TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[go birds]

Anyone watch Tyrant? I just bought the season based on the premise. Have not watched yet, was a purchase for the end of the baseball season.

Yeah. Its good if you can ignore the absurdity of it all.

The huge giant mountain of absurdity.

i bailed halfway thru the season

[ghostrunner]

Couldn't sleep last night after the game so I watched Walking Dead premiere, and it was excellent. I'm not sure I've seen a character improve on any show the way Carol has. I wouldn't mind her being the lead now. It wasn't that she was weak before, but she was weakly written.

[SHOW]

Morgan coming back feels like a good thing.

[TimeForGuinness]

Couldn't sleep last night after the game so I watched Walking Dead premiere, and it was excellent. I'm not sure I've seen a character improve on any show the way Carol has. I wouldn't mind her being the lead now. It wasn't that she was weak before, but she was weakly written.

[SHOW]

Morgan coming back feels like a good thing.

I think it was the best episode since the pilot...and it's been wearing thin on me the last few seasons...but last night's episode was great.

[ghostrunner]

Couldn't sleep last night after the game so I watched Walking Dead premiere, and it was excellent. I'm not sure I've seen a character improve on any show the way Carol has. I wouldn't mind her being the lead now. It wasn't that she was weak before, but she was weakly written.

[SHOW]

Morgan coming back feels like a good thing.

I think it was the best episode since the pilot...and it's been wearing thin on me the last few seasons...but last night's episode was great.

I think so too. Mainly, nothing felt cheap or like it was a cheat. Only a couple times I mentally called [expletive] -

[SHOW]

the way some of the Terminus people seemed to be wetting their pants over the zombies, and when they kept managing not to hit Glen with the bat. I guess Tyrese giving up his gun to that guy, but it kind of paid off.

Might be a stretch, but what that guy was saying to Tyrese felt like a bit of a shot/nod at some of the BS in previous seasons. "Why are you even talking to me?" No kidding.

[thrill]

I was pretty close to bailing on Walking Dead. Had no excitement for the new season at all.

Then things happened like the human slaughterhouse, Rick stared the hipster king in the eyes and told him the guns he hid were the guns he was going to kill him with and then he said they don't get to live. Im back in. Fully.

[TimeForGuinness]

I thought it was pretty smart, and yes there were a few annoying points (like you pointed out ghost)...but...

[SHOW]

1.) This was something I didn't pick up on until later, which I thought was smart:

2.) During the Talking Dead, we found out that Mary was hipster king's mother...I must have missed that during the episode.
3.) The first blonde hair guy to get killed over the trough was the boyfriend in the episode where Rick abandons Carol and gives the boyfriend his watch. Carol then picks up Rick's watch in this episode:

4.) Morgan at the end, and the sign carved into the tree...I'm sure Rick picked up on it from Morgan's chalk wall and was using it to leave a trail for Morgan?


5.) Morgan looks badass. And it was the most excited I've ever been with this show.

I like tying it back to the other small story lines, and it had the feel to me that they're kinda cleaning up the writing and tying up some loose ends.

Also if you saw the trailer for next week, Carver from The Wire is making his entrance.

EDIT: Added pictures

[go birds]

just stopping in to remind everyone that Brooklyn 99 is great--long live Terry Crews

[longhornbaseball]

Boardwalk Empire

[SHOW]

Loved Van Alden's death last night, hated Chalky's. This whole season, while I've enjoyed it, has felt rushed. Almost like they got tired of making the show and are trying to wrap it up as quickly as possible.

[Vidor]

Boardwalk Empire
This whole season, while I've enjoyed it, has felt rushed. Almost like they got tired of making the show and are trying to wrap it up as quickly as possible.

Well yeah, that's what happened. A 7-year jump which completely skipped Rothstein's murder and the Crash of 1929, for starters. Then, what is it, an 8-episode order? Real rush job.

[thrill]

Anyone watching Mulaney?