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

did anyone watch DADS? not sure what morbs saw in it, i thought it was pretty awful, like if 2 broke girls had been a hit show in 1987 and then circa 1987 fox had tried to make a knockoff. ted was profoundly better and ted was pretty fucking awful also.

yah Men of A Certain Age was good too, I liked that one

I think the FX thing was called Thief. It was good iirc, but I haven't seen it since it aired. Braugher seems to always be working, but never in anything successful.

men of a certain age was good, and also pretty out of the ordinary, for present-day tv

homicide is one of the greatest tv shows of all time, seasons > 2 included.

Yeah I meant Braugher/Crews together, love both those guys.

did anyone watch DADS? not sure what morbs saw in it, i thought it was pretty awful, like if 2 broke girls had been a hit show in 1987 and then circa 1987 fox had tried to make a knockoff. ted was profoundly better and ted was pretty fucking awful also.

i basically had the same reaction

though i was basically fine with all the performers - esp reigert, green and oddly enough vanessa lachey

I almost love reigert enough to try it, but I have the phear

i'm a Seth McFarlane apologist but am running for the hills from this one

Nhex otm

i gave Dads a shot because i have a lot love for Green, Ribisi and Mull, but it's not good. has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

I didn't realize Dads was a MacFarlane joint when I watched it but in retrospect I suppose that should've been obvious. Surprised there was no talking animal, although i think that would've turned the show into a full-on reboot of Unhappily Ever After.

I got around to watching the Brooklyn-99 pilot. Not bad, honestly, I think there's potential there. Maybe I'm just happy to see a single-camera sitcom that's not doing the mockumentary thing, residual effect from New Girl. Samberg IS very toned down from his gawky SNL persona, and I really like the rest of the cast. It's awesome that we get to see Andre Braugher in a straight-up sitcom!

B99 was way better than I was expecting, even with all the good words here. I approve!

I didn't think it was great but damn I really enjoy Samberg & Braugher together

btw can we get a Munch or Bayliss cameo up in here now Braugher's back on a cop show? *begs*

or some Yaphet Koto action?

Cmon

Hmm, for some reason I thought Yaphet Koto had died. Which I'm sure would come as terrible news to him, since he's still alive.

how dare u kill yaphet before his time

I watched a bit of Dads. Very 2.5 Men-esque

Brooklyn Nine Nine has such a good cast that i'm just kinda looking forward to the show's inevitable realization that it isn't really about Samberg's character and emphasizes the whole ensemble

I think they already realize that, but he's the only known star at this point to sell the show

wow Dads is dire

Saw the Blacklist pilot - as expected, pretty generic FBI/terrorism show except for James Spader who of course is always weird fun to watch. Lead is super pretty. Might continue on this since it feels like a pretty bare TV season right now.

yow

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link's dead

beauty is fleeting

trophy wife > mom

Ncis premiere was trying to do way too much but I'm intrigued

Trophy Wife, Mom, Goldbergs, Brooklyn 99, Lucky 7 all turned off between five and fifteen minutes in
i got through shield but i kinda wish i hadn't
why is most of television so goddam dire

Blacklist is good fun imo

Like Alias + Silence of the Lambs, with a little Covert Affairs for sheen

like it's not great, but a good farfetched spygames thing

SHIELD wasn't amazing but it was pretty watchable. It reminded me of Bones, Alphas, Firefly... Whedon still writes like Whedon.

wow Dads is dire

― |citation needed| (will), Sunday, September 22, 2013 7:00 PM

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The Michael J. Fox Show is really really good imo

the pilot strikes a nice balance between genuine humour ( i laughed aloud maybe five times, which is unusual for me outside series 2/3 parks & rec) and requisite mawk, but i'd like to see it move gently away from the mawk once it beds in.

i was gonna wait and see on it but maybe I'll try to set it up. I love him so much

it's also set in a really nice patch of ny's upper west side (72nd st station, fairway markets &c.)

i feel like the show, at least the pilot, was more about satirizing or preempting any gratuitous sentimentality than anything else. it was directed/co-created by Will Gluck, who did the movie Easy A, so if you dig that movie, it's very much in that mode of humor.

Unlike P&R, which was actually a 1 hour episode, the MJF one hour block was actually 2 half hour eps. I thought the first was better than the second, but it's definitely the most promising new NBC sitcom since Community.

the whole 'he's got parkinson's, get over it' angle wouldn't have been possible even 10 years ago. i really love seeing stuff like this.

i.e. the success of a show like this is hugely important atm.

Despite the terrible and punny name, Masters of Sex is pretty good. Vibes of Mad Men going on there.

I really liked the MoS pilot despite the fact that John Madden directed it.

i dunno, Fox show seemed pleasant but really low stakes. "he's got parkinsons, so what?" is a nice sentiment but not particularly gripping tv (also could they really not find a more interesting backdrop than local news?). kind of reminded me of bob & cosby - sitcom legend's third time at bat, nice casts but low stakes. Has anyone ever gone for a third hit sitcom and made it beyond the contracted minimum of episodes? considering twice as many people watched the Robin Williams show at the same time, this doesn't look like the exception to the rule.

That Williams show was pretty ghastly at times but i can see it working - didn't know it was a David E Kelley production, and the vibe was sort of "Ally McBeal & The Last Crusade"

i mean, if anyone wishes mad men had robin williams on it, it's probably people leaving cbs on after big bang theory

actually that's not fair, re: minimum episodes. cosby was contracted for 2 seasons, made it to 4 (ratings dropping when it was moved to fridays). but still.

Masters of Sex is really good. I was saying to my wife, I would hate the title if it was all fictional and they made up a guy named Masters so they could call it that, but since he was real I think it's a perfectly good title.

Also wtf, since when do "low stakes" hurt a sitcom?

Sorry, really meant "low impact".

Bob Benson comedy riffing with Robin Williams is a car wreck, but I can't look away

Obv plenty of banal family comedies have existed, but compared to the kind of arguments between characters on The Cosby Show, Roseanne, Raymond, etc, it felt like every issue on Fox was a non-issue. Someone being vaguely neurotic, everyone else saying "whatevs." That shot of Betsy Brandt limply dancing in the opening credits felt pretty symbolic. Not in and of itself the death knell but NBC clearly had hopes beyond According To Jim for this thing.