TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[ghostrunner]

That show went off the rails earlier IMO, but 2 people should have died in season 4 and when they didn't I was out.

That is exactly when/why I got off board.

I felt like it was all but digging their graves as the season went on, and then neither one happened.

Juice and Clay?

Yep.

[Vidor]

Watching "Barney Miller" on Antenna. Here are the commercials in one commercial break:

1. Portable oxygen tank
2. Knee or back braces

They know their audience.

****

This is awesome. The next commercial break was 1. reverse mortgages and 2. hair replacements.

[thrill]

Netflix got the rest of Poirot finally. I seem to recall a few people on here being into that show too.

[Vidor]

Two C-Span douchebags, brothers with differing political views, are embarrassed when their mom calls in and yells at them.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/w ... lls-c-span

[Jocephus]

‘B.S. Report’: Larry David on the Future of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and the ‘Seinfeld’ Finale

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospect ... ld-finale/

[ghostrunner]

This sounds like crazy talk, but The 100 on CW is actually a really good show. The first episode is plain bad, and seems like something they showed to CW to get it on the air. Bad dialogue, pretty young people, stock characters, inappropriately placed and inappropriately loud pop music, seemingly bad acting, romance storylines, etc... I actually quit halfway through the first episode and didn't bother finishing it until a couple weeks later. I'm not sure I can recall a show that improved almost every episode like this though. They've all but cut the romance, the actors come off much better as they're unleashed from their archetypal origins, the pop music is gone, and you have a firm idea of what the show is trying to be. This is faint praise, but it's leagues better than The Walking Dead in terms of pacing, characterization, plot logic, suspense, and doing all that on a TV budget. Alternately it also reminds me of Battlestar Galactica, Lost, and Hunger Games (only in the first season). I'd even say it takes a lot of the good stuff from BSG and does a better job with it, while dispensing with the padding I felt that show did for so long. It's a huge cast, but they play the various factions and groups against each other in interesting ways. Some of the political elements and ethical conflicts feel forced at times, but it doesn't wallow in overly long "speechifying" which I felt BSG did at times. Not a top ten show, but very good for what it is.

[Vidor]

One of the downsides of having my Mom over is that she has to watch her horrible reality shows. Just watched the season finale of "Survivor". That show is f*****g terrible. The big immunity challenge was putting together a puzzle that your ordinary 1st grader could have gone through quicker than those goobers--seriously, one lady was having trouble getting the pieces out of the bag. But the worst thing was the goddamn host that just would not shut up. Just a constant stream of patter. "This is what 'Survivor' does to you!!!" as all the dummies are putting their puzzle together. Ugh.

[stlouie_lipp]

To be fair, they are probably working on limited sleep, food, and water for weeks. It makes what seems like an easy task much more difficult.

[Vidor]

To be fair, they are probably working on limited sleep, food, and water for weeks. It makes what seems like an easy task much more difficult.

True. The douchebag host was worse.

[33anda3rd]

John Mulaney is so funny it's shocking how bad 'Mulaney' is.

It's like if Clooney and Penelope Cruz had a kid and it came out ugly. We would be like huh? How did this accident happen?