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NCIS is a police procedural? I thought those mother fuckers were spies. I haven't seen any civillian in any branch of service allowed to dress in the manner that Abby Sciuto does, and the dress code is pretty relaxed amongst Info Tech Specialists like myself.

From what I've seen they really stretch what these guys do. Like one week they'll be investigating your run of the mill Navy murder/crime, next week they'll be in Iraq fighting terrorists or Gibb will be taking on Mexican drug lords.

Yeah, NCIS is pretty grounded in run-of-the-mill murder cases, but they spend a lot of time fighting spies, terrorists, going overseas, etc. Stuff that should be way out of their jurisdiction. Best I can recall, the early years were mostly cases that would be their jurisdiction, and the later years got more heavy into espionage and terrorism, as well as the turgid drug cartel stuff. I blame that on lazy writing, mostly, though they sort of had a reason to get involved in spy stuff when they brought Cote de Pablo's character in (in the show, her father was the head of Mossad).

And she was Mossad also.

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Holy crap was PENNY DREADFUL ever boring.  One episode ended with intercutting between a vampire shootout and a sex scene between a demon and Dorian Gray.

 

All of those words sound awesome, right?  How did it manage to be so dull?!?!?!?!?

 

I am not sold on this semi-retarded horror version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

 

Obviously the paychecks being offered to Eva Green aren't big enough for her to go full fuzz naked like she did in the 300 sequel or the new shitty Sin City joint.

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Holy crap was PENNY DREADFUL ever boring.  One episode ended with intercutting between a vampire shootout and a sex scene between a demon and Dorian Gray.

 

All of those words sound awesome, right?  How did it manage to be so dull?!?!?!?!?

 

I am not sold on this semi-retarded horror version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

 

Obviously the paychecks being offered to Eva Green aren't big enough for her to go full fuzz naked like she did in the 300 sequel or the new shitty Sin City joint.

 

I saw Billie Piper and Eva Green in a Showtime series and was like, "Oooh, they'll for sure get nekkid.  Worse cast, they got Timothy Dalton in there too, so this should be good storywise at least."  Then it moved slow and boring, then when Piper got nekkid, it was a body double (boo), but then her character had comsumption and coughed up blood whilst getting fucked by Dorian Gray, and I checked out and never watched another episode.

 

And it takes a ton to gross me out.

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Holy crap was PENNY DREADFUL ever boring.  One episode ended with intercutting between a vampire shootout and a sex scene between a demon and Dorian Gray.

 

All of those words sound awesome, right?  How did it manage to be so dull?!?!?!?!?

 

I am not sold on this semi-retarded horror version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

 

Obviously the paychecks being offered to Eva Green aren't big enough for her to go full fuzz naked like she did in the 300 sequel or the new shitty Sin City joint.

 

I saw Billie Piper and Eva Green in a Showtime series and was like, "Oooh, they'll for sure get nekkid.  Worse cast, they got Timothy Dalton in there too, so this should be good storywise at least."  Then it moved slow and boring, then when Piper got nekkid, it was a body double (boo), but then her character had comsumption and coughed up blood whilst getting fucked by Dorian Gray, and I checked out and never watched another episode.

 

And it takes a ton to gross me out.

 

 

Apparently not if stage blood is giving you hissy fits.

 

Is there a more unlikable character on TV than Ray Donovan’s wife?

 

There aren't too many.

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Is there a more unlikable character on TV than Ray Donovan’s wife?

 

Holy fuck.  Holy fuck.  I walk around my house saying, "WHEAH YA BEEN RAY?!?!?"

 

She was written to be sort of sympathetic last season but this season she's just insane and irrational.  Calling her cop boyfriend because her daughter was at Ray's house?  "I thought you were all in?!"  Just wow.  I wanted to put her "all in" a dumpster someplace.  Either the cop boyfriend is a setup or he's the most pathetic, desperate character in TV history because I cannot see how anyone would want to be with someone this unappealing.

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This is what I find hilarious about the show. Mickey Donovan is paying hookers in knockoff purses to suck people off and covered up his girlfriend's death. Yet, Abby Donovan is still somehow the worst family member on the show.

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ha!  Good point.  I guess Mickey is just pathetic while Abby is insane and looking to fuck up everything for everyone.

 

Mickey's character really shows the difference between network TV and cable.  On a network show, Mickey would have become Poochie from the Simpsons.  Execs would have seen the positive reviews for the character from fans and critics and would have insisted more time for his character, making him a one-note, funny antihero who would become the focus of the show over time.  Instead, his character is shown time and again to be pathetic and sad.  He thinks he's still the king like he was in whatever Southie shithole he ruled over in his younger days, but he's really an out of touch nobody.  We can laugh at his antics but meanwhile he's trying to desperately woo a lost love, who has moved on to a better life, with two joints and a bobo handbag.

 

Someone else here sort of said it earlier, but on a network, Ray Donovan would just be Scandal, with Ray and his wacky sidekicks being too cool for school and fixing slick Hollywood problems.

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