still, "casheesh"
― max max max max, Monday, 12 December 2011 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
luuuuuuuck
― Mordy, Monday, 12 December 2011 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
oh mann
― gukbe, Monday, 12 December 2011 05:16 (twelve years ago) link
Boardwalk was pretty amazing.
I liked the Luck pilot - pretty much "sum of its parts," but, y'know, not such a bad thing to be in this case.
― Simon H., Monday, 12 December 2011 07:30 (twelve years ago) link
Also today's Doctor Who news = WOO (although truth to tell neither story is brilliant).― aldo, Sunday, 11 December 2011 22:41 (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink
― aldo, Sunday, 11 December 2011 22:41 (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink
Read that as "today's Doctor Who news = WOO (dun derun, dun derun, dun derun, dum dum de de dun derun...)
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Monday, 12 December 2011 09:02 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyuwGzYIAns
― Number None, Monday, 12 December 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
Luck was cool. My expectations were super high so for the pilot to hit "good, could turn great over the course of the series" I thought was a win
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Monday, 12 December 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
kinda hard for me to deal w/ that show on a purely "is it good entertainment??" level cause I work in racing. thought it rang pretty true though. definitely not dumbed down for a mass audience imo except maybe in one little scene.
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Monday, 12 December 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
I was pretty lost for a chunks of it (I know nothing about horse race betting or...really...betting in general). It all made sense by the end though.
― gukbe, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
NY Mag did a pretty good "episode guide for those who know nothing about racing" piece
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Monday, 12 December 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
when we get back to ilx proper plz post copiously on luck thread
― Mordy, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
I always confuse Parks & Recreation w/ Community bcz, like all other series that have debuted in the last 5 years, I haven't seen them.
afaik nobody posted this yet:
http://www.slantmagazine.com/tv/feature/the-25-best-tv-shows-of-2011/292
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
lol how to make it in america
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
there is literally almost no show HBO aired new episodes of this year that is not on that list
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
can I just say Grimm is pretty shockingly grim; I was totally taken aback by the gore in the pied piper episode (!)
― OH NOES, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
haha I'm sure I won't be able to help myself. I think I started the thread iirc.
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Monday, 12 December 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ the disconnect between the first sentence of the Breaking Bad blurb and its placement as #2
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
There's Breaking Bad, and then there's the rest of television except "Louie."
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Monday, 12 December 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
Conceding that I've maybe seen enough naked Morena Baccarin in any context produces some like real high-level internal conflict, let me tell you.
― In Your Velour Slacks (Hairplug Receipts), Saturday, 10 December 2011 05:34 (2 days ago) Bookmark Permalink
where is all this morena baccarin nudity and is it on a tv show worth watching so i dont feel like a perv?
― big popppa hoy, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
wtf at that Slant list.
― gukbe, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
also the writer doesn't seem to have seen the Boardwalk finale when he wrote that.
― gukbe, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
it's a pretty canonical list, not very surprising but mostly accurate, but i can't take any "best of tv" list with "the walking dead" on it seriously - such a shitty show
― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
i was talking to my brother about the walking dead the other day. him: "you should give it another go! its like if a zombie apocalypse actually happened" me: "nothing happens, it is hour upon hour of trying not to get eaten also america is a big place of dull nothingness." him: "Yeah, exactly!" me: "..."
― big popppa hoy, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
The blurb for Walking Dead is hilarious tho. I love the defense for badly written and acted characters being basically "well, sometimes shitty people survive zombie apocalypses too".
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
well, TV, such a shitty medium
xxxp
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
tv is so much better than movies right now
― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
Movie of the year - "Your TV"
― Number None, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
the best tv anyway, yeah
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
― big popppa hoy, Monday, December 12, 2011 4:26 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
it's on Homeland and yes
ty
― big popppa hoy, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
better than Hollywood shit, very possibly
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
I have to assume that Arli$$ would've made it onto that Slant list if it were currently airing.
― In Your Velour Slacks (Hairplug Receipts), Monday, 12 December 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
the better end of niche/cable TV these days is at least on the same level as mainstream arthouse cinema these days
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
I can't object to your bitching since I don't watch series, but I figure there's probably only 6-8 good shows anyway.
I saw Arli$$ a few times; at least it was funnier than Arrested Development.
mainstream arthouse cinema
lol whut? The Weinstein Company?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
Would love to see this HBO show on a list:
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM5NzA4MjQ3OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTQwNTIzMQ@@._V1._SY317_CR12,0,214,317_.jpg
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
sorry i meant to put 'arthouse' in scarequotes
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, that was Eazy. (Milch/Mann is like his dream collab.)
― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
yeah! that's the only Grimm episode i've seen, and i kept calling new people into the room to look at the music teacher's bloody rat-eaten face frozen in a horrifying perma-scream.
― reddening, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
also i wasn't paying 100% attention to it but it seemed like a pretty crappy show, why was the violin kid deadmau5 and what did it have to do with anything?
― reddening, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
hey so i've now seen every episode of Once Upon a Time this season even tho that kid is so annoying and Cameron is a lame protagonist and that Snow White lady seems to be portraying a fourteen year old and the Evil Queen is totally ridiculous -- why????
― Mordy, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
is this what Lost fans felt like? psychologically forced to continually watch a show that wasn't any good?
I binged on the first four or so episodes and found myself kind of enjoying it despite all those problems you've mentioned. Thankfully I haven't had the desire to catch up on anything since then.
― gukbe, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
"once upon a time" is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo dorky
― reddening, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
like yesterday's episode was the dumbest thing, and yet i will come back to watch more because there is something about it
― reddening, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
and it inadvertently sends these WEIRD messages bcuz it's trying to create real world analogues to fairy stories, like it indulges in the worst stereotypes about adoption bcz the evil queen adopted the kid
― reddening, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
stop making me kind of want to watch this show
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Monday, December 12, 2011 8:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink
curious abt what little scene u mean -- they dont play sigur ros when they euthanize horses?
― j crunchwrap supreme, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
**** spoilers in this ******
nah not that scene. that was pretty well done I thought. and hard to watch (they put up a curtain at the track for a reason, ugh)
I thought when those dudes were playing the pick six and were all "what's our biggest payout?" "well the biggest longshots return you the most money!!" it was kind of a "well, duh" to me and you would think guys who obviously played the pick six regularly would need that explained, it was for the audience to understand what was going on. (also if you're writing a dramatic end to a big pick six sequence, why have them cover all the horses in the last leg ... doesn't that sorta take the drama out of it?) For the most part I thought they threw people into the deep end with the jargon and stuff. it's not like they put on a voiceover saying "the pick six is a bet where you pick six winners in a row" or explained what a "triple bug boy" is or etc.
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
by the last couple of seasons, sure. Lost was good at the beginning though. def stayed great up through season 3 at least.
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link