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OldSenileGuy posted:I'm telling ya, sexy mummies are right around the corner. I will not rest until we have a CW teen romantic drama set in the Black Lagoon.
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Oct 25, 2013 20:16
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PLL is the best show that only approx. 5 people in this subforum are actually watching.
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Oct 29, 2013 15:27
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Could be worse. Could be Toby, King of Two Facial Expressions Max. (Why COULDN'T it have been stupid Toby, to liberate Spencer from his terrible woodenness.)
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Oct 29, 2013 18:19
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zoux posted:Fuckin' better be.... I think you can probably count on Supernatural, Vampire Diaries, and Arrow being renewed every season until the showrunners decide they just don't want to do it anymore.
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Nov 6, 2013 18:00
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hcreight posted:Starring People's Choice Award Nominee Kristin Kreuk! The People's Choice for Favorite Least-Watched Network Television Program.
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Nov 6, 2013 21:04
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Junkenstein posted:Absolutely, as long as you don't watch it for the mythos. It's kind of the opposite to today's TV in that regard. I guess some of the season 1 episodes would come across as pretty poor nowadays too. Maybe watch some of the best ones and then skip to season 2? Yeah, the episodes that have actually stuck with me the longest from X-Files are a handful of the MOTWs, things like the fluke-man or Eugene Tooms.
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Nov 7, 2013 16:45
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Sophia posted:Okay I will check out Sleepy Hollow next and try to make it through the rest of Orphan Black after I got bored with it. Arrow is on my "to catch up on" list already! If you haven't watched the PLL Halloween episode yet, then we are no longer AFC South bros.
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Nov 13, 2013 03:51
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Sophia posted:I am watching it right now just for you then! I think I'm not going to watch Ravenswood though unless it's a lot better than it looks from all of this buildup. You have until January because then PLL is back on the air and that obviously takes precedence over everything.
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Nov 13, 2013 17:01
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raditts posted:I don't really give a poo poo if he wants to watch it or not, but you don't have to make up half-assed reasons to justify yourself, just don't watch it. I don't see anything half-assed about what he said. It was just "this thing happened, I didn't like it, so I stopped watching." Just because you don't like that this thing directly led to him no longer wanting to watch the show doesn't make it an invalid reason.
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Nov 13, 2013 22:23
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raditts posted:Well, the fact that half of his statement was plain incorrect aside, I was referring more to the people who are saying they won't watch Popular Show specifically because it is a popular show. I assume you're referring to BB and to his point, this isn't a case of "hurble durble I'm going to BUCK THE TREND and not listen to/watch *popular thing* just because I am a cool person like that!" It's a matter of exhaustion at hearing about said popular thing driving down personal interest in continuing to watch a show. This doesn't mean that person doesn't like the show on its own merits, just that they're too tired of hearing about how amazing it is all the time that actually watching an episode feels like effort. It's like when people (I mean, myself included) were losing their minds over Orphan Black/Tatiana Maslany, or when similar happened (I think more in IRC than in Couch Chat) with Hannibal. (And probably about the last thing to do with said person is try to engage them even more in conversation about why they don't like the show -- because it's not that they don't! It's just that they need a breather from hearing its praises sung from the heavens.) I haven't personally watched any more PoI past 1x07 because I'm just not invested enough in any of the characters or the concept to devote more of my time to catching up on it and away from other things I'm doing. And the more episodes that air, the more I'd have to watch to get current and the more daunting a task that seems. It's like Hannibal and Sophia -- it's not that I think it's a bad show or that it's had any particular missteps along the way; it's just not for me!
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Nov 13, 2013 23:23
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:Aren't there like entire communities dedicated to the sexual tension between the main characters? If that's your criteria, man, you might as well say, "I can't watch this television show because it is a television show."
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Nov 17, 2013 23:07
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Junkenstein posted:I think it'll only work long-term if they conclude this current arc after a couple of seasons before moving onto something fresh. Not that they're exactly dragging things out as it stands, mind. I'm pretty sure the writers have said that they have actually plotted out like 7 seasons of show content, so I doubt we're going to get Ryan Murphy'd here unless Fox starts demanding 22-episode seasons instead of 13.
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Nov 19, 2013 17:21
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Rarity posted:Arrow delivered the episode of a lifetime tonight jesus I think I'm getting spoiled. I can apparently only watch hour-longs now if 50058957887 things happen in one episode. THANKS A LOT, Pretty Little Liars and Arrow!
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Nov 21, 2013 06:04
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Sophia posted:I've heard The Fosters (also ABC Family) was good but I've never actually watched it. Friday Night Lights might scratch your itch if you haven't seen it. I just recently watched The Fosters and it's a cute show. The kids kinda do dumb stuff but Teri Polo and Sherri Saum are adorable as their parents. hcreight posted:ABC Family deliberately went away from that demo a few years back. It's amusing to think that the network that broadcasts Secret Life and Pretty Little Liars was founded by Pat Robertson and still airs The 700 Club. Yeah, ABC Family can pretty much never really fill that demo as long as PLL is basically its #1 tent-pole show. xeria fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Nov 23, 2013 |
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Nov 23, 2013 00:53
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Sir Kodiak posted:You know, part of it for me is that while I can tell the characters apart, none of them come across as deep to me as, say, the different Olivias or Walters on Fringe. But that show didn't start playing those tricks right out of the gate, so it's an unfair comparison until I've finished the first season. It is fairly unfair to compare a completed 5-season show to the first two episodes of the first season of another show in terms of your expectations, yes. She is being praised because she is doing A Thing and doing it very well. Saying "she's no different than Eddie Murphy doing the Klumps" is one of the stupidest reductions I've ever read.
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Nov 25, 2013 21:32
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Regy Rusty posted:It's important to remember not to argue on points Irish Joe brings up. In that way lies only misery. True, I should say it's one of the trollingest reductions I've ever seen. Sir Kodiak posted:At the same time, none of the characters I've seen her play are as nuanced or interesting as Walter was on Fringe in the first episode (as just one example, since that's a show we're already comparing Orphan Black to). But from what DivisionPost is saying, I just need to wait a bit and I'll get that. Nearly every person who has said, "I've watched the first 1/2 episodes and I don't see what the big deal is," has come around by anywhere from episodes 4 through 6. If you get through 6 -- probably the one real 'goalpost' episode this show has -- and still aren't interested, there probably won't be anything that comes after that'll convince you.
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Nov 25, 2013 21:49
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VDay posted:I think what Maslany did on Orphan Black was pretty impressive, but this is a pretty disingenuous argument considering that she a) didn't do it for a full season either (the clones don't show up immediately save for the opening scene) and that b) the "whole season" was only 10 episodes. Torv had a prolonged arc where she was playing Fauxlivia pretending to be Olivia and it was pretty drat incredible how much subtlety she managed to put into both characters. Technically she does do it for a whole season -- even in the first episode, she's Sarah-playing-Beth. She's not playing Alison or Cosima for every single episode, no, but those two (and Helena) aren't the extent of her clone-playing.
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Nov 25, 2013 21:52
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Sophia posted:There is too much TV to watch and I will never catch up. I've heard AHS: Coven is balling this year, is that true or not? I like it enough to keep watching but I think most people who really liked Asylum don't seem to be enjoying Coven quite as much. Most of its appeal is awesome actresses chewing the poo poo out of the scenery.
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Dec 4, 2013 19:07
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One of the biggest problems Coven has, I think, is that characters' personalities change to suit any given scene/plot point. It's particularly egregious with Zoe and Queenie.
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Dec 4, 2013 20:26
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Postal Parcel posted:Question because I don't watch shows like this, why are some talent* shows more popular than others? The Voice in particular picked up steam by not being another Simon Cowell retread, with a different format and popular current music stars. But it's not really that AI in particular is doing that bad. Its total viewers are half of what they used to be several seasons ago but still equivalent to what The Voice pulls in -- the last season finale of AI had 3.6 in the demo and 14.31 overall versus The Voice's last season finale pulling 3.4 in the demo and 12.14 overall. For reference, AGT's last season finale got 2.5/11.34. So it's really just "Why is the X-Factor doing so badly?" and also "Why is the X-Factor doing so much worse than it did even last season, on the same nights in same timeslot?" and that's more difficult to determine. I don't watch it so I can't say.
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Dec 5, 2013 16:39
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Rarity posted:Ok, question. With NBC's neverending nosedive into failure and the CW's strong brand association to its target demographic, could the CW ever overtake NBC as #4 network? Overall, maybe if NBC lost both football and The Voice. NBC's definitely dipping below CW's ceiling with several shows now. (The 'problem' with that, for the CW, is that only 2-3 shows are capable of actually reaching that ceiling right now.)
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Dec 5, 2013 16:56
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Vertical Lime posted:It looks like that gamble might have paid off Sounds like we're gonna get a whole lot of musicals live on NBC Thursdays!
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Dec 6, 2013 17:12
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Mu Zeta posted:I guess all you need for high ratings is just to have a bunch of people singing and dancing. Live. Glee's getting 1.1s for its singing and dancing efforts.
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Dec 6, 2013 19:00
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Kraps posted:Farscape is apparently a low-budget Mass Effect TV show which is fine with me. I've been meaning to watch Farscape since one of my best friends loves it, but this comparison just sold me on it more than anything else.
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Dec 10, 2013 17:54
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piratepilates posted:One of my new hobbies is going through the old lineups of TV networks and seeing the shows that no one could possibly remember. It was kind of fun to watch NBC try and fail repeatedly to find a show that could carry an audience between Friends and Seinfeld on Thursdays at 8:30. I vaguely remember some show called The Single Guy running for a while there.
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Dec 11, 2013 05:00
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piratepilates posted:That was one I failed to mention only because it seemed interesting but it's not on youtube and I'm not sure there was ever a home release of it so I have no idea how I could watch it. That's something of a tragedy to me, that I can't watch all of these things because no one cares enough to put them out there. The only reason I specifically remembered that show is because there was a promo spot that aired for both it and Caroline in the City, where the leads of each show discussed with each other how successful sitcoms have titles with a single word (referencing Friends/Seinfeld) and how they should shorten their show names to single words. It ended up 'Caroline' and 'Guy'.
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Dec 11, 2013 06:51
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Bobfromsales posted:Caroline in the city was a good sitcom, but can be added to the pile of shows that were ruined when the will-they/won't-they leads finally got together. Yeah, I remember flipping from 'like' to 'not like' pretty much on a dime once Caroline and Richard got together in Season 3? I think. It pulled a lot of similar stunts with that will-they/won't-they as Friends did with Ross/Rachel -- he loves her but she doesn't know; then she discovers that she loves him but he's moved on; enter sweeps moment where he finds out she loves him. Edit: Also, I just noticed on wikipedia that CitC only had its first two seasons ever released on DVD in the US. Weird.
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Dec 11, 2013 07:16
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hope and vaseline posted:Haha, Caroline in the City, Suddenly Susan and Veronica's Closet kind of morph into the same generic NBC sitcom in my head. ...I'm pretty sure the same thing happened for me with Suddenly Susan and Veronica's Closet. Who even was in VC besides Kirstie Alley? I thought Judd Nelson was but he was in SS with Brooke Shields, wasn't he?
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Dec 11, 2013 17:19
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So crazy Golden Globes things from this morning: 1) Tatiana Maslany snagged a Best Actress nom, good for her! 2) Claire Danes DIDN'T! Shock among shocks. In fact, Homeland was completely shut out. 3) B99 nom'd for Best Comedy! Samberg nom'd for Best Actor in Comedy! 4) TV Supporting Actor/Actress is still stupid. Comedy actors were completely shut out of the category this year (and the only comedy actress nom'd was Sofia Vergara). 5) The HFP's definition of 'comedy' for motion pictures seems curiously suspect.
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Dec 12, 2013 16:43
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Joramun posted:That "Worst Suicide Attempt" does not belong on the list. That was actually one of the greatest TV scenes of the year, if not ever. I read that and said, "Welp, guess I need to watch that show now, because that sounds amazing."
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Dec 12, 2013 23:15
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Sophia posted:I really like Scandal but I'm the exact opposite of this, I was in completely on the first season from the beginning, then my interest has slowly waned as they've gotten more serial and less episodic. I thought it was going to be a show that I wanted to watch each week this year but instead I've got a 5 or 6 episode backlog on my DVR. This has also happened with Sleepy Hollow, though, so perhaps I'm fatigued by zany event television, but I really liked the show better when it more like Leverage than Grey's Anatomy. As long as your zany event television fatigue doesn't carry over into PLL. 
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Dec 13, 2013 18:30
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DivisionPost posted:They still don't really have confidence in the show. It wasn't much of a performer last year, but NBC gave it its second season because it was a cheap international co-production, a critical jewel in the crown (see: Homicide, Friday Night Lights) and possibly because there were other cable/streaming networks waiting in the wings to pick it up the second NBC dropped it. I find it kind of interesting, for as much as it ends up on top 10 lists and the like, that it was completely glossed over for both the Emmys and the GGs. Like if it wasn't for the thread here and people occasionally talking about it on irc/in Couch chat, I'd probably forget it was even a show until it comes back on the air.
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Dec 16, 2013 04:28
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Yoshifan823 posted:BBC poo poo is too short, IMO. It makes sense with Sherlock, because they're basically just making 3 feature length movies, but 6 episodes has always felt too short for me (especially in comedy, where the shows are half as long). Yeah, sitcoms don't seem to suffer as much as most hour-longs when it comes to 22-24 episode seasons (probably in part because it's half the runtime), to where I never really catch myself thinking, "Boy, New Girl is great but it'd be even greater if the season was cut in half." Meanwhile, it seems like with hour-longs/dramas we're drifting toward half-season orders (12-13 episodes) instead of the full 22-24. The one clear example I can think of where a full 22-order really hosed with the flow of the season is Lost Girl S2, where they had a 13-episode order and then got renewed for another 9 episodes mid-season. It's real obvious that they started basically treading water that season just to fill out their order, and S3/S4 ended up as half-season size orders.
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Dec 24, 2013 01:07
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JediTalentAgent posted:Granted, spin-offs haven't been all that successful lately, but W&G had went from being a very popular first run show but I've not seen in in syndication around my area for a long time. Trying to push a new series with those characters could have helped reinvigorate some syndicated interest in the original series. Some network did some massive marathon of W&G last weekend (calling it '50 Shades of Grace' or something), but I don't remember which now. I want to say either E! or TBS but that's probably wrong.
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Jan 3, 2014 00:05
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I just watched the first episode of Dante's Cove with TVIV favorite STEPHEN AMELL and that was pretty much the most horrifying thing I've ever seen.
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Jan 5, 2014 09:30
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raditts posted:When did people start hating Anne Hathaway? I wasn't aware that was ever a thing, guess it slipped by me. She gets hate from people who regard her as a Spazzy Theater/Drama Kid, and consider folks who fall that category real annoying, that I've seen. It's fairly dumb.
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Jan 7, 2014 00:46
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EL BROMANCE posted:That's incredible. The award easily goes to Brooklyn 99, but somehow they managed to skip the one legit new network comedy of the year? That takes efforts. I bet if they had 6 nominees, 'Dads' would be in it. I think it's probably pretty established by now that the "People's Choice Awards" are effectively the Teen Choice Awards without the part where you have to fake your age if you want to spam vote.
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Jan 9, 2014 19:13
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muscles like this? posted:I thought Fox was going to take it off the air? It's going off in February, when Glee comes back on and takes the 8-9 timeslot and pushes B99 to 9:30 (after New Girl).
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Jan 15, 2014 04:45
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smg77 posted:The current season is much better about telling a coherent story where last season was fun because of how nutso the whole thing was. I'm enjoying witches this year and don't think the show is nearly as bad as the AHS thread would have you believe. Of all the praises I've seen for this current season, none of them have been regarding its coherency.
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Jan 22, 2014 18:19
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