TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[mikechamp]

Archer returns tonight on FX.

[Vidor]

Oh, I found out that "Agent Carter" is a miniseries, so Hayley Atwell's cleavage will only be with us for six more episodes.

Did a pretty good job of evoking 1940s New York, I thought. Someone said it wasn't quite "Mad Men" level of set design and attention to detail, but it was pretty good.

[Famous Mortimer]

Prediction: the farewell tour of Parks and Rec that's about to be unleashed on us is going to be even more intolerably sentimental and sappy and Leslie-aggrandizing than the last two seasons. It is going to be painful.

Thank you! P&R has been boring and actively sort-of-horrible for a long time now.

[Jocephus]

In the latest issue of Vanity Fair, Larry David responds to Jennifer Lawrence’s comment about him from the November issue. As Lawrence told the magazine: “I worship Woody Allen, but I don’t feel it below the belt the way I do for Larry David.” David tells writer Lili Anolik, “I really didn’t take it in a sexual way. I took it as she was a fan.” As he prepares to appear in his play, Fish in the Dark, on Broadway, David discusses acting, voice coaching, and his daily regret that he agreed to star in the play.

“Not a day goes by that I don’t regret it,” he says of his decision to play the lead. “In the things I’ve written, like on Seinfeld and Curb, whatever else, it was always a character trying to get out of something. And this is the first time I can’t exercise that muscle, because I know it’s too late. There’s nothing I can do. Nothing.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/ ... n-the-dark

[MrCrowesGarden]

I liked this week's Modern Family. Other than Fizbo, they had never really explored the Cam & Phil dynamic until this week. It was the best part of the episode.

[MrSaigon]

I watched the pilot of White Collar on Netflix. It's a decent show that I don't have time to watch because there's just a [expletive] ton of better shows to watch. But watching it you reflect on just how goddam good storytelling on video is in our day. If this was 15 years ago, this show would be hot [expletive]. It's a golden era of television. I mean, and this is getting totally hyperbolic, I'm sure, but I wonder how modern technology progressions have affected the quality of storytelling, and how it would compare to, say, the invention of the printing press.

[Famous Mortimer]

White Collar isn't essential, but it's a really really good show. I'm happy it's finishing though.

[Jocephus]

CBS has announced that the "Late Show With Stephen Colbert" is set to air Sept. 8 from the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City.

[MrCrowesGarden]

Last night's Simpsons episode was written by Judd Apatow 20 years ago. I enjoyed it.

[Jocephus]

Special Agent Dale Cooper is officially coming back for the limited run of "Twin Peaks" on Showtime in 2016. The show's co-creator, David Lynch, confirmed that Kyle MacLachlan would reprise his role after the network and MacLachlan announced the news at TCA