kiaer.ts Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Since House airs on hulu.com, I have found that I can do without cable. Do you use Hulu, and do you recommend any of the shows it hosts? There are about 100 movies available, and hefre is a list of currrently available TV shows: 2 24 2/8 Life 3 30 Days 30 Days of Night: Blood Trails 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust 30 Rock 8 The 808 A The Academy Action Adam-12 The Addams Family The Adventures of Danny & The Dingo After Hours with Daniel Airwolf ALF Alfred Hitchcock Hour Alfred Hitchcock Presents Alias Smith And Jones The All-For-Nots All-Girl Getaways Allstate Sugar Bowl Amazing Adventures of a Nobody: Europe American Dad! American Gothic American Greed American Misfits America's Hardest Bounty Hunters America's Most Wanted Andy Barker P.I. Angel Another World Any Given Latitude Anyone But Me Anytime with Bob Kushell Aquarion Archie Bunker's Place Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? Arrested Development Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century As The World Turns Astro Boy The A-Team AT&T Cotton Bowl The Adventures of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids B Babylon 5 Back on Topps Back To You Barney Miller Barrett-Jackson Life On The Block Barrett-Jackson: The Auctions Bathroom Renovations Battle Dome Battle of the Bods Battlestar Galactica Battlestar Galactica Classic BCS National Championship Beer Nutz Behind the Star Benson Best of 60 Frames Best of Penn Says Bewitched Beyond Politics Beyond the Boardroom with Jonathan Tisch The Biggest Loser Big Ideas for a Small Planet The Big Idea: The Roadmap To Success The Big Valley Big Windup Biography Black Blood Brothers Blankslate Bleach Bobby G: Adventure Capitalist The Bob Newhart Show Bones Boo! Bravestarr Brother's Keeper Buck Rogers Buffy the Vampire Slayer Building Green Built to Shred The Business of Innovation C Campus Cops Camp Woodward The Captain and Casey Show Carpet Bros Carrier Carter Can Casper the Friendly Ghost Celebrity Apprentice Cha$e Charles in Charge Charlie Murphy's Crash Comedy Charlie's Angels Cheflive Signature Dish The Chef's Kitchen Chicago Hope The Chopping Block Chuck Cities Of The Underworld Cleopatra 2525 ClubWPT.com CNBC Originals The Colbert Report Coma Comedy Gumbo Comics Unleashed With Byron Allen Conan Conviction Cooking Up A Story Coolio's Rules Cool Kids' Parties Cool Tools Cops Corkscrewed: The Wrath of Grapes Cosmos CosmoWarrior Zero Cover Me Crank Yankers The Crow: Stairway To Heaven Crusoe Curb Appeal D The Daily Show with Jon Stewart The Dana Carvey Show Dark Path Chronicles Dark Shadows Dating Brad Garrett The Dave Ramsey Show The David Susskind Show Da Vinci's Inquest D.C. Follies Deadline Dear Genevieve Death Note Decision House Denpa Shonen Deserving Design Design: e2 Desperate Landscapes Destination Truth Devil's Trade Dew Tour The Dick Van Dyke Show Dilbert Dining Downunder Doc Martin Dog Whisperer Dollhouse Doogie Howser, M.D. Dorm Life Dragnet Drawn Together Dr. Danger Dream On The Dresden Files Driving Force E Easy Money ECW Elvira's Movie Macabre Emergency! Empires Equal Justice ER Estate of Panic Eureka Exosquad F The Facts Of Life The Fall Guy Family Guy Fantasy Island Farrah's Story The Fashion Show The Fashion Team Father Knows Best Fed Ex Orange Bowl Felix the Cat Fields of Glory Film Crew The Finish Line FiNS Firefly Firsthand Flipper Flipper - Original Ford Ironman World Championship Foreign Body Forever Knight FOX News Sunday Fox Reality Channel Really Awards 2008 Friday Night Lights Fringe Fudge Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood G Gaki Galaxy Railways Gaytown Ghost Hunt Ghost Hunters Ghost Hunters International "Gimme My Reality Show!" The Girls Next Door Glass Fleet Global Voices Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show Great Cocktails The Great Ride Open Green Wing Groundlings Growing Up Gotti Guiding Light Gun Frontier H Halfway Home Happy Tree Friends Harold and the Purple Crayon Hart to Hart Hearts Afire Heavy Gear Hell's Kitchen He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Heroes Hidden Potential Highlander Hill Street Blues Hole In The Wall Hot Hot Los Angeles House House Hunters Howie Do It The Hustler I I Dream of Jeannie Ikki Tousen The Incredible Hulk Independent Lens In Depth With Graham Bensinger Indoors Out In Harm's Way In Plain Sight Inside The Invisible Man Ironside I Spy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia It Takes A Thief J Jace Hall Jackass Jackie Chan Adventures Jack of All Trades Jeep World Jen and Barb, Mom Life Jerry Springer John Doe Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot Journeyman Jumanji Jyu-Oh-Sei K Kath and Kim Kiddy Grade Kingdom King of Miami King Of The Hill Kings Kitchen Confidential Kitchen Nightmares Knight Rider Knight Rider Classic Kojak Kojak 2004 K-Ville L L.A. Dragnet Land of the Giants Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Legend of the Seeker LG15: The Resistance Lie To Me Life Life After Film School The Line Lipstick Jungle Locked Up Abroad Look-A-Like The Loop Lost in Space Lou Grant M M80 Made in Spain Mad Mad House MadTV Mail Call Major Dad Making News: Savannah Style Making News: Texas Style Man Caves Manhattan, AZ Man Made Married...With Children The Mary Tyler Moore Show Masterpiece Contemporary The Matty Blake Show Maury Max Steel McHale's Navy Medium Miami Vice The Millionaire Inside Mind of Mencia Model.Live MOJO's The Circuit Molto Mario The Moment Of Truth Monk Moon Phase Mr. Justice & Powerful Girl Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Mr. Stain on Junk Alley The Munsters Today Murder One Mushi-shi My Bare Lady Myles of Style My Long Distance Relationship My Name is Earl My Own Worst Enemy N Nanny and the Professor Naruto Naruto Shippuden National Dog Show National Heads-Up Poker Championships New Adam-12 New Amsterdam New Dragnet Newhart New Pollution NewsRadio N (continued) NHL Night Gallery NOVA O The O.C. The Office One Day at a Time One Tree Hill Original American Gladiators Outer Limits The Outer Limits - Original Owen Benjamin Presents P Plum FilmStock Paradise Hotel 2 Parks and Recreation Partridge Family Party of Five Peacemakers Peach Girl Peep Show Picket Fences Pilots PINK The Series The Practice Premium Blend Preserve Our Planet Pressure Cook The Pretender Prison Break Problem Child Project Geeker Prom Queen Psych Q Quantum Leap R Raines The Rascal Rate My Space Ready Set Tradeshow Real Estate Confidential The Real Housewives of New Jersey The Real Housewives of New York City Reba Red Bull Air Race Red Eye Red Hot and Green Red Shoe Diaries ReGenesis Re-Inventing Bonaduce Remington Steele Rescue Me The Return of Jezebel James The Riches Roadents The Rockford Files Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends Roswell Rumbling Hearts S Sanctuary Satacracy 88 Scare Tactics School Rumble Scientific American Frontiers The Search for the Next Elvira Secret Millionaire Sex Decoy: Love Stings Shikabane Hime Shorties Watchin' Shorties A Shot at Glory Shuffle Silver Spoons Simon & Simon The Simpsons Sit Down, Shut Up Sitting Ducks The Skinny: Fat Free News Slayers The Slayers NEXT Sliders Smile…You're Under Arrest! Snowboard Diaries Solitary Son Of The Beach Southland Spaceballs: The Animated Series Speed Racer Spider-Man Sports Action Team Square Pegs Squeegees Stacked The Standard Snowboard Show Standoff Stand Up at CandorTV Stargate Atlantis Stargate SG-1 Starsky and Hutch The Starter Wife Start-Up Junkies Star-ving Stella St. Elsewhere Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry Strangers with Candy Stream Strikeforce Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip Sunset Tan Surface Survival School Suzuka Swamp Thing S.W.A.T. SWAT T Tales of Tomorrow Talkshow with Spike Feresten Team Knight Rider Temptation Island Tequila & Bonetti Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Test Drive Testees That Guy Thief Three Sheets The Three Stooges Collection Thrillbillies The Thunder Show The Tick The Time Tunnel T.J. Hooker The Tonight Show Tostitos Fiesta Bowl Total Recall 2070 Tremors True Colors U U.S. Army All-American Bowl Uncorked Unhitched V Valentine Vanished Very Independent Producers Voltron: Defender of the Universe Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea W Wall Street Warriors War Stories with Oliver North Wasted Spaces WCG Ultimate Gamer Weird Science Welcome Back, Kotter What's Happening! What's Happening Now!! The White Shadow Who's the Boss? Wildboyz Winter Dew Tour Wired Science WKRP in Cincinnati Woody Woodpecker (New) World Famous for Dicking Around The World of Stupid Worlds Apart The Writer's Room Y Young Hercules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaer.ts Posted May 20, 2009 Author Share Posted May 20, 2009 Does anyone watch the CBS show Medium? I had never heard of it, but I see it has Angelica Huston occassionally and Patricia Arquette stars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbeaulieu Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 I've heard of it. It's been on-air for a few years now, iirc.Currently, I've been watching the following on Hulu:Lost - Season 5Lie to Me - Season 1Heroes - Season 4Celebrity Apprentice - Season 2Legend of the Seeker - Season 1Battlestar Galactica - Final SeasonDresden Files - 1 Seasonnew Knight Rider - Season 1...and a dash of other reality showsVery cool website, and they're good about keeping content updated soon after airing.~ Shane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Here is something with Page Rank 6 from the dark side. Use (or not) at your own discretion.Online Video GuideMichael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaer.ts Posted May 23, 2009 Author Share Posted May 23, 2009 Here is something with Page Rank 6 from the dark side. Use (or not) at your own discretion.Online Video GuideMichaelMichael, that's a great link! My firstborn child goes to the person who can find me episodes of Butterflies and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin on line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Boy do you sound like a politician Ted!Here is the first rule in politics I was taught by my mentor some 40 + years ago:Rule number 1: Cash in advance both in retainer amount and first day of the week on a regular account.Rule number 2: There are no other rules, see rule number 1.In essence, never work for an if I am elected job.Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaer.ts Posted May 23, 2009 Author Share Posted May 23, 2009 Oh, yeah, like anyone would want Algore's pot smoking potato-sack of ason, Patti Davis, or John Edwards' bastard out of Carolina.I repeat, my first born child for anyone who can procure me full episodes of Butterflies or The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrrin on line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Here is something with Page Rank 6 from the dark side. Use (or not) at your own discretion.Online Video GuideMichaelMichael, that's a great link!My firstborn child goes to the person who can find me episodes of Butterflies and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin on line.I'm salivating.Does he come with a cookbook?Hey! Wait a minute. Do you have a first born child?--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaer.ts Posted May 23, 2009 Author Share Posted May 23, 2009 Here is something with Page Rank 6 from the dark side. Use (or not) at your own discretion.Online Video GuideMichaelMichael, that's a great link!My firstborn child goes to the person who can find me episodes of Butterflies and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin on line.I'm salivating.Does he come with a cookbook?Hey! Wait a minute. Do you have a first born child?--BrantOkay, my virginity, then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 I knew it was a political offer!There was no child and there is no money in the treasury.Therefore, you all must produce more or ...else....Ve haf vays of making you talk you know!By ze vay, vere are your papers?Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfonso Jones Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Oh, yeah, like anyone would want Algore's pot smoking potato-sack of ason, Patti Davis, or John Edwards' bastard out of Carolina.I repeat, my first born child for anyone who can procure me full episodes of Butterflies or The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrrin on line.Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin - - - now that is a memory from far in the past...Bill P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Okay, my virginity, then?Ted,Dayaamm!I thought time travel to antiquity was only in the movies or other works of fiction... Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Here is something with Page Rank 6 from the dark side. Use (or not) at your own discretion.Online Video GuideMichaelMichael, that's a great link!My firstborn child goes to the person who can find me episodes of Butterflies and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin on line.I'm salivating.Does he come with a cookbook?Hey! Wait a minute. Do you have a first born child?--BrantOkay, my virginity, then?Where is it?--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaer.ts Posted May 24, 2009 Author Share Posted May 24, 2009 Okay, my virginity, then?Ted,Dayaamm!I thought time travel to antiquity was only in the movies or other works of fiction... MichaelAntiquity? I only turned 40 last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaer.ts Posted May 28, 2009 Author Share Posted May 28, 2009 Has anyone here watched or, more to the point, enjoyed the series Jericho? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbeaulieu Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Has anyone here watched or, more to the point, enjoyed the series Jericho?Awesome series. Shame it was so short...~ Shane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaer.ts Posted June 7, 2009 Author Share Posted June 7, 2009 Quite funny, and interesting to House fans not familiar with Laurie's past: A Bit of Frye and Laurie. The police sketch (six minutes in) shows how to respond to sophistical arguments made in person. But the song sketch wrongly assumes we Americans refer to ourselves as "The States." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybird Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 (edited) Hulu has just added a rich tapestry from '90s television, one of the best-written, most perfectly acted series of the last few decades: the single cruelly short season, in full, of "My So-Called Life."I've written thousands of net.words about the virtues of this series since its debut, 15 years ago this week, many of them centering on how well the series portrayed teenagers — played by superbly talented teenagers (what a concept!) — and, equally vivid, the families and teachers they encountered.That's the core of my review for Amazon.com of this series. Which DVD set you will, methinks, find yourself compelled to buy from the series' sheer dramatic quality, after you've sampled only a few of the 19 episodes on Hulu (about 48 minutes each).Claire Danes, who at age 15 won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Angela Chase, is the epicenter of a dramatic earthquake that told sprightly, emotional, intricate, sometimes comedic, but always fascinating tales. Angela, who narrates all but two of the episodes in voiceovers, is finding out about what friendship, fidelity, intellect, passion, and disappointment are all about, set against the lives of her friends and family.The main narrative line is of Angela being riveted on a smolderingly handsome "bad boy" of unknown strengths and vanishing potential, Jordan Catalano, portrayed with grace and unexpected depth by Jared Leto. Yet the riffs on this plot line bring in utterly unexpected side issues and new personal adventures, mostly from Angela's having to deal with both old friends and new, despite her own shortcomings and lack of knowledge.You'll see many tropes and situations that have found their way into series TV in the 15 years since, but "MSCL" told them first, freshest, and best.The production values are also superb, from humorously aware dialogue, to a brilliant music score, to its visual and sound strengths. Its producers, Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, also created the very different "thirtysomething" and "Once and Again" series, along with a host of other TV and movie creations, almost all with strong protagonists.Pioneers are usually distinguished, as the un-P.C. aphorism goes, by the arrows in their backs, and this series was very much thrown aside by ABC due to the savage twists of ratings. The network didn't know what a scintillating creation it had, and didn't try to give it half a chance for its audience to build. That didn't happen until MTV showed it — even before ABC had cancelled it! — and thus raised its audience, above the fodder fed to it, by fifty IQ points.Hulu is helping to continue expanding the audience this creation always deserved. If you want a series that is worth your investment in streaming-video time, and at all remember high school as being something better than a living hell, you will enjoy "My So-Called Life." Edited August 29, 2009 by Greybird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Day Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 I watched the thirteen episodes of the unfortunately canceled Kings on Hulu. The production values were fantastic ($4 million an episode!) and the concept of a 21st century absolute monarchy was very novel. Since Charlie's Angels was one of Ayn Rand's favorite, I'll probably give that a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Coates Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 (edited) > Claire Danes, who at age 15 won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Angela Chase, is the epicenter of a dramatic earthquake that told sprightly, emotional, intricate, sometimes comedic, but always fascinating tales. Angela...is finding out about what friendship, fidelity, intellect, passion, and disappointment are all about...Greybird, I completely agree with you. "My So-Called Life" was flat out wonderful! But so has been almost anything by Herskowitz and Zwick. Sometimes people speak disparagingly about 'teen dramas'. As if only stories about adults or those over 21 counts as serious or intelligent literature. As if only those who are adolescents could be interested in stories about those between the ages of 12 and 22. But the decade when one grows from boy to man, when one grows from girl to woman are enormously interesting and crucial years, when character and values and big ideas and fundamental premises and sense of life are heavily tested and formed. I've always liked those kind of dramas (and sometimes comedies).By the way, another director who was excellent at telling stories about that period (movies in his case) was John Hughes --- Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Weird Science; The Breakfast Club; Some Kind of Wonderful; Sixteen Candles; Pretty in Pink; Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Uncle Buck; Home Alone --- who just died.Zwick also directed the film "Courage Under Fire" -- about adults this time and the military -- which I've seen many times and will see many more times. I'm looking forward to seeing his film "Defiance" about Jews fighting the Nazis. I strongly suspect it will be better than the movie which just came out on almost the same subject ( "Inglorious Basterds" - by the lowlife responsible for "Kill Bill".) Edited August 30, 2009 by Philip Coates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaer.ts Posted August 30, 2009 Author Share Posted August 30, 2009 Hulu has just added a rich tapestry from '90s television, one of the best-written, most perfectly acted series of the last few decades: the single cruelly short season, in full, of "My So-Called Life."I've written thousands of net.words about the virtues of this series since its debut, 15 years ago this week, many of them centering on how well the series portrayed teenagers — played by superbly talented teenagers (what a concept!) — and, equally vivid, the families and teachers they encountered.That's the core of my review for Amazon.com of this series. Which DVD set you will, methinks, find yourself compelled to buy from the series' sheer dramatic quality, after you've sampled only a few of the 19 episodes on Hulu (about 48 minutes each).Claire Danes, who at age 15 won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Angela Chase, is the epicenter of a dramatic earthquake that told sprightly, emotional, intricate, sometimes comedic, but always fascinating tales. Angela, who narrates all but two of the episodes in voiceovers, is finding out about what friendship, fidelity, intellect, passion, and disappointment are all about, set against the lives of her friends and family.The main narrative line is of Angela being riveted on a smolderingly handsome "bad boy" of unknown strengths and vanishing potential, Jordan Catalano, portrayed with grace and unexpected depth by Jared Leto. Yet the riffs on this plot line bring in utterly unexpected side issues and new personal adventures, mostly from Angela's having to deal with both old friends and new, despite her own shortcomings and lack of knowledge.You'll see many tropes and situations that have found their way into series TV in the 15 years since, but "MSCL" told them first, freshest, and best.The production values are also superb, from humorously aware dialogue, to a brilliant music score, to its visual and sound strengths. Its producers, Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, also created the very different "thirtysomething" and "Once and Again" series, along with a host of other TV and movie creations, almost all with strong protagonists.Pioneers are usually distinguished, as the un-P.C. aphorism goes, by the arrows in their backs, and this series was very much thrown aside by ABC due to the savage twists of ratings. The network didn't know what a scintillating creation it had, and didn't try to give it half a chance for its audience to build. That didn't happen until MTV showed it — even before ABC had cancelled it! — and thus raised its audience, above the fodder fed to it, by fifty IQ points.Hulu is helping to continue expanding the audience this creation always deserved. If you want a series that is worth your investment in streaming-video time, and at all remember high school as being something better than a living hell, you will enjoy "My So-Called Life."I loved Claire Danes with Leonardo Di Caprio in Romeo and Juliet, which is otherwise one of my least favorite of his plyas. I'll have to check this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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