TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[Jocephus]

burger king had a kid named wheels

[MrSaigon]

It's a fair point. But I went to uni in Hawaii and I heard a couple impassioned arguments between Korean and Japanese students. If a Korean guy had to watch a Japanese play a Korean guy he might be upset about it, and I could understand even if I'm not personally bothered by it. He'd probably like it better than Mickey Rooney, anyway. I do think once you add the -American things change a bit.

[Vidor]

It's a fair point. But I went to uni in Hawaii and I heard a couple impassioned arguments between Korean and Japanese students. If a Korean guy had to watch a Japanese play a Korean guy he might be upset about it, and I could understand even if I'm not personally bothered by it. He'd probably like it better than Mickey Rooney, anyway. I do think once you add the -American things change a bit.

Ah, well, that's because Koreans hate the hell out of the Japanese for that bit of unpleasantness that took place between 1910 and 1945.

[MrCrowesGarden]

Do we really need a whole show about lip syncing? Isn't Jimmy Fallon's crap enough?

[Famous Mortimer]

I guess that personally I don't find cross-nationality casting anywhere in the league of yellowface. There are about eight billion British actors pretending to be Americans as we speak. It would be bad if you cast a white guy to be a Japanese dude, but going to war over a Chinese dude playing a Japanese dude? I can't see it.

Splendidly put.

And a show set in a majority black town probably ought to have a cast which reflects that. Or at least refer to it. Or just not have a boring as piss second season.

[Vidor]

Just about everybody in "Selma" except for Oprah was British.

[haltz]

I'm usually pretty happy watching almost any procedural but "CSI Cyber is just ridiculously terrible.

[Jocephus]

the name even annoys me

[Vidor]

the name even annoys me

Kind of sounds like a Cinemax After Dark show about virtual porn.

[Vidor]

"Cheers" started running on the Hallmark Channel this morning--actually it's been running for some time but they just flipped back around to the 1982 pilot. Best show ever.