TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[TimeForGuinness]

Hey whoever suggested Black Mirror: Thanks. Thanks a whole, goddam bunch. I would have called the show Man Expletives Pig but whatever.

Agreed. I'm in love with it (not the pig).

[haltz]

Man Seeking Woman is different and it has potential, but I don't think I'll bother to keep watching.

[Famous Mortimer]

I thought Blake Shelton was a great SNL host. I also thought Garth Brooks was a fantastic host in the late 90s / early 00s (he did it twice, I think), even though I will never willingly listen to a second of either's music.

I am a sucker for non-actor / comedian hosts though. I love Charles Barkley, even though he's a really terrible actor, and the Manning boys were both fun.

[Vidor]

I thought last Saturday's show was the funniest one of the season.

[ghostrunner]

Got up to this episode of Broad City last night. [expletive] hilarious.

[heyzeus]

Got up to this episode of Broad City last night. [expletive] hilarious.

Hah, I'm watching season 1 now and just watched that same episode last night, and you're 100% right. The scene where everyone sees how Abby's cartoon is used by Selectdate ("The final solution to your dating problems!") was roflol funny.

It's really impressive, when you think about it, that two young women with no tv or other writing experience or real industry experience could come out of the box and deliver, from Season 1 Episode 1, a hilarious show with a fully realized tone and comedic world already in place. Even a lot of great comedies took at least a few episodes if not a full season to develop like that.

[haltz]

Those last three episodes of the first season are where it becomes the funniest show on television.

Although it was close right off the bat as soon as Fred Armisen said, "I can pay you in blocks."

[haltz]

It's really impressive, when you think about it, that two young women with no tv or other writing experience or real industry experience could come out of the box and deliver, from Season 1 Episode 1, a hilarious show with a fully realized tone and comedic world already in place. Even a lot of great comedies took at least a few episodes if not a full season to develop like that.

I'm not sure what the scope of it was, but it was originally a web series, where I'm sure they fleshed some stuff out before Poehler/CC came along.

[Famous Mortimer]

I watched the first episode, and the guy in their apartment who just steals all their food was so far out of whack with the tone of the show, and was so irritating, that I didn't want to go on. I mean, you'd just demand he moved out or you'd stop paying your share of the rent, right?

[haltz]

If you're a young, low-income schemer in NYC, I doubt you're in a lease situation to demand much of anything. When she does get some money she is finally able to tell Bevers (the roommate's infuriating boyfriend) to [expletive] off and that she's moving out immediately.