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OK so I thought this might be a useful idea for a monthly thread - with 8 billion shows and 3 million networks/streaming sites in existence now, it's generally hard to keep up with what's on and when it starts etc, so I thought I'd crib from the excellent http://pogdesign.co.uk/cat which many of us already use to track what we've seen and list all the shows they have that air for the first time each month. Obviously September and October are going to be the busiest, but with cable/streaming staggers throughout the year it might be useful for then. So here's a straight list in order of start date as to what's new. Feel free to then post your feedback on what you've seen so far to other users so people can gauge what they might like or not. Sadly, the view I copy and paste this stuff from doesn't tell you whether something is comedy/drama/reality unlike some of the other pages on the site, but it should be fairly obvious for most I'd say. I haven't removed the 'selected by Users' bit as I guess it can show the popularity of the show amongst the users on the site. Also, not every single show gets added to the site in time but the majority are here I believe. Some will get threads, many won't. On with the list! Mary + Jane Starts 5th Sep 10:00pm On MTV Jordan and Paige, two twenty-something best friends, run an all-female weed delivery service in Los Angeles. They try to compete uncharted territory as Los Angeles comes out of the Green Closet and gets into high and higher times. Their ultimate goal is to get their pot...Selected by 1794 Users Loosely Exactly Nicole Starts 5th Sep 10:30pm On MTV Nicole Byer is living the Hollywood dream. Well, Hollywood adjacent - the deep valley to be precise - and it's not so much a dream but a struggle. With the help of her two besties, Veronica and Devin, Nicole will have to navigate the 'real world' as she endures humiliating...Selected by 583 Users StartUp Starts 6th Sep 8:00pm On Crackle Set amongst the unconstrained, yet opportunist streets of Miami, 'StartUp' weaves a complex and exciting narrative, featuring the high-stakes struggle of what one will do to reach ultimate success. Forced to fund a tech company with dirty money from unsuspecting places...Selected by 2077 Users Queen Sugar Starts 6th Sep 10:00pm On OWN The series follows the life of two sisters, Nova Bordelon and Charley Bordelon, who, with her teenage son Micah moves to the heart of Louisiana to claim an inheritance from her recently departed father - an 800-acre sugarcane...Selected by 1547 Users Atlanta Starts 6th Sep 10:00pm On FX Two cousins, with different views on art versus commerce, on their way up through the Atlanta rap scene; 'Earnest 'Earn' Marks', an ambitious college drop-out and his estranged cousin, who suddenly becomes a...Selected by 3172 Users Better Things Starts 8th Sep 10:00pm On FX Sam Fox is a single, working actor with no filter trying to raise her three daughters - Max, Frankie and Duke - in Los Angeles. She is mom, dad, referee and the...Selected by 2959 Users Quarry Starts 9th Sep 10:00pm On Cinemax U.S. Marine Mac Conway returns home after his second tour in Vietnam. Unable to settle into his old life and dogged by rumors of participating in a civilian massacre, he attracts the attention of the mysterious Broker, who is looking to add Mac to his portfolio of mercenary...Selected by 4508 Users Son of Zorn Starts 11th Sep 8:30pm On FOX Upon arriving home on Earth for the first time in 10 years, Zorn, a fully animated, legendary warrior, finds that reconnecting with his live-action son, Alan, and ex-wife, Edie, while suffering through a mundane office job and the banality of suburban life, is harder than...Selected by 2571 Users Doctor Doctor Starts 14th Sep 8:30pm On Nine The story of Hugh Knight, a rising heart surgeon who is gifted, charming and infallible. He is a hedonist who, due to his sheer talent, believes he can live outside the rules. His "work hard, play harder" philosophy is about to come back and bite...Selected by 0 Users High Maintenance Starts 16th Sep 11:00pm On HBO Jump into the daily routines of a diverse group of New Yorkers and how they light things up. "The Guy" is a nameless pot deliveryman whose client base includes an eccentric group of characters with neuroses as diverse as the...Selected by 1325 Users The Good Place Starts 19th Sep 8:00pm On NBC Eleanor Shellstrop is an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and...Selected by 6825 Users Kevin Can Wait Starts 19th Sep 8:30pm On CBS Kevin, a newly retired police officer, is looking forward to quality time with his family... and his fellow retired cops. When his oldest daughter announces she's dropping out of college to support her fiancé, Kevin knows his only choice is to move them both into his home...Selected by 3507 Users Bull Starts 20th Sep 9:00pm On CBS Brilliant, brash and charming, Dr. Bull is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition and high tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses and the accused...Selected by 7586 Users This Is Us Starts 20th Sep 10:00pm On NBC This refreshingly honest and provocative series follows a unique ensemble. And as their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would...Selected by 5267 Users Lethal Weapon Starts 21st Sep 8:00pm On FOX When Texas cop and former Navy SEAL Martin Riggs suffers the loss of his wife and baby, he moves to Los Angeles to start anew. There, he gets partnered with LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh, who, having recently suffered a "minor" heart attack, must avoid any stress in his...Selected by 9685 Users Speechless Starts 21st Sep 8:30pm On ABC The DiMeo family all have their own unique personality: a take charge mother (Maya) with an outlandish but no-holds-barred attitude, a husband who seems to be smarter than he thinks, a no-nonsense athletic daughter, a middle child who's the "brains" in the family, and their...Selected by 2926 Users Designated Survivor Starts 21st Sep 10:00pm On ABC On the night of the State of the Union, an explosion claims the lives of the President and all members of the Cabinet except for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Tom Kirkman, who had been named the Designated Survivor. Kirkman is immediately sworn in as President...Selected by 8211 Users Notorious Starts 22nd Sep 9:00pm On ABC Notorious follows the professional and personal relationship between a charismatic attorney and a powerhouse television producer as they attempt to control the media, the justice system, and ultimately - each other......Selected by 4676 Users Pitch Starts 22nd Sep 9:00pm On FOX Set in the confines of Major League Baseball, Pitch focuses on a young female pitcher, Ginny Baker, who becomes the first woman to play in the league, when she is chosen to play for the San Diego...Selected by 3886 Users MacGyver Starts 23rd Sep 8:00pm On CBS 20-something Angus MacGyver creates a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from...Selected by 12613 Users The Exorcist Starts 23rd Sep 9:00pm On FOX Father Tomas Ortega is a compassionate, progressive face of the Catholic Church, whilst Father Marcus Brennan is a fierce Templar Knight raised by the Vatican to battle evil. Both cross paths when one suburban family falls into the clutches of dark forces; college...Selected by 6021 Users Van Helsing Starts 23rd Sep 10:00pm On Syfy Vanessa Helsing, distant relative of famous vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, is resurrected only to find that vampires have taken over the world. She is humanity's last hope to lead an offensive to take back what has been lost....Selected by 12292 Users Aftermath Starts 27th Sep 10:00pm On Syfy Karen and Joshua Copeland and their children Dana, Brianna and Matt, must battle for survival after civilization comes to an apocalyptic end, triggered by massive storms, meteor strikes, earthquakes and plague - and the rise of supernatural...Selected by 5203 Users The Wrong Girl Starts 28th Sep 8:30pm On Ten Great job? Tick. Great best friend? Tick. Great flatmate? Tick. So what could possibly go wrong? Lily, the producer of a cooking segment on a morning television show called The Breakfast Bar, finds herself torn between two very different...Selected by 0 Users Marvel's Luke Cage Starts 30th Sep 11:59pm On Netflix After a sabotaged experiment leaves him with super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage becomes a fugitive trying to rebuild his life in modern day Harlem, New York City. But he is soon pulled out of the shadows and must fight a battle for the heart of his city -...Selected by 18295 Users
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I'll start as I've seen a few things, don't feel you have to follow my format or anything though. Loosely Exactly Nicole cheating a bit because I've not actually watched the whole episode, but I doubt it'll have many other people who've tried it. I like Nicole Byer as she was excellent on John Garbus' podcast and knew I needed to check out her show. What I've seen so far is pretty funny and will be keeping it on my stream list until I have chance to catch up to the rest of the episodes. Encouraging, at least. C+ Atlanta I don't think I love this as much as some other posters, but the first 2 episodes definitely have me on board to finish the season at the very least. It looks great, it seems to be telling an interesting story, and it's good to see Donald Glover back on the screen. B+ Better Things produced by Louis CK, under his company, with one of the main co-stars of Louie. So yeah, it's essentially a version of Louie from a female perspective from what I can tell so far, which isn't really a bad thing as I like Pamela Adlon. The most amusing thing was FX warning us on every single ad break that there were scenes of nudity, yet all I could assume this was talking about was a 1/2 second glimpse of a laptop with a fake porn site with no naked people on it. Never change, broadcasters. B The Good Place there doesn't seem to be many new sitcoms on the non-cable broadcasters this month, so I'm glad this is a Michael Schur one with Kristen Bell at the heart of it. She plays a dickhead really well, and I'm sure this will develop into something that's really fun. Good premise, with a solid start. B+ This Is Us mediocre as hell for the first 57 minutes with a really interesting plot twist towards the end. I'll give it a second shot just because it felt like the writing was hampered by the twist (and not spoiling it), but it really needs to get a whole lot more interesting and not rely solely on it's gimmick. C- Speechless spends so long lecturing the viewer it forgets to be funny in the slightest. D
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This thread is a great idea. ok thanks
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Sep 22, 2016 21:34
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Yeah this thread is good. Joe Swanberg's Easy premiered on Netflix today too.
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Lethal Weapon's pilot not sucking surprised the hell out of me. The casting is great and is easily the best part though.
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Here are my "power rankings". 1. Pitch - One of the best pilots I’ve ever seen, this seems geared and put together solely to appeal to me, and I’m okay with it. I hope it maintains the same intensity from the first episode. 2. Atlanta - I keep circling back to the Don Glover quote “Twin Peaks with rappers”. The show and world have gotten richer every week. Already renewed for Season 2 as well. 3. The Good Place - My best comparison is Last Man on Earth. This is funny and interesting and has very good plot hooks and cliffhangers each week. 4. The Exorcist - Another strong FOX pilot. I’m probably overrating since I love horror, but who cares. Geena Davis is great as well. 5. Better Things - The reductive comparison is “Louie with Pamela Adlon”, and he does contribute creatively to the show. It’s more than that and different than that, and I love it a lot so far. Already renewed for Season 2. 6. Lethal Weapon - They already aped two good sequences from the first two movies. I’m on board for the ride to find out if they have the budget for 20 more per year! 7. Designated Survivor - Bit of a rocky pilot despite the high-concept doing a great job selling itself. Keifer is great. Everyone else in the cast will hopefully get a chance to catch up. —— Right here is the cutoff for shows that I’m fairly confident I’m going to watch 100% through. The rest are on shaky ground and entertaining trash that I could drop with some bad episodes. 8. Speechless - It’s a good, smart, funny pilot. I like the chemistry between JJ and his ‘voice’. But I really dislike Minnie Driver / her character immensely. I want to like the show, but I hope she gets changed a little out of 'pilot mode’. 9. Son of Zorn - I love the stupid idea, but the first episode of this just brought semi-warm smiles and the promise for more laughs later. This did have one of the better pilot twists I’ve seen for a sitcom, though. 10. Kevin Can Wait - I like watching Kevin James fall down, and this isn’t insultingly unfunny yet. Also I laugh at everything “Chale” does. 11. Notorious - I had higher hopes for a Shondaland type production, but this was just a bit of a scattered mess. There were good moments and promising future dramas, though. And if I put up with The Newsroom to see this sorta thing…. 12. Bull - Does Michael Weatherly deserve better? Maybe this role in a bad show is his smarmy, know-it-all peak? I’m hoping it doesn’t get boring at least. 13. MacGyver - All the last-second tooling really shows as this episode was incredibly disjointed and almost nonsensical. I’ll see what it coalesces into. So far, I mildly enjoyed the voiceover as well as the updated, on-screen chryon type of explanations and labels for what was going on, science-wise.
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Not gonna lie, I liked Lethal Weapon. I hope they say I'M GETTING TOO OLD FOR THIS poo poo every single episode.
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Seen about half the new shows I want to see, and will keep slotting the rest in as I watch the premieres. I really like the idea of ranking these, so I'ma do that. 01. Atlanta - Probably one of the most unique shows of the year tonally. Strong mixture of humour and character work and Glover is excellent at having his work actually seem like it takes place in the present instead of like 1-2 years in the past, which isn't exactly a criticism of other shows, but it works really well here. Only issue with this is that the last 2 episodes haven't been on the same level as the impeccable second episode. 02. The Good Place - Definitely Schur's funniest show off the bat, while also having a strong mystery-esque undercurrent and some meaningful themes I can't wait to explore further. Doesn't seem like it'll have the strong ensemble of Parks or B99, but the cast are still killing it so far. 03. Easy - Perhaps the least necessary of all the "STORIES ABOUT LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS IN THE BIG CITY" shows, but also maybe the best. It's an anthology with each episode following new characters who sometimes are vaguely related, and more than anything it's maybe the single most real-feeling show I've ever seen. There isn't a single false note, or anything that feels dramatised. It's just....real life. Episodes 5 and 6 are two of the best episodes of TV of the year. 04. One Mississippi - While Atlanta might be the funniest of all the modern dramedies, this may be the one most devoid of laughs. It's a very strange, dark show that dramatises real events in her life and managed to mine every source of awkward and uncomfortable out of them. The drama really hits, especially in the smaller moments, and Tig's stepdad is an incredibly bizarre character. 05. Better Things - I wouldn't really agree with PRB that this is "a lot different" from Louie - it's about as close as two shows have ever been to being the same thing, in a lot of ways. Except she talks about periods etc instead of jackin it. So far it's very similar to Louie season 1 - pleasant, and frequently laugh-out-loud funny, but not quite reaching great level yet. Maybe we'll get a "God" later in the season to change that. 06. Pitch - In a later post. 07. Queen Sugar - Very well-made and acted, but hasn't quite got its hooks in me yet, ya feel? I like the characters but it hasn't done much to propel itself above the other billion family dramas, other than the race of the leads. 08. Speechless - Currently Minnie Driver and Cedric Yarborough are the only things I'm really feeling in this, and even then Driver is a very typical "human tornado doting mother". The pilot won it a couple more episodes. 09. This Is Us - Really well-written, with a unique voice. Strong characters. But in the end this basically felt like a short film with no real point. There is very little in this pilot to make you want to see what happens next. Especially with the 'twist' which honestly feels more like a wrap-up than a hook for an ongoing television series. still to see: High Maintenance Luke Cage Take My Wife Crisis in Six Scenes Westworld Insecure Goliath Escobarbarian fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Sep 25, 2016 |
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Pet Rock Band posted:
Actually I think they redid the entire pilot episode from scratch in a few months rather than last second retooling you imply.
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Pitch - Very very good pilot, but I don't think I'll be watching the show. Part of the reason it's so good is Fogelman's deft touch with dialogue and I doubt he'll be a major player in the writer's room. But mainly it's just not my sort of show - I absolutely recommend everyone check this one out. It did make me feel a little awkward with how overtly abusive the father character is, though, and how the show subconsciously approves seeing how she 1. made it to the majors because of it 2. only berates him for it when she's at her lowest ebb with it forgotten once she's better. It's also clear it's not something they'll explore fully, for reasons I can't really get into. But I still recommend it.
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Sep 25, 2016 00:05
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Is this also going to be the deathwatch thread? Those are always fun to follow.
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Sep 25, 2016 09:06
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Did anyone manage to watch the new MacGyver for more than a minute?
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Sep 25, 2016 11:52
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Jusupov posted:Did anyone manage to watch the new MacGyver for more than a minute? At the end they all sit around a fire with beer bottles and the camera slowly pans back and they start laughing at nothing and clink their beer bottles together.
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Jusupov posted:Did anyone manage to watch the new MacGyver for more than a minute? Yes, and I'm going to watch the second episode too. It has eighteen car pile-up fascination for me.
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I feel like the best modern version of McGyver we could hope for was the movie McGruber.
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Drifter posted:I feel like the best modern version of McGyver we could hope for was the movie McGruber. Well, good news because Will Forte has said he's started working on a script for McGruber 2.
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muscles like this? posted:Well, good news because Will Forte has said he's started working on a script for McGruber 2. Oh god, that's gonna be terrible.
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He's writing it with Jorma Taccone, so no reason to think it won't be a lot of fun.
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Sep 27, 2016 03:34
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Drifter posted:I feel like the best modern version of McGyver we could hope for was the movie McGruber. Yes, because a MacGyver played as serious as the first series can't be done anymore. It was a product of its time.
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Sep 27, 2016 14:19
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I saw Son of Zorn with a friend, and we were both on the fence until we lost it at the amazing gag with a minute or two to go. If the series is more like that and less like the mundane sitcom setup, it could be really good.
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Sep 27, 2016 19:53
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Pet Rock Band posted:At the end they all sit around a fire with beer bottles and the camera slowly pans back and they start laughing at nothing and clink their beer bottles together.  Also, a real exchange from the episode: - Was EVERYTHING a lie?! - Not us.... It's very bad.
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Sep 28, 2016 02:35
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80s action series writing wasn't exactly peak television either.
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Sep 28, 2016 09:53
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Not to mention the "not us" part was delivered to be the furthest thing from convincing.
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Sep 28, 2016 16:38
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Propaganda Machine posted:I saw Son of Zorn with a friend, and we were both on the fence until we lost it at the amazing gag with a minute or two to go. If the series is more like that and less like the mundane sitcom setup, it could be really good. Watched episode two and I take this back. It was poo poo.
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Sep 28, 2016 22:57
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Propaganda Machine posted:Watched episode two and I take this back. It was poo poo. It looks like a bad Adult Swim show.
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Sep 28, 2016 23:06
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Propaganda Machine posted:Watched episode two and I take this back. It was poo poo.
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Propaganda Machine posted:Watched episode two and I take this back. It was poo poo. Tim Meadows continues to be funny, but unfortunately the ratio of tim meadows to not tim meadows is pretty loving bad. I bet the in the pitch meeting for Zorn, at least one marketing executive compared it to "That horse-man show the kids all think is cool."
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Not gonna lie, I liked Lethal Weapon. I hope they say I'M GETTING TOO OLD FOR THIS poo poo every single episode. They had an "I'm not too old for this poo poo" and I'm going to count that. The first "real episode" had some flaws in the plot department, the bad guy was poorly acted and incredibly obvious. The character driven stuff is fantastic though. Keesha Sharp is killing it as Trish Murtaugh, I think she's going to be the glue that holds the show together. I'm still a little in shock that they started the series with Riggs' wife having the accident. For comparison, my roommate and I watched (most of) Lethal Weapon 4. The writing on the series is better. Much better.
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Loving The Good Place, Better Things, and Atlanta so far. Easy is also really excellent. Not there yet on Mary + Jane because I'm not sure who asked for Broad City Except Whiter. Just kidding I'm sure there are lots of people who asked for this. Not me though. Exorcist has been enjoyable so far but I feel like it could go off the rails any minute.
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Jusupov posted:Did anyone manage to watch the new MacGyver for more than a minute? Wife was told it was good. So we watched and hoped for the whole episode that 'maybe it gets better.' It. Does. Not. I had never seen any of the previous MacGyver. So after the first episode and about 10 in to the second episode I had some questions. Like, who plays the hacker girl in the original? Where's the base that his team gives him helpful tips for, etc etc. Wife suggest we check Netflix if original was there. It was and now I'm watching the series for the first time, so there's that. Mind you, this show is on CBS so we can expect it to go for at least 3 seasons. If Scorpion can get 3 seasons I don't see how 80s throwback Scorpion cant.
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Jusupov posted:Did anyone manage to watch the new MacGyver for more than a minute? I made it through the first episode, but couldn't make it out of the teaser of episode 2. It was offensively bad.
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Pitch really elevated itself with the 3rd episode after the first two decent but "sports movie"ish (complete with inspiration speeches) episodes.
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Oct 9, 2016 04:50
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I haven't seen anyone post anything about Quarry in here, so I will. It loving owns. Same showrunner as Banshee, a lot less violent and cartoony, but some great cinematography and deeper characters.
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Ego-bot posted:I haven't seen anyone post anything about Quarry in here, so I will. It loving owns. Same showrunner as Banshee, a lot less violent and cartoony, but some great cinematography and deeper characters. Quarry is like a cross between Banshee and Rectify, and just as excellent as both.
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At the very least, new MacGyver makes those old Simpsons jokes relevant again.Kraps posted:Pitch really elevated itself with the 3rd episode after the first two decent but "sports movie"ish (complete with inspiration speeches) episodes.
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