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Sober posted:Person of Interest That episode is pretty drat awesome. I don't really know enough about filmmaking/teeveemakin' to really evaluate Jonah Nolan's directing abilities but he certainly didn't gently caress it up. I've been hoping for him to direct another episode of PoI since then and assumed he would maybe direct one episode per season but he hasn't.
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pentyne posted:So, if anyone was curious State of Affairs is poo poo. It's basically "Katherine Heigl thinks she's making the next Homeland" but instead of a tightly written and brilliantly acted character drama is basic network drama at its blandest. So it's the more recent seasons of Homeland.
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misguided rage posted:Is anyone still watching Hell on Wheels? There doesn't seem to be a thread and I haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere. Which is a shame, because this season has been really good! I am! And yeah, this season has been excellent. Hell on Wheels is a perfect example of a show that has gotten consistently better as it's gone along.
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pentyne posted:So, if anyone was curious State of Affairs is poo poo. It's basically "Katherine Heigl thinks she's making the next Homeland" but instead of a tightly written and brilliantly acted character drama is basic network drama at its blandest. The show lost me at "Katherine Heigl" anyway.
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Deadpool posted:The show lost me at "Katherine Heigl" anyway. You may as well be the voice of America saying that. I'll be shocked if it retains even half of its lead-in. I have no idea what NBC was thinking.
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Wow, just got back from an advanced screening of 2x01 of 19-2 (the English-Canadian one). Holy crap, no words. They pretty much re-created the episode of the Quebecois one scene-for-scene. Of course, they got the same director back. It's basically the episode that opens with the characters responding to a school shooting and the first act is an entire 13 minute single take. I wish I could find a clip of it somewhere, but they've all been taken down.
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As a French-Canadian I gotta say this is the last place I expected 19-2 to be brought up.
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Zaggitz posted:As a French-Canadian I gotta say this is the last place I expected 19-2 to be brought up. That being said I feel like Canadian prime time series have gotten better as of late. I didn't immediately hate The Listener, Flashpoint was pretty much amazing, Being Erica is my favourite out of what came out recently. Little Mosque was great for what it was doing. I wonder if anyone else has taken a look at Strange Empire - I caught the pilot and liked it but haven't gotten around to continuing yet. Though I'm also sure Book of Negroes might come up in TVIV when it comes out later (also airing on BET) next year I think.
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Deadpool posted:The show lost me at "Katherine Heigl" anyway. If had just stuck around the extra 30 seconds you'd have also seen the EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: KATHERINE HEIGL
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pentyne posted:If had just stuck around the extra 30 seconds you'd have also seen the EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: KATHERINE HEIGL Usually I just don't give a poo poo when someone is notoriously hard to work with but she's a terrible actress as well, so I completely agree.
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Mu Zeta posted:Who names their daughter Charleston
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I really enjoy @midnight. It feels a lot like classic game shows like Match Game or Hollywood Squares where it's just an excuse for funny people to bounce off of each other, with a bit of British panel show for good measure. I like what I've seen of it, but the host guy is so poo poo.
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Bates Motel is pretty drat good, that's all.
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Le0 posted:Bates Motel is pretty drat good, that's all. Is it back?
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Mu Zeta posted:Who names their daughter Charleston A flapper? An avid Monopoly player? A loyal Confederate? :49:
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Pillowpants posted:Is it back? not until March
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Sober posted:That's cause no one really care about Canadian television, much less French-Canadian or Quebecois television. Then again we are probably also ignoring most European TV that isn't from the UK. 2 weeks ago I had to stay in a hotel for a work thing for a week and Canadian TV is literally torture. At home I get all the American channels. Irish Joe posted:A flapper? An avid Monopoly player? A loyal Confederate? :49: Gum enthusiast.
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Aphrodite posted:2 weeks ago I had to stay in a hotel for a work thing for a week and Canadian TV is literally torture. Quick question: are you under the impression that Charleston Chew is a brand of gum?
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You know what, I got it mixed up with Big League Chew there.
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Sober posted:That's cause no one really care about Canadian television, much less French-Canadian or Quebecois television. Then again we are probably also ignoring most European TV that isn't from the UK. I know about Murdoch Mysteries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murdoch_Mysteries It airs on France 3 every Sunday prime time. The main actor is a Quebecer.
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Aphrodite posted:You know what, I got it mixed up with Big League Chew there. That's alright man! Sorry if I sounded rude there. We all make Charleston-based mistakes sometimes. Unrelated story: Last summer I was at a bar playing darts and noticed that Jeopardy was on the TV. I thought that was kind of weird until I noticed that one of the contestants was actually there in the bar with a group of friends to watch his game's broadcast. He won the match, and in his slightly buzzed celebration I heard him say something about attending the newly started bar trivia the next night at that same bar. "Oh poo poo," I thought, since I had been planning to attend with a group of friends for a few weeks. This guy was going to stomp us!! He went on to win 8 matches of Jeopardy in a row and won something stupid like $200,000. Fortunately, the reason I heard him talking about the trivia is because he was the host. His name is Ben Ingram, and he's going to be competing in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions tomorrow since he won his match last Monday. He's a nice dude, super smart, writes great trivia questions. Check him out and send him all your smart vibes! (even though the match has already been filmed and decided)
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BSam posted:I like what I've seen of it, but the host guy is so poo poo. "HEY IF I YELL THE JOKE WILL THAT MAKE IT FUNNIER? NO? OKAY I'M GONNA DO IT ANYWAY AND ALSO THROW OUT A FEW DIFFERENT PUNCHLINES, HOPEFULLY ONE HITS!" Chris Hardwick got his first gig hosting a dating show for MTV in the 90's and it shows. That said, the guests are usually quite good so it tends to balance out Hardwick's mediocrity.
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lelandjs posted:Chris Hardwick got his first gig hosting a dating show for MTV in the 90's and it shows. Opposite Jenny McCarthy, if I remember correctly.
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It makes me feel super old to see people refer to Singled Out as some kind of hazy thing in the past that they don't quite remember. Chris Hardwick seems to have fallen rear end-first into moderate success, and even though every show that he's hosted in the last couple years (aside from @Midnight which has other people to take attention away from him) has been total poo poo, I guess at least he's still nowhere near as terrible as Wil Wheaton. Like, I was able to get through one episode of Web Soup, but I couldn't make it longer than a couple minutes watching that Syfy knockoff with Wheaton's grotesque werewolf face staring back at me. raditts fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Nov 18, 2014 |
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Nerds have a really bad crab bucket mentality and hate to see other nerds succeed at nerd poo poo.
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zoux posted:Nerds have a really bad crab bucket mentality and hate to see other nerds succeed at nerd poo poo. I like Chris Hardwick, Wil Wheaton, and Felicia Day. 
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cool kids inc. posted:I like Chris Hardwick, Wil Wheaton, and Felicia Day. MONSTER.
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cool kids inc. posted:I like Chris Hardwick, Wil Wheaton, and Felicia Day. Yeah but you don't deny that those people can seriously cause internet people to lose their minds.
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I tend to avoid media hosted by nerds because nerds generally make loving terrible hosts. Turns out that doing poo poo like playing video games or D&D doesn't generally help one's charisma. The only exceptions I can think of off the top of my head are Jimmy Fallon, Patton Oswalt, Dan Harmon, and Aisha Tyler. Fallon, Oswalt, and Harmon all use their nerdy awkwardness to their advantage, while Tyler refuses to let her hobbies define her. In a related note, I think that @Midnight and Whose Line would both benefit by switching their hosts. [Edit: Actually a Fallon hosted Whose Line would be perfection, now that I think about it.]
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zoux posted:Nerds have a really bad crab bucket mentality and hate to see other nerds succeed at nerd poo poo. While true, conversely nerds love holding up "nerd celebrities" as pillars of their respective fields: aka "Whedon is My Master", any time Vin Diesel is brought up in the context of DnD, and yes Wil Wheaton as well, as if he was ever a decent actor and just some dude who whored himself out for decades from being a terrible character on a sci-fi tv show
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raditts posted:It makes me feel super old to see people refer to Singled Out as some kind of hazy thing in the past that they don't quite remember. Last night's episode he made a joke about not knowing what a public bus is since he's a millionaire. Chris Hardwick is a millionaire. That's sad.
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lelandjs posted:I tend to avoid media hosted by nerds because nerds generally make loving terrible hosts. Turns out that doing poo poo like playing video games or D&D doesn't generally help one's charisma. The only exceptions I can think of off the top of my head are Jimmy Fallon, Patton Oswalt, Dan Harmon, and Aisha Tyler. Fallon, Oswalt, and Harmon all use their nerdy awkwardness to their advantage, while Tyler refuses to let her hobbies define her. Joel McHale is p great too in "nerd hosts that are excellent"
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Toxxupation posted:Joel McHale is p great too in "nerd hosts that are excellent" Super buff and sexy Joel McHale is in no world a nerd.
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zoux posted:Super buff and sexy Joel McHale is in no world a nerd. He hosted the VGX awards last year and he just made fun of everyone and everything and made his co-host who took it super seriously really uncomfortable and it was amazing.
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zoux posted:Nerds have a really bad crab bucket mentality and hate to see other nerds succeed at nerd poo poo. I guess this is directed at me? If so then no, I have no problem with nerds succeeding at whatever, I just have a problem with people that are not very funny/entertaining and are really bad at what they do, like Wil Wheaton and Chris Hardwick.
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cool kids inc. posted:I like Chris Hardwick, Wil Wheaton, and Felicia Day. Hating Felicia Day is the stupidest thing that nerds do. She's like, the least hate-able celebrity I can think of next to like, Keith David or Morgan Freeman or something.
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raditts posted:I guess this is directed at me? If so then no, I have no problem with nerds succeeding at whatever, I just have a problem with people that are not very funny/entertaining and are really bad at what they do, like Wil Wheaton and Chris Hardwick. No it was directed at the internet at large.
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