Author Topic: The TV shows you've seen recently thread. (Read 2088841 times)

etiolate · « **Reply #3120 on:** October 05, 2011, 10:44:20 PM »

There was a docu film called noodling or something about the same thing.

Whisker Wars is the best semi-parody reality show I've seen, but I've only caught one episode.

Also, why can't you respect our culture Maurice?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #3121 on:** October 05, 2011, 10:44:58 PM »

lmao @ the first ep of Curb season 3

Himu · « **Reply #3122 on:** October 05, 2011, 10:45:09 PM »

south park

etiolate · « **Reply #3123 on:** October 06, 2011, 01:12:10 AM »

the season finale of warehouse 13 was explosive

chronovore · « **Reply #3124 on:** October 06, 2011, 11:55:26 AM »

I'm surprised Warehouse 13 is still on the air. Did it improve? It was cute, but seemed unsustainable.

Someone watch these Walking Dead webisodes, and tell me if I'm missing something good thanks to the wonder of IP blocking.
http://www.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/videos/the-walking-dead-webisodes-1-a-new-day

Diunx · « **Reply #3125 on:** October 06, 2011, 12:18:16 PM »

Is the Walking Dead so no you are not missing anything good.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #3126 on:** October 06, 2011, 01:45:19 PM »

I've heard the first ep of the new season is the best one yet, maybe they turned it around (although it's also apparently the episode that got Darabont the boot...who knows

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Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #3127 on:** October 06, 2011, 01:54:53 PM »

Yea, the early press reviews have been good from what I've seen on twitter.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #3128 on:** October 06, 2011, 02:07:35 PM »

The pilot was really good, too. We saw what happened after that.

Diunx · « **Reply #3129 on:** October 06, 2011, 02:37:09 PM »

Wasn't the entire first season a critic's darling?

chronovore · « **Reply #3130 on:** October 06, 2011, 08:26:28 PM »

Yeah, but I do think they had their Darabont-colored spectacles on.

I liked it, just not as much as the comics. It's its own thing though, and I'm happy to have episodic zombie fiction on TV.

Robo · « **Reply #3131 on:** October 06, 2011, 11:27:18 PM »

Quote from: OptimoPeach on October 05, 2011, 10:13:00 AM

Quote from: nice cat but chicken on October 05, 2011, 03:45:25 AM
i'm pretty convinced walt is the guy that done this. the main tip off for me is walt and camera both focusing on the plant which is obviously a weakness as brock is primarily rock type.

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If it turns out that Walt is somehow responsible, I'll probably be fine with it. There were a few brief facepalm-filled seconds where I seriously thought they were going to say the kid ingested it by smoking the cigarette.

Also, when watching the end of the prior episode with Walt losing his shit in the crawlspace, I had a really stupid stoned thought that Walt might be in the onset stage of Huntington's Disease
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Just now caught up on Breaking Bad.

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The whole intentional poisoning angle is ludicrous no matter who they would say did it. I'd wager they'll go with the kid snatching one of Jesse's cigarettes while his jacket was off and back was turned (revealed as a sentimental moment of filial admiration of his father figure); Jesse will blame himself and do something reckless.

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nice cat but chicken · « **Reply #3132 on:** October 06, 2011, 11:59:03 PM »

Quote from: Robo on October 06, 2011, 11:27:18 PM

Just now caught up on Breaking Bad.

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Quote from: Robo on October 06, 2011, 11:27:18 PM

The whole intentional poisoning angle is ludicrous no matter who they would say did it. I'd wager they'll go with the kid snatching one of Jesse's cigarettes while his jacket was off and back was turned (revealed as a sentimental moment of filial admiration of his father figure); Jesse will blame himself and do something reckless.

i don't know if it's so ludicrous. they could easily just give us one omitted detail that would make it all make sense. sure the kid could've grabbed the cigarette but he couldn't smoke through the glass vial. he'd have to smoke it to the vial, figure out something was up, be like "hey what's this?" and then ingest it (kids are generally pretty thicc so maybe). i'm really praying that they don't fuck up the finale because this season has been very hit and miss for me and i want to stay enthusiastic. they could redeem the whole season or ruin it with this episode

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Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #3133 on:** October 07, 2011, 12:03:39 AM »

Not a fan of the kid stuff either, although it can obviously be redeemed depending on what happens in the finale.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #3134 on:** October 07, 2011, 02:05:38 AM »

The League fucking killed it.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #3135 on:** October 07, 2011, 02:22:51 AM »

Quote from: Mr. Gundam on October 07, 2011, 02:05:38 AM

The League fucking killed it.

Yeah, show is amazing.

FX

Himu · « **Reply #3136 on:** October 07, 2011, 02:28:29 AM »

catching up on breaking bad

etiolate · « **Reply #3137 on:** October 07, 2011, 09:12:15 AM »

Quote from: chronovore on October 06, 2011, 11:55:26 AM

I'm surprised Warehouse 13 is still on the air. Did it improve? It was cute, but seemed unsustainable.

Someone watch these Walking Dead webisodes, and tell me if I'm missing something good thanks to the wonder of IP blocking.
http://www.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/videos/the-walking-dead-webisodes-1-a-new-day

They've really extended the magic rules of Warehouse 13 to keep coming up with plots. The original take was that its a show based on mysterious ancient artifacts, but now its a show about how any historical item can have unpredictable bizzaro magic. One episode was about a tip jar that belonged to the Donner party. It turned everyone into ravenous, freezing zombies.

Eric P · « **Reply #3138 on:** October 07, 2011, 09:49:46 AM »

Happy Endings was really good.

Diunx · « **Reply #3139 on:** October 07, 2011, 09:59:58 AM »

Any impressions on American Horror Story? downloaded the pilot yesterday but still haven't watch it.

Himu · « **Reply #3140 on:** October 07, 2011, 03:58:51 PM »

[youtube=560,345]rKKNBbBopoY[/youtube]

Barry Egan · « **Reply #3141 on:** October 07, 2011, 04:04:51 PM »

Wow that was great

cool breeze · « **Reply #3142 on:** October 07, 2011, 04:16:35 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on October 07, 2011, 09:49:46 AM

Happy Endings was really good.

yeah it was. Season 2 has been killer so far.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #3143 on:** October 07, 2011, 06:21:57 PM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on October 07, 2011, 03:58:51 PM

[youtube=560,345]rKKNBbBopoY[/youtube]

"lets go get some girls"

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #3144 on:** October 07, 2011, 06:29:35 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on October 07, 2011, 06:21:57 PM

Quote from: Stringer Bell on October 07, 2011, 03:58:51 PM
[youtube=560,345]rKKNBbBopoY[/youtube]

"lets go get some girls"

"everybody's mouth is open"

Robo · « **Reply #3145 on:** October 07, 2011, 07:05:26 PM »

That trailer is exactly like watching re-runs of episodes I've never seen before.

Barry Egan · « **Reply #3146 on:** October 07, 2011, 07:14:13 PM »

yea it's like they never left. Which I'm really happy about because Mike Judge's output has been pretty spotty since office space.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #3147 on:** October 08, 2011, 12:41:50 AM »

new Community ep is bad $:-\$

cool breeze · « **Reply #3148 on:** October 08, 2011, 01:12:04 PM »

I haven't liked Community in season 3. I liked S1 and some of S2, but the show is too precocious. Already feels like it's in a late series slump, like The Office is in now (at 7 or 8 seasons in). Parks and Recreation is in its 4th season and it's continuously fresh and hilarious.

Torchwood Miracle Day hit netflix the other day and I've watched a few episodes of it. I forgot how cheesy the show gets. I mean, there's literally a gay sex scene cut between a different sex scene. The gay one was initiated by a character randomly entering a gay bar. In the straight one, the guy breaks into a woman's house, then they bone because...?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #3149 on:** October 08, 2011, 01:36:07 PM »

The Community thread at GAF is scary. It's like the Lost threads there: a bunch of people so obsessed and in love with the characters that they're blinded to the flaws of the actual show.

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #3150 on:** October 08, 2011, 02:33:22 PM »

Quote from: Diunx on October 07, 2011, 09:59:58 AM

Any impressions on American Horror Story? downloaded the pilot yesterday but still haven't watch it.

I watched it cause I thought to myself: "There's no way to make a show scary and keep it going in the serialized fashion of other dramas" So I had my doubts going in and they weren't justified at all. Show is one hell of a mind fuck. I was glued to the tube till the end and It's got my clamoring for more.

Just go in with an open mind and you'll have a good time.

Himu · « **Reply #3151 on:** October 08, 2011, 04:05:27 PM »

I haven't liked Community in season 3

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #3152 on:** October 08, 2011, 05:40:19 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on October 08, 2011, 01:36:07 PM

The Community thread at GAF is scary. It's like the Lost threads there: a bunch of people so obsessed and in love with the characters that they're blinded to the flaws of the actual show.

Whatevs, I've already learned to ignore Community GAF even post-Costanza, weird when people cite that as their reason for hating it...

First two episodes were alright, maybe a step down. Don't know how anyone could hate on the last one, you be crazy.

Himu · « **Reply #3153 on:** October 08, 2011, 06:12:24 PM »

episode 3 was the best this season so far, definitely. Chang

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #3154 on:** October 08, 2011, 06:13:42 PM »

I thought it was very bad. Detective Chang should have been hilarious...but it just fell so flat

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #3155 on:** October 08, 2011, 06:14:04 PM »

I don't think community has been so hot so far this season. I think they've run out of plots and ideas to do with the characters.

Beezy · « **Reply #3156 on:** October 09, 2011, 03:57:30 PM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on October 08, 2011, 06:14:04 PM

I don't think community has been so hot so far this season. I think they've run out of plots and ideas to do with the characters.

Agreed unfortunately. It's starting to feel like Sunny where everything is too exaggerated and unrealistic.

cool breeze · « **Reply #3157 on:** October 09, 2011, 04:02:03 PM »

Chang is weird because him and Troy were the best in Season 1. Chang was changed into a pathetic, dumpy guy. I thought him becoming a security guard would be a return to how he was in Season 1. Instead he's still how he was in Season 2, just as a bummy stupid security guard. I guess most people, including the show creators and writers, prefer that.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #3158 on:** October 09, 2011, 04:14:51 PM »

Chang was minor character in the first season which is why he was good. Ever since the hangover they've turned him into a major character but they have no clear design for what they want him to be so he's essentially turned into a cartoon character.

Diunx · « **Reply #3159 on:** October 09, 2011, 06:26:01 PM »

Quote from: G The Resurrected on October 08, 2011, 02:33:22 PM

Quote from: Diunx on October 07, 2011, 09:59:58 AM
Any impressions on American Horror Story? downloaded the pilot yesterday but still haven't watch it.

I watched it cause I thought to myself: "There's no way to make a show scary and keep it going in the serialized fashion of other dramas" So I had my doubts going in and they weren't justified at all. Show is one hell of a mind fuck. I was glued to the tube till the end and It's got my clamoring for more.

Just go in with an open mind and you'll have a good time.

Yeah I really enjoyed it, although some nudity would really help the show dat housekeeper

, shame is not on HBO.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #3160 on:** October 09, 2011, 07:06:51 PM »

I thought Chang was awesome in S2, in part because he had a perfect story: trying to get into the study group. That led to many awesome moments

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #3161 on:** October 09, 2011, 07:29:52 PM »

That Beavis and Butthead trailer is great. I watch some episodes every now and then. Glad to see that it looks like it will still be good. First time I'll make an active attempt to watch MTV in nearly a decade

Oh and Community has always sucked. The show tries to be too zany and clever and usually fails at both. That and the fanbase for the show is absolutely wretched. I don't even give a shit about The Big Bang Theory except for the brief pleasure knowing that the show results in screams of asshurted anguish from the Community fanbase. I guess it means that the show is doing something right.

Barry Egan · « **Reply #3162 on:** October 09, 2011, 11:09:38 PM »

breaking bad

one of the best seasons of television i have ever seen.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #3163 on:** October 09, 2011, 11:23:05 PM »

That Gus shot $:-\$

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #3164 on:** October 09, 2011, 11:29:17 PM »

I didn't care for the Gus thing but I think I'll warm to it. As stated before there's precedence for suspension of belief in Breaking Bad. Gus's reaction though when it happened, holy shit. Season 4 overall is definitely the best season of Breaking Bad.

lennedsay · « **Reply #3165 on:** October 10, 2011, 12:14:00 AM »

I said god damn.

Breaking Bad

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #3166 on:** October 10, 2011, 01:41:37 AM »

FUCK, BB still isn't up on any trackers yet

I'm dying here

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #3167 on:** October 10, 2011, 03:05:52 AM »

Great episode, but That Thing was thisclose to a jump-the-shark moment. Good god, who the fuck thought that was a good idea.

Still, great finale great season. I think S3 was better though. I can't even guess where the show goes now

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #3168 on:** October 10, 2011, 03:43:41 AM »

Breaking bad

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With Gus and the cartel's gone this leaves things wide open for opportunity. Will Jesse get out of the game altogether? Will Walt see an opportunity to make his own move? Or vice versa will Jesse see a grand opportunity to take over the drug trade. The only thing left behind is Mike, and Gustovo's laptop which recorded everything Jesse and Walt did in the super lab. I can see next season showing the DEA investigating Gus and them finding the smoking gun against Jesse and Walt and how that all plays out.

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Barry Egan · « **Reply #3169 on:** October 10, 2011, 06:03:56 AM »

Gotta agree with green shinobi on this one.

Robo · « **Reply #3170 on:** October 10, 2011, 10:31:02 AM »

Watched the first season of Parks and Rec. Was OK. I'm assuming it gets better given how much the internet raves about it. Right?

Eric P · « **Reply #3171 on:** October 10, 2011, 10:33:13 AM »

radically better.

the second season is so good that it retroactively makes the first season tolerable if you re-watch it.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #3172 on:** October 10, 2011, 11:32:14 AM »

Quote from: AWESOM-O on October 10, 2011, 06:15:20 AM

Now Vince Gilligan should announce that this was actually the last season. Best troll ever.

I could get behind that.

Although, I hated the last shot too. IN CASE YOU DIDN'T FIGURE IT OUT YET HERE YOU GO LET'S ZOOM IN

Mandark · « **Reply #3173 on:** October 10, 2011, 11:33:39 AM »

I actually started on the second season of Parks and Rec because that's what was recommended to me. The first season was described as more of an Office ripoff than its own show, but more than anything I was surprised by how unlikable everyone was. Not in a wacky, AD/Always Sunny/Archer way either.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #3174 on:** October 10, 2011, 02:31:21 PM »

Everyone turns pretty likeable, even the resident libertarian

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #3175 on:** October 10, 2011, 02:36:00 PM »

Also w/ Breaking Bad re: THAT SHOT

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I don't think it's wildly unrealistic. People in shock do things like that odd things like that, especially OCD Gus. And head injuries are funny (not haha funny) things. The body does weird things as it's dying.

It was just an unconcious reaction by him. It's not like his final thoughts were "I must die with a proper knot in my tie"

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cool breeze · « **Reply #3176 on:** October 10, 2011, 02:36:41 PM »

I watched Parks and Rec like this: first episode of season 1 when it aired; hated it and didn't bother watching any more. heard good things late in Season 3, checked it some of Season 3 on Hulu and thought it was hilarious. Went back and saw Season 2 on Netflix, again, hilarious. Thought to give Season 1 another shot; still didn't like it.

Season 1 feels so different from the other three

so far season 3 is the best because

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Andy got less annoying and Mark was replaced with Chris and Ben

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Stoney Mason · « **Reply #3177 on:** October 10, 2011, 03:15:45 PM »

Quote from: Robo on October 10, 2011, 10:31:02 AM

Watched the first season of Parks and Rec. Was OK. I'm assuming it gets better given how much the internet raves about it. Right?

The first season is actively bad. They had no clue what kind of show they were making. It gets way better as it goes on.

TEEEPO · « **Reply #3178 on:** October 10, 2011, 03:45:52 PM »

so should i even bother watching season one of parks and rec?

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #3179 on:** October 10, 2011, 03:47:19 PM »

It's only 6 episodes, might as well.

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