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'thanks for telling where to find animal collective, max, and thats a handsome looking top hat' - actor ted danson

*must not rehash how badly Damages went to shit in s2*

ugh i hate you all

i think the patty + ellen relaish in s3 is really complicated and exicting w/o feeling too artificial and it also has some gnarly performances from danson marting short and lily tomlin

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martin short is a total genius in damages season 3, it's true. to the rest of your comment i say whatever.

fucking hell, i knew it was a risk reading a general tv thread

shit, i'm sorry!

i won't protest too much. I wasn't hugely invested in Homeland anyway but i just read a vicious Boardwalk Empire spoiler elsewhere and i'm still reeling from that one. I really should keep up with the broadcast schedule of these things

the rest of your comment i say whatever.

i was praising the show!!!

i know. now i am just being a jerk.

:/

i don't really get season 3 (though i like it fine) and i'm all defensive about season 2.

but did i know that you knew, thats the qn... or did you know i was pretending not to know that i knew that knew

have you been drinking, like i have?

what kind of a name is Aissa? do you guys think it's supposed to be Isa, the Arabic version of Jesus? that's pronounced "Eee-sa."

s2 and s4 have the most... problematic... 'ellen likes rough trade' storylines i think

have you been drinking, like i have?

yes... :((((

i haven't even seen season 4 and am afraid because people said it was so bad.

I think it's a bad mispronunciation of isa

I didn't watch any tv forever and then I discovered Parks & Recreation and I love this show!

yeah so grimm which was never great to begin with obv has pretty much lost me at this point, its bad when yer monster of the week show gets kinda tedious

on the plus side started watching detroit 187 on netflix streaming and its pretty dope.

this got cancelled too i bet.

it did

someone should give christopher moltisanti another vehicle because he's cute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDPIK7Fz_g4

I didn't watch any tv forever and then I discovered Parks & Recreation and I love this show!

hooray! the other day my sisters and i made our mom watch like six episodes from season 2 (basically any episode louis ck was in), and now she's a total convert, too. so excited for her to get to season three and see "ron and tammy 2".

also my youngest sister has got us watching the whole series of avatar: the last airbender. i had heard good things about it secondhand, but i'm really charmed and impressed by how fun and funny it is without being pandering or try-hard at all.

av clubs top 30

oh man homeland huh this is really p good but gd lynne reed ;_;

god i know that fucking storyline. this show is p depressing imo.

srsly... everyone is so broken and desperate. but i was impressed that they made a p minor character seem so impt in just a couple of episodes partic bcuz she was so obv doomed after the stupid chief signed her death warrant. (cmon claire danes gets results!)

That A.V. Club list is one of the more interesting I've seen this year, and I definitely agree that their top four are the four best shows currently(-ish) on TV (if, perhaps, in a slightly different order). I'm a little puzzled by the Boss diss, but I'm glad to see Men Of A Certain Age show up. It was a quality, low-key show that's sadly probably going to be lost to the ages after two brief and, y'know, low-key seasons.

I don't think Time's ten best episodes of the year list has popped up here yet. I definitely agree with the selection of the episodes that I've seen, but I keep feeling the need to draw special attention to "You're Getting Old" (and the follow-up episode, "Ass Burgers"). I think there was some discussion of it on the non-sandbox board. If you're a general fan who's fallen off the South Park bandwagon, I'd highly recommend checking these episodes out. Existential and bleak and introspective in a way South Park usually isn't. But still funny.

it seems p questionable to list any episode of curb as one of the ten best of the year but to then not make it palestinian chicken is just smh

On my podcast I gave "You're Getting Old" the "Best episode of a show not on your top ten" award. It really is something else. ("Ass Burgers" was great too but makes for a much sillier-sounding mention.)

Has there been any discussion of Life's Too Short 'round these parts? It's apparently gotten negative reviews and really poor ratings, but that seems to be mostly Britisher backlash towards Ricky Gervais's public persona. Which I understand but don't really sympathize with. Especially as I think it was an improvement on Extras.

what podcast is that? i've been looking for new tv podcasts...

as a newly created too late terriers fanboy, i am sad to see it not making these lists

xp I co-host this. Our end-of-year wrap up ep won't be up till next Tuesday, though.

The entirety of Terriers aired in 2010.

thanks!

oh well that makes sense then

I'm glad to see Men Of A Certain Age show up. It was a quality, low-key show that's sadly probably going to be lost to the ages after two brief and, y'know, low-key seasons.

I LOVED that show

watching the last years doctor who and omg the reveal who river song is and then the next episode is called 'let's kill hitler'! i always forget about this show because i work saturdays but it is possibly the most fun thing on tv.

On my podcast I gave "You're Getting Old" the "Best episode of a show not on your top ten" award. It really is something else.

I think this might be the best episode of any show on the air this year that isn't Louie. Or maybe I just relate to it too much.

Life's Too Short was abysmal.

I haven't watched that but I suspected it would be bad? Ricky Gervais seems so insufferably smug lately in everything he has worked on.

Smug, lazy, sub Jim Davidson shite with a protective layer of "irony"

That's...just baffling to me. I mean, it was nowhere near The Office (not much is), but I thought it was largely quite funny. Based on what I've read thus far, there's been a real schism between reactions in the UK and reactions in the US (it'll be interesting to see how it does once it's actually released in the States). Which seems to lend a lot of credence to the belief that a lot of the negative reaction towards Life's Too Short is really just an expression of exhaustion towards Ricky Gervais in general. There are certainly valid criticisms of the show, but writing it off as an awful program full stop just seems really reactionary. Like, if it had been created by some unknown, I feel like it probably would've seen heaps of praise.

Well it's difficult to divorce Gervais's work from his persona at this point but to me the majority of the show consisted of the exact same celebrities acting wacky shit which he's already done to death in Extras (oooh look Liam Neeson doing a standup routine about AIDS), with the rest consisting of the usual comedy of awkwardness stuff with Warwick Davis doing a Gervais impression in the middle of it. It so fucking tired.

and this show couldn't possibly have been created by an unknown, it's Gervaisian to its core.

I've been a bit of a Gervais apologist, but after the first coupld of episodes grace I've stopped watching each episode part way through – it's just weak – there was perhaps enough good material for an hour-long special, but even then that would have seemed poor in comparison with Extras.

I was kind of watching Life's Too Short because there was nothing else on but that wedding speech bit was just barrel-scraping at the absolute worst. Really, really terrible. Which is kind of a shame because there have otherwise been a few funny bits (mainly the gormless assistant, thinking back).