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started watching Grimm. The concept seemed really dumb to me which is why I avoided it for so long but it's actually not bad. Think it's kind of hamstrung by adhering to the procedural crime drama crap but I guess it brings in the viewers.
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muscles like this? posted:With Boardwalk Empire ending I've run out of things to watch on Sundays, other than Bob's Burgers. Brooklyn 99 is on Sundays!
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Aphrodite posted:You're history's greatest monster. Outsourced got good by the end. Speaking of things not sucking, Agents of Shield is not the turd I had come to expect. Currently going through the last batches of episodes of season 1, and the comic booky multiple episode arcs really propel the show past its turgid opening. The hero characters are still as stiff and developed as the adults on a ABC Family show, but the turns its taking is keeping my interest. Gotta love blasting through multiple episodes.
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I did not need to know that about Lena Dunham. You should clearly watch every episode of You're the worst and be happy on sunday nights.
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sbaldrick posted:I did not need to know that about Lena Dunham. Be careful making it a Sunday Funday thing, though, because a random hipster could steal the idea from you.
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I've been watching Black-ish on Hulu, and I thought it was alright but not amazing. But in episode 3, they did something that no other show has addressed. The nod. It exists in every culture in America: Indians, Blacks, Hispanics, etc. But as American kids these days become more homogenized, the act of the nod is dying out. Proud to see it addressed in this show. Edit: vvvv 
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Nov 2, 2014 18:09
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I know how you feel. In the Good Wife a character said 'morning' to another character and I was like, "these are my people."
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Rarity posted:Brooklyn 99 is on Sundays! There's just something about Andy Samberg that I can't stand.
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muscles like this? posted:There's just something about Andy Samberg that I can't stand. My dad also hates jews.
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Irish Joe posted:My dad also hates jews. gently caress you
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muscles like this? posted:gently caress you eat poo poo
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muscles like this? posted:gently caress you Well it's that or you hate funny things. I dunno. B99 is amazing.
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muscles like this? posted:There's just something about Andy Samberg that I can't stand. I couldn't stand Andy Samberg either but after watching Brooklyn Nine Nine I somehow started liking him. It might be worth giving it a shot, if you haven't already.
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If for no other reason than Terry and Andre Braugher. They're what brought me to it originally, and they're knocking it out of the loving park this season.
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He's pretty toned down in B99, especially after the first few episodes. He's still wacky but he comes off as a somebody going out of their way to entertain their co-workers and make jokes rather than a full-on Kramer.
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B99 is amazing, haters can vacate. The whole cast is so on-point it's ridiculous. Utopia's inevitable outcome has come to pass. I'm amazed it lasted as long as it did.
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IRQ posted:Well it's that or you hate funny things. I dunno. I can understand not liking him if you haven't seen Brooklyn 99, and I can understand not wanting to watch Brooklyn 99 if you don't like him. But yeah, watch Brooklyn 99. It makes him tolerable in the way that New Girl makes Zooey Deschanel tolerable, which is to say that the rest of the cast keeps them grounded. SHUPS 4 DETH posted:Utopia's inevitable outcome has come to pass. I'm amazed it lasted as long as it did. I wonder how many people still remembered or knew that show was still even on this long. raditts fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Nov 3, 2014 |
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I'm grateful that Utopia (Fox) existed, because it helped me discover Utopia (from that island) which is amazing. Thanks, Fox!
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Brooklyn 99 is by far the funniest show FOX has put out in a really long time. It's absolutely crazy how good that show is, every single character is "the best character".
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Except Gina, who is objectively "the worst character."
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Irish Joe posted:Except Gina, who is objectively "the worst character." 
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precision posted:Brooklyn 99 is by far the funniest show FOX has put out in a really long time. It's absolutely crazy how good that show is, every single character is "the best character". I've said it like a hundred times, but that show cheated and/or made some unholy Faustian deal to get as good as it did as quick as it did.
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PantsBandit posted:started watching Grimm. The concept seemed really dumb to me which is why I avoided it for so long but it's actually not bad. Think it's kind of hamstrung by adhering to the procedural crime drama crap but I guess it brings in the viewers. Season one in eh, season two is ok and season three is actually pretty decent. Silas Weir Mitchell helps a lot.
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raditts posted:But yeah, watch Brooklyn 99. It makes him tolerable in the way that New Girl makes Zooey Deschanel tolerable, which is to say that the rest of the cast keeps them grounded. This is the most perfect comparison. I avoided one of the funniest shows on television because I was sick of Zooey Deschanel's poo poo on a grand scale. Sometimes it's fun to be wrong!
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Rosa is definitely the best character on B99. 
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Right so I just randomly noticed this show on Hulu that I've never heard of called The Haunting Of... It's on LMN, that's why I've never heard of it. Also it is probably awful. I mention all this because the reason I even clicked on it is that the latest episode is The Haunting Of... Tom Green. "Comedian Tom Green returns to his hometown in Ottawa, Canada to confront the ghost that once chased him through the hallways of the legendary Canadian Museum of Nature." Right, let's do this. 
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Shageletic posted:Outsourced got good by the end. Season 2 of Agents of Shield has been surprisingly good. I was kind of expecting it to go back to being kind of bland. Not so bad that it's good, just so boring that it's boring. Instead, it looks like the show wasn't allowed to stretch it's wings until after Captain America 2 came out. Both Skye and Ward have been developed a bit, and have actually become pretty interesting characters, instead of the pretty white people with problems they started out as. Even the Fitzsimmons characters, who just kind of started off as the cute friends who finished each others sentences in the pilot has gotten a dark and kind of sad edge to it. Simmons still finishes Fitz's sentences for him, but not in a good way. And most of the new members to the Shield team have been pretty enjoyable. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Nov 3, 2014 |
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Wonder Woman is a bloody awful addition to the cast. She's not the greatest actress in the world to begin with, and the nauseating twist of her being the mercenary's ex has all the hallmarks of being a bottomless crevasse of lovely cliché relationship drama. I liked him quite a lot before they plopped that malformed story onto the floor. But yeah, Shield started to get better from episode thirteen or fourteen onward, and by the last four or five episodes of season one was genuinely good. Quite the turn around from the meandering anodyne poo poo it started as.
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The thing to understand about Agents of SHIELD is that its written with the sophistication of a comic book. Everything is cliche, all the characters are super badasses ("If I see you again I'm going to kill you" -girl who's never harmed a fly), and it cribs heavily from more popular and more competent media (see: this week's interrogation scene being an inept remake of Loki's interrogation scene from Avengers). As long as you don't go into it as a rational, intelligent adult, but as a child with a child's view of the world, you'll be fine. If you put even a single minute of intelligent thought into the show, though, it'll drive you loving bananas with how stupid everything is.
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Caught up on Agents. Top tier network TV. I can smell Angel on this all over, no surprise Jeffrey Bell is EP, and people like Drew Greenburg are scripting. I wonder what the behind the scenes were like over the season break, because this is pound for pound a completely different TV show that shares a title with whatever premiered last year. There's at least three different concurrent plot lines and one unexpected fakeout every episode, the characters are competent and intriguing, the dialogue is fun and easy to listen to, and the pathos is everywhere. My intelligence isn't insulted at any time, and I can freely recommend this show to people. Psyched to see where they go with this. A good weekly spy show? Who knew? Shageletic fucked around with this message at 13:22 on Nov 3, 2014 |
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Shageletic posted:Caught up on Agents. Top tier network TV. I can smell Angel on this all over, no surprise Jeffrey Bell is EP, and people like Drew Greenburg are scripting. I wonder what the behind the scenes were like over the season break, because this is pound for pound a completely different TV show that shares a title with whatever premiered last year. There's at least three different concurrent plot lines and one unexpected fakeout every episode, the characters are competent and intriguing, the dialogue is fun and easy to listen to, and the pathos is everywhere. My intelligence isn't insulted at any time, and I can freely recommend this show to people. Psyched to see where they go with this. Are we watching the same show?
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Are we watching the same show? Yup! Mockingbird, Hunter, May (come on, son), et al. Coulson has had some badass ice cold moves. Even Skye is acting believably paramilitary. The first season didn't know what it was. I think the aim was to mimic the gang from Buffy, but of course those are teenagers, and these are supposed to be secret agents. The second season has more than corrected this, with the right amount of collateral fatalities as a result.
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Irish Joe posted:As long as you don't go into it as a rational, intelligent adult, but as a child with a child's view of the world, you'll be fine. Well, it is for people who read comics.
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So we're doing the adolescent cynical I'm too cool for this thing now? On a forum? About TV?
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Shageletic posted:So we're doing the adolescent cynical I'm too cool for this thing now? On a forum? About TV? TVIV doing that predates TVIV itself.
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Ugh but you'd think people would outgrow that poo poo eventually.
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Shageletic posted:Ugh but you'd think people would outgrow that poo poo eventually. In this echo chamber? Are you kidding?
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