[Toptube]

So happy 24 is back.

[Toptube]

Helix has hit a bit of a mid season slump. It has been doing a lot of stupid stuff with some characters.

But it has also presented some new mysteries. We'll see how it all pans out.

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

[TMFK]

Okay: Rick and Morty is my new favorite show. At first you think it's a jokey-joke show, given that there's not much effort put into making you care about the characters' emotional lives. But after finishing the first run of episodes last night I realized why I was finding it so addictive: it's genuine Sci-Fi, through and through--and really clever Sci-Fi at that. The show uses science magic as an excuse to engage in genre parody adventures, but while it's doing this it has this dedication to coming up with novel concepts that engage interesting conundrums, and the solutions often engage pop science in a really fun way. Compare that to something like Futurama, which--for all its ambitions of being a comedy Star Trek--basically distilled into a Future Simpsons.

If you guys aren't familiar with Justin Roiland's humor (House of Cosby's, Twizzleton, voice of Lemongrab), you're in for a treat (I think). The man has always seemed genuinely a little unhinged, and I always feel like I can tell what came from him or at least what ran from his influence. I think I get why you dubbed some of it as "Family Guy" humor, 2501, but I disagree, actually. I wouldn't compare the crasser jokes to Family Guy, simply because Roiland has a way of rediscovering crassness by pushing it to a subtly novel and upsetting place. I'm personally pretty put off my crass humor in general (it's often so lazy), but Roiland's version is just so odd and original!

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/phil-lord-and-chris-miller-of-the-lego-movie-look-back-on-clone-high-their-cult-classic-mtv-cartoon/

[Gorblax]

Aw, yes. I am so glad you are on board with Rick and Morty, TMKF. Everyone I try to show it to hates it and I feel like I'm crazy.
_________________

[Vikram Ray]

Nathan For You s2 has begun, and it is glorious.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/02/10/dumb-starbucks-parody-free-coffee/5357597/

[TMFK]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

I didn't realize that a second season of Atlantis was ordered almost an exact month after the first season debuted (in the UK).

I wonder who, exactly, the show appeals to.

On the other hand, I have to admit I'm enjoying the second season of The Following a lot more than I expected to. Holding out hope that the next episode is the one where Max finally punches Ryan.

[Take It Sleazy]

i hope when they cancel almost human somebody impossibly makes a new show for karl urban and michael ealy's buddy cop chemistry

i was thinking they would have been the perfect law and order bros but then that show was too economical to have cops talking shit in the car for minutes on end

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

what really weirds me out is that between Intelligence and Almost Human, the number of "you won't believe what we can do with SCIENCE" TV episodes I'm brainlessly watching is akin to the first few seasons of Fringe. Believe will probably round that out. It'd be kind of nice synchronicity if they all got a single season, I guess.

is there really going to be a McFarlane cartoon about the US/Mexican border, is that an actual thing that has slithered its way into our reality from some noxious adjacent dimension

[Ni Go Zero Ichi]

So apparently David Simon will be spearheading an HBO miniseries about Martin Luther King, Jr.

Cast your bets now on whether Simon's MLK will say "fuck".
_________________
Just another savage day on Planet Earth.

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

I predict he'll speak entirely in iambic pentameter.
_________________
"Godzilla could be anyone."

[allensmithee]

so i finished TRUE DETECTIVE but i just wanna know what that sideloading VHS Player / TV was
because i want one

its beautiful
_________________

[Brooks]

Show blew it. I'll watch the next season though

[allensmithee]

I can see why youd think that because the 'physical story' and mystery itself is basically forwarded to you
but thematically it completed its arc and i liked it
_________________

[Shiren the Launderer]

[Take It Sleazy]

columbo as a series of episodes or films or whatever, is remarkably, consistently solid from 1968 to 2003

it's actually really an incredible achievement and the clues are so plainly and intelligently thought out that it reminds me again that sherlock is basically not a mystery show

[allensmithee]

sherlock isnt. sherlock does as much as it can to delineate any mysteries from existing in any way that can be reasonably figured out. so instead, you get an impenetrable fog kept over what knowledge could be discerned. this way you get SURPRISED by the bullshit plot-twists
_________________

[The King]

Jim Henson's The Cube

"Taste it"

It's so grim.
_________________

[Ni Go Zero Ichi]

I'll be especially eager to see The Colbert Report tonight

Do episodes stream live from the show's website?
_________________
Just another savage day on Planet Earth.

[Ebrey]

The Game of Thrones season premier was really good! I think the show hit its peak in season 3, and season 4 doesn't look to be slowing down.

I didn't like Silicon Valley nearly as much as I hoped I would, considering that I like Mike Judge and I work in the tech industry. I'll give it a few more episodes, but so far it's just ok.

[Hojulas]

[parker]

What didn't people like about True Detective, that it didn't go full on weird enough? Or that it wasn't some elaborate Lost type puzzle for the internet to obsess over? I loved it, but the first couple episodes with all the good monologues on the meaninglessness of existence were the best, at the end it just turns into a more regular type detective story, still good though. Also not that it matters but I figured who the "yellow king" was the first time he showed up just cause they did the exact same thing in LA Noire.
_________________

[Ronnoc]

I was just disappointed that the explanation for everything was 'CRAZY PEOPLE.' 'Why'd the killer start killing (or, at least publicly displaying corpses) again?' was something I certainly expected an answer for.

[Brooks]

Just thought the conclusion was hecka goofy really

First 4 eps were superb but then the tone shifted and it felt like all too predictable and yup, 'regular'

I'll watch the next series but my expectations are heavily tempered

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

I appreciate the fact that season 3 of Continuum is going full-steam ahead with dumb time travel shenanigans but I kind of hope they somehow revisit a couple of the status quo changes from the

I can't tell whether it's more confounding that Atlantis got a second season or that Helix did. I guess the circumstances are pretty different, though. Although they both veered off significantly fromd what I expected. I thought Atlantis would be a "stranger in a strange time/space" thing but it's basically just a continuance of goofy 90s/00s low-brow fantasy with no real stakes, while Helix presented itself early on as a disease-themed horror show with a dark sense of humor but by the end of the season has become this baffling plot about immortals and gene sequencing and betrayals and what I'm almost certain are a number of Resident Evil homages (the cabin reveal really has to be some kind of reference to Code Veronica).

hmmm, hmmm.

oh!

Does anybody here still have one of those old-fashioned cable service+TV setups with the positively antiquated o"n-demand" services mapped to a channel like 000 or 001 or something? If you do, do you get the CW? If so, could you do me a favor and watch an episode of Teenagers Sometimes Die (AKA "The 100") through until you see an ad that isn't for another CW show? Because I saw spots for TimeLife DVDs of The Six Million Dollar Man and the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and I'd just like to make sure I didn't hallucinate them.

[Toptube]

[Take It Sleazy]

It's kind of fascinating and sad that one of the reasons (one of the reasons) Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was kind of a bland nothing show (I quit watching months ago) was apparently because they had to specifically build their show around waiting 7 months for the new Captain America movie to come out which has SHIELD affecting events in it. Like the writing staff already knew what was going to happen in this movie before their show even started but they obviously couldn't have real plot hooks because that would have spoiled the movie. Last nights episode took place during Captain America 2 and by design they can finally tip their hand on a lot of things they'd been holding back.

Cross media tie-ins and wiki-minded complexity are really starting to ruin TV storytelling just like they ruin comics storytelling!

How I Met Your Mother, Lost, Arrested Development, et al all seem to eventually wear down into meandering shaggy dog tales that are more clever than actually good...so it's kind of interesting for SHIELD to have that mid-late show drag based on the conflict between a complex serialized story and the financial realities of a shows success or failure built into the front!

One day somebody smart is going to pull this nonsense off really well though

I think

[Ebrey]

[evnvnv]

[Glam Grimfire]

I like that even though Fury attempted to come clean with Steve, he still hasn't told him Coulson was alive.
_________________

##SKELETON PARTY (new article as of 04/26/14)Grim

[Take It Sleazy]

man this new 24 sure is 24 right from the jump

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

Why didn't I know that Louie was coming back? Why did my brother have to tell me, Select Button?

I looked like an idiot out there!
_________________
"Godzilla could be anyone."

[Take It Sleazy]

Jack Bauer was an English Major as an undergrad

[evnvnv]

at ucla no less!
_________________
The text will not live forever. The cup are small

[Take It Sleazy]

This thing on Louie where it suddenly has continuity and is basically a movie broken up into chapters is pretty good

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

fyi Louie's love interest in the current arc is John Lurie's Hungarian cousin from Stranger Than Paradise

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

When Louie and his friends asked Todd Barry what he does all day on the second last Louie episode it would have been perfect to have cut to him playing Poker at the Russian Social Club (i.e. Mafia clubhouse) with Eugene Mirman.

DELOCATED CROSSOVER

[8128]

[allensmithee]

I watched the premier episode of the second Black Mirror series titled Be Right Back. It was nice to see proper speculative fiction in the vein of Matheson or Sterling. I was almost concerned it would succumb to robot murder drivel and was relieved that it did not. I am not exactly surprised but, yknow, it was sort of a matter of Awh fuck if they go there I will turn this Media Player around so help me God. I actually found myself relating to the synthesis of the deceased on-line entity. There have been times where I have had such little identity that I only knew to please. I would ask, well, would you rather me not do that? What would you have me do? Being purposeless and having no drive of my own I put all my stock and will or want into one person and pleasing them. Being exactly who they want or need me to be. It is eerie and unsettling for someone. It just isnt a real presence, yknow? It was strange, relating to that.

Good picture. Im glad I decided to finally check out the second series.
_________________