Generic TV Thread

[volsey]

I cannot wait for new season of Game of Thrones. Apparently the books are unreal, and the TV series does a great job of telling the story while compacting all the drama and making it more intense. Definitely up there with Breaking Bad. Go watch Game of Thrones now.

[[Q]]

i watched a few episodes with my roommates who were totally into it, but i'm not a big fan of medieval/fantasy type stories.

[volsey]

The exciting parts of the show don't really revolve around the fantasy parts though. It revolves around the lies, drama, characters, and their choices. But to each his own I guess. I didn't like it at all after watching the first episode and wasn't planning on watching the rest at all.

[[Q]]

The exciting parts of the show don't really revolve around the fantasy parts though. It revolves around the lies, drama, characters, and their choices.

i could see why you say that. some of the storylines i did find interesting, but it was a bit difficult for me to like the characters

[debiler]

The exciting parts of the show don't really revolve around the fantasy parts though. It revolves around the lies, drama, characters, and their choices.

i could see why you say that. some of the storylines i did find interesting, but it was a bit difficult for me to like the characters

That's the interesting thing about the show. There are almost no characters without flaws. The only one that comes to my mind would be Arya. I deeply love that show. Also, it's so very grown-up. People dying from disease, accidents, unfair trial, etc. No heroic deaths so far.
BTW, Tyrion is boss

[Oznogrd]

I'm pleasantly surprised by how good Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes is. As a comic geek i figured it would be too kid friendly to feel authentic. I was wrong yet again.

[Andrew]

It's not a current show, but for any other fans of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, this YouTube channel has heaps of clips:
http://www.youtube.com/user/12Medbe

Check out the Playlists as well. Similarly, for King of the Hill fans who'd like to re-live some memorable moments, I'd recommend this channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/werty1432k

[benji]

Along those lines here's part one of like an hour, or more or something I forget, of a whole set of behind the scenes/bloopers/etc. off the dvds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2KoSiF4Naw

[Andrew]

Yeah, there's about 40 minutes of bloopers on the first two DVD sets. Good stuff.

[volsey]

I've watched the first 5 episodes of White Collar, got to say I didn't like it very much. I don't find it clever, or funny, and initially I thought the main guy was sick, now I just find him mostly annoying.

Anyways I'm usually pretty tough on shows initially (hated half of first season of C Your E, didn't get drawn into The Wire/Game of Thrones after the first episode, etc.), so I'm asking, does the formula change at all later on? Does it get more serious/suspensful at all or am I just expecting a different type of show altogether?

[J@3]

I'm a bit the same as you, I find it hard getting into slow-boil type shows but you really have to give them 3-4 episodes before calling it quits. I remember I nearly x'd out of the first episode of Sons Of Anarchy and deleted it because I was so bored, but I thought I'd give it a chance and now it's one of my favourite shows. Same thing with Parks & Recreation.

[benji]

Does it get more serious/suspensful at all or am I just expecting a different type of show altogether?

Yes, the Kate stuff to start the show was very weaksauce. I'd go at least two more episodes to get to the first mid-season cliffhanger before you give up in any case.

Like all USA shows (Burn Notice, Suits, etc.) though there's an ongoing plot that gets five or ten minutes per episode along with one or two full episodes a season (often season or mid-season finales) and then there's the weekly "adventure" that's usually self-contained. (Sometimes characters come back and so on.) They're in-between a serialized show (The Wire, Boss, etc.) and weekly procedural (Law and Order) so the status quo isn't ever upset too much.

[volsey]

Ah I got to maybe episode 8 or so, still not really jiving with me.

I really wish they would have played up on the whole Paul kidnapping Kate thing a little more, I was so pumped at the end of that episode where they hinted at it, only to find out next episode that he's still just a boring character with a smoking wife who he doesn't deserve at all.

Meanwhile I started watching Suits, and I love it. I realize how much alike the two shows are, like how Benji said they still have a self-contained case to solve, but I just like the characters and suspense more in Suits. It's funny the two main characters from both have such similar traits, but I love the Harvey & Mike duo sooooooo much more than Boring-Paul & Pretty-eyed-Nick. I can't wait to see how Mike Ross progresses as a character, and lawyer, where as Paul is a bland colorless character, and White Collar tries too hard to make Nick seem like the fucking sickest guy ever (he really began to sicken me).

The atmosphere, episode-to-episode cases, and each and every character are just soooo much better I find in Suits. Plus the hour long episodes are a plus, 0.5 hour episodes should be restricted to comedies, cartoons, sitcoms, and porn.

[benji]

That's just the pilot, Suits episodes are the same length as White Collar.

Who the hell are Paul and Nick?

[volsey]

Haha whoops shows how much I'm into the show, I meant Neal and Peter. close enuf

BTW Boardwalk Empire Season finale unreal! I completely understand why alot of people can't get into this show. However if you're really bored I'd recommend pushing through to the second season, imo it really picks up, and becomes more than just great production value and atmosphere.

[benji]

Pounded through some crap I had sitting around recently.

Bob's Burgers: Awesome, starts alright but then gets great after four episodes or so.

Allen Gregory (first six): Why does this exist? Someone suggested it was Jonah Hill's Springtime for Hitler but one episode was too well written for that. Maybe that was a decoy episode. It could be a good show if you marginalized the main character.

Know there's a thread but this is just an aside, finally caught up to this season of American Dad. The premiere episode of this season was beyond amazing, only this show on FOX could pull something like this off. I still can't believe how so far ahead this series is of everything else on the network. Even when it goes through the motions as it did a bit during season six it was still untouchable. Anything Seth MacFarlane does is justified as long as it keeps funding American Dad. (Although there is the fear he'll let FOX give up on it since all he does is voice work.)

Best hurricane crossover episode by far, justified the entire thing. CLASSIC AMERICAN DAD.

Suburgatory got worse. It was alright to start. Always Sunny and The League have been on fire.

Also, if you all don't watch Boss, I'll make a thread until you do.

[J@3]

American Horror Story is awesome, just finished watching all the episodes I had of that

[benji]

Because I seemed to remember this:

Bored To Death - This show was never all that good, but Ted Danson really started to carry it last year. Seems to have regressed back to not being funny this year.

What the fuck happened to this. I liked this season well enough, but I also was fine with the first season and I watch lots of weak things. But that second season was just incredible. I would not be surprised if this was the last season, the ratings completely tanked since it wasn't paired with Curb anymore. At some points it was getting close to 1/10th of the ratings from the second season. Absolute disaster.

And since I glanced up higher in the thread:

Free Agents
Whitney
Up All Night - ... If any of these survive to a second season it's probably this one. Parents love watching shows about being parents!

[el badman]

American Horror Story is awesome, just finished watching all the episodes I had of that

Agreed, I really like that show. Not sure what they can do next though, seems pretty hard now that mostly everyone is, well, dead.

[J@3]

American Horror Story is awesome, just finished watching all the episodes I had of that

Agreed, I really like that show. Not sure what they can do next though, seems pretty hard now that mostly everyone is, well, dead.

Yeah I'm wondering if they'll kill the dad and move onto a new family for next season or keep him alive and make next season focus on him raising the anti-christ, who I assume will grow up quickly since he was conceived/born within like 6 months

[[Q]]

anybody watch Shameless? (The US version)
episode 1 leaked

Emmy Rossum can get it

[J@3]

Yeah she is hot as fuck, needs to be nude for entire episodes though

[benji]

I would not be surprised if this was the last season, the ratings completely tanked since it wasn't paired with Curb anymore. At some points it was getting close to 1/10th of the ratings from the second season. Absolute disaster.

And it was. And it took Hung and How To Make It In America with it. But the lowest rated show on HBO in Enlightened got renewed.

[shadowgrin]

Emmy Rossum

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[ixcuincle]

FOX came out with a new Napoleon Dynamite show. It pushed back American Dad, which is one of the funniest shows on FOX right now, but it wasn't that bad. Haven't seen the movie, but based on those 2 premiere episodes, the show is pretty funny.