[Take It Sleazy]

Patrick Warburton is gonna play The Tick again in a pilot for Amazon

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

one era ends, another begins. Fall TV shows are almost here!

And in the next six months, we'll see, or rather we will be able to see:

-Season 2 of Agents of SHIELD
-Agent Carter (when AOS takes a break in early 2015)
-Season 3 of Green Arrow
-Debut of The Flash (I will be legitimately amazed if they can do this show without it looking really silly)
-Debut of Constantine (no gratuitous swearing, smoking, drinking, blasphemy or disembowelment....but I guess NBC also has Hannibal)
-Gotham
-And also some stuff on Netflix I will forget to steal

I was actually making an axe topic about Gotham last night, after meaning to for a couple months (since I saw the first trailer). After posting the cast list, I thought it would be neat if we could think up villains who would fit the series better chronologically if they wanted to base it more closely on the comics/cartoons. Stuff like Solomon Grundy, the Court of Owls, Vandal Savage, etc......but the topic wasn't really going anywhere, and then I lost it. Oh well.

A new age of TV superheroics is about to dawn! Dawn-ish. Dawn some more. Dawn further. Dawner.


CSI: Cyber Crimes doesn't air until 2015 :(
They say it's a mid-season replacement for CSI, but I think they really just need time to mock-up all the fake MMOs.

[Take It Sleazy]

Live action Teen Titans and Supergirl shows are also in some sort of early script stage development

[shrugtheironteacup]

Patrick Warburton's first go as The Tick was awful.

That was probably mostly the writing's fault, though.
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[Ebrey]

You're the Worst is a really good, super dirty romantic comedy show. Stories about people boning who will obviously fall in love eventually can get tiring, but this one works because they don't waste a lot of time talking about how they're going to try really hard not to have a relationship. It feels authentic and the main characters are great.

It's weird that this is the second show in a row about British guys in LA (Hello Ladies came out last year), but it's not the worst trend in the world.

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

The latest episode of The Knick was really good. Liked the pacing and momentum building to the riot.

[Hojulas]

Upon watching the season premiere of The Simpsons, and based on my observance of the past couple of seasons (been out of the loop for about 9 of them), I've come to believe that long couch gags that are really just shorts done by guest animators might be the best thing the show has now, and maybe it should go fill circle and just be all shorts again, consisting of these "couch gags".

[Take It Sleazy]

rewatching veronica mars and i am both struck by how unusual it's treatment of race and class as things that exist (still) is for a tv show

and also all the specific cultural and technological ways that the 00s feel alien and different

[Take It Sleazy]

heads up if you are a person who likes 24

http://www.24spoilers.com/2014/09/30/24-solitary-feature-tony-almeida/

[Felonious Monk]

Patrick Warburton will always br Brock Samson to me. Every time i see him in something else it's just...weird.

[Ebrey]

[boojiboy7]

I think that was kind of his point. Most TV shows just pretend it isn't even a thing.

[Take It Sleazy]

Veronica Mars takes place in a heightened UPN/WB world where drama is the law of the land and and teens always have sharp wisecracks ready to go but nothing is Crash lol

Speaking of unsubtle portrayals of race and class relations, I think that Black-ish seems like one of those shows that will probably be good like mid season two once it settles into its characters and voice. Like you can tell they think they have too much on their shoulders right now as the only Black network sitcom in years

[parker]

I'm never going to stop latching onto to any hint that twin peaks might return someday, though I'm not sure how it could actually be good or work

[Take It Sleazy]

re: the newsroom season 3

i honestly feel kind of a perverse horror movie dread-thrill at seeing aaron sorkin's spin on the last two years of news coverage

[Take It Sleazy]

gotham is somewhat cartoonier/tim burtonier than i thought it was going to be

also it takes place in an unspecified time the same way that batman the animated series did except instead of all screens in black and white for no reason , it's crts and 4:3 tvs for no reason

like the 70s/80s cop show version of the thing

sure seems like either a straight gotham central or bruce wayne training to be batman show would be better though

[Take It Sleazy]

Uh...The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret is not only coming back but it is going to pick up where it left off so now I guess we can officially declare television programming in the '10s to be More Insane Than It's Ever Been™

[Gorblax]

Get hypedddddddddd

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=56557
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[Kabbage]

[Take It Sleazy]

what universe did i accidentally slip into where saturday night somehow has a black host, musical guest, and five black cast members

i mean i actually have to watch out of principle

[Ronk]

Apparently Mitch Hurwitz is working to cut season 4 of Arrested Development in chronological order, somehow removing the one interesting part of that season (besides Maria Bamford and the "Getaway" song, of course)
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[Kabbage]

Turns out Sci-Fi's Defiance show is not somehow not god-awful, and in fact, pretty damn good. Season 2's a bit slow in the middle, but everything's consistently enjoyable and interesting.

Some of these characters are completely delightful too.
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

what I'm kind of worried about is where season 3 of Defiance will go now that the big "thing" has been handled (I guess). Maybe something new comes up in the MMO, or they pull the smaller plot threads tight together until they have a new focus

actually there are dozens of comments I could pass about this chunk of TV and the spring/summer season too, stuff I contemplated coming in to this topic to say

instead I am saying that the latest Law & Order SVU was about domestic abuse with retired athlete and the wife he was seen abusing on leaked surveillance video, and that leaked video was seen in the middle of one of the detectives scrolling through a site that was posting leaked celeb nudes from a big hack, and the site they were posted on was apparently called "Redchan" (although I swear the subtitles rendered it as "Redchant"). I think it was an RSS feed, tho, coz it was all in one big page like a tumblr or something.

Do you guys think The Flash will make it ten years

Do you think Sleepy Hollow will make it seven

Do you think Rebecca shot JR

Do you think Gotham will trick question nobody knows what Gotham will do it is off the rails and hurtling into space

[evnvnv]

[Felonious Monk]

As a former fan of the comic book, i have to say Constantine is fairly watchable. Sure, the writing is mediocre and it has that terrible network tv act structure ("cliffhanger", then commercials). And yeah, save for Matt Ryan, the acting's not very good at all. But the series so far is still mostly true to the original stories (mining from the Jamie Delano years) and characters (although the less said about Chaz The (now American) Magic Cab Driver, the better). It's leagues better than the Keanu Reeves vehicle, at any rate. The cinematography and direction are quite decent overall. The makeup and gore fx are also respectable.

I'd say it's worth a look if you're into this sort of thing and keep your expectations low.

[evnvnv]

as someone who hasn't read the comic but likes the premise, watching one episode of Constantine was enough to make me feel less guilty about being addicted to Sleepy Hollow. Maybe it gets less horrible after the pilot though?
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[Felonious Monk]

Umm....no, not really. Guess my standards for entertainment are painfully low.

Maybe i'll check out Sleepy Hollow though!

[evnvnv]

i have kind of classically bad taste so yrmv, but it is a show about a handsome british man battling demons in america. a recent episode saw ichabod cranefighting an evil pied piper. if i had to sum up the show it would be "national treasure meets the x files"
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[Felonious Monk]

Sold

[Hojulas]

Sleepy Hollow lost me. I just wanted some simple demon bustin', but the whole greater plot just made it drag to me. I kinda wish it was all just Ichabod battling demons during the revolutionary war.

[evnvnv]

[Tulpa]

[Felonious Monk]

Funnily enough, last night's episode featured Papa Midnight as much more of a rival/potential ally than a villain. It was also pretty bad.

Fun fact: the episode was directed by John Badham, who apparently has carved out a niche in genre tv lately according to his imdb page.

[Kabbage]

[evnvnv]

[Kabbage]

I haven't gotten that far, but that sounds awful.

I like their batshit detective work, sometimes. Like the way they deduced that the key Ben Franklin hit with lightning was actually the key to purgatory. When it's waaay out there, it's pretty fun.

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

that constantine episode had a phantom hitchhiker and kachisuke-onna

[Take It Sleazy]

Goddamn Flash (+Firestorm) vs Reverse Flash was a ton of fun. Also Dr. Christina Mcgee from the old Flash show playing a totally different Dr. Christina Mcgee! I'm really glad The Flash is finally one live action superhero show about a superhero fighting bad guys with his superpowers every week. Also the brothers from Prison Break being Captain Cold and Heat Wave is so good.

[Ni Go Zero Ichi]

RIP Colbert Report :(
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[absolutego]

they made a tv show out of... man in the high castle???
this came so out of nowhere

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

the second season of super dumb horror/conspiracy show Helix is here, and I gotta admit, the season opening surprised me in a number of ways and had some fun visual effects/mood setting. Here's hoping it turns out to be RE4 to the original's Code Veronica.