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So I started watching Witches of East End on Netflix, unaware that it is a Lifetime Original Series. And it did sort of start out as trite nonsense, just like most other Lifetime shows. But as it goes on it starts having fun with its premise and gets enjoyable. Also the cast is pretty good, aside from Julia Ormond's weird accent. And it gets good guest stars, like Matt Frewer, Joel Gretsch, and TVIV's one true love, Enver Gjokaj. Not a great show by any means, but a fun little genre show that is better than it has any right to be. But then I got to the end of the Season 2 premiere, which aired last Sunday, and a tentacle sex scene happened. 
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hcreight posted:So I started watching Witches of East End on Netflix, unaware that it is a Lifetime Original Series. And it did sort of start out as trite nonsense, just like most other Lifetime shows. But as it goes on it starts having fun with its premise and gets enjoyable. Also the cast is pretty good, aside from Julia Ormond's weird accent. And it gets good guest stars, like Matt Frewer, Joel Gretsch, and TVIV's one true love, Enver Gjokaj. Not a great show by any means, but a fun little genre show that is better than it has any right to be. Anime is for jerks
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Jul 13, 2014 23:13
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Ugh, just looked up the time for The Strain tonight and FX is doing that thing where its almost two hours long. I have to work early so I guess I'm just going to have to record it.
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hcreight posted:So I started watching Witches of East End on Netflix, unaware that it is a Lifetime Original Series. And it did sort of start out as trite nonsense, just like most other Lifetime shows. But as it goes on it starts having fun with its premise and gets enjoyable. Also the cast is pretty good, aside from Julia Ormond's weird accent. And it gets good guest stars, like Matt Frewer, Joel Gretsch, and TVIV's one true love, Enver Gjokaj. Not a great show by any means, but a fun little genre show that is better than it has any right to be. Funny, I just started watching that too, and I totally agree. After several characters said "poo poo!" and it was just generally better than a typical genre CW show, I had to google what channel was showing it and I was pretty surprised. Too bad about tentacle poo poo. I also just watched all of Mixology, which I missed before it was canceled last year. It was an ok show, the gimmick of the entire season being one night at the bar was generally fine but it didn't really do the show any favors to constrain itself like that. It was especially annoying to binge watch because 1) the last scene of every episode (not the tag, but the minute before that) replays verbatim at the beginning of the next episode, and 2) it makes all the characters seem like wishy washy assholes because they keep making big decisions to land an episode's plot and then renege on that decision 1 or 2 episodes later to make an excuse for another episode's story. It made several of the season's story arcs very unsatisfying. Also the whole narration/flashback structure of the episodes felt like they were trying to mimic Arrested Development's tone, but they didn't really use it for any good effect so it just ended up reminding me that there's a much better show I could be binge-watching on Netflix. Edit: Oh and all the "back from commercial" shots of people mixing drinks looked exactly like liquor commercials which cannot have helped people pay attention to it when it was on TV. Now I am watching United States of Tara, which is another show that's loving annoying to binge watch because there's a super long "previously on" and a super long credits intro on every single episode. And the "previously on" can't even be bothered to be the same length every time, so I can't just skip 2 minutes in, I've got to fish around for the exact start of the episode. Despite that I'm invested.
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Jul 14, 2014 01:00
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Is there a thread for network summer TV? I just now found out that NBC is rebroadcasting a show that Amy Pohler's brother made for a Swedish TV station. It's not terrible, actually. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Jul 14, 2014 |
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Jul 14, 2014 01:43
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Just watched last weeks episode of Wilfred. poo poo, this show has gotten even more weird.
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Jul 14, 2014 03:03
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The Strain is pretty good so far.
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Jul 14, 2014 03:45
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The overworking dad and douche new boyfriend is a little played out, but I'm liking it as well.
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Obese FYAD Reject posted:The overworking dad and douche new boyfriend is a little played out, but I'm liking it as well. Yeah, seems like a cheap way to give your main character "depth", but so far it hasn't been offensive or gotten in the way.
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Jul 14, 2014 03:54
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Well, The Strain just grew some teeth. From 0 to 11 on the violence scale.
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Obese FYAD Reject posted:Well, The Strain just grew some teeth. From 0 to 11 on the violence scale. That was pretty great. Awesome payoff to a slow building episode. I think I'm sold on it.
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Jul 14, 2014 03:56
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Agreed. They aren't afraid to get their hands dirty and that creature design (especially when it ran away) is pretty cool!
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Obese FYAD Reject posted:Well, The Strain just grew some teeth. From 0 to 11 on the violence scale. Yes, someone should make a thread for it. I'm interested.
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Jul 14, 2014 03:59
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Hey, bonus episode.
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Jul 14, 2014 04:00
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Samwise, no!
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Jul 14, 2014 04:21
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Man, this is great in a cheesy horror movie way. Del Torro can definitely spin out a genre story.
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Jul 14, 2014 04:22
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Really glad to see The Strain pilot is decent. Look forward to watching it later tonight.
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Jul 14, 2014 04:27
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Weevil definitely got way chubbier than his Veronica Mars days in the Strain.
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sector_corrector posted:The Strain is pretty good so far.
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Jul 14, 2014 04:47
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The Leftovers was spectacular tonight and head and shoulders better than the first two episodes. Still not crazy about the thread though!
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Party Plane Jones posted:Weevil definitely got way chubbier than his Veronica Mars days in the Strain. Francis Capra never quite recovered from his leg injury. You can see him gain weight in season 3 of Veronica Mars and he never really got rid of it any more. Tim Curry does mostly voice acting nowadays to answer the question from the last page.
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Jul 14, 2014 06:12
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Tim Curry also had a massive stroke a few months ago.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:John Malkovich as Blackbeard was the only thing that made people aware of the existence of Crossbones, so NBC is continuing that tradition by casting Christopher Walken to play Captain Hook for their Peter Pan telecast.. Walken must be relieved the clock ends up inside somebody else this time.
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Jul 14, 2014 06:29
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Watching The Strain, the pilot has me in for the show, but why did the writers have to include that scene where Shane from TWD completely ignores Walder Frey? So stupid.
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Jul 14, 2014 07:18
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A heartfelt 'welcome back' to Ray Donovan. Hell of a first episode tonight.
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Jul 14, 2014 07:45
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hcreight posted:The Leftovers was spectacular tonight and head and shoulders better than the first two episodes. Guess the crazies in the True Detective thread have to find a new place to call home, I guess.
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Dead Snoopy posted:A heartfelt 'welcome back' to Ray Donovan. Hell of a first episode tonight. does it really begin with him midway through raping his wife
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Jul 14, 2014 07:47
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Well - very start of the show awakens visibly shaken from an anxiety dream and proceeds to 'regain control' by having sex w/ his wife, who awakens upset and disturbed but doesn't audibly object. Not a defense but a summation of the beginning. The couple are in therapy and clearly this is a good reason to be in therapy, but it isn't addressed right away.
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Apparently in the second episode they make it more clear that it most definitely was a rape. Anyway either way this show just sounds really nasty, and I guess I can count myself as one of the "sick of white male antihero" types.
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hcreight posted:The Leftovers was spectacular tonight and head and shoulders better than the first two episodes. That was a really good episode. I think it could be this series' Walkabout, where it shows just how good this show could be. Hopefully they keep it up.
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Bown posted:Apparently in the second episode they make it more clear that it most definitely was a rape. Anyway either way this show just sounds really nasty, and I guess I can count myself as one of the "sick of white male antihero" types.
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Jul 14, 2014 11:42
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Data and Moe being in season 2 of Ray Donovan is good times.
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Is there a thread around for the new season of Wilfred that I've missed? poo poo's getting weird(er).  Also a brief reference to the original Australian series in the latest episode.
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Cardboard Box A posted:I kind of wonder if Liev Schriber can play anyone else? Sometimes he's just a villain!
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Decius posted:Tim Curry does mostly voice acting nowadays to answer the question from the last page. Oh drat, is that why he took over on The Clone Wars? I was wondering why they'd do that, when the voice of Palpatine before that was rock solid, and then suddenly he just...sounded like Tim Curry. But that makes sense, I didn't know the original voice actor had died.
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VodeAndreas posted:Is there a thread around for the new season of Wilfred that I've missed? poo poo's getting weird(er). No thread, but I like this season quite a lot so far. It's way better than the last one. And knowing this is the final season probably helps cause it means all this cult poo poo might actually be going somewhere.
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VodeAndreas posted:Is there a thread around for the new season of Wilfred that I've missed? poo poo's getting weird(er). I never thought they'd take it this far, but in retrospect, I suppose it was inevitable. Ryan is batshit crazy, and you can't cure schizophrenia by having charming adventures with the neighbor's dog.
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The neighbor who doesn't even give a poo poo about the dog and had to gently caress off back to Wisconsin.
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It's funny, the thing that initially sold me on Wilfred was the fact that it didn't try to explain anything and the thing with his attempted suicide letting him see Wilfred was just a red herring. But now I love how batshit they're going with wrapping everything up in the final season. Also, holy poo poo Rutger Hauer was in the last episode of Wilfred. That's the best guest star I've seen since Jeremy Renner was in that Louie two-parter.
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