|
Breaking Bad didn't have good ratings at the start, but the critics liked it. They started climbing after it went up on streaming, I think. And they shot up during Season 5.
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 00:49
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 13, 2024 19:07 |
|
|
Any recommendations for anything similar in tone to "It's a Beautiful Day"? Need something good that will make me laugh while wanting to cry and hang myself at the same time.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 00:55
|
|
|
Lycus posted:Breaking Bad didn't have good ratings at the start, but the critics liked it. They started climbing after it went up on streaming, I think. And they shot up during Season 5. Vince Gilligan has said on at least one occasion that being on Netflix saved the show. And yeah, the early seasons hovered around a million viewers or so. "Felina" had more than ten million.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 01:10
|
|
|
mrfreeze posted:Any recommendations for anything similar in tone to "It's a Beautiful Day"? Need something good that will make me laugh while wanting to cry and hang myself at the same time. World of Tomorrow!  It's not as serious, though.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 01:35
|
|
|
mrfreeze posted:Any recommendations for anything similar in tone to "It's a Beautiful Day"? Need something good that will make me laugh while wanting to cry and hang myself at the same time. World of Tomorrow by the same creator is also on Netflix, though it doesn't go as dark. Edit: Let my window sit open too long. morestuff fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Jan 28, 2016 |
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 01:41
|
|
|
NESguerilla posted:Was Breaking bad not a hit right out of the gate?
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 03:32
|
|
|
It was hard to get a gauge on the popularity of the show. The media always talked about it a lot, but a bunch of people I talked to had never seen it. Then all of a sudden the finale season rolled around and it might as well have been Game of Thrones. I also have Netflix to thank for that one since I didn't watch it until the first season was up.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 03:39
|
|
|
I didn't start watching Breaking Bad as it aired until towards the end of Season 3. I'd been hearing for a while how great a show it was, but I never actually saw it until like halfway through Season 3's run. So I started from the beginning and got all caught up on the show, watched the end of Season 3 as it aired, and then watched every remaining season as they aired too.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 04:00
|
|
|
mysterious frankie posted:Terriers is so good that I almost suggest never starting it, because you will forever carry that sadness in your heart once the last episode of season one ends and you realize that that is it. On the other hand, the ending of Terriers is perfect. Just like FX's other excellent series from around the same time that went nowhere, Lights Out. There's no better way to end a dramatic series than the not-cliffhanger.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 06:36
|
|
|
NESguerilla posted:It was hard to get a gauge on the popularity of the show. The media always talked about it a lot, but a bunch of people I talked to had never seen it. Then all of a sudden the finale season rolled around and it might as well have been Game of Thrones. netflix is like 90% of the reason why the show ever got popular, it was languishing pretty hard for the first few seasons and the instant it hit netflix the ratings shot up like crazy as for me, I was watching right from the first season because I know me some good poo poo when I see it
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 07:05
|
|
cat doter posted:netflix is like 90% of the reason why the show ever got popular, it was languishing pretty hard for the first few seasons and the instant it hit netflix the ratings shot up like crazy I never got around to watching it until after it was done. It was really good. I kinda did the same as you for Mad Men, started watching it from day 1, told a couple friends to check it out because it seemed pretty interesting / invested a lot in the period costume and feel etc. Maybe 3-4 years later had same friends gushing about the show and asking me if I had ever watched it etc... sigh.
|
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 14:38
|
|
|
Terrorist Fistbump posted:On the other hand, the ending of Terriers is perfect. Just like FX's other excellent series from around the same time that went nowhere, Lights Out. There's no better way to end a dramatic series than the not-cliffhanger. True enough. Everything about Terriers was perfect, save for the advertising. That shittily photoshopped picture of a angry terrier in the foreground holding their business card in its mouth while they sulked in the background made me think, at the time, that it was one of those dumbshit reality tv shows about bounty hunters or whatever, and I consequently passed on it until after it was already cancelled. I'm assuming, likewise, people who tuned in because of that ad, expecting some down and dirty crude guys busting heads, were equally disappointed when instead they got a comedy about a lovelorn PI in recovery and his slacker partner puttering their way to inadvertently uncovering a scammy land deal outside of San Diego. mysterious frankie fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Jan 28, 2016 |
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 19:04
|
|
|
From the advertising you would have no goddamn idea what you were getting with Terriers. They promoted it like it was The Shield or some crap and you turn to it and it's basically like a male Rizzoli and Isles.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 19:06
|
|
|
I watched the first episode of terriers it was really good. I'd never even heard of it before.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 19:13
|
|
|
HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:From the advertising you would have no goddamn idea what you were getting with Terriers. They promoted it like it was The Shield or some crap and you turn to it and it's basically like a male Rizzoli and Isles. FX was probably the wrong venue for a less charmed with itself, more laid back west coast variant of Bored To Death as well. I generally associate that channel with Simpsons reruns, edited for cable showings of superhero movies and series that rely on Pro Wrestling grade Shakespearean drama. That's not a complaint about the channel's content, mind.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 19:46
|
|
|
Oh poo poo, West Coast Bored To Death is a way better comparison.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 19:58
|
|
|
mysterious frankie posted:FX was probably the wrong venue for a less charmed with itself, more laid back west coast variant of Bored To Death as well. I generally associate that channel with Simpsons reruns, edited for cable showings of superhero movies and series that rely on Pro Wrestling grade Shakespearean drama. That's not a complaint about the channel's content, mind. E: FXX, the vastly inferior spinoff channel, did that big Simpsons marathon when it first launched, maybe that's what you're thinking of. Terrorist Fistbump fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jan 28, 2016 |
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 23:50
|
|
|
they still show the simpsons all the time on one of those, I always end up watching a ton of simpsons when I'm back at my folk's place cause they have cable
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2016 23:57
|
|
|
Simpsons and It's Always Sunny are enough content to make FXX worthwhile.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 00:05
|
|
|
Accident Underwater posted:Simpsons and It's Always Sunny are enough content to make FXX worthwhile. And now Archer.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 01:01
|
|
|
Cocoa Ninja posted:And now Archer. I watched Archer kind of backwards, catching season 5/6 on tv and now I'm going through season 1 on netflix. It's a weird change in animation and in the characters, but it always works.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 01:22
|
|
|
there's some weird non-episode archer stuff that i've been seeing on one of the FX channels like something about pam going to the farm and stuff with cyril
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 02:33
|
|
|
I'm like halfway through Paris By Night, and if nothing else, this movie is loving cool and the lighting is tremendous. I also recommend Spirals if it's still on netflix. French people are just cool.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 02:35
|
|
|
I loved Eve No Jinkan but maaaannn, Patema Inverted on AP is just so shallow, and slow. and its true title should be Secret Gay Upsidads
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 07:21
|
|
|
That entire post is complete nonsense.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 07:41
|
|
|
NESguerilla posted:That entire post is complete nonsense. Its Anime so that checks out. Edit: Its a newer movie by a pretty good scifi writer director. It is not good.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 08:06
|
|
|
Terrorist Fistbump posted:That's really strange, because FX has had very good original programming for a decade and a half at this point and has never showed The Simpsons. I think my example was of FXX, you're right. Still tho, when I type "FX Series" into Google, the first results are all trashy, heightened and/or provocative in some way (again, none of that is a negative judgement). Terriers maybe sat a little funny squashed between stuff like a bloody Shakespearean biker crime drama and the anything but understated It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 20:40
|
|
|
The show that made FX was Nip/Tuck so you have a point there.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 20:48
|
|
|
HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The show that made FX was Nip/Tuck so you have a point there. I always figured it was the reruns of In Living Color
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 20:49
|
|
|
Iron Crowned posted:I always figured it was the reruns of In Living Color That would work too, honestly.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 20:50
|
|
|
Early fX was actually quite innovative television for the time, it had a heavy focus on viewer interaction in an era before social media. I thought it was the coolest thing as a kid to have hosts respond to viewer emails and letters during the commercial break of the original Batman.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 22:52
|
|
|
Konstantin posted:Early fX was actually quite innovative television for the time, it had a heavy focus on viewer interaction in an era before social media. I thought it was the coolest thing as a kid to have hosts respond to viewer emails and letters during the commercial break of the original Batman. There was this channel on RCN, maybe still is, where you'd contribute videos and comments on their website and then they'd put it on the air at the breaks. It was something like You Too, I want to say? Anyways, it was a really good, lame channel that reminded me of the late 90s\dot com bubble era of paid cable, where everything seemed a little alternate reality weird and highly optimistic. That and Chiller are the only two channels I need, but I have neither. Oh, my life.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 23:14
|
|
|
HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The show that made FX was Nip/Tuck so you have a point there. The Shield???
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 23:42
|
|
|
Wasn't The Shield at least a year or two after?
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 23:54
|
|
|
Pretty sure it was before. To this day I have only seen seasons 1 and 2 because I moved to a foreign country in the summer of 2003. I don't think Nip/Tuck was on at that point. By the way Terriers-chat has convinced me to rewatch it starting tonight 
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2016 23:57
|
|
|
I stand corrected, then.
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2016 00:13
|
|
|
Is Nip/Tuck any good though?
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2016 00:23
|
|
|
It's what made Ryan Murphy famous, possibly the ultimate YMMV.
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2016 00:26
|
|
|
I'd say the first 3 seasons were good. Then it kind of went over the rails.
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2016 00:26
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 13, 2024 19:07 |
|
|
Medullah posted:I'd say the first 3 seasons were good. Then it kind of went over the rails. Again: restrained for him. Even Boston Public was in like season five before there was a basement sex club in the high school.
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2016 00:31
|
|