Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Harmonia (A) on May 19, 2011 at 10:14:19

In Reply to: RE: I'm a relative newbie to tv miniseries: I liked "Deadwood" a hell of a lot. Take a moment, posted by tinear on May 15, 2011 at 16:14:00

...To The Ends Of The Earth...House of Cards...Tinker, Tailor Soldier, Spy...Traffik (better than the Soderbergh film IMO)...Perfect Strangers (Almost Strangers is US title)...The Way We Live Now...Bleak House...To Play The King...Middlemarch...Downton Abbey...Cranford...The Buckaneers...Forsyte Saga...Elizabeth R...Band Of Brothers...From The Eath To The Moon.

I can't fail to mention the BBC/A&E Pride & Prejudice starring Colin Firth (wet, frilly shirt...need I say more?). Reilly Ace of Spies and The Singing Detective have already been mentioned.

One you may not have seen is the AMC mini-series Broken Trail, starring Robert Duvall. I love westerns, and of course, Lonesome DOve is one of the very best westerns OR miniseries ever.

A couple of the best miniseries of all time were from Europe and were released in North America as drastically shortened theatrical films: Das Boat nad Fanny & Alexander. Both are superb in their original lengths.

Of those recurring series shows, I'd recommend the new Sherlock, which debuted this winter, starring Benedict CUmberbatch and Martin Freeman. We also recently enjoyed the first two season of a goldie-oldie, Ballykissangel. The BBC series Torchwood did a coolminiseries within their season series, a 5 parter called "Children of Earth".

On this side of the pond there's SF in Battlestar Gallactica and Firefly.

Of the series TV shows out there you can't go wrong with Mad Men, The Wire, or the first 2 seasons of Six Feet Under.