2012 Fall TV Thread

i think i'll have some popcorn with this ham

Y'all take this shit to the beef thread. I want to read about tv.

man idk whatever Nicole supposedly did to stir up this beef, but c'mon Turangalila, you're getting a little ott and uncalled for.

Sherlock is definitely better than Elementary but they're pretty different shows. Much like Sherlock is pretty different from the Robert Downey Jr. movies.

thank god, because that first Downey Sherlock was such utter shit.

i had no idea about the longstanding ilx feud public domain characters updated to contemporary settings (is this morbs' issue w/ shakey btw? do they disagree about clueless the movie vs clueless the tv show?) but then again i have no idea who the fuck turangalila is. torn between psycho lurker determined to make a splash and mel posting under another username. either way, to quote clueless, a virgin who can't drive.

lol at 'feigned shock' - 'you know the batshit reality i have constructed in my head is IN FACT REAL and your befuddlement ONLY CONFIRMS IT'. thinking maybe someone actually could use a restraining order here.

i thought the Mob Doctor pilot was aight, but then on the 2nd episode i realized that a) this is quickly becoming a boring hospital show w/ stupid mob subplots and b) anything interesting they might do w/ the premise was probably already done better in Sons of Anarchy's Tara storylines.

JLM's performance as Sherlock is really bizarre. Also I find it odd that Sherlock Holmes would have so many tattoos.

Turangalila is an old time ilx poster. Tho he doesn't post as often anymore (or at least not in threads that I read).

Pretty much everything they show clips of on The Soup qualifies as the worst thing on TV in life.

Fixed.

The Soup is the best.

Melissa has been posting at least since 2002 when I started.

he didn't mean he hadn't seen her posts before

I'm just stating facts I know in an aspergers-esque manner

yes very familiar w/ mel aka generic store brand white chocolate cheesecake

Fuck off.

***take it to the beef thread or stop talking about it***

Yeah I'm not thrilled about more of Mob Doctor now that I've seen the first one. I like the first ep, but now I don't care? Bad sign.

Last Resort was lots of fun, btw. Completely beggars belief in many, many instances and is kinda corny/predictable. But Braugher is just so cool I can't help wanting to watch. And it's fun to have a classic tom Clancy action-movie type drama on tv.

for your reference

if an ilx beef threatens to take over a perfectly innocent thread you can politely direct people here.

Yeah I'm not thrilled about more of Mob Doctor now that I've seen the first one. I like the first ep, but now I don't care? Bad sign.

This is exactly how I felt about it.

I'm sort of interested in the idea that some actors are New York actors, or LA actors, or etc. Jordana Spiro was in My Boys, shot in Chicago, and now is in another Chicago show. Zach Gilford went to Northwestern. I wonder how often that sort of thing determines the casting.

Like with Lost I'm sure they had to consider how realistic it was for the particular actors to spend extended time in Hawaii.

lucy liu was decent in kill bill and the futurama she did. she was a definite breakout star on ally mcbeal though i'm not sure you could call what anybody did w/ that show good (though i do remember seeing portia de rossi and thinking 'i hope she ends up on some better show' and lo and behold she did, twice). how many failed tv shows has liu had since her return to tv? edging into christian slater territory i think.

i imagine casting geographically matters more of there's an accent that's universally associated w/ the place -- definitely Boston and New York things go out of their way to get people from there or who can do the accent convincingly, but i dunno if Chicago or LA has that to any significant extent.

did er draw on a chicago talent pool? it seems like if a show was gonna be the law and order of chicago it was that one. if it was actually shot in chicago.

I think just some of the exterior shots were done in Chicago, the majority of the show was shot in L.A. iirc.

Anyone see the new Up All Night episodes? I watched the first one and have the 2nd on dvr. First was a bit rushed and crazy in introducing an entirely new scenario from Season 1 but w/e, I love all three of the stars so I'll watch this show forever.

^^^ OTM

haven't watched ep 2 yet

andre braugher is the best. i'd watch him in anything

also, not going to change the channel when jessy schram or dichen lachman are on.

or scheming SEXY DEFENSE CONTRACTORS.

2nd ep of Revolution seemed slightly better than the first? I fell asleep 2/3 of the way in though, so I can't verify that completely :/

lol

andre braugher is the best. i'd watch him in anything

OTM. Still haven't decided whether I wanna commit to another 1-hr. drama, though. Maybe I'll just rewatch my Homicide DVDs and pretend that the precinct house is underwater.

i really gave up on Up All Night pretty early on and was kind of disappointed when it wasn't canceled, but i guess if there's some kind of reboot going on i should give that a chance.

Maybe I'll just rewatch my Homicide DVDs and pretend that the precinct house is underwater.

― Old Lunch, Friday, September 28, 2012 4:39 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's literally a few feet from the bay, give it a few more years!

not going to change the channel when jessy schram or dichen lachman are on.

get to, you mean

man, the Last Resort pilot is the best Star Trek episode in years!

Ha ha. OTM! The encore sucked me in. I might be hooked.

Bailed out on Revolution. Second episode was horrid.

fiery hell, fuck yeah!!!!

i dig lucy liu. i decided this after watching a lifetime network romantic comedy she starred in (i know) called Marry Me, i think? she was really charming and i decided she's been racistly typecast basically ever since ally mcbeal in crypto-"dragon lady" roles. i think she's good. also, she is very pretty.

i love her freckles

yeah definitely could be that casting has failed her

i just have the attitude of ok if you're gonna flip the gender of a character like Watson you REALLY gotta go for broke

make her REALLY female

give her an extra boob or something

al i kind of feel like you would like marry me; maybe that's crazy though

haha w/o any caps or italics that sentence REALLY can look different than it means -- it is tragically not crazy that i would probably enjoy a lifetime network romantic comedy though

coming back to this thread "new answers" style and forgetting the earlier reference to that movie DID make that post very "oh wow"

loooool my bad. sorry guys!

the lifetime network film Marry Me is super-corny, but it's also kind of funny. it's like a train song in movie form. (not really. i totally like it more than a train song, but i was trying to use an al-specific analogy)

i edited that down from a paragraph long summary btw

i was gonna say don't condescend to me but most Train singles would be pretty easily adaptable to rom coms