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Another month, so time for a list of brand new shows that hit the airwaves in order of airdate. Feel free to give feedback on them as they air, so the ones that won't get a thread have a chance to be seen by at least 3 people. Apologies the descriptions for these gets cut off, I'll try get full ones on them if I can find a quick an easy way to do it. Data comes from http://pogdesign.co.uk/cat which is still really good and you should use it. Westworld Starts 2nd Oct 9:00pm On HBO The story revolves around a futuristic theme park staffed by robots that can help guests live out their fantasies. The park breaks down, however, and two guests taking a Wild West adventure find themselves stalked by a gun-slinging...Selected by 16982 Users Timeless Starts 3rd Oct 10:00pm On NBC A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in...Selected by 15520 Users Conviction Starts 3rd Oct 10:00pm On ABC Lawyer and former First Daughter Hayes Morrison is about to accept a job offered from her nemesis, NY District Attorney Wayne Wallis, to avoid jail time for cocaine possession and avoid hurting her mother's Senate campaign. Working with his team at the new Conviction...Selected by 6001 Users No Tomorrow Starts 4th Oct 9:00pm On CW When a risk-averse, straight arrow, female procurement manager at an Amazon-like distribution center falls in love with a freewheeling man who lives life to the fullest because he believes the apocalypse is imminent, they embark on a quest together to fulfill their...Selected by 6631 Users Frequency Starts 5th Oct 9:00pm On CW A female police detective in 2016 discovers she is able to speak via a ham radio with her father (also a detective) who died in 1996. They forge a new relationship while working together on an unresolved murder case, but unintended consequences of the 'butterfly effect'...Selected by 10442 Users Divorce Starts 9th Oct 10:00pm On HBO Frances is a desperate woman who decides to leave her husband, Robert, after more than a decade of strained marriage. However, it's not as easy as she hoped, especially when Robert starts bringing in the big guns, the lawyers. As the divorce turns into a very, very...Selected by 2344 Users Insecure Starts 9th Oct 10:30pm On HBO Insecure explores the black female experience in an unclichéd and authentic way. Issa, like many of us, tries to figure out what - and who - she wants in life, and how to take control of it. Meanwhile, Molly is a successful corporate attorney who appears to have it all but...Selected by 538 Users Shoot the Messenger Starts 10th Oct 9:00pm On CBC The series follows Daisy Channing, a young reporter trying to balance a messy personal life with a burgeoning career. Things begin to go sideways for Daisy when she witnesses a murder she thinks is gang-related, only to find herself slowly drawn into an interconnected web...Selected by 1148 Users American Housewife Starts 11th Oct 8:30pm On ABC American Housewife follows Katie Otto, a confident, unapologetic, plump wife and mother of three, raises her flawed family in the wealthy town of Westport, Connecticut, filled with "perfect" mommies and their "perfect" offspring. She lets us in on her deepest, most...Selected by 2223 Users Channel Zero Starts 11th Oct 9:00pm On Syfy A child psychologist returns to his small town home to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his twin brother and a slew of other children in the 1980s, and how it is connected to a bizarre local children's television show that aired at the same...Selected by 3550 Users Falling Water Starts 13th Oct 10:00pm On USA Network Three unrelated people slowly realize that they are dreaming separate parts of a single common dream. Each of them is on a mysterious and highly personal quest - one is searching for his missing girlfriend, one is searching for a lost child, one is looking to cure his...Selected by 4428 Users Graves Starts 16th Oct 4:00pm On EPIX Former two-term President Richard Graves embarks on a Don Quixote-like quest to right the wrongs of his administration and reclaim his legacy 25 years after leaving the White House. His enlightenment takes place just as his wife Margaret Graves decides it's finally time for...Selected by 1391 Users Berlin Station Starts 16th Oct 5:00pm On EPIX Follows Daniel Meyer/Miller, who has just arrived at the CIA foreign station in Berlin, Germany. Meyer has a clandestine mission: to uncover the source of a leak who has supplied information to a now-famous whistleblower named Thomas Shaw. Guided by veteran Hector DeJean...Selected by 3334 Users Eyewitness Starts 16th Oct 10:00pm On USA Network Two teenage boys secretly meet up in a cabin, bear witness to a shooting and barely escape with their lives. Desperate to keep their relationship a secret and in fear of being found by the perpetrator, they remain silent but soon learn that what has been seen cannot be...Selected by 842 Users Man with a Plan Starts 24th Oct 8:30pm On CBS A contractor learns that parenting his three young children may be the most difficult job he's ever had. When Adam's wife goes back to work, he's overwhelmed by his new responsibilities at home, but with the encouragement of his wife and a few equally stressed-out parents...Selected by 4688 Users The Great Indoors Starts 27th Oct 8:30pm On CBS A renowned adventure reporter, who has spent his life exploring the edges of the earth, is now taking a desk job in the digital department of the magazine. He must adapt to the times and his new world. He's struggling to grasp the lingo of online click-bait and listicles...Selected by 3806 Users Pure Genius Starts 27th Oct 10:00pm On CBS A young tech billionaire builds the ultimate cutting-edge hospital that treats only the most rare and insurmountable medical mysteries. Lending credibility to this new venture is a maverick surgeon who's the first to discover that his boss's mission is to get bureaucracy...Selected by 6789 Users People of Earth Starts 31st Oct 9:00pm On TBS Journalist Wyatt Jones is skeptical when he investigates a support group for oddballs who think they have been abducted by aliens - yet the more he learns, the more confused, intrigued, and seduced he...Selected by 1076 Users
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How is it the Epix has two of the shows of the 3 shows on this list I want to watch?
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Oct 2, 2016 23:48
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sbaldrick posted:How is it the Epix has two of the shows of the 3 shows on this list I want to watch? The first two episodes of Berlin Station have been on their Youtube channel for a while. I enjoyed the hell out of them.
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Oct 3, 2016 19:26
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They aired the first episode of Falling Water after the Mr Robot finale and it was okay. It suffers a little too much from set up and not really explaining what was going on. And of course Westworld was fantastic.
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Oct 3, 2016 20:38
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Yeah, Falling Water sounded interesting enough but by about halfway through I was more interested in messing with my phone. If people are positive after a bunch of episodes, maybe I'll go back to it. Excited to finally watch Westworld tonight.
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Oct 3, 2016 21:04
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Timeless is loving poo poo garbage from a butt
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Oct 4, 2016 03:53
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Conviction is very dull. Not bad enough to be interesting, mostly very generic and nondescript with half-hearted attempts at an edgy protagonist. Hayley Atwell is good but nobody has anything to work with.
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Oct 4, 2016 04:01
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BiohazrD posted:Timeless is loving poo poo garbage from a butt It does not help that the protagonists are making plenty of dumb decisions. The soldier seems to have completely forgotten that the one thing, the one thing they have to not do is CHANGE history. So what's the first thing he does? He tries to save the life of a woman who was doomed to die. What a shithead. Who cares that she looks kinda like your dead wife - it's not your wife, you know it's not your wife, and you're specifically there to Not. Change. History. Moron. And then he kills someone in a hangar and everyone decides to hang around there in that restricted area for hours, and put a light on when it gets dark to ensure that the guards might notice. Surprise, they get caught by the cops like idiots because they hung out in a hangar with a corpse for hours for no good reason at all. Take the tools you need and leave. The ending butterfly effect stuff was kinda neat, but other than that this show feels like a real drag.
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Oct 4, 2016 04:08
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I enjoyed it but probably because I don't analyse action movies or shows to death. They're all loving stupid and full of plot holes and impossibilities.
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Oct 4, 2016 04:35
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Bill and Ted's Focus-Grouped Reboot Edit: Lol Timeline is poo poo :bigtran:. What if the Nazi's find your modern handgun (they figure out plastics I guess?)  I don't care because I'm edgy and tortured and here are my conflict points Hi I'm quadrupling down on the concept of the token black guy. haha old-timey racism sure is kooky. This joke will never get old.
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Oct 4, 2016 05:13
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I thought Timeless' biggest problem was how it just kept constantly throwing out mysteries and problems. The stuff with the sister came off as kind of unnecessary and a little half baked because they barely did anything with her. Obviously the character would care if she got erased but the audience doesn't because we don't really know her.
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Oct 4, 2016 11:39
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That has less to do with it being a bad show, and more to do with it being a pilot. If it keeps going in this pattern, then it will be a problem. As it is, I'm cautiously optimistic. I really liked Fringe, and this has a similar vibe (and Fringe was pretty goddamn brutal for the first few episodes, too).
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Oct 4, 2016 15:14
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Yeah, Timeline was pretty bad. Like I said in another thread, it feels like something they've had on the shelf since the '90s and decided to put into production for some reason.
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Oct 4, 2016 22:06
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I think the worst part about Timeless, besides everything of course, was black Elon Musk. It was so hamfisted and pointless
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Oct 4, 2016 23:06
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:It does not help that the protagonists are making plenty of dumb decisions. there's basically no way to enjoy a piece of fiction with time travel in it if you leave the 'tactical realism' switch in your brain on of course characters are gonna make mistakes and gently caress up history, that's the whole point of having characters go back into history times in the first place
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Oct 4, 2016 23:24
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PT6A posted:I enjoyed it but probably because I don't analyse action movies or shows to death. They're all loving stupid and full of plot holes and impossibilities. Brother Entropy posted:there's basically no way to enjoy a piece of fiction with time travel in it if you leave the 'tactical realism' switch in your brain on I’m all for turning my brain off to watch some silly popcorn shows. I do that for lots of shows and I enjoy them. Of course I’m not expecting everything to go completely perfectly and the heroes make no mistakes, that would be boring. There’s a difference, though, between making mistakes and doing completely stupid things you were explicitly told not to do, things which go completely against the reason you’re there in the first place. It’s like you’re going out for the evening and you get the neighborhood's best, 5-star-review babysitter to watch your kid. You give them one instruction: Do not put the baby in the washing machine. They nod and say “Got it. Do not put the baby in the washing machine”. Then 3 hours later you get home and where’s the goddamn baby? In the washing machine, of course.
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Oct 4, 2016 23:53
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I’m all for turning my brain off to watch some silly popcorn shows. I do that for lots of shows and I enjoy them. Of course I’m not expecting everything to go completely perfectly and the heroes make no mistakes, that would be boring. There’s a difference, though, between making mistakes and doing completely stupid things you were explicitly told not to do, things which go completely against the reason you’re there in the first place. you know you just basically described a sitcom gag right?
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Oct 4, 2016 23:58
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raditts posted:Yeah, Timeline was pretty bad. Like I said in another thread, it feels like something they've had on the shelf since the '90s and decided to put into production for some reason. NBC is actually being sued about it because some Spanish production company says they were shopping the premise around and claim that the person they talked to specifically said they were going to show it to Eric Kripke.
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Oct 5, 2016 00:05
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Brother Entropy posted:you know you just basically described a sitcom gag right? You do know that the show I was describing is a drama and isn't trying to play itself for laughs, right?
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Oct 5, 2016 00:29
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:You do know that the show I was describing is a drama and isn't trying to play itself for laughs, right? no but i assume it's trying to play itself for entertainment and accidentally loving up history sounds entertaining to me
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Oct 5, 2016 00:33
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Brother Entropy posted:there's basically no way to enjoy a piece of fiction with time travel in it if you leave the 'tactical realism' switch in your brain on There's "making mistakes" which might happen in a good time travel show, and then there's "deliberately loving up the timeline because you're a goddamned idiot" which is this show.
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Oct 5, 2016 00:47
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They kept explaining that you can't go back in the past to fix a mistake you made, so the whole time I thought ”ok, then have someone else do it”. I wasn't really impressed by the show and thought it was mostly boring.
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Oct 5, 2016 12:19
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Doctor Butts posted:They kept explaining that you can't go back in the past to fix a mistake you made, so the whole time I thought ”ok, then have someone else do it 'Can't go back to where the machine already was' I suppose, although that doesn't make much sense either. Yeah, I love time machines, airships and Johnson from Peep Show but that was crap. Needed a lot more Johnson for a start. Wasn't there a time travel sitcom coming? What happened to that?
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Oct 5, 2016 13:20
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Their justification was no one could go back in their own timeline. In the case of the soldier dude that no one can remember the name of, it was explained to him that he can't go save his wife.
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Oct 5, 2016 13:25
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Doctor Butts posted:Their justification was no one could go back in their own timeline. In the case of the soldier dude that no one can remember the name of, it was explained to him that he can't go save his wife. Oh, Blinovitch. Well that never made any sense either.
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Oct 5, 2016 13:32
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Maxwell Lord posted:Conviction is very dull. Not bad enough to be interesting, mostly very generic and nondescript with half-hearted attempts at an edgy protagonist. Hayley Atwell is good but nobody has anything to work with. Yeah I gave it a shot because I miss Hayley Atwell (RIP Agent Carter) but it was really really boring
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Oct 5, 2016 19:32
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The explanation wasn't that you couldn't go back, it was that creating a paradox would be really, really bad. There's a much more elegant argument against temporal assassination. "Paradoxes are bad. If we order you back in time to kill someone and you do it, then you'll never be ordered to go back in time and kill them and boom, paradox."
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Oct 6, 2016 02:56
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I mentioned this in the show's thread but I really liked No Tomorrow. I was already a fan of Joshua Sasse from Galavant and Jesse Rath from Defiance and I though Tori Anderson as the lead was a lot of fun too.
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Oct 6, 2016 03:29
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Watch Westworld.
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Oct 6, 2016 19:41
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I liked Timeless. It had pilot-itis for sure but I think it has a chance of being good. Plus it has Lem from Better Off Ted and I like him. Hopefully they'll let him act instead of just being "lol black guy in da past".
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Oct 7, 2016 15:02
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So far Timeless is poo poo to me. Gonna give it one more week. It's just... Meh.
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Oct 11, 2016 05:40
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Other than 2/3 people who are being sent back in time by the government to preserve history being on board with loving around with history I think Timeless's first two episodes have been fine.
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Oct 11, 2016 05:53
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This thread seems to be the unofficial Timeless thread. My biggest complaint about Timeless is that the bad guy obviously has some sort of end goal and some reason for Lucy to trust him and even help him in her future, but instead of sitting her down and explaining what Rittenhouse is and why it matters and all the stuff that would otherwise explain the big mystery, he just yells at her to stay away from him or whatnot. I do think it would have been a more interesting series if the history they were trying to preserve was different from our own like someone suggested, but obviously that wouldn't really play well with wider audiences, so we're left with this. I like it so far, but I'm a huge fan for anything with a remote hint of time travel, so I tend to give things a pass.
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Oct 12, 2016 00:14
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thedaian posted:This thread seems to be the unofficial Timeless thread. Someone should go back and do something about that.
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Oct 12, 2016 04:23
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Anyone going to watch that Channel Zero show? Apparently it's based on the creepypastas and all that stuff.
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Oct 12, 2016 04:54
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THF13 posted:Other than 2/3 people who are being sent back in time by the government to preserve history being on board with loving around with history I think Timeless's first two episodes have been fine. Well when they come back history is (to the people that sent them) completely unchanged anyway so I'm not sure it matters. I mean they only have the crew's word that they did anything at all, so why not go hog wild?
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Oct 12, 2016 15:47
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Oh hey, Lincoln's about to die and kick Reconstruction in the dick. Let's get to work to ensure this happens!
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Oct 13, 2016 05:59
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The show reminds me of the terrible 60's show The Time Tunnel. Some really should make a thread but I'm way to irresponsible and fickle to do it myself.
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Oct 13, 2016 15:04
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On the subject of Time Tunnel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCvyPRSDl2s
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ookiimarukochan posted:On the subject of Time Tunnel: That was pretty great. Hell, it even had the current Dr. Who in it.
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