[Take It Sleazy]

Dammit I forgot Michael K. Williams was going to be on Boardwalk Empire and now I'm torn between wanting to see his character in action and sitting through more of the show.

[Faithless]

[another coma]

we'll know when the sketch featuring mouthbreathing videogame messageboard users becomes a recurring bit right
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[parker]

David Simon got a MacArthur grant

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100928/ap_on_re_us/us_genius_grants
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[Dracko]

will your skits have chairs, faithless?
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[shrugtheironteacup]

Faithless an A Feast Unkown skecth would kill I guarantee you.
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[elvis.shrugged]

[evnvnv]

i thought terrence howard was supposed to be in law and order: los angeles what the fuck is this shit

also alfred molina is wasted
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The text will not live forever. The cup are small

[evnvnv]

also faithless good job but the question is can you write a law and order show that doesn't suck?
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The text will not live forever. The cup are small

[Vikram Ray]

Faithless do me a favor find out who was behind that awful 'tiny hats' Tim & Eric rip off sketch and beat them up, please

[Judge Ito]

I'm not going to congratulate you.

[Toptube]

I dunno guys. I'm pretty happy with Rubicon right now. The slow burning fuse has gotten places in the past two episodes and those places are pretty good.

[rabite gets whacked!]

I'm with you, but I'm really hoping they (spoiler:)don't clean up an entire season into a single big issue. The TV format should allow the time to have a larger, messier scope than that.

Also The Walking Dead is something I'm very much anticipating.
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[elvis.shrugged]

[Dracko]

Can't be worse than the comic, I'll give it that much.
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[Dracko]

Howard Brenton to adapt Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle for the BBC, with Ridley Scott producing.
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[P1d40n3]

Whoa, late to the congrats party, but congrats!
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[Dracko]

banksy selling pop-counter-culture


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[BalbanesBeoulve]

Wow, the Simpsons almost became relevant again.

Here's a working version.

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[Dracko]

Alan Moore working on a TV series produced by Warp.

[Shiren the Launderer]

I started watching Brick City on Netflix. It's like a real life version of The Wire but without all the pessimism. Newark Mayor Cory Booker is like an Obama figure except that he delivers on all the hype. It's inspiring stuff.

[Take It Sleazy]

Good Lord, Mad Men. Way to go off the rails.

[Toptube]

nah it wasn't that bad. They probably should have had a scene with Don staring long and hard at the ring, though. Maybe mumbling a few words in contemplation. Because I think the importance of that gift was lost on most viewers as the episode was presented.

[Toptube]

Rubicon is still good and the finale was a good episode. Though I'm not sure it was the strongest finale.

[rabite gets whacked!]

Rubicon has left me mostly curious about how, if they're renewed, they can actually spin this single story they seem to be fixated on into a full second season. The Andy thing has me a little worried about the quality of the course they're charting, especially.

I really just wanted it to be bigger, not so easily boiled down. International terrorism should be complex, murky business!
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[Take It Sleazy]

Is anyone else watching that David Cross show, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret? It's weird but I don't think I've seen a sitcom with a character this completely irredeemable and uncharismatic. It made me realize what an affection I have for the characters on things like Always Sunny or modern British bleak-coms. I am kind of digging it though.

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

[Ebrey]

Fuck, Caprica just got canceled. It was a slow moving show that I wouldn't recommend to everyone, but I enjoyed it more than almost anything on TV. It looked and sounded great, had an amazing cast and dealt with interesting issues. It was better than a lot of BSG, but nobody watched it because the concept wasn't as mainstream friendly.

[Tulpa]

Maybe nobody watched it because the pilot was terrible
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[Toptube]

[Ebrey]

[internisus]

[Toptube]

For me, the first half of the miniseries felt forced. It still felt that way the second time around. Mostly with the characters.

but half way through, there is a dramatic turn of events and then all of a sudden the show becomes awesome. AWESOME.

[Ebrey]

The BSG cast is much less consistent than the Caprica cast. There are great actors, like Edward James Olmos, but there's also crappy ones like Grace Park. What's worse is that almost everyone is bad in the miniseries. Caprica's cast is great from the start, and the direction of the pilot is far more mature than BSG's miniseries.

BSG's miniseries felt like, well, a Sci-Fi miniseries. Caprica's pilot intrigued me right away - which is a Hell of a feat considering that BSG's ending pissed me off. I almost didn't watch the pilot because of that.

[Toptube]

Yeah, Grace Park did fine. but with some of the other major talent in the show she did stick out a little bit as a not right choice to eventually be such a pivotal character. BSG does have a lot of good acting, though and I think is pretty consistent. I think the first half of the mini-series is just written poorly. I don't think its the fault of the actors. I mean, fucking Gaius is amazing like two episodes later.

[internisus]

I think part of my problem with anyone comparing the BSG and Caprica miniseries and pilot is just down to the material. I spend half the pilot of Caprica bored out of my mind because I do not care that these teenage girls are super sad that the rest of their society goes online and plays games shooting each other. And something about the way the online place* is presented feels really cheap or something to me. It's just so uninteresting!

I really, really like the actor playing Daniel Graystone, and early on I was drawn to his relationship with Adama, but that's gone for me now that it's all business.

You guys aren't wrong about BSG, really; but I struggled even at the beginning to find much of merit in Caprica. It was mostly promise, and that hasn't turned out so well.





*excepting New Cap City, that is, at least during the episode in which it was introduced. The idea that you somehow permadie there is intriguing because it sets up both this mystical, nigh-unattainable goal and the prospect of a place that people who have lost access will pay people who retain access to go and do business. I could watch an entire series based entirely upon that idea, exploring the relationships between the real world, the virtual world, and those who used their access across both to make a living doing all kinds of sordid things on behalf of more powerful people.

[Tulpa]

[P1d40n3]

[Mr. Apol]

[Dracko]

"The best way to describe this insanely intense story is Dawn of the Dead, the original, meets The Wire." - some nerd who needs to die

Woah, this was a meandering, classless, clichéd, sexist piece of garbage.

Oh wait, based on a Robert Kirkman comic.
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[elvis.shrugged]

I really enjoyed this. Can't wait to see more!
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