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Arist posted:Oh poo poo, they just announced Frances McDormand is playing God in Good Omens! What a loving cast in that show, my god. It sounds like it is going to be pretty good. Still a ways off though, IIRC Gaiman has said it is airing next year.
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The only thing that stops me orgasming instantly at the Good Omens show is that the book kind of died for me about a third of the way through. The first third is insanely brilliant and funny, and then the rest feels like something they knocked out over a weekend after discovering they didn't actually have any more plot or jokes. Hopefully the show fixes that problem though...
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Jul 21, 2018 01:27
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Shonda Rhines is working on 8 shows for Netflix and they all sound terrible. https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/netflix-shonda-rhimes-projects/
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Jul 21, 2018 01:49
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Lycus posted:The tweets were lovely, edgelord stuff that would be garbage even from a teenager. Yeah I think this sums it all up well. Who was it who lost a show a while back because the alt right led a campaign based on some tweets? I believe it ended with them getting back on the air and an apology being issues for listening to literal nazis. Maybe a news correspondent.
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Jul 21, 2018 02:14
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah I think this sums it all up well. Sam Seder got fired from MSNBC when the same alt right tool dug up a Roman Polanski joke he had made. The context clearly showed he was making fun of the film industry for accepting Polanski, so MSNBC hired him back and apologized.
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Jul 21, 2018 02:17
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That’s the one, good memory.
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esperterra posted:His jokes were disgusting and I'm not going to defend those, but I do believe that he sincerely moved on from it and changed and stopped doing it after he apologized the first time. The culture around jokes like that has changed a lot and quickly w/ the rise of the internet and social media and I think it's silly to can him over it, especially when it's something he doesn't seem to do at all any more. But I also don't really care who directs Marvel movies and I'm sure his career will be fine w/ those first two Guardians flicks under his belt so muscles like this! posted:I think this sums up my opinion on the whole situation.  and I think I'm done talking about it.
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Jul 21, 2018 02:37
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Mu Zeta posted:Shonda Rhines is working on 8 shows for Netflix and they all sound terrible. How do you get 8 shows at once?! Has she done previous Netflix releases?
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Jul 21, 2018 02:37
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LadyPictureShow posted:How do you get 8 shows at once?! Has she done previous Netflix releases? "dark comedy about a troop of teenage girls who survive the apocalypse and want humanity to live by their Sunshine Scouts rules." Say no more fam, i'm in.
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Jul 21, 2018 02:40
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Aside from the first couple (or few?) seasons of Scandal which were incredibly fun, are any of Shonda's shows any good? I gave up on Scandal after S3 I think. e: oh I guess I forgot about Grey's Anatomy. That was pretty good once upon a time. also I had no idea James Gunn was once with Troma. that's pretty cool
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Jul 21, 2018 02:44
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I'm not a fan of her shows, but I'm glad she keeps gettin work and employing tons of women and minorities, many of whom are baller af and deserve to be getting steady paycheques. e: oh yeah scandal was fun as hell for a while but i fell off quick. never could get into grey's despite how much i love sandra oh tho
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Jul 21, 2018 02:45
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LadyPictureShow posted:How do you get 8 shows at once?! Has she done previous Netflix releases? Better article https://www.thewrap.com/netflix-unveils-slate-8-shonda-rhimes-shows/ esperterra posted:I'm not a fan of her shows, but I'm glad she keeps gettin work and employing tons of women and minorities, many of whom are baller af and deserve to be getting steady paycheques. This is great and all but imagine if the shows were also good
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Jul 21, 2018 02:45
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Colony has gone from pretty good to fuckin' great this season, especially with Wayne Brady joining the cast and Peter Jacobson continuing to be "Ben Linus 2.0". Check it out if you haven't.
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Jul 21, 2018 02:47
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Mu Zeta posted:This is great and all but imagine if the shows were also good Oh I agree, but eh enough people seem to enjoy them so w/e.
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Jul 21, 2018 02:49
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precision posted:Colony has gone from pretty good to fuckin' great this season, especially with Wayne Brady joining the cast and Peter Jacobson continuing to be "Ben Linus 2.0". Check it out if you haven't. I see the thread has jumped up by way more posts than normal since the newest episode, so I can’t wait to catch up over the weekend. It’s been a better season than last year by a good chunk for me.
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Jul 21, 2018 02:52
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Norwegian Rudo posted:The only thing that stops me orgasming instantly at the Good Omens show is that the book kind of died for me about a third of the way through. The first third is insanely brilliant and funny, and then the rest feels like something they knocked out over a weekend after discovering they didn't actually have any more plot or jokes. Hopefully the show fixes that problem though... The one part I remember dragging on for way too long was the whole "Biker of the Apocalypse" bits. It seemed like something that P&G thought was way funnier than it turned out to be. Also kind of wonder if the "human being" joke will stay in. It's supposed to reflect poorly on the American soldier but it definitely seems a little too meanspirited now.
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Jul 21, 2018 02:56
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Mu Zeta posted:Shonda Rhines is working on 8 shows for Netflix and they all sound terrible. Shonda Rhimes posted:a dark comedy about a troop of teenage girls who survive the apocalypse and want humanity to live by their Sunshine Scouts rules. Nope, this concept rules.
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Jul 21, 2018 03:12
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Arist posted:Oh poo poo, they just announced Frances McDormand is playing God in Good Omens! What a loving cast in that show, my god.
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Jul 21, 2018 03:25
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muscles like this! posted:The one part I remember dragging on for way too long was the whole "Biker of the Apocalypse" bits. It seemed like something that P&G thought was way funnier than it turned out to be. I'm relatively certain that Gaiman wrote all the biker sections. There were a couple interviews where they talked about who wrote what and how the things that most people thought one of them wrote were actually written by the other one.
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Jul 21, 2018 03:30
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Davros1 posted:Apparently Buffy the Vampire Slayer's being rebooted  vLike c'mon, just set it as a sequel spin-off set in the original universe. You already have the lore and get to explore how things have changed in the Buffyverse since 2003. Everyone wins.
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BrianWilly posted:I think I'd be down for the Buffy reboot if the protag is clearly a different character, like she's called "Buffy Winters" or something. v Sequel would be a nightmare after the end of Angel, and the dickhead comics. Make it an 80's show and have an earlier Slayer.
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Jul 21, 2018 03:49
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Not a fan of Tennant personally (though he is a good actor, I won't deny that), but Sheen alone balances that out for me-- let alone the rest of the cast. Show should be worth it for that alone imo. e: ^^ I would be hella down for a Buffy series that is about a slayer who came before her. Either that or do a sequel where you ignore how Dawn turned into like a minotaur and a giant and a doll at some point and retcon all the dumb comics except for buffy lezzing it up, that can be canon
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Jul 21, 2018 03:59
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Or just finally make a Ripper show goddamnit
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Jul 21, 2018 04:00
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Davros1 posted:Apparently Buffy the Vampire Slayer's being rebooted Yeah, I saw that. Joss has handed off showrunner duties to someone else so maybe it’ll even be good!
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esperterra posted:Not a fan of Tennant personally (though he is a good actor, I won't deny that), but Sheen alone balances that out for me-- let alone the rest of the cast. Show should be worth it for that alone imo. Rebooting a show is ok, but Buffy is an entire universe. Get SMG back for one episode and merk her good. Next slayer...
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Jul 21, 2018 04:13
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Eh I’d rather have a do over, that way they won’t feel obligated to bring James Marsters or David Boreanez in once ratings start to flag.
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lelandjs posted:Yeah, I saw that. Joss has handed off showrunner duties to someone else so maybe it’ll even be good! Also she's a black woman who's written for Fringe and Shield, and they are casting a black woman for lead. So it'll be pretty different I imagine. Set during the current day obviously. It says they are going to build on the history but I don't know if that means the lead will be millenial Buffy or if she's a new slayer years after Buffy quote:The new version, which will be pitched to streaming and cable networks this summer, will be contemporary, building on the mythology of the original. Per the producers: “Like our world, it will be richly diverse, and like the original, some aspects of the series could be seen as metaphors for issues facing us all today.”
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Jul 21, 2018 04:28
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Shonda rules and her ensemble casts are pretty great. Like the only bad thing I can say about her work thus far is Scandal disappears into a lovely conspiracy concept in the 3rd season and never recovers but the cast still bring their a-game in every episode.
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Completely Uncontroversial-But-Correct Statement: Season 4 of Veep is easily the best season of the show, and possibly one of the most stacked casts in a season of comedy. You've got the usual suspects from the pilot who all grew so much as performers and characters: Matt Walsh Reid Scott Sufe Bradshaw Timothy Simons Tony Hale Anna Chlumsky and of course Julia Louis-Dreyfus doing career work (which is saying something given her career) You've got the great additions to the main cast from the few seasons in-between: Gary Cole Kevin Dunn Sam Richardson You've got a killer cast of recurring actors from previous seasons: Diedrich Bader Sarah Sutherland Kathy Naijimy Dan Bakkedahl/Nelson Franklin Randall Park Isaiah Whitlock Jr. Brian Huskey Sally Phillips (every Minna Hakkenen episode is practically my favorite of the season, she's so funny) plus a bunch of characters whose actors you might not know, but are essential to the show (Doyle, O'Brian, Thornhill, Sidney Purcell, Speaker Marwood, Owen Pierce) And then to top it all off like a pair of flavored whipped creams on a perfectly baked dessert, you get Hugh Laurie and Patton Oswalt, and it all comes together in the amazing C-SPAN testimony episode at the end of the season. Literally my only complaint is that Selena's ex-husband doesn't appear, but he's in all of the other seasons and there's only so much room.
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DC Murderverse posted:Completely Uncontroversial-But-Correct Statement: oh yeah, it's so goddamn good. I think I've watched it 3 or 4 times.
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Jul 21, 2018 06:43
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I'll always be partial to Season 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYOE8kL3dac
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Jul 21, 2018 06:51
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Season 5 is my personal favourite too, but 4 isn’t far behind. And then 6 is definitely the worst so far
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Honestly, I still haven't gotten around to watching Season 6. I don't know why, maybe the end of S5 felt like a perfect series finale to me.
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Jul 21, 2018 07:24
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You’re kind of right. More than anything 6 just feels superfluous.
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Mu Zeta posted:Shonda Rhines is working on 8 shows for Netflix and they all sound terrible. This one has a lot of potential: quote:The Warmth of Other Suns
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Yeah that one stands out but the EP is more of an academic and a playwright. Those people can't run TV shows.
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Mu Zeta posted:Yeah that one stands out but the EP is more of an academic and a playwright. Those people can't run TV shows. It'll depend on who else comes on board imo. If they can find someone to balance that out or properly translate it to TV it could be tight.
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Whenever Kurt Sutter's name comes up, the first thing I think of is his weird hate for JUSTIFIED and how they made Timothy Olyphant a producer on the show. He kept talking about how actors should never be involved in the creative process because it's nothing but an ego move for themselves until Graham Yost pointed out that a lot of the side-characters got more to do because Olyphant pushed for it and also that Chiklis became a producer on THE SHIELD (Sutter's answer to that was that Chiklis 'knew his place').
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DrVenkman posted:Whenever Kurt Sutter's name comes up, the first thing I think of is his weird hate for JUSTIFIED and how they made Timothy Olyphant a producer on the show. He kept talking about how actors should never be involved in the creative process because it's nothing but an ego move for themselves until Graham Yost pointed out that a lot of the side-characters got more to do because Olyphant pushed for it and also that Chiklis became a producer on THE SHIELD (Sutter's answer to that was that Chiklis 'knew his place'). Kurt Sutter is a loving idiot
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