EVA Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Well, see, that's the great thing about starting HOMELAND now: you can make the choice to stop watching after season 1 and pretend that's how it ended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_MJ_ Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 True Blood needs the Old Yeller treatment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 True Blood always struck me as Twilight for people with college degrees. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 I know quite a few women in their late 20's-30's who go nuts for Twilight. I don't know if that's true everywhere but worth mentioning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LooseCannon Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 I have not seen: Archer Any season of Dr. Who made in the last ten years True Detective Elementary Justified Breaking Bad How I Met Your Mother The Walking Dead The Big Bang Theory House of Cards Community Conan O'Brien doing anything beyond Late Night Jimmy Fallon hosting any late night talk shows Homeland The Chappelle Show Burn Notice Eastbound and Down Bob's Burgers Dexter The Wire Key & Peele Psych The shows on the list I am most likely to get around to watching are Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, recent Dr. Who, and Elementary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Too obvious lad. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 True Blood needs the Old Yeller treatment.  No never.  True Blood always struck me as Twilight for people with college degrees.   I know quite a few women in their late 20's-30's who go nuts for Twilight. I don't know if that's true everywhere but worth mentioning.  As a man who can honestly say he saw the first Twilight (yes ass was involved), it is NOTHING like True Blood. Equivalent to saying because GOT and LOTR have dragons they're similar versions of one another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 If it doesn't have House Hunters or Storage Wars in the title, it's a safe bet I haven't watched it in the past 4-5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 I've never seen- Â The Shield The Wire True Detective (though based on overwhelmingly positive reviews I'm going to try this at work next week) The Sopranos (I'd watch an episode here and there while waiting for Six Feet Under/Oz and it never interested me) Trailer Park Boys Downton Abbey Any Dr. Who series Any medical drama show other than House True Blood and Game of Thrones I both managed to watch the first season of and thought were awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LooseCannon Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Too obvious lad. I put Archer at the top just for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 I wasn't a LOTR/Hobbit fan until well after the LOTR run of movies was years over. Maybe all the way up to a few months before An Unexpected Journey. Games of Thrones, mainly because it's television, is WAY easier to follow that's it not funny. Plus, I don't like the added frustration of each movie leading into another. I hate it with the Hobbit and Hunger Games. Most of everything in Game of Thrones is resolved at the end of the season save for Dany's storyline obviously. Plus, the gory violence and grotesque amount of nudity is far from PG-13 fantasy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooks Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Like any pop culture phenomenon, A&E went overboard with the SW coverage. One version was enough, and they had the right mix of characters. SW: Texas was OK but nothing great (the Lesa/Jerry Driving Miss Daisy relationship was a head-scratcher and Moe was creepy) and SW: NYC was just pretty bad.  Another thing that didn't help was Mark Balelo's s suicide.  I only keep watching Storage Wars Texas because of my crush on the awesomely dorky Mary Padian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_MJ_ Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014  True Blood needs the Old Yeller treatment.  No never.  True Blood always struck me as Twilight for people with college degrees.   I know quite a few women in their late 20's-30's who go nuts for Twilight. I don't know if that's true everywhere but worth mentioning.  As a man who can honestly say he saw the first Twilight (yes ass was involved), it is NOTHING like True Blood. Equivalent to saying because GOT and LOTR have dragons they're similar versions of one another.  You're right. The acting is better in Twilight.  I went back and looked at all the lists of "Acclaimed shows I won't/haven't watched" in the last few pages, and every single person who made a list has "The Wire" listed. I see you, guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 I wasn't a LOTR/Hobbit fan until well after the LOTR run of movies was years over. Maybe all the way up to a few months before An Unexpected Journey. Games of Thrones, mainly because it's television, is WAY easier to follow that's it not funny. Plus, I don't like the added frustration of each movie leading into another. I hate it with the Hobbit and Hunger Games. Most of everything in Game of Thrones is resolved at the end of the season save for Dany's storyline obviously. Plus, the gory violence and grotesque amount of nudity is far from PG-13 fantasy.  I can't even see the two as being close to the same genre. LotR is a conventional fable or a "proper" (meaning everything resolves properly) Epic.  GoT is more like stealthy philosophy masquerading as a story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Eric > Everyone ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I know this probably happens a lot, like they use the same houses around LA over and over but I kind of freaked for a second watching an old episode of C.S.I. MIAMI and seeing them stake out the house from MODERN FAMILY (Al Bundy's house). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipGofern Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I'm terrible at noticing stuff like that but I did pick up right away that the Queen mansion in Arrow was the same place they used for Lex's castle on Smallville. Evidently, it's also the Xavier School in the first three X-movies but at least they dressed it up so it looked different. First time I watched Arrow, I thought they literally re-used exterior shots from Smallville. Then again, the show is on the CW so I wouldn't be shocked if they did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 This was kind of obvious because if you watch even one of those MODERN FAMILY marathons on USA you'll see the same establishing shot of that house at least 20 times. Â Now picture Horatio MOTHERFUCKING CAINE!!! standing outside of it with his hands on his hips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LooseCannon Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I've never seen Modern Family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 The very next episode has Horatio Caine dating Kimbely Page.   It's awesome because it's all in flashback since Kimberly is dead, so we get flashbacks of Horatio Caine actually dating someone and having to show affection.   Whenever they try to do that it's super awkward because the only emotion Caruso is capable of showing toward women is "paternal condescension."  He's the best though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I think I'll get around to watching Psych soon, based mainly on what people have said here about how meta and smart it is. I really thought it was just generic USA Network buddy cop show #35.  I've seen the odd episode of Dr Who. I'm not overwhelmed, to be honest. David Tennant was fantastic, but everything else seemed simply OKish. It comes off as positively sophomoric compared to BSG or Firefly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie M. Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Good Wife spoiler They killed off Will! I did not see that coming. I guess weed does turn you into a killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I've seen the odd episode of Dr Who. I'm not overwhelmed, to be honest. David Tennant was fantastic, but everything else seemed simply OKish. It comes off as positively sophomoric compared to BSG or Firefly. Boy, I was with you until you had to bring up goddamn Firefly. The worst show 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LooseCannon Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I've never seen BSG or Firefly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 BSG is very good to great. Firefly is one of the best things ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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