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[TV] Talk about the last TV you watched, the catchall thread
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So the new Top Gear then...I don't like it.
Chris Evans is going for the Jeremy Clarkson smug git role, but apparently didn't notice that the reason that worked for Clarkson was because May & Hammond were always ready & waiting to take the piss out of him for it. Evans is just a smug git. Matt LeBlanc isn't bad on outside segments, but in the studio is reduced to standing around uncomfortably reading from an autocue. He also has zero camaraderie with Evans.
They've changed the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" segment which is good as that was always the weakest part of old TG. Unfortunately they've made it worse. Which of our two guests had the best first car? Lets ask our studio audience to decide. Which of our two guests has owned the coolest car? Lets ask our studio audience to decide. Also instead of putting rich famous people in a cheap clunker they've got them driving a (possibly modified) mini which just isn't as funny. Oh, and the new offroad sections for the stars laps don't add anything to the section.
Was there anything I liked? LeBlanc's review of the Ariel Nomad was good. Middle aged man dicking around & having fun with a stupid, expensive car that 99% of the audience will never drive, it was entertaining and actually felt like old Top Gear. Unfortunately that means the only good bit involved only one of the presenters. On a show that always owed it success to the relationship between its presenters. With old Top Gear you got the impression some of the arguments on the show were arguments the TG3 had actually had in the pub & were then written in to the script. I can't imagine Evans & LeBlanc hanging out together without the cameras rolling (even without the rumours that they genuinely don't like each other). Sabine Schmitz showed up for the first segment and was never mentioned again for the rest of the show and none of the other new presenters showed up at all.
It wasn't a complete trainwreck & I'll give the second episode a watch but if it doesn't improve - and soon - I'm not going to keep watching for much more than that.
Chris Evans is going for the Jeremy Clarkson smug git role, but apparently didn't notice that the reason that worked for Clarkson was because May & Hammond were always ready & waiting to take the piss out of him for it. Evans is just a smug git. Matt LeBlanc isn't bad on outside segments, but in the studio is reduced to standing around uncomfortably reading from an autocue. He also has zero camaraderie with Evans.
They've changed the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" segment which is good as that was always the weakest part of old TG. Unfortunately they've made it worse. Which of our two guests had the best first car? Lets ask our studio audience to decide. Which of our two guests has owned the coolest car? Lets ask our studio audience to decide. Also instead of putting rich famous people in a cheap clunker they've got them driving a (possibly modified) mini which just isn't as funny. Oh, and the new offroad sections for the stars laps don't add anything to the section.
Was there anything I liked? LeBlanc's review of the Ariel Nomad was good. Middle aged man dicking around & having fun with a stupid, expensive car that 99% of the audience will never drive, it was entertaining and actually felt like old Top Gear. Unfortunately that means the only good bit involved only one of the presenters. On a show that always owed it success to the relationship between its presenters. With old Top Gear you got the impression some of the arguments on the show were arguments the TG3 had actually had in the pub & were then written in to the script. I can't imagine Evans & LeBlanc hanging out together without the cameras rolling (even without the rumours that they genuinely don't like each other). Sabine Schmitz showed up for the first segment and was never mentioned again for the rest of the show and none of the other new presenters showed up at all.
It wasn't a complete trainwreck & I'll give the second episode a watch but if it doesn't improve - and soon - I'm not going to keep watching for much more than that.
Oh my God Gabe is the fucking worst please get off this show ugh
You take your pointless addition to the cast and LIKE IT!
I have, off and on. It's REALLY good sometimes and REALLY bad sometimes.
So basically every Adult Swim show that's not Harvey Birdman/Venture Bros/Metalocalypse.
GasBandit
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Or Sealab 2021. Or Rick and Morty. Or Big O. Or Boondocks. Or The Brak Show. Or Drinky Crow. Or Moral Orel.
Opinions etc etc
Though I do agree on R/M and Brak Show. 2021 was great until the captain's VA died and had to be replaced, felt like Goz's son never quite fit the style of the show.
Though I do agree on R/M and Brak Show. 2021 was great until the captain's VA died and had to be replaced, felt like Goz's son never quite fit the style of the show.
GasBandit
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Yeah, but that happened midway into season 3, so more than half the series was still GozRiffic.
PS, Moral Orel is insanely brilliant satire, Drinky Crow is my spirit animal, Boondocks was also great until the last season, And Big O was pretty much as close to Japanese Batman:TAS as you can get without DC suing you (even had animators in common).
Morel Orel is more than a satire... it's a full on deconstruction of that kind of show right up until "Nature". Then it becomes a reconstruction, showing us what that sort of show would have to actually contain to be spiritually uplifting. Bad things happen on Morel Orel. Not everyone is redeemable. But the ones who want things to be better are better off by the end BECAUSE they had actual Christian values, not in spite of them.
That's the genius of Morel Orel: in the end, it IS the kind of show it makes fun off... just the best version of that kind of show possible and the people who would love it will NEVER watch it.
I was surprised to find out Big O had CN partially back a second season, I didn't realize that.
Real shame on that last season of the Boondocks, Ed Wuncler Jr was probably the most pointless character of ALL time.
Cajungal
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It took me forever to figure out that Clay was Scott Adsit.
GasBandit
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"I cannot deactivate until you say you satisfied with your stinkin' dead end job."
And the priest is Rigby from Regular Show!
"God doesn't work in mysterious ways Orel, he works in ONE way, he waits until you least expect it and he GETS ya!"
"God doesn't work in mysterious ways Orel, he works in ONE way, he waits until you least expect it and he GETS ya!"
Ugh season 9 you're killing me
Why is Andy a dickbag now
Why is Jim a dumb jerk now
WHY IS GABE BACK UGH COME ON
Why is Jim a dumb jerk now
WHY IS GABE BACK UGH COME ON
And that's the end of The Office. Great finale.
I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.
I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.
So if anyone isn't watching Last Week Tonight, go watch it. Especially this week's episode, where John Oliver takes advantage of the terrible debt buying industry regulations, and uses it to do something amazing by buying up almost 15 MILLION dollars in medical debt held by over 9000 people and just forgive it with no strings attached.
In doing so, he also broke Oprah's record for largest monetary giveaway in a TV show for her deceptive "give everyone a car" giveaway.
In doing so, he also broke Oprah's record for largest monetary giveaway in a TV show for her deceptive "give everyone a car" giveaway.
Preacher episode 1
Some annoyances, Tulip is WAY too psychotic to the point of unlikability, the plot is moving too slowly for a Preacher story which I remember being WAY more fast-paced in the comics,and Jesse calls himself "Preacher" like its a fucking superhero name. But...I still wanna watch. I at least want to see the fucking Saint of Killer go ape-shit on folks.
Some annoyances, Tulip is WAY too psychotic to the point of unlikability, the plot is moving too slowly for a Preacher story which I remember being WAY more fast-paced in the comics,and Jesse calls himself "Preacher" like its a fucking superhero name. But...I still wanna watch. I at least want to see the fucking Saint of Killer go ape-shit on folks.
After episodes 1 and 2, I feel the same way. I like Ruth Negga, but I'm not a big fan of how they're portraying Tulip so far. This is definitely a slower burn than the comics, and not using much of the source material (sequentially, anyway), which I think I'm okay with. I'm not hooked, but I'm willing to give it a few more episodes.
I REALLY can't wait for them to delve into Tulip's backstory, I know why she's REALLY this violent, but for anyone who hasn't seen this she just looks like some psychotic ex who can't let go.
And I tolerate it, but yeah what is up with the sunglasses thing? Would it have been THAT hard to stick them in front of his eyes?
And I tolerate it, but yeah what is up with the sunglasses thing? Would it have been THAT hard to stick them in front of his eyes?
Finished season one of Agents of SHIELD. My wife didn't want to skip episodes, and I'm glad we didn't because there's a lot of details to miss (Coulson's whole thing, and what it means in the long run if the show is going the route I think it is) and also once the show gets better, the scenes mean a lot more than if they were where you start watching.
Name-dropping Man-Thing got me excited. I know he'll never show up; it was just such a weird off-hand line dropped for comics fans.
That said, started season 2 and it is already a huge improvement. Was stoked to see Absorbing Man in action.
Name-dropping Man-Thing got me excited. I know he'll never show up; it was just such a weird off-hand line dropped for comics fans.
That said, started season 2 and it is already a huge improvement. Was stoked to see Absorbing Man in action.
Season 2 is where shit goes down.
Watching House as I missed a bunch of seasons here and there.
Forgot how much of a dong Vogler is.
Forgot how much of a dong Vogler is.
Aquarius is good, David Duchovny is knocking it out of the park, and Renly-from-Thrones is also great as Charlie Manson. I also love that it's historical fiction, so mostly anything can happen.
Limitless got cancelled. Really sad about that, it was one of my favorite shows this year.
Bummer, I liked it too.
Yeah. Great cast, fun/interesting writing, and a great twist on the usual crime procedural premise that remained interesting through the whole season. Plus, the end of s1 was a great setup for big things in the now-defunct s2.
Real shame.
Real shame.
Tonight on Preacher, the story once again feels like its at .5 speed. And don't you DARE use the 45 minute time-length as an excuse Rogen, cos I've watched ALL of the televised Buffyverse and it wasn't NEARLY as needlessly slow-paced as this! ITS BASED ON A FRIGGIN' COMIC BOOK-make it FEEL like a comic book!
Onto other things, Tulips sucks in this. I can handle the sheriff being a more sympathetic interpretation, but I do NOT like how Tulip wants to straight up corrupt Jesse, it feels wrong for her character given how in the comics she wasn't a bad person, but more a victim of circumstance, like a vast majority of characters in the comic series.
Onto other things, Tulips sucks in this. I can handle the sheriff being a more sympathetic interpretation, but I do NOT like how Tulip wants to straight up corrupt Jesse, it feels wrong for her character given how in the comics she wasn't a bad person, but more a victim of circumstance, like a vast majority of characters in the comic series.
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So I never really watched The Outer Limits before but holy crap did Alan Moore just sit down with a tape of this show when he wrote Watchmen? There's the obvious episode with the identical alien threat plot, but I'm watching another with a protagonist who looks just like Osterman who joins an experiment involving converting life to energy. As part of this experiment, the protagonist gets locked in a hallway with concrete walls and a windowed door when the experiment proceeds.
There's this energy being with a really creepy special effect too.
There's this energy being with a really creepy special effect too.
It is a shame that Architects of Fear was not written by Harlan Ellison. The legal battle and the attendant flame war would have been spectacular.
10 episode's into Agents of SHIELD season 2. So much happens in every episode, it's a little dizzying compared to the glacial pace of the first season. This one just plows ahead.
Having a hard time getting on the show's side of seeing Skye's dad as a villain. He finds his wife peeled apart, his infant daughter is kidnapped ... kinda expected that he'd lose it. If you started the story from his perspective around the time of meeting his wife, the show would be treating him as the avenging protagonist.