let's talk about tv shows itt

oh i like totally didnt pick up on that

still, "casheesh"

luuuuuuuck

oh mann

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.

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

Read that as "today's Doctor Who news = WOO (dun derun, dun derun, dun derun, dum dum de de dun derun...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyuwGzYIAns

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

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.

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.

NY Mag did a pretty good "episode guide for those who know nothing about racing" piece

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.

when we get back to ilx proper plz post copiously on luck thread

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

lol how to make it in america

there is literally almost no show HBO aired new episodes of this year that is not on that list

can I just say Grimm is pretty shockingly grim; I was totally taken aback by the gore in the pied piper episode (!)

when we get back to ilx proper plz post copiously on luck thread

haha I'm sure I won't be able to help myself. I think I started the thread iirc.

lol @ the disconnect between the first sentence of the Breaking Bad blurb and its placement as #2

There's Breaking Bad, and then there's the rest of television except "Louie."

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?

wtf at that Slant list.

also the writer doesn't seem to have seen the Boardwalk finale when he wrote that.

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

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: "..."

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".

well, TV, such a shitty medium

xxxp

tv is so much better than movies right now

Movie of the year - "Your TV"

the best tv anyway, yeah

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, December 12, 2011 4:26 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

it's on Homeland and yes

ty

better than Hollywood shit, very possibly

xxxp

I have to assume that Arli$$ would've made it onto that Slant list if it were currently airing.

the better end of niche/cable TV these days is at least on the same level as mainstream arthouse cinema these days

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?

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

sorry i meant to put 'arthouse' in scarequotes

haha I'm sure I won't be able to help myself. I think I started the thread iirc.

Nah, that was Eazy. (Milch/Mann is like his dream collab.)

can I just say Grimm is pretty shockingly grim; I was totally taken aback by the gore in the pied piper episode (!)

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.

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?

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????

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.

"once upon a time" is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo dorky

like yesterday's episode was the dumbest thing, and yet i will come back to watch more because there is something about it

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

stop making me kind of want to watch this show

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, 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?

**** spoilers in this ******

curious abt what little scene u mean -- they dont play sigur ros when they euthanize horses?

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.