TV 2024 TV DISCUSSION THREAD

[Raziel]

Ok, I wasn't going nuts remembering watching a rerun of this at some point in the last 80's.

that YT chanel is overall amazing as well.

[Robert S]

On 11/2/2024 at 4:01 AM, Mister TV said:

Just binged the new season of The Diplomat on Netflix, very very good! Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell deserve awards for their respective performances. 
 

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Season ends on a great cliffhanger and a graphic saying their will be another season. 

 

I have followed suit. Actually, I thought the second season was seven episodes (because both seasons together are 14 episodes so I assumed it was 7 episodes each) and was a bit shocked about the big cliffhanger. There are some great performances (I think Sewell might be one of the great performers of his generation, I have not seen much of Russell before that (I have seen some stuff from her filmography, but I have zero memory of her characters), but I always were thinking about checking out The Americans, so maybe I should give that a watch) and the writing is great. I think I slightly prefer the first season because while the drama and thrillers parts are pretty good, the series really shines when they go screwball comedy and Russell and Sewell have mad chemistry for screwball scenes (and the first season was more heavy on the comedy than season two was).

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And yeah, that was one cliffhanger I did not see coming. Though I guess if you can get Allison Janney, you don't just use her as the "bad guy of the week" but try to build around her.

[Technico Support]

Just finished watching Loot on AppleTV+.  Charming, lightweight, by the numbers comedy with all the usual tropes.  Didn't expect a slight indy wrestling subplot or to hear "Sol Cal legends" Excalibur, B-Boy, Ricky Reyes, and Human Tornado get name dropped on the same platform that brought us Silo and Severance, but it was Ron Funches, so I should have expected it.

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[Execproducer]

3 hours ago, Robert S said:

I have followed suit. Actually, I thought the second season was seven episodes (because both seasons together are 14 episodes so I assumed it was 7 episodes each) and was a bit shocked about the big cliffhanger. There are some great performances (I think Sewell might be one of the great performers of his generation, I have not seen much of Russell before that (I have seen some stuff from her filmography, but I have zero memory of her characters), but I always were thinking about checking out The Americans, so maybe I should give that a watch) and the writing is great. I think I slightly prefer the first season because while the drama and thrillers parts are pretty good, the series really shines when they go screwball comedy and Russell and Sewell have mad chemistry for screwball scenes (and the first season was more heavy on the comedy than season two was).

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And yeah, that was one cliffhanger I did not see coming. Though I guess if you can get Allison Janney, you don't just use her as the "bad guy of the week" but try to build around her.

You should definitely watch The Americans. Russell and her co-star Matthew Rhys are both fantastic.

[driver]

Started Grotesquerie yesterday and got four episodes in. One hell of an interesting show. I also noticed that Nurse Redd seemed to sport a hairdo that seemed to be straight out of the 40s.

[odessasteps]

I also learned today there’s a book of unfilmed Columbo scripts. 

[J.H.]

De Palma doing Columbo boggles my mind. Would network TV in the 70s allow that much leg and side-boob?

James

 

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[EVA]

I’m really curious to see what the popular response is to YELLOWSTONE’s return. I feel like this could be the equivalent of when THE WALKING DEAD killed Glenn in terms of America just noping out en masse.

It’s so popular, you have to assume there are a lot of viewers who aren’t even aware of the behind-the-scenes drama with Costner.

[odessasteps]

2 hours ago, J.H. said:

De Palma doing Columbo boggles my mind. Would network TV in the 70s allow that much leg and side-boob?

James

 

Now I’m imagining late stage Hitch doing a Columbo.

[Raziel]

17 hours ago, EVA said:

I’m really curious to see what the popular response is to YELLOWSTONE’s return. I feel like this could be the equivalent of when THE WALKING DEAD killed Glenn in terms of America just noping out en masse.

It’s so popular, you have to assume there are a lot of viewers who aren’t even aware of the behind-the-scenes drama with Costner.

To be fair, this stretch was it for the show anyway.  The question 2 years ago became "who was going to make it out alive/not in prison" by the end of S5 pt 2.  Costner just sped John's ending along.

[RazorbladeKiss87]

On 11/10/2024 at 1:27 PM, odessasteps said:

I also learned today there’s a book of unfilmed Columbo scripts. 

Thanks for the heads up on that. Just grabbed a copy for my dad for Xmas. Might end up with one for myself.

[Execproducer]

On 11/10/2024 at 5:06 PM, J.H. said:

De Palma doing Columbo boggles my mind. Would network TV in the 70s allow that much leg and side-boob?

James

 

Damn. I had a whole slate of legs for days, side boob (both sides) and prominent nips from the 70's ready to go- in spoiler box,of course- but the board won't let me post them. Point being, yeah, they didn't call it jiggle TV for nothing.

[odessasteps]

And that’s just battle of the network stars. 

[Dolfan in NYC]

It's always ...odd when someone randomly goes on the Today show to announce they've got something.

This morning Dave Coulier announced he had Stage 3 non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. 

There's  a    joke there somewhere, but ugh.  Fuck cancer.

[RIPPA]

Speaking of the Today show

Craig Melvin will be Hoda Kotb's permanent replacement

He will co-host with Savannah Guthrie the first three hours

The 4th hour will be hosted by Jenna Bush Hager and a rotating "panel" of co-hosts

Apparently - eventually they will name a permanent co-host for that 4th hour so this sounds like the Daily Show plan

[RIPPA]

The Madness

All you need to know is it stars Colman Domingo

[EVA]

This clip features ULTRA-NSFW language, but if you can stomach frank discussion of human sexuality, then you absolutely MUST watch Billy Bob no-sell this insane line from the first episode of LANDMAN.

Billy Bob will not sanction this buffoonery.

LANDMAN might be the Most Taylor Sheridan show that Taylor Sheridan made yet. Just following around this exhausted, overworked guy as he spends a whole lot of someone else’s money.

[Travis Sheldon]

2 hours ago, EVA said:

This clip features ULTRA-NSFW language, but if you can stomach frank discussion of human sexuality, then you absolutely MUST watch Billy Bob no-sell this insane line from the first episode of LANDMAN.

Billy Bob will not sanction this buffoonery.

LANDMAN might be the Most Taylor Sheridan show that Taylor Sheridan made yet. Just following around this exhausted, overworked guy as he spends a whole lot of someone else’s money.

To my knowledge, I've never watched anything penned by Sheridan.

Is this what I have missed?

I know they have Yellowstone branded foods in store.

[driver]

Two episodes in on Landman and enjoying it. Paramount+ might as well rebrand itself as Taylor Sheridan+.

I wonder if all of Sheridan's series occupy the same universe. 

[Technico Support]

The only Sheridan show I’ve seen, and I get the feeling I’d hate Yellowstone, is Mayor of Kingstown, which I’d recommend without hesitation.  Maybe that’s more on Hugh Dillon, who writes and acts in the show, and Jeremy Renner, who is amazing.

[J.H.]

Yellowstone is is totally batshit insane!

Is this what it takes to get an airport built?

Open firefighter between ranchers and hedge fund investors?

Really, anything involving ranch hands is what I enjoy most on the show. Well that and Beth Dutton being a super bitch

James

 

[Craig H]

8 hours ago, EVA said:

This clip features ULTRA-NSFW language, but if you can stomach frank discussion of human sexuality, then you absolutely MUST watch Billy Bob no-sell this insane line from the first episode of LANDMAN.

Billy Bob will not sanction this buffoonery.

LANDMAN might be the Most Taylor Sheridan show that Taylor Sheridan made yet. Just following around this exhausted, overworked guy as he spends a whole lot of someone else’s money.

I'm fucking dying. I've rewatched this at least a dozen times and I'm losing my voice from laughing. I'm going to quote that Dr. Pepper line so much.

[Craig H]

Ok. I guess I need to add Mayor of Kingstown and Landman to the list of things to watch. I doubt anything else from Landman meets the hilarity of that clip.

[elizium]

2 hours ago, Technico Support said:

The only Sheridan show I’ve seen, and I get the feeling I’d hate Yellowstone, is Mayor of Kingstown, which I’d recommend without hesitation.  Maybe that’s more on Hugh Dillon, who writes and acts in the show, and Jeremy Renner, who is amazing.

As in Headstones lead singer/Hard Core Logo Hugh Dillon? Interesting

[Technico Support]

9 hours ago, elizium said:

As in Headstones lead singer/Hard Core Logo Hugh Dillon? Interesting

I had to look it up but yes, one and the same!  I’d say he plays a crooked cop but all the cops on that show are crooked.  Not to get too political but I heard Yellowstone is a conservative white male fantasy.  Kingstown is the opposite of that.  It’s about a guy working as an advocate for prisoners, trying to keep balance in a volatile city, the cops are crooked (no thin blue line types) and the Russians are actually bad guys . So maybe the guy who created Yellowstone doesn’t have much input?

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