Really surprised that people don't like a mild bit of sex on TV, they must have been too long out of Europe

European editors seem to have the knack of having such scenes appear natural and to flow, in America they seem to have been edited in by the 'porn editor', like the show has a cut, that is then handed to a specialist editor for, if you pardon the expression, special insertions.

Hardly porn is it?

But it is the same with the violence...which can be cool, but it seems mostly for shock value rather than adding anything to the story.

Thrones is turning into good fun though...but the books are a bit hefty apparently...Camelot is building up for a bit of a showdown which could be good, but it was getting pretty meh for a while .

It's so rare for me to enjoy a TV show that I'm just thankful - can't wait to see what happens next.

The books had completely passed me by, might give them a try.

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Depends on your definition, I have a feeling that the producers reason for including it would fit within definitions of porn, but generaly speaking, no.

I disagree here, most of these stories are about power and the desire to control at any cost including through violence. Spartacus probably had the most, and it helped describe just how brutal live was and how low was the value of human life.

Oh God, I am saying yes to the violence and no to the sex. I am an Americam arn't I. If I apply they wil have to give me citizenship.

I think beastiality comes next week

Yeah they could change the test

I agree that it works in that instance...and violence can be good, but in a lot of shows it does seem just for show rather than adding to the storyline. Broadwalk Empire for instance.

If the show is about violent people/situations then it can make sense, I think it worked in Boardwalk Empire.

In places, the odd head shot kind of stuff, but it got a little over the top covering up for a stiff script and some dull episodes.

I still liked the series over all, but didn't really think it made the show any better, it certainly isn't any memorable of a series because of it.

Like movies, but with regular TV.

A few weeks ago I started watching NCIS. And then after it NCIS Los Angeles.

The first one at least follows a simple platform - this investigative body investigate every single suspicious marine death anywhere. It's on CBS and American TV - so it is a ludicrous cheesily acted camp super-cop show. Middle aged grey mumbling genius cop mutters for 60 minutes until getting his man. And it has the biggest stereotype of all cop shows/movies of the 1980s - that no matter how awesome and perfect the NCIS team are, that their angry African-American boss keeps yelling at them and telling them that this is their last chance or they'll go to the wall. Apart from an hilariously stupid English magician/coroner it also includes some sort of Goth/troll woman in it. Quite why we are supposed to believe that all the people in it MUST be conservative stuffy tie-wearing nerds except this awful actress, whom wears black rubber spikes and green Pixie ballet costumes, I'm not sure. Ludicrous wankery. 3/10.

And then the next show. If the first one is cheese on a stick then this should be 100 times more because it's set in LA. And it has LL Cool J in it. All the cast dress like 14 year olds. Which is weird because apart from LL Cool J they are all about 21. There are WAAAY more tits in this one. And they apparently work in some sort of Franciscan castle or something. It should follow the same premise as the other show - except instead it just has totally random events happen in it. This investigative body seemingly have absolutely nothing to do with marines dying. Instead they just blow stuff up and have LL Cool J and Batman's sidekick bomb about in a sports car because their completely unconvincing ninja-boss (a 3 foot German woman) is somehow connected to gazillions of shady underworld Black Ops assassins - all of whom happen to be in the fifteen square block area that this castle is in. This is exactly the sort of gorgonzola I expected to see on CBS.

2/10

Oddities (Discovery Channel)

A simple show about a store which buys and sells oddball things like preserved freaks of nature, old medical equipment, skulls and so on and newly-made artwork like paintings done with blood and photographs of dust (surprisingly good both). Those moose heads of Herpes' would have fitted right in.

Fun 7/10

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...41#post9417041 For show on in the US