Craig H Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Tonight, on Ray Donovan... JAMES MOTHERFUCKIN WOODS, Y'ALL Aww yeah, this show is on some next level shit now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiguchi Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Luther season 3 was disappointing to me. Huge drop-off in quality, similar to the level of drop-off from season 4 to 5 of Dexter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Luther was never that good to begin with, come on now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Magnificent 7 Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 I'm fairly surprised folks like Ray Donovan. The actors are good, the subject matter can be interesting at times, but the main failing of the show is there is absolutely no joy or humor anywhere on the entire show. Breaking Bad and The Sopranos asked a lot of the viewer to root for morally deficient characters, but they were successful because there were many moments of levity, decency, and humor from time to time to offset the ugliness. This show is bleak as bleak gets it terms of tone, and the characters are incessantly downers. Even Terry can't catch a break when the nurse is married, etc. Some good or funny stuff HAS to happen to a character on a show from time to time. Bad Lieutenant was as bleak a movie as you can get, but at least there were the Mets radio subplot bits in Keitel's car that were hilarious. This show's producers would have cut those bits out. By the end of a Ray Donovan episode I look like Castillo in my sig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scraylo187 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Is anyone else watching Orphan Black? Pretty fun. The storyline is a bit predictable, but balanced out by how amazing Tatiana Maslany is in the lead role. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do_BCA-vR9E AS A FOLLOW UP now that I've wrapped the first season, the show didn't end up being very predictable at all. Worth watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newb82 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Looks like business is picking up on SIBERIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuroresuFan Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I'll take the ass kicking that comes with saying I like The Newsroom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I not only dislike it, but it's ruined almost every other Sorkin creation for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I'll take the ass kicking that comes with saying I like The Newsroom. I want to still like it, but I don't think I've seen a show take such a spectacular nosedive in quality as The Newsroom has from last season to this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I'm sticking with it for now, but everything other than the main stuff is terrible. I don't want Alison Potato's idiot ways constantly thrown in my face, I can't even tell the two guys in the story apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I only care about Suits and think we should talk about nothing else until Game of Thrones comes back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I just want Drunk Sam Waterston. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Samson Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I only care about Suits and think we should talk about nothing else until Game of Thrones comes back. I've really enjoyed the past few episodes. Wish I had watched the show before this. I kinda know who the characters are & what the relationships are, but not enough to really appreciate the backstories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuroresuFan Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Anyone else looking forward to Low Winter Sun with Mark Strong? I love his work & I'm hoping the writing is solid. They're putting it on after Breaking Bad so it's got a good shot to get noticed for a few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 The Newsroom is SOOO bad. Just, ugh, just awful. Truly awful. As for Ray Donovan and the lack of humor, I see what Mag 7 is saying. The first episode was rather humorous in a dark comedy sort of way. Mickey's behavior was so creepy and outrageous it was almost funny. Ray himself displayed a dry sense of humor. Ezra was quirky and eccentric. Since then, Mickey is just a grade A creep and there's nothing remotely funny about his actions. Ray has the grim reaper's sense of humor. And Ezra is not quirky and eccentric, he's slowly slipping away, depressingly so too. I think the intent is to have these characters do funny or off things, but they're almost too effective in making the lives of each character so bleak and it completely washes away anything that you could find humorous in an irreverent sort of way. I still like the show a ton. It's really compelling and interesting, but yeah, it's not going to cheer you up. And Low Winter Sun sounds like The Shield. I'm in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacelle Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Has anyone watched the Canadian Newsroom from 96-05? One of my favorite shows of all time & criminally underrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Has anyone watched the Canadian Newsroom from 96-05? One of my favorite shows of all time & criminally underrated. Yes. It was a damn fine show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 New season of Strike Back starts this Friday on Cinemax. I was kinda disappointed with the conclusion to the Conrad Knox dealie, but i am hopefull this will be a good run. At least Michelle Lukes is back as SGT Julia Richmond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SovietShooter Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 If you didn't catch the August 6th Colbert Report, find a replay and watch it. Daft Punk was scheduled to appear and got pulled by MTV because they wanted them exclusive for the Video Awards. Colbert proceeded to verbally dismantle his own parent corp., followed by a dance number featuring Hugh Laurie, Ashton Kutcher, Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges, the Rockettes, Jimmy Fallon, the cast of AGT, Jon Stewart, etc. Followed by a surprise musical replacement. Damnedest half hour of tv I ever saw. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 If you didn't catch the August 6th Colbert Report, find a replay and watch it.Daft Punk was scheduled to appear and got pulled by MTV because they wanted them exclusive for the Video Awards. Colbert proceeded to verbally dismantle his own parent corp., followed by a dance number featuring Hugh Laurie, Ashton Kutcher, Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges, the Rockettes, Jimmy Fallon, the cast of AGT, Jon Stewart, etc. Followed by a surprise musical replacement. Damnedest half hour of tv I ever saw. Well that was well worth watching.Thanks for the heads up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuroresuFan Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Anyone watching the final season of BBC's "Being Human"? Nothing against the new characters but it's just not the show it used to be. It's still better than the US version. The only thing that had going for it was Mark Pellegrino as Bishop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 I'm not sure if the fact that I can't figure out what the hell is going on in Siberia is a good thing or a bad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newb82 Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 They're finding out what wiped out the original settlement that the show was mimicking. As long as it doesn't end like YELLOWBRICKROAD, it should be OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Well, the end of last week threw out my theory that the Producers were in on it, but yeah... Can the weasly DJ dude that's starting to go insane because he found the totems get his neck snapped by Mossad chick soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 If you didn't catch the August 6th Colbert Report, find a replay and watch it.Daft Punk was scheduled to appear and got pulled by MTV because they wanted them exclusive for the Video Awards. Colbert proceeded to verbally dismantle his own parent corp., followed by a dance number featuring Hugh Laurie, Ashton Kutcher, Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges, the Rockettes, Jimmy Fallon, the cast of AGT, Jon Stewart, etc. Followed by a surprise musical replacement. Damnedest half hour of tv I ever saw. That was the funniest "Fuck you" I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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