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So how many episodes before Bull gets taken down by the Leverage team?
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Meh, I'm thinking my original feelings about This Is Us were on the money. The only interesting thing in the slightest was the gimmick reveal at the end. The white text opener was groan worthy too. These 'anthology style but all connected' shows just never seem to be particularly gripping to me.
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Sep 21, 2016 22:28
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The twist in This Is Us was not good enough to cover the whole "DON'T LOOK UP WHAT HAPPENS!!!!! KEEP IT A SURPRISE!!!!" deal from every single critic who saw it tbh. I overall liked it - Fogelman has a good gift for dialogue that feels totally natural - but I didn't exactly care about seeing further. I feel like it basically wrapped itself up already.
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Sep 21, 2016 23:00
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Bruceski posted:So how many episodes before Bull gets taken down by the Leverage team? aw. Leverage was such a good, low key agreeable show. There's a number of shows where I've idly thought "you know, now would be a good time for the Leverage crew to step in and take down this bastard".
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Sep 21, 2016 23:19
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Sober posted:Conversely, holy poo poo, the pilot for Bull is an absolute mess. I know I don't watch a lot of legal procedural dramas but it feels like I walked into the middle of the 6th season of a show where the writers are seriously spiraling. I can't believe you missed the worst part of the, the lead is "based" on Dr. Philip\s real life time as a jury consultant.
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Sep 21, 2016 23:21
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Spatula City posted:aw. Leverage was such a good, low key agreeable show. There's a number of shows where I've idly thought "you know, now would be a good time for the Leverage crew to step in and take down this bastard". If there was any premise that would be perfect for something like that, it's Leverage. Just have the crew hopping across shows and networks, taking down some villain of the week in NCIS, running into Shawn and Gus on Psych, outsmarting Peralta on Brooklyn 99. It would own.
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Sep 21, 2016 23:36
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I rather liked The Good Place. Bell and Danson are both on the top of their game.
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Sep 21, 2016 23:48
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Goldbergs is doing a Breakfast Club episode tonight, should be a solid opener.
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Sep 22, 2016 00:52
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Escobarbarian posted:The twist in This Is Us was not good enough to cover the whole "DON'T LOOK UP WHAT HAPPENS!!!!! KEEP IT A SURPRISE!!!!" deal from every single critic who saw it tbh. I overall liked it - Fogelman has a good gift for dialogue that feels totally natural - but I didn't exactly care about seeing further. I feel like it basically wrapped itself up already. I'm assuming the whole thing will be split story of the kids growing up and how it pertains to their lives as adults.
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Sep 22, 2016 01:16
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EL BROMANCE posted:Goldbergs is doing a Breakfast Club episode tonight, should be a solid opener. That's such an Anthony Michael Hall thing to say.
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Sep 22, 2016 01:20
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Zero One posted:That's such an Anthony Michael Hall thing to say. As the bad boy of TV IV, I respectfully ask you to take that back.
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Sep 22, 2016 02:37
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Snak posted:Oh yeah. Pretty great! I liked how they showed the tide turn during the first day of the siege. All the battles have been consistently great. Their budget for cgi boats etc has really helped convey scale. I wasn't sure the Paris siege was going to be believable at all, but they pulled it off. That Paris attack was really cool. Things like that make me so keen to learn more about history. It's just so hard to find things that are informative but easily digestible at the same time. What get's your vote: The Paris attack in Vikings or the Charleston attack in Black Sails?
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Sep 22, 2016 02:39
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Is there a You're the Worst season 2 thread yet?
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Sep 22, 2016 02:45
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I'm not sure, but they're airing Season 3 now so be careful you didn't miss a year.
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Sep 22, 2016 02:48
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EL BROMANCE posted:I'm not sure, but they're airing Season 3 now so be careful you didn't miss a year. Yeah, I meant 3 since that's the one that just started.
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Sep 22, 2016 02:50
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xcore posted:That Paris attack was really cool. Things like that make me so keen to learn more about history. It's just so hard to find things that are informative but easily digestible at the same time. I don't watch Black Sails... Yeah, I know the show isn't super accurate, but I'm going to look up so much poo poo as soon as I'm not worried about spoilers. It's also going to make me start playing Crusader Kings 2 again.
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Sep 22, 2016 02:53
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Snak posted:I don't watch Black Sails... Well that's it, now you're getting keelhauled for missing out on great television
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Sep 22, 2016 03:25
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I didn't like Vikings season 4 but I'm pretty excited about the possibilities for the next season based on the finale.
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Sep 22, 2016 03:56
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Designated Survivor was pretty good except for that ridiculous general. Yes, what the country needs at that moment is a coup, genius. Why don't shows know how to write loyal opposition instead of retarded idiots?
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Sep 22, 2016 04:12
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How the gently caress was Lethal Weapon so entertaining?
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Sep 22, 2016 04:14
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Is Hell on Wheels bad? I watched the first episode and it seemed surprisingly stuck up its own rear end despite looking and feeling like a fairly typical gritty Western thing. I enjoy Miles O'Brien having a go at being evil but Common seems like a waste as of the pilot episode. Is this worth getting into or should I be devoting my attention fully to Last Kingdom?
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Sep 22, 2016 04:14
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8-Bit Scholar posted:Is Hell on Wheels bad? I watched the first episode and it seemed surprisingly stuck up its own rear end despite looking and feeling like a fairly typical gritty Western thing. I enjoy Miles O'Brien having a go at being evil but Common seems like a waste as of the pilot episode. Is this worth getting into or should I be devoting my attention fully to Last Kingdom? I liked Hell on Wheels. Give it a couple episodes. I wasn't sure what to think of it at first but it ended up being one of those shows I binged through. I like the historical fiction aspect of some shows though, so ymmv. Been watching the new shows this week. I'll probably give lethal weapon a chance since the pilot wasn't horrible. Designated survivor was decent too. I'm looking forward to being thoroughly disappointed by macgyver this week. Probably my favorite show on tv when I was growing up, so there's no way this will measure up. I'm still planning to watch it!
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Sep 22, 2016 04:26
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Hell On Wheels is completely unremarkable. It's the Sam's Club Cola to Deadwood's Coke Classic in the same way that Ray Donovan is to the Sopranos.
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Sep 22, 2016 04:34
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I haven't watched Black-ish since the first few episodes of the first season, but thought a premiere would be a fun time to jump in. Got treated to a 30 minute advert for ABCs parent company as they enjoyed a VIP trip to Disney World. Yay!
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Sep 22, 2016 04:36
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Stan S. Stanman posted:I liked Hell on Wheels. Give it a couple episodes. I wasn't sure what to think of it at first but it ended up being one of those shows I binged through. I like the historical fiction aspect of some shows though, so ymmv. Calling it now. This guy is a mole or helped the bombing somehow. 
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Sep 22, 2016 05:00
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EL BROMANCE posted:I haven't watched Black-ish since the first few episodes of the first season, but thought a premiere would be a fun time to jump in. Got treated to a 30 minute advert for ABCs parent company as they enjoyed a VIP trip to Disney World. Yay! Holy poo poo, ABC is still doing this? I remember when Urkel, Roseanne, and something else all did that right after the buyout, family finances be damned.
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Sep 22, 2016 06:12
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8-Bit Scholar posted:Is Hell on Wheels bad? I watched the first episode and it seemed surprisingly stuck up its own rear end despite looking and feeling like a fairly typical gritty Western thing. I enjoy Miles O'Brien having a go at being evil but Common seems like a waste as of the pilot episode. Is this worth getting into or should I be devoting my attention fully to Last Kingdom?
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Sep 22, 2016 07:32
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:Yeah, I meant 3 since that's the one that just started. Yes it does.
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Sep 22, 2016 07:41
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Snak posted:I don't watch Black Sails... Yeah, the question was more aimed at thread as I remember you saying a few pages ago that you haven't seen Black sails. Don't bother looking poo poo up, at least on Wikipedia. Vikings is set that long ago that there is barely any historical record to go by. Apart from "how did Ragnar die" (which could quite easily change in the show anyway) there isn't much at all listed about his exploits (although post-Ragnar Viking stuff looks quite cool, so I hope the show continues beyond his death)
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Sep 22, 2016 07:42
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Designated Survivor was good. Lethal Weapon was surprisingly fun. The Good Place was really good. This is Us was great. So far I've already got more out of this broadcast season than last and it hasn't even been a week.
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Sep 22, 2016 08:05
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I don't think I picked up any new network shows last year other than CXG that didn't already get cancelled. Oh I guess Superstore but I wouldn't exactly give it a hearty recommendation it's just fun if you ever worked retail
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Sep 22, 2016 08:12
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as a longtime watcher of 24 i am disappointed that at no point in the designated survivor pilot did kiefer yell "DAMMIT" or "WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF PIE" also i feel like the only thing that could have made the "well i'm not THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES" line early on better was if he awkwardly stared into the camera like he was doing some kind of bizarre guest spot on an office episode watchable enough otherwise, though?
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Sep 22, 2016 08:16
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The general guy was ridiculous
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Sep 22, 2016 08:35
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Lethal Weapon is pretty cool. Decent writing and the acting is good too.
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Sep 22, 2016 10:18
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As far as President Bauer goes, in the event of a decapitation strike, I seriously, seriously doubt that the Secret Service would rush the designated survivor to the Oval Office to take the oath. Hell, on 9/11, the government wasn't sure if the attacks were over with, and told Bush that it was a terrible idea to go back to the White House that evening. He insisted upon it, and they relented, but if Congress had been wiped out that day, you can bet that any speeches the President had given for several weeks would have been from Cheyenne Mountain. It wouldn't have even been up to him at that point.
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Sep 22, 2016 10:25
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8-Bit Scholar posted:Is Hell on Wheels bad? Nope. First couple of seasons are pretty generic but still watchable, but after the change in showrunners it becomes more about the railroad rather than Bohannon`s bullshit and much more interesting.
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Sep 22, 2016 11:19
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Gonz posted:As far as President Bauer goes, in the event of a decapitation strike, I seriously, seriously doubt that the Secret Service would rush the designated survivor to the Oval Office to take the oath. As I understand it, what they'd do is rush him to a plane (so he can't be nuked in turn).
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Sep 22, 2016 12:04
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King Ralph did it better.
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Sep 22, 2016 12:37
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I enjoyed the show. I'll watch Kiefer Sutherland in anything that has to do with terrorism, political intrigue and conspiracies. But I have no patience left in my body for the ages old "main character's child acts like a goddamn moron" trope, and it looks like we're going to be forcefed that in spades on this show. I despise child actors 999 times out of 1,000. I don't care if they're 5 or 15 years old.
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xcore posted:Yeah, the question was more aimed at thread as I remember you saying a few pages ago that you haven't seen Black sails. gently caress you man, immediate spoilers!! edit: that spoiler was incorrect. Oh god the show broke history so badly. I'm not actually mad at you, I should have stuck to my guns. Of course there's not going to be any real historical record of the Viking side of things, what with them having no written records, but the lineage of English and French nobility is quite well documented. Also I assume there was an implied boat journey at some point, but I thought it was funny that it sounded like they were going to walk from Wessex to Rome. Like, hate to break it to you, England is on an island... I want to talk about this poo poo more, but it really belongs in the Vikings thread (which I assume exists), and I'm waiting until I'm caught up to venture into it. The other thing this show is making me want to rewatch is Arn: The Knight Templar, which is neither as epic or as historically accurate, but it was definitely neat. Snak fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Sep 22, 2016 |
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