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...of SCIENCE! posted:The latter seasons are better but the first few with their xHARDCOREx early-00s rock music and forced edgyness and general tone of "THIS AIN'T YOUR DAD'S BASIC CABLE COP DRAMA This is exactly how I feel and why I've never been able to get more than a few episodes into season 1. It tries so hard to let you know how gritty and unique it is.
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its just the first season thats like that
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Yeah, I had a family member who recently watched it for the first time and I had to assure her that she just had to get past all that heavy handed "good cop and bad cop have left for the day, I'm a different kind of cop" stuff and get to the meat of the show. The show just has some over the top bravado at first. It settles down eventually. It also probably seems a little sillier a decade later since tv has so much more edgier and dark stuff now than it had when the Shield premiered. So that sell just seems very silly when it was kind of appropriate at the time.
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Deadpool posted:The one episode of Crisis I've seen was a thousand times better than what I saw of Hostages. It's not great, it's really ridiculous, but it's the right kind of ridiculous I think. Plus it has a lot of really cool people in it and that's the kind of thing that will get me to stick around a show that isn't great. I mean Crisis will undoubtedly get progressively worse and more boring, but yeah, right now it knows just how ridiculous to be. I mean that's a Street Fighter The Movie worthy line. Also the drone dropping out of the sky into the parking lot was straight out of a Warner Bros cartoon in how they depicted it and the comic timing. The ads for this show making it look contemplative and serious really undersold it.
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I cringe over everything Doug does or says in House of Lies. The man truly is an emotional terrorist.
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Mar 17, 2014 11:58
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I used to love The Commish so it's tough for me to watch Shield.
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Mar 17, 2014 13:33
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Everytime I hear that xtreme 90s salsa rap intro bullshit it just puts me in a bad mood, that's probably most of it tbh.
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Mar 17, 2014 14:08
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I've literally just started watching The Shield for the first time (on the second last ep of season 1) and I'm enjoying it immensely. There definitely is some of that forced edginess but god drat are there great moments too. When Dutch finally catches the serial killer and how he buys time for warrants etc was magical. Also when Julian(?) puts his gun away and begs to be killed by the guy he was chasing was brilliant. Really enjoying it so far and hope it only gets better.
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I wish I could be you and watch it for the first time again
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Mar 17, 2014 14:25
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The Shield keeps getting better after the stupid Bawitdaba scene.
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Mu Zeta posted:The Shield keeps getting better after the stupid Bawitdaba scene. YOu mena one of the most important scenes of the show, and what most of the action of the show is due to?
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Mar 17, 2014 15:05
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It's the important scene along with the heist but I thought it was terribly done. The first time I saw it I almost turned it off after the pilot. Awful badass music and look how bad this cop is mothafuckaaaaa.
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Lugaloco posted:I've literally just started watching The Shield for the first time (on the second last ep of season 1) and I'm enjoying it immensely. There definitely is some of that forced edginess but god drat are there great moments too. When Dutch finally catches the serial killer and how he buys time for warrants etc was magical. Also when Julian(?) puts his gun away and begs to be killed by the guy he was chasing was brilliant. Please post a lot in the Shields thread (everything is careful behind spoiler tags) so we can live vicariously through you thanks whenever something like that happens Mu Zeta posted:The Shield keeps getting better after the stupid Bawitdaba scene. The Shield manage to make a Kid Rock sound properly badass. Think about that. Insert non-existent gif of Lem playing guitar with his shotty. 
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:The Shield is a drama on FX from 2002-2008 about a corrupt cop running a strike team in LA. Oh. I didn't read the "the" and I assumed he just meant S.H.I.E.L.D. I think I've only seen the pilot of that show. It stars Hank from Breaking Bad right? Meh, I think I've seen too many shows like it.
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Ravane posted:Oh. I didn't read the "the" and I assumed he just meant S.H.I.E.L.D. I think I've only seen the pilot of that show. It stars Hank from Breaking Bad right? 
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Ravane posted:Oh. I didn't read the "the" and I assumed he just meant S.H.I.E.L.D. I think I've only seen the pilot of that show. It stars Hank from Breaking Bad right?
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Ravane posted:Oh. I didn't read the "the" and I assumed he just meant S.H.I.E.L.D. I think I've only seen the pilot of that show. It stars Hank from Breaking Bad right? Oy Vey.
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Ravane posted:Oh. I didn't read the "the" and I assumed he just meant S.H.I.E.L.D. I think I've only seen the pilot of that show. It stars Hank from Breaking Bad right? This is beautiful work 
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Mar 17, 2014 16:02
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I've never watched The Shield, well, I've tried to watch it a few times and never get past the pilot.
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precision posted:I've never watched The Shield, well, I've tried to watch it a few times and never get past the pilot. So you've made it all the way to the end of the pilot and thought 'Meh, don't care to know where this is going'?
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Mar 17, 2014 16:41
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I watched three seasons of it based on the "OMG THIS IS A GROUNDBREAKING SHOW GUYS" posts from forums and critics alike and it just never got there for me.
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Mar 17, 2014 16:42
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Louie has never made be laugh. I like his stand-up better.
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Mu Zeta posted:Louie has never made be laugh. I like his stand-up better. I really only enjoyed the bits where his stand-up was spliced in. He's a great guy, and he's probably my fave currently performing comic except maybe Aziz Ansari but the show just didn't really click with me.
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Mar 17, 2014 16:58
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Mad Men is really boring, and not actually particularly feminist. Jon Hamm should stick to comedy, he's really stiff in the show. 
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It's only "shame" if you feel bad about your opinion not smugly superior. Then it's just being contrarian.
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Spatula City posted:Mad Men is really boring, and not actually particularly feminist. Jon Hamm should stick to comedy, he's really stiff in the show. You're boring and his comedy sucks.
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I've liked him on SNL.
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My greatest tv shame is that I have all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls on DVD. Mu Zeta posted:Louie has never made be laugh. I like his stand-up better. A lot of Louie's appeal comes from the same kind of wish-fulfillment that drives New Girl, except where New Girl targets guys in their late 20s and early 30s, Louie focuses on middle aged men in their 40s.
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I wish Zooey Deschanel would get hit by a bus. What is the show for me?
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Irish Joe posted:My greatest tv shame is that I have all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls on DVD. That's a good one.
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zoux posted:Everyone confess their secret TV shame. Mine is, I don't like The Shield that much. :/ I'm not ashamed of any of the opinions I hold about TV shows but I'm ashamed of what I did. I watched about 3 and a half seasons of Secret Life a few months back despite hating it with more energy than I should probably have given to a bad TV show, just to see if it could get any worse. I had to stop when the old title of the Freeper thread (There is always more...) proved itself to be true time and time and time again in relation to what I was watching, and I just couldn't take anymore. Seriously, if you want to
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I think all the incessant whining about Agents of Shield is insanity. edit: idk this sounds more like an unpopular opinion but w/e
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Kraps posted:I think all the incessant whining about Agents of Shield is insanity. Agents of Shield is not something I would consider to be good tv, but a lot of people are acting like it's the television equivalent of inhuman war crimes for some reason.
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Twee as gently caress posted:Agents of Shield is not something I would consider to be good tv, but a lot of people are acting like it's the television equivalent of inhuman war crimes for some reason. I thought everyone just stopped watching it? Is the thread hatewatching now or something? It's not even bad enough for that, like something like Terra Nova was, SHIELD is just textbook mediocrity.
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I couldn't get into Veep. I watched the first few episodes and it just didn't stick. Same with Parks & Rec and The Office. There are bits that I liked but nothing that made me really laugh out loud. I think it's the format.
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GreenNight posted:I'm still watching it and enjoying it. I'll probably watch it when it eventually comes to Netflix. A show has to be very loving good for me to actually take the time to sit down and watch it week to week on a TV so AoS seems like prime bingebait to me.
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That's interesting because it's much easier for me to watch a show that's just okay week to week but if I'm going to commit to bingeing something it needs to really grip me. For instance, I finally gave up on Continuum halfway through season two because every time I considered watching another episode I felt like I'd rather be doing something else.
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