Why do we have seasons?

[detective392]

Originally Posted by Todd Tomorrow

Whoah, we have very different tastes indeed. I'm can't stand Dr Who and all the other British kids sci-fi and fantasy shows you listed in the second half. The soapy, laughably historically inaccurate Downton Abbey scrapes through as a guilty pleasure at best for me.

The only show on there which I liked was Broadchurch and that was a knock off of the Scandinavian whodunnits which are hugely popular in the UK and which get remade in the US (The Bridge, The Killing).

Yeah, I agree shows like Merlin and Robin Hood aren't exactly the best UK TV has to offer. Also forgot Sherlock which is just amazing I think and leagues better than Elementary.

Seems are tastes are pretty different. I do like Breaking Bad but I'll take a UK mystery any day.

[Todd Tomorrow]

Originally Posted by detective392

Yeah, I agree shows like Merlin and Robin Hood aren't exactly the best UK TV has to offer. Also forgot Sherlock which is just amazing I think and leagues better than Elementary.

Seems are tastes are pretty different. I do like Breaking Bad but I'll take a UK mystery any day.

Maybe it's the exoticism of the British accents and locations for you.

I even find Sherlock a little overrated. I haven't watched the third season but the first two seasons consisted of one great, one ok and one bad episode each. And as they are feature length episodes, if one of them is bad, like the terrible Hound of the Baskervilles episode, you've wasted a whole 90s minutes and that's a third of a season.

I've seen three British dramas this year which I liked, one great two very good. The Honourable Woman was a political thriller about the Arab-Israeli conflict which was as good as any TV drama I've ever seen. Happy Valley was an excellent crime show, which floundered a little towards the end and In the Flesh did something genuinely original with zombies, even if it was a little hit and miss. I'm looking forward to season 2 of The Fall, which is compelling thanks to Gillian Anderson.

[detective392]

Originally Posted by Todd Tomorrow

Maybe it's the exoticism of the British accents and locations for you.

I even find Sherlock a little overrated. I haven't watched the third season but the first two seasons consisted of one great, one ok and one bad episode each. And as they are feature length episodes, if one of them is bad, like the terrible Hound of the Baskervilles episode, you've wasted a whole 90s minutes and that's a third of a season.

I've seen three British dramas this year which I liked, one great two very good. The Honourable Woman was a political thriller about the Arab-Israeli conflict which was as good as any TV drama I've ever seen. Happy Valley was an excellent crime show, which floundered a little towards the end and In the Flesh did something genuinely original with zombies, even if it was a little hit and miss. I'm looking forward to season 2 of The Fall, which is compelling thanks to Gillian Anderson.

The locations does have something to do with it for me. Midsomer Murders gives me my villages and country side.

I think another part is no technology. Like Midsomer Murders, Broadchurch, Endeavour, Wallander. They'll mostly use there brains to solve the case and clues with little technology help. US shows really rely on technology to solve a case like CSI. Not that I hate CSI as I love that show.

[Todd Tomorrow]

Originally Posted by detective392

The locations does have something to do with it for me. Midsomer Murders gives me my villages and country side.

I think another part is no technology. Like Midsomer Murders, Broadchurch, Endeavour, Wallander. They'll mostly use there brains to solve the case and clues with little technology help. US shows really rely on technology to solve a case like CSI. Not that I hate CSI as I love that show.

Aren't Dr Who and Touchwood about technology ?

I don't wach CSI. It's popular, but it's a show from the Network conveyor belt not considered a high quality show. Most of the acclaimed US shows I mentioned (Man Men, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Wire) have little or nothing to do with technology. Even the wire in The Wire is just a MacGuffin.

[detective392]

Originally Posted by Todd Tomorrow

Aren't Dr Who and Touchwood about technology ?

I don't wach CSI. It's popular, but it's a show from the Network conveyor belt not considered a high quality show. Most of the acclaimed US shows I mentioned (Man Men, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Wire) have little or nothing to do with technology. Even the wire in The Wire is just a MacGuffin.

I was just talking about some of the crime shows I like. Torchwood and Doctor Who are very technology as well as many other shows I like.

US cable has definitely stepped it up the past few years. Huge GoT fan. Seen the pilot for Mad Men and never seen the Wire though. I own all the Sopranos but still haven't watched them.