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Kurtofan posted:I think that's what I'm watching right now (on TF1), but NBC isn't going to air it and apparently no one else in North America seems interested Unless the second season is a lot better, NBC is actually saving America from bad TV for once.
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Cardboard Box A posted:I assume it got low ratings in the US when it aired, even for NBC. NBC foiled our plans of invading America with bad French television  I'm just surprised to see those things even get made. I can't help but feel bad for the big profile actors playing in them  Anyone here ever watches non English language tv shows? I haven't watched any in a long while.
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Kurtofan posted:Anyone here ever watches non English language tv shows? I haven't watched any in a long while. We kinda all got suckered into watching Les Revenants last year, and some people are still under the mistaken impression that it was good.
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So the goon who went on Millionaire walked away with $63k, a shirt that he sweated through, three passionate hugs with Terry Crews and one really awkward hug with the friend he brought with him as a lifeline. I'm calling it a success.
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Did the Terry Crews hugs give him superpowers?
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Sep 19, 2014 00:28
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Season finale of You're the Worst today. Also likely the series finale since it's one of the lowest rated comedies on TV.
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Hard to say with FX. Critical buzz might be enough to get it another season. Tyrant got neither good reviews nor particularly good ratings and got renewed today.
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hcreight posted:Hard to say with FX. Critical buzz might be enough to get it another season. Tyrant got neither good reviews nor particularly good ratings and got renewed today.
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Cardboard Box A posted:Can't wait to see how Bassam gets out of his wacky predicament next year! Bullet to the head in the opening shot. The rest of the season is Jamal's crazy hijinks as he balances being a dictator with his love of fishing.
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Daedo posted:Bullet to the head in the opening shot. The rest of the season is Jamal's crazy hijinks as he balances being a dictator with his love of fishing. This needs to happen. I want to watch the weekly episodic adventures of President Jamal & Friends, set amongst a vicious military crackdown against conspiring outside forces.
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If You're the Worst isn't renewed now that Tyrant got the green light... Oh man, there will be stuff with fist and kicking. It wouldn't be the first time such a well written show got canceled, but man does this show deserve a second season with a better lead in than Married.
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I dunno if any of y'all follow Todd Van der Werff's stuff on Vox but he keeps pimping Red Band Society and it's making me irl mad.
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More DC News: CBS has given a full series commitment to "Supergirl".
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Berlanti keeping DC afloat I see.
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Acknowledging Superman exists in her world is cool, but it will make the times he doesn't show up a bit silly. It makes sense when Thor doesn't show up for Iron Man's problems but helping everyone is kind of Superman's deal.
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Aphrodite posted:Acknowledging Superman exists in her world is cool, but it will make the times he doesn't show up a bit silly. I was thinking the same thing. I kind of wish that the show would just say, "There's no Superman. Just her." History has made Supergirl secondary to Superman in the comics, but there's no reason to do that with a fresh start on television.
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Random Stranger posted:I was thinking the same thing. I kind of wish that the show would just say, "There's no Superman. Just her." History has made Supergirl secondary to Superman in the comics, but there's no reason to do that with a fresh start on television.
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I don't think under any circumstances can there exist a supergirl media item that doesn't recognize supermans existence, since he's the most famous comic book character of all time (even though he's desperately boring and stupid) and audiences would flat-out reject anything that tries to create a world within the super(whatever) dc universe where superman never existed Superman is just too big and too popular A nightwing show could work, a teen titans show could work, hell were getting a Gotham show with no batman, a spider-girl/ spiderwoman show could work, but a superman show with no superman? Nope
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Sober posted:Yeah, hopefully that will be the case. I'd much prefer to see that instead, actually. Especially if DC doesn't want it interfering with the movies anyway, might as well go full bore in that direction. I don't think dc wants to separate their television outings from their movie outings, I think the arrow/flash stuff is a unique case and ultimately dc wants a version of the mcu because the trans media strategy has been huge for marvel, like loving huge DC's lack of centralized overarcing narrative a la the mcu isn't some difference in vision it's indicative of their completely disorganized, schizophrenic attempts at chasing after marvels money leading to a lack of creative coherency or vision
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Random Stranger posted:I was thinking the same thing. I kind of wish that the show would just say, "There's no Superman. Just her." History has made Supergirl secondary to Superman in the comics, but there's no reason to do that with a fresh start on television. Eh, it's fairly easy to fix that by having her show up superman and prove she doesn't need
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I hope the show goes full on batshit and has Comet the horse that turns into a man, and loves Supergirl.
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If they wanted to make a supergirl tv show without superman they would've made it a power girl tv show since that's essentially exactly what she is The problem with supergirl as with most to all dc heroines outsider of...Wonder Woman, I guess is that they're all defined by the relationship with and to the male superheroes Supergirl is the one of the biggest victims of this surreptitiously sexist dc trend of reducing their female heroes so their entire personalities are defined by the male heroes they are around but even power girl gets a lot of that, see also "my boob window is supes 's'" which is just kinda lol I mean I like power girl as a whole she's fairly progressive esp for dc but boy oh boy she still does feel at time likes "superman but with huge tits"
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Superman couldn't work on TV except for the other 4 times Superman worked on TV.
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If DC insists on TV Arrow and Flash not being in the DC movie universe they're trying to create with BvS, then it would stand to reason it would be just as much a good idea to just make Supergirl on the TV show the Super(wo)man instead.
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hcreight posted:Hard to say with FX. Critical buzz might be enough to get it another season. Tyrant got neither good reviews nor particularly good ratings and got renewed today. The fact it's the only show on FX to get critical buzz in years means it might get renewed. That says it better get renewed or I"m going to cut someone. There is no better show on tv about the horrors of relationships and going for your ideal of perfection and failing then You're the Worst. It even showed the horror of what moving in with someone you love is like and the fear of failure in that (Jimmy and Gretchan's fear at the end of the episode as they unpack the car). No other show has ever owned that the same way (I'm sure someone here that watches more TV then I do will have another show like it) more then Lindsay and Paul who both married the ideal mate in their heads then hated the real marriage. gently caress is it a good show.
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sbaldrick posted:The fact it's the only show on FX to get critical buzz in years means it might get renewed. Archer, Justified, and Americans don't get critical buzz?
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Sober posted:If DC insists on TV Arrow and Flash not being in the DC movie universe they're trying to create with BvS, then it would stand to reason it would be just as much a good idea to just make Supergirl on the TV show the Super(wo)man instead. My point is I'm p sure it's not that, it's a combination of the showrunners not wanting the headache of fitting it in to the dc movie universe and dc not really knowing how Dc is even half-assing it with bvs being kinda-sorta but not really in the man of steel "universe", a universe that has had exactly one movie in it, I think it's more dc desperately trying to make a ton of money without having any sort of overarcing plan beyond "we gotta beat marvel put out all the TV shows and movies, gently caress it" I mean have you seen their dev slate into 2020? It's clear that it's just a disorganized mess of " movie movie movie team up movie" that marvel did without realizing that marvel took like 8 loving years to get to the point where avengers 1 made narrative sense and agents of shield, despite its numerous faults, being cohesive to the world they established Again it's not to me dc trying to keep things segmented, it's time warner insisting they gotta catch Disney and having zero idea how to make any of it make any loving sense
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sbaldrick posted:The fact it's the only show on FX to get critical buzz in years means it might get renewed. Yeah, that Hail Mary really worked for Terriers...
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Yeah it's really loving terrible and I have no faith any of it is going to be any good, although I really hope Constantine is.
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DC now has a show on every broadcast network except the one owned by Disney. That's just weird.
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Deadpool posted:DC now has a show on every broadcast network except the one owned by Disney. That's I'm impressed...
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Anyway, it seems like it's a foregone conclusion that Superman exists in Supergirl anyway; here's the series logline: quote:Born on the planet Krypton, Kara Zor-el escaped amid its destruction years ago. Since arriving on Earth, she’s been hiding the powers she shares with her famous cousin. But now at age 24, she decides to embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she was always meant to be. So it might not even be connected to Arrow/Flash anyway. But yeah, I'm wondering if they entertained the idea of Supergirl = Superman in the show or an exec probably shot it down for something safer.
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timp posted:I'm impressed... Nah, I'll be impressed if they get a show on ABC.
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Daedo posted:Nah, I'll be impressed if they get a show on ABC. Psh, they did that decades ago. 
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bobkatt013 posted:Archer, Justified, and Americans don't get critical buzz? I completely forgot Archer and the Americans are on FX.
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Sam Elliott and Garret Dillahunt have been cast in the final season of Justified on F/X: http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/justified-casts-sam-elliott-garret-dillahunt-for-final-season-roles  Sam Elliott on Justified! C'mon Yost...you've got 13 more episodes to surprise me w/ an ultimate casting coup of Ian McShane. 
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DC currently has 11 shows in some stage of production or development across eight networks. That is insane.
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bobkatt013 posted:I hope the show goes full on batshit and has Comet the horse that turns into a man, and loves Supergirl. Excuse me, but you mean a centaur turned into a horse that turns into a man that loves Supergirl. Toxxupation posted:The problem with supergirl as with most to all dc heroines outsider of...Wonder Woman, I guess is that they're all defined by the relationship with and to the male superheroes In fairness to DC, they've spent the past forty years trying to fix this with varying levels of success. Power Girl, for example, was introduced in the 70's to be a feminist Supergirl.
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Dead Snoopy posted:Sam Elliott and Garret Dillahunt have been cast in the final season of Justified on F/X: Holy Jesus, bring it.
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Dead Snoopy posted:
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