2012 TV thread: winter, spring, maybe summer

Reminds me of Goodfellas, where Lorraine Bracco's character is Jewish but they comment on how Italian she looks

kat dennings != max

its true, sigh

on the plus side, that means you were never in a film being fingerbanged by Michael Cera

well, it was a mini-series

i have never been fingered by michael cera in a miniseries or movie

ok fine, webisode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soJggb_jDL8

sooooo. west wing w/out sorkin?

Thick of It in the US morelike

Matt Walsh even kinda looks like Timothy Busfield

This looks good! Also, I love seeing Anna Chlumsky as a grown up.

kind of a bland trailer but they probably didn't want to put too much swearing etc. in there

it's a spinoff of The Thick of It w/ the same creators. they were shooting a lot of it in Baltimore over the last few months, one day i ALMOST got to go spend time on the set but then it fell through, i was bummed.

it's not a spinoff as far as i know

well it was created after a failed US adaptation of The Thick of It, and the wikipedia calls it a 'spinoff' but you're right that may be inaccurate. probably it's more like the way Parks & Recreation started as a spinoff of The Office.

a friend of mine whos writing a piece about iannucci says that the three episodes hes seen arent great :-/

not so surprised. it looks like a retread of a lot of things, content-wise + tonally

have you seen the thick of it mordy?

a few episodes back when we did that best tv shows of the 00's poll

didnt like it?

it was okay but a little too inside-english-baseball for me i think?

i'll def watch it when it comes out, btw, but i don't hold out a lot of hope for it (what was the last good HBO sitcom? Larry Sanders?)

Eastbound and Down!!

I love The Thick of It/In the Loop so much that I'm probably going to be disappointed, if only because I'm not entirely sure how much you can translate that kind of humour to the US.

in the loop is so good! i sort of think of the main scottish dude who swears all the time as history mayne. (is he scottish? i am so racist when it comes to the u.k.)

i just love julia louis-dreyfus so much also

new adventures of old christine :/

i like that show!

i'm not really watching but when i turned on the volume for Awake, they were playing a Cat Powers song.

i don't remember that from when i watched the pilot a couple weeks ago, but then i don't remember much about it

it's "Maybe Not" from You Are Free

::takes notes::

the inclusion of music i like can sucker me into watching even the worst show (ie: Charmed)

I thought Awake was pretty good (I didn't pre-screen the pilot), however they're gonna have to dumb it down a little for Joe TV Watcher because even I was having trouble getting me bearings between Wife World and Son World.

see, one is the world where the wife is dead and the other is the one where the son is dead.

(jk, i couldn't tell you which partner or shrink went to each one)

I figured the female shrink was in Son World and the male shrink was in Wife World, but I've already forgotten which cops go with which world.

I think having been savaged by L O S T made me allergic to these high-concept shows.

i've been looking for a new / old tv show to watch to eat up time, and the 'ads' for lost on hulu keep coming up and for a second i think, yeah, be good to see them pushing buttons in the hatch again, etc., but then i just sort of remember the whole general feeling of being dicked over by the writers/producers/showrunners and think... fuck it.

Just watch it until Charlie dies. After that, it's largely nonsense.

Yeah, I prolly wouldn't mind watching it again through the end of season 5 and just pretending that it finished on a super nihilistic note.

so Awake is worth a shot? i like the concept, but it seems doubtful to survive because of it

Haven't seen it, but reviews have been pretty good-to-great, but a combination of Kyle Killen + That NBC timeslot makes me think no, it won't survive.

Also lots of good TV shows to catch up on if you want. Vampire Diaries is worth it, imo, and its first two seasons are on Netflix Instant. Spartacus is going on and its pretty next level right now.

well, i was hoping not to re-subscribe to netflix.

but i've kind of been feeling like re-screening the shield, so i might just have to. the cop shows still on air right now are getting dire.

Terra Nova axed. Studio is shopping it around.

Maybe they should work on making it better first

i like Smash and that isn't too predictably his but Terra Nova and Falling Skies are just the shittiest Spielberg-by-numbers TV shows he possibly could've made, couldn't even bring myself to watch an episode of The River

First episode of Awake was solid. Second one is sitting there on my DVR.

Watched a bit of The Finder and found is very pleasant in that USA Network blue sky sort of way.

The opening bit about dubstep and "the drop" on Up All Night was pretty lol last night.

bob's burgers s2 started last night and it was pretty great - anyone else watch it? tina is like my favorite character on any tv show right now, loved her leaving a post-it note with "tina" on it in her bed.