Recommend good HBO series?

Dammit guys, now you made me curious!

And, nice to see you again, eoe! I haven't run into you in a while.

Somewhere on the web (Wikipedia?), they said it was originally scheduled as a six-season series, but viewership faded away so they cut it short.

Late at night, can't sleep, watching the first episodes of Six Feet Under. I don't think I' ve ever seen them before. Must have started watching later. Forgot what an unusual show it was.

It's great

Broadwalk Empire premiered today. It's a mob series, set in prohibition-era Atlantic City, and revolving around its corrupt treasurer Nucky Thompson. It's created by Martin Scorsese and the Sopranos' Terence Winter.

Did anyone else catch the first episode! I loved it! If HBO keeps up the series' quality, it's going to be as good as Sopranos, Six Feet Under, and True Blood.

It premiered here on Sunday. Caught it! Loved it! Looking forward to the next episode.

After one episode, it's already been renewed for another season.

Yay....good new series!!!!!!

A-yup, caught it. Will continue to watch -- pretty good opening.

Oddly enough, I thought the credits were terrible, and I've grown accustomed to seeing the credits of a series as reflecting an overall artistic vision (e.g., Six Feet Under, the Wire, the Sopranos, Trueblood, Breaking Bad). Hopefully the unimaginative and visually uninspiring credits don't presage a series that runs out oomph after a couple of episodes.

I'm personally excited that Bored to Death is coming back, but it's probably too dumb for most folks here.......

I'm gonna try to start watching that. I've seen bits and pieces and Ted Dansen is a hoot!!

I watched Boardwalk on Sunday. I wasn't too impressed but I'll give it another chance to grab me.

Anyone here watch Hung? I got hooked just on the premise and it's been very good.

Watch Hung periodically when I stumble across it, but never sequentially. Some funny bits. And I like to play "Spot the Unsubtle Phallic Symbol."

I agree. Nice pun, too!

The Life and Times of Tim is a crudely animated series that's often pretty funny.

HBO just announced that Treme will be renewed for a third season next year. This is GREAT news for the city and the rest of us who wish we were there.

Yes it is!

Anyone watching Game of Thrones? I haven't really gotten into it yet. The constellations seem a little synthetic and drawing-board-y to me.

I saw the trailer and decided that it wasn't my cuppa.

Nope.


What's new and great?

i grabbed a couple of episodes but haven't watched them yet

I just finished watching, not an HBO series, but an HBO documentary titled How to die in Oregon. As many of you will know, Oregon legalized assisted suicide a few years ago. The documentary follows a number of Oregon families as they try, each in their own way, to support a member with a terminal illness. It also follows a numbers of activists from the state of Washington trying to get an Oregon-like assisted-suicide law enacted for themselves.

Although serious, the protagonists' final trip turned to be a lot less depressing than I'd thought. And although the producers clearly sympathized with the death-with-dignity movement, they also talked to its opponents without making them look like idiots, and did point out some abuses that happened in the Oregon bureaucracy. (They denied a cancer patient chemotherapy, but graciously did offer to pay for his assisted suicide.) This movie made me think a lot. HBO outdid themselves once again.

I'll look for that.

My closest friend is trying to get passed a precursor bill to legal euthanasia, so I'll try to get it for her.