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

i didn't mean that the primary audience of BBT is oldsters, but that any oldster who DOES watch it (and the ratings suggest it's got a relatively broad market share) will LOOOOOOOOVE The Crazy Ones.

basically I'm just saying that anyone who's first thought when it comes to Robin Williams is "funny!" rather than "yeesh" will be happy with the show

ok that makes sense. i wonder if my dad watches it, i know he watches 2.5 men.

it was kinda weird it was hyped as 'robin williams returns to tv!' like most of the public were still thinking of him as tv-turned-movie star after 30 years. it'd be like hyping something 'tom hanks returns to tv!' or even 'bruce willis returns to tv!'. i guess we'll never be over mork.

pretty harsh on super fun night, average in a sweet way imo

then again that is b99 i see there in second on ur list so maybe they subtitled it badly for bizarro world or something

millers was... not nearly as bad as i was bracing myself for. the husband and kid are total dead weight though

http://tv.yahoo.com/photos/fall-tv-shows-in-trouble-1380737839-slideshow/

it's taking all of my restraint not to type her line out btw

"i'm going to kiss that sweet, young fbi agent on the cheek and say goodnight... AND THEN GO DOWN TO THE DOCKS AND PICK UP MY NEXT SHIPMENT OF GIRLS!!"

lol!!!

cheesy classic, i lol'ed

my parents-in-law fucking LOVE big bang theory, every time we visit they try to make us watch old episodes with them.

Maybe I'm just feeling really generous/bored this season, I've been watching a lot more sitcoms this season and been feeling "eh, all right"

Trophy Wife, case in point. No doubt it will be cancelled, but I like the cast (Bradley Whitford, Marcia Gay Harden, Mikaela Watkins, Natalie Morales and a genuinely trying Malin Akerman) and the premise is a little different

on the whole i think most ensembles are totally great this season, its wack premises and creaky pacing that're killing me

Just looked at that Yahoo! list. What the hell even was Lucky 7? I never heard of it.

Lucky 7 was poorly advertised throughout the summer, much like Super Fun Night. By poorly I mean the ads were dumb and gave no real indication what the show would be like

If only they'd called Ironside "Wheels & The Legman"

I saw about 30m of Lucky 7, had to stop it when the lottery official made them blind vote whether the guy who was in pool but didn't actually give money should be included in the winnings because THE DRAMA IT WAS JUST TOO MUCH

part of my appreciation for brooklyn 9-9 is that it already has a decent parks & rec-ish rhythm down, using lil zoom-ins as comic cues rather than pausing awkwardly after jokes like most single-cam comedies this season. Glad to see a show use the rhythms of a mockumentary show without actually going full talk-to-the-cam mockumentary. Ep 3 actually had too many jokey bits rather than too few, which is pretty novel this season, plus Andre Braugher is killing it.

agreed, the whole B99 cast is pretty damn good

also so glad that samberg finally just put on the damn tie and they dropped the whole "cap'n, you gotta let me be me!" thing

braugher is such a killer straightman
it's like homicide all over again

i love him

I really liked Super Fun Night (which can largely be read as: I really like Rebel Wilson and I think it's a really good idea to give her a low-concept sitcom that's reasonably cute and funny).

And even though it has its own thread, it needs to be pointed out in as many places as possible that The Eric Andre Show remains pretty much the funniest show on TV.

I like that Brooklyn 99 is using Chelsea P more

And even though it has its own thread, it needs to be pointed out in as many places as possible that The Eric Andre Show remains pretty much the funniest show on TV.

good to know for when Netflix streams it 9 years from now

http://www.pbs.org/program/genealogy-roadshow/

watched this last night and it was supremely idiotic

so it's like antiques roadshow, but instead of an object, someone has a family story. and instead of telling you about it and a dollar value, they have pan shots of old documents, and tell you if it's bullshit or not. lots of dramatic music. there are people huddled around the expert and the uhh contestant during the big reveal, some of whom are probably family but are otherwise unexplained.

Your ancestor was....*drumroll*

HERMAN GOERING

*fanfare, tickertape, dancing girls*

So CBS already axed We Are Men. They're usually slow to cancel, so it must have been REALLY bad.

I really dig Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and I wasn't expecting to. Felt like last week's was the strongest of the three - I don't think we've seen the best of what's to come on this show, but it's still managed to make me guffaw.

Munch is leaving Law & Order SVU, so I'm crossing my fingers Brooklyn Nine Nine sticks around long enough for him to do my wished-for cameo

The first episode of Trophy Wife is some of the best TV I've seen in a while, but every episode since has been mediocre :(

I really dig Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and I wasn't expecting to. Felt like last week's was the strongest of the three - I don't think we've seen the best of what's to come on this show, but it's still managed to make me guffaw.

― Neanderthal, Wednesday, October 16, 2013 12:31 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel like the show just needs to breathe a little.

it's slowly getting a little looser

Masters of Sex is the first potentially great show I've seen this season

goodbye Welcome to the Family and Ironside

i was at least aware of Welcome To The Family and how doomed it was from the beginning (ball cap guy from Yes, Dear? that's your top billed star?) but i never even heard of Ironside or saw a single ad for it before it was canceled. and i've watched enough NBC in the past month that that seems like their fault.

I kind of love The Millers, or more specifically love Beau Bridges and Margo Martindale. I wish they'd just let Will Arnett leave cuz he doesn't seem like he's having a lot of fun.

Margo's got a real "oh, i already have an emmy for drama, when's my next fart scene?" vibe while arnett makes "i've made a huge mistake" faces

i like the hello ladies show

I started watching that and bailed after 20 minutes. I love Stephen Merchant but I guess I just wasn't in the mood for him? I plan on trying again

I had no idea what Chris Hardwick's @midnight show was going to be like, but it was fucking killing me dead for 30 minutes. There's no way it will be good every night, but now I've got something to kill time with between Colbert and Fallon.

god i hate chris hardwick so much and i hate the nonstop commercials for that so much i can't comprehend actually watching him on purpose

haha

I've never seen Hardwick being funny. Maybe the show is a change of pace.

Hardwick wasn't particularly funny. It was the content and the content the all-comic panel reacted to.

sounds like Talking Bad/Dead - tolerable if the guests are good

yeah Hardwick has pretty much never been funny but if it's just the latest way for CC to load up a show with comedians it seems like it could be a decent distraction on the rare occasion i feel like staying up past Colbert

so Hardwick is kinda acting as the DJ Khaled of television then?

that is a harsh diss on Khaled right there

WE THE NERDIST

One of those weird meta things - on Trophy Wife this week she makes a scene of hiding out and eating a bag of Let's potato chips, the imaginary brand from last season on Community.

http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2013/07/lets-potato-chips-have-appeared-in-community-orange-is-the-new-black-every-show-ever/