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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
What is up with that show Animals on HBO? If the show is going to look this bad should it at least also be funny? What is the point of this? How did it get made? why?

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bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Toxxupation posted:

mr. robot is literally all landing, like the final act of the season is why you watch the show in the first place

until then, it's a usa show, but in reverse

Yeah I was going to post something like

They nail the landing, but the camera pulls back and the landing was another diving board

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Would pay to watch a Trek series with Mads Mikkelsen slowly corrupting the ship's computer into an insane HAL kinda thing so it will kill crew members, which can then be turned into dinner. The replicator simply cannot get the spice right.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

FetusSlapper posted:

It isn't spice, it is the correct amount of adrenaline left in the bloodstream at the time of death. Hannibal likes it gamey.

So the AI rigs up elaborate rube goldberg scenarios to illicit the maximum adrenaline response before death. I like it.

AI just wants to make dad happy, but the has trouble relating to how robotic Space Hannibal is.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

boom boom boom posted:

I guess You're The Worst isn't long for the world


Seems like the sort of show they can shoot quickly in a few months, or go on hold entirely because a main cast member got a huge movie roll. Apparently the FX bosses really like it.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

xcore posted:

Anyone checked out Mad Dogs? I'm not sure if I've never seen anyone talk about the show here, or I've just glossed over the posts that have.

Anyway, I'm 3 episodes in and I'm really digging it. It's not high art, but the setting is awesome and it's a really fun ride.

I really liked it, but it sort of switches gear halfway through the season.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

DivisionPost posted:

YOU'RE an unqualified manner, Sex House is amazing.

Plus it's 10 episodes of increasing insanity, 3 episodes in it's still Jersey Shore

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Escobarbarian posted:

What's the deal with the opening sequence for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? For a funny, clever show with good music, the titles sure aren't any of those things. I mean, they're truly awful.
I think the intro is a little more nuanced than that.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Sleeveless posted:

This season of X-Files is amazing, it's somehow managed to have both one of the best episodes the show has ever had and one of the worst episodes the show has ever had. All within two episodes of each other.

its sort of a perfect return to form in that regard.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

less laughter posted:

Just like The Brink.

Escobarbarian posted:

less laughter you're a bad person

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

VDay posted:

Hey gang, thread friend VDay here. Vikings is back tonight and is a show that you should watch.

Speaking of which, History Channel has integrated a new, subtle marketing strategy. See if you can spot the ad during this scene from Vikings. It's pretty subtle so you might have to maximize the screenshot and study it for a few minutes.




"Hey VDay, I just barely spotted that but it's probably not that bad. I mean, it's not like that thing was animated right?" you might be thinking. Don't worry fellow thread friend, it totally was.




"Hey you know what's not a totally dead revenue stream? Intrusive internet-style banner ads! Everyone loves those!"

(you should still watch Vikings, it is A Good Show)

Sam's Torches pretty much paid for the entire Arrow set as well. They've been prolific lately. Can't watch the Namba Parbat scenes anymore all I can see are ads for open flames and iron cages.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

smg77 posted:

The only bad thing about The Expanse is Thomas Jane's dumb haircut.

I thought the fedora was super dumb then he took his hat off and I realized the fedora was the real hero of the story.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
The sister now going by the name "DJ Tanner" because of her career while a family member literally named D.J. stews about it is kind of great actually.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Snak posted:

Yeah, it's always been the same ads, but it used to be ads for cars and stuff. Now it's Oprah.

there were a few months where I had it trained to show me nothing but movie trailers and game ads. i started to miss the 90 second drug side effect commercials.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

DrVenkman posted:

From what he's said on Twitter, he and Cris Cole never considered a second season until the first one was done with. So it sounds like they told the story they wanted to tell.

That fucker Reverse Terrier'd us!!!!

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Escobarbarian posted:

So when people say Gotham is good....what is 'good' exactly

The actor who they got to play Penguin is pretty much the exact perfect guy. Nobody's going to recreate what Devito did with the character, so he doesn't go that direction and doesn't even try. It's a good, subservient, low-on-the-totem-pole portrayal but he always managed to carve out something for himself. And later on in the 2nd season (skip the first, honestly. Don't even bother.) he becomes good friends with proto-Riddler(just a schzophrenic GPD medical examiner right now) and the two just hang around Nygmas apartment singing showtunes. These two insane outlier weirdos lucked into finding eachother and everything about those two together is really good.

Also Gordon just straight up kills people when it suits him, none of this "We need to be better than them." nonsense when you live in loving Gotham. The show has a bunch of problems but I watch for Penguin and Riddler.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
lol at that tim allen show breaking toxx's brain

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Zaggitz posted:

Crazy Ex-Gilrfriend

thats a sexist term

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

PriorMarcus posted:

Is there a website I can search that tells me what's available on different Netflix regions?

I use unogs.com

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Billions is certainly bad TV, but it fills the "sneaky bastard powerful people loving over other sneaky bastard powerful people" void that HoC failed to last season. I am ignorant of all the politics and finance involved so that probably helps. One thing I like about it is if Axe gets an idea in his head, no matter how outlandish or petty, he will have accomplished it by the end of the episode. It's serialized but a biiit procedural in that regard.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Y-Hat posted:

I had no idea Bates Motel was coming back today until a few years ago. I know the Emmys are as conservative of an awards show as they come, but is it too much to ask to give nominations to Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore as Norma and Norman Bates, respectively? In the scattershot first two seasons, Vera going apeshit was always a highlight, and Freddie came to his own last season when they got rid of most of the vestigial teen romance plots.

:siren:WE REPEAT, Bates Motel S4 STARTS TONIGHT:siren:

Came here to post just that. It's such a creepy good show.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Welp, Norman's goes full tilt right out of the gate. Excellent.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Limitless the TV show is so far beyond what I imagined it would be. I mean the movie was....fine. It was absolutely 100% a movie that was available to watch, that is about the most praise I have for it. It's not bad, it's not great, it exists. The show took an alright premise and really ran with it. The art direction is superb, the way they integrate his "NZT brain" or even his normal stoner brain into the visuals of the show so you can see the things his brain is churning through. All the actors are really good, even the lame FBI babysitter characters get fleshed out and you start to like them more and more. It's just so fun, I don't think anybody expected the show based on a flash in the pan Bradley Cooper movie to be their favourite show of the season.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

muscles like this? posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Pf1-B_fOU
Aw dip, Walton Goggins and Danny McBride in an HBO comedy series?

Jesus christ it's like House of Cards set in a highschool with an even better cast

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

boom boom boom posted:

everyone but Nygma and The Penguin die and the show becomes about the two of them running a bakery?

A musical bakery. The exhaust for their oven is a pipe organ.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

cool kids inc. posted:

Might have missed it already but CDubs is renewing literally everything.

Here we go season 12 of Supernatural, longest running spooky show!

Yesssssssss Crazy Ex Girlfriend and Jane the Virgin

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Ravane posted:

Hannibal season 3 is turning out to be really great, just started watching. Though I'm really confused at the timelines.

Its all hosed and usually make sense towards the end but even if it doesn't just enjoy it, there will never be anything else like it

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

zoux posted:

Fresh off the Boat is a feel good comedy if you came up in that era. I would be just a bit older than the oldest son on that show and they just nail the mid 90s.

sambady ssssssstap mayyyyyyyyyy

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Cardboard Box A posted:

On the premiere night of Crowded, a show that depicts life in a multi-generational home, NBC decided that the ‘Pilot’ did not have enough random sex talk between daughters and their mom, parents smoking pot stashed by the daughters in the playroom, and granddad telling his son that “you love your children, you don’t like them.” No, the network went on to run a second show to give audiences a full hour of this stuff.

In the second episode ‘Present Tense’, Mike (Patrick Warburton) and Martina (Carrie Preston) are trying to spice up their sex life, but the never-ending presence of their grown daughters is cramping their style. After four years of an empty nest, they are re-adjusting to life with others in the house. Along the way, daughter Stella (Mia Serafino), the aspiring actress, says goodbye to her overnight guest after introducing her to the family. She kisses her, lesbian-style. Martina walks in as this is happening and the only thing she mentions is that her daughter has cut her hair, not the fact that apparently her daughter is now a lesbian.

When Mike asks Stella if she’s a lesbian, she says no, not necessarily. Sexuality is fluid now and “just because I slept with a girl doesn’t mean I’m a lesbian.” Then Stella narcs on her mom about a dip into the lady pond that Martina told her about from her own college days. You know, because they are friends, not parent and child. Mike is surprised, as this story is news to him. Hilarious, right?

An interesting note among all this free-spirited liberal feel good pap – Grandpa Bob (Stacy Keach) is a conservative guy! When Bob asks Mike if he understands why his daughter believes in fluid sexuality, Mike answers, “Democrats?” Bob says, no, it is the “everything you do is great” parenting style in the house. Also, when Mike goes to Bob for advice on how to get feisty with Martina with a full house, Bob asks if the hippie commune is a problem at his house. Mike asks, “You miss Nixon, don’t you?” to which Bob replies, “Every day.” LOL!

The story goes on. Martina later confesses to her daughters that she and Mike are “out of synch” and trying to spice it all up. The girls suggest mom get a piercing so she’ll look young. Yes, Martina actually buys that theory and goes to get her nose pierced. Bonus: Martina and the girls walk in on Mike looking at porn on the computer when they arrive home.

So, if a show that centers on raunchy sex talk between parents and grown daughters is your idea of a swell show, this is your spot. If, like me, you only really like Patrick Warburton because of his dry humor neatly placed among the lameness, then this show is watchable. It’s just not funny.

Looks like we have a new toxx punishment

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

whowhatwhere posted:

So do you think the tech can tell if a camera is pointed at it, and does it burn down the theater equipment to prevent piracy?

of course!

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
I'm surprised the MPAA has't managed to force camera companies to include firmware level piracy detection the way a lot of scanners, digital cameras, and photoshop wont open an image of US currency. So theatre film copies have weird flash frames every once in a while that would bricks cameras, or force phones into a "locked" mode you have to pay out the rear end to revert if the camera was pointing at the screen.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Sober posted:

Within hours? Try having the episodes available like minutes after the first broadcast finishes.

And not to praise pirates too much but they do a valuable job of archiving in a way, whereas some companies will just let this die off, pirates are basically doing the job of archivists at times. Also I think there's some competitive spirit going on as to who can do it better, faster, etc. They also tend to keep each other in check over quality and everything to. It's definitely a weird scene I'd like to actually have someone dig deeper into.

Yeah I download hour long dramas that air at 9pm at 10:02pm. Literally as soon as they finish airing they're uploaded. Scene members must have multiple cable boxes, real time H624 compression, and university network upload speeds. It's pretty impressive.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Sober posted:

TD S1 might for some people retroactively be bad or just okay because S2 kinda just proved that he couldn't repeat the magic and maybe we made too many concessions at the time for a single writer/single director project to want to be a really good thing. Plus he had like 10 years to write the drat thing.

Didn't the president of HBO say it was his fault the season was rushed out?

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

LORD OF BUTT posted:

Do we have a Trailer Park Boys thread?

Somewhat poetically, it is located in GBS.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

sbaldrick posted:

It's kind of sad it's on TVland because it means no one saw it, but it's an amazing show.

I was happy to find out Hulu has TVLand shows. I was avoiding it but that Walmart spoof show isn't too bad either. The wannabe rapper boyfriend doing the airhorn noises is like laser focused to make me laugh.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

EL BROMANCE posted:

What's that one called? I'll check it out too.

Superstore. I am pretty sure the actor who plays the Manager is a legit Muppets voice actor, for better or worse.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

ShakeZula posted:

That's Mark McKinney, from Kids in the Hall and SNL

Yeeesssssss, it was hitting some weird nostalgia part of my brain whenever I would hear him speaking a line without looking at the screen.

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

savinhill posted:

I don't know if I'd call it a "jump the shark" moment, but I couldn't really get into Trailer Park Boya anymore once they turned Leahey into a villain actively working against the boys again. I just liked the dude and his seasons' long build to redemption to just see them hit the reset button on him and it just soured me on the whole show from that point on.


I haven't seen it yet, but I love cult stuff and I really don't care what reviewers say, a lot of them seem to just parrot whatever the early prevalent opinion is and just run with it from there. Unless something is an obvious trainwreck or soulless cash in, I just ignore what critics say

Give the new season a shot, I like what they did with him

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Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

EL BROMANCE posted:

Did they rename The Thick of It for the US, or did you guys just get the name wrong?

Spoiler: main dude got locked up irl for paedophilia related charges, so no Huw Abbott after series 1

I think there's The Thick of It, and In The Thick Of It, and one is a movie and one is a series based mostly on the movie but with some new characters and some old ones changed around. Malcom Tucker is eternal.

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Feb 28, 2007

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BSam posted:

I don't know if that's what it's renamed as or if you're just confused. In The Loop was the name of the film.

I was absolutely confused, you are correct.

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