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ER used to win so many Emmys it was ridiculous. It also had a character with AIDS treated respectfully and I never forgot that, remember this was in the early 90s. Also, George Clooney!
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May 19, 2017 20:14
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Mu Zeta posted:ER used to win so many Emmys it was ridiculous. It also had a character with AIDS treated respectfully and I never forgot that, remember this was in the early 90s. Also, George Clooney! ER did some pretty dope stuff early on. It had that Tarantino episode (Between that and his two CSI episodes, I wish he'd do a bit more TV), the start of the world loving George Clooney (And his bobbing head), complicated medical jargon and Eriq La Salle doing some sort of kung-fu move in the opening credits.
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May 19, 2017 20:21
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I do need to finish Continuum, I had a really hard time trying to get back inti the final season. I quit drinking again, so I find a lot of the shows I used to watch really boring... Edit: Is The Last Kingdom actually good? That's a good list, I've watched quite of few of those.
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May 19, 2017 20:22
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Maybe it's just me but it really felt like for the final season of Continuum that they had started writing the episodes before they found out they were canceled and then just kind of went with it anyway.
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May 19, 2017 20:24
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DivisionPost posted:Without saying too much: The general concept behind Kimmy Schmidt 303 is fudging brilliant and Tina Fey and her writers are gosh darn geniuses for finding a way to milk any humor out of it. I was pretty amazed at the line where Kimmy calls the Reverend a coward who rapes people.
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May 19, 2017 20:26
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Continuum is a show that I can only stand to watch because I love scifi and time travel. It's actually really loving terribly written and the most like, shallow and bland concepts for each episode. Like it might be a step above Dark Matter.
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May 19, 2017 20:28
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Mu Zeta posted:ER used to win so many Emmys it was ridiculous. It also had a character with AIDS treated respectfully and I never forgot that, remember this was in the early 90s. Also, George Clooney! ER liked to tackle things like that, there was also the whole bundle of issues with Dr. Weaver being gay, disabled, and wanting to have a child. I want to say Dr. Benson(?) who had a deaf kid and they went through the whole cochlear implants debate. And the nurses poor working conditions. But at its heart it was a soap opera where stupid poo poo like vengeful helicopters happened.
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May 19, 2017 20:35
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IRQ posted:ER liked to tackle things like that, there was also the whole bundle of issues with Dr. Weaver being gay, disabled, and wanting to have a child. I want to say Dr. Benson(?) who had a deaf kid and they went through the whole cochlear implants debate. And the nurses poor working conditions. The plan was always for the show to start with Carter as a medical student and then end when he becomes an attending physician. At some point though that changed and the show started really stretching itself with trips to the congo and helicopter drama.
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May 19, 2017 21:06
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Snak posted:Oh, definitely. You can get everything worthwhile out of Scandal by just looking for Rowan/Eli's monologues on YouTube
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May 19, 2017 21:33
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These "violent redneck gets a weird power" X-files episodes are so boring.
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May 19, 2017 22:16
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Not if you're a violent redneck.
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May 19, 2017 22:18
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ShakeZula posted:You can get everything worthwhile out of Scandal by just looking for Rowan/Eli's monologues on YouTube Well, that and this bit, which shows a presidential candidate doing a little casual debate prep a few weeks after she murdered someone in a crime of passion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqVBKBT5WhE I loving love this show that I no longer watch. BTW, ER is responsible for "Hell or High Water," one of the best episodes of television ever produced. When people say that ER made George Clooney, they're talking about that episode.
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May 19, 2017 22:26
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Lurdiak posted:These "violent redneck gets a weird power" X-files episodes are so boring. Wrong.
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May 19, 2017 22:33
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DrVenkman posted:It had that Tarantino episode (Between that and his two CSI episodes, I wish he'd do a bit more TV) Tarantino played a recurring villain in Alias, and that show was so weird that it probably doesn't even enter the upper tier of weird things they did on it.
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May 19, 2017 22:39
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DrVenkman posted:The plan was always for the show to start with Carter as a medical student and then end when he becomes an attending physician. At some point though that changed and the show started really stretching itself with trips to the congo and helicopter drama. ER doesn't get stupid until after maybe the sixth or seventh season.
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May 19, 2017 22:53
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I saw one of the later episodes where I didn't recognize any of the characters except Carter and it was a straight up Breakfast Club homage.
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May 19, 2017 22:55
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Guy Mann posted:Tarantino played a recurring villain in Alias, and that show was so weird that it probably doesn't even enter the upper tier of weird things they did on it. The annoying thing is that he was the villain in a pretty good two-part episode and he's arrested at the end, and that could've been the end of the character, but instead they bring him back for a one-off appearance and suggest he's high up in the villainous conspiracy, then after that, nothing, because Quentin Tarantino's a busy guy.
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May 19, 2017 23:10
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DivisionPost posted:BTW, ER is responsible for "Hell or High Water," one of the best episodes of television ever produced. When people say that ER made George Clooney, they're talking about that episode. That episode was so powerful, like some kind of televised singularity, that I saw it during its original broadcast despite never watching the show before or for many, many years afterward. I hadn't even seen an ad or anything to pique my interest, I was simply...compelled, at age 11, to say "Huh wonder what's going on tonight on ER." (Fast forward eight seasons, the episode that got me to start watching ER? Romano's second encounter with the helicopter. No clue why I watched it, but then I was in. "This is compelling...and ridiculous. And it's got Donal Logue!")
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May 19, 2017 23:27
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GreenNight posted:Not if you're a violent redneck. Snak posted:Wrong. I knew it.
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May 20, 2017 02:24
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By the way Rarity, Xan is back in Kimmy Schmidt and she is on loving fire. (306) BUS LYFE
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May 20, 2017 02:47
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New season of 12 Monkeys is loving nuts.
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May 20, 2017 02:57
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muscles like this! posted:New season of 12 Monkeys is loving nuts. My schedule for this weekend is clear. Im'a binge the poo poo out of Season 3.
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May 20, 2017 02:58
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I'm on the second to last episode of Timeless and I only now just realized they named a character "Rufus Carlin" I can't decide if that's awesome or eye-rolling
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May 20, 2017 03:02
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Thanks for the heads up re: Outcast. It wasn't even on my radar but the pilot was real good (had no idea Wingard was involved). Does it stay good/get better or is this another Kirkman Show where things start great and get rapidly worse?
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May 20, 2017 03:10
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It's only got better. The story starts off slow, it continues to build though. I'm half way through what has aired of season 2
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May 20, 2017 03:27
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OldSenileGuy posted:I'm on the second to last episode of Timeless and I only now just realized they named a character "Rufus Carlin" Not to mention Lucy Preston and Wyatt Logan
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May 20, 2017 03:30
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Lurdiak posted:These "violent redneck gets a weird power" X-files episodes are so boring. If you can't appreciate Eli Bly as an illiterate Appalachian witch doctor I don't know what to tell you.
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May 20, 2017 03:35
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OldSenileGuy posted:I'm on the second to last episode of Timeless and I only now just realized they named a character "Rufus Carlin" There's B&T references in every episode.
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May 20, 2017 03:41
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ShakeZula posted:Not to mention Lucy Preston and Wyatt Logan 
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May 20, 2017 04:08
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Breaking up the 12 Monkeys binge into separate chunks was a good idea on Syfy's part. TBS has also experimented with the binge but they just ran the whole thing in a row, which is just exhausting.
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May 20, 2017 04:19
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May 20, 2017 04:45
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Timeless has the benefit of being one of the few shows where I was absolutely hoping the "Bad guy" would win somehow.
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May 20, 2017 07:08
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Mulva posted:Timeless has the benefit of being one of the few shows where I was absolutely hoping the "Bad guy" would win somehow. It really needs to take a Legends of Tomorrow-style turn into embracing the absurd.
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May 20, 2017 10:04
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I was a bit disappointed they weren't making massive changes to the timeline like the pilot implied they'd be doing, but I liked some of the stuff they did towards the end, where they started doing things like teaming up with Harry Houdini to save Thomas Edison and take down HH Holmes. More of that would be great.
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May 20, 2017 10:12
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Snak posted:Is The Last Kingdom actually good? It's a solid Vikings-lite show and unintentionally hilarious how much the main characters stubbornness get's him into trouble. precision posted:Thanks for the heads up re: Outcast. It wasn't even on my radar but the pilot was real good (had no idea Wingard was involved). It's a good slow-burn and things continue to pick up. I'm a few episodes into season 2 and should catch up.
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May 20, 2017 10:12
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Argue posted:I was a bit disappointed they weren't making massive changes to the timeline like the pilot implied they'd be doing, but I liked some of the stuff they did towards the end, where they started doing things like teaming up with Harry Houdini to save Thomas Edison and take down HH Holmes. More of that would be great. I know, right? I was waiting for all those changes to accumulate until one time they'd come back and America was founded by the French in the 1720s and stretched from the Missouri River to Hudson Bay or some insane thing.
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May 20, 2017 10:21
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Mulva posted:Timeless has the benefit of being one of the few shows where I was absolutely hoping the "Bad guy" would win somehow. I felt the same way about Continuum for a long time.
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May 20, 2017 10:25
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There was a hint at a seriously different timeline in the finale with that brief flash...forward?
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JethroMcB posted:That episode was so powerful, like some kind of televised singularity, that I saw it during its original broadcast despite never watching the show before or for many, many years afterward. I hadn't even seen an ad or anything to pique my interest, I was simply...compelled, at age 11, to say "Huh wonder what's going on tonight on ER." Thanks to Sepinwall for reminding me, but 'Love's Labor Lost' from S1 is an outstanding hour of television. It's just Dr Greene having an increasingly lovely day.
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