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

gave up on every other new show though i could see going back to a few once given the season 2 all-clear

The only shows I've watched with any regularity of late are S.H.I.E.L.D. (which is mostly cute and undemanding and not nearly as bad as everyone keeps saying, and which is supposed to start getting much much Marvel-ier after the break, so I'm hangin' in there) and HIMYM (which is mostly painful and cartoonish and not nearly as good as everyone keeps saying...there were some lulls prior to this season, but I never had so much trouble sticking with it before) and The Eric Andre Show (which makes me laugh super hard almost every episode).

Best new show I've seen this year is the waaaaaaay underrated and underexposed Nathan For You:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2rgzsO-AMM

New shows I'm sticking with:

Rectify
Hannibal
OitNB
Masters of Sex
Moone Boy
Nathan For You
Inside Amy Schumer
The Americans
Orphan Black

Returning shows I gave up on:

The Walking Dead
Homeland

Oh, yeah, Orphan Black was good value. As was however many episodes of Hannibal I've watched thus far. Will be returning to those.

So very smugly pleased with myself that I saw through the Homeland hype machine by the end of season 1.

I'd maintain that it was mostly great up until "Q&A." That's where the series really ended in my brain.

Until and including, I should say.

I hung in for another half a season, but much of my credulity fizzled along with Brody's bomb.

Am I really the only person who thinks Getting On on HBO is the best current show on television? Everyone should try it.

I intend to! The majority of my TV watching time of late has been devoted to an umpteenth rewatch of Roseanne, and I'm thrilled that Laurie Metcalf is back on TV.

oh, u know what else is good? alpha house on amazon prime.

Yeah, would like to watch that for similar reasons (plus Trudeau's previous televisual effort, Tanner '88, being one of my favorite shows ever).

Oh yeah, if Hannibal counts as new, then yeah, I'm sticking with that one. I tried The Americans for like, five or six eps and I just couldn't get into it. Same with the ten minutes of Getting On I watched.

Wow, you went in for 5 or 6 episodes and still didn't get into The Americans? The S1 finale contained THE MOST INTENSE bit of television I've seen anywhere all year.

I dunno, maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there or whatnot, but FX dramas on the whole have this kind of "HBO but not quite there" aesthetic that annoys me.

ok, i got bored enough to draw up a list so here's my stuff i'm currently watching / continuing to watch / will watch when it returns from hiatus. i can not recommend everything here:

15-30min comedy: alpha house, trophy wife, mindy project, new girl, brooklyn-99, modern family, eric andre show, children's hospital, eagleheart, parks + rec, comedy bang bang, key & peele, suburgatory, louie, always sunny in philadelphia, cougar town, himym, snl, i'll probably give community another try, veep,

hr-long dramas: almost human, game of thrones, orange is the new black

animated: bob's burgers, american dad, adventure time, rick and morty, china il, metalocalypse, steven universe, venture bros, archer, boondocks

rip: anthony jeselnik (cancelled), newsroom (maybe i'll catch up on the 2nd season - i doubt it), girls (blah), mad men (boring), homeland (ridiculous), ja'mie (stupid)

murgatroid otm

Justified and The Americans were both better than anything on HBO this year.

sigh. Justified. I can't wait til it comes back

Yeah, I was about to say in my above post that at the same time, I'm not really watching anything on HBO these days either save Veep. I'll check out Looking too as it's my sworn duty as a Gay (though Alyssa Rosenberg, who I usually trust with TV and whatnot, sez it's good).

i watch game of thrones and enjoy boardwalk empire a ton though i never watch it week to week i always wait til the season's over and binge watch it. i watch girls also, i like lena dunham so sue me, and if/when curb comes back i'll watch it also.

the only show that was really crucial for me this year was canceled. rip bunheads.

;_;

Yeah. At least Sutton Foster is getting a new show! On...TV Land! But still!

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view7/2532644/crying-baby-o.gif

Didn't know how I managed to not throw my TV out the window after Bunheads, Enlightened, and Happy Endings were all cancelled in the span of a year but I somehow survived.

Happy Endings was never gonna live man, let's face it. It was one of those shows.

A question about Enlightened. Did it end in a satisfactory way? I'd hate to start at the beginning and find out I'm going to arrive at a cliffhanger with no chance for resolution.

Oh, it ends PERFECTLY.

Okay, cool.

yeah it's great JF, you should totally watch it

tv is in too many places now, can't keep track

i mean amazon prime seriously

let's go back to just have four networks and put the three or four good shows on air on those

RE: Almost Human

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.

Watched the first episode of 'The Assets' - dramatised sorta miniseries about Aldrich Ames

It's not great, especially if you prefer your spy entertainment on the Tinker Tailer level, but as far as spies on network tv goes, i'm a sucker for pretty much anything so I'll take it

dude playing Ames is a dead ringer imo

best part: Ralph Brown (Camberwell Carrott Danny from Withnail & I) plays one of the bosses. Took me all episode to figure out who he was

okay it's not really the best thing but I was excited to realize it was 'im

finally watched trophy wife, it's really funny but it is SUCH a modern family rip, which is kind of, i dunno, if it was a person you would be kind of embarrassed for how unabashed they are at being current

yeah i finally watched it cuz of ilx, fun show and i'm really happy to see michaela watkins getting work since her getting fired from snl was such bullshit. the kids are really really good on it which is really not the case w/ these shows very often. all the kids on modern family starting to look awkward and ill fitting, like latter day ben seaver.

I was so annoyed with the Trophy Wife pilot because it was ALMOST funny, and the cast was SO likable, but it didn't really work

Fortunately within like two episodes the cast charisma and the scripts started clicking. I don't regularly follow it but I always enjoy it whenever I catch it.

Have they made any effort to explain the family backstory? Like how Bradley married and divorced two wildly different women but managed to keep an extremely amicable relationship with both even after quickly marrying a hottie about twenty years younger than him? Did they reveal they're actually all sister wives or anything?

it's a sitcom?

well, considering they were actively losing older female viewers in the first few weeks and ratings haven't improved, i was curious if there'd been any effort to address the conceit that's presumably alienating them.

lawyer, doctor (super republicany), new ager (super liberalish), half-his-age blonde who -doesn't- try to determine everything about his life / butt in; seems to be a sequence of over-reactions

i would rather hear about the kids, as is there's kind of a weird like dad-is-just-some-guy-who-was-married-to-mom vibe

dad seems like a dork - the two sons seem to reflect him a lot (like the dumb kid in modern family)

the whole concept sounds like it could alienate women - especially the young wife being superhot - but three of the leads are women and easily get the chunk of screen time and storylines, and they're all funny/sympathetic to some degree. i think the creator wrote it loosely inspired by her own experience as a third wife

yeah the cast is terrific but its pretty definitely going to be cancelled. it's just funny that it was created by the creator of Target: Women and all the interviews were all "well she's not REALLY a trophy wife, she's just a young woman we can all respect" and everybody missed that making the young hottie the sympathetic lead over two single moms might actually alienate the kind of people watching ABC after The Goldbergs.

Is Patton Oswalt the narrator of The Goldbergs? Trying to pinpoint what it is that makes me turn off the TV/change channels within 10 seconds whenever that show comes on.

think so yeah

wow, good for brooklyn-99 - winning golden globes on the basis of what? half a season?

yeah, they'd only aired 11 episodes when the nominations were announced

seeing chelsea peretti onstage at the golden globes was pretty cool

hell yeah