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SHUPS 4 DETH posted:Mulaney's order got cut from 16 to 13. RIP you weird-rear end Seinfeld pastiche. With that staff and that cast how did it not succeed? I would blame this on Fox Sundays but B99 transitioned just fine and it wouldn't have worked on any night. Is there a possibility Fox will order more episodes if ratings or other circumstances improve? It's not a good show, but I love Mulaney's comedy, and I admit the second episode made me laugh a lot. I've been rooting for him ever since it was first announced he was working on a pilot for NBC.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Is there a possibility Fox will order more episodes if ratings or other circumstances improve? The decision was made after the 13th ep wrapped production, so Fox is saying "13 is plenty, thanks." It debuted to a 1.0 and rose to a whopping 1.1 week 2 and is about to get lost for 2 weeks due to baseball. It's toast.
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radlum posted:I watched the last episodes of Season 3 last night. The musical episode was really forced and dumb, but I loved all the songs, Rock the Torah has been stuck in my head for hours. I've yet to see the last season, it makes me sad that they didn't get to give the series a proper finale. It all ends well enough - the season finale can work well as a series finale. It's still not as bad as My Name is Earl ending on all those cliffhangers long ago.
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Seinfeld wasn't well received at first. Maybe Mulaney needs more white sneakers and better actors. I quit the second episode when he was talking to the chubby lady who was the worst actress I've ever seen on a network show and Mulaney was my most anticipated show of the season.
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radlum posted:I watched the last episodes of Season 3 last night. The musical episode was really forced and dumb, but I loved all the songs, Rock the Torah has been stuck in my head for hours. I've yet to see the last season, it makes me sad that they didn't get to give the series a proper finale. Of course, I feel like they should have knew that FOX was only letting the show go on until it syndicate it, but were hoping for another season to get to the magic 100 episodes. Maia posted:I like this a lot. The name change was definitely a necessary one and it also makes me think of "Raising Arizona." I also think have Shannon Woodward as Sabrina also was a massive upgrade before letting it hit live TV.
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Anyone else watch the first episode of The Affair? Really, really good slow drama with fantastic performances and writing (that occasionally boiled over into the obvious but hey). Also has McNulty getting bitched out by Rawls and stars McNulty and that one actress from Luther everyone loves. Excited for episode 2 tonight.
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It's on Showtime. No need to get invested in it.
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Bown posted:Anyone else watch the first episode of The Affair? Really, really good slow drama with fantastic performances and writing (that occasionally boiled over into the obvious but hey). Also has McNulty getting bitched out by Rawls and stars McNulty and that one actress from Luther everyone loves. Excited for episode 2 tonight. Speaking of Rawls, people should watch his Borgia show and witness him bitch the whole world out as the Pope.
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Aphrodite posted:It needs about a megabit upload to work smoothly, and will of course use a ton of data on each ends if you're capped. I don't have a cap, but I'm guessing my university's internet will not suffice. Ah well, one day maybe.
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Tonight's Brooklyn 99 in one emoticon:  If you're not watching Brooklyn 99 then what the gently caress are you doing?
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DivisionPost posted:Tonight's Brooklyn 99 in one emoticon: Has it done anything to make the characters feel more like actual people? I kind of feel like Brooklyn 99 needs an Harvest Festival of equivalent plot. It's very funny but there's nothing for me to hook onto and care about yet.
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PriorMarcus posted:Has it done anything to make the characters feel more like actual people? I kind of feel like Brooklyn 99 needs an Harvest Festival of equivalent plot. It's very funny but there's nothing for me to hook onto and care about yet. Haven't gotten around to watching it yet but I guess it being early on the characters haven't devolved into caricatures, but there aren't any super long running arcs going on I can see anyway. If they're smart they'll do something like it though.
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SHUPS 4 DETH posted:Mulaney's order got cut from 16 to 13. RIP you weird-rear end Seinfeld pastiche. With that staff and that cast how did it not succeed? I would blame this on Fox Sundays but B99 transitioned just fine and it wouldn't have worked on any night. You haven't watched it, have you. ...The musical number in tonight's episode was actually pretty funny. Rest of it sucked pretty hard though.
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lelandjs posted:You haven't watched it, have you. It was really, REALLY close to "Somewhere That's Green," from Little Shop of Horrors.
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PriorMarcus posted:Has it done anything to make the characters feel more like actual people? I kind of feel like Brooklyn 99 needs an Harvest Festival of equivalent plot. It's very funny but there's nothing for me to hook onto and care about yet. Well, there's a Commissioner's Review coming that could potentially shake up or even shut down the precinct, so the team is ostensibly getting ready for that. And there's a deputy commissioner(?) (played by Kyra Sedgwick) who's got a grudge against Holt and is working to make this evaluation as hard as possible. So the potential is there for a Harvest Festival moment down the road. But right now, it's much more of a live-action cartoon than Parks and Rec, and the show is content to be as much so far. Frankly, though, it fits; the show is one of the best joke delivery systems on the air right now. I'm not sure it needs the kind of grounding Parks had.
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PriorMarcus posted:Has it done anything to make the characters feel more like actual people? I kind of feel like Brooklyn 99 needs an Harvest Festival of equivalent plot. It's very funny but there's nothing for me to hook onto and care about yet. Why does it need to do that? It's funny now.
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PriorMarcus posted:Has it done anything to make the characters feel more like actual people? I kind of feel like Brooklyn 99 needs an Harvest Festival of equivalent plot. It's very funny but there's nothing for me to hook onto and care about yet. Great show though.
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DivisionPost posted:... Yeah this is pretty much it. To me it's the spiritual successor to 30 Rock in terms of the rate of jokes per show. Some land and some miss , but I bet you by season 3/4 this show will be a well oiled machine. It makes me miss Better off Ted.
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Bown posted:Anyone else watch the first episode of The Affair? Really, really good slow drama with fantastic performances and writing (that occasionally boiled over into the obvious but hey). Also has McNulty getting bitched out by Rawls and stars McNulty and that one actress from Luther everyone loves. Excited for episode 2 tonight. Yes, it's really good and i'd also highly recommend it. The format and characters show a lot of potential for the rest of the episodes and i'm very intrigued to see how it will all develop. Very interesting twist on what might be perceived as a mundane premise.
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In season 1 they had an episode where somebody got shot and spent the next few episodes toddling around on a knee walker with plenty of jokes around both the shooting and their recovery, and the finale was based on faking out the audience and the characters in the show so a character could go undercover. The fact that the people in Brooklyn 99 are cops, albeit wacky cops, means that they already have plenty of opportunities to hook people and make people care.
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Oct 20, 2014 12:45
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"I'll help you die faster you terrorist" is the best bad line ever delivered by Donal Logue in the history of anything. Gotham is really on fire for this sort of stuff.
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Z-Nation has been renewed for a second season: http://www.spoilertv.com/2014/10/z-nation-renewed-for-2nd-season.html 
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GreenNight posted:Z-Nation has been renewed for a second season: This excellent news. Z Nation is a good show!
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Zaggitz posted:It never reached the lows of the My Name is Earl prison season at least. Prison Season was ok...the "Earl is in a coma having a coma-dream about his life being a cliche'd 90's sitcom" season, on the other hand...
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DrBouvenstein posted:Prison Season was ok...the "Earl is in a coma having a coma-dream about his life being a cliche'd 90's sitcom" season, on the other hand... That was the same season! I didn't actually mind the prison portions either, up until the tail end of it where Earl kind of loses his poo poo and goes back to being a dick.
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Manhattan wrapped up its first season on Sunday. You guys should watch Manhattan, it is a good show.
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Apparently Lea Thompson starred in a sitcom called "Caroline in the City" in the 90s, and her character even guest starred in Friends (and Matthew Perry guest starred in her show as well). Is it good?
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That takes me back. Caroline in the City. Suddenly Susan. Veronica's Closet. Uh...I think they're basically the same show?
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I remember watching that show but I'd never bother re-watching. It was just a generic sitcom that probably doesn't age well. And I think that Friends crossover was a big gimmick think Must See TV did one time where all of its shows crossed over in totally insignificant ways. I think Jonathan Silverman's The Single Guy was in on it too and a fourth show. Maybe Suddenly Susan? The weird poo poo that takes up space in your memory. And suddenly I'm realizing The Single Guy was basically the prototype for How I Met Your Mother.
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There was definitely a night where the episodes of Friends, Mad About You, and I think Caroline in the City all dealt with a citywide power outage.
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I watched the Marry Me pilot, and the challenger joke was one of my favorite one-liners ever.
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Ming-Na played the wife of Johnathan Silverman's best friend so for all time when I see her my first thought is "Hey it's that lady from The Single Guy".
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Toxxupation posted:Hannibal just cast it's lady murasaki, seemingly in recognition of its generalized quality as a Silence of the lambs derivative
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Shageletic posted:That takes me back. Caroline in the City. Suddenly Susan. Veronica's Closet. Suddenly Susan was a workplace comedy with Nestor Carbonell and Judd Nelson, Veronica's Closet was the 'gay' workplace comedy, Caroline in the City was more of a best-friends sitcom alike Cybill or New Adventures of Old Christine. No matter my opinion of them then, they were all awful, but if you have to watch one Veronica's Closet wins for Peggy Hill.
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Toxxupation posted:Hannibal just cast it's lady murasaki, seemingly in recognition of its generalized quality as a Silence of the lambs derivative So a show based off the original book is derivative of its sequel?
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Josh Lyman posted:Your premise is flawed because Hannibal is much better than Silence of the Lambs. Lol ok bud
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