TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[33anda3rd]

Review With Forrest MacNeil is so. goddamn. funny. So dark, so twisted. If you haven't seen it and want to check one out, Season 2 Episode 3 (Falsely Accused/Sleep With Your Teacher/Little Person) might sell you on the show.

Why with Hannibal Buress OTOH is garbage. It looks like what it is: a random bunch of stuff tossed together hastily the week it airs.

[haltz]

Speaking of genius young comedians, I hope Jerrod Carmichael's new show is better than what we've seen lately from Hannibal and Mulaney. I can't take much more disappointment.

[thrill]

USA is delaying the Mr. Robot finale a week due to a scene similar in nature to today's shooting in VA.

[ghostrunner]

I think I may be out on the Strain. I really want to have a show like that, but the awesome confrontation that appeared to be coming last episode ended due to a deus ex machina in the form of Shatner-era Star Trek rubble. Poorly filmed and utilized Star Trek rubble at that. Should have been one of the better episodes, but instead just dull all around.

Coco Marchand is the most inexplicable character on television. Seven episodes in and no clue what's motivating her. In fact she never seems to have anything more than a mild interest in anything, and possibly the worst Spidey-sense in history. Though sometimes she seems either put off for no apparent reason. But take her for helicopter rides over the flaming city, and she's all yours. I'm sure there's an ulterior motive, but not even the slightest hint to help hold my attention.

Not addressed last week - an old guy who used to be a luchador/movie star in Mexico, had the misfortune to have once worked with a sadistic fight choreographer, and now works for a guy who still serves takeout during the vampire apocalypse.

[Secret Weapon]

Sooo the Mr Robot finale just led to more questions without any answers, a little unsatisfying imo.

[ghostrunner]

Wet Hot just feels like it's trying to hard. I get what they're doing - the pastiche of 80s summer camp tropes. It feels like they're all staring through the camera at me, waiting for me to laugh because HEY LOOK AT THE FUNNY AWKWARD THING I DID, which makes me not want to laugh.

Just saw this movie the other night for the first time. This is pretty much how I felt. Really wanted to like it and was really disappointed.

It occurred to me that Garth Merenghi's Darkplace was a similar concept (intentionally bad parody of 80's genres) only done much better. Even some similar gags (deliberately noticeable stuntmen, deliberate gaffes and bad editing, freeze frames on high fives). Can't quite put my finger on why one succeeds and the other fails though.

[ghostrunner]

New season of You're the Worst starts on FXX tonight. It's a good show. First season is up on Hulu.

[haltz]

New season of You're the Worst starts on FXX tonight. It's a good show. First season is up on Hulu.

It would've been easy to miss, but yeah, easily one of the top few funniest shows on TV.

[MrSaigon]

New season of You're the Worst starts on FXX tonight. It's a good show. First season is up on Hulu.

It would've been easy to miss, but yeah, easily one of the top few funniest shows on TV.

I've been meaning to watch it. Is that Hulu Plus, or just standard? I refuse to pay a monthly fee to watch commercials on a streaming service.

[go birds]

kinda bummed its on FXX, which isnt HD. Last season's thursday night FX lineup of You're The Worst and Married was a good hour of comedy.

Sex & Drugs & Rock n Roll is a pretty good addition.