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

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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/

yeah finding out that things morley cigarettes, heisler beer, and (presumably let's potato chips) were the result of a using the same prop supplier and not some elaborate in joke was kinda disappointing.

oooooooh.

The Blacklist is really really really lazy. Choice cliches from tonight:

"The car isn't holding the bomb - the car IS the bomb!"

"It'll take at least two hours to evacuate everyone in a 20 mile radius!"
"We have 10 minutes."

i liked the almost human pilot enough to watch a second episode. generic cyberpunk setting + generic police procedural = actually kinda watchable to me!

'so do you feel EMOTIONS like a REAL HUMAN BEING??' sigh

brooklyn 99 going pretty ok so far.

chelsea peretti (first-date girl from the s1 episode of louie) annoys me considerably tho.

terry crews doing some good work there.

you have to suspend disbelief pretty significantly to buy Peralta, but the show makes me LOL so I do it easily

chelsea is rad fuiud

and its getting funnier each week

joe lo truglio is KILLING me, dude is so consistently funny

I've always loved his work, particularly on The State and similar themed projects, but it's kind of nice to see him in a more traditional setting because he does it very well. He's a weirdo, but for once, he's not significantly weirder than the other characters around him.

peretti is the best thing about the show imo

the show is already really solid, great cast all around

k this episode was ace. so many great moments, especially:

*Boyle INSISTING on bringing up his blog
*Terry breaking the 8-ball
*Pizza sauce prank
*The cop/firefighter turf war
*Gina scaring the interviewee

her bit on the witness stand in the previous episode was great

'to be candid...'

lol yes and the blinking!

so the crazy ones is just one ongoing exercise in brand partnerships right

Getting On (HBO, sorry) is fucking nonstop amazing right out the gate. Everyone has to watch this right now.

Masters of Sex has loads in favor of it and is consistently getting tripped up on its own feet with too many plots and counterplots that keep stirring the pot before anything gets even half baked. I'm hoping it calms down next season and trusts the actors to carry it a bit more.

anyone been paying attention to these sundance shows, are they really so good or is this another AMC bubble for people to latch onto

Rectify and Top of the Lake are fantastic. Les Revenants/The Returned is pretty good.

I loved Rectify. I thought Top of the Lake was good at times. The Returned was superb...until it wasn't.

Rectify is fantastic.

Anyone watching Almost Human? I was behind & watched the first two tonight, am totally on board. Good chemistry between the handsome blue-eyed fellow & Karl Urban, some good laugh out loud moments between them in ep 2

i watched it a little and found it decent. i find the trend of 2 hour pilots really off-putting, though, the show is too light to pull that off. i liked how quickly they got to an episode about sex robots, though.

trophy wife gets funnier every episode

I dunno, I watched last week's, and I still have that problem where I find it cute/charming but not actually ha-ha funny.

i'm digging it, but it's true, a lot of it rides on how likeable the cast is

its a really nice ensamble. i feel like they've hit a groove.

In which Alessandra Stanley compares OITNB to Clueless: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/arts/television/alessandra-stanley-sizes-up-2013-tv-fare.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1&

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpVoUvLdErw

Never forget, 2013's best response to Alessandra Stanley's bullshit, courtesy of Chris Hayes: http://www.salon.com/2013/10/14/nyt_calls_chris_hayes_a_hollywood_diva/

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i still like almost human it's like gotham central in transmet universe

yeah I'm still loving it

i should give it a shot huh?

it doesn't really do subtle character sketches, it's very pulpy. i hope they make it weirder and weirder as it goes on

For the end of the year, I think what would be interesting is if everyone reading this thread gave a list of new shows they're sticking with and a list of shows, both new and otherwise, that they're giving up on (or thinking of doing so).

New shows:

The Originals (Best New Show 2013 - but I'm a Vampire Diaries fan)
Sleepy Hollow
The Tomorrow People (such trash, and not even that enjoyable tbh, but I keep on watching this for some reason, maybe cause it's hard to change the channel after Arrow)
Trophy Wife

Shows I'm (close to) giving up on:

Agents of SHIELD (I'm reallyyyy close to giving up on this one - gonna see how they resolve the "midseason finale" cliffhanger and if that isn't resolved in a satisfactory manner, I'm out)
Awkward (I've liked this show a lot and last night's finale was fantastic but it also felt like a series finale since the creator/"showrunner" is leaving the show so I don't know if I want to ruin the neatness of the entire arc so far)
Nashville
Revenge (see Agents of SHIELD)

New Shows:
Sleepy Hollow
Almost Human

Giving up on
Walking Dead
Agents of SHIELD (havent officially given up but cant be fucked watching)
White Collar

New shows:

The Americans
Orphan Black
Orange Is The New Black

Shows I'm close to giving up on:

Revenge, for the same reasons as Murgatroid gave. This series has gone some stupid places, but if what they've teased as happening is really what happens, I may be done.

mordy kinda selling me on almost human. bailed on agentzzz of shield, bailed on nashville a while back (ok show, just expendable), loved revenge season one, lost track w/ season two and haven't really looked back. i could see myself catching up on netflix at some point. i think the only new show i actively watch is brooklyn nine nine? it's kinda come into its own though it's nowhere near its ceiling (i hope). very much mean to check out masters of sex cuz i love period drama and i've heard good things and i find lizzy caplan very very interesting. has anyone experienced this feeling i've had of late where you'll hear some show that you've been meaning to check out whenever you finally somehow find the time has gone to hell and you get this odd sense of relief? in my case thinking here specifically of homeland and sons of anarchy.

i'm so relieved that homeland - whose second season i couldn't finish - is getting terrible and i never have to go back to it