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Aphrodite posted:@Midnight is also now about Chris Hardwick's wife stories, and sometimes jokes. I used to watch @Midnight pretty much every night, but it really did change when it officially became "@Midnight with Chris Hardwick." He started essentially doing 5-minute monologues at the start of every episode, they started doing a lot more obviously-pre-written material and sketches, and the charm just kind of drained out of it.
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They also did an extremely unfunny Trump week not too long ago. The guy they have do Trump (same guy getting the show on CC I think?) is awful.
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Aphrodite posted:They also did an extremely unfunny Trump week not too long ago. The guy they have do Trump (same guy getting the show on CC I think?) is awful. Oh yeah! That was right when I stopped watching, and it was a big contributor.
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ShakeZula posted:I used to watch @Midnight pretty much every night, but it really did change when it officially became "@Midnight with Chris Hardwick." He started essentially doing 5-minute monologues at the start of every episode, they started doing a lot more obviously-pre-written material and sketches, and the charm just kind of drained out of it. Pretty much everything from minute one of @Midnight was pre-written by the people on the show. Not that it really matters, but it was almost all pre-written.
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My DVR still records Scandal, so I thought I'd review tonight's episode. Started strong with a good slate of upbeat commercials. There was a storm warning and local news cut-in which made me miss some of the second batch of commercials, but it was a nice twist. Ended up grabbing some animal crackers I bought on a whim. They still make them! Spent a few minutes eating them halfway between the TV and kitchen. That was as far as I got but I like a cliffhanger. Overall it's a bit better than last week's, 2 stars.
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Snak posted:Zoie Palmer is the best part of Dark Matter and this aftershow will likely be better than Dark Matter. Yeah, her switching between android and "more human" is probably the best part/acting of the show. That and the generally fast pace are probably what kept me interested. Not that there's any way I'll be watching an after show for that show. I don't even know if I'll DVR it or just wait until it goes on Netflix and then MAYBE watch it if I still care a year from now.
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X-O posted:Pretty much everything from minute one of @Midnight was pre-written by the people on the show. Not that it really matters, but it was almost all pre-written. Oh yeah, I never believed it was totally improvised. I think I read that they generally knew most of the questions/topics going in and had time to prepare answers, but could change them if they wanted to.
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STAC Goat posted:I loved MST3K as a kid so I'll probably check out the Netflix version eventually for the hell of it. The ones on Netflix (aside from the new season) are more of a Greatest Hits collection (for certain values of "greatest", Manos is there. Be warned: not even the riffing can save that movie, watch at your own risk). I think Youtube used to have a bunch officially uploaded, but I donno what the current status of that is. You're right that it's a rights nightmare, I think they've managed to get all but 5-10 of them out on DVDs.
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That Talking show is released as unedited audio as a nerdest podcast. I listened to the first episode with Frodo and it was fine.
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GreenNight posted:That Talking show is released as unedited audio as a nerdest podcast. I listened to the first episode with Frodo and it was fine. I think I remember hearing when one of the shows they do it for wasn't airing they just make it a regular talk show. So yeah it should be perfectly fine with that format.
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There are some legitimate classic TV moments in the first few dozen @Midnight episodes, before they really knew what they were doing or why. It was this close to being a spiritual successor to Space Ghost Coast to Coast AM. Then it gradually became more and more like "just a bad podcast that for some reason is on television" and I stopped watching. So then I said, "Oh, you'll be wanting Mr. Weed Hitler"
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X-O posted:Pretty much everything from minute one of @Midnight was pre-written by the people on the show. Not that it really matters, but it was almost all pre-written. I'm aware of that, I just preferred them at least keeping up the appearance of spontaneity. Made tolerating the weaker jokes easier
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Medullah posted:I really like Chris Hardwick. I've listened to his podcast for years, read his articles in Wired. He's genuinely a cool guy. I see you either don't remember or have blocked out any memory of the Nerdist TV show.
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STAC Goat posted:Yeah, her switching between android and "more human" is probably the best part/acting of the show. That and the generally fast pace are probably what kept me interested. It's so loving boring. The plots get increasing crazier, but the presentation of the content is so unexciting. I turned it off in the middle of the episode in season 2 where they figure out they are in an alternate universe and they need to go steal the teleporter drive from the evil versions of themselves, and yet it's the most rote, deadpan "okay we should go this now [end scene]" event in television If you can't make poo poo like that exciting or dramatic, don't even bother making a television show.
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GreenNight posted:X-Files season 11 is a go Did anyone want this? I heard the mini series thing they did was completely uneven in terms of quality with the main story arc ones being horrible and the standalone episodic ones being ok.
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The revival was worth it 100% for "Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster." Just have Darin Morgan write all the episodes.
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Mu Zeta posted:I hope Kumail Nanjiani gets to be in another episode I really want to know why he stopped The X-Files Files with zero fanfare. Was he pissed off about that awful terrorist episode? He was still doing it while they were producing and even airing the new episodes so I doubt there was any contractual reason for it.
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I hope the retcon out the terrible ending of the last mini season. Oh god it was so bad.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:with the main story arc ones being horrible and the standalone episodic ones being ok. Sounds like a pretty faithful revival to me then.
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Aphrodite posted:@Midnight is also now about Chris Hardwick's wife stories, and sometimes jokes. Speaking of bad Comedy Central shows, here's a clip from Problematic, which will hopefully be the turning point in the whole "socially conscious comedy" phase that we're in right now. You're stronger than I am if you can make it through that entire video. https://twitter.com/ComedyCentral/status/854801786292621314
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Remember when Lewis Black had The Root of All Evil and one of the episodes argued Oprah was evil? I mean, who signed off on that poo poo?!
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I strongly dislike Oprah. She pushed that The Secret bullshit really hard.
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There is a new show called Detroiters and its pretty funny. I keep having "Bicken Bones" pop into my head causing me to crack up and look like a crazy person. One of the leads is Richard Splett from Veep 
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Snak posted:I strongly dislike Oprah. Echoing Detroiters as a good show, even though the season finale had ludicrous amounts of product placement. Then again, it's a show about an advertising agency, so I suppose it comes with the territory.
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Oprah pimped Cormac McCarthy for a while and that was neat.
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ShakeZula posted:I used to watch @Midnight pretty much every night, but it really did change when it officially became "@Midnight with Chris Hardwick." He started essentially doing 5-minute monologues at the start of every episode Yes, it was generally awful when he did it, but it only happened a few times. Don't think it's happened once this year. "Every episode" is a massive exaggeration of Herculean proportions.
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get that OUT of my face posted:She also gave a platform to Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, and that fraud who wrote A Million Little Pieces. It's good that she's not on daytime TV anymore.
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Mu Zeta posted:Oprah pimped Cormac McCarthy for a while and that was neat. Also Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Got an untold number of housewives to read 100 years of
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Mu Zeta posted:Peak TV is part of the reason for the WGA strike threat. Writers are used to being employed for 20+ episodes at a time every year. Now shows like Fargo do 10 episodes every 2-3 years. Writers still get paid per episode so it's a big pay cut compared to actors who are still getting paid well. It's not only that, but the AMPTP is still refusing to even consider altering the residuals formula (even though the networks are all launching their own stand-alone streaming services) and is also demanding significant concessions from the WGA on how much they pay for their insurance premiums. So not only has the average writer's pay fallen by 20 percent or so over the past five years (at a time when studios are insanely profitable), they're now being asked to take an additional 15 - 20 percent pay cut for healthcare. This is one of those "if they don't strike and fight now, there's no coming back from how much ground they'll lose" situations.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Oprah also just gave some new show on her network to an extremely homophobic pastor, I read yesterday. gently caress Oprah. I don't know, I think I'd watch an hour of a homophobic pastor before 22 minutes of Lewis Black.
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X-O posted:Sounds like a pretty faithful revival to me then. In that sense yes, but unlike the regular-length seasons of the show, where you'd have 3 lovely story-arc episodes out of 22, this time you get three lovely story-arc episodes out of 6.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Oprah also just gave some new show on her network to an extremely homophobic pastor, I read yesterday. gently caress Oprah. HBO is more or less entirely responsible for Bill Maher having a platform after 9/11, if you're cool with a network that supports Islamophobia and anti-vaxxers then Oprah shouldn't be much different.
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get that OUT of my face posted:That's unfortunate. It got a lot of jabs for being "Twitter the TV show" but it was a good way to kill time after The Daily Show and Colbert. Well, the guy from Third Bass is as loving lame now as he was 20 years ago. I made it through about 5 seconds of fat white guy rapping. I'm not sure of your meaning with "turning point in the whole "socially conscious comedy" phase that we're in right now" though, I can't think of anything offhand that fits that criteria. Josh Lyman posted:Remember when Lewis Black had The Root of All Evil and one of the episodes argued Oprah was evil? Well, I mean, she was/is a shameless product pusher, although I think her protoge Dr. Phil has her way beat at this point since he literally dedicates 10-15 minutes of every episode of his show to hawking something either for himself or his wife. Root of All Evil was a shitawful show though, so raditts fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Guy Mann posted:HBO is more or less entirely responsible for Bill Maher having a platform after 9/11, if you're cool with a network that supports Islamophobia and anti-vaxxers then Oprah shouldn't be much different. Please link to his Islamophobia and not from The Young Turks.
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Mu Zeta posted:Please link to his Islamophobia and not from The Young Turks. https://www.google.com/search?q=bill+maher+on+islam&oq=bill+maher+on+islam
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Snak posted:I strongly dislike Oprah. My mom sent that to me. For my reaction when I opened the care package, imagine something like discovering a pod in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Mom means well, and she's no dummy, but she tends to latch onto bits of things (in this case, "a positive attitude can help you spot good things in life when they come along") without realizing all the woo layered on top of it.
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Like, Oprah has done some good things and endorsed some good things, but she's also used her massive influence to sell a lot of snake oil bullshit to her fans. A literal for profit cult of personality. If she was more scrupulous in the things that she pushed on people, I wouldn't really have a problem.
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Guy Mann posted:I really want to know why he stopped The X-Files Files with zero fanfare. Was he pissed off about that awful terrorist episode? He was still doing it while they were producing and even airing the new episodes so I doubt there was any contractual reason for it. He stopped it before he even shot his episode I think. I believe the reason was just that he was busy since they put the Indoor Kids podcast on hiatus as well. At the start of the year he said he'll be doing more, so I assume he's waiting for some downtime. It was clear from his twitter that he hated that terrorist episode though, and quite rightly so.
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