let's talk about tv shows itt

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"

enlightened ep was like an amy & mom origin story; thought the scene btwn ladd & the other older lady in the supermarket was incredible

sarita choudhury showed up on homeland!

yeah the casting on that show is great isnt it

my future wife was eliminated from Work of Art :(

Sons of Anarchy finale fucking sucked - really need to stop giving that show a chance.

i just watched pt. 1 of the finale, probably won't see pt. 2 til next week because FX is the only fucking channel that puts their shows on comcast ondemand a week after airing. i thought the show was pretty awesome most of this season though, so much shit has gone down already that i kind of wouldn't begrudge them for a finale letdown.

i've really enjoyed this season, too. the finale was surprising because it was so slow-paced, and nothing really got tied up (previous seasons they've wrapped almost everything and only left a thread for the following season). is it because they got the go-ahead for the 14th ep late in the filming? pt 1 is def more action-packed.

also here are some links http://watchseries.eu/episode/sons_of_anarchy_s4_e14-131465.html

i think the movpod.net link was reasonable quality

FX is the only fucking channel that puts their shows on comcast ondemand a week after airing.

^^^this is so fucking infuriating, fortunately no one else i know watches american horror story so i dont get spoilered

also the first only(sadface) season of terriers is on netflix instant now and holy shit now i know what all you people were talking about, what an amazing amazing show

attn: max i am totally obsessed with homeland now

halfway through episode 9 DON'T TELL ME ANYTHING

damian lewis is such brilliant casting. so beautiful and by turns so wholesome and evil.

also i think i love clare danes. o_O at me.

the episode from last sunday kind of sucked, but "Representative Brody" got it back on track.

It is lol how they cant give up the jazz thing tho

i'm finally catching up on homeland and getting into it

An interesting analysis of "How I Met Your Mother":

What matters is that the show is structured around a philosophy that is fundamentally this: However your life goes, that's the story of how you ended up where you are, and therefore, every turn your story took, whether sad or happy at the time, is part of how you achieved whatever joy you have.

Much more here:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/12/06/143195693/how-i-met-your-mother-the-optimism-of-inevitability?sc=tw

booze science, i just started watching american horror story too! was drawn in by my love for connie britton

american horror story is just... it may actually be the worst show achievable

seriously

it's so bad yes but i cant stop watching it