Television (no longer temporary)

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:35 pm

rass wrote:
AB_skin_test wrote:
DSafetyGuy wrote:
AB_skin_test wrote:Also, I am four episodes in on GOtham. I like it, but it han't had any "comic book" feel cinematography since the pilot.
I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but in most situations, the budget is several times larger for a pilot than what it will be for a standard episode, so a lot more options are available in a pilot so the show can put its best foot forward.
Yeah, i get that. But it's kind of a false promise!
I'm pretty sure they overspent on the cavernous GCPD set, which is why Wayne Manor is just one room.

I'm liking the show in general, especially the fact that the Ryan Atwood side-ways glance has made it's way to Jim Gordon. And Donal Logue is great in just about anything.

One more reason to pimp this show. It was so great.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:00 pm

govmentchedda wrote:
rass wrote:
AB_skin_test wrote:
DSafetyGuy wrote:
AB_skin_test wrote:Also, I am four episodes in on GOtham. I like it, but it han't had any "comic book" feel cinematography since the pilot.
I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but in most situations, the budget is several times larger for a pilot than what it will be for a standard episode, so a lot more options are available in a pilot so the show can put its best foot forward.
Yeah, i get that. But it's kind of a false promise!
I'm pretty sure they overspent on the cavernous GCPD set, which is why Wayne Manor is just one room.

I'm liking the show in general, especially the fact that the Ryan Atwood side-ways glance has made it's way to Jim Gordon. And Donal Logue is great in just about anything.
One more reason to pimp this show. It was so great.

I was going to do the same thing.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 10:15 pm

Oh dear God - Mulaney is absolutely atrocious.

Has to be seen to be believed. I'll let this Hollywood Reporter review sum it up

There is no saving a show this heinous. If you don't ask yourself, "How did this get on the air?" while watching Mulaney — essentially a TV show about stand-up comedian John Mulaney having his own TV show — then you're not watching Mulaney.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:43 am

Johnny Damon's going to be on Celebrity Apprentice.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:50 am

Ryan wrote:Johnny Damon's going to be on Celebrity Apprentice.

Shawn Johnson, Leeza Gibbons, Lorenzo Lamas, Kevin Jonas, Jamie Anderson, Johnny Damon, Vivica A. Fox, Geraldo Rivera, Kate Gosselin, Ian Ziering, Terrell Owens, Gilbert Gottfried, Sig Hansen, Brandi Glanville, Keisha Knight Pulliam, Kenya Moore

Jeebus.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:09 am

Brontoburglar wrote:
Ryan wrote:Johnny Damon's going to be on Celebrity Apprentice.

Shawn Johnson, Leeza Gibbons, Lorenzo Lamas, Kevin Jonas, Jamie Anderson, Johnny Damon, Vivica A. Fox, Geraldo Rivera, Kate Gosselin, Ian Ziering, Terrell Owens, Gilbert Gottfried, Sig Hansen, Brandi Glanville, Keisha Knight Pulliam, Kenya Moore
Jeebus.

Holy fuck, is that a desperate cast. The biggest surprise is that Celebrity Apprentice is still on. Half the people I either don't know who they are, or I am ashamed I know. The only person remotely relevant is Geraldo, and he has turned himself into a huge joke. Not that he was ever all that respectable, but the naked Tweets and his work on FoxNews have sunk him to a new low. Is there a single cast member anyone would want to see? Maybe for train wreck value, but not even then. Although I would like to see TO bang the fuck out of Kate Gosselin. That'd be hilarious.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:11 am

I'd probably watch Shawn Johnson on C-SPAN

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 12:02 pm

Pruitt wrote:Oh dear God - Mulaney is absolutely atrocious.

Has to be seen to be believed. I'll let this Hollywood Reporter review sum it up
There is no saving a show this heinous. If you don't ask yourself, "How did this get on the air?" while watching Mulaney — essentially a TV show about stand-up comedian John Mulaney having his own TV show — then you're not watching Mulaney.

I am quite disappointed I really like his stand-up.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:50 pm

I can't express how much I love snarkily watching the CMA Awards

Post by **brian** » Fri Nov 07, 2014 12:03 pm

If you've seen people talking about "Too Many Cooks" on Twitter this morning here you go. I don't want to give too much away, but it's possibly the most brilliant 10 minutes of television I've ever seen.

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Nov 07, 2014 1:34 pm

Brilliant. Song stuck in my head, though.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Fri Nov 07, 2014 2:57 pm

Recently discovered ME.TV, channel 3/503 on Fios. Right in between CBS and NBC, and I never noticed it. Anywho, they show classic old shows. Recorded a couple Leave it to Beaver episodes for the kids. My daughter loved it, but I think she was just crushing on the Beave. My son hated it. I loved it at his age, but it is really slow and boring relative to modern kids shows.

On the confessions end of this post, my wife recorded a couple of Love Boat episodes. she forced me to watch an episode, because she loved it as a kid. I gotta say, between the pure cheese, campiness and fantastic outfits, I am actually enjoying it. The number of celebrity guests is impressive. The first episode featured Ben still and Ann Meara (his real life wife), and one of their kids was played by a 3 or 4 year old Corey Feldman. Every episode is so predictable it is funny. You know within the first 3 minutes what is going to happen, and every episode is the same. Not sure how long my wife will put up with my snarky commentary before I gt banned from watching with her.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Nov 07, 2014 2:58 pm

The Sybian wrote:Recently discovered ME.TV, channel 3/503 on Fios. Right in between CBS and NBC, and I never noticed it. Anywho, they show classic old shows. Recorded a couple Leave it to Beaver episodes for the kids. My daughter loved it, but I think she was just crushing on the Beave. My son hated it. I loved it at his age, but it is really slow and boring relative to modern kids shows.

On the confessions end of this post, my wife recorded a couple of Love Boat episodes. she forced me to watch an episode, because she loved it as a kid. I gotta say, between the pure cheese, campiness and fantastic outfits, I am actually enjoying it. The number of celebrity guests is impressive. The first episode featured Ben still and Ann Meara (his real life wife), and one of their kids was played by a 3 or 4 year old Corey Feldman. Every episode is so predictable it is funny. You know within the first 3 minutes what is going to happen, and every episode is the same. Not sure how long my wife will put up with my snarky commentary before I gt banned from watching with her.

GROSSSSSSSSSSSS

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Nov 07, 2014 3:03 pm

The Sybian wrote:Recently discovered ME.TV, channel 3/503 on Fios.

The Rockford Files, weekdays at noon. I still love those reruns.

Also in my routine, Encore Westerns network. Have Gun, Will Travel. Another show that was a cut above, one big reason the head writer. Gene Roddenberry. Much like the head writer for Rockford was David Chase.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Fri Nov 07, 2014 3:11 pm

AB_skin_test wrote:
The Sybian wrote:Recently discovered ME.TV, channel 3/503 on Fios. Right in between CBS and NBC, and I never noticed it. Anywho, they show classic old shows. Recorded a couple Leave it to Beaver episodes for the kids. My daughter loved it, but I think she was just crushing on the Beave. My son hated it. I loved it at his age, but it is really slow and boring relative to modern kids shows.

On the confessions end of this post, my wife recorded a couple of Love Boat episodes. she forced me to watch an episode, because she loved it as a kid. I gotta say, between the pure cheese, campiness and fantastic outfits, I am actually enjoying it. The number of celebrity guests is impressive. The first episode featured Ben still and Ann Meara (his real life wife), and one of their kids was played by a 3 or 4 year old Corey Feldman. Every episode is so predictable it is funny. You know within the first 3 minutes what is going to happen, and every episode is the same. Not sure how long my wife will put up with my snarky commentary before I gt banned from watching with her.
GROSSSSSSSSSSSS

Ha, that took me a minute. Jerry Stiller. Still gross. Probably more so. I saw them on the street one day. Jerry Stller and Ann Meara, that is. She has to be at least a foot taller than him. Even in her old age, she was striking. Jerry actually looked much more troll like in person than he does on TV. Such an odd looking pairing.

I saw a commercial for The Rockford Files and thought of you. I gotta record an episode and see what it is.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Sat Nov 08, 2014 7:02 am

Wait, you've never seen the Rockford Files?

howard · Post by **howard** » Sun Nov 09, 2014 11:50 pm

Homeland.

Shark.

Jumped.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 9:30 am

howard wrote:Homeland.

Shark.

Jumped.

Again?

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 1:46 pm

"Ice Warriors: USA Sled Hockey" on PBS tonight. Sounds like a pretty good doc on there run to the Gold.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 7:52 am

I have come to view the hour spent watching The Affair each week as a sort of punishment - the price I pay for watching so much football and soccer.

She's hooked, so in the absence of any other adult dramas that we watch together, this has become must viewing. And just when I became fed up with the show and it's horrible, horrible characters along comes one of the most irritating people I have seen on TV in years. Athena, the mother of the main woman whose name I constantly forget.

And the show was just renewed which means that the mystery which I assumed would be explained at the end of episode 10 will linger.. and linger.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:41 am

I don't get this line of reasoning. If you don't like a show, why waste your time watching it? Why not go into another room and spend that 55 minutes reading or something else.

I never understood the idea of hatewatching something. It seems completely as an utter waste. If I dislike a work, my time is too valuable and in such short supply I don't spend it on it. Like when I realized that I hate Uproxx because I thought "I can find hot chicks in cosplay outfits without this whole elevation of disposable pop culture and the snark assocaited with it", I didn't have any need to go there further.

If a person says to themselves "but I invested all this time", you're a fucking idiot. Start thinking like an economist; the time you spent watching the prior episodes is a sunk cost, and it should not factor in your future decisions. The only thought should be "Would I prefer to spend the next 55 minutes watching the affair, or doing something else?" I dropped Walking Dead last year when I would get bored mid-episode and start fiddling with Plague, Inc., I dropped The Newsroom last year when I said "can somebody explain to me why Sorkin is considered this Jehovah of screenwriting when everything is a goddamn wordy speech which no person would ever say in reality?", and I've dropped other shows.

Fuck the Affair. Tell her she needs to dress like a naughty schoolgirl if she wants you to watch it with you.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:47 am

Too many cooks
Too many cooks
Too many cooks
Too many cooks

Post by **brian** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:55 am

It takes a lot to make a stew
I couldn't handle these streets without you

....I can't get it out of my head.

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 12:12 pm

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 12:56 pm

L-Jam3 wrote:I don't get this line of reasoning. If you don't like a show, why waste your time watching it? Why not go into another room and spend that 55 minutes reading or something else.

I never understood the idea of hatewatching something. It seems completely as an utter waste. If I dislike a work, my time is too valuable and in such short supply I don't spend it on it. Like when I realized that I hate Uproxx because I thought "I can find hot chicks in cosplay outfits without this whole elevation of disposable pop culture and the snark assocaited with it", I didn't have any need to go there further.

If a person says to themselves "but I invested all this time", you're a fucking idiot. Start thinking like an economist; the time you spent watching the prior episodes is a sunk cost, and it should not factor in your future decisions. The only thought should be "Would I prefer to spend the next 55 minutes watching the affair, or doing something else?" I dropped Walking Dead last year when I would get bored mid-episode and start fiddling with Plague, Inc., I dropped The Newsroom last year when I said "can somebody explain to me why Sorkin is considered this Jehovah of screenwriting when everything is a goddamn wordy speech which no person would ever say in reality?", and I've dropped other shows.

Fuck the Affair. Tell her she needs to dress like a naughty schoolgirl if she wants you to watch it with you.

A happy marriage is a fine balancing act.

Throughout our years together, we have always had a show that we both watched (and that the kids didn't). Breaking Bad, Les revenants, Scandal, Homicide.... Since I walked away from Scandal, my wife has been looking for a show "to share."

If it keeps her from giving me a hard time over watching Champions League soccer off the DVR instead of catching up with the goings on in Nashville or The Good Wife than so be it. And my investment of time does not play into it at all, as I no longer care what happened as there is not a single character in the show that I would like to see survive the next tsunami.

And lest you think my wife is not a good judge of quality, she's the one who turned to me two-thirds of the way through the premiere of The Newsroom and said "I hate all these people." We haven't watched it since. Also, she is loving Steve Coogan's The Trip To Italy.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:40 pm

rass wrote:Too many cooks
Too many cooks
Too many cooks
Too many cooks

Damnit, I finally got it out of my head. That was a work of pure genius. Made me realize I need to look into Adult Swim. Just watched an episode of the Tyson Mysteries. The concept is funnier than the actual show, but I'll give it another try.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 9:06 am

Caught up on two of the last three Gotham episodes last night. I loved the closing shot of the episode where OC Gordon was being arrested and Penguin revealed himself to be alive.

"Harvey..."

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 9:13 am

So I finally got around to watching the premiere of Benched, and dammitt. Eliza Coupe is comedy gold. And those of us in the legal profession will probably get a few extra chuckles. Definitely recommended.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 9:18 am

WE're three episodes into this season on blacklist. What they lose me with implausible timelines the get back with creating some character intrigue and moral murkiness. So overall it's a wash and a show that I can watch with the woman.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:10 am

Guy will be eaten by a snake on live tv.

http://www.avclub.com/article/discovery ... :1:Default

Some people are not pleased...

Petition author Ben Paramonte clarified the objection, saying the stunt “could kill the snake,” and “reinforces the negative stereotype of snakes.” To be fair, it’s unclear if there are any existing stereotypes that involve a man donning homemade armor, bathing in pig’s blood, and climbing inside a jungle snake (until now.)

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:12 am

It's just shock schlock, IMO.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:35 am

The first giant snake that popped into my head almost forced me down the path to a bad Harry Potter joke, but luckily one of the AV Club commenters on that article remembered his Shel Silverstein:

Oh, I'm being eaten
By a boa constrictor,
A boa constrictor,
A boa constrictor,
I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor,
And I don't like it--one bit.
Well, what do you know?
It's nibblin' my toe.
Oh, gee,
It's up to my knee.
Oh my,
It's up to my thigh.
Oh, fiddle,
It's up to my middle.
Oh, heck,
It's up to my neck.
Oh, dread,
It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff...

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 11:16 am

Pruitt wrote:Guy will be eaten by a snake on live tv.

http://www.avclub.com/article/discovery ... :1:Default

Some people are not pleased...
Petition author Ben Paramonte clarified the objection, saying the stunt “could kill the snake,” and “reinforces the negative stereotype of snakes.” To be fair, it’s unclear if there are any existing stereotypes that involve a man donning homemade armor, bathing in pig’s blood, and climbing inside a jungle snake (until now.)

Ratings would be so much better if your one sentence summary strategically added the word "Fieri".

Bensell · Post by **Bensell** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 1:43 pm

The League has gotten back its swing; last night's was the best of the season. Taco opens the EBDBb&b - the Eskimo Brother Data Base Bed & Breakfast, which is basically a brothel. Plus any storylines with Raffy are pure gold.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 11:59 am

Fully caught up on Gotham. Still really like it and it is in fact better than I thought it was 4 episodes ago.

Post by **Shirley** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:28 am

This one is for brian - some pretty detailed (and entertaining) analysis of the Too Many Cooks video.

http://www.toddalcott.com/too-many-cook ... lysis.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Post by **brian** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:46 am

Shirley wrote:This one is for brian - some pretty detailed (and entertaining) analysis of the Too Many Cooks video.

http://www.toddalcott.com/too-many-cook ... lysis.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm not sure I'm ready to head down that rabbit hole for awhile, but I bookmarked the link for later. I literally had dreams/nightmares so vivid for a couple of days after it that I couldn't sleep.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:49 am

Gallagher's new melons

boxcar · Post by **boxcar** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:05 pm

whoa whoa whoa... there's no way Smarf pushed that button.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:55 pm

Ryan wrote:Gallagher's new melons

ha