TV 2023 TV DISCUSSION THREAD

[Curt McGirt]

True Detective: Night Country

Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor. 

RIPPA you are gonna want to make that a screencap, unless you want people to have to click on it to find out and subsequently shit their pants over what it is.

[J.H.]

Hear me out... a reboot of Gilligan's Island but it's all drak and gritty with Clancy Brown as the Professor who has his own dark secret agenda.

You have Michael Madsen as Skipper and Charlie Day as Gilligan

But I want the first season to have tension between Professor and Skipper over who the leader is just so Clancy Brown and Michael Madsen have a giant fist fight in the rain

I'm really bored at work

James

[Mister TV]

8 minutes ago, J.H. said:

Hear me out... a reboot of Gilligan's Island but it's all drak and gritty with Clancy Brown as the Professor who has his own dark secret agenda.

You have Michael Madsen as Skipper and Charlie Day as Gilligan

But I want the first season to have tension between Professor and Skipper over who the leader is just so Clancy Brown and Michael Madsen have a giant fist fight in the rain

I'm really bored at work

James

Was always surprised they never did a movie in the 90's when it seemed like every old tv show got a flick.

[Contentious C]

I didn't expect to enjoy the vibe to the Hulu version of High Fidelity (nor did I expect to see *quite* so much of Zoe Kravitz) as much as I do, especially when it's so very, very, very, very, very, very similiar to the film.

But, there's one tiny, eensy, miniscule, niggling, iddle-widdle problem that, uh, undermines the whole fucking show.

Zoe Kravitz is one of the most beautiful women on Earth.

Everyone they pair her with is like letting a pig escort a supermodel down a runway.  Sorry.  And the whole vibe of "self-loathing kinda-jerk who needs to pull his head out of his ass" worked better with Cusack, as at least his former-teen-heartthrob days could lead you to think he turned into a massive needledick who needed some comeuppance in his 30s.  With her, all I've got is empathy and they're going to have to really shit-heel her with respect to plot to match R. Gordon.  But, mostly it's the looks thing.  No, you don't belong in bed with her, Clyde.  CLYYYYYYYYYDE.  Jesus.

Well, everyone except maybe Kingsley Ben-Adir, and he's already a better "Laura" than Iben Hjejle was, so I'm kinda interested to see how they get to the obvious.

Edited September 29, 2023 by Contentious C

[odessasteps]

But TV but wanted to share

https://youtu.be/hO5ALvN_KAY?si=rQRQ4Gxo370uEelo

[elizium]

Started watching The Bear and my lord did that episode about turning on the new to go tablet fuck me up. I worked in a completely different kind of restaurant, but this show still triggers severe PTSD. 

I am enjoying it immensely 

[RIPPA]

Another trailer for All the Light We Cannot See

[StuntmanCrowley]

I had absolutely no knowledge of the manga or cartoon going in, but One Piece was just fantastic.  It was a fun, fun watch and my daughter and I have fallen down a rabbit hole with it, including youtube videos of blacksmiths making Mihawk's sword and martial arts masters doing Zoro's 3 Sword technique.  

[Raziel]

Careful with a Netflix Show.  If it gets a S2, it'll deviate so much from the source materiel most of the anime/manga fans will turn it off half way through and it won't get a S3.  

[Log]

1 hour ago, Raziel said:

Careful with a Netflix Show.  If it gets a S2, it'll deviate so much from the source materiel most of the anime/manga fans will turn it off half way through and it won't get a S3.  

I've never understood people wanting a show/movie based on on a book or whatever to be the exact same thing as the source. Now, I would definitely not like it to move away from the spirit of the source material or completely miss the tone of it. I think sometimes an adaptation can benefit from deviating from the source (The Infinity saga in the MCU is a good example, IMO), but I just don't see a benefit to making an exact replica of another thing.

[Robert S]

I love that Stephen Colbert is back and the first couple of guests he's got are (I guess due to the SAG-AFTRA strike) all showbusiness friends (Neil deGrasse Tyson (if you can call him being in showbusiness), John Oliver and Anderson Cooper; I guess Jon Stewart and Steve Carell were unavailable).

[John from Cincinnati]

 

[Raziel]

On 10/3/2023 at 4:48 PM, Log said:

I've never understood people wanting a show/movie based on on a book or whatever to be the exact same thing as the source. Now, I would definitely not like it to move away from the spirit of the source material or completely miss the tone of it. I think sometimes an adaptation can benefit from deviating from the source (The Infinity saga in the MCU is a good example, IMO), but I just don't see a benefit to making an exact replica of another thing.

There's a line to walk, in reference to my comment.  So, Cowboy Bebop deviated from the source, for a mix of good and bad, and while it was interesting, it was enough that it got nuked.  

Now, you go with Witcher and Altered Carbon, well, both S1's stayed close to the source, but it wasn't a 1:1 and it ended up really good an praised, but S2 deviated from the source VERY much so, where the source was much more interesting and would've made better TV than what ended up getting put to film.  The other difference is source medium.  With anime/magna/comics you can get away with more as the original mediums were visual and therefore would should try something different.  With books, there's far more instances were sticking very close to the source that it ends up better overall, as you can bring a vision to life, rather than rehash something we've seen.

 

There's also Netflix's penchant for pulling the plug super early on pretty much anything that doesn't hit a certain view number in a week.

[Zimbra]

Roy Wood Jr is leaving the Daily Show after being passed up as the new host.

Just an incredibly fumble by Comedy Central.  Put the damn show out to pasture like you should have done a decade ago.

[Eivion]

5 hours ago, Zimbra said:

Roy Wood Jr is leaving the Daily Show after being passed up as the new host.

Just an incredibly fumble by Comedy Central.  Put the damn show out to pasture like you should have done a decade ago.

It sounds more like he just didn't want to be a correspondent with there being no full time host. Apparently he didn't even know he was out of contention for the position until after he let them know he was leaving. He would have considered staying if the offer was made, but I wouldn't be shocked if he still turned it down. He didn't seem super interested in it when he guest hosted for a week earlier in the year. Like he enjoyed the guest spot, but seemingly didn't want to do it full time and kind of pushed people to shut up a bit when talking about him maybe taking it over. Always got the feeling he wants to have his freedom for acting gigs and stand up.

[odessasteps]

Don’t know why, I was picturing Roy Wood Jr as Roy Blount Jr when reading that story. 
 

maybe because he was a Comedy Central regular in the 90s.

[Curt McGirt]

Colbert running over the last five months of news was pretty tasty and long-missed. But yeah, he is gonna do his buddies first (I mean come on, Tyson has been on so many fucking times he is actively boring) and they really can't get actors, right? Are they paid to go on these shows? I'm sure Louis knows plenty of musicians instead. 

Roy is great but I fear him getting stuck in midlevel stand-up hell, especially rewatching the Comedy Store limited series. It would be fun to see him go on Colbert and burn his bridges with CC though, haha.

[Eivion]

1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:

Roy is great but I fear him getting stuck in midlevel stand-up hell, especially rewatching the Comedy Store limited series. It would be fun to see him go on Colbert and burn his bridges with CC though, haha.

Even before the strike some of the correspondents actively talked shit about CC giving out shit pay to the show in general while they were guest hosting. Would going on Colbert piss them off?

Edited October 5, 2023 by Eivion

[Curt McGirt]

Guess not.

You know, I really doubt actual humans are even programming the channel anymore. It is now comprised of marathons of five shows: South Park (almost all of the time), Seinfeld, The Office, Futurama (four episodes in the morning), Parks and Rec. There are movies and infomercials, yeah, but that's pretty much it. 

Edited October 6, 2023 by Curt McGirt

[John from Cincinnati]

2 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

Colbert running over the last five months of news was pretty tasty and long-missed. But yeah, he is gonna do his buddies first (I mean come on, Tyson has been on so many fucking times he is actively boring) and they really can't get actors, right? 

They can have actors so long as they’re not promoting anything unless their project has been given permission by the guild. Bob Odenkirk and Anne Hathaway are both booked on shows tonight. 

Should this go long enough, there’s gonna be a lot of free space for Adam Driver to promote Ferrari. 

[Curt McGirt]

Missed the Barrymore show news; he should get those writers on. 

[Craig H]

2 hours ago, John from Cincinnati said:

They can have actors so long as they’re not promoting anything unless their project has been given permission by the guild. Bob Odenkirk and Anne Hathaway are both booked on shows tonight. 

Should this go long enough, there’s gonna be a lot of free space for Adam Driver to promote Ferrari. 

Yeah, like Nick Offerman was on Seth to basically promote the paperback version of his latest book, which came out two years ago (I think that's right because I got it for my wife's birthday a long while ago), and to say he shaved his beard because Megan Mullaly wasn't digging it anymore.

And since she's maybe my biggest crush in Hollywood, I completely agree with doing anything she wants.

[Curt McGirt]

You must've really loved that episode of Parks and Rec where she drops trou

[John from Cincinnati]

Been binging Reservation Dogs, and audibly popped tonight when she shows up in early season two. 

[odessasteps]

You can say one thing about Bluesky vs Twiiter, I don’t think I can remember a day long thread between comics pros about 1970s detective shows, including John Rogers and Mark Waid extolling the virtues of Banachek.