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Same with Scott & Bailey, another great crime series from Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright with three older, normal-looking women in the starring roles.

nosleepforme I would recommend watching the second season of the Swedish original Äkta Människor before Humans. I thought the remake was good enough, but somehow lacking. I couldn't put my finger on what it was, but I guess the original just beat it. Sort of forgot about Humans two episodes before the finale. Casual is also "good", and I watched it all, mostly for Michaela Watkins, but it kind of dragged at the same time? Didn't like the daughter at all which I think has something to do with it. Might watch season two but not must-see for me. Penny Dreadful - YES. Yes yes yes! Eva Green is my favourite thing on television. It's quite the performance. The first episode actually didn't hook me at all when it premiered and I kind of gave the show a pass, but then I binged the first season when it was over and I'm glad I did. There's a seance scene in episode two that hooked me and then episode five was certainly the point of no return. Season 2 was top 3 television for me last year (and I watch A LOT of television) and much better than the very, very good season 1 and it continues being great with season 3.

To those who've seen it; is it worth the time? I liked season 1 well enough but besides Danny dying I don't remember much of it. Does it get awesome? Is it thrillery?

Apart some seeing her in Vacancy I knew little about Kate Beckinsale, but I'm now officially a fan. Emilia is adorable but Kate made the episode worthwhile. Can't wait to see that Austen movie!

Well said, vibeology. I also fall somewhere in between. I love it and I hate it. Many developments, characters, character choices, reactions so forth and et cetera were just the worst and many of them were fantastic (and fantastically funny). I also grew to hate Carrie for the most part but Miranda and Samantha never failed to make me laugh. Charlotte was always somewhere in between, but they all had good or bad moments. I don't know how I'd rate it but a 7 for me seems about right, personally.

In the recent weeks I've watched Person of Interest. I watched a few episodes years ago but quit quite quickly, but was always intrigued about what I read online so I found an article that listed episodes you could skip and still follow the story, so I'm up to season 4 episode 10 now. Anyway. I don't really know what's unpopular or not, but James Caviezel is lucky he's on an interesting show because my god is he a boring actor. I haven't seen him in anything else though, so maybe it's a choice very different to his past characters, but it mostly seem like sleep-acting to me. Do people love him? He's handsome, but definitely the most boring character. It also took me forever and a day to warm to Shaw. Quite like her now, but I miss Carter a lot (not that one should affect the other). Love Root (and Amy Acker) though, but I think that's an unpopular in the Unpopular Opinion thread if I'm understanding it right. Haven't visited the PoI forum yet.

You know I have no idea why the titles changed. The ones on this forum were the ones given from the descriptions when the episodes aired in Ireland/UK in 2014. They just changed them recently on IMDb to these new titles as well. As for "Netflix Original", I don't know why but it seems a show becomes that when they buy exclusive streaming rights. For example, I think "Marcella" which just aired in the UK and was a BBC production will also become a Netflix Original now that they bought the streaming rights.

Yep, and now that there's a semi final you have to win before the final it means the wackier entries don't make it through. It's a damn shame. I still love the whole thing but it was definitely more fun 10-20 years ago.

I could be wrong, but I think the reason Richard tested Young Locke is because Old Locke told him to do so when they met in the 50's. Or if he didn't explicitly tell him to, Richard did so of his own volition because of them meeting. Why he failed is because Locke was never actually special or never meant to be their leader, or something. As for Christian appearing all over the place, I think it was MiB, we're just supposed to ignore it was off the island. Or maybe he could astral project (or something!) even if he couldn't physically leave.

She's been on American Horror Story for three seasons.

Loved it. 7 episodes in and loving everything. I was already a fan of Maria, but I'm wondering how people who aren't familiar with her feel about it.

http://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/may/01/michaela-cole-interview-bafta-tv-people-think-i-am-fearless Nice article from Michaela Coel of Chewing Gum about black people on television, writing her own show and more.

Ah, Shannon.... "Let's kill off one of our four female regulars who has promise to develop and grow into something really interesting in service of one of our seemingly infinite supply of male character's angst."

I just binged a (what I thought) hilarious UK comedy called Chewing Gum, starring and written by a black woman. It's set on a council estate (I forget where in England, presumed London). The cast is probably 50/50 black and white but there's a wide variety of black characters. As a 32 y/o white gay man I loved it, and the only "stereotype" I'd say is Tracey's (the lead) mother, a highly religious woman, but she's so over the top and it seemed to be by design. I'd love to hear anyone's thought on it. It's silly fun but I laughed out loud a lot throughout the six episodes. Michaela Coel just won a comedy BAFTA for it and I believe it's been commissioned for a second series.

Spot on, amensisterfriend. I did really like Juliet, though, and I thought Charlotte was awesome but I think that for me it had a lot to do with loving Rebecca Mader from the first frame. They clearly didn't know what to do with most of the women if they weren't involved in a romance. Sun and Claire could've had a great last season that differed from they're previous personas but instead they just wasted them. I liked Faraday a lot even when his tone of voice annoyed the hell out of me, so good on that character. Can't say I missed him during the last season but I appreciated him while he was there.

Great read. Thanks for that! I agree with Merrin Dungey's disappointment about Allison Doren not continuing on the show or at least not getting a proper sendoff. I too went, wait, so what happened? Did the knife kill her? Why? She survived, like, five bullets to the chest. It all just seemed very haphazard.

Isn't it then odd that she would guest again in 3.21? Makes sense that she didn't come back after that though, if it's about her. I always wondered why the character didn't come back (I believe she wasn't killed? I remember an explosion which doesn't appear to kill her but then no one mentions her ever again).

I don't want Martha to die :'(

I liked it! Didn't love it but, eh, it was totally okay. I wasn't expecting much more than I got, apart from Terrible NY Reporter not getting murdered. Glad Robin survived (a stabbing to the heart?!). Also it gave us shirtless Cam working out which was just one of the best things all season. I'm not expecting next season to be about Lil' Rhoda, I just saw it as a fun little coda. I hope it will be a new setting with new characters. If it comes back at all, which I really hope it does!

Sorry, kat, should've specified that it's back in the UK on Wednesday! Gonna watch it tonight hopefully.

It's back this Wednesday! Season 5 will have only three episodes.

I don't remember if Priest Dad was at Robin's husband's house when he died, but Cam was with Robin at the hospital and I don't know how easy it would be for Cam to spike the drink of death so far in advance if he wasn't present when it happened.

Thanks for posting that, it was very interesting! The first Darla death pitch is hilarious and it must have been a joke pitch. I hated the Angel/Cordelia romance from the moment it started so I'm on the same page as Minear. Cordelia post Forgiving was pretty terrible, unfortunately. Compared to earlier Cordelia, at least, who was awesome. I do like season 4 a lot tho, but I still missed Cordy.

I think Cam "figured out" and said that Robin wasn't ever the real target, but his boyfriend, and that Robin was misdirect. Although I don't know why. Seems the boyfriend could've been killed anyway? And if Robin hadn't been rescued he would have probably still been killed, but that would have been outside the kill code, right? Although I guess being gay is sin enough for these lunatics that either or wouldn't have mattered. So Cam and his dad is in on it together, right? That's what I took away from it. It's always two killers.

Those Cause of Death descriptions are hilarious. But seriously, I stopped watching that show and I have no idea who they were, but that's a shame. Denise dying on The Walking Dead was annoying as hell as well, though hardly surprising. They only seem to kill off post season 2 characters nowadays.