Okay, cool.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 December 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
yeah it's great JF, you should totally watch it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 December 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
tv is in too many places now, can't keep track
i mean amazon prime seriously
― my whole family is catholic so look at the pickle i'm in (zachlyon), Friday, 20 December 2013 02:00 (ten years ago) link
let's go back to just have four networks and put the three or four good shows on air on those
RE: Almost Human
i watched it a little and found it decent. i find the trend of 2 hour pilots really off-putting, though, the show is too light to pull that off. i liked how quickly they got to an episode about sex robots, though.
― Nhex, Monday, 23 December 2013 03:49 (ten years ago) link
Watched the first episode of 'The Assets' - dramatised sorta miniseries about Aldrich Ames
It's not great, especially if you prefer your spy entertainment on the Tinker Tailer level, but as far as spies on network tv goes, i'm a sucker for pretty much anything so I'll take it
dude playing Ames is a dead ringer imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 January 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
best part: Ralph Brown (Camberwell Carrott Danny from Withnail & I) plays one of the bosses. Took me all episode to figure out who he was
okay it's not really the best thing but I was excited to realize it was 'im
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 January 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
finally watched trophy wife, it's really funny but it is SUCH a modern family rip, which is kind of, i dunno, if it was a person you would be kind of embarrassed for how unabashed they are at being current
― j., Friday, 10 January 2014 03:32 (ten years ago) link
yeah i finally watched it cuz of ilx, fun show and i'm really happy to see michaela watkins getting work since her getting fired from snl was such bullshit. the kids are really really good on it which is really not the case w/ these shows very often. all the kids on modern family starting to look awkward and ill fitting, like latter day ben seaver.
― balls, Friday, 10 January 2014 03:40 (ten years ago) link
I was so annoyed with the Trophy Wife pilot because it was ALMOST funny, and the cast was SO likable, but it didn't really work
Fortunately within like two episodes the cast charisma and the scripts started clicking. I don't regularly follow it but I always enjoy it whenever I catch it.
― SHAUN (DJP), Friday, 10 January 2014 04:24 (ten years ago) link
Have they made any effort to explain the family backstory? Like how Bradley married and divorced two wildly different women but managed to keep an extremely amicable relationship with both even after quickly marrying a hottie about twenty years younger than him? Did they reveal they're actually all sister wives or anything?
― da croupier, Friday, 10 January 2014 06:46 (ten years ago) link
it's a sitcom?
― Nhex, Friday, 10 January 2014 06:53 (ten years ago) link
well, considering they were actively losing older female viewers in the first few weeks and ratings haven't improved, i was curious if there'd been any effort to address the conceit that's presumably alienating them.
― da croupier, Friday, 10 January 2014 06:58 (ten years ago) link
lawyer, doctor (super republicany), new ager (super liberalish), half-his-age blonde who -doesn't- try to determine everything about his life / butt in; seems to be a sequence of over-reactions
i would rather hear about the kids, as is there's kind of a weird like dad-is-just-some-guy-who-was-married-to-mom vibe
― j., Friday, 10 January 2014 07:08 (ten years ago) link
dad seems like a dork - the two sons seem to reflect him a lot (like the dumb kid in modern family)
the whole concept sounds like it could alienate women - especially the young wife being superhot - but three of the leads are women and easily get the chunk of screen time and storylines, and they're all funny/sympathetic to some degree. i think the creator wrote it loosely inspired by her own experience as a third wife
― Nhex, Friday, 10 January 2014 07:15 (ten years ago) link
yeah the cast is terrific but its pretty definitely going to be cancelled. it's just funny that it was created by the creator of Target: Women and all the interviews were all "well she's not REALLY a trophy wife, she's just a young woman we can all respect" and everybody missed that making the young hottie the sympathetic lead over two single moms might actually alienate the kind of people watching ABC after The Goldbergs.
― da croupier, Friday, 10 January 2014 07:22 (ten years ago) link
Is Patton Oswalt the narrator of The Goldbergs? Trying to pinpoint what it is that makes me turn off the TV/change channels within 10 seconds whenever that show comes on.
― Murgatroid, Friday, 10 January 2014 07:46 (ten years ago) link
think so yeah
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 January 2014 12:34 (ten years ago) link
wow, good for brooklyn-99 - winning golden globes on the basis of what? half a season?
― Mordy , Monday, 13 January 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah, they'd only aired 11 episodes when the nominations were announced
― some dude, Monday, 13 January 2014 03:23 (ten years ago) link
seeing chelsea peretti onstage at the golden globes was pretty cool
― Clay, Monday, 13 January 2014 03:28 (ten years ago) link
hell yeah
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 January 2014 03:28 (ten years ago) link
yeah tvbythenumbers has brooklyn 99 as likely cancelled but considering fox gave it the after the superbowl slot and they bought a golden globe for it i can't imagine they're going to cancel it after just one year (esp since ken tremendous shows tend to improve dramatically in their second season).
― balls, Monday, 13 January 2014 03:45 (ten years ago) link
happy for them cuz I want them to get season 2 but this is my third favorite show on Fox Tuesdays and Samberg's sometimes the worst thing about it.
― da croupier, Monday, 13 January 2014 06:44 (ten years ago) link
Jake Johnston and Chris Messina def deserve a trophy more than ol' Cute'n'Screamy
― da croupier, Monday, 13 January 2014 06:46 (ten years ago) link
not to mention Andre Braugher
oh how i wish Andre Braugher was gay irl (also wished the same for Adam Pally re: Happy Endings)
― Murgatroid, Monday, 13 January 2014 06:53 (ten years ago) link
I find it hard to believe Fox would actually pay to buy Brooklyn 99 a Golden Globe. Or any show, really, they just don't care! Look how well those awards did for Arrested Development.
That said I already love Brooklyn 99 and it's probably only going to get better
― Nhex, Monday, 13 January 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
yeah I really enjoy Brooklyn 99 now -- it took a few episodes to get going but it's really come around
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 January 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
anyone else watching space dandy? djp?
― Mordy , Thursday, 16 January 2014 01:43 (ten years ago) link
Really liked that Broad City pilot.
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 23 January 2014 07:15 (ten years ago) link
^ this was a happy surprise
― Clay, Thursday, 23 January 2014 08:12 (ten years ago) link
fyi: killer women is terrible
dnw
mr veg dvr'd it why because trisha helfer ... it's like a hallmark movie masquerading as a tv show
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
It was readily apparent from the commercials.
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i caught one episode, because I love that Cylon. sadly... awful
― Nhex, Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
has anyone else watched Helix?
the acting is kinda b-movie-level awkward/terrible but there is something about the story that I really love. or maybe I'm just fangirling for Moore, idk
lol 'maybe'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 January 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
I realized it had that guy from The 4400 but wasn't sure if i should really give it a shot. looks REALLY low budget. Didn't realize RDM was involved
― Nhex, Thursday, 23 January 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
i'm mr meeseeks look at me rick and morty thread
― Mordy , Monday, 27 January 2014 05:20 (ten years ago) link
i like broad city
― Mordy , Thursday, 30 January 2014 04:50 (ten years ago) link
Me too.
― Simon H., Thursday, 30 January 2014 04:55 (ten years ago) link
watched the first ep, not really my style - opening and ending of the pilot really turned me off
― Nhex, Thursday, 30 January 2014 04:55 (ten years ago) link
i like it
― some dude, Thursday, 30 January 2014 05:38 (ten years ago) link
is 'intelligence' any good, cbs aficionados?
i keep seeing spots for it and i didn't even recognize josh holloway without his sawyer haircut (and shirt, i guess)
― j., Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:54 (ten years ago) link
didn't watch, apparently it is vv dull and formulaic
― Simon H., Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:55 (ten years ago) link
i always lol when i see that it's Sawyer from Lost. he disappeared for a while, didn't he?
― Nhex, Friday, 31 January 2014 02:37 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, for some reason Taylor Kitsch got the film career that should rightfully have been his.
― Simon H., Friday, 31 January 2014 03:32 (ten years ago) link
who among those clowns really made out well
hurley, obv., and i'm always seeing dr. chang in bit parts now, and michael emerson has made a real strong showing
― j., Friday, 31 January 2014 03:36 (ten years ago) link
xp lol, i actually just saw X-Men Origins: Wolverine the other week and was thinking that!
most of the Losties are doing ok but none of them have really broken out the way they did on that show, sadly - even Emerson or Terry O'Quinn
― Nhex, Friday, 31 January 2014 03:41 (ten years ago) link
those clowns!
emerson's got a big hit show on cbs. sawyer seemed the most likely for stardom and maybe still is but so far it was a tiny appearance in mi3:ghost protocol and not much else in movies. seems like somehow it's harder now for ppl to make the jump from tv to movies? maybe i'm wrong but the only ppl who have made the jump or whatever in the past ten or so years i can think of really are steve carell (whose movie stardom predates his sitcom stardom really), tina fey (same), and jason segal (where his having been on freaks and geeks clearly played a larger role in fostering his movie career than himym). there are others i'm sure who did tv and then got a nice movie career going recently but nobody that really built off their tv stardom like bruce willis or george clooney did. i mean jon hamm hasn't done it yet. anyway i would've thought 'cbs drama' would've been a perfect fit for holloway but somehow they fucked up and put him in something that looks like it should be on nbc.
― balls, Friday, 31 January 2014 03:56 (ten years ago) link
burn, sucks to be nbc
yeah some of them have had steady tv work, terry o'quinn has been in something ever since lost ended, even ol aussie whasername has been on one of those fairy tale shows. and emerson is holding it down but i don't think those viewers are going to translate into anything but a solid line of tv gigs for the next ~10 years for him. (and he's even got supposed movie star jim caviezel alongside him to lend a little glow.)
a little earlier on, but jennifer garner made the switch kind of uneasily, had to put up with being in a lotta romcoms. not exactly bruce willis stardom but i can't think of many others. huh.
― j., Friday, 31 January 2014 04:10 (ten years ago) link