CSC Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Started on Casual, Review and Moone Boy this week. I needed to have some comedy with the crapload of hourlong dramas we've been plowing through lately. Moone Boy I'm absolutely loving. The entire third episode revolving around bringing down his wall in the backyard was so good. Casual is decent. I thought the first two episodes were strong but the third was a definite drop. I'll stick through it though since it's less than 4 hours total for the rest of the season. Review, of course, is completely insane and I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caley Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Love Moone Boy. I wasn't shocked to see it was co-created by Declan Lowney, because this reminds me a lot of 'Father Ted'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Scream Queens finished this week. This was an astoundingly good show. Pop Culture meets Horror Movies meets Dark, Horrible, Soul-Crushing Nihilism. And, unlike Aunt Julia, Emma Roberts actually knows how to pull off comedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 And, unlike Aunt Julia, Emma Roberts actually knows how to pull off comedy.The same Julia whose comedic films have grossed literally billions and billions of dollars at the box office? I'd say she pulls it off well enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Money =/= Quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Not necessarily, of course. But you can count money. You can't quantify "quality" in a subjective artistic medium. And besides, WHICH style of comedy did Reed mean she can't pull off? She's done lots of incredibly varied work. Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman, Hook, The Player, I Love Trouble, Something to Talk About, My Best Friend's Wedding, Everyone Says I Love You, Notting Hill, The Mexican, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Ocean's 12, Charlotte's Web, Charlie Wilson's War, Duplicity, Mirror Mirror, and August: Osage County are all comedies or have lots of comedy in them. But every one of them has a different tone, with Roberts playing completely different types of parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 I'm about halfway through THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, and it's very middle-of-the-road. It's always just good enough to get me to watch the next episode, but I can't think of one thing about it that really stands out. I think what stands out most about it at this point is just how far off-book they've gotten in short order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stennick Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Top 40 animated characters countdown on FOX last night the list was total crap! Stewie #1 Fuck Off! Frankly, I'm not sure Stewie is the best Seth McFarlane character, as a strong argument could made for Roger the alien. . . . I haven't watched the show in years but I thought Brian and Stan and Roger were all better than Stewie. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted December 14, 2015 Author Share Posted December 14, 2015 Apparently CBS has cancelled Mike and Molly Basically - the 13 episodes they are about to air are the final ones... though since they were given a full season renewal they are filming a full 22 so who the fuck knows what is happening with those other episodes Poor poor everyone who isn't Melissa McCarthy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 I still like Into The Badlands even though the reviews say I shouldn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I watched a lot of Football and Wrasslin on Monday night. Anyone catch Childhood's End or The Expanse on Syfy. Are they worth watching? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 DVR'd both, going to start checking them out tonight. Nobody is really talking about it around here but god damn, Homeland is amazing this season. The only show whose episodes consistently end too soon and I yell "GOD DAMMIT" at the end credits. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 DVR'd both, going to start checking them out tonight. Nobody is really talking about it around here but god damn, Homeland is amazing this season. The only show whose episodes consistently end too soon and I yell "GOD DAMMIT" at the end credits. The slow burn over the last three or so episodes has been insane. For a show that had been so frantic at times in its history, it's a wild change of pace that is making the season so much better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 The Expanse is great. Childhood is decent, though I couldn't do the whole 2 hrs in one sitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 So my folks have the Comet Network on their channel line-up now which is like the short bus version of Syfy. At least they showed Frogs yesterday (it was edited for TV though) and have old school Outer Limits episodes on regular rotation. When they start showing eps of UFO or Space: 1999, I will be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Comet is more like SyFy was when I first saw it back in 93 and it was called "The Sci Fi Channel:" just a raw, weird collection of whatever they could grab the rights to air. All that's missing is Harlan Ellison commentaries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Oh, I remember The Sci Fi Channel and it had a much better fledgling schedule than Comet does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 This is my favorite thing in the world for the period between 12:35 PM and 12:45 PM. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Man, I'd love to have early '90s Sci-Fi Channel back. Kolchak and Dark Shadows! I think that was the first channel to ever show Phantasm and The Evil Dead on TV, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 It was where I was introduced to Doctor Who, paired with Republic serials to fit two items that wouldn't work in a half hour slot into an hour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 We didn't get Sci-Fi on our cable so it was a super special treat to go to my grandma's house because they had it. We didn't have Comedy Central until I think the 2000s either. I don't know what the fuck was up with our provider in Marion, IL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Comet is the reason my station got shut down in April, so it can go screw. They *do* have Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Comet is the reason my station got shut down in April, so it can go screw. They *do* have Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot, though. It comes on at like zero thirty in the morning. It is going off when I am just getting out of bed. Besides that, I have all of the seasons on DVD somewhere in the attic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turk128 Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 I watched a lot of Football and Wrasslin on Monday night. Anyone catch Childhood's End or The Expanse on Syfy. Are they worth watching? Absolutely love Childhood's End if for nothing else than that they had the guts to attempt something so ambitious. Their vision far exceeded their reach but I'm still amazed that it was SyFy who attempted it. It's great heady, scifi. The Expanse, a couple episodes in and my short description of it would be: "Space: Above and Beyond with a more expansive world." The early years of The Sci-Fi Channel was fantastic; was always a reliable background viewing while doing all nighters for college. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 I screwed up and missed the Magicians pilot. Hopine it hits on demand like the Expanse did. Anyone have thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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