2012 TV thread: winter, spring, maybe summer

1. Twitter people are nuts.
2. To Sunday and back.

After the fucking dumb ending Awake had, I'm glad I never have to see it again.

can you go ahead and spoil it for me? i'm curious about what happened w/ the premise but not curious enough to slog through anything past the pilot

I've seen enough Revenge to say it's okay but not as spectacular as people puzzlingly seem to think it is. Also, it's probably more like a 21st Century analogue to Dallas than the actual 21st Century version of Dallas is likely to be. That's sort of high praise, coming from me (only "sort of" because early Dallas is great and Revenge can only keep striving and hope to hit those heights).

I actually liked the Awake finale, a lot. Glad it went out w/ its WTF guns blazing rather than trying to wrap it up neatly.

Finale was good until the final scene.

~*~*~*SPOILER*~*~*

For some dude, it ended up that the accident wasn't an accident, but a conspiracy to cover up heroin trafficking by his commanding officers. He was bouncing back and forth between these realities, piecing the case together from events in each, until he got retribution in one and the other one just vanished. Then it turned out none of it had ever happened and his family was alive.

you've got to be kidding

oh lame

hahahaha wow. i love that.

Would've had more resonance if both his wife and son had died and he'd finally worked through his grief and found peace. But no...HAPPY ENDINGS FOR EVERYBODY!

Thank goodness his family was alive.

In other news, thank goodness that my post-L O S T shitty high concept show sniffer is apparently still in tip-top shape.

JF's interpretation is not exactly definitive.

It wasn't a complete waste...Wilmer Valderrama had to dress up like a penguin.

hey summer thread. so, welcome back gilmore girls dialogue resurrected in the form of bunheads

the protagonist is practically lorelei

is it good?

I liked it.

i liked it too, tho so many beats were very very gilmore girls. if you have a fondness for that show (i do) i think you'll like this one. if not tho, stay away

yeah, I'm a GG fan. Will check it out.

I never watched Gilmore Girls more than a part of an episode here and there, but I just caught an encore airing of the Bunheads premiere and I'm gonna set my dvr for the season. Definitely love it initially.

Yeah, I enjoyed that.

(you must have watched the same encore I did)

dead or coma?

i dunno, but bummed about that twist

i'd prefer coma. death is too final. coma can keep him out as long as writers want and have option of bringing him back. also better reason to keep protag in town besides tenuous friendship with mother-in-law

also better reason to keep protag in town besides tenuous friendship with mother-in-law

I dunno. In cases where a will hasn't been drawn up, wouldn't she just inherit everything that's in her husband's name? If so, that's a pretty concrete reason to hang around for a while.

so when does this actually air? http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2012/06/25/120625crte_television_nussbaum

next week in the Veep/Girls timeslot

too bad it sounds awful

It starts effectively enough, with an homage to “Network” ’s galvanizing “I’m mad as hell” rant

Studio 60 started the exact same way. That doesn't bode well.

yeah of all Sorkin's insane compulsions that hurt his work, the unapologetic recycling of stories and themes and episode titles and word-for-word dialogue from one show to the next is the weirdest

some dude have you been watching 'suits'? i feel like youre the only other person that liked that show but im p amped thats back, somehow

hbo has been pushing that show for so long now that I've lost interest in it. also it seems like an extended series basically built around network which is kind of meh to me.

oh man i've been watching reruns of s1 of Suits AND watched the s2 premiere XD

haha its just so breezy and fun!!!

is it just me or is Gina Torres an actual character instead of an empty plot device boss now? that was a pleasant surprise

was that ellen greene on bunheads tnite???

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kBNnyETKMIk/SRUlAG5UNCI/AAAAAAAAA-I/u57q5zb0Rnk/s400/EllenGreene_sling.jpg

"suddenly seymour..."

some dude have you been watching 'suits'? i feel like youre the only other person that liked that show but im p amped thats back, somehow

i like it, i think it's probably the best recent usa show (though i caught up on 'white collar' earlier this year and it seemed pretty much on a par once i could see the arc). the new plot-rejigger was good and the women are all as sick as ever. looks like it's going to be a good role for gale-from-breaking-bad.

Bunheads is great!

It really is.

Ratings flop pilot, though.. wrong home for it on ABC Family perhaps.

is it possible to have bad ratings on ABC Family? are they like 'oh no, you're not raking in the cash like Switched At Birth'?

I'll comfortably chalk up any Bunheads ratings troubles to the show's title. That's a helluva hurdle for the uninitiated to jump. I'm loving it so far, myself, though. Stokes those understimulated GG pleasure centers.

people are probably afraid the show stars the Karmin lady

it's a very good show, if it gets canned that will be huge travesty. maybe someone else would pick it up though.

i like bunheads! but i am kind of a sucker for anything dance related.

bunheads is kinda dark

i see almost all of s2 of episodes has already aired in the uk? has anyone watched it/is it good? do britishers read this thread? i liked s1

what show?