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Lycus posted:I don't think I'm gonna be able to decide if I like Brink until the second episode. The preview was heavily filled with the pilot's gags. I could watch an entire season of Robbins being a dick to high level bureaucrats and generals. That was much better than I anticipated.
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Postal Parcel posted:So tonight begins the final season of aqua teen I've never seen an episode go off the rails so fast.
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Jun 22, 2015 05:06
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I had a lot of trouble making it through the season premiere of The Last Ship. It was never a good show per se and struggled to get past the finish line, though last season's finale was quite solid. Together with the poor reviews for True Detective season 2, things aren't looking up for my returning shows this summer.
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Jun 22, 2015 05:10
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I thought Brink was terrible, the writing feels unintelligent and the jokes weren't funny. Especially following Veep.
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True Detective was great tonight imo. I have no idea why people'd let a reviewer decide for em if they're gonna like it or not before even watchin a thing, especially since the majority of internet reviewers are terrible. They're definitely missing out if only for Colin Farrell's performance
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savinhill posted:True Detective was great tonight imo. I have no idea why people'd let a reviewer decide for em if they're gonna like it or not before even watchin a thing, especially since the majority of internet reviewers are terrible. They're definitely missing out if only for Colin Farrell's performance I just finished it and I thought it was a much better opener than the first season. I also appreciate the California-ness of it all. Takes me back.
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Josh Lyman posted:I had a lot of trouble making it through the season premiere of The Last Ship. It was never a good show per se and struggled to get past the finish line, though last season's finale was quite solid.
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Shageletic posted:Really digging Sense8. Its cinematic as all hell, and ambitious too. I'm only on the second episode though, and I feel like I've already gotten a full meal. Cons: there are some side-characters that feel as thin as cardboard, that only exist as fuel for contrived situations, but that's more than balanced by some of its transcendent moments. This show had me in maybe Nomi's second scene in the first ep. Jesus that destroyed me. You better not be talking about Daniela or Hernando 
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Jun 22, 2015 09:49
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Jun 22, 2015 10:14
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Halt and Catch Fire is so much more interesting now that the writers figured out Joe is a lovely character.
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Jun 22, 2015 10:57
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bull3964 posted:I've never seen an episode go off the rails so fast. Abraham Lincoln hotdog cat voiced by Justin Roiland in claymation was brilliant
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Jun 22, 2015 11:00
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Thanks to whoever posted that Youtube channel with links to all the introductions/opening credits to 70’s and 80’s shows. There was some shows in there I’ve never even heard of, like Brothers and Sisters which looked like a knock off of Animal House, Billy with Steve Guttenberg, and some cop show called 240-Robert with a young Mark Harmon… The 1985 ABC Preview promo is worth the price of admission, with Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” redone into “It’s On ABC” hyping up Diff’rent Strokes moving to ABC to be shown alongside Webster and Benson and some LA buddy cop show that was a complete rip-off of Beverly Hills Cop down to using the exact same Glenn Frye song. And let’s not forget the premiere of Growing Pains… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66USQHMWo6s This preview is what counted as a hype trailer/sizzle reel THIRTY YEARS ago.
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Jun 22, 2015 12:01
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Is that Ron Perlman.
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CobiWann posted:This preview is what counted as a hype trailer/sizzle reel THIRTY YEARS ago. Ken Levine posted the first Cheers promo on his blog a few days ago. Get hyped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLW-vr1-n7o
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Irish Joe posted:Ken Levine posted the first Cheers promo on his blog a few days ago. Get hyped. This is hilarious, because it seems to not only be working from the premise that NBC having a good comedy is the most surprising thing you could possibly conceive of, but also that an unknown woman telling you that's not the case this year is enough for you to go, "Oh, really? Hmm, well if whoever-this-is said they have a good show, I guess it's true." All while not even hinting at what the show would be about. Who the hell was this commercial for? The 80's were weird.
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Hardly surprising it was the lowest-rated show on air in its first season if that's the level of effort they were putting into promoting it.
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Jun 22, 2015 14:58
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CobiWann posted:Thanks to whoever posted that Youtube channel with links to all the introductions/opening credits to 70’s and 80’s shows. There was some shows in there I’ve never even heard of, like Brothers and Sisters which looked like a knock off of Animal House, Billy with Steve Guttenberg, and some cop show called 240-Robert with a young Mark Harmon… I remember that reel from when it first aired! Thanks for making me feel ancient rear end in a top hat.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I remember that reel from when it first aired! Thanks for making me feel ancient rear end in a top hat. Where did it air? Did ABC put aside a half-hour block during its prime-time programming?
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Jun 22, 2015 15:25
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Jun 22, 2015 15:28
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For real, remember clip shows? We take it for granted how much and how good tv is now. Even the crap we get over the summer these days is massively better than what we used to get. Which was nothing but reruns.
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Jun 22, 2015 15:31
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CobiWann posted:Where did it air? Did ABC put aside a half-hour block during its prime-time programming? Pretty much. I think that one aired on a Friday or Sunday night. All the networks would do stuff like that, sort of like public upfronts. Saturday morning cartoons had their own as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmRjtywNE9U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN-GA5Z0o0I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eitz_-P9OY
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Jun 22, 2015 15:32
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What was the last show to do an honest to god clip show first run episode?
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zoux posted:What was the last show to do an honest to god clip show first run episode? I know Friends did a few, which I skip on rewatches. The Clerks Animated Series did a clip show in their 2nd episode, with nothing but clips from the first episode. Which should have been funny, but because ABC aired the episodes out of order, that episode aired first, so audiences saw clips of a show that never aired. So that probably doesn't count. I think NCIS did one pretty recently, too.
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Jun 22, 2015 15:35
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Sounds like Korra had one from the way people were moaning about it.
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thrawn527 posted:I think NCIS did one pretty recently, too. If so I don't remember it. e: no wait, I think I kind of do now. Pawn Stars does them, but I'm not sure that counts.
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IRQ posted:If so I don't remember it. e: no wait, I think I kind of do now. Google tells me it's called House Rules. It was pretty much a clip show, with clips of Ziva and Kate, though it had a new episode plot.
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Jun 22, 2015 15:42
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Brink is pretty loving funny.... That Asian hooker though.... 
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zoux posted:What was the last show to do an honest to god clip show first run episode? Castle did one a year or two ago.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I remember that reel from when it first aired! Thanks for making me feel ancient rear end in a top hat. I miss when the networks would do a 30-60 minute promo in August for all the stuff coming on in the following season. I think they also did a separate one for saturday morning cartoons (rip).
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Community definitely did one at least at s2, maybe even later.
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Bown posted:Sounds like Korra had one from the way people were moaning about it. With the way grown adults got super angry and emotional about Korra you can't be sure on anything unless you see it yourself. Postal Parcel posted:Community definitely did one at least at s2, maybe even later. It was a clip show with clips from things that didn't happen. That was the joke.
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Bown posted:Sounds like Korra had one from the way people were moaning about it. It did and they had to do it because of how the show was produced. It was something like they had to produce a certain number of episodes but couldn't really afford to do anything other than a clip show.
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CobiWann posted:Thanks to whoever posted that Youtube channel with links to all the introductions/opening credits to 70’s and 80’s shows. There was some shows in there I’ve never even heard of, like Brothers and Sisters which looked like a knock off of Animal House, Billy with Steve Guttenberg, and some cop show called 240-Robert with a young Mark Harmon… Why is this better then any promo any network has done in like 20 years.
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sbaldrick posted:Why is this better then any promo any network has done in like 20 years. I admit, the different stars screaming “You’ll Love It!” has been stuck in my head to the point I have to watch the baseball scene from The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! just to get it out of my head…
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I don't know if anybody watched Celebrity Family Feud yesterday (or today on Hulu), but Monica Potter's younger sister is a total smoke show. And I guess this is kind of an abstract question, but does Steve Harvey's Family Feud typically use black slang for dirty answers? I can't imagine normal people actually said "ham flower" or "papa stopper" on the questionnaire.
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Irish Joe posted:I don't know if anybody watched Celebrity Family Feud yesterday (or today on Hulu), but Monica Potter's younger sister is a total smoke show. 
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muscles like this? posted:It did and they had to do it because of how the show was produced. It was something like they had to produce a certain number of episodes but couldn't really afford to do anything other than a clip show. This is the same thing that happened on Star Trek: The Next Generation with "Shades of Gray," as the production had blown a big chunk of their season budget on "Q Who?" (the one introducing the Borg) and they only had enough money to shoot for three days to produce their contractually obligated 22nd episode. Hence the "Riker has a fever and has flashbacks for 45 minutes" second season finale.
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CobiWann posted:I admit, the different stars screaming “You’ll Love It!” has been stuck in my head to the point I have to watch the baseball scene from The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! just to get it out of my head… Also it seems to work a lot better then the upfronts that have been posted on Youtube in recent years which often make shows look way worse then they really are.
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I say Ham Flower all the time.
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Irish Joe posted:I don't know if anybody watched Celebrity Family Feud yesterday (or today on Hulu), but Monica Potter's younger sister is a total smoke show. Is that black slang? I've been black for a while and have never seen or heard the terms "ham flower" or "papa stopper." To answer your question otherwise though, I put the show on in the background sometimes in the afternoon when nothing better is on TV and a lot of the "dirty" answers are things that would make you say "who the gently caress actually says that?"
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