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

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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

yeah tvbythenumbers has brooklyn 99 as likely cancelled but considering fox gave it the after the superbowl slot and they bought a golden globe for it i can't imagine they're going to cancel it after just one year (esp since ken tremendous shows tend to improve dramatically in their second season).

happy for them cuz I want them to get season 2 but this is my third favorite show on Fox Tuesdays and Samberg's sometimes the worst thing about it.

Jake Johnston and Chris Messina def deserve a trophy more than ol' Cute'n'Screamy

not to mention Andre Braugher

oh how i wish Andre Braugher was gay irl (also wished the same for Adam Pally re: Happy Endings)

I find it hard to believe Fox would actually pay to buy Brooklyn 99 a Golden Globe. Or any show, really, they just don't care! Look how well those awards did for Arrested Development.

That said I already love Brooklyn 99 and it's probably only going to get better

yeah I really enjoy Brooklyn 99 now -- it took a few episodes to get going but it's really come around

anyone else watching space dandy? djp?

Really liked that Broad City pilot.

^ this was a happy surprise

fyi: killer women is terrible

dnw

mr veg dvr'd it why because trisha helfer ... it's like a hallmark movie masquerading as a tv show

It was readily apparent from the commercials.

yeah, i caught one episode, because I love that Cylon. sadly... awful

has anyone else watched Helix?

the acting is kinda b-movie-level awkward/terrible but there is something about the story that I really love. or maybe I'm just fangirling for Moore, idk

lol 'maybe'

I realized it had that guy from The 4400 but wasn't sure if i should really give it a shot. looks REALLY low budget. Didn't realize RDM was involved

i'm mr meeseeks look at me rick and morty thread

i like broad city

Me too.

watched the first ep, not really my style - opening and ending of the pilot really turned me off

i like it

is 'intelligence' any good, cbs aficionados?

i keep seeing spots for it and i didn't even recognize josh holloway without his sawyer haircut (and shirt, i guess)

didn't watch, apparently it is vv dull and formulaic

i always lol when i see that it's Sawyer from Lost. he disappeared for a while, didn't he?