Topic: TV Shows/Episodes Watched in 2018

[DJ Doena]

Apr 05
Krypton 1x03 The Rankless Initiative
The Crossing 1x01 Pilot
Total: 1h 25m

Apr 06
SEAL Team 1x16 Never Get Out of the Boat
SEAL Team 1x17 In Name Only
S.W.A.T. 1x15 Crews
S.W.A.T. 1x16 Payback
Total: 2h 51m

Apr 07
Superstore 3x16 Target
Superstore 3x17 District Manager
Superstore 3x18 Local Vendors Day
Man with a Plan 2x14 March Madness
Man with a Plan 2x15 Out With The In-Laws
Superior Donuts 2x15 The Chicago Way
Superior Donuts 2x16 Friends Without Benefits
Comic Book Men 7x11 A Pez-tacular Mystery
Young Sheldon 1x16 Killer Asteroids, Oklahoma, and a Frizzy Hair Machine
Young Sheldon 1x17 Jiu-Jitsu, Bubble Wrap, and Yoo-Hoo
The Resident 1x08 Family Affair
The Resident 1x09 Lost Love
Total: 4h 57m

Apr 08
Kevin Can Wait 2x19 Delivery Guy
Kevin Can Wait 2x20 Forty Seven Candles
Chicago Med 3x13 Best Laid Plans
Chicago Med 3x14 Lock It Down
Chicago Fire 6x17 Put White on Me
The Good Doctor 1x17 Smile
The Good Doctor 1x18 More
Timeless 2x02 The Darlington 500
Timeless 2x03 Hollywoodland
The Big Bang Theory 11x19 The Tenant Disassociation
MacGyver (2016) 2x18 Riley + Airplane
The Flash 4x16 Run, Iris, Run
Total: 7h 19m

[DJ Doena]

Apr 09
Castle 2x01 Deep in Death
Castle 2x10 One Man's Treasure
Castle 4x01 Rise
Total: 2h 4m

Apr 10
Castle 1x05 A Chill Goes Through Her Veins
Castle 4x07 Cops & Robbers
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 2018-04-08 Crisis pregnancy centers
Barry 1x03 Chapter Three: Make the Unsafe Choice
Comic Book Men 7x13 Pop Goes the Stash
Total: 2h 50m

Apr 11
New Girl 7x01 About Three Years Later
The Jim Jefferies Show 2018-04-10 Scott Pruitt's Biggest Scandal
Living Biblically 1x07 Let Us Pray
Man with a Plan 2x16 April Fools
Total: 1h 24m

Apr 12
SEAL Team 1x18 Credible Threat
Chicago P.D. 5x19 Payback
Chuck 2x11 Chuck Versus Santa Claus
Total: 2h 6m

[DJ Doena]

Apr 13
The Flash 4x17 Null and Annoyed
Kevin Can Wait 2x21 The Smoking Bun
Chicago Med 3x15 Devil in Disguise
Total: 1h 44m

Apr 14
Superstore 3x19 Lottery
Young Sheldon 1x18 A Mother, A Child, and a Blue Man's Backside
The Big Bang Theory 11x20 The Reclusive Potential
Chicago Fire 6x18 When They See Us Coming
S.W.A.T. 1x17 Armory
Superior Donuts 2x17 Balls and Streaks
MacGyver (2016) 2x19 Benjamin Franklin + Grey Duffle
MacGyver (2016) 2x20 Skyscraper + Power
Krypton 1x04 The Word of Rao
Lucifer 2x05 Weaponizer
Total: 5h 36m

Apr 15
Lucifer 1x13 Take Me Back to Hell
Lucifer 2x01 Everything's Coming Up Lucifer
Lucifer 2x02 Liar, Liar, Slutty Dress on Fire
Lucifer 1x02 Lucifer, Stay. Good Devil.
MacGyver (2016) 2x12 Mac + Jack
Lucifer 2x07 My Little Monkey
DC's Legends of Tomorrow 3x14 Amazing Grace
DC's Legends of Tomorrow 3x15 Necromancing the Stone
DC's Legends of Tomorrow 3x16 I, Ava
DC's Legends of Tomorrow 3x17 Guest Starring John Noble
DC's Legends of Tomorrow 3x18 The Good, The Bad and The Cuddly
Total: 7h 52m

[Piffi]

You should grade your seasons or something, so we (i) know what you think about the shows, and if they are something i just buy or not..

[DJ Doena]

I'm not really good at grading stuff, especially in relation to something else. But I love to talk about certain aspects. So if you have any questions to any show and how I think it relates to other shows ("if you like this then you like that") then sure, I can do that

[Piffi]

Hehe, cool. I'll keep that in mind. I see that you have watched a few episodes of SWAT and Seal lately, whats the verdict so far? I'm real interested in Seal because i was (is) a huge fan of Bones (the tv-show) and David Boreanaz. Is it any good?

[DJ Doena]

S.W.A.T and SEAL Team are actually very similar in storytelling.

Both start out with a new hotshot joining the team who needs to be groomed to fit fully into the team. Both shows center around the missions they go on at roughly 60% of the story time. The other 40% are dedicated to personal drama of the characters. No love triangles or anything like that, but marriage and divorce stuff and so on.

Despite naturally being older, Boreanaz' new character is less settled in his ways than Booth was. He's still hot-headed sometimes.

S.W.A.T on the other hand also deals with the perception of US police forces by the minority communities, such as racial biases.

I prefer SEAL Team over the other new military show The Brave because the latter one is like a bad 60s Western: The good guys are the noble warriors and everyone else is a scheming bastard who is also highly incompentent. The Brave is very black and white, the characters are cardboard cutouts. SEAL Team is at least a bit more nuanced.

[Piffi]

Cool. And i've read that SEAL Team is allready renewed for a season 2. Wich is always a good sign. And SWAT is still up in the air, but they aired at a much letter date, so maby not that weird i guess.
But do you like the two shows? Who do you like best between the two? Do you download, watch'em on netflix or other streaming sites? I dont use netflix or any other streaming deviceses. I like to buy my tv-shows on either dvd or bluray and watch them when i want, and dont have to worry about summer breaks for months etc. I can watch it when i want, and dont have to wait for new episodes.
Would you say (so far) its word buying when they come out?

[DJ Doena]

Cool. And i've read that SEAL Team is allready renewed for a season 2. Wich is always a good sign. And SWAT is still up in the air, but they aired at a much letter date, so maby not that weird i guess.
But do you like the two shows? Who do you like best between the two? Do you download, watch'em on netflix or other streaming sites? I dont use netflix or any other streaming deviceses. I like to buy my tv-shows on either dvd or bluray and watch them when i want, and dont have to worry about summer breaks for months etc. I can watch it when i want, and dont have to wait for new episodes.
Would you say (so far) its word buying when they come out?

Personally I like SEAL a bit better. That's mainly because of Boreanaz whom I've know since Angel and I also watched 8 seasons of Bones. But I also like SEAL a bit better because of the rest of the team. A few of the minor characters on both shows don't have much back story yet but I still feel I know those from SEAL better than those from SWAT.

I'm a good ol' fashioned "need to have" kind of guy which is why I'm downloading upon US airing (from not so reputable sources) and then I usually buy it on DVD/BR. But I have to admit that I noticed that I still lack a lot of season DVDs from the 2016/17 season. I usually buy in the Black Friday month from Amazon.com but last year I wasn't so into it and now I have quite a few gaps I eventually need to fill.

As for SEAL and SWAT while they are enjoyable to watch they have not yet reached the "need to have" threshold. They are in the middle realm of "you can watch and enjoy them but if you don't watch them you haven't missed anything either".

In essence: They are US broadcast standard food. Not bad or boring, but not exceptional either.

[Piffi]

Hm, cool. Maby i'll have to buy SEAL when it comes to BD Sounds interesting. And since i've liked Boreanaz since his days in Bones (yes i watched him in Angel and Buffy too) but not my cup of tea those two shows.
The SWAT i'll just wait for to come on tv here in Norway..

[DJ Doena]

Apr 16
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 2018-04-15 Corporate tax avoidance in the United States, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale 2018-04-08 Skip Joel
Barry 1x04 Chapter Four: Commit...To You
Total: 1h 23m

Apr 17
Castle 3x16 Setup
Total: 42m

Apr 18
Total: 0m

Apr 19
Castle 7x06 The Time of Our Lives
Castle 3x24 Knockout
Castle 1x09 Little Girl Lost
Lucifer 3x20 The Angel of San Bernardino
Total: 2h 51m

Apr 20
The Jim Jefferies Show 2018-04-17 Comey's Nasty Little Tell-all
New Girl 7x02 Tuesday Meeting
Superstore 3x20 Gender Reveal
Total: 1h 4m

Apr 21
Supergirl 3x14 Schott Through the Heart
Supergirl 1x10 Childish Things
Supergirl 1x17 Manhunter
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 1x01x02 Pilot
Man with a Plan 2x17 King for a Day
Superior Donuts 2x18 Pedal to the Meddle
Kevin Can Wait 2x22 Phat Monkey
The Big Bang Theory 11x21 The Comet Polarization
Young Sheldon 1x19 Gluons, Guacamole, and the Color Purple
S.W.A.T. 1x18 Patrol
Smallville 6x08 Static
Total: 6h 47m

Apr 22
Smallville 1x07 Craving
Smallville 4x05 Run
Real Time with Bill Maher 2018-04-20 Michael Avenatti, Frank Bruni, Alex Wagner, Jordan Peterson, Jay Inslee
Smallville 5x04 Aqua
MacGyver (2016) 2x21 Wind + Water
Burden of Truth 1x01 Pilot
Burden of Truth 1x02 The Ties That Bind
Total: 5h 9m

[GSyren]

Hm, cool. Maby i'll have to buy SEAL when it comes to BD Sounds interesting. And since i've liked Boreanaz since his days in Bones (yes i watched him in Angel and Buffy too) but not my cup of tea those two shows.
The SWAT i'll just wait for to come on tv here in Norway..

You can watch SWAT on Viaplay. It's NOK 109 a month, but you get a free trial month, and you can see a lot in a month.

[DJ Doena]

Hm, cool. Maby i'll have to buy SEAL when it comes to BD Sounds interesting. And since i've liked Boreanaz since his days in Bones (yes i watched him in Angel and Buffy too) but not my cup of tea those two shows.
The SWAT i'll just wait for to come on tv here in Norway..

It's NOK 109 a month

Is that a lot?


When I read that value I have honestly no clue how much this is in relation to Euro or Dollar. And there was this hilarious scene in Star Trek 4 where Kirk goes into an Antiques store and sells an old pair of glasses. When the store owner offers him the money, Kirk asks exactly that question. This is how I felt just now

[GSyren]

NOK 109 comes to just over € 11

[Piffi]

Hehe, yeah.. Thats about correct €11 as Gunnar said. I might try a free trail, just to check it out. But i dont like to use money on viaplay, netflix, hbo etc. Since i allready use alot of money on movies and tv-shows. As a collector i like to have the fysical movie in my collection, and watch whatever i want whenever i want to without thinking about paying a fee everytime there is something new and interesting on but for a free trail, it might be worth checking out, just to see what it is about!

Thanks