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Really, really liking Ch4's new series Utopia.

Not easy viewing by any means but hypnotic.

Keep an eye out for it you non-UK viewers. 

I had a go at watching Utopia but it just didn't grab me. might give it another go and see where the next few episodes lead..

Yeah, You can jump right into Legend of Korra. It's a good bit of fun. I was never really into the first series.

- incidentally I just saw the film that Tobar's avatar is from [on youtube]..

The new episode of Archer...

...blew my mind.

Also just saw the penultimate episode of Fringe, one more to go! - it's been pretty hit and miss lately but the last few episodes have been good. FX!

The Fringe finale was a much worse anti-climax than the BSG's and it made almost as little sense as the end of Terminator 2.

Without a certain thing happening how are all the other things meant to happen to make the thing at the end happen?

re: Fringe - I was disappointed in the end. it Did end the way I expected, but not the way I wanted.

Walter telling Peter it was all a paradox [paraphrasing] felt like hand waving by the writers.

I stuck with the show until the end but in hindsight i should have stopped watching after season 3. It was fun to see them tie in some things but I never cared for the future time period storyline. To me, the show was much more fun when it was mostly a 'monster of the week' type show.

I watched the pilot episode of American Horror Story.  That was pretty intense.  I originally didn't see how they could make this a series (it seemed better suited to a movie) but by the end of the episode they had set up several ideas that seemingly will carry over well throughout the other 12 episodes.

My only disappointment is that they referred to the pregnancy loss at seven months as a miscarriage instead of a stillbirth...but they scene where they each talk about what happened was very powerful.

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I think I heard the story moves to new characters for Season 2?

Still digging the paranoid vortex of Utopia.

Really uneasy viewing though.

House Of Cards was fun in it's time but The Thick Of It just feels more realistic.

Oh God...

That makes as much sense as remaking Edge Of Darkness and setting it in the contemporary US.

The story only makes relevant sense set in the UK after the fall of Thatcher.

Black Mirror is back and just as good as before.

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I thought the last story while disturbing and sad at times was ultimately positive in a number of ways.

1) the lead character ended up with a valuable resource for future generations to learn something of her departed companion.

2) programable realist human shaped dildos of anyone with a web presence.

Want to have it off with an homunculus of real person A) with the personality of fictional person B)... now you can (well you can't yet but you will).

Tobar said:

The X-Files (1993-2002)

Finally got around to finishing the series. People say the last couple seasons were the worst but I don't find that to be the case. Were they bland? Yes but in no way did they approach the worst. Look no further than War of the Coprophages for that. The show really went down the stinker when Carter left for that brief period of time. Whether it ever fully recovered from that is questionable.

I don't know, episodes like First Person Shooter and Sunshine Days made me want to put a drill to my head. War of the Coprophages is amazing in comparison to the vast majority (maybe all?) of season 7, which was complete and absolute turmoil to watch. It was shocking how bad that entire season was, there is pretty much nothing good about it, cheesy groaner episode after cheesy groaner episode, each one dragging on for a painful 45 minutes, still featuring the characters you'd grown to love, but now put in situations that can only be described as parody of the greatness the show was just two years prior.

Thankfully, the show did recover from season seven, but only slightly. It got better, but never even a shadow of what it originally was. Sure, there were some silly episodes in seasons 1-5, but for the most part it stayed solid and intriguing; a silly or lame episode here or there was easily forgivable. Season six plummeted, seven stayed at rock bottom, and while eight and nine were an improvement, it was really hard to care about the replacement characters for Mulder and Scully. I often wish they had aimed to wrap it up with season six.

Oh God, the second Black Mirror story White Bear was draining to watch.

Possibly the most ghastly (in a good way) piece of television since Threads.

It knocked the usually grim of the week Utopia into a cocked hat.