TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[Schlich]

I just can't believe they got to so many villains in the pilot. Also, isn't the whole show sort of pre-spoiled? I mean, we know he doesn't catch any of these bad guys.

I'll probably watch a couple more episodes at least. Pilots are hardly ever great because they have to do so much telling and spread so wide (Lost is a notable exception, I suppose), but this one was alright. Promising, anyway.

Wow, speak of the Jacob. I guess I've gotten so good at trying to sound credible by regurgitating Grantland that it's happening before I even read it:
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospect ... rsary-abc/

This lead me to this article about Louie and man is that show underappreciated.

[haltz]

When Rafi Met Randy. Oh my God. Neil Casey especially was outstanding.

[MrSaigon]

He was, but should I have recognized him from something? I certainly didn't know his name. I thought he was too funny to never have heard of.

I thought last year's was better, but this was a great follow up.

[Vidor]

Second season of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" premiers tonight, which means the luscious Melissa Fumero is returning to American TV screens.

[MrSaigon]

I watched the first half of SNL. There was a new cast member (maybe featured?) in the first two sketches, that stared at the cue cards the whole goddam time. Joe Montana and Derek Jeter did better than him. Distractingly bad. Chris Pratt was good, but the show just wasn't that funny.

[Vidor]

I watched the first half of SNL. There was a new cast member (maybe featured?) in the first two sketches, that stared at the cue cards the whole goddam time. Joe Montana and Derek Jeter did better than him. Distractingly bad. Chris Pratt was good, but the show just wasn't that funny.

Of more interest to me was the Richard Pryor show from December of 1975 that they showed in prime time. It was only an hour--the musical guest was cut, and it seemed like a couple other bits were cut out--but I love seeing classic TV history. That was the episode with the famous "word association" sketch between Pryor and Chevy Chase, and the "News for the Hard of Hearing" gag.

[JL21]

I picked up The Strain- the book- and chewed quickly threw half of it between a few recent flights. It's almost exactly the same as the show, but the timeline is a little different, and they have a few small changes in the show. Halfway through the first book, Eichhorst has barely been in it. But they tell you so much more about The Master. There's an entire back story that you get right in the first chapter.

[ghostrunner]

The CW is the final network to end Saturday morning cartoons:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn ... e-no-more/

[Jocephus]

end of an era

[thrill]

I picked up The Strain- the book- and chewed quickly threw half of it between a few recent flights. It's almost exactly the same as the show, but the timeline is a little different, and they have a few small changes in the show. Halfway through the first book, Eichhorst has barely been in it. But they tell you so much more about The Master. There's an entire back story that you get right in the first chapter.

Can you PM me deets so I don't have to read it? Just want to know where the master comes from and who the vampire death squads are.

Edit - you do not have to do this if it's too complicated and you dont want to.