Hi JC_Aloha,
Yes, The Affair is excellent! I highly recommend it! I was a huge Dawson's Creek fan, especially a Pacey and Joey fan, and Joshua Jackson is great in The Affair. This past season was a little confusing/surreal, but still good.
For the longest time the best shows were on Showtime - Dexter, Homeland, Ray Donovan, The Affair, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Shameless (still a fave!), Weeds, Californication, The Tudors, United States of Tara... there were so many. Now it seems that the network is losing steam. The good news is that if you have the app, all of the original programming is still available. However, I think Amazon, Hulu and Netflix are developing the best original programming now.
There was a time HBO was pretty great, too, with The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Entourage, Flight of the Conchords, Big Love, GoT, Hung, Oz (sooo good!), The Wire, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, True Blood, True Detective and Westworld - off the top of my head - but I haven't been crazy about the network's recent offerings. I liked some seasons of Girls, but I got bored with it after awhile. Same with Veep, and although I think Thomas Haydn Church is amazing (Sideways is one of my favorite movies, as is We Bought a Zoo), I couldn't get into Divorce.
Oh, and Cinemax had a couple of good shows - The Knick and Hunted. It will be interesting to see what Flix does now with Berln Station and if the network continues with original programming. They were always the "nostalgic movies" channel to me (think "Pretty in Pink" or any John Hughes flick from the 80's).
Man, I need to get some more hobbies. I watch too much TV! Thank goodness for iPads, WiFi hot spots and living close to the beach or else I would be as pale as a ghost. How did we ever exist before computers, tablets, WiFi and cell phones? I think that's why I like The Americans so much. It reminds me of when I was a kid. Things were so much simpler then, or so I vaguely remember. Now my cell has to be on 24/7 and if I don't answer, you bet I hear about it!
Anyway, yes, you should definitely check out The Affair. It's different because 1/2 of each episode is shown from 1 character's view (although last season I think I remember a couple of episodes where there were more than 2 characters' points of view).
Oh, JC, I agree about Homeland and the first few seasons. When Brody left the show I didn't think it would last, but it did.
Yes, The Affair is excellent! I highly recommend it! I was a huge Dawson's Creek fan, especially a Pacey and Joey fan, and Joshua Jackson is great in The Affair. This past season was a little confusing/surreal, but still good.
For the longest time the best shows were on Showtime - Dexter, Homeland, Ray Donovan, The Affair, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Shameless (still a fave!), Weeds, Californication, The Tudors, United States of Tara... there were so many. Now it seems that the network is losing steam. The good news is that if you have the app, all of the original programming is still available. However, I think Amazon, Hulu and Netflix are developing the best original programming now.
There was a time HBO was pretty great, too, with The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Entourage, Flight of the Conchords, Big Love, GoT, Hung, Oz (sooo good!), The Wire, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, True Blood, True Detective and Westworld - off the top of my head - but I haven't been crazy about the network's recent offerings. I liked some seasons of Girls, but I got bored with it after awhile. Same with Veep, and although I think Thomas Haydn Church is amazing (Sideways is one of my favorite movies, as is We Bought a Zoo), I couldn't get into Divorce.
Oh, and Cinemax had a couple of good shows - The Knick and Hunted. It will be interesting to see what Flix does now with Berln Station and if the network continues with original programming. They were always the "nostalgic movies" channel to me (think "Pretty in Pink" or any John Hughes flick from the 80's).
Man, I need to get some more hobbies. I watch too much TV! Thank goodness for iPads, WiFi hot spots and living close to the beach or else I would be as pale as a ghost. How did we ever exist before computers, tablets, WiFi and cell phones? I think that's why I like The Americans so much. It reminds me of when I was a kid. Things were so much simpler then, or so I vaguely remember. Now my cell has to be on 24/7 and if I don't answer, you bet I hear about it!
Anyway, yes, you should definitely check out The Affair. It's different because 1/2 of each episode is shown from 1 character's view (although last season I think I remember a couple of episodes where there were more than 2 characters' points of view).
Oh, JC, I agree about Homeland and the first few seasons. When Brody left the show I didn't think it would last, but it did.