[TV] Talk about the last TV you watched, the catchall thread

Far

Far

Watching through Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt again and seeing so much that I missed the first time. Winston Zeddemore High, scholae nullo motto, Jacqueline doing the hand motions a stewardess would do while dressed as one when she tells Kimmy to look around. The only thing I've been disappointed with so far is how short the first season is.

Also, I love who they got to play Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne and think he does comedy extremely well and have enjoyed his other stabs at it. It's a decent reveal so I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it, seriously go watch it now, but I really wish he would do more comedy. Although the juxtaposition of the two types of roles definitely makes the comedy funnier.
 
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checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Zero Esc said:
The first two episodes of Community season 6 are up on Yahoo, but damned if I know how to make them watchable. Yahoo's streaming has always been a choppy mess for me; I could never watch movie trailers that premiered exclusively for them. I don't know how to fix it for a 25 minute TV show.
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Couldn't even stream the trailer (unavailable in Canada). I eventually got to see it thanks to a combination of Hola and an off site mirror. The trailer had me worried.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Zero Esc said:
The first two episodes of Community season 6 are up on Yahoo, but damned if I know how to make them watchable. Yahoo's streaming has always been a choppy mess for me; I could never watch movie trailers that premiered exclusively for them. I don't know how to fix it for a 25 minute TV show.
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Despite the lackluster video quality(you have Hulu's ads, but not their HD?), it was pretty good!
Brewster is a great "Seemingly altogether" character. Garrett BETTER become an antagonist this season because of the frisbees, that'd be great. Also while the Dean probably winged it, I'd like to think that he bought that VR headset KNOWING that Keith David would give him a refund and become a student. And finally, I like Britta's arc with her parents and not forgiving them because she remembered when they sucked or as Frankie called it "Jimmy Fallon syndrome".
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

My problem isn't with video quality so much as the constant buffering. I was able to get it to work to an acceptable level, but hopefully there will be a season 6 DVD release later so I can watch it without fits and starts.

But those gripes aside, I'm so glad the show is back. Just one funny thing after another, even riffing on its new elements by the end of the first episode, and that stinger was priceless. Will watch episode 2 tomorrow night.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

The buffering is an on/off problem for me with Yahoo Screen, sometimes its smooth as silk, other times its an under judgement Newgrounds submission just BEGGING to get blammed.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Started watching Bob's Burgers.

I don't like any character in this show at all. But I like watching what they do. Because even though they're not likable characters, they're good characters - and I don't mean in morality, I mean in writing quality. Bob is a self-centered idiotic butthead, his wife is a vapid ninny, his kids are (in age order) excruciatingly stunted, nauseatingly tiresome and awkward, and completely amoral and unrestrained... but you put them all together and you've got something pretty watchable for reasons I can't explain. It's like watching a car wreck happen in slow motion, or a youtube playlist of people popping back acne. It's horrifying, but I don't stop watching.
 
Cajungal

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I think they become more likeable as you go. They're all really good at something or have a redeeming quality. And when all else fails they care for one another. That becomes more apparent later. I'm loving the latest season.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Cajungal said:
I think they become more likeable as you go. They're all really good at something or have a redeeming quality. And when all else fails they care for one another. That becomes more apparent later. I'm loving the latest season.
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That's true, no matter how thoughtless Bob is, no matter how dumb or whiny Linda gets, regardless of any of Tina's pubescent shenanigans, Gene's tiresome social obliviousness, or Louise's attention deficit misanthropy, in the end they're still a family and still pull together as a team. They manage to somehow live to grill another day despite innumerable predictable and infuriating failures and little sabotages.

Also I didn't notice until the third episode that the building next door in the opening credits changes every episode in a manner that might be a story unto itself.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

UUUUUUUUUUUNBREAKABLE! THEY ALIVE BLABLA! ITS A MIRACLE!

Saw the first two eps, love all the main characters, Jane Krakowski proves she can play a character even MORE neurotic and crazy than Jenna, and the fact that Titus is playing a character who calls himself Titus but his real name is Ronald is hilarious. And that theme song while practically unintelligible is a damned ear-worm and I LOVE IT!
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Yoshimickster said:
UUUUUUUUUUUNBREAKABLE! THEY ALIVE BLABLA DAMMIT! ITS A MIRACLE!

Saw the first two eps, love all the main characters, Jane Krakowski proves she can play a character even MORE neurotic and crazy than Jenna, and the fact that Titus is playing a character who calls himself Titus but his real name is Ronald is hilarious. And that theme song while practically unintelligible is a damned ear-worm and I LOVE IT!
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Here's the "original" video:
 
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Frank

Frank

Finished the final quarter of the first episode of Powers.

My declarative opinion of the first episode (as someone who has little knowledge of the comics, barely read any of them so I'm coming into this relatively clean) is as follows:

Sucks. Real bad.

On the positive side, the episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia I watched afterwards was so good it made me pause it during laughter fits. Now, was this caused by the stark dichotomy of how bad Powers sucks? Maybe. But nearly bloodless ghoul Frank is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my entire life.
 
fade

fade

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GasBandit said:
Started watching Bob's Burgers.

I don't like any character in this show at all. But I like watching what they do. Because even though they're not likable characters, they're good characters - and I don't mean in morality, I mean in writing quality. Bob is a self-centered idiotic butthead, his wife is a vapid ninny, his kids are (in age order) excruciatingly stunted, nauseatingly tiresome and awkward, and completely amoral and unrestrained... but you put them all together and you've got something pretty watchable for reasons I can't explain. It's like watching a car wreck happen in slow motion, or a youtube playlist of people popping back acne. It's horrifying, but I don't stop watching.
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Yeah, but the "tropiness" is purely intentional. The first few episodes are like establishing the toy box. Then they play with the toys.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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fade said:
Yeah, but the "tropiness" is purely intentional. The first few episodes are like establishing the toy box. Then they play with the toys.
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From what I've read elsewhere it takes 12 or so episodes for it to hit its stride, so I'm continuing on.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

And I am finished the first season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, FUCK this show is good. Also-
did not think Titus's wife would actually appear, way to go whole hog.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

We're starting Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt tonight. I feel like everyone is talking about/praising this show and wonder how pissed NBC must be that they can't do anything fucking right.

On that note, where the hell is Hannibal season 3?
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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I never saw the appeal. Wouldn't say I "hated" it, but it did nothing for me. But I don't think I was the intended audience.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Yoshimickster said:
Elroy just SCREAMS outsider in the latest ep, loved it.
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That was great. "Is this important?" "Were you guys close?" "This isn't City College?" :D

Although what's really been getting me each episode have been the tangential ending stingers. They've been hilarious every time, and the first half of this one could've been from a conversation from a real Japanese dramatic film. The second episode felt like a genuine low budget B-movie. Dan Harmon's excelled at aping even the subtle elements of different sources since the season one paintball episode, but it's even funny when squeezed into these bite-size post-episode sketches.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Straight upi,
Only Dean Pelton could make a kid become a yakuza boss through text message.

And on the topic of the B-movie trailer, anyone recognize the transformation sound-effect? 'Tson the tip of my eardrum. Was it lifted from Gremlins directly? I remember the laugh, Spike's "OOO-ooo-OOO" deal, and the LALALALALALA song, but I'm not sure if that was in it or not.
 
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Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Yoshimickster said:
And on the topic of the B-movie trailer, anyone recognize the transformation sound-effect? 'Tson the tip of my eardrum. Was it lifted from Gremlins directly? I remember the laugh, Spike's "OOO-ooo-OOO" deal, and the LALALALALALA song, but I'm not sure if that was in it or not.
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There wasn't a scene in the Gremlins movies that would require that tinny "shwweee" sound effect, but it does sound familiar to me too. Not sure if it's from a cartoon or a video game though.

None of the other stuff is lifted from Gremlins directly; just supposed to be similar yet off (for example, the B-movie's theme has the same rhythm as the Gremlins theme, but different instruments and no vocals).
 
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