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[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Comedy Bang Bang kinda sucks. It'd be great if it were just the interstitial skits, but the intentionally corny tone of the interviews really drive me up the wall.

Reggie Watts is one of the unfunniest comedians around.

At some point I need to put Dexter to bed also. I think I stopped around season 3 or 4.

I wouldn't:

Season 3 - Not that bad but there are some underlying elements that I didn't notice before that reveal just how low this show can and does sink throughout its run.
Season 4 - Pretty good, better than season 3.
Season 5 - Terrible.  Julia Stiles is a terrible actress who does a bad job with a poorly written character.
Season 6 - Decent until the twist at the end of the season, that basically eliminates all good will generated from the better part of the season.
Season 7 - Really bad, even Titus Pullo couldn't save this one.
Season 8 - So bad its good.  You can just tell that the writers said "fuck it" a few episodes in.

[Beezy]

New Archer sucked 

I thought it was an ok start.

BANSHEE IS BACK DOE

[TVC15]

[ZephyrFate]

Banshee is back & it is incredible

[chronovore]

At some point I need to put Dexter to bed also. I think I stopped around season 3 or 4.

Just consider it done, and move on. I am happy that I left Supernatural after s5 wrapped, and all evidence points to that being the wisest decision.

[Yeti]

[Yeti]

[Mr Gilhaney]

Finished first season of Sopranos. I really like it.

At some point I need to put Dexter to bed also. I think I stopped around season 3 or 4.

Just consider it done, and move on. I am happy that I left Supernatural after s5 wrapped, and all evidence points to that being the wisest decision.

Leaving it after season 4 is the right thing to do. Not that I think it somehow goes back and ruins the fun there was in the first few seasons, but it's just torture to get through. The ending was so bad too, Christ.

[toku]

Supernatural is still great.

[Yeti]

[Madrun Badrun]

Agent Carter was great again.  Moved the plot faster than I thought too.

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'I'll call his girlfriend'

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[chronovore]

Just finished Crossbones. I guess they had to figure out how to end the series, and they did, but it was nonsensical and choppy. Also, Blackbeard’s revenant wife is the worst actress in the show, and putting her opposite John Fucking Malkovich for even a moment is a slap in the face of competency. Julian Sands can no longer act, if he ever was capable. I’ll watch more Richard Coyle, going forward; I wasn’t fond of him in Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal, but now I feel like re-watching it.

April 26? This “waiting” is cruel and unusual punishment.

[TVC15]

Always Sunny and Broad City were both on point tonight. Broad City especially.

[Dickie Dee]

Broad City is back 

[TVC15]

and they're both operating at maximum sexiness.

[TVC15]

Watching new Parks and Rec, and man, it seems like Amy Poehler aged about 5 years over the past year. I really hope it's a makeup effect but I don't think it is judging by how the rest of the cast looks.

[TVC15]

Really, she looks like something you'd show a picture of to your children to scare them into being good.

[TVC15]

If you are a male and you are currently married, look at Amy Poehler and consider divorce. You don't want your wagon hitched to that. You can practically see the spider webs starting to form whenever she moves her fingers or opens her mouth. She's really more of a Halloween decoration than a human being at this point. That's your married future. Girls get gross, fast. Werner Herzog presents more believable female sexuality than her in the episode.

[benjipwns]

Wade Boggs would be rolling in his grave if he saw that quadruple post.

[TVC15]

It gets lonely at night.

[Dickie Dee]

She's still pulling down Nick Kroll, that ain't too bad.

[TVC15]

To balance Poehler's incredibly rapid aging and loss of sexiness, Sweet Dee hit it out of the park last night. I love it when she gets wasted and trashy.

[Madrun Badrun]

Ya that was great episode for her

[TVC15]

It was a fun episode for everyone. I'm always for a plotless excuse for shenanigans.

[TVC15]

Oh, Always Sunny also gets a bonus point for getting Sweet Dee to call people "dicknips"

[Yeti]

Broad City, Workaholics, and It's Always Sunny all being on the same night makes for a lot of good garbage people comedy

[Cheddahz]

Watched the two newest episodes of Parks and Rec and yeah, I still think it's terrible (first three seasons are GOAT), but I'll stick through with the show to the end

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Supernatural is still great.

Meh, they really need to get God involved in this shit now. It's be sputtering since the damn leviathan season.

[toku]

Supernatural is still great.

Meh, they really need to get God involved in this shit now. It's be sputtering since the damn leviathan season.

I think the quality shot back up after the leviathan shit but yea, they need to stop beating around it. Show just got renewed for it's 11th season though so it probably won't.

[Dickie Dee]

I'd kinda given up on AVClub's over-snarkiness a while back, but this is

http://www.avclub.com/article/showtime-has-great-idea-dexter-spinoff-about-dexte-213899

[ZephyrFate]

I need more YOU, I need more SPUNK, I need more JIZZY-JAZZ

[Phoenix Dark]

zeph your avatar depresses me. I miss Spartacus

[ZephyrFate]

me too

[chronovore]

Supernatural is still great.

Meh, they really need to get God involved in this shit now. It's be sputtering since the damn leviathan season.

You guys make me so happy that I stopped with s5.

I'd kinda given up on AVClub's over-snarkiness a while back, but this is

http://www.avclub.com/article/showtime-has-great-idea-dexter-spinoff-about-dexte-213899

“David Nevins—who once insisted Dexter was his network’s Batman”
I really enjoyed the first season, and was even pretty happy with 2 but 3 I recognized that it was sliding rapidly into bullshitville. However, my favorite aspect of it was treating Dexter as a more realistic Batman: he lost his parents traumatically, so he fights crime in his hometown, focusing primarily on similarly psychologically broken criminals, and he’s got a costume (sure, it’s only a skin-tight, grey thermal henley, but hey). Oh, he cooperates with the police, too!

The proper way to have the series devolve would have been a Utility Belt with carving tools and duct tape, and the Dextermobile.

Out of curiosity, is that article taking a swipe at Better Call Saul, or is the exec in charge answering sardonically about how TV land works?

[Madrun Badrun]

I'm going to start supernatural.  If this sucks someone is going to get a spanking. 

[Enl]

Supernatural is still great.

Meh, they really need to get God involved in this shit now. It's be sputtering since the damn leviathan season.

You guys make me so happy that I stopped with s5.

I'd kinda given up on AVClub's over-snarkiness a while back, but this is

http://www.avclub.com/article/showtime-has-great-idea-dexter-spinoff-about-dexte-213899

“David Nevins—who once insisted Dexter was his network’s Batman”
I really enjoyed the first season, and was even pretty happy with 2 but 3 I recognized that it was sliding rapidly into bullshitville. However, my favorite aspect of it was treating Dexter as a more realistic Batman: he lost his parents traumatically, so he fights crime in his hometown, focusing primarily on similarly psychologically broken criminals, and he’s got a costume (sure, it’s only a skin-tight, grey thermal henley, but hey). Oh, he cooperates with the police, too!

The proper way to have the series devolve would have been a Utility Belt with carving tools and duct tape, and the Dextermobile.
Out of curiosity, is that article taking a swipe at Better Call Saul, or is the exec in charge answering sardonically about how TV land works?

He pretty much already had those. The utility belt would've been his little roll out pouch and he even had a Dexboat! By the 7th season he had already gone through several Robins as well.

[Madrun Badrun]

Watching the SVU episode based on Bill Cosby's rapings right now.  Why o why did they ever cancel the original show. 

[TVC15]

I'm going to start supernatural.  If this sucks someone is going to get a spanking. 

I enjoyed it as something to watch whenever there wasn't something better to watch on my mind. The leads have good chemistry, the episodes are good about 60% of the time. I dropped it after the 4th season, but I could see myself going back to it if I got the itch.

[chronovore]

Go back for s5. It's the culmination of s1-4.

[Stoney Mason]

Watched the two newest episodes of Parks and Rec and yeah, I still think it's terrible (first three seasons are GOAT), but I'll stick through with the show to the end

I thought it was a truly great show at least up until  the end of Season 4 and the best comedy going on cable or network TV. After that things start falling apart. There are still reminders of what made it great and one off individual great episodes but it starts losing its core until its arrived at where its at now.

I watched the first episode of this season. 


It's really lost what was once special about it. It's no longer really any better or more unique than any other network sitcom which is sad. I wish they had ended it when it still had a soul. I'll finish up this season just to see it through but I really didn't like anything about that first episode. The time line skip is a terrible idea.

[TVC15]

I watched the entire run of Parks and Rec some months back and at some point it just kind of starts paying too much attention to the plots and not enough to the characters themselves.

[Stoney Mason]

I watched the entire run of Parks and Rec some months back and at some point it just kind of starts paying too much attention to the plots and not enough to the characters themselves.

What was amazing about the show was the the quirky town. The quirky characters. And how everybody liked everybody. The plot almost didn't matter in that regard.

But yeah once it got overly caught up in taking each character on a journey of growth, it started caring too much about that and plot contortions and not enough about A.) Being funny. And B.) Not being overly sappy.


It had a good run. It was one of the best things going for a number of seasons and not many shows can say that.

[Eric P]

Empire is nuts.  It's absolutely horrible but compulsively watchable in its terribleness

Broad City was so good

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

In light of network sitcoms like 30 Rock, The Office, and Parks and Rec, sitcoms should only last three seasons, four at the absolute maximum.  That is still about 65-85 episodes per show, which is plenty.

[Madrun Badrun]

I liked all of 30 rock.   So fuck your proscriptionism. 

[Yeti]

Me too, but I binge watched it after it had ended so it all kind of blurred together for me.

[Stoney Mason]

In light of network sitcoms like 30 Rock, The Office, and Parks and Rec, sitcoms should only last three seasons, four at the absolute maximum.  That is still about 65-85 episodes per show, which is plenty.

I would agree with this which is why I've always preferred the British model which tends to give me less than I want in episode count but at least they don't burn themselves out which happens to the vast majority of American TV shows imo.

[chronovore]

Me too, but I binge watched it after it had ended so it all kind of blurred together for me.

Same here. 

[TVC15]

The Man in the High Castle turned out pretty nice. It felt a bit scattered and aimless since it had a lot to introduce, compounded by the fact that it's a full hour long. The production values are very nice. Overall, pretty good, but maybe my opinion is a bit clouded since I've read the novel at least 3 times.

[TVC15]

Me too, but I binge watched it after it had ended so it all kind of blurred together for me.

Same! Actually, I binge watched it all immediately before binge watching Parks and Recs. This is how I spent my first month after getting laid off.

[Eel O'Brian]

Parks and Rec turned into the "Yay Leslie!" Mary Sue wish fulfillment  show over the years, which ended up making her into more of a cringe-worthy character than she was back when she was Michael Scott in drag during the first season.

[TVC15]

I haven't rewatched any of Workaholics season 3 and 4, but the first episode of 5 strikes me as their worst work to date.

[TVC15]

Workaholics always sucked

I don't disagree. I've never been a huge fan, really, but the first 2 seasons seemed to be really better about throwing a thousand pieces of shit at the wall really quickly, whereas the speed of the gags being thrown out in the latter 2 seasons seemed a bit lacking.

[TVC15]

I'm going to try Agent Carter now. Hopes aren't very high as Marvel hasn't produced anything better than mediocre, but hey, good reviews. Then again, all of their really mediocre movies get good reviews.

[Stoney Mason]

Workaholics always sucked

kind of awful imo, very low reaching garbage.

That's exactly my problem with it. Like halfway through the 4th season I had to stop. The first season sucked, 2nd and third were great, after that meh don't care.

Thats one of the dangers of having a character so loved by

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lonely independent women

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there becomes a lot of fan pressure to see her win and it kinda comes through in the show. Same thing happened to Liz Lemon. We loved her for the combination of drive and self sabotage but once the latter disappeared in the last movement of the show I lost interest.

I think it's more a notion that most of these shows want their characters to "grow" which comes from a good intention of not necessarily wanting to write and perform the same material for X number of years. But its difficult to achieve in many cases without making it feel forced.

[toku]

I love the first two seasons of Workaholics, liked the 3rd too but they totally lost me with season 4. I never finished it. Peak of the show is probably the flashback ep in s3? Where they explicitly show that Blake and Adam ruined Anders' life. It's a show about two fuck ups keeping their sane "friend" fucked up and confused all the time so he doesn't realize he's been poisoned.


Also watch Man in the High Castle and loved it. Very ambitious with a solid cast. Hope it gets picked up.

[Madrun Badrun]

Does The Man in the High Castle show white chicks servicing Japanese men without censor blurs? 

[ZephyrFate]

The Man in the High Castle Amazon adaptation is fucking brilliant. the pilot alone is better than the vast majority of Philip k dick adaptations.

[TVC15]

The first episode of Agent Carter was pretty fun. I'd give it a B- or a C+. It's probably the best comic book(ish) show on TV right now. I mildly enjoyed Gotham up until the last 3 episodes or so, when it just became boring. That show was always like, D+ quality and was doomed due to having too many awful characters that can't be killed off (namely, Gordon, Selina, and Bruce). I gave Arrow a half season before dropping it out of boredom and due to its chronic case of CW-tardation. Agents of Shield is just completely unwatchable, and people that claim to enjoy it should probably be questioning many of their decisions and priorities in life. It's true F- television. I don't even think it's well produced.

[Beezy]

Oh wait, it's Zephyr. OK carry on.