has gotten better & better 4 real
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:59 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm. the croissant line & follow up was amazing.i still think it's a slightly weird assemblage - like the kinda breathy assistant guy. but it's good. i hope the tall guy with the imaginary dog drifts in a sorta glenn-in-the-thick-of-it direction, all pitifully obsolete.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
i like the extensive explanation jokes like the croissant, the anti-viagra, etc
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 May 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
get some nuts. i'm sweating all my minerals into my shorts here.
― caek, Friday, 25 May 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
hundreds of pictures of herons catching fish
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Monday, 28 May 2012 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
^
this show is good but i wish it were not quite so sitcommy. looking at you, anna chlumsky and guy that plays gary
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 4 June 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
Total POTAL meltdown
― kinder, Monday, 4 June 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 4 June 2012 22:49 (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah. i like anna chlumsky a lot though. i wish selena was sketched out a little more; like she's so good in certain moods - like being mad, or being conniving, that it feels kinda weak to just have her always on the back foot, as like a default mode.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Monday, 4 June 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
"guy that plays Gary" is Tony Hale, better known as Buster Bluth. Jonah is my favorite character. His housemates in this ep were amazing. Six guys in white shirts on their phones at once.
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Monday, 4 June 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
this is impressive
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
good finale
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
Where have I seen the congressman's (very funny) aide before?
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 June 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
IT guy on The Office?
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 02:24 (eleven years ago) link
last ep was tremendous!! everything i didn't like about earlier episodes suddenly seemed to work
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 16 June 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
The Twitter exchange between Ianucci and Alasdair Campbell about his OBE brought the lols.
― Desire is withered away from the sons of men! (aldo), Saturday, 16 June 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
all the deleted scenes
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7F30C892CF01C672&feature=plcp
― caek, Saturday, 16 June 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
this gets better yeah? that first one was poo
― DG, Monday, 25 June 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
it's hard at first because of the natural comparisons w/the thick of it, but after i'd say ep 3 or 4 i was looking forward to the next episodes. and the finale was thumping
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 June 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the first one more than many in the middle, but there are several better ones
― the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Monday, 25 June 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
are you likely to enjoy the characters more with the accretion of detail and establishment of running gags, or hate them now and will hate seeing more of them?
― the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Monday, 25 June 2012 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
the first one is one of the weaker ones, so stick with it, but don't expect the thick of it
― caek, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 06:40 (eleven years ago) link
that's what i was expecting :(
― DG, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 10:13 (eleven years ago) link
amazing series, more watchable that TTOI because of JLD. just feels slicker and better-written too. first one or two eps not amazing but by e5 i was in awe
― NI, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
it's slicker partly because it's not as well written, but it's still very good by the end of the season
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
i am open to there being cultural differences in how satire translates on each side of the ocean, but that the writing of TTOI is superior seems beyond doubt, to me - veep, which is good!, still pretty regularly incorporated sitcommish zings and ad-homs, a bunch of which fell flat. its successes were more-good-original-swearing, &c. but the thick of it's so multi-layered & plays with conversational & power dynamics so powerfully. it fabricates all of these benign policy nooses that hang the characters, & some of the conclusions - like i am remembering malcolm promising to come up with an appropriate expert to corroborate the new argument of a flip-flop - seem so poignant & OTM wrt how things are now. malcolm's slow turn in the first scene of the first ep still kills me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSRN8O4ULQs
― blossom smulch (schlump), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
gonna have to rewatch ttoi to see how it compares but as a *comedy series* (not a political satire) i felt veep was a few steps beyond ttoi. just had so much swagger and confidence, seems to be a product of a proper writing team rather than one or two minds (not sure if the creation of either worked in this way but it definitely felt like that. plus julia ld far more charismatic and watchable and inherently funny than any of the ttoi blokes
― NI, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
full disclosure: the pompous unfunny shite chris addison spews on twitter has marred ttoi for me bigtime
Does it improve after the first episode? Because that was a horrible opener. (i'm talking about Veep btw, TToI was gold from the start)
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 08:10 (eleven years ago) link
Thought the opener was great, feels like a lot of people who say later episodes improved a lot just found it jarring to adjust to a half hour americanized Iannuci thing but then got to know the characters and liked them. In my opinion it stays good. But sticking with it you may find it grows on you, and there are better episodes later on.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 08:18 (eleven years ago) link
Watched the first episode last night and enjoyed it, I like Anna Chlumsky's character and the obnoxious Jonah guy, not so sure about JLD. It feels very obviously an Ianucci creation and the potential's definitely there, but it's very obviously missing a Malcolm Tucker character (although maybe it wouldn't work in the US).
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 08:43 (eleven years ago) link
Think the first episode maybe suffered for lack of a proper crisis, those were very minor fires to have to put out.
'those were very minor fires to have to put out.'
That was the problem. Were we supposed to care about the incorrectly-signed card? Jeeze.
Also, yo, just because you add an unexpected 'fuck' to words/phrases doesn't mean its suddenly hilarious.
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 08:47 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't completely sold on it (have only seen ep 1), but comparisons to TTOI were bound to affect my perspective. I think if it had come without the baggage I might have enjoyed it more.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 09:43 (eleven years ago) link
my problem was not ttoi, my problem was quality/frequency of lols
― caek, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 10:30 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't that taken with the first one, but it really hits its stride around ep 4 or 5.
― Desire is withered away from the sons of men! (aldo), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
Yeh, stick with it, it gets a lot better. I found myself gradually feeling warmer towards it and by the last 2 or 3 episodes I was anticipating the next one.
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Thursday, 28 June 2012 07:19 (eleven years ago) link
Agreed, I wasn't completely sold to begin with but it keeps getting better, and the last two episodes are pure gold. Ep 7, directed by Chris Morris, is jaw-droppingly good - and dark.
― Crackity Jones, Thursday, 19 July 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
this is back now.
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 04:48 (eleven years ago) link
first ep was gold, Morris is great for this show
Addison doing the next few? should help bring the nervous vibe
― Devendra Bumhat (sic), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 05:17 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, really poisonous first ep
― gr8 tr∞lls i have known (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 06:33 (eleven years ago) link
dan bakkedahl is so good
i wasn't convinced that mr midnight caller's touted credentials as a cold-blooded operative were actually valid, though? he seemed sort of relaxed and then he got hit in the face with some lipstick and crawled away
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 April 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
that was shit
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 18 April 2013 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
someone actually wrote 'idontgiveafuckistan'
nah it was p good. ppl say dumb shit like that
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 18 April 2013 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
This is way more realistic than House of Cards
― HIGH-FIVES TO ALL MY COWORKERS AT THE QBERT SEX SWING (silby), Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
:D
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 19 April 2013 07:17 (eleven years ago) link
Probably the best ep yet; surprising depth this go round.
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 April 2013 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
some great lines. the "you timed that metaphor out for that shitty ding" thing. the "tiny hands" gag.
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Monday, 29 April 2013 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
"better than my shitty legs. i hate my legs."
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Monday, 29 April 2013 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
So glad this is getting another season. Hitting its stride.
― Popture, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
it's pretty decent, but i'm even more glad that this introduced me to "the thick of it." what an amazing show
― chilli, Thursday, 2 May 2013 01:16 (eleven years ago) link