Most Dramatic TV Storylines of All-Time...

I don't watch as much tv as I used to, but it's difficult for me to think of a more powerful/dramatic storyline than in Season 6 of The Sopranos, when Tony is hovering between life and death as a result of being gutshot by his senile Uncle Junior. Even though he's a mobster and a murderer, David Chase did a great job of making me root for Tony to pull through. When he hears the voice through the trees saying "Don't go, daddy", you hear that it is a little girl's voice---likely the way he heard her voice as a child.

Powerful scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTdHDVeeXYE&feature=related

 

Who shot JR
Who Shot Bobby Ewing
The Fight for Ewing Oil

DALLAS :bears:

Nothing beats those days of TV.

 

anything from "Who's The Boss?"

 

Jazz is for pussies, you Irish wannabe poseur.

 

Jim Croce is for deaf people, you wannabe Canadian

 

Clark Kent becoming Superman in Smallville.

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If I could save time in a bottle..........................I would stomp you out like the little girl that you are.

:warning:

 

24 was good for two MAYBE three seasons.

Heroes was good for the first season.

Boredwalk Empire is just that...BORING

Weeds went to shit after the second season

I liked Lost

 

Best show on TV.

 

Only when he played jazz, and he currently plays the guitar better than you---you pale, sickly, Tony Danza lover.

 

Man you're a TV addict!! Your eyes will turn square soon.

 

I must admit, I'm more into reality TV than regular TV (Survivor, Bachelor specifically).

 

There are two Jim Croce songs... the sappy love ballad and the ridiculous novelty song about some sort of rural character with a big reputation... re-write each 30 times and you have the Croce catalog...

"You don't stand on Nobleart's cape...":crafty::love:

 

in all seriousness, that jewish guy that was his lead guitarist was a good guitar player

 

The Wire

"Where's Wallace!" in season 1.

Avon and Stringer in season 3.

Michael/stepdad/Marlo/Chris in season 4.

 

what do you americans (and canucks for that matter) make of british actors playing american (or canadian...) roles? the british guy who plays the cop in walking dead, stephen graham playing al capone in boardwalk empire, hugh laurie playing House - do their accents seem fake etc.?

americans playing brits - renee zellweger as bridget jones, gwyneth in sliding doors - are just a bit irritating really for most brits, i think. they both had a fairly good go at the accent, but we just kinda think, they're not british, why isn't there a british person doing this role?

 

I don't generally care... if the accent is done in a convincing fashion, I'm able to get into it

 

Same, i don't even tend to notice unless it's really bad.

 

yup

 

There's such a range of accents in the U.S., most UK and Australian actors can capture something that sounds convincing in some way or another to us.

Even Colin Farrell did well in "Tigerland" when he first came over, but has lapsed in just about every attempt since.

Off the top of my head, the best I've noticed at blending in are Hugh Laurie, Toni Collette, Guy Pearce and Damian Lewis.

Daniel Day Lewis and Chistian Bale are two of my favorite actors, but I would classify their American accents as a bit theatrical and caricature-ish. Perfect for the parts they've taken, but not exactly realistic.

 

He wasn't bad, and he did an understated vocal harmony on some of Jim's tracks. Jim Croce's widow owns a jazz café/restaurant. They had apparently joked around about owning one years earlier, and after he died, she decided to make it happen.

 

The guy playing Rick Grimes does a really good job in my opinion. He was also in Love Actually and another British movie that really got a lot of flack for being shitty.

 

I was being serious... he was an excellent guitarist

Croce was not

 

"Badder then an ol' C-Dogg, and meaner then an Irish twit"


:mj:

 

a teacher in the sentimental 'made in dagenham' as well. he's better known to uk audiences from the tv show 'this life', back in the '90s.

 

I shit on Croce

 

Guy Pearce is solid.