It’s been a while since I wrote about my current favourite TV shows, so I thought I’d give a little update (to all 3 of you reading this site).
1. Sons of Anarchy
I have probably pimped this show to everyone I know – FX needs to get me some royalties. This has to be my ultimate current favourite show on TV right now. I stumbled upon it accidentally (don’t you just love it when that happens? It really strengthens your feelings of ownership) when I realised I couldn’t get it’s trailer out of my head. It caught my eye every time until I decided to finally sit down and give it a shot. And holy shit. I fell in love with the writing, the action, the speed, Katey Segal (who is mind blowingly brilliant) and of course, Charlie Hunnam, who is a super-hot hottie. Ron Perlman, of Hellboy fame, is in it as well, so from the get-go, I knew I wasn’t going to be disappointed.
I like my tv series fast paced and exciting, so Mad Men is definitely out (oh no, Don Draper fired Sal, the in-the-closet gay guy… oooh) but Sons of Anarchy hits the spot for plot, intrigue, sex, violence, murder and general mayhem.
Season 3 starts in September, so there’s plenty of time to catch up with the first 2 seasons. If you get hooked, it wouldn’t take you more than a couple of days to run through everything. Till the trailer for Season 3 comes out, here’s the trailer for Season 2.
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2. True Blood
It’s on to Season 3 now, and has not let up. It’s kept up the pace of violence (increased it even), and keeps widening the scope of its world. The first season focused heavily on the humans, the second on shape shifters and now, is finally taking us into Bill’s world. I absolutely adore Anna Pacquin and she plays her role of strong-innocence to perfection. James Frain is guest starring in this season (whom I’d missed as Thomas Cromwell in The Tudors) and is killing it as an obsessed, lunatic, driven vampire. He’s outdone Evan Rachel Wood as a guest star and I can’t wait to see what else he brings to the table.
I love shows that don’t drop the ball from season to season and True Blood has definitely achieved that, as has Big Love, which I eagerly anticipate Season 5 of. Watch True Blood’s Season 3 trailer here.
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3. Louie
On a considerably lighter note, I’m trying to get into FX’s (notice a theme here?) new comedy, Louie, by Louis C.K. Think a self-deprecating Seinfeld. It’s only been a bunch of episodes so the jury’s still out. I generally gauge how much I’m into a show by how fast I try to get my grubby hands on each new episode and Louie’s latest episodes kinda sat there for a couple of weeks before I exhausted everything else. It’s slowly picking up the pace and polish a little bit, so I guess I’ll stick with it and keep the faith. Check out Louie’s trailer.
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And to end off, goodbye to The Tudors, which closed after four brilliant seasons, that had even me, engaged in history. I was really quite sad when it ended and await Showtime’s new histo-drama, The Borgias.