[Gorblax]

I know John Hodgman wanted it, but somebody beat him to it. It's probably some manner of b-list celebrity who is a big Veronica Mars fan.
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[Gorblax]

This Dwight spinoff is ensured to be an utterly unenjoyable 22 minutes a week, and I will probably watch it anyway.
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[Take It Sleazy]

luckily nbc agreed with you so that's all there will ever be of it

[Toptube]

I started watching Modern Family and its pretty damn great.


Its one of those shows that I wanted to hate for no reason. But lately I've been spending a lot of time around my Mom, who watches it. Every single time its been on, its been very funny. So I caved and acquired the first season a couple of days ago. I am two episodes away from needing season 2.

Someone here once said it probably has the most jokes per-minute of any show right now and I think that is probably true. But they are almost never forced jokes or reached for too hard. The writing is remarkably on point.

[Gorblax]

Enjoy it while it lasts Toptube. The forcing and reaching is coming.
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

Nathan For You is pretty tight.

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

guys try the Hannibal pilot

I am not outright saying it is good or will be good in the future, but it is totally different from what you might expect of one of them networks which also show you news. Much closer to an HBO/Showtime kind of thing. It is kind of rough and stumbling at points, and cares very little in indulging the audience, but I think a lot of shots/scenes are framed really well and it establishes the beginning of the relationship between the two leads very effectively.

They charge right into the whole "oh yeah Hannibal is the smart guy who eats people", don't even try to hide that is who he is and how we know him. There are a couple sequences that just show him cooking and eating at his home without any commentary or forced imagery. The dude's just relishing a good meal.

[special blend]

I wanted to watch that because of Mads Mikklesen but the trailers turned me off and I wasn't sure if he would be any good in English
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

I dunno about the trailers but it wasn't really like the TV spots made it look. It's a very weird mix of slow and contemplative alternating with rushed and frantic that I don't think you can really capture in short montages like most ads have.

I also don't think you should look at is being just about the Hannibal character. It's just as much about Agent Graham, with a central contrast of how disturbed and haunted Graham is as an observer versus how calm and collected Lecter is as a man who gives in to his base impulses.

I guess the pilot director won't do another episode until the finale and none of the writers for episodes after this one have been announced so it could all be piss after this, who knows.

[special blend]

I'm interested though dreading the one thing that sucks the most about network television: all the fucking filler
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

to be honest, I'm not entirely sure what would constitute filler, seeing as (at least based on the pilot) the focus of the show is entirely on the developing relationship of the two leads, as opposed to any kind of unseen antagonist or looming threat or anything like. That could change, or I suppose you might be referring to the movies/books that ostensibly take place after this series, but if I were to just go based on the show and not any interviews or such (which I haven't read), I get the feeling that they don't consider themselves particularly constrained or concerned by those.

In a similar sense of going on my own feelings without reading any of the interviews, I'm pretty sure that the show isn't going to be very killer-of-the-week, and I'm holding out a distant but distinct hope that the second episode doesn't feature a new threat, but instead is entirely about the repercussions of the things that went awry in the first episode.

They've supposedly promised that even if it gets renewed, each season will always be only 13 episodes, which is apparently significant and classier somehow.

[gary oldman dwarfism]

there seems to be general agreement among TV critics that the usual American model (which comes from sitcoms, right?) of 24+ episode seasons, when applied to dramas, just leads to thinning out the plot & filling the empty spaces with thrilling garbage hijinks, and that having shorter seasons (10-13 episodes) allows more time for more focused/better plotting/writing + more consistently high-quality production. they're still more expensive per episode to make than the normal sort, as far as I know

all the lauded cable dramas have short seasons; I'm not sure where it originated--if it's just a cable convention that's trickling down through AMC and FX, or if it's from Britain

[Toptube]

I started watching "Southland". Its pretty enjoyable so far (5 episodes).

[special blend]

[Toptube]

[special blend]

yeah hannibal was cool


it was nice seeing this guy


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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

[Gorblax]

The guy who plays Dwight's new sidekick on The Office has been the only engaging facet of this season. I hope he gets a role on something good after this.
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[Take It Sleazy]

you should watch the web show "clark and michael" gorblax

[special blend]

The jury's still out on Hannibal. Mads Mikkelsen is very good, though.
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[Gorblax]

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[Flylighter]

Cousin Skeeter made me laugh a few times growing up. That's what I thought of in the most recent episode too.

First genuinely enjoyable episode of the season for me, too. I dunno.
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[Rud31]

[special blend]

i would say so

their miniseries from a few years back didn't do anything for me, but their show was so subversive for it's time (1989-1994) that i can't help but regard them all as geniuses

plus it was pro-gay before it was fashionable and partially funded by our government no less



being 8 years old and seeing scott thompson as queen elizabeth II say "you're only good for the fucking" at 11pm on basic cable was something else. i can't help but carry that with me
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[Gorblax]

When I was eight I thought the definition of "fucking" was saying the word "fuck"
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[Gorblax]

"Fuck" was just a meaningless, forbidden, intrinsically offensive sound.
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[Gorblax]

Oh my god I can't believe Cougar Town was renewed again

I will never be free
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[Rud31]

[special blend]

i've just seen ep3 of hannibal and i'm going to have to recommend the show
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[Toptube]

Southland I guess was canceled by NBC before its second season started airing (although 6 episodes had been finished and were ready to go). TNT bought the rights to the first and second seasons and eventually renewed the show for a third season. Trouble is, many of the actors were kept in the dark while these things were being handled. So there is one new character in season 2 who gets a lot of screen time and build up-----then disappears. His sudden stand-in also disappears after 1 episode. I won't spoil the show, but another actor, this time a pretty much main character, left the show to work on True Blood, because he did not know he still had a job at Southland. When Southland got renewed, he tried to work both productions, but ultimately could not balance it with his family. I guess True Blood payed more....

Despite all this, the show remains quite good. and apparently the show gained its footing and the best critic ratings are for Seasons 3 and 4!

[special blend]

im watching season 3 of louie and that part where that old broad haymakers him in the truck is the best
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season 3 of louie is so fucking good have fun
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

the following is over, and I barely survived...

but...another season is coming!

A second season....could it be too terrible even for me? Or does the show have some chance of redemption?

I will be forced to watch, just so I don't miss the slim, miniscule chance there is another sequence like Ryan being held hostage.

I guess The Fall (that episode) is kind of a microcosm of the series, featuring these few really strong character scenes for a few minutes (Ryan and the three killers, Claire and her stalker) and then the last 15 minutes of the show have the good guys fuck up in an absolutely disgustingly unbelievable number of ways.

somebody win all the lotteries and then give me the money to buy this show so I can make the second season not terrible

[Take It Sleazy]

man that episode where norm and cliff and a mob of dudes try to kick the gays out of cheers sure reminds you that it's a bar in boston in 1983

[Take It Sleazy]

reminder that this season on the office

a warehouse guy nearly assaults pam and is knocked out by the boom mic guy
nellie dared dwight to chop off her hand to see if he was really willing to live by "taliban rules"
dwight shot up stanley with tranquilizers wrapped him packing tape and dropped him down a flight of stairs
toby is strangled while visiting a serial killer he thought was innocent
todd packer poisoned the entire office to get revenge for being fired
dwight shot a corpse point blank with a shotgun at a funeral
angela hired an assassin to kill oscar

like out of context this sounds like an amazing season of a sitcom

[allensmithee]

[evnvnv]

[Take It Sleazy]

pete campbell's delivery of "biggest, blackest hooker" on mad men last night was wayansesque in it's pure signposting of him as an uptight white comic foil

[remote]

saw the last stand and it's basically arnOLD the weary hero from another time in bullshitville, modern action cinema

probably could've done this in a more subtle or interesting way somehow, but it kinda works?

i mean, throwing in a helicopter scene with the pilot yelling "looks like a war zone down there!" didn't really do anything for the movie

also "you make immigrants like us look bad" ... oh, lord
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[Toptube]

Kiefer Sutherlund and and Howard Gordon (executive producer for Homeland) are trying to work a deal to reboot "24", with plans to air it alongside "The Following" in 2014.