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

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.

I'm still watching the Bridge and I don't hate it. It isn't as good as the pilot promised, but it's still ok by me.

And I love/am obsessed with Broadchurch.

I'm a few weeks behind on The Bridge but I really like it. the show lays its THEMES on even thicker than the killer, but I still find it compelling in its flaws.

i'm finding Lillard v wearing, but everything else is ok. The Tampa boyfriend showing up was some serious lols

http://tvline.com/2013/08/28/paul-giamatti-hoke-fx-pilot/#comments

Paul Giamatti as a homicide detective playing "hardboiled and possibly insane". I'm in.

Dammit! I had no intention of watching Sean Saves the World, but I just noticed that Thomas Lennon is in it. I may still end up not sticking with it, but at least I'll give it a first glance.

so George Segal and Beau Bridges are both playing Grandpa in sitcoms? that is all.

like either of them have anything better to do

Peter Riegert and Seth Green playing father & son seems promising, but reviews of that one seem dire.

The plot has so many moving parts I doubt it can work, but Sleepy Hollow was pretty fun, Ichabod Crane dude is good at the whole "what is this horseless carriage?" fish-out-of-water thing

horses made of steel!!! etc.

I can take hokum like Sleepy Hollow when it doesn't take itself too seriously and is fun. Excellent!

morbs repping for DADS!

i'm optimistic about brooklyn nine-nine, the pilot was solid enough. plus it means more chelsea peretti in my life, which is great.

eh, like i mentioned in the New Girl thread, the supporting cast for Brooklyn Nine-Nine is promising, but Samberg is just awful.

Ichabod Crane dude is good at the whole "what is this horseless carriage?" fish-out-of-water thing

It's nice to see that running gags universally excoriated in movies (Depp in the Dark Shadows movie) are still good nuff for TV.

Dark Shadows wasn't THAT bad.

yeah I watched the Sleepy Hollow pilot last night and it's pretty good! That Ichabod Crane dude is v handsome imo *bats eyelids*

I didn't think so either, but Ap*tow/T*r*ntino types love to dump on Depp-Burton, and watch any old shit while theyre holding the bong

xp

Straw stoners have to be suuuuuper careful when they're sparkin' up a doob.

don't trust anyone under 40

Brooklyn 99 was fun. I'm in!

apatourette's/tarantourette's

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