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Are those two statements related? Are you saying I shouldn't be bitter about TV not being like the old days because at least I'll be able to meet chicks easier?
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GreenNight posted:Not sure why Tyson is charging so drat much. "Don't rape me" protection racket. sbaldrick posted:Black people did not exist in small Welsh villages in the 1260s. I could pick about the historical issues with the show, but that's one of the worst. There were black people in England at least as early as the century before that load of old bollocks is set, so it's not out of the question. Just preposterously unlikely in, as you say, a small Welsh village. Out of interest, what is the tone of the interactions where his skin is mentioned? As lovely as it sounds to say it, I would not put it past Sutter to have a black actor in the programme just so he could keep saying racist things through the mouths of characters. He seemed very fond of that with SoA.
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Gapey Joe Stalin posted:There were black people in England at least as early as the century before that load of old bollocks is set, so it's not out of the question. Just preposterously unlikely in, as you say, a small Welsh village.
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xcore posted:I really miss the days of week to week Lost theorizing or losing my poo poo every week with my mates during the first two seasons of 24. Your life sounds really sad
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Sep 17, 2015 08:43
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In my day, we watched one episode per week and talked about each one on the Internet! Not like you binging whippersnappers!
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sbaldrick posted:Black people did not exist in small Welsh villages in the 1260s. I could pick about the historical issues with the show, but that's one of the worst. Probably not many in 1960.
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Moonbeam City was so bad. Soooooo bad.
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Steve Yun posted:Moonbeam City was so bad. Soooooo bad. I like the art direction; but off that first episode its a lackluster Archer clone.
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less laughter posted:Your life sounds really sad Sounds pretty drat good to me, who gives a poo poo what people enjoy.
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So did anyone else watch Best Night Ever? I missed all the promo materials so going in all I knew was that it was a variety show with Neil Patrick Harris. It appears that NPH misunderstood what a variety show is and instead made a show that's trying to touch all the non-scripted mainstays and ended up with a bizarre train wreck of a hidden camera, karaoke/singing competition, late-night, obstacle course, game show... show. I just wanted NPH to emcee a show that features stand up comedians, musical guests, and a sketch or two  [Edit: and I still want a real motherfucking Muppets variety show too while we're at it! Ugh, it's like this season the networks decided to cocktease people who like variety shows] asecondduck fucked around with this message at 14:08 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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Steve Yun posted:Moonbeam City was so bad. Soooooo bad. FetusSlapper posted:I like the art direction; but off that first episode its a lackluster Archer clone. I got like 40 seconds further than I did with Chozen - but that was just awful. The art deco style is beautiful, and I really love the colors and the art direction overall - but the show was SO DULL and such an obvious Archer clone, I just shut it off. It's a shame such a pretty looking show is such a shallow reproduction of a superior (although waning) product. Boo.
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lelandjs posted:I just wanted NPH to emcee a show that features stand up comedians, musical guests, and a sketch or two That's exactly what his Just for Laughs gala was this year and it was great.
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lelandjs posted:So did anyone else watch Best Night Ever? I managed to watch about 10 minutes of it before I was so utterly bored that I had to change the channel.
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lelandjs posted:So did anyone else watch Best Night Ever? Yep. Around the time he started doing hidden camera singing contest poo poo I had decided this probably wasn't going to be a show for me.
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Mu Zeta posted:I should have linked to the article. It's a really weird process. As someone who is new to the wide world of conventions, thanks for linking the article. It's incredibly eye-opening. I've only been to a handful of them, all relatively smaller local ones around DC, and they strike me as a lot further from that "cattle call" style. It also explains the look on celebrities' faces and all those hover hands.
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I watched The Bastard Executioner and for being the first impression those FX shots at the very beginning of the episode were shockingly bad. As for the show as a whole, it sure was slow. I'll probably give it at least one more episode since the premier also suffered from Spartacus syndrome where everything was just a set up and the real story starts next week.
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This is from the Montreal Comic-Con FAQ:quote:Can i ask the celebrity a question during the photo op session? They will not even talk to you. You get 15 seconds, please proceed to the killing floor. I've never paid for one myself but I have plenty of friends who have, and the autograph sessions are when you can actually talk to the guests. They're setting their own times, prices etc. so if they want to talk to everyone for a minute instead of knock out 6 autographs in that time they can. Aphrodite fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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lelandjs posted:So did anyone else watch Best Night Ever? Its not a true Muppet variety show but it does have Muppets and Paul F Thompkins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHvSqnLlwnU As far as PEAK TELEVISION goes, Game Of Thrones and The Walking Dead were the only shows currently airing that my friends and I ever cared to watch together, people come over and we watch it on the big screen with pizza and talk over it and we rewind a lot and its a good time. We tried doing that with True Detective but ended up making so much fun of the terrible bits that nobody could follow anything (it was actually better this way) but it didn't really work. We used to do it with Sons of Anarchy before it ended. We've tried doing it with Netflix shows but nobody can resist watching ahead or just plain don't care about the show. I watch a lot of TV (hence posting about TV in TVIV) but don't really share any of it with my friends except broadstrokes partly due to Netflix style binging which I don't always do the weekend it comes out and partly to the DVR phenomenon of not watching it when it comes airs immediately. Things like "I love the way Narcos utilizes actual footage of Pablo and Friends" and "My god the Narcos narrator just won't shut up" as opposed to "holy poo poo that wheelchair guy just blew the gently caress up" and "Gale just got a gun to the face!!!!!! I didn't think he could pull the trigger" tldr I really like Appointment Television and I don't think there's too much of that left out there.
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Most appointment television is stuff nerds don't care about and because nerds won the culture wars no one talks about it.
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lelandjs posted:So did anyone else watch Best Night Ever? This show is basically an American version of Ant and Decs Saturday Night Takeaway. Everything about it was lifted wholesale from that show, which was prime time viewing over here on a Saturday night. Shows like that have always been on though, so it doesn't feel out of place having it on the air.
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Aphrodite posted:This is from the Montreal Comic-Con FAQ: This is weird to me because it's so impersonal. I guess if I was ever to have a picture with a celebrity (Not that I would ever go and bother them) then I'd prefer it to be spontaneous or something, or because I've seen them in a bar. Imagine if you have your picture done with one of those guys and told someone the story afterwards, when you say it out loud you sound like such a dick. "Yeah well I had to wait in line for an hour. Oh and I couldn't talk to them. Yeah and I paid $130 for it." Daedo posted:This show is basically an American version of Ant and Decs Saturday Night Takeaway. Everything about it was lifted wholesale from that show, which was prime time viewing over here on a Saturday night. Shows like that have always been on though, so it doesn't feel out of place having it on the air. Yeah I was reading that description then and thought well it sounds like any other variation of Saturday Night TV we've always had. Like panel shows, I'm assuming that it's a weirdly British thing. But then for some reason we've always been big into variety.
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Daedo posted:This show is basically an American version of Ant and Decs Saturday Night Takeaway. Everything about it was lifted wholesale from that show, which was prime time viewing over here on a Saturday night. Shows like that have always been on though, so it doesn't feel out of place having it on the air. I was kinda surprised to learn that it was lifted wholesale from a British show, but then I realized that people in the US are really only exposed to the "good" stuff, not the dregs. Re: peak TV chat: there's the same level of crap and mediocre shows, it's just that every channel has greenlit at least one prestige drama, which are usually watchable at worst (unless Kurt Sutter is attached in which case lolno). AMC should probably stop trying and just rerun Breaking Bad/Mad Men/Walking Dead 24/7, their overall ratings would probably improve.
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Daedo posted:Everything about it was lifted wholesale from that show[...] Shows like that have always been on though, so it doesn't feel out of place having it on the air. These two statements don't contradict one another, but they sure come close. What makes it specifically Ant and Dec and not any one of a hundred shows that have followed that format? or lelandjs posted:I was kinda surprised to learn that it was lifted wholesale from a British show, but then I realized that people in the US are really only exposed to the "good" stuff, not the dregs. Is this something they're outright admitting?
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Kaizoku posted:These two statements don't contradict one another, but they sure come close. What makes it specifically Ant and Dec and not any one of a hundred shows that have followed that format? The segments from the show are literally the exact same as segments from Saturday Night Takeaway. And the two guys standing at the bar at the end of the show with the cocktail throwing/marching band/pogo stick segment? That was Ant and Dec.
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Yeah, Best Show Ever literally bought the format from the production house for Saturday Night Takeaway. Over here in the UK, SNT is essentially 'let's watch Ant and Dec be Ant and Dec', whatever they're actually doing doesn't ever matter.
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Daniel Fienberg likes Scream Queens. Of course, this is Ryan Murphy we're talking about, so best to proceed with caution lest we be sucked into the Hellmouth. I'm told Rarity still wakes up in the middle of the night, sob-singing "Don't Stop Believin'."
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Kaizoku posted:Is this something they're outright admitting? Peak TV might also just mean more TV at this point more than more good TV if that keeps up.
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DivisionPost posted:Daniel Fienberg likes Scream Queens. Of course, this is Ryan Murphy we're talking about, so best to proceed with caution lest we be sucked into the Hellmouth. I'm told Rarity still wakes up in the middle of the night, sob-singing "Don't Stop Believin'." "So cold... I'm so... cold!
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Vanderdeath posted:Cheaters peaked when Joey Greco got stabbed by that dude on camera. Ah man....where were you....when the music died.... quote:The show's concept from the outset was a mixture of fact and fantasy, but somewhere along the road to national syndication, the temptation to use faux cheaters must have started looking sweet. Actors don't need to be tailed by Gomez for weeks on end. They don't present security risks, and they don't need counseling. They also tend to be younger and better looking than real cheaters, who often will not consent to allow the show to air their faces. http://www.houstonpress.com/news/your-cheatin-art-6575042
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DivisionPost posted:Daniel Fienberg likes Scream Queens. Of course, this is Ryan Murphy we're talking about, so best to proceed with caution lest we be sucked into the Hellmouth. I'm told Rarity still wakes up in the middle of the night, sob-singing "Don't Stop Believin'." Mo Ryan and Ryan McGee hated it and called Murphy kind of a one trick point and I like them better.
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Shageletic posted:Ah man....where were you....when the music died.... I'd always had my suspicions, but it was still plausibly entertaining. Then there was an episode where upon catching the cheater, his wife slipped away while Joey Greco was shame-interrogating him, and stole the Cheaters van off camera to zoom on screen and run her husband over. That one just broke the show for me. Oddly I can't find a clip or any evidence of it happening with some googling, but I swear this actually happened. (On the show, I mean, it was almost certainly staged.) IIRC Tommy Habeeb also had another show after he left Cheaters where he brought peoples' fiancees to crash their bachelor parties and bust in to yell at them while a stripper is on their lap. raditts fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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Recently my wife got me into Six Feet Under. I'm about halfway through the final season. It's been pretty enjoyable so far, with some standout performances, and a couple stinkers. I must say I am utterly sick of the constant dream sequences as well as red herring death sequences in episode intros. Seeing as how I missed the boat on this show by, oh, about a dozen years, what are people's thoughts of and experiences with the show?
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The Midniter posted:Recently my wife got me into Six Feet Under. I'm about halfway through the final season. It's been pretty enjoyable so far, with some standout performances, and a couple stinkers. I must say I am utterly sick of the constant dream sequences as well as red herring death sequences in episode intros. Seeing as how I missed the boat on this show by, oh, about a dozen years, what are people's thoughts of and experiences with the show? It's a good show that has one of the best finales.
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loving RIP, the Firewall and Iceberg podcast is ending in 3 episodes. Any suggestions for replacements?
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Josh Lyman posted:loving RIP, the Firewall and Iceberg podcast is ending in 3 episodes. What happened? Did Dan finally have that massive heartattack we've all been waiting for?
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Irish Joe posted:What happened? Did Dan finally have that massive heartattack we've all been waiting for?
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Speaking of critics, holy poo poo, Andy Greenwald of Grantland just eviscerated the upcoming fall season.
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The Midniter posted:Recently my wife got me into Six Feet Under. I'm about halfway through the final season. It's been pretty enjoyable so far, with some standout performances, and a couple stinkers. I must say I am utterly sick of the constant dream sequences as well as red herring death sequences in episode intros. Seeing as how I missed the boat on this show by, oh, about a dozen years, what are people's thoughts of and experiences with the show? Still one of my favorites, a bit of the polish has worn off over time and I don't often want to watch it, but every few years I'll rewatch with it in the background and always be engrossed by the end of S1. And more often, I'll rewatch That's My Dog because that poo poo is unsettling as hell.
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