Recommend me a tv show

[kcdusk]

I'm looking for a tv series to get into. Something worthwhile, non-CSI related, hopefully with a t2k bent.

Can you recommend me anything? Is the Colony any good? What are the options?

[HorseSoldier]

Colony, seasons 1 and 2, aren't bad but aren't superb. Recognize going into them that it's lower case "reality."

Survivors, from the UK, is pretty good -- apocalyptic plague, not war, but still pretty good post apocalyptic show. (I'm speaking for the new version, I have never seen the 1970s? version, but have heard it's good for 70s TV as well.) And it's Netflixable and watchable on demand through that company, maybe others.

Walking Dead was zombies, but good apocalyptic stuff for all that.

I never got into Jericho, but it's also available on Netflix these days and seemed to be about as close to a show about the Twilight War (or effects CONUS side, anyway) as Hollywood is ever likely to roll out.

[Panther Al]

Jericho was surprisingly good all things considered. Yes, its Hollywood. Yes, it plays loose with a few things. But the focus on a small town, where the info available to (most) of the people there is very limited, and how they deal with food shortages, marauders/contractors, health, deserters (Sorta), and what have you makes me think of what it would be like in any small town off the beaten path of the major military ops in the T2K 'verse.


Heck. More I think about it, it should be the official T2K show: In addition to all the above, you have two US governments, fighting each other, as well as two towns fighting each other, one with homemade mortars (Wojo anyone?), and the other with a scrounged M1 with little fuel and no ammo. Damn. It is Twilight 2000 in America.

[copeab]

Heck. More I think about it, it should be the official T2K show: In addition to all the above, you have two US governments, fighting each other, as well as two towns fighting each other, one with homemade mortars (Wojo anyone?), and the other with a scrounged M1 with little fuel and no ammo. Damn. It is Twilight 2000 in America.

And one of the towns has a nuke. Well, not town, but someone in it

The problem with Jericho is that it only had one full season, plus one seven episode "wrap-up" season, so you're only looking at ~30 episodes.

[Arrissen]

Anything HBO - quality viewing; from scripting, casting, acting, prodution values the lot.

Generation Kill - read the book first - then Nate Fick's book; One Bullet Away - both are accounts focusing on the same USMC platoon in Iraq and the seven part mini series follows both books quite closely. Rudy Reyes, a Scout/ Sniper plays Himself in the show.

Here are some I've really enjoyed, not all HBO and not T2Kish but still good:

Deadwood
Trailer Park Boys
True Blood
Sons of Anarchy
Breaking Bad
Dexter
The Sopranos
Spartacus
Entourage
Californication
Burn Notice
Walking Dead
Parks And Recreation
Carnivale
Burn Notice

[adimar]

Game of Throne (HBO)

A very cool (Literally) TV series is Game of Thrones, a HBO writeup to Song of Fire & Ice.
Note that this seires is currently being showed for the first time so no multi season downloads (though the spaceballs instant cassette would have been quite welcome)

Adi

[TiggerCCW UK]

Game of Thrones is pretty good. One of the guys who works for me is in it and I worked on set for a day as an event medic, when they were filming in the paint hall here in Belfast. Very impressive sets!

[Rainbow Six]

Boardwalk Empire has just finished screening in the UK.

By HBO and set in Prohibition Era Atlantic City with Steve Buscemi in the lead role. It's obviously not a T2K setting per se, but with a bit of imagination I think some of the plots / characters could be adapted to fit into a CONUS based T2K game.

First series was 12 episodes, but pretty sure a second is due this year.

Perhaps a bit dated now, but there's also the Sharpe series based on the books of Bernard Cornwell and set in the Napoleonic Wars. With a bit of adaption virtually every episode could be used as the basis for a T2K scenario.

Jeremiah aired in the UK a few years ago. It had a fairly strong T2K theme (again, based on plague rather than War), but like Jericho had the plug pulled on it after one and a bit seasons.

Also, +1 for Game of Thrones.

[WallShadow]

First and foremost, another 2 thumbs up for Jericho. Main characters actually died, and it covered many situations that we would hope never happen between Americans. Oh, and there were several pretenders to the throne of the Presidency, one of which was backed by the megacorp that may have had something to do with the underlying plot.

Firefly, while set 500 years from now in another star system has a gritty "just tryin' to get by" feeling. Survival by dealing with less-than-honorable clients, evading the military government of the area of operation, smuggling/trade--lots of good plot fodder.

While I never watched it, "Jeremiah" dealt with a PA scenario where a bioagent wiped out nearly all the adult population.

[kcdusk]

Thanks guys. Theres a couple of names i'll chase up from here.

[copeab]

While I never watched it, "Jeremiah" dealt with a PA scenario where a bioagent wiped out nearly all the adult population.

I did. During season one, they made good use of being on Showtime with extremely gratuitous nudity. Season two had less, but the story was meddled with to the point there was no third season.

To a large extent, the series was set in a world 15 years after a bioweapon had caused a (semi) Lord of the Flies situation.

[Legbreaker]

I agree that season two was screwed around with far too much. If they'd stuck with the 1st season forumla they'd have had a damn fine post apoc series.

[Targan]

I enjoyed Jeramiah. I'm a huge fan of Firefly/Serenity (own all of them on BluRay).

If you can find the old UK series Threads that is a very realistic and gritty portrayal of life after a nuclear war. Very grim though. Don't expect too many laughs.

[WallShadow]

I enjoyed Jeramiah. I'm a huge fan of Firefly/Serenity (own all of them on BluRay).

If you can find the old UK series Threads that is a very realistic and gritty portrayal of life after a nuclear war. Very grim though. Don't expect too many laughs.

I thought "Threads" was a film, and "The Survivors" was the BBC series about a bioagent that depopulated the world.
I would call "Threads" more than gritty--it made you want to take a bath after watching it.

[pmulcahy11b]

I would call "Threads" more than gritty--it made you want to take a bath after watching it.

It gave both me and my girlfriend at the time nightmares.