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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2654580/
http://www.fox.com/almost-human/
A buddy cop show with an android, set in the near future.
So far it's great all around, especially the acting.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185906/
http://www.hbo.com/band-of-brothers
Follows a unit in the 101st Airborne Division during World War 2.
Quite a good story. It's full of faces I know. Great acting and spectacular realism.
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Note: This video style is shaky.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080274/
It is 1598, and a ship pilot gets stranded in Japan.
Meh, it's old.
- Based on Shōgun - (1975 book), by James Clavell,
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Properly titled Shōgun
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Entertainment > Reading >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0452273331
A famous work of philosophy, especially because it's told using a story.
A terrible work of storytelling that entirely shrouds any philosophy it may have. From the first sentence I rolled my eyes and couldn't make it through the first half-page before setting it down in disgust. I still haven't been more than a handful of pages in.. it's just so god damned bad.
This'll sit on my shelf, among its betters, probably for years before I get around to trying to read more of it. Just as books in ancient Greek need translating, I think this needs a real writer to re-tell the story.
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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4209256/
http://www.usanetwork.com/colony
The Earth is invaded by aliens, and although civilization is cordoned off and human-managed, pockets of resistance remain.
A largely-boring drama. I don't know why I don't like this.. there's something about its tone that grates on me. I did watch ten episodes, but it never "clicked".
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Set in Los Angeles United States
This is just a placeholder while I find my old links
TODO:
- Bookmark
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Throwing star
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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4378456/
http://www.fox.com/second-chance
An old retired cop is reborn into a younger, stronger, version of himself, and fights crime.
Seems fairly good, though I'd bet it would be bland without the pretty girl.
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Cancelled 2016-05-12
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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399664/
http://www.amc.com/shows/the-night-manager
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g13rt
A dude begins his career as a night manager for some place somewhere but gets used by British intelligence to act against an arms dealer.
Fairly decent, but I suspect it's only because this is another show with a British accent being thrown around carelessly.
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Based on The Night Manager (1993 book), by John le Carré
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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3489184/
http://www.nbc.com/constantine
A man attains mystical powers originally for selfish reasons, but they taint with a life fraught with danger and demons.
Not a bad show, but the lead character's personality isn't attracting, and there's the old celestial stick-up-the-ass personality in another. The lead female is hot. Hotty hot hot.
This was cancelled after one season. Back in the 90s this show would have done well, but I'm guessing this genre has alternately been well-poisoned or saturated. This show has too much it has to be better than to catch enough attention to survive. I think that it's magic-fantasy was competing with an extraordinarily-strong superhero-fantasy genre.
- 2014-10-24 - 2015-02-13
- More-or-less based on the movie Constantine
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.. which in turn is based on the DC comic book series Hellblazer.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190198/
(archive of the original website)
A military unit is sent on missions in a future where all of humanity is at war with alien insects.
The show is animated, and not "anime". As such, it has not held up well with time. The music is fantastic, though. Truly. However, its other high points do not make up for the visual issue I have.
While it doesn't do it for me, I would recommend this for fans of the movie or movie series who can also handle the visual style and jerky movement that to me is reminiscent of ReBoot (1994-09-10 to 2001-11-30 television show).
- Properly titled Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles
- Ran from 1999-08-30 to 2000-04-03
- Based on the book.
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Based the movie Starship Troopers (1997), and is definitely not a sequel to it.
