TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[MrSaigon]

I'm a luke warm fan of The League at best, but on recommendation I watched the Rafi/Dirty Randy episode, and it was effing hilarious.

[longhornbaseball]

I thought it was pretty mediocre. Rafi is the best character on the show when used correctly but a whole episode focused on him is too much. I thought the funniest part was the beginning when their friend got shot.

[Fat Strat]

Brooklyn 99 appears to be a pretty good show.

Meanwhile, my wife watched Dads with me in the room. That was one of the worst 30 minutes of television I've ever experienced. Laugh track after every phrase. It was painful.

I think I could live a happy life without ever watching a network TV show again.

[thrill]

I like Brooklyn 99 a lot. It's pretty basic comedy but the cast is great. I really like Andy Samberg, Joe Lo Truglio and Terry Crews. Obviously Andre Braugher is a great actor too. Chelsea Peretti is hilarious. I find it to be a likable 30 mins of TV that I don't have to dwell on, unlike a bunch of my other favorite shows.

[go birds]

Yea agreed on Brooklyn 99.

Having Terry Crews alone makes it worthwhile.

[Vidor]

Well, we know at least one character who will not be in the "Breaking Bad" finale, although that's not really a surprise

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news ... m-20130924

[Jocephus]

[33anda3rd]

I like Brooklyn 99 so far, but I'm really looking forward to later this season, and the subsequent ones, when there's not so much needless dialogue defining/introducing the characters. That's what separates Parks and Rec's bad first season from the excellent (when not too cutesy) subsequent ones--they stopped creating and started discovering. Once they, and we, knew and were comfortable with who all the characters are it became a blast. And I don't think you have to waste time in early episodes over-creating. Mad Men S1/E1 is a series of movements about characters that Weiner trusted himself and us enough not to over-define with bad time-wasting dialogue. Mad Men and a lot of other shows' first episode feels like the story is starting in the middle, and that's never not good television. Once Brooklyn 99 gets in its groove, I look forward to what it can do.

[Cole Burns]

I'm watching the BB marathon, they're in season 3 I think? Episode is called "Half Measure." Anyway, there's a scene where they're watching Jeopardy and a Walt Whitman answer is given. The question is "What is a yawp?" So, I did some looking. It's from Song of Myself and here's the surrounding lines...

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me,
he complains of my gab and my loitering.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

The last scud of day holds back for me,
It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds,
It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.

If I could, I think I'd put money on these being the last lines on Sunday, a voice over from Cranston while people walk over where he's been buried and forgotten.

[MrSaigon]

B99 needs to be funnier. I do think it will get there. They need someone (or a character, at least) funnier than not-Aubrey-Plaza to bounce off of Joe Lo Truglia, that girl is a waste of screen time. Because it's sort of a procedural, I think there's lots of potential to bring in funny guest stars all the time (like the whole P&R and Office crews (I would [expletive] my pants on a Jean Ralphio crossover, if that kind of thing is possible across networks, but even just having the actor would be great), or Lo Truglio's State friends or Samberg's SNL friends).

At least they didn't spend a whole episode written by Stephanie Meyer on Ron Swanson's wedding. You're punting characters and funny people (Will Arnett and Louis CK, for example) when you marry everyone off.