between himym + cougar town + raising hope this has been a big week for dramatic relationship shifts in sitcoms
― Mordy, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 03:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
and it's only tuesday!
four if you count New Girl!
four shows*
― Mordy, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Justified ruled tonight!
― Simon H., Wednesday, 15 February 2012 06:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
finally watched The River pilot, ugh that was bad. i only checked it out because sepinwall had a generally positive opinion of it, but the acting was poor and the plot choices were ludicrous and it wasn't even particularly scary. v. disappointing.
― ban opinions (reddening), Thursday, 16 February 2012 07:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
I recorded the first two episodes of Smash, but then deleted them without watching.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Thursday, 16 February 2012 08:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
AICN ratings update
Had no idea how low The Office has sunk. 30 Rock doing terrible (Whitney, on Wednesdays is beating it!) and Up All Night looks to be in real trouble even if The Office is as low as it is.
Stoked that I really got into Vampire Diaries, as it looks to be sticking around.
Also holy toledo at those Walking Dead numbers.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Sunday, 19 February 2012 07:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
30 Rock is now opposite Big Bang Theory, which is very popular now. NBC may be accepting low numbers in the realization that nothing will do well in that slot (see Simpsons vs. Cosby Show in the 80s).
― nickn, Sunday, 19 February 2012 09:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well they benched Community because of its ratings in that timeslot and 30 Rock is doing worse.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Sunday, 19 February 2012 09:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
I know that Baldwin signed on for one more season after this so I don't think it'll get cancelled. But still.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Sunday, 19 February 2012 09:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Maybe 30 Rock has enough prestige (Fey, Baldwin, Morgan) that they think it'll pan out in the long run.
― nickn, Sunday, 19 February 2012 09:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
apparently a bunch of normally popular shows saw unexplained dips in their ratings this past week, across all the networks. except fucking whitney, which went UP. hopefully people tuned in thinking it was a whitney houston tribute and then immediately changed the channel when they beheld its true horror.
― ban opinions (reddening), Sunday, 19 February 2012 09:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
"When's this Whitney Houston tribute starting?""It'll be on when this crap sitcom finishes""Are you sure?""Shut up""But it...""I thought I told you to shut up"
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 19 February 2012 09:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
29 minutes later, ratings bonanza
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 19 February 2012 09:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Any advanced word on Missing, that new Ashley "Official ILX Crush Object" Judd's new action-chick series?
― omar 13337713 (Leee), Sunday, 19 February 2012 22:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
I only caught a few minutes of Comic Book Men but I can't imagine why anyone would want to watch it.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Monday, 20 February 2012 04:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm sure i'm the only person still watching 2 broke girls on ilx, but they decided to pretend this week that kat dennings isn't jewish?
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 February 2012 04:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
I still watch it. I don't know why.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 February 2012 04:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
also, this is pretty anti-Semitic. i think?
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 February 2012 04:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm trying not to be sensitive but the little satmar kids throwing around money and talking like gangsters is really o_O
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 February 2012 04:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
I mean, I know *why* but I'm not proud of it...
I've given up even trying to come up with ways to defend this shows attitude towards race/gender/etc.
It's like a bunch of writers who don't know there's a difference between "edgy" and "offensive". Note to writers: the latter usually happens when you're lazy.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 February 2012 04:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
...this is a real series?
― Nhex, Thursday, 23 February 2012 04:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
it could just be i'm sensitive bc it's a community i know pretty well, and except for a couple nicely delivered characterizations (them loving dennings for looking jewish & dismissing other girl as a shiksa felt pretty spot-on / the snarky matriarch), it seemed totally foreign to me, like someone making up what they imagine satmar culture to be like.
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 February 2012 04:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
"i prefer Burrrprint (The Movie 3D) to 808s and Heartbreak"
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 February 2012 04:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
...this is a real series?― Nhex, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 8:33 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Nhex, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 8:33 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not a dream, not a hoax!
― omar 13337713 (Leee), Thursday, 23 February 2012 05:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Mordy, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
her character =/ the actress, though? also she said she doesn't 100% know her parentage and the other characters said she looked jewish, so it wasn't like total weird revisionism. but yeah, still watching it.
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, when i posted that they hadn't introduced the ambiguity yet. obv kat dennings != max, but at the same time kat dennings is (to my eyes) such an obviously jewish actress that it seems silly in such an episode to not just make her jewish (esp when everyone comments on how jewish she looks - well duh!). iirc, they did a similar kind of thing in the episode of X-Files with the Golem where the white supremacist tells Mulder that he 'looks like them [jews],' which is a similar lol since david duchovny's father was a publicist for american jewish committee.
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
i should clarify, not that everyone who looks like a jew is one, and everyone who doesn't isn't one - but kat dennings in particular seems to have modeled a lot of her career + style on what i'd consider a jewish style of comedy, presentation, etc (not to mention that Nick + Nora movie) plus she's from around my neighborhood so maybe i just have this particular pov
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Reminds me of Goodfellas, where Lorraine Bracco's character is Jewish but they comment on how Italian she looks
― Number None, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
kat dennings != max
its true, sigh
― max, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
on the plus side, that means you were never in a film being fingerbanged by Michael Cera
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
well, it was a mini-series
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
i have never been fingered by michael cera in a miniseries or movie
― max, Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok fine, webisode
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 03:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
sooooo. west wing w/out sorkin?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thick of It in the US morelike
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Matt Walsh even kinda looks like Timothy Busfield
― Mordy, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
This looks good! Also, I love seeing Anna Chlumsky as a grown up.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 05:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
kind of a bland trailer but they probably didn't want to put too much swearing etc. in there
― Number None, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 13:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's a spinoff of The Thick of It w/ the same creators. they were shooting a lot of it in Baltimore over the last few months, one day i ALMOST got to go spend time on the set but then it fell through, i was bummed.
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's not a spinoff as far as i know
― Number None, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
well it was created after a failed US adaptation of The Thick of It, and the wikipedia calls it a 'spinoff' but you're right that may be inaccurate. probably it's more like the way Parks & Recreation started as a spinoff of The Office.
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
a friend of mine whos writing a piece about iannucci says that the three episodes hes seen arent great :-/
― max, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
not so surprised. it looks like a retread of a lot of things, content-wise + tonally
― Mordy, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
have you seen the thick of it mordy?
― max, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
a few episodes back when we did that best tv shows of the 00's poll
― Mordy, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
didnt like it?
― max, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
it was okay but a little too inside-english-baseball for me i think?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:08 (1 year ago) Permalink