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briandmyers  ·  4578 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Fantastic Ambition of 'Game of Thrones' (Any of you watch the 1st season?)
I'm a big fan of the show. Read the books, too - they're pretty good. The first season was amazingly faithful to the book; second season, not so much, but I can see why they did most of the changes that I noticed.

afteryou mentioned the Walking Dead - I liked the first season of that, but season 2 has been a bit ho-hum. I've started reading the graphic novels, which are excellent so far. The storyline diverges quite quickly, but that's ok.

It's only 3 episodes, but I highly recommend a BBC mini-series called "Black Mirror". Three unrelated stories about the not-so-distant future. Very thought-provoking.





afteryou  ·  4578 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Black Mirror? Never heard of it. I'll have to check that one out.

I really enjoyed season two of the Walking Dead. Yeah, It got a little slow in the middle, but you at least have to see the final episode, where they introduce the prison, and Michonne. Season 3 is gonna be great. I'll tell ya, if I could live in that world just for a bit, that would be amazing!

briandmyers  ·  4578 days ago  ·  link  ·  
There's a Wikipedia page for it - but I suggest you NOT read the episode descriptions there before seeing it. Here's a quote from the wiki page :

"An Endemol press release describes the series as "a hybrid of The Twilight Zone and Tales of the Unexpected which taps into our contemporary unease about our modern world", with the stories having a "techno-paranoia" feel.[2] Channel 4 describes the first episode as "a twisted parable for the Twitter age"."

thenewgreen  ·  4578 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I am six episodes in to GoT and I don't think I've been this excited about a television series ever. It's pretty remarkable work.
briandmyers  ·  4578 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I re-watched the entire first season, after reading the first book. It was ever better the second time around :-)