conchords..it's been on late here. It's hilarious.

I believe that "The Number One Ladie's Detective Agency" is going to be run as a series on HBO starting this weekend. Its based on the Alexander McAul Smith series of books about a detective agency run by this "traditionally built" chick in Botswana.
The books were cute and quick reads. Kinda enjoyable too. Dont know anything about the series.

Cool!

I have read one of them, and found it too insubstantial, really, to bother reading more.

They'd be great, I think, on TV though.

It's not HBO/Shotime, but I've been totally sucked into Breaking Bad during it's season-plus on the air.

It's about an underemployed high school chemistry teacher who gets diagnosed with cancer and starts cooking meth so he won't leave his family broke. Nice mix of dark comedy, crime drama, and outright human pathos. Got a little corny for a while, but has been very interesting the last couple of weeks...

I just heard about that!!!


You're cool...I was wondering.

True Blood!!! Great!!!!

Kindly explicate.