Author Topic: The TV shows you've seen recently thread. (Read 1237187 times)

benjipwns · « **Reply #8760 on:** April 29, 2014, 12:51:06 AM »

I was literally starting to get creeped out by Clovis the longer they were there.

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You have to say Smarch!

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ZephyrFate · « **Reply #8761 on:** April 29, 2014, 03:48:55 AM »

I'm kind of... post-tax

benjipwns · « **Reply #8762 on:** April 29, 2014, 04:03:54 AM »

I would love to have a dialogue about that.

I'm bookmarking this chat.

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People want to work with us more than they want to be paid. That's a given.

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Oblivion · « **Reply #8763 on:** April 29, 2014, 04:16:29 AM »

I've finally started watching Arrow (10 episodes in), and it really is one of the most enjoyable shows I've seen in a good while. It's really odd though, cause the show doesn't do anything particularly spectacular, and it has tropes and such from other shows that I would find cliche and ham fisted, but for some reason Arrow works really well.

Some random thoughts:

- The lead dude has a killer body. That's what I'm striving for.
- Don't like the bodyguard dude. His character is fine, just don't like the actor.
- The blonde IT chick is adorable.

Fifstar · « **Reply #8764 on:** April 29, 2014, 05:02:44 AM »

Quote from: Exodust SoulBurn on April 28, 2014, 09:48:06 PM

Quote from: Fifstar on April 28, 2014, 03:19:05 PM
Nobody is watching new Mad Men episodes?

I literally posted about it a few post above yours.

Saw your posts, just was a bit surprised that not more people were posting, we had a semi active thread for last season.

Sally and Don were

in the second episode.

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #8765 on:** April 29, 2014, 06:12:14 AM »

there's some nice character moments so far in S7 of Mad Men but the wheel spinning is reaching its apex with regards to the plot. I just don't see where Weiner is going with this final season and the pace either needs to quicken considerably or some twists need to start happening right now. Otherwise I just don't see how he's gonna satisfactorily wrap up all these character arcs.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #8766 on:** April 29, 2014, 11:16:56 AM »

Almost every season so far has meandered through the first half, I think it's part why the show works. The characters are allowed to breath without being forced into dumb soap-opera twists every other episode.

If you expected the show to race out of the gate and gallop toward some grand conclusion you were probably setting yourself up for disappointment.

Kshow · « **Reply #8767 on:** April 29, 2014, 11:27:45 AM »

I think Imma stay away from mad men. Jus not my vibe..

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #8768 on:** April 29, 2014, 11:58:05 AM »

Jonah with money... That's like if Hitler could fly.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8769 on:** April 29, 2014, 12:29:35 PM »

Arrow is great
http://imgur.com/a/yOpvK#0

etiolate · « **Reply #8770 on:** April 29, 2014, 05:51:23 PM »

I imagine the shirtless Oliver reel is twice as long.

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #8771 on:** April 30, 2014, 12:04:14 AM »

Quote from: Mamacint on April 29, 2014, 11:16:56 AM

Almost every season so far has meandered through the first half, I think it's part why the show works. The characters are allowed to breath without being forced into dumb soap-opera twists every other episode.

If you expected the show to race out of the gate and gallop toward some grand conclusion you were probably setting yourself up for disappointment.

I'm not expecting any of that. I'm just expecting a final season that has a sense of direction from the get-go, instead of table-setting which is what it's doing at the moment.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #8772 on:** April 30, 2014, 12:08:57 AM »

Really good episode of Silicon Valley this week, TJ Miller got me with the turtleneck wrestling

brawndolicious · « **Reply #8773 on:** April 30, 2014, 12:33:08 AM »

Quote from: ZephyrFate on April 30, 2014, 12:04:14 AM

Quote from: Mamacint on April 29, 2014, 11:16:56 AM
Almost every season so far has meandered through the first half, I think it's part why the show works. The characters are allowed to breath without being forced into dumb soap-opera twists every other episode.

If you expected the show to race out of the gate and gallop toward some grand conclusion you were probably setting yourself up for disappointment.
I'm not expecting any of that. I'm just expecting a final season that has a sense of direction from the get-go, instead of table-setting which is what it's doing at the moment.

It feels like it's heading in a direction to me. Draper's career and marriage are in shambles, he can't hide anything about who he is anymore but now he wants to make his actual identity work. Meanwhile the rest of the firm is fighting with each other and it looks like it's going to get very nasty very quickly.

It would get tiring if they went straight from the end of last season to another crisis.

chronovore · « **Reply #8774 on:** April 30, 2014, 12:49:31 AM »

First episode of MÉTAL HURLANT was free on iTunes. 30 minute show, 20 minutes of speed-ramped fighting, 8 minutes of scenery chewing, and 2 minutes of choreographed punchline. This was an adaptation of a classic Corben piece, "King's Crown." I should have just found PDFs of the original stories and enjoyed them. This was just... ugh.

Yeti · « **Reply #8775 on:** April 30, 2014, 01:24:20 AM »

Quote from: chronovore on April 30, 2014, 12:49:31 AM

First episode of MÉTAL HURLANT was free on iTunes. 30 minute show, 20 minutes of speed-ramped fighting, 8 minutes of scenery chewing, and 2 minutes of choreographed punchline. This was an adaptation of a classic Corben piece, "King's Crown." I should have just found PDFs of the original stories and enjoyed them. This was just... ugh.

I was wondering what the hell that show was, ads for it kept popping up in Warehouse 13. It looked like Sucker Punch: The TV Show

chronovore · « **Reply #8776 on:** April 30, 2014, 01:44:38 AM »

Quote from: Yeti on April 30, 2014, 01:24:20 AM

Quote from: chronovore on April 30, 2014, 12:49:31 AM
First episode of MÉTAL HURLANT was free on iTunes. 30 minute show, 20 minutes of speed-ramped fighting, 8 minutes of scenery chewing, and 2 minutes of choreographed punchline. This was an adaptation of a classic Corben piece, "King's Crown." I should have just found PDFs of the original stories and enjoyed them. This was just... ugh.

I was wondering what the hell that show was, ads for it kept popping up in Warehouse 13. It looked like Sucker Punch: The TV Show

Nowhere near that level of quality, sadly. And I didn't even like Suckerpunch. And you misspelled "pooping."

Yeti · « **Reply #8777 on:** April 30, 2014, 01:49:23 AM »

I just found out Almost Human wasn't picked up for a second season. A shame, it was a pretty neat bit of world building.

etiolate · « **Reply #8778 on:** April 30, 2014, 02:41:44 AM »

Yeah that sucks. It had some chemistry and potential for more world building.

chronovore · « **Reply #8779 on:** April 30, 2014, 04:32:16 AM »

Dammit. Almost Human was a good show! I liked both the lead actors, and was looking forward to more adventures in that world. Was it expensive or something? It just seems weird that Continuum can go on endlessly, apparently, but this gets dropped.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8780 on:** April 30, 2014, 10:30:12 AM »

Agents of Shield isn't up on torrents yet

Just when it is getting good too.

Speaking of which I really can't wait for the 4 netflix marvel series. They just confirmed that they are in the MCU.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #8781 on:** April 30, 2014, 10:36:42 AM »

Speaking of SHIELD, I just watched "The End of the Beginning" last night. Dis gonna be gud.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #8782 on:** April 30, 2014, 11:31:32 AM »

So Agents of Shield has found it's footing? I fell off after the first few episodes

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8783 on:** April 30, 2014, 12:04:39 PM »

It was basically treading water so that they could do a cross over event with CA2. Since then it has been good (if you like the MCU)

Tasty · « **Reply #8784 on:** April 30, 2014, 12:36:07 PM »

Quote from: Mamacint on April 30, 2014, 11:31:32 AM

So Agents of Shield has found it's footing? I fell off after the first few episodes

I'd say so. So much shit went down in last night's episode it felt like three episodes.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8785 on:** April 30, 2014, 12:47:09 PM »

"Stark privatizing global security" Ultron bitches.

cool breeze · « **Reply #8786 on:** April 30, 2014, 01:14:52 PM »

Quote from: Mamacint on April 30, 2014, 11:31:32 AM

So Agents of Shield has found it's footing? I fell off after the first few episodes

sort of. the last three or four mostly had a focus from the captain america 2 stuff and were alright. my main issue is that I don't like any of the characters. the male stock nerd scientist is terrible. but at least stuff is happening.

Raban · « **Reply #8787 on:** April 30, 2014, 06:46:11 PM »

Fargo continues to be stupendous. I now have a crush on Allison Tolman.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #8788 on:** April 30, 2014, 09:08:57 PM »

Yep. Really good stuff.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8789 on:** April 30, 2014, 10:32:53 PM »

Arrow shit ya. It's getting intense.

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I really feel like it is going to turn out that Malcom saved Olivers mom, possibly with maricuru

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cool breeze · « **Reply #8790 on:** May 01, 2014, 02:43:46 PM »

Arrow seems like it's treating the season finale like a (TV) movie split into three parts. Episode was a ton of build up with a jarring ending.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8791 on:** May 01, 2014, 03:56:15 PM »

ya the flash backs are getting annoying. Next season better be Russian mob or league of assassins for the flash backs.

cool breeze · « **Reply #8792 on:** May 01, 2014, 04:29:58 PM »

in an earlier episode of Arrow this season Oliver said

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that he wasn't always on the Island. I didn't get if he meant "off the island" as in he was on the amazo boat, or he left left and was brought back. 5 seasons of island flashbacks will get boring even with a rotating crew. at least if they keep Sara around she could get her own flashbacks with the league of assassins.

either way, year 5 of the island he's there alone and grows a nasty beard.

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Positive Touch · « **Reply #8793 on:** May 01, 2014, 09:09:11 PM »

finally going thru the last season of lost, four years after the fact. somehow never managed to have it spoiled. i mean, i heard it was bad and all, but never any specifics. still didnt prepare me for how much it sucks. the plot was always aimless, but the conflict in this season came out of nowhere, which is especially sad since there were ten million other events that were foreshadowed. they ruined one of my favorite characters and killed off most of the others, except for the shitty ones of course. now theres a fucking origin story episode that seriously has two twins, one with blonde hair dressed in white and on with brown hair dressed in black. this shit is unbelievable

brawndolicious · « **Reply #8794 on:** May 02, 2014, 01:20:23 AM »

They made up the show as they went along. It has a pretty convenient and disappointing ending where everything has to get twisted around to work.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #8795 on:** May 02, 2014, 02:23:09 AM »

Started watching Cosmos. I like it. Especially once I found out it actually airs in prime-time. (After Family Guy)

I know MacFarlane is the producer on it but all I can imagine is a nation of TV's turning off the moment the ending credits for Family Guy are rolling.

It's not without its flaws. I don't like the animated bits. I don't like how they represent the past in sort of an exact conversation dramatization that people had hundreds of years ago complete with modern slang in some cases. And its a bit simple. But for a mainstream network audience I think those "flaws" are probably things that attracts a more mainstream audience compared to science nerds.

I think its the kind of thing we should have more of on television. I know that sounds naive on my part and I know we have plenty of cable networks that ostensibly deal with "science" and "nature" and "history" (even though we know most of them are filled with complete horseshit the majority of the time) but I feel like part of the problem is that science has been pushed into this nerd ghetto that normal people would never consider watching. I think this is probably about as close as you could make something science wise in this day and age but that is still targeted towards a mainstream audience and uses entertainment to push the science message.

There was a scientist they were discussing and Tyson mentioned how more people probably know serial killers than this scientist. I mean its sort of a cheap shot but at that moment I felt a sad sort of embarrased existential anguish as I immediately remembered me looking up serial killers on wikipedia on a lazy Sunday afternoon. It sort of shamed into wanting to pay more attention to the science that exists around us that I largely ignore to consume purely escapist entertainment. That's a good thing so I give the show credit just for that alone.

You can watch full episodes here.

http://www.cosmosontv.com/watch/236611651828

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #8796 on:** May 02, 2014, 02:56:30 AM »

Quote from: Positive Touch on May 01, 2014, 09:09:11 PM

finally going thru the last season of lost, four years after the fact. somehow never managed to have it spoiled. i mean, i heard it was bad and all, but never any specifics. still didnt prepare me for how much it sucks. the plot was always aimless, but the conflict in this season came out of nowhere, which is especially sad since there were ten million other events that were foreshadowed. they ruined one of my favorite characters and killed off most of the others, except for the shitty ones of course. now theres a fucking origin story episode that seriously has two twins, one with blonde hair dressed in white and on with brown hair dressed in black. this shit is unbelievable

For Lost and BSG I just end up remembering the stuff I like and try to excise the stuff I didn't like from my mind. The two shows always go together for me in that regard. I use to be really pissed about both but such time has passed that now I honestly barely remember the last seasons of either. Someday I'll rewatch both (I've already watched BSG all the way through at least a few times) to relive the good and bad.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #8797 on:** May 02, 2014, 03:00:31 AM »

Non-Denominational Heaven

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #8798 on:** May 02, 2014, 03:04:23 AM »

I mean its great if something ends in a great way but for me its not a killer blow or anything if it doesn't. The first two season of BSG are some of the finest sci-fi tv entertainment ever. Even some of the highly flawed last seasons have some individually great episodes in them. For me I just take the pleasure I got versus the idealized potential pleasure I could have gotten.

Lost is more problematic as I think that show was all over the place from the beginning to the end. But even still there were some great episodes and great characters from the experience for me.

I ain't mad. I'm glad I watched both things and got a lot of entertainment from them. Most things are flawed. Such is the way of things.

It's very rare that I follow something to the end and consider it a non-worthwhile experience overall. If I hang around to the end there was usually something compelling to me even if it was flawed and if I drop it there was usually something not compelling for me.

Like I dropped Prison Break before the end. Maybe someday I will go back but I know in my heart there was a reason I dropped it. Same with Heroes.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #8799 on:** May 02, 2014, 01:17:17 PM »

I remember the last season of Lost having a couple great episodes, like the origin ep for Richard, that made me think the season would deliver. But ultimately the finale felt empty despite a couple great character moments, and the ending was stupid. The biggest offense was how they ruined the best character on the show, Locke.

S1, S2, half of S3, and S4 are still great in my book. I like shit that has multiple characters I really enjoy and Lost really did a great job at it. Locke, Sawyer, Sayid etc. And I get weird nostalgia feels whenever I see an episode or hear the music. But yea...the show shat the bed in the end.

Tasty · « **Reply #8800 on:** May 02, 2014, 01:55:44 PM »

Loved s1 and s5. Some of my favorite seasons of TV ever.

The rest is kinda

to

. s6 was such a letdown.

Steve Contra · « **Reply #8801 on:** May 02, 2014, 04:55:40 PM »

JJ Abrams in general

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #8802 on:** May 02, 2014, 04:58:01 PM »

I loved season 1 and 2 of Lost.

Tasty · « **Reply #8803 on:** May 02, 2014, 05:21:10 PM »

Was Alias any good?

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #8804 on:** May 02, 2014, 05:43:31 PM »

Quote from: Esch on May 02, 2014, 04:54:37 PM

JJ Abrams on TV not for me

Abrams was only involved in Season 1 of Lost, Lindelof and Cuse were the ones that drove that train all the way to Shit Town.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #8805 on:** May 02, 2014, 06:30:38 PM »

Abrams wrote the show's "bible" which featured long term plot and shit like that. Dharma was planned from the beginning which makes sense; that worked pretty well on screen especially in S4. A lot of other shit, including the smoke monster, was basically "we'll make shit up as we go."

There was also supposed to be less sci fi, which they threw out the window by combining with the worst possible thing imaginable: time travel.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8806 on:** May 02, 2014, 10:50:46 PM »

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #8807 on:** May 03, 2014, 12:17:32 AM »

hannibal is going into some weird territory rightnow

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8808 on:** May 03, 2014, 12:57:29 AM »

good episode

also the trailer for the next looked good

TVC15 · « **Reply #8809 on:** May 03, 2014, 04:14:16 AM »

Michael Pitt is awesome.

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #8810 on:** May 03, 2014, 12:14:32 PM »

Orphan Black S2 is aces so far. The best feminist show out there.

Beezy · « **Reply #8811 on:** May 03, 2014, 12:38:40 PM »

What the fuck is a feminist show. It's one of the best shows out, period.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8812 on:** May 03, 2014, 01:10:29 PM »

Been rematching new outer limits

Quality of Mercy and The Light Brigade

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #8813 on:** May 03, 2014, 07:26:45 PM »

Quote from: Beezy on May 03, 2014, 12:38:40 PM

What the fuck is a feminist show. It's one of the best shows out, period.

A feminist show is Orphan Black. That's not an insult or anything.

Beezy · « **Reply #8814 on:** May 03, 2014, 07:30:57 PM »

I know its not an insult, but it's a pointless label to force on it.

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #8815 on:** May 03, 2014, 08:36:36 PM »

It's not forcing a label. The show is tentpoled by a female actress' performance, the show's big themes are how much of a woman's body she has possession of, as well as redefining what family means. The male characters are either villains or cardboard caricatures, very often one-note.

http://www.etonline.com/tv/134713_Tatiana_Maslany_Orphan_Black_Season_Finale_Interview/

The show is a lot about women's stories, and most of them don't involve a man. In that sense, it not only passes the Bechdel test, but also the reverse Bechdel test. There's no label being forced here -- it's a very pro-woman show and because of that it is very feminist.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #8816 on:** May 03, 2014, 08:49:02 PM »

Sounds anti-men to me. Pass.

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #8817 on:** May 03, 2014, 09:49:25 PM »

k well you fail

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #8818 on:** May 03, 2014, 10:09:04 PM »

"Orphan Black is a Canadian science fiction television series created by screenwriter Graeme Manson and director John Fawcett, starring Tatiana Maslany as several identical women who are revealed to be clones. The series focuses on Sarah Manning, a woman who assumes the identity of her clone, Elizabeth (Beth) Childs, after witnessing Beth's suicide. The series raises issues about the moral and ethical implications of human cloning and its effect on issues of personal identity."

Tasty · « **Reply #8819 on:** May 03, 2014, 10:09:40 PM »

It's a decent show.

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