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lelandjs posted:I'm actually glad that this thread is pretty much strictly TV chat (yes, I am aware that I have derailed it occasionally myself). I went into what I thought would be the CD equivalent and emerged very confused. No dead dogs though. Yeah, there's not enough threads where you can just talk about TV.
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zoux posted:Here's a clickhole about 6 US TV shows that started in the UK. They really nail the absurd naming conventions of British shows. I also enjoyed the stuff about how many episodes and how long they are.
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muscles like this? posted:I also enjoyed the stuff about how many episodes and how long they are. quote:If It’s Not Custard, It’s Mustard ran for three seasons. The first season consisted of one 15-minute episode, the second season consisted of no episodes at all, and the third season consisted of two five-minute episodes that aired 15 years apart. Fans of the show also got to enjoy an hour-long Christmas special in which Santa Claus sits silently in the pub and gets drunk alone.
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I come away from that really wanting to see the Marvelous Mr. Pemberton and the Christmas special of If its not Custard, its Mustard.
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Whoa Colbert's guest last night was Smaug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ftuij75ebQ
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zoux posted:Whoa Colbert's guest last night was Smaug This is amazing. Every second of it.
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zoux posted:Here's a clickhole about 6 US TV shows that started in the UK. They really nail the absurd naming conventions of British shows. I wish The Marvelous Mr. Pemberton was a real show, I want to watch that show. Do a lot of British shows go out of their way to have Christmas episodes or something?
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zoux posted:Whoa Colbert's guest last night was Smaug Yeah, this is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. Laughed pretty mightily at We need to go back to the gold standard. Rand Paul 2016!
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raditts posted:Do a lot of British shows go out of their way to have Christmas episodes or something? Yes, and I don't really understand what they're going for. Doctor Who does Christmas episodes, and they are occasionally the darkest, bleakest things the show does. Downton Abbey used a Christmas special to kill a main character. It's like they're forced to do them by the Queen herself because she fancies Christmas, and say, "If I have to, I will, but poo poo's gonna get dark." Sherlock is doing one next year, and I'm worried they're going to off Mycroft or something. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Dec 12, 2014 |
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Black Mirror is doing a Christmas special and I'm okay with that because it means more Black Mirror.
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I'm pretty sure Christmas programming is the only thing keeping British families from killing each other on the one day of the year they're forced to spend time together.
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"This is going to be the best Walford Christmas ever!" said the character about to die in a fire.
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I shut it off when the dragon started talking keeping it real and drinking your milkshake
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:I shut it off when the dragon started talking keeping it real and drinking your milkshake Then you missed the part where Colbert's audience boos the dragon for telling a Trayvon Martin joke. 
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:I shut it off when the dragon started talking keeping it real and drinking your milkshake You didn't miss much. The thing I wanted most out of that interview would have been if they had actually trashed that part of the set and left it that way for the next week.
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I would have liked for the Smaug interview to be on the final episode, and ends with Smaug eating Colbert.
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OldSenileGuy posted:I would have liked for the Smaug interview to be on the final episode, and ends with Smaug eating Colbert. This is what I wanted too.
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OldSenileGuy posted:I would have liked for the Smaug interview to be on the final episode, and ends with Smaug eating Colbert.
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Ravane posted:This is what I wanted too. They have a better one! http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/guests/Grimmy
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Is anyone watching Marco Polo? It's getting blasted by the reviewers and every story uses the description "game of thrones rip-off"
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pentyne posted:Is anyone watching Marco Polo? It's getting blasted by the reviewers and every story uses the description "game of thrones rip-off"
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pentyne posted:Is anyone watching Marco Polo? It's getting blasted by the reviewers and every story uses the description "game of thrones rip-off" I'm gonna watch it but it sounds closer to the Hemlock Grove end of Netflix quality. Like some wise old asian guy teaches Marco Polo kung-fu.
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Looks like those lovely TV movies filmed in Romania
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Apparently it's shot really beautifully and ... that might be it. It's basically a Lost-ripoff circa 2006 or so where they think they (as in the execs in charge of greenlighting this stuff) are ripping off the parts people liked about Lost (the  crazy convoluted mysteries people would spend too long talking about), but then completely got wrong the parts that people liked about Lost (having well written and engaging characters). So basically that explains shows like Flashfoward.Marco Polo sounds like it's someone's empty rendition of a historical(or historical-fantastical) epic show, except that's all they did and didn't understand the pacing or characterization of Game of Thrones and just decided to just tick off every HBO checkmark (obscene violence, full female frontal nudity) in a rote fashion (yes, GoT falls victim to this too at times via "sexposition", blame HBO there). All flash, no substance.
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I was going to give it a shot despite the dire reviews.
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I probably will too, despite all that. At least see how long I can take it, maybe.
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Mu Zeta posted:Looks like those lovely TV movies filmed in Romania It was shot in Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Italy I think so it was shot in the places where it happened at least. IRQ posted:I was going to give it a shot despite the dire reviews. Yeah if you already sub you're not losing anything but time.
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Sober posted:Apparently it's shot really beautifully and ... that might be it. $90 million worth of flash. Someone at Netflix will probably lose their job.
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It's extravagant as gently caress, but Netflix probably has the metrics to back it as well as hedging it does well internationally. It is odd that the marketing for it in NA is almost non-existent though, unlike say OITNB's ad campaigns being almost everywhere. It was probably too expensive to begin with but they'll probably make their money back, and they know people will watch it despite the quality ("Hey I'm watching a PREMIUM DRAMA on Netflix, I must be good at TV!") or what critics say. Premium dramas are occasionally overrated after having watched enough of them, but not to people who maybe only take 2 or 3 in a year.
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Well we don't live in video game land, so people don't really get all up in arms when a critic says "I don't particularly like it" and someone else does.
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STAC Goat posted:Well, at least now that there are no more Community threads. Am I missing a joke? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3597051
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STAC Goat posted:Well, at least now that there are no more Community threads. You'll never escape these threads.
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Sober posted:Well we don't live in video game land, so people don't really get all up in arms when a critic says "I don't particularly like it" and someone else does. TV doesn't seem to lend itself to critics in the way that other media does. Most critic reviews of new shows are based on a few episodes or even just the pilot, if you had people review a movie based on the first 10 minutes or a game by the first level or an entire album off the first track they'd be rightfully laughed at but with TV reviews it's the norm.
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TV critics will occasionally look back on the season and reevaluate it as a whole or review older shows on a re-watch. But anyways, not the point I was trying to make but I see your points too. The point I was trying to make is that it doesn't and shouldn't ultimately matter what a critic says anyway, they don't have the final word on anything, not pilot reviews or episode reviews, or even what movie critics have to say on movies. Plus impressions from pilots can make or break a show. I better stop myself before I start insulting gamers because they literally will get mad if a critic does not fall in line with a review of a game they were already hyped up by.
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Or if they like a game too much that they decided was crap. Basically game critics are in a horrible lose lose situation.
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zoux posted:I'm gonna watch it but it sounds closer to the Hemlock Grove end of Netflix quality. It's higher quality than Hemlock Grove. But yeah an old asian guy does teach Marco Polo kung-fu. I dunno my expectations were so low the show seems decent. I liked the inclusion of the Hashshashin. Although they just throw in random kung fu fights just because.
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