Comments on: Tips about TV marathons

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:02:44 +0000

Interesting you should say that, Stuart. I was considering doing Friends, purely in a statto kind of way, racking up how many jokes recurred and inconsistencies were ignored etc.

But I did know it dipped and got better – I felt that very strongly the first time through watching it. It was almost as if, once they’d set an end date, the writers were given license to make everyone fully into the stereotypes they’d been pushing at all along.

I might actually do that sometime. I honestly don’t care if anyone reads it, so it might work out ok!…

By: Stuart Ian Burns

Stuart Ian Burns — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:12:35 +0000

I watched my way through The West Wing and Friends last year (and all of Hitchcock’s films from his silents through to Family Plot but that doesn’t count). The experience of watching them so closely was that my expectation and original experience of them both losing steam late on turned out to be incorrect. Both have a mid series lull them bounce right back again with an influx of new writers in their later seasons.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:43:21 +0000

I think you should choose something particularly American while you’re still here. Maybe Gilmore Girls? Twin Peaks? True Blood (or have you already tackled that)?

By: Anna F

Anna F — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:51:35 +0000

I’m currently going through Buffy, as and when I get the time, and it’s as amazing as it ever was. So, I second Joy on that one.
Alternatively, Battlestar Galactica is an epic, I thoroughly recommend it if you haven’t seen it.

By: Kath

Kath — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:08:47 +0000

I watched all of The Sopranos during January, excellent, really absorbing. And possibly the only show that should have an accompanying eating game, rather than drinking game. Planning to start on The West Wing in a couple of weeks.

By: Joy

Joy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:25:18 +0000

Consider Buffy. There’s lots of beasties and some British accents – both real and incredibly fake. And there;s still a surprisingly active fanbase, with comic books and podcasts and fanfic, oh my.

By: Jael

Jael — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:25:19 +0000

Totally agree with Mike – it’s got to be Battlestar Galactica. After watching the first episodes of Caprica, I’ve got a hankering for a Galactica binge myself.

Loved the Lostathon, by the way.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:30:43 +0000

It’s got to be Battlestar Galactica – 4.5 seasons of pure telly joy. And robots.

Lots of Daddy issues though…

By: NickyB

NickyB — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:20:14 +0000

I got Murder One box set for Christmas, I’ll be watching it after S6 of LOST. I watched it back in the 90s and loved it, I’m just hoping it doesn’t disappoint this time round. I loved your marathon, I laughed aloud over and over. WELL DONE!

By: FlossieT

FlossieT — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:39:25 +0000

A new box set suggestion? Personally, I can’t wait to get stuck into the massive box set of Poirot that I got for Christmas. “Running Time: 4195 mins approx” of art deco cosy Belgian-ness. Although the Americans might not be so interested – do they have Poirot over there??