What are you watching at the moment

[Bulldog4life]

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Yeah, I often wonder if it would have enjoyed (there's that word again) the same critical acclaim if it been set in a womens' prison.

Good point. I think that the brutality of the show needed to be in a men's prison.

[Bornadog]

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Started watching the Swedish series "Midnight Sun". You can catch it on SBS on demand. Interesting so far as welll as a bit weird.

[Dry Rot]

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Got the complete Oz DVD set at Cashies for 35 bucks so I've been watching violent male prison porn soap opera. It's aged pretty well. I remember it being violent and confronting and it's still violent and confronting and very watchable.

Saw that a number of years ago. I agree very confronting TD. I remember having an argument with my wife who was worried about me enjoying such stuff. I tried to tell her I didn't enjoy it but the show had sucked me in like a lot of gross shows do.

A mate of mine used to wait till his wife went to bed and then watched it with his young sons.

Toughened them up so that they ready for Breaking Bad.

[Dry Rot]

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Just finished watching season 4 of The Americans. Brilliant show.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2149175/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[hujsh]

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Just finished watching season 4 of The Americans. Brilliant show.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2149175/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

YES! Finally someone watches it!

[Twodogs]

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A mate of mine used to wait till his wife went to bed and then watched it with his young sons.

Toughened them up so that they ready for Breaking Bad.

Heh! My daughter has gone to Tassie to spend some time with her mum so it was me and my son watched our way through Oz. and we didn't have to wait for anyone to go to bed!

[Dry Rot]

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Heh! My daughter has gone to Tassie to spend some time with her mum so it was me and my son watched our way through Oz. and we didn't have to wait for anyone to go to bed!

Was Vern Schillinger your son's favourite character? He was mine.

[Dry Rot]

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YES! Finally someone watches it!

The Americans is a show for your older smarter viewer who knows some history from the Reagan era.

So many memorable moments:

- One of the most exciting but slowest car chases you'll see
- Phillip slowly and gently pulling out his wife's broken teeth with a pair of pliers
- The scrumptious double agent Nina and her fate in the Soviet justice system
- The two spies cleaning up after a murder in bed of a blonde by an Iranian they want to turn. Very slowly and methodically before your eyes the two spies break all the nude blonde's limbs and fit her into a large suitcase to dispose of the body.
- The American technologies they chase: stealth fighters, the internet, biological weapons and many more
- The reversal of everything now: you are rooting for Russian spies. The Russians are fighting the mujahideen in Afghanistan. The CIA are supporting the mujahideen in Afghanistan.
- The tension of watching the FBI counter intelligence section hunting our heroes, while one of the FBI lives across the street.

If you haven't caught this yet, give it go. Series 1 can be slow, then it just lights up and flies after that.

Brilliant show.

[The Underdog]

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The Americans is a show for your older smarter viewer who knows some history from the Reagan era.

So many memorable moments:

- One of the most exciting but slowest car chases you'll see
- Phillip slowly and gently pulling out his wife's broken teeth with a pair of pliers
- The scrumptious double agent Nina and her fate in the Soviet justice system
- The two spies cleaning up after a murder in bed of a blonde by an Iranian they want to turn. Very slowly and methodically before your eyes the two spies break all the nude blonde's limbs and fit her into a large suitcase to dispose of the body.
- The American technologies they chase: stealth fighters, the internet, biological weapons and many more
- The reversal of everything now: you are rooting for Russian spies. The Russians are fighting the mujahideen in Afghanistan. The CIA are supporting the mujahideen in Afghanistan.
- The tension of watching the FBI counter intelligence section hunting our heroes, while one of the FBI lives across the street.

If you haven't caught this yet, give it go. Series 1 can be slow, then it just lights up and flies after that.

Brilliant show.

I've seen series 1 but am going back through it with my wife. Have bought series 2. Looking forward to it

[hujsh]

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The Americans is a show for your older smarter viewer who knows some history from the Reagan era.

So many memorable moments:

- One of the most exciting but slowest car chases you'll see
- Phillip slowly and gently pulling out his wife's broken teeth with a pair of pliers
- The scrumptious double agent Nina and her fate in the Soviet justice system
- The two spies cleaning up after a murder in bed of a blonde by an Iranian they want to turn. Very slowly and methodically before your eyes the two spies break all the nude blonde's limbs and fit her into a large suitcase to dispose of the body.
- The American technologies they chase: stealth fighters, the internet, biological weapons and many more
- The reversal of everything now: you are rooting for Russian spies. The Russians are fighting the mujahideen in Afghanistan. The CIA are supporting the mujahideen in Afghanistan.
- The tension of watching the FBI counter intelligence section hunting our heroes, while one of the FBI lives across the street.

If you haven't caught this yet, give it go. Series 1 can be slow, then it just lights up and flies after that.

Brilliant show.

Well I don't fit the description of the viewer being a Millennial (I'd like to think I'm still smart though) but I'm familiar enough with the history to get by (Contras, that time a computer malfunction should have destroyed the world in a nuclear war but 1 guy thought better of it etc)

Aside from the great spy stuff it's also great to see
a) The stress and turmoil it places on the agents and how it strains their loyalty as they're asked to do more dangerous/reckless/morally questionable things.
b) the marriage of the two spys and the nature of their relationship
c) the impact and implications for their children. (The actress who plays their daughter is fantastic BTW)

[Twodogs]

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Was Vern Schillinger your son's favourite character? He was mine.

I think he is more of a Ryan O'Riley fan but I'll ask him. He mentioned the Rev Clutier being bricked up in that wall by the bikies yesterday.

[Throughandthrough]

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The Americans is a show for your older smarter viewer who knows some history from the Reagan era.

So many memorable moments:

- One of the most exciting but slowest car chases you'll see
- Phillip slowly and gently pulling out his wife's broken teeth with a pair of pliers
- The scrumptious double agent Nina and her fate in the Soviet justice system
- The two spies cleaning up after a murder in bed of a blonde by an Iranian they want to turn. Very slowly and methodically before your eyes the two spies break all the nude blonde's limbs and fit her into a large suitcase to dispose of the body.
- The American technologies they chase: stealth fighters, the internet, biological weapons and many more
- The reversal of everything now: you are rooting for Russian spies. The Russians are fighting the mujahideen in Afghanistan. The CIA are supporting the mujahideen in Afghanistan.
- The tension of watching the FBI counter intelligence section hunting our heroes, while one of the FBI lives across the street.

If you haven't caught this yet, give it go. Series 1 can be slow, then it just lights up and flies after that.

Brilliant show.

Yep. One of our favourites

[Twodogs]

Re: What are you watching at the moment

The Americans is a show for your older smarter viewer who knows some history from the Reagan era.

So many memorable moments:

- One of the most exciting but slowest car chases you'll see
- Phillip slowly and gently pulling out his wife's broken teeth with a pair of pliers
- The scrumptious double agent Nina and her fate in the Soviet justice system
- The two spies cleaning up after a murder in bed of a blonde by an Iranian they want to turn. Very slowly and methodically before your eyes the two spies break all the nude blonde's limbs and fit her into a large suitcase to dispose of the body.
- The American technologies they chase: stealth fighters, the internet, biological weapons and many more
- The reversal of everything now: you are rooting for Russian spies. The Russians are fighting the mujahideen in Afghanistan. The CIA are supporting the mujahideen in Afghanistan.
- The tension of watching the FBI counter intelligence section hunting our heroes, while one of the FBI lives across the street.

If you haven't caught this yet, give it go. Series 1 can be slow, then it just lights up and flies after that.

Brilliant show.

I love a good slow car chase.

[Murphy'sLore]

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Pardon my iggerance, but how can I watch it from the start? Is it available anywhere? Or will I have to buy the DVDs?? :0

[Bornadog]

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Pardon my iggerance, but how can I watch it from the start? Is it available anywhere? Or will I have to buy the DVDs?? :0

There are three seasons on Preso if you are subscriber.