2012 Fall TV Thread

YES

i will crush the jelly from your eyes, MOTHERFUCKER!!!

is what we would have gotten on premium cable

there's no such thing as a french cowboy

lots of v funny lines in this one finally -- robert patrick was p good!

Revenge has been just about 100% "HOLY SHIT" this season. Just saw last week's episode and now I have to wind down before trying to sleep.

damn near stood up and applauded when baby mama went over the railing

haha, I've only just got into Revenge. Watched all of season one in 4 days last week and have now caught up on Season 2. I kinda miss Nolan/Emily take down of the week episodes tho'

i marathoned revenge recently, too -- i can't get over how fun it is! they're using tropes and characters that i KNOW would annoy the shit out of me on other shows, but they make it work. it's like a well-oiled soap opera machine.

my major complaint now is that the accented ex-boyfriend is supplanting nolan's role in emily's life, which is bullshit because nolan is amazing and this new guy is dull as rocks. then again i also didn't like fake amanda that much and look what happened to HER, so there's always hope.

lol glad people are getting into Revenge. Such an awful show, but I can't stop watching. And I agree, I miss the Emily/Nolan dynamic, especially since Emily has no sense of humour whatsoever.

The Fug Girls do excellent recaps of this btw: http://gofugyourself.com/tag/revenge

i don't like fake amanda except as a way to throw off emily's game, really hate declan and to a lesser extent jack. miss the oldest dog in the world. really miss the takedown of the week though they couldn't do that forever. enjoying daniel coming into full graysonhood, love the voiceovers that work like carrie bradshaw reading from the art of war, stoked for jennifer jason leigh in full crazy, can't wait to see what castmember from short cuts pops up next (plz plz huey lewis), emily vancamp is very pretty.

declan is the worst. I hope he ends up being the mysterious dead guy on the boat (which is possible since he's rumoured to be back on Gossip Girl for the final season.)

Charlotte can pretty much go away too. and thanks to Nolan, Daniel will forever be "Spaniel" to me now.

man i love mason treadwell

Pretty sure Emily (actual Amanda) has worn backless things before, so the scar not being where he thought it should be seems like not a big deal at all.

so do i have to watch revolution now or what

haha i don't think you'll get any survival tips from it no

Padma is on my shit list now. Along with Aiden. Leave poor old billionaire Nolan alone!!

I don't think Padma's intentions were malicious. She's looking out for the interests of Nolcorp. Aiden seems to be a huge dickhead, though.

Up All Night is going to come back in the Spring as a multi-cam.

wait wat

Look for NBC's newest hour-long medical drama, Up All Night, premiering Fall 2013. And fun has a new name in Spring 2014, as NBC presents the new reality game show, Up All Night.

New NBC logo just dropped today, y'all:

http://delapruch.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/grasping-at-straws.jpg

xpost and our new detective show Up All Knight

haha jesus that makes all previous retoolings seem like nothing by comparison. has any show ever completely overhauled its visual style mid-run? like even if it miraculously worked and the show ran for six seasons, syndicated reruns would be like 'huh why do a quarter of these episodes look completely different from the rest.'

like EYES

remember EYES? with the other guy from Wings? I loved that show so much and they cancelled it halfway through the season.

Great show - if memory serves, the creator of EYES also created PROFIT which is one of the great lost shows of the 90s. The rest of the season did get run out in NZ I think...

Up All Night can be an 'anthology series' like American Horror Story, every season is a whole new thing

I've never seen Profit, though I've heard it was really good

NBC just makes my fucking head hurt anymore. It reminds me way too much of places I've worked where nobody seemed to be in charge and nobody knew what they were doing and you were shocked every single day that the place was still in business.

Up All Night can be an 'anthology series' like American Horror Story, every season is a whole new thing

Seriously. I enjoyed last season, but this one has been so desperate and dumb. I wonder what the multi cam version is going to be like.

it's hilarious because usually random desperate cast additions are, like, some sexy actress or popular standup comic, with Up All Night it's just 'random bearded UCB dude that was only a mid-season replacement we canceled 6 months ago'

only=on

EW says this was Lorne's idea.

I doubt it's going to anything but awful, but I have a morbid curiosity about what they plan on doing to it. The brother is already worse than Cousin Oliver, so this has real trainwreck potential.

Lorne should be focused on figuring out a starring vehicle for Maya, she deserves better than sidekick status (xpost)

six episodes into s3 maya will be replaced by crystal the monkey

Look forward to the point in the show's run that it becomes animated Simpsons-style and then becomes Law & Order: UAN.

just saw rainn wilson tweet that nbc has decided not to pursue the dwight spinoff after all.

i guess it's not all bad decisions over there

First smart thing they've done in eons.

haha i'd take more comfort in that if i didn't suspect they made the right decision for the wrong reasons

just retooling to multi-cam. will truck in studio audience to an actual farm.

What he meant to say is that they're still doing the Dwight spin-off, just without Dwight. Will be all of the newly-cast actors playing Dwight's family, wondering where Dwight is and what Dwight is doing.

BTW I feel for that cast. A friend of mine is on a show that was supposed to be on ABC Family this fall but which was dropped right before it debuted and is airing on some online video site instead.

The Neighbors gets a full season order. What a weird day.

Jesus. Does ABC not realize that they could probably just let the station go dark before Modern Family and get the same ratings without spending any money?

This week's Nashville: I was sure last week Juliette had lifted that nail polish at the drug store to work some publicity angle, but as this week's episode went on I kept thinking "no, she's not THAT stupid" and she'd get even stupider. Nice button on the real reason why, though.

OH TEDDY

Probably belongsin its own thread, but eek spoilers, so, Homeland S2 any cop?

It's been excellent so far. An improvement on season one.

i'm on the fence about whether i agree w/ that but it's definitely worth watching if you liked the first season at all

It's got big brass balls but that means that I have no confidence in it whatsoever from week to week.

yeah it's very flawed in ways that have been outlined on the thread but bottom line is it's ballsy and watchable