2014 RANDOM TV THOUGHTS

[Neil Koch]

Not for a couple of years. I heard most of the expansion was a gift shop to schill merch from the show.

[offspring515]

One of my buddies went to the shop and he said roughly half of it is Pawn Stars t shirts and beer cozies and such.

[Robert]

I gave Resurrection a shot last night even though I'm afraid to get into anything that tries to be like Lost since that was a terrible experience for me. Did not help that this show starts with someone opening their eye in an empty field & that someone ends up being named Jacob. But the episode was okay & I'm intrigued enough to watch next week. Keeping my eye on the ratings though because if there's any sign the show may be cancelled I want to get out before I get invested.

[Cliff Hanger]

Cosmos was jaw dropping.  Between the astonishing visuals, the music, and having everything explained in a clear, simple and concise fashion, a science show that really didn't tell me anything I didn't already know or at least sort-of-know totally overwhelmed me even before the Giordano Bruno story (of which I knew the basics, but had never really heard in such depth before.)

[_MJ_]

Resurrection open to big numbers, which doesn't shock me since ABC pushed pretty hard and it has an easy to explain yet intriguing hook; dead people back from the grave. 

 

Unfortunately, the promos looked corny and the french show, Les Revenants, has the same concept and sounds way more interesting.  You know those ABC executives just wanted a low rent version of it.

[Antacular]

The trailers make it seem like a rehash of Macauly Culkin's The Good Son. Maybe if they serialize Party Monster I'd give ABC a chance.

[Ryan]

I don't recall The Good Son having people coming back from the dead.

[Antacular]

Totally mixed that up with DeNiro's Godsend. All shitty dead kid films look alike. My point about an episodic Party Monster remains though.

[Robert]

Apparently it's not all about just the kid though. It's a bunch of people who come back from the dead although so far it seems to be based to one town (or family tree at least).

[Phantom Lord]

Cosmos was jaw dropping.  Between the astonishing visuals, the music, and having everything explained in a clear, simple and concise fashion, a science show that really didn't tell me anything I didn't already know or at least sort-of-know totally overwhelmed me even before the Giordano Bruno story (of which I knew the basics, but had never really heard in such depth before.)

 

I thought the animation on the Bruno story was amazing. I loved the ending of it.

 

After watching Family Guy before hand and some of the jokes they did, I have a feeling this is Seth's way of doing pennance with the universe.

[Ryan]

In terms of the creative process, I get the feeling Seth has had a very small and distant relationship with it in terms of Family Guy for quite awhile if not most of the second run. That's just the way it seems. He's definitely been hands-off with American Dad for the most part.

[Guest Edwin]

Has anyone caught the Irish sitcom Moone Boy?

 

It's a really fun, light hearted sitcom co-written and co-starring Chris O'Dowd who most of you are probably with as Roy from the IT Crowd.

 

It's about a little Irish kid from a simple, humble family called Martin and his imaginary friend Sean who's played by Chris O'Dowd.

[Bustronaut]

I think there's going to be an american remake this fall.

[Victator]

I want to put together an extraction team to save Patrick Duffy from being on Nu Dalla$.

[Brian Fowler]

So, I'm watching the first episode of The Wire and it's kind of.... not very good?

[Fat Spanish Waiter]

Give it another six episodes I had the same problem.

[Brian Fowler]

I'll probably get back to it eventually, but for now, Sopranos is winning out by being, you know, good.

[Fat Spanish Waiter]

Wire > Sopranos, as you'll see in time.

[Brian Fowler]

Perhaps, but Sopranos grabbed me right away.

[_MJ_]

David Simon(the creator of The Wire) explains it better in Alan Sepinwall's book about great tv shows in the last decade, but I'll try to sum it up here.  Simon talks about how he comes from a background in newspapers and novels, and not the television world.  When he was writing The Wire, he's coming at it from a newspaper/journalistic prospective because it's the background he understood.  This is why The Wire is built more like a novel.  Each season is a chapter.  Sure there are bigger moments in certain episodes than others, but Simon didn't think the pilot was worse than any other episode in the first season even though most say it's a pretty mundane pilot.  He just thinks people knew more about the story, setting, and characters in the latter episodes due to his style of writing, which is why he believes people say it picks up later on.

Edited March 12, 2014 by _MJ_

[Brian Fowler]

Only thing I know about Simon is that he said the Wire winning some pill for biggest tv show ever was wrong, and Buffy should have won it. So he does seem like an awesome and intelligent dude.

[Fat Spanish Waiter]

Man The Wire shits on Buffy from such a great height they can't even see the asshole.

[Niners Fan in CT]

I can't watch Resurrection. I won't stop thinking of these..

 

[Jrag]

Damnit, Brian.  We are trying to school you on the Wire and you want to talk about Buffy some more?  Uggh.

[HumanChessgame]

I watched the first episode of Resurrection this morning and liked it a lot better when it was called Flight of the Navigator.

 

Normally I don't like cop shows but so many people have been high on True Detective (mainly people whose opinions I tend to respect) I'm thinking of giving it a try.  Is it one of those shows that transcends genre?