The Natural Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Don’t you hate it when you get late into a show, it’s removed without warning? You want it to return and much later it does on a different channel, you only find out yesterday it’s been on since April. Frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 The gut punch served by Silicon Valley was the biggest of the night. That's how you write a fucking TV show. Fuck a Game of Thrones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 I caught the last two eps of Orange Is the New Black at a friend's the other night (he was binge watching. 19 hours, goddamn!). It was, well, kind of uneventful. There was one big feel-good moment at the very end that is probably gonna end up with a very eventful beginning to the next season, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 I read someplace that Orange is the New Black is written specifically to be binged, which changes how the show is paced. I can see that, as I watched the first episode of the latest season last night and pretty much nothing happened. It was definitely created with the idea that I'd be watching probably the second and third episodes, at least, at the same time. As a guy who really doesn't have much time to devote to TV and definitely does not binge watch, I don't like it. "We can write a dull episode because the next one will be good so the viewers will give us a pass" is not the best way to go about creating a show. Because if you don't binge, all you have today is a bad episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Holy shit!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_Hot_American_Summer:_First_Day_of_Camp Maybe this was talked about before, but I'm not sure. In any event, fuck yeah! A prequel to Wet Hot American Summer on Netflix! With ALL of the original cast returning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 They'd been waiting for this for a while. The joke being that in the movie they were 20 years too old for their parts, now they're 30 years too old for the parts. I'm stoked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Yeah, I didn't realize that right away and then read it in that Wiki page. I thought that was brilliant and then had to do a double take to see if Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd would be in it. Plus, the fact that it hits in just over a month is awesome. I wonder if this will lead to a sequel or something. Really, just anything to make up for Wanderlust, which was only good for Paul Rudd's character trying to hype himself up before he talks to Linda. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Credit to Wayward Pines for being the anti-Lost and explaining everything early on. Very refreshing. M. Night Shyamalan regains some credibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Not enough to make up for all those shit movies, but still. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Anyone watching Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell? Not to get too hyperbolic, but I believe that its the best piece of literature of this young century and am pretty excited for the series adaptation (a much better idea than the movie that was in production a few years ago). One episode in and I am pretty satisfied. The casting is pretty much dead on, Childermass especially, although Norrell is younger than I imagined (I always pictured Ian Holm when reading). Paul Kaye as Vinculus the carny street magician is a particularly inspired bit of casting. I fully expect it to hold up, so this is a definite recommendation for anyone that is interested in historical fiction fantasy. For anyone unfamiliar with the source material, it is about magic (in the form of the 2 title characters) returning to England for the first time in 300 years, during the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Except its not sorcerers in cloaks and funny hats, as magic is presented as being an almost scholarly pursuit (during the time of magic's disappearance, practical magicians have been replaced by theoretical magicians, stuffed shirts that discuss the history of the practice). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcosLoura Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Armando Inanuciiis stepping down as showrunner/executive producer for VEEP starting with season 5. Nooooooooooooooooo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I watched the first but not had time for the rest yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 There's an entire Veep thread :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcosLoura Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 It feel from the 1st page Craig and ain't nobody got time fo dat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcosLoura Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 It's not you fault, just that everyone sucks and no one used it (me included and I asked for it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 It occurred to me tonight that I've seen every episode of Friends and Seinfeld, but not intentionally. They were never appointment television, and I don't ever remember going out of my way to see an episode. But now whenever there's one on TV I realize I've seen it. It's got to be some kind of cultural osmosis. Or I've just been in a ton of captive audience situations with two of the most syndicated sitcoms ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister TV Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Watching Celebrity Wife Swap with Charo swapping with Vicki from the Love Boat! My god why doesn't Charo have her own series? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 So the Rock has his own HBO series about being a retired football player called Ballers. Yep. If any of you have HBOGo I guess you can already watch it. EDIT: Hey, it sounds pretty good. The comparison to Arliss immediately perked up my ears. Plus, Rob Cordry! I dunno about the other show with Tim Robbins they talk about here though; Jack Black makes me want to run for the hills. http://www.npr.org/2015/06/17/415210181/hbos-new-sunday-lineup-is-full-of-pleasant-surprises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonial Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 "Coach" revival news -- Bill Fagerbaake is returning as Dauber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 My wife started watching THE KILLING and I'm enjoying seeing her go rapidly through all the stages people have described. Over the course of about a week she went from: 1) "Have you seen this? It's really good." 2) "It's getting a bit complicated. Nothing ever seems to lead anywhere." 3) "I don't know how much more of this I can take. But I'll at least stay to the first season finale so I can found out what happened." 4) "Is that suits? I though you were watching The Killing?" "Fuck The Killing." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Silicon Valley is really great. I completely buy these guys having a non-stop series of errors since they're very much on the spectrum to various degrees. Good at coding or the like? Yep. Good at human communication or long-term strategy planning? Not at all. Of course Richard would nearly hand off all of his intellectual property at the most obvious set-up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 "Coach" revival news -- Bill Fagerbaake is returning as Dauber. Its not like he has a lot going on. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 "Coach" revival news -- Bill Fagerbaake is returning as Dauber.Its not like he has a lot going on. . . I wonder what kind of money that SpongeBob gig pays? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mco543 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Anyone watch Deutschland 83? It seems good but it's in German and while subtitles don't bother me these are frequently unreadable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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