2013 Fall TV Thread: Previews, Evaluations, Ridicule and Mourning

Just saw the 5 min trailer for The Crazy Ones on CBS, with Robin Williams, Sarah Michelle Gellar and James Wolk at an ad agency. Lots of Kelly Clarkson in the pilot which, HEY! GREAT! Hopefully Williams will be less zany and manic than it appears so far.

Also looking forward to the Michael J. Fox thing on NBC.

What else looks good?

Hopefully Williams will be less zany and manic than it appears so far.

good luck with that

Yeah, I know. It's a long shot.

will give this a shot
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKK9JrvCEAE9Oz2.jpg

yeah it's got good ppl behind it, love joe lo truglio, and cop comedies if done well are fantastic (barney miller the pinnacle obv). i hope it's not too broad and ott, parks and rec style (which is what i'd assume we're getting) brought to a precinct is a good fit. did anyone here watch the job? really enjoyed that show and not just cuz karyn parsons was on it.

I watched Wanderlust last week and now anytime I see Joe Lo Truglio, the only thing I really see is his dong. Hope that doesn't ruin the show for me.

woah, look at that cast. what's the show? i'll def watch.

It's Brooklyn Nine-Nine on Fox.

The FX remake of the Danish/Swedish series The Bridge is airing tonight. AMC's The Killing has started to bore me rigid so it might be worth a shot.

i know it is terrible and all, but man i have really been loving Siberia quite a bit. i also assume i am the only fool actually watching it.

faux reality lost mashup thingy. i think there is a killer giant bird maybe! so i am down.

Giant killer bird? I was going to skip it, but now I'm having second thoughts.

i think that it may fulfill the promise of lost by killing a fuckton of people instead of having them all cuddle in a magic church somewhere

I like the sound of that already! I skipped it cos I thought it might be in the same vein as that awful Cult.

My friend gave me her unused Roku, so I just signed up for a Netflix account with the intention of watching Orange Is the New Black tomorrow night.

Orange Is The New Black is supposed to be very good. Looking forward to it. Gonna try out The Bridge tonight.

I might watch The Bridge too, but I'm afraid if I start with the remake I might never go back and watch the original.

I am starting the Danish/Swedish one after not getting too impressed by the NBC remake. I used to moan that tv/movies didn't feature enough blatantly ASC characters and after the recent mad proliferation of them I ain't sure it is a good thing. They are always very pretty/brilliant people. You never get any average ASC characters. It does have an effect people's attitudes, like the Tesco employee the other day who asked me "what is his gift?" . Yeah he can solve complex murder cases while looking great and doing equations for a laugh. The flip side is at least it highlights the fact that ASC people have a lot more going on in their inner life than what neurotypical people generally understand.

ASC?

Sorry. Austism Spectrum Condition.

I liked both The Bridge and Orange is the New Black. Diane Kruger's performance in The Bridge is very strange.

Anyone watch Naked and Afraid on Discovery? Reality tv. Two people, a man and woman, are stranded on a remote island, naked, and they have to figure out how to survive for like three weeks before a boat comes to pick them up. Also it has this weird stat that judges each person's total survival score ... a very bizarre addition that I found hilarious.

Mixed-positive on The Bridge, but I will say that Demian Bichir is fantastic. I can already tell he won't be getting enough props; not the sort of performance that nabs awards, but a great one nonetheless.

Waiting until I get through Top of the Lake before I start Orange Is the New Black, but I'm looking forward to it. TotL starts off as a slog, but it picks up around E3 or E4.

I didn't think the first episode of TotL was a slog at all. Very moody and interesting.

Really wish there was gonna be a second series of TotL but it doesn't seem to be in the cards. I'd love to spend another seven (or seventy) hours exploring that world.

Very moody and interesting.

Looking backwards, I can appreciate the first two episodes, but I wasn't acclimated to the pace and atmosphere yet and I was counting the seconds.

Top of the Lake looks interesting, will check out at some pt

http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2013/07/pbs-mocks-reality-tv-again-this-time-with-three-excellent-fake-trailers/

those fake trailers are well done!

Ehhhh

1975 spring tv

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/arts/television/borscht-belt-sherwood-forest.html?hpw&_r=0

Cries of “The Mills Brothers! The Step Brothers! The Joyce Brothers!” were not youthful (nor hip) references even in 1975, but that wasn’t the point of “When Things Were Rotten.” Speed was. Mr. O’Connor, The Times’s critic, clocked the show’s gags at about one every 15 seconds.

http://tv.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/arts/television/broadchurch-a-dark-drama-arrives-on-bbc-america.html

it manages to supply the fashionable existential dread while also providing a solid, Agatha Christie- or Dorothy Sayers-like mystery plot that proceeds at a deliberate pace through a cloud of plausible suspects with a minimum of confusion

sold

all you had to say was David Tennant

eh it was ok

I kind of feel like the opening scene of this week's THE BRIDGE, in which cartel assholes try to parse the meaning of the term "serial killer," kind of justifies the show's existence, despite the fact that it's clearly pretty flawed.

xpost yeah I saw the ad for Broadchurch and by the time the voiceover was saying 'David Tenn--" and I was settting my DVR

Broadchurch is a bit Midsomer Murders at times and the plotting is very by the numbers, here is one credible suspect acting very dodgy, oh no wasn't as it seemed, next. And so on until the final reveal. Tennant is very good and I like him doing grumpy Scottish, but Olivia Colman steals the show for me. It isn't in the same league as The Fall.

I look forward to watching Broadchurch when it's on Netflix next year.

I just noticed a lot of the American reviewers fucking love Broadchurch and are giving it major praise. Just from from memory I think it got a more lukewarm or mixed critical reception over here. Despite it's faults, it is definitely worth watching.

xp it might not take that long. Top of the Lake and The Fall showed up pretty quickly.

Those weren't BBC America shows. Should be in a few months, but Orphan Black still isn't up yet.

Oh, is Broadchurch an actual BBC America production? I didn't realize.

i love detective shows, am excited to try broadchurch

yes also why bcz tennant but besides that :)

no broadchurch wasn't a bbca production like orphan black was

I'm watching orphan black now (thanks internet), it's great

my stupid dvr didn't record it, had to reset it to catch a rerun tonight (whew)

just weird how much the "one season, one dead child, one grieving town, dark secrets" format turned into a thing. was twin peaks the first?

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/tca-billy-bob-thornton-to-topline-fxs-fargo/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/arts/television/how-to-make-a-tv-drama-in-the-twitter-age.html?hp&_r=0

i like that fx is sorta bringing back the miniseries and being pretty creative about it but that fargo show sounds awful. supposedly the pilot for the attempt at a fargo show back in the nineties (w/ edie falco) was pretty good.

i got halfway through the bridge and canceled my tivo sub
that shit got dumber by the minute.

trophy wife cancelled :(

I had a dream last night that Community was canceled. Jim Rash and Gillian Jacobs were at my apartment waiting for the phone call, and hugs and tears followed.

Also, this doesn't sound good: http://uproxx.com/tv/2014/05/is-community-about-to-be-cancelled-uh-looks-like-it/

it'd be a shame but i kinda want to see harmon do something else, i was intrigued to see what he might do w/ a final season of community but i wasn't that stoked to see what he'd do w/ just another season of community, definitely felt like he might of run out of ideas or stories for these characters.

trophy wife cancelled :(

man i just want to preface this post by saying i'm disgusted by myself as well but for the past few months until just this past week i had this intern working for me in the lab that looked remarkably like malin akerman only more voluptuous and obv younger and at times it could be distracting

anyway trophy wife shoulda been on between the middle and modern family and shoulda been named something besides trophy wife

I can confirm I didn't watch it because I thought it was Cougartown, only renamed.

trophy wife was great - disappointing news :(

RIP Community http://tvline.com/2014/05/09/community-cancelled-nbc-season-6/

Good time to end tbh, it was reaching South Park levels of didacticism

community cancelled

xpost

i could sorta imagine it picking up a final 'season' (ie ~12 episodes) at netflix/comedy central/tbs though. still, if it was between this or hannibal being renewed i'm glad it was hannibal.

cosign. community hasn't been essential viewing since season 3

suburgatory cancelled, which i'm not nearly as sad about as i might've once been

https://twitter.com/Seinfeld2000/status/464840917065555968

suburgatory had a rough season - they seemed to have stalled narratively

stalled is putting kindly

Another spring, another day where NBC kills most of the shows they tried. In addition to Community, they just killed Revolution, Crisis, Believe and Growing Up Fisher (on top of the seven or eight other shows that didn't even make it to spring).

Kinda sad about surviving jack - only saw pilot but meloni was hitting some interesting notes as a sitcom dad. Glad growing up fisher hit the axe, as Jk Simmons was basically playing a smug psychopath so far in denial he'd risk killing his family before acknowledging his disability.

Shit, I've been following Revolution. With only two left for this season, I assume it's not "finalized" at all. Do producers generally make versions of the last show of each season that could serve as a closer, if needed?

Crisis was dumb but surprisingly watchable

Both fisher and trophy wife struck me as a fundamentally disingenuous about divorce (though wife did have good cast and jokes) - having a hard time thinking of a comedy that had one (or two) central to the concept and really did right by it, let alone did well.

feels like network sitcoms are really stuck with more talent in front of the camera than behind the camera lately -- you get all these people like J.K. Simmons, Will Arnett, Chris Meloni, even Bradley Whitford who seem perfectly capable of picking a good project and carrying it and they end up on these shows that just stink of failure from the title and the premise on down.

it's sad but my brightest hope for sitcoms at the moment is that USA is doing a bunch and just picked up Eliza Coupe and Billy Eichner vehicle.

vehicleS, referring to 2 different shows.

From what I've seen will arnett is the weakest part of we're the millers - admittedly cuz he spends the show going "I've made a terrible mistake" while the rest of the cast goes all-in on farting (a preferable choice if you find yourself in a wacky multi-cam, IMO).

Revolution was steadily improving and it is a shame it didn't make the cut because I have become quite fond of it, despite it not being particularly great. Certainly won't miss Believe, absolute rinse that Cuarón should be embarrassed to be linked with.

Fascinated they haven't canceled Black Book, a show about how dangerous but sexy and rewarding it is to be manic depressive.

I will say re black book, at least it doesn't just exist atop a potentially offensive concept, but loudly trumpets the stance - it's pretty balls out for network tv

Critically savaged and reviled as offensive garbage by mental health professionals, but this is what the people want :(

arnett seems miscast for the millers, have only seen the ads (and boy have i seen them) but character seems more michael bluth than gob

Kinda sucks about Revolution. I didn't watch it, but since they moved production to Texas, many friends and acquaintances had found work as crew and extras/stand ins on the show.

Arnett was kind of a dull straight man in Up All Night and Running Wilde too. maybe it's just hard to get a starring role where you get to be a weirdo like GOB or Devon Banks but it seems like he's just ignoring his strong suits.

best batman since keaton

black book is incredibly campy but also just sorta plain bad.

the first time we saw a commercial for Black Box, my wife waited until the final lingering shot on the lead actress's face and turned to me and said "I bet you a million dollars her box isn't black"

I don't think anything on the show can ever live up to that

wohhh wohhhh wohhhhhhhhhhh

that is
the
best

we later saw an episode and saw the lead character's boyfriend is black, at which point my wife went "ohhhhhhh, now I get it"

we're parents, y'all

xp pvmic
also, pvmic

hearing good things about Penny Dreadful

pilot didn't do much for me but i'll try and stick with it for a while

I tried that In The Flesh and fecking Ricky Tomlinson is in there, aaarrrrgh! It isn't in the same league as Orphan Black on a scale of parsecs.

Flipping channels and saw this new show in syndication, Manhattan. Olivia Williams is in it with a terrible American accent. Got the whole Mad Men thing going, set around scientists working on the nuclear bomb. I'm just surprised this exists.

I forgot that was beginning tonight. Was it good enough to seek out?

it's from WGN right? that's the weirdest thing

Yeah, it's on WGN. I heard somewhere it may have started on FX originally. It actually looks okay, lead actor's pretty good, but I'm not gonna kid myself - I'm too lazy to keep up with this. Also, I'm not fond of Mad Men and it's got that period vibe.

Is it Mad Men inspired or following that BBC WWII trend "Bomb Girls" "Bletchey Circle" etc.

Wasn't aware of that trend, but I'm gonna go with Mad Men since it features a bunch of angsty self-important '40s dudes with harried, disgruntled wives

Bletchley Circle sounds like a period Women's Murder Club

Garfunkle and Oates is silly and dumb, but amusing enough

2014 Fall TV Thread: Previews, Evaluations, Ridicule and Mourning