TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[Jocephus]

bacon

[stlouie_lipp]

Plus, I think the Emma girl is hot. It's given me a thing for girls with short hair.

[Vidor]

Got a new cable provider a while back, and--actually, I don't even know why I did, but I searched for "Barney Miller". It turns out there's a thing called Antenna TV which has been running two Barney Miller episodes every Sunday. I dimly remember watching this show as a kid with my mom, and of course I knew that it's famous as one of the best sitcoms ever.

Goddamn it holds up well. Razor-sharp writing and comic timing. And fascinating as a time capsule as well, a portrait of the '70s. This has motivated me to check Hulu, and it seems Hulu has a lot of Barney Miller for free. Well worth the time, especially for you young whippersnappers looking to broaden your cultural literacy.

Also: Abe Vigoda is still alive.

http://www.abevigoda.com/

[Vidor]

Seems like my work actually expects me to work, so I couldn't access Hulu, which appears to have the first three seasons for free. But I did find one of the funniest half hours of American television, the episode called "Hash", on You Tube.

"Mooshie mooshie."

[ghostrunner]

Got around to the last season of Fringe after having dropped it for a couple of years. I thought they had a hard time recovering from the "memory reset" a lot of the characters had in Season 4 - characters you grew to like and understand suddenly weren't quite the same and it didn't feel like the same show for a while. Which is weird to say, as much as it reinvents itself so much and that's part of what I like about it.

The last season is again completely different. It starts out promising and then drags in the middle - somehow it feels both rushed and padded in the middle 5 or 6 episodes, as well as some inherent implausibility you just have to get over. The last 2-3 are tremendous though, and the guy who plays their Observer friend does a great job. Loved how some things from old episodes came back in the finale.

[cardinalkarp]

[expletive] you Sons of Anarchy, [expletive] you. So disappointing.

[Jocephus]

Man has 8 minutes to convince prostitutes to quit in new reality show

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/12/10/prost ... lity-show/

[docellis]

[expletive] you Sons of Anarchy, [expletive] you. So disappointing.

I liked it! The truck driver was the same guy that gave Gemma a ride to Oregon and the spot was the same place his dad died. He was riding his dad's bike and wearing his dad's boots with a huge police entourage. I liked it.

[Vidor]

Trailer for Season 3 of "The Americans".

So good. So very very good.

http://www.avclub.com/article/pledge-al ... ser-212859

[Vidor]

Watched "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". Santa is an a-hole in that show.