let's talk about tv shows itt

i guess once i'd done it the first time i'd have put myself out of a job.

Horseshoe, what did you think of Emily Nussbaum's inaugural New Yorker column?

The Rubicon opening music was p nice, and the motion design was also good but it was kind of 'lol connecting-random-shit-together conspiracy theories' which might have been actually what the show was all about..

the most recent episode of homeland kinda sucked :-/

anybody watch The Rachel Maddow Show?

im still watching work of art & enjoy it a lot on the level of a reality show but this is v otm -

“They all reminded me of the people who would be at the dinner party in Beetlejuice.” —Paul F. Tompkins on Work Of Art contestants

the most recent episode of homeland kinda sucked :-/

Yup. OTOH it's kind of impressive that it took them this long to significantly fuck up - first seasons are usually much dodgier.

probs not the right thread, but Terriers is now up on Netflix Instant.

i was just coming here to post that!!! excited to finally watch it!

is it worth the time?

i really like enlightened also, tho feel like im the only person watching it

ive been kinda half watching this while i work on stuff and its def been improving as it goes, to the point where im really excited to watch the episodes properly

it was kinda perfect in the last ep that she finds out what cogentiva does is effeciency tracking shiz

also i love so much the casting of her peripheral coworkers - they dont @ all look like actors i wish i could find screenshots

i also feel like if hbo had tried to put it on sundays ppl would h8 on it so much

is House any good yet?

holy shit community tnite

is it worth the time?

Terriers? Oh hell yes. But be prepared to be devastated when you get to the end and realize there are no more episodes...ever.

Yeah, pretty much. (Unlike most other 1-season wonders, though, it wraps things up quite nicely.)

P&R was pretty light on the laffs tonight, but I guess it was more of a plot-advancing episode.

It's Always Sunny also classic tnite

"Turned out Captain Tom was a junkie!"

yeah tonight's parks & rec was mostly about givin' the shippers what they want. did love the transcriptionist reading all of rob lowe's lines deadpan tho

also joel mchale was on fire on community, i love it when he and shirley have plotlines together

It's Always Sunny also classic tnite

i love when they do the reverse seinfeld thing

holy shit community tnite

YESSSSSSSS

I love it when Shirley is awesome

Just want to jump into this thread to say how jazzed I am about the David Milch/HBO/Faulkner deal.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/11/david-milch-on-william-faulkner-and-his-new-deal-with-hbo.html

Man Luck better be fucking awesome.

Bit over a week til the premiere

realizing that Katherine McPhee is in "Smash" = I am boycotting "Smash"

(I was planning on catching at least one episode for potential roffles but ick no)

would not smash

I thought this was really sharp, in the AV Club's recap of this week's Work of Art:

That’s why the recurring cash prize has become so irritating. It’s a lot less likely that a struggling artist is going to lash out with something subversive when a $25,000 check is being dangled over their heads. Big money is the most ham-fisted way for the show to both manufacture trite suspense and make the artists fall in line -- a gratuitous bully move by producers who are already blessed with a massive degree of control. So, anyway, enough.

Fucking hell! The couples hosting those dinner parties on Top Chef were the worst.

I can only assume that there was some sort of cross-branding with a attempted Real Housewives of Dallas series. Then Andy Cohen saw the housewives and their husbands and said 'Fuck it. These people are disgusting savages,' and killed the series.

"an attempted"

That cigar was fucking gross and if you make salmon with a goat cheese filling, you gotta go home.

i dunno if it's cause i'm single and half the fun from these shows is complaining about the fucking idiots on the screen to your other half or whatever but i officially lost interest in both work of art and top chef this season.

KG's Monologue on Boss killed it tonight: "Whatever station you occupy, others have given you."

in one of the earlier episodes he said "I am a bad man and have done some BAD. FUCKING. THINGS." and i was like on the edge of my seat waiting for him to say that he was a motherfucker with some dark secrets

Zajac's wife got a really good set of lines too. One of the best episodes of the series, I think.

i know this is out of season but i've been watching "bored to death" s2 on dvd and i really like it. it's really low key and low stakes and jason schwartzman is just kinda jason schwartzman-y but ted danson and zach galifiniakis are both really good in it and it makes me laugh. doesn't seem like it gets a lot of attention though.

between bored to death and damages, ted danson is one of my favorite actors right now! haven't seen him on CSI though lol.

I like how the last several posts directly/indirectly refer to--at the end of 2011 no less--actors from "Cheers".

just caught up on Revenge and omg she has a Japanese revenge guru.

on the proper ilx Bored To Death thread we definitely talked about it totally hitting its stride and becoming genuinely funny in s2. s3 has been pretty good too but not up that level. Danson is definitely such a badass these days.

Hahaha

"We want you to penetrate a pig."
"Fuck a pig on television? I won't do it."
"It's trending on Twitter."

That was really good, I thought. (Charlie Brooker's new show Black Mirror btw)

a) the pm wouldn't do it and ii) the public wouldn't want him to. I figure. Not bad though. Liked the upbeat ending - well except for his wife not getting over it. He only agreed to it when her safety was threatened!

Well yes, I mean since 1980 the policy has been that we don't give in to terrorists, not even a little. But the turn in faces between people watching it - in that the laughter turned into revulsion within 5 seconds - was excellently done. And also that an hour later people were still watching it but wondering why they were.

damon wayans jr. is so hilarious on conan right now. "grandma wayans is the one who's responsible for that big-ass avatar tree of wayanses, shoutout to grandma wayans for never using a condom. repeatedly raw doggin'!"

HIMYM pretty whoa tonight.

Warned a friend w/ baby fever (whose little sister just had the first grandkid in the family) not to watch.

yeah really enjoyed that episode, although my wife missed it and when she got home i was like "it was really good but i dunno i'm not gonna explain what happened"