hate reality tv that prods and pokes at people who are weird
This is the only kind I like tbh. People fascinate me. idk. Not all shows like that are making fun of the people though some totally are, yes. I know it's mostly shitty tv but I'd rather watch that than all the "funny" sitcoms people love round here. *cough* community *cough*
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
I've never seen the show you're talking about though. I'm just realizing that the things I do watch (Hoarders, Gypsy Wedding etc.) fall into that category.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
Oh I like Girls and Louie too. Those are good.
xp we got different things from that reveal. having grown up in the bible belt, i didn't think they seemed like bumpkin morons, they felt like very familiar types to me.
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
also the gentleness of that reveal, the obvious courage it took for diesel to do it and the weird mix of frustration, love, derision and pride that the chief took in forcing it forward was kind of amazing
the second ep explores a kind of fluid and nearly abstract sexuality among the characters without guilt or jealousy in a way that i've never seen on television. there's no freakshow elements far as i can see, a lot of exhibitionism but everyone appears to me to be accepting and grateful for the opportunity. the direction is treading lightly and doesn't rubberneck at obvious points; i also like the cartoon backstory bits.
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
What channel is this show on?
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
AMCNOT ON DISHi dunno, i think it's got the potential to be special tv.
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
i might be treading some of my loathing for the reality stuff i am talking about into the show, so i am def not making pronouncements on high abt it, i just have a super hair trigger abt all those sorts of shows. because i hate them.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
re: Community, if you don't laugh at Allison Brie macing herself, you are looking for very different things out of your television entertainment than I am
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
I've tried a couple times but can never get more than 5 minutes or so in. idk. I realize that nearly everyone else I know does and that this is probably my issue but I just don't like it. :/
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
I like s1 and part of s2 Community, but the "cleverer" it gets the more indufferable I find it.
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
er insufferable.
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
E, I definitely felt that way about the pilot so I understand the reaction; I just really liked the original paintball episode and the show basically stuck with me from that point on, and with extra investment in the characters the first season becomes really great (including the pilot, which I now can't believe I hated). I will also admit that I kind of forced myself to get into the show because I really wanted Yvette Nicole Brown to be on hit and that I'm even more interested in following the show now because I found out Joel McHale is high school buddies with a singing friend of mine from college who recently went viral in a video of a speech he gave to WA state representatives explaining why, as a Christian, he felt morally obligated to vote in favor of legalizing gay marriage.
but I do also think the show is funny, I mean the zombie episode was classic
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
i was hooked from Chang and Jeff's class presentation.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
sorry, Pierce and Jeff in Chang's class
How do you people have enough time to watch ten or more shows on a regular basis?
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
(Joel McHale is actually making an appearance at one of my friend's campaign events, which I think is massively cool)
xp: no kids
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
(he posted to ILX) xp
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
DVR helps
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
in no order, and if any of these hits a certain point of suckitude I will drop it in a heartbeat
30 RockBachelor PadThe Glee ProjectCommunityHappy EndingsSuburgatoryUnsungDon't Trust The B In Apartment 23Breaking Bad (though I'm only like 1/3 of the way in to Season 1 on Netflix)Justified (though I've only seen the first two seasons on DVD)
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
only show I know I watch that I left off is The Soup, which I still watch for the clips even though the jokes in between feel lazier every week
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha here's hoping Bachelor Pad can keep up its current standard of quality
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
i was just thinking I should have said certain point of boringness or something like that
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
that show is amazing though
oh it looks amazing, if I was more invested in the Bachelor franchise that would totally be my shit
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
Breaking BadBobs BurgersVenture BrosLouieParks and RecThe LeagueEric Andre ShowChildrens HospitalLuther (assuming this is still rolling on)American Horror Story
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
wait Peep Show has more coming right? that should be in there somewhere
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like I watch a lot of television, and I could easily name 10 shows that I really like, but at any given time of the year I can watch as little as 90 minutes a week to as much as maybe 6 hours a week, and three of hours will probably be on Sunday night. It seems like a lot of time commitment, but it's really not that much when half the shows are only 30 minute sitcoms and with DVR you can kind of squeeze those in whenever.
At the moment I watch 3 and a half hours, though maybe it's more accurate to say 2 and a half since the hour I spend with the Newsroom usually involves me gasping, agog, into some black hole of bizarre awfulness.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
just started watching Damages on Netflix streaming and if that is still a going concern and it doesnt shit itself up after the first season, that would be a worthy nom too
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah i just finished season one of that, probably didn't include it just because the guest stars this upcoming season are Jenna Elfman and Ryan Phillippe...ooooh
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Dharma and teen Valmont, together at last
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
Oh I like Breaking Bad too.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
Ryan Phillipe has an amazingly hot voice.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
trying to think what my actual faves right now are, probably:
Doctor WhoGame of ThronesCommunity30 RockParks & RecAmerican DadYoung JusticeDon't Trust the B**** in Apt 23New GirlHappy Endings
honorable mention to Bleach, Deadman Wonderland, Eric Andre Show, Big Bang Theory, Suburgator, Modern Family, The Middle, Grimm, Venture Brothers, Up All Night, Law & Order: SVU, Family Guy, South Park
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
this seems as good a place as any to note that in the first episode of Bachelor Pad, a woman told her partner (who then went off and made out with another woman) that if they lost the first competition (which was to keep themselves inside a heart-shaped box as it was slowly turned 90 degrees), she would "donkey punch him in the neck."
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
i keep meaning to try damages
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
it's easy to watch 10 or even 30 shows when they're 15 minute adult swim eps
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
Justified (though I've only seen the first two seasons on DVD)
You're in for a treat, s3 rules and is the best season yet imo (seems to be a minority opinion tho)
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
damages s1 is pretty solid, but s2 was such a snoozefest that I never really tuned back in
Zero love for SHARK TANK itt, that is a great show
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
what i've seen i've enjoyed but i never remember to watch it
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
if you like adventure time, i find regular show to be a much smarter version of same with more, like, teenage motivations
regular show is ok, but imho these aren't in the same league
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
yup.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
see i agree with you, but inversely. I tried adventure time for about three eps and then never went back.
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
that's almost exactly how many episodes of regular show I watched and yet I have watched almost every episode of adventure time.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
the scene in the last ep where SPOILERS they blast off from earth and we see what the post-apocolyptic adventure time earth looks like (w/ a huge crater in the side) and then interface with the super god abraham lincoln who trades his immortality for jake's life and turns into the lincoln memorial /SPOILERS was a new kind of high point for the show.
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 July 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
i've watched every episode of regular show! different strokes
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 July 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
I think both shows are great
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Thursday, 26 July 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
2 ilxors, 3 opinions
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 July 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
7 views2 likes 1, 469 dislikes
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 July 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link