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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > TV IV Couch Chat: Merry New Year's Eve, Fuck You England

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Veep's great especially because seasons are so short. 8 half-hour episodes means only the strongest material stays in.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2014 18:44

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 11:51

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

muscles like this? posted:

I'm sorry USA, but I'm not that interested in a TV show about the dissatisfied rich guy.

Yeah, I'm probably not going to watch Gotham or Arrow either.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2014 11:14

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Arrow is basically just a more action-oriented version of Community anyway.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2014 16:56

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

...of SCIENCE! posted:

I still don't understand what the demand is for what is essentially Batman Babies. May as well go whole hog and have all the villains living in the same orphanage and taken care of by Commissioner Gordon's disembodied pair of legs.

I would watch a cartoon version of JL8.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2014 17:12

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

scary ghost dog posted:

lol i a-smell an emmy

There's no possible way it's going to be as good as Coven.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2014 22:47

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

AV Club used to have really good interviews, but those seem to have all dried up.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2014 22:19

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Kraps posted:

"Period piece" also confuses me because that can be used for anything as recent as the 90s all the way back to Mesopotamia, and they never say which period they mean.

"Period piece" would be a good name for chick flicks. Or "menstrual show."

# ¿ Jun 17, 2014 11:35

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

I accidentally ate at the cafe from Twin Peaks a couple weeks ago. I was passing through a town called North Bend in Washington when we stopped. Apparently that was where the cafe scenes in Twin Peaks were filmed. The coffee was pretty good.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2014 16:11

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Irish Joe posted:

I, too, have eaten food.

Yeah, but this was famous food from television. That's like meeting the guy who plays Larry Gengirch at the mall, and you stop and chat about frozen pizzas for a bit.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2014 19:07

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

raditts posted:

What about the pie?

I did not order the pie. I am sorry. I know I am letting you all down.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2014 01:14

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

hope and vaseline posted:

heee loookaaaa like a maaan

(I love Alex Borstein but god that was just the worst)

Incorrect. Stewart was the worst. I consider it a minor miracle that a Stewart / Ms. Swan crossover direct-to-video film was never made.

# ¿ Jun 27, 2014 23:39

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Irish Joe posted:

Hammond is Hitler, Nedry is Rudolf Hess, Muldoon is Himmler, Grant and Ellie are France and Italy and the dinosaurs are Jews. My god, it all fits!

Wait until you figure out Schindler's List.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2014 20:11

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

PriorMarcus posted:

Doesn't the Leftovers have its own thread for all this toxic poo poo?

Yes, it does. These posts are the spillover. The extras. The uh... the bits that there were more of than could fit in the thread. I don't know the word.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2014 17:51

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

zoux posted:

Report him for what.

Having a rap sheet, apparently. It's like how you can be sent back to prison for having gone to prison.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2014 17:53

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

E PLURIBUS ANUS posted:

Oh man...owned!!!

I read every single one of your posts in Pierce's voice now, so all I hear is "Okay, haha, you owned me. Yeah, nice work. You owned the head of the biggest moist towelette manufacturer in America."

# ¿ Jul 15, 2014 18:00

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Lycus posted:

The ball drops on December 31, 1999, and then everyone finds themselves waking up on the floor where they were just partying and its January 1, 2001. Boom, that's a TV show right there.

It happens to exactly 2,000 people across the world, and you call the show Why?2K. The opening theme is Willenium.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2014 23:41

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Maxwell Lord posted:

Protagonist walks out the door, "Who's the President?" Random passerby: "we still don't know."

A county where time doesn't pass. A county where nobody knows who the President is. A county forever trapped in a world... that never was. Coming in 2017: DADE.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2014 01:56

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Metropolis posted:

It will probably be like the family scenes in Homeland that have nothing to do with CIA/terrorist stuff except most of the time instead of sometimes

What's the problem? One of the most interesting things about the Manhattan Project is that the government created three artificial towns, moved a ton of people and their families there, lied to most of them about what they were doing, and swore the rest to secrecy. That's without getting into figures like Fermi, Szilard, and obviously Oppenheimer. Family life and personal drama is a lot more interesting than watching them figure out the mechanics behind the bombs or produce plutonium.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2014 11:39

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Chamberk posted:

So does anyone know what HBO has lined up for the second half of 2015? True Blood and Boardwalk Empire are wrapping up this year. They're fine up until Game of Thrones ends in June, but they'll have a big hole in their schedule after that.

I'm hoping for a sci-fi sequel to The Sopranos in which the heretofore-unmentioned second son Tommy Soprano investigates the worldwide blackout that ended the original show and led to his father's disappearance. He uncovers a conspiracy that goes all the way to the White House... and the stars.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2014 11:46

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

precision posted:

Night Court loving ruled.

I liked the werewolf lawyer.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2014 20:56

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Thank god, one step closer to an Adult Swim series based on We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2014 21:57

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

zoux posted:

Oh are we having a jaded competition again, because I don't care the most probably.

I'm so jaded I'm a statue of a dragon at a Chinese restaurant.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2014 17:29

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Deadpool posted:

I knew two of those.

I hope someday you overcome your identity crisis.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2014 18:06

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Deadpool posted:

Hand of God
A psychological drama about a morally-corrupt judge who suffers a breakdown and believes God is compelling him onto a path of vigilante justice. Starring Ron Perlman and Dana Delany.

Coming to NBC: Jack Donaghy is God in... God Cop!

# ¿ Aug 28, 2014 12:02

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

CaptainHollywood posted:

Season 1 isn't very good.

South Park is a good show - 17+ Seasons and it hasn't grown stale. I'm interested why you don't like South Park.

It's inconsistent. Trey and Matt have a pretty good sense of comedy and music and so forth, and when they just let themselves have fun they make some good episodes (I haven't seen a lot of the recent seasons, but the vampires/Hot Topic episode comes to mind). Sadly, South Park is a show that often wants to make a statement without having anything interesting to say - their politics range from juvenile to just plain stupid, so when they get political it can be really painful.

This is also why their non-SP projects (Book of Mormon, Team America) tend to be better.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2014 15:19

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

IRQ posted:

I have on good authority that he's sucked dick for coke.

Was your good authority Andy Dick? Because if so... yeah, he's probably right.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2014 17:51

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

SALT CURES HAM posted:

When the hell did Cinemax become a channel worth giving a drat about? Banshee, Strike Back, and The Knick all kick unbelievable amounts of rear end.

For two decades, Cinemax has horded every dime earned from softcore porn films with names like Indecent Passions, Lustful Passions, Sex Cops, Sex Passions, and Indecent Sex, and they have not spent any of it. They've cut their budget to the bone, all so that they could, one day, create great television. Nobody believed in Cinemax, but they toiled day in and day out, digging up the softcorest films ever to feature ten seconds of fake breasts. Today, that strategy has paid off.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2014 23:35

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

American Gods should work better as a TV show than a novel. It's very episodic, there's a big supporting cast, and the lead is basically a blank slate. He's barely a character, so some smart casting should make him a lot more sympathetic.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2014 20:34

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

muscles like this? posted:

Shadow is kind of an odd character because he's a lot smarter than he acts for a huge chunk of the book.

All Gaiman characters tend to just quietly go along with the plot because it's the plot. It makes it very hard to figure out their motivations.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2014 02:13

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Kurtofan posted:

So, Arrested Development is pretty funny.

Season 4 is pretty much one of the most brilliant TV-related things I've ever seen, and it's a shame that it's not funnier.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2014 23:03

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Irish Joe posted:

Like a lot of people, I think the raw footage is there; it just needs to be edited into eight great episodes instead of 14 decent ones.

I'm not convinced. I think production is the problem, not post. They weren't able to get everyone together to film, which really hurt their ability to make it work.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2014 23:25

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Ravane posted:

Oh Gotham City is a character? Who is it voiced by?

Jennifer Lawrence, last I heard.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2014 00:37

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Decius posted:

Why does Martha live on the set of a late-Nineties Disney show?

Because she is so Raven.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2014 11:59

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Gilmore Girls is good, but realize that none of the characters face any real challenges. One of the major points of conflict is which Ivy League university the daughter should attend.

The dialogue is snappy and the supporting cast is fun, but it's really just a well-written soap.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2014 16:06

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

It's a big improvement over Season 5, but not as good as Seasons 3 or 4. I don't know if I'd rate it on par with 2 or slightly under.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2014 14:50

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Irish Joe posted:

Black people can watch whatever they want. My only point is that Black*ish isn't the revelatory black comedy its being made out to be.

I think it is the first black-centric show on a broadcast network since the early 90s, though. Which is just depressing, really.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2014 13:37

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

raditts posted:

I don't know about you but I feel an insatiable need to prove how cool I am to people I have not and probably never will meet on the internet.

This is why I livestream myself smoking and wearing sunglasses.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2014 18:29

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

EvilTobaccoExec posted:

When precision says he 'once tried' assume that 'once' means yesterday. Pumpkin spice is ruined because of all the nutmeg grit still stuck in between his teeth that didn't get him high yesterday..

Some people experiment with drugs when they're teenagers.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2014 12:53

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Just watched all of True Detective and I thought it was good, but the ending confused me. What was the deal with the smoke monster?

# ¿ Nov 9, 2014 03:05

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 11:51

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Mu Zeta posted:

Who names their daughter Charleston

Could be worse. They could have named their daughter Watusi or Bump'n'grind.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2014 11:57

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