GREAT
- DAREDEVIL
- RIPPER STREET Season 1,2
- AGENTS OF SHIELD Seasons 1, 2
- HOUSE OF CARDS Season 1,2,3
- STRIKEBACK Seasons 1,2
- WALLANDER
- ARROW
- FLASH
- CHOPPED
- IRON CHEF AMERICA
- TOP GEAR
- LONGMIRE
- PENNY DREADFUL
- HEMLOCK GROVE
- AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM (Season 2 of the series works in a way that Season 1 and 3 does not)
- PERSON OF INTEREST SEASONS 1-3 (The mid season break, episodes 9 to 11 of Season 3 are great television, with the preamble to Episode 11 being one of the great moments of tv I saw this year. On Par with BABYLON 5’s NO HIDING PLACE and HELL AND BACK’s )
- GRIMM SEASONS 1-4
- JESSICA JONES
- ROSEWOOD
- THE PLAYER
- BLACK LIST
- THE GOOD WIFE
- ALONE (This History Channel story is one of the few ‘Reality’ shows that I considered must watch TV in 2015)
- KEY AND PEELE
- CLONE WARS
- SMALL SPACE BIG STYLE
- MARON
- SHARK TANK
GOOD
- SUPERNATURAL SEASONS 1-10 (Seasons 6 -onward, lose steam and are in the solidly Don’t Care for Pile)
- ZOO
- TRANSPORTER Season 1 -2
- BANSHEE
- MARY JANE
- HELL ON WHEELS (1ST 3 seasons are great, 4th season isnt)
- DOOMSDAY PREPPERS
- STAN LEE’S SUPER HUMANS
- RECTIFY
- AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
DIDNT CARE FOR
- SENSE8
- BITTEN
- CONTINUUM
- PARALLELS
- JUSTIFIED – I have tried to like this show, but it just fails to captivate in any way
A painting is always quite moral when it is tragic and it gives the horror of the things it depicts.
– Barbey d’Aurevilly, opening caption, Les Diaboliques
- VIKINGS– The above quote sums up my moralistic issue with shows like VIKINGS and HANNIBAL and DEXTER that want to retrofit horrendous monsters as heroes. The VIKINGS sent drugged to the gills raiding parties to rape and pillage and impale and enslave anything they found. They would bash childrens heads againt walls, so they were very not nice people. So to have a show that white washes this and paints the vikings as in touch with their feelings, profeminist superteam good guys, is an issue for me. Akin to having a show called NAZIS, that paints them as a band of people you should root for. The filmmaker in doing this thing, this prettifying of monsters, fail’s the test of Barbey’s definition of morality… they fail to give the horror of the things it depicts.
- HANNIBAL – I love Michael Mann’s MANHUNTER, it is the first and best of the many cinematic Thomas Harris adaptations, and the rare movie that transcends the book. SILENCE OF THE LAMBS was a worthy follow-up, but the films went down hill from there. And now we have the TV show. Like Vikings it is visually stunning, but like Vikings it is morally untenable.
Shows in GREEN I watched via Netflix, in Orange AMAZON PRIME and in Purple via Free Digital Antenna or applicable free Roku Channel!
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