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For the past month or so (mainly on weekends) my wife and I have been rewatching Lost all the way through. We just finished up season 3 on Saturday. I'd forgotten what a powerhouse season #3 is! Fantastic all the way through and the final 5-6 episodes might be the best run of episodes throughout the series.

This is the 6th time I've seen seasons 1&2, and the 3rd for season 3. It's amazing how much you continue to pick up on that you've never seen before.

Arguably, this is also where the wheels start to come off though, as a lot of the mystery and intrigue masterfully set up in season three fails to pay of satisfactorily as you continue through the series.

AMERICAN HORROR STORY probably deserves its own thread. I had a difficult time with Season 1, in that each and every character was SO gosh-darn unlikeable ...except for Connie Britton. I mean really, I hated all of them, except Connie Britton. And then the season just kept getting more and more DEPRESSING every week. But I hung in there, mainly for Connie Britton.

But when all was said and done, the season ended with the most bizarre and twisted "feel good" episode I had ever seen... I was kinda floored and speechless and really loved it.

Season 2 really opened strong and was much more thrilling than depressing to me. I'm definitely onboard!

And speaking of Connie Britton-- and one always should-- I am totes loving NASHVILLE.

Alas, LOST eventually lost my attention... I became convinced there was no way it was going to wrap up in a satisfying way for me.

so ... You like Connie Britton ... I take it.

I have currently caught up to season 3 of the West Wing ... on which Connie Britton is a cast member. I think she will only be on for season 3 though.

I think the Season 4 finale is probably my favorite, but overall those last few episodes of Season 3 are definitely among the best.

Oh, Dave. This is why you're the only man for me.

<---- watchin my all time favorite Lost episode, "The Constant" while drinking lots of wine and scotch.

The Guild, season 5 and Eureka,season 1.

There's something likeable about Connie Britton.

Of course, in American Horror Story, hers was the ONLY character written in any way likeable, so the odds were in her favor.

I do highly recommend AHS Season 1 though, but it is a MUST that you see ALL 13 episodes!

And speaking of AHS, that reminds me I haven't watched episode 2 of AHS:A yet... *scampers off to TV*

Ooh, definitely one of the best!

re: episode 2 of AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM...

Awesome. Firing on ALL cylinders! Amazeballs. Can't watch in the dark.

We got a sweet deal on our Cable/Internet/phone package as part of their "retention" program, so we've been ODing on some On Demand choices. Finished all of Game of Thrones (excellent), caught up on Dexter (disappointing), watched the end of Alphas (keeps getting better), and we still have American Horror Story and Walking Dead on the go. Slowly turning into a couch potato.

Bah! Focus on annoying nerd stereotype guy and flashbacks to his boring, personalityless wife pretty blew all the enthusiasm I started to pick up with the last episode.

American Horror Story Asylum continues to be far more intense than last series. Although there isn't much light-hearted fare, I do find it funny that every episode opens with something horrible happening to Adam Levine.

It kept popping up as "recommended" in my Netflix queue, so I finally relented and started watching the early 2000's series "Freaks and Geeks".

Started... aaaaand finished. There were only 18 episodes, and - once I saw an episode or two - I had to just do a marathon of the whole thing.

I was so impressed. It was such a spot-on representation of the way I remember childhood in the late 70's/early 80's. Remarkable for a show of this type, I found the characters incredibly well written - falling into "types" but not crossing the line into cliches.

Well worth a watch.

I've just recently started watching the Astroboy cartoons via the Crackle app on my xbox

SO GOOD. So many of those actors were at their best ... and even though many of them went on to supersuccess ... their Freeks and Geeks performances were their best. (IMO)

Suuuuch a shame this was cancelled so early. I came to love it a few years after it fell off the air and was really confused as to why it didn't get great ratings.

As I recall the timeslot wasn't ideal. We watched the first run and liked it, but it wasn't heavily promoted.

Freaks and Geeks is insanely good. I think the only one we watched during it's original run was the last episode, but we were hooked. I wasn't quite as old as the characters but I was close enough to remember that era well. It deserved a longer run but that last episode stands as one of the best finales I've seen.

The show was also hampered by a hiatus that didn't help it build any momentum at all. It's not really the kind of thing you'd have expected a broadcast network to green-light anyway so I'm glad we got what we got.

The last episode was fantastic ... that's what I remember of the series ... and them always hanging out in the stairwell.

FREAKS AND GEEKS-- ROCKS! Only like 4 episodes into it (going SLOWLY here to savor) but YES, it is GREAT fun!!

Also, Netflixers should totes check out ARCHER. Holy Shitsnacks, it's fun!!

Archer is HIGH-larious!

I just watched and enjoyed the first 3 episodes of American Horror Story. Gosh - they're certainly putting the "horror" in it this season though aren't they? Other than the odd moment, I didn't find last season that scary or disturbing at all. It was mainly all just camp fun to me. But this season is really quite horrific and gory. And so many tropes of horror are being thrown at us too - asylums, mad scientists, torture, exorcisms, the Devil, serial killers, monsters, aliens... I wonder if they're going to leave themselves anything new to cover in season 3? Maybe a Jaws-type water-based horror?

The trick with this show though is not to take it too seriously and just go along for the ride. I'm doing that and really enjoying it.

My wife and I just went through ALL of "ARCHER" on Netflix and holy hot shit that's a funny-ass show!!! GENIUS!!!! A friend described it as "Arrested Development" meets "Burn Notice" and (aside from the fact that there are several cast members of "AD" involved) that is a pretty good description.

For those who haven't heard anything about it, it's basically a spy-show satire, but the best one that's ever existed since "Get Smart."

Oh, I've also been watching "Last Resort" ... it's a tense drama week in, week out where it always seems like the world is at stake, but they manage to keep it up each and every week, despite how utterly preposterous the premise might seem.

And if any of y'all have been waiting for Andre Baugher to command the screen the way he did in "Homicide", this is the place!