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Nuclear War posted:I'm really surprised people say the leads of Castle hated each other. I haven''t watched the last couple of seasons but they always seemed to have great chemistry. I also really loved the show as a background noise sort of thing - Nathan Fillion just does it for me. It was probably mostly Stana Katic's coke habit and failed pregnancy that drove them apart.
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duck trucker posted:Lovits playing a serial killer. Now I want this.
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Der Kyhe posted:The last season of Scrubs was really just "we do something because we were told to report back to the studio", the second-to-last season even ended with a perfectly acceptable series ender for a comedy series. food court bailiff posted:Everyone always says Dexter started off great and got bad at the end but the very first season is all about Damaged-But-Still-Super-Cool serial killer Dexter fighting his long lost evil twin, it's like an edgy middle schooler's creative writing assignment.
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food court bailiff posted:Everyone always says Dexter started off great and got bad at the end but the very first season is all about Damaged-But-Still-Super-Cool serial killer Dexter fighting his long lost evil twin, it's like an edgy middle schooler's creative writing assignment. the early seasons are still absolutely trashy as gently caress, it's just much better-executed trashiness
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Tiggum posted:I don't know how it holds up but I didn't mind the last season of Scrubs. I thought basically replacing the cast but keeping the old ones as secondary and background characters was a good idea. I may have mentioned it before in this very thread but I found Sunny to be the only tolerable new character introduced and when she didn't come back I lost all interest.
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Tiggum posted:I don't know how it holds up but I didn't mind the last season of Scrubs. I thought basically replacing the cast but keeping the old ones as secondary and background characters was a good idea. The new cast was horrible though. They tried to make James Franco's brother, who was immediately established to be a horrible sex monster, into a sympathetic poor smart guy ditz and it was not done smartly
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Wheat Loaf posted:What are the worst examples of tv shows that completely ran out of juice in their final seasons? You know, where the cast is visibly exhausted and everything and there's a pervasive sense that they just want to get it over with and go home? This only kind of counts, but season 5 of SNL, the last season with the original cast, was very much this. I know season 6 with the all-new cast has a worse reputation, but it was still remarkably bad. Aykroyd and Belushi were gone, Murray and Gilda were both clearly exhausted and checked out, Garret Morris and probably Laraine Newman were more strung-out than ever, and pretty much all of it was a trainwreck. The only one who still seemed to care was Jane Curtin, she was delighted that Aykroyd and Belushi were gone and she tried out a lot of new characters. Also, Harry Shearer was there. The episode with David Bowie was cool though.
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Tiggum posted:I don't know how it holds up but I didn't mind the last season of Scrubs. I thought basically replacing the cast but keeping the old ones as secondary and background characters was a good idea. I would not have hated it, probably even liked it, if it were organized and marketed as a Scrubs spinoff or continuance series. I actually liked the new main character and they way it was interwoven into the original series. Because the original series it was not, but could have been a passable continuance of the story/franchise/whatever. The way the network forced it to be the "New and Improved Scrubs, now with vitamin C!" was my key issue. Horrible IPR management followed by a cavalcade of idiotic executive-level decisions by the network.
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Season 4 of Dexter was the last one I watched, which made watching Trial and Error that much more fun. In T&E, Lithgow plays a former college professor in a small, South Carolina town who may have killed his wife, and plays the character so well that he keeps you guessing through the entire season. Going from season 4 serial killer Lithgow to his goofy character in a sitcom about a murder gives it a fun sense of whiplash.
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I'll never forget the scene in Dexter where John Lithgow calls his wife a oval office over dinner.
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Dexter eventually went down the road that his sister wanted to gently caress him. I don't remember if she ever actually told him but there were too many episodes where she dealt with that. I like talking about Dexter. I got really into it from a short time where I had no cable or Internet and the first few seasons were the only DVDs I had.
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Wasn't that after their IRL marriage had fallen apart? That's pretty funny.
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OutOfPrint posted:Season 4 of Dexter was the last one I watched, which made watching Trial and Error that much more fun. In T&E, Lithgow plays a former college professor in a small, South Carolina town who may have killed his wife, and plays the character so well that he keeps you guessing through the entire season. That’s supposed to be a parody of the documentary series the staircase Which is up on Netflix now and worth a watch.
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Nuclear War posted:I'm really surprised people say the leads of Castle hated each other. I haven''t watched the last couple of seasons but they always seemed to have great chemistry. I also really loved the show as a background noise sort of thing - Nathan Fillion just does it for me. Apparently the gossip is that Nathan Fillion was a massive douchebag to everyone on sent and her in particular. I haven’t heard anything above the tabloid-level though so take that information with a grain of salt.
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fruit on the bottom posted:Apparently the gossip is that Nathan Fillion was a massive douchebag to everyone on sent and her in particular. I haven’t heard anything above the tabloid-level though so take that information with a grain of salt. I follow him on twitter and at the very least he got along with the girl who played his kid.
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I will defend the later seasons of Sabrina the Teenage Witch with this: When Harvey came back from his Hiatus, he became really funny and a lot more interesting because he got a lot of stuff to do due to finally being in on the secret. Standout Moments from Season 6: 1) Salem trying to convince Sabrina and her family to help let him help them cheat at poker. Sabrina turns him down flat, and Harvey does too, but then Josh proves to be a poor winner and Harvey gives Salem a small nod, and they start cheating like crazy. 2) Harvey and Josh discussing Sabrina in the coffee shop. Josh is annoyed and says that he thinks he knows why she and Harvey broke up - Harvey thinks he's figured it out, and during their conversation Josh thinks Harvey is speaking metaphorically about all the weird magic poo poo until this amazing exchange: H: Well, that's nothing compared to the time she made me pregnant... J: Wait, what are you talking about? H: What are you talking about *flees in horror as he realises his mistake* 3) Harvey being in on the secret being discovered by the Spellman family's cruel matriarch, who tortures Harvey to prove his loyalty to the Spellmans and his resolve in keeping her secret. Harvey's final test is to tell her what he thinks of her (in a kind of teasing "Do you think I'm pretty sort of way), and the others are hoping to hell that he'll be complimentary. He summarises his feeling as such: "You are extremely pretty. However, you are also a horrible person." Her response is to admit "Yup, you nailed me. I'm a bitch. Well done, welcome to the family kid." 4) Sabrina's evil twin putting a spell on her via a email virus that turns Sabrina into an airhead. Harvey notices the situation and gets her straight to her aunts for help. Well done Harvey. He just gets so much to do and it's kind of cool.
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food court bailiff posted:Everyone always says Dexter started off great and got bad at the end but the very first season is all about Damaged-But-Still-Super-Cool serial killer Dexter fighting his long lost evil twin, it's like an edgy middle schooler's creative writing assignment. okay now that we have a baseline imagine how far it must've fallen to make the early seasons look like masterfully-crafted television like, i don't think normal minds can comprehend that much suck in one sitting
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Not Operator posted:I follow him on twitter and at the very least he got along with the girl who played his kid. And she just came out as an alcoholic
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Daria's come up a lot in this thread for ageing scarily well in many ways. And weirdly enough for a 90s show there's even a plot point about Jane basically being a streamer back before streaming had a name. (though I think various odd camera sites were a very early internet thing, I remember some parody cartoons about them) Also the one where a private military contractor recruiting in the high school was rightly seen as morally abhorrent (hard to imagine that kinda thing after Iraq, though now they just have the real military) and Daria writes satirical ultra-violent right-wing fiction. I don’t think PMCs ever recruit people with no military experience, they would have been better off just using the Marines. But yeah I saw those episodes the other day and it’s very prescient. Daria intentionally stirred up right wing sentiment by basically trolling people, which she could now do from twitter instead of In person reading at a coffee house she was trying to get closed.
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BioEnchanted posted:
Lmao someone actually succumbed to an email curse. She was supposed to forward it to 10 other people!!
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Calaveron posted:The new cast was horrible though. They tried to make James Franco's brother, who was immediately established to be a horrible sex monster, into a sympathetic poor smart guy ditz and it was not done smartly He was at least occasionally pretty funny, which is more than can be said about girl JD and the new male lead. It was better than at least two of the other seasons of Scrubs, which was reheating the same pratfalls and loud non sequitors for over half it's lifetime, but not good. Der Kyhe posted:The last season of Scrubs was really just "we do something because we were told to report back to the studio", the second-to-last season even ended with a perfectly acceptable series ender for a comedy series. It was a full on schmaltzy farewell episode.
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sassassin posted:girl JD 
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I've been rewatching it over the last week while my Prime runs out and there's a lot more homophobia and domestic abuse played for laughs than I remembered.
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Ambitious Spider posted:Now the xfiles revival... ugh
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This is so tone-deaf it blows my mind, and also underscores the problem behind that particular character trait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE_5_BbZlbI
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Simpson's Three kids and no money. Homer slaps Bart right before he says it, and there's even a sound effect. Most of the youtube versions actually edit out the slap. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIEWgwRrY9s ninjoatse.cx has a new favorite as of 21:31 on Jun 27, 2018 |
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food court bailiff posted:Everyone always says Dexter started off great and got bad at the end but the very first season is all about Damaged-But-Still-Super-Cool serial killer Dexter fighting his long lost evil twin, it's like an edgy middle schooler's creative writing assignment. Yeah just jfc if it got worse since the pilot alone was some of the worst tv I’ve ever endured.
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food court bailiff posted:Everyone always says Dexter started off great and got bad at the end but the very first season is all about Damaged-But-Still-Super-Cool serial killer Dexter fighting his long lost evil twin, it's like an edgy middle schooler's creative writing assignment. At least it didn't involve an evil spirit. Apparently the books get super weird
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Do you mean his... ...Dark Passenger?
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Volcott posted:Do you mean his... Yeah. But in the books it's a literal demon instead of him rationalizing murdering people
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Moloch the demon! He was influencing Dexter the whole time! We learn that in the third book. After that, it's dropped like a sack of bricks and never mentioned again.
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Leavemywife posted:Moloch the demon! He was influencing Dexter the whole time! We learn that in the third book. After that, it's dropped like a sack of bricks and never mentioned again. Sounds like the author had his own Dork Passenger.
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That’s no way to talk about hemorrhoids
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UltraRed posted:Simpson's Three kids and no money. Huh? It's a well established thing that Homer strangles Bart on a pretty regular basis. I'm sure they've quietly retired that now, but this seems pretty tame by comparison.
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I also looked up a bunch of other clips on YT of that scene and they all had the slap in them 
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trickybiscuits posted:I watched most of the first season of the X-Files revival and it was all over the place. A few solid episodes, one I didn't like at all, but the one with Rhys Darby was brilliant and hilarious. The sad thing is that even mediocre episodes in the first few seasons were so enjoyable that they reeled me right in. That episode was definitely the high point. Such a weird meta-commentary on how we didn't need an x-files revival. The transphobic joke at the end is a huge blemish though. "I might be a were-monster, but trans women are really weird! Waka-Waka!" blech
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Wheat Loaf posted:What are the worst examples of tv shows that completely ran out of juice in their final seasons? You know, where the cast is visibly exhausted and everything and there's a pervasive sense that they just want to get it over with and go home? I wrote an article for Cracked, back 10 years ago when it wasn't horrible poo poo, that looked at exactly this: https://archive.li/y0iw0 Basically - Roseanne's last season was off the rails stupid - Flintstones brought in time traveling, wish granting alien - Family Matters turned into Urkel's sci fi wackyporium - Felicity, freaking felicity, turned from romcom teen show to time traveling witch poo poo - Airwolf lost the rights to use the helicopter, so it pieced together shows with archived footage of the Airwolf
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trickybiscuits posted:the one with Rhys Darby was brilliant and hilarious. the nod to one of x-files' biggest influences was also lovely   sadly because of quality shows like the x-files kolchak the night stalker feels super dated looking back now
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Kolchak is still good stuff, though. I got the whole series for like, $17 at Wal-Mart. Easily one of the best purchases I've made there.
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Drunk Nerds posted:I wrote an article for Cracked, back 10 years ago when it wasn't horrible poo poo, that looked at exactly this: I remember this article, good work.
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