TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[mikechamp]

Here's an update on the upcoming SNL season:

Jim Carrey will play Joe Biden on Season 46 of 'Saturday Night Live'

Looks like Jason Sudeikis has been voted out of Saturday Night Live’s Oval Office. SNL producers have announced that Jim Carrey will now be playing vice president-turned-presidential candidate, Joe Biden, when NBC’s late-night comedy institution returns for Season 46 on October 3.

The former In Living Color star has hosted SNL four times, most recently in 2014 — the year after Sudeikis departed the Not Ready for Primetime Players, although he reprised his Biden impression on multiple occasions, including back in February before the coronavirus pandemic forced the cast to finish the season remotely. Rest assured that the new season will be bringing it all back home to Studio 8H, albeit with new safety protocols in place.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jim ... 22521.html

[mikechamp]

If you enjoy the FX show "Archer", then you have to check out this recent online table read from nearly the entire cast... plus a couple special guests.

Warning: NSFW language

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=31965 ... e44HrEn9Tq

[Jocephus]

[Jocephus]

[Michael]

I finally finished The Good Place on Netflix. That's gotta be the best network show since Seinfeld, right? The ending was beautiful.

[heyzeus]

I finally finished The Good Place on Netflix. That's gotta be the best network show since Seinfeld, right? The ending was beautiful.

It's basically the anti-Seinfeld -- it's a show about everything instead of nothing, and instead of irredeemable characters behaving hilariously badly, it's redeemable characters figuring out how to stop behaving badly.

I have no doubt The Good Place is the best scripted network show since....I dunno, glory day Simpsons? It's in the pantheon.

Imagine thinking "I'm going to do a 30 minute network sitcom about the afterlife and moral philosophy. Most episodes will name check Kant and heavily reference What We Owe To Each Other. I expect a prime time slot on one of the major networks and four seasons." AND THEY DID IT.

[Michael]

I finally finished The Good Place on Netflix. That's gotta be the best network show since Seinfeld, right? The ending was beautiful.

It's basically the anti-Seinfeld -- it's a show about everything instead of nothing, and instead of irredeemable characters behaving hilariously badly, it's redeemable characters figuring out how to stop behaving badly.

I have no doubt The Good Place is the best scripted network show since....I dunno, glory day Simpsons? It's in the pantheon.

Imagine thinking "I'm going to do a 30 minute network sitcom about the afterlife and moral philosophy. Most episodes will name check Kant and heavily reference What We Owe To Each Other. I expect a prime time slot on one of the major networks and four seasons." AND THEY DID IT.

Agree with everything you've said. I honestly think The Good Place is better than Seinfeld, but I gotta give respect where it is due. The show is a triumph and is exactly what this world needs right now. I'm blown away they were able to make that show work.

[Jocephus]

[thrill]

I finally finished The Good Place on Netflix. That's gotta be the best network show since Seinfeld, right? The ending was beautiful.

It's basically the anti-Seinfeld -- it's a show about everything instead of nothing, and instead of irredeemable characters behaving hilariously badly, it's redeemable characters figuring out how to stop behaving badly.

I have no doubt The Good Place is the best scripted network show since....I dunno, glory day Simpsons? It's in the pantheon.

Imagine thinking "I'm going to do a 30 minute network sitcom about the afterlife and moral philosophy. Most episodes will name check Kant and heavily reference What We Owe To Each Other. I expect a prime time slot on one of the major networks and four seasons." AND THEY DID IT.

Agree with everything you've said. I honestly think The Good Place is better than Seinfeld, but I gotta give respect where it is due. The show is a triumph and is exactly what this world needs right now. I'm blown away they were able to make that show work.

Yeah, but I feel like if you've got Ted Danson and Kristen Bell, you can make a lot of premises work just based on their charisma and likability alone. Mike Schur is really good at casting likability, especially in characters who's behavior would normally be unlikable in the hands of different actors, i.e. Michael Scott, Dwight Schrute, Ron Swanson, Leslie Knope, Tahani, Eleanor, etc.

[BottenFieldofDreams]

RIP Quibi. There were a couple things I was halfway interested in: Chance the Rapper doing Punk'd and that show about Dan Harmon's sex doll. But never interested enough to install an app on my phone and cancel before I was charged.

Might just be a stupid idea really. If you have six minutes you can find some mindless youtube video to watch. In the age of binging can you consume story in that small of a bite? Hell I'm not going to watch the new Fargo until I know it's all there.