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Ghost Leviathan posted:That just makes me think The Rat Race. Or that one Jojo. The best new thing I'm watching is Haikyuu, which is about a highschool volleyball team in Japan trying to make it to nationals. Entire seasons just take place over only like 1 or 2 matches and motherfucker I am HERE FOR IT
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Shageletic posted:The best new thing I'm watching is Haikyuu, which is about a highschool volleyball team in Japan trying to make it to nationals. Entire seasons just take place over only like 1 or 2 matches and motherfucker I am HERE FOR IT Haikyuu is great and I now find volleyball interesting, wtf
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YOLOsubmarine posted:Haikyuu is great and I now find volleyball interesting, wtf who knew? I thought it was a sport for nerds but I suddenly wanna go out there and do spikes and jump serves and poo poo. Shoulda watched this as a kid.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Can we turn it around and talk about terrible shows that were bad right away and rightfully died immediately? Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip loving sucked and deserved to die way before it did (it somehow got 22 episodes!). Who knew that Aaron Sorkin was bad at sketch comedy? ...What's that? Everyone? Oh, okay. (Also, I watched the premiere of this show instead of watching the rest of a Dodger game because they were down by a lot and I figured the game was over. Then the Dodgers hit 4 consecutive home runs to tie the game and later went on to win it. I'll never forgive Sorkin for this.)
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Man, a live action steel ball run TV show could kick incredible accounts of rear end if they were willing to maintain the insanity of the source material. I'd be impressed with any faithful long-form anime adaptation, really. Speed Racer was great but broad strokes at best, given its source material has more in common with cartoons of its era than the serialised storytelling that shonen manga is known for. YOLOsubmarine posted:Haikyuu is great and I now find volleyball interesting, wtf A lot of sports manga it seems tends to thread the needle by A: not assuming the audience is automatically familiar with all the rules and conventions of the sport, where some over-elaborate exposition actually becomes useful for an audience of nerds, and most importantly: being absurdly, ludicrously melodramatic about everything. I mean, there's reasons people watch irl sports.
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Shageletic posted:As an unabashed fan of Angel I was really hoping that Tim Minear would hit on something worth watching. He produces procedurals and apparently some of AHS? Wtf? Hey, 9-1-1 may not be a good show, but it's really entertaining, because they pretty much skipped the first 4 seasons in the writer's room and dove headfirst into we ran out of ideas wackiness from episode 1. 9-1-1 Lonestar sucks though.
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What was the LOST ripoff about a Survivor-type reality show in Siberia?
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I had no clue 75% of these shows existed and I’ve lost my loving mind reading these last few pages.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I had no clue 75% of these shows existed and I’ve lost my loving mind reading these last few pages.
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pospysyl posted:What was the LOST ripoff about a Survivor-type reality show in Siberia? It was actually called Siberia
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I had no clue 75% of these shows existed and I’ve lost my loving mind reading these last few pages. Every year there are a bunch of shows that I never watch, those were some from years past.
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FoneBone posted:It was actually called Siberia
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The United States posted:The tagline for the show, "What if the greatest country on earth had a king?" perfectly describes the show if one believes that the greatest country on earth is Israel, but is highly deceptive if one assumes, as Americans do, that it is America. What the gently caress!?
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I had no clue 75% of these shows existed and I’ve lost my loving mind reading these last few pages. If you get a chance, go on Youtube and search something like "ABC Fall 1982 Promo" or something along those lines. You can watch promo reels the networks would release promoting all their fall shows. The vast majority of those shows are completely forgotten because they were awful.
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Jose Oquendo posted:If you get a chance, go on Youtube and search something like "ABC Fall 1982 Promo" or something along those lines. You can watch promo reels the networks would release promoting all their fall shows. The vast majority of those shows are completely forgotten because they were awful. I actually find the schedules much more facinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982%E2%80%9383_United_States_network_television_schedule
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Iron Crowned posted:I actually find the schedules much more facinating: I want to see a visualization of timeslots and ratings over time. Seeing the Friday night death slot slowly put show after show out to pasture over the past 40 years would be illuminating.
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So wait...what actually WAS the titular event in The Event?
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Vandar posted:So wait...what actually WAS the titular event in The Event? Same thing that happened in The Happening (2008).
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I really enjoy that one compilation video of the football commentators hawking all the terrible post-football shows that existed over the years.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Same thing that happened in The Happening (2008). ...what was the thing that happened in The Happening?
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Vandar posted:...what was the thing that happened in The Happening? Someone committing suicide by feeding their arms to a lion?
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Vandar posted:...what was the thing that happened in The Happening? Nothing much, what was the thing that happened in The Happening with you?
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Nothing much, what was the thing that happened in The Happening with you?
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Vandar posted:...what was the thing that happened in The Happening? It was just the wind...
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Same thing that happened in The Happening (2008). I distinctly remember an ad for The Happening that featured a news broadcaster stating "there appears to be an event happening," so this checks out.
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Vandar posted:So wait...what actually WAS the titular event in The Event? https://twitter.com/nedroid/status/168223072602697729?s=20
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Jose Oquendo posted:If you get a chance, go on Youtube and search something like "ABC Fall 1982 Promo" or something along those lines. You can watch promo reels the networks would release promoting all their fall shows. The vast majority of those shows are completely forgotten because they were awful. My favorite versions of these are the specials made to hype the new season's Saturday morning cartoons as sometimes they added plots but they were still ridiculous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FIFc7xAyKs
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Tars Tarkas posted:My favorite versions of these are the specials made to hype the new season's Saturday morning cartoons as sometimes they added plots but they were still ridiculous Those are great too. I looked at that wiki page someone linked above and I forgot that networks used to devote LOTS of time to movies. It makes sense too because at that time, VHS was still in its infancy so TV was the only way to watch movies.
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Vandar posted:So wait...what actually WAS the titular event in The Event? The aliens teleporting their home world into Earth’s orbit with the intent of taking it over, since they used to live on Earth before humanity.
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AceOfFlames posted:The aliens teleporting their home world into Earth’s orbit with the intent of taking it over, since they used to live on Earth before humanity. Of course it's goddamn aliens.
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Are they aliens if they used to live on Earth?
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RevKrule posted:My favorite Lost ripoff show was "Flashforward." It had incredible star power including Joseph Fiennes, John Cho, and Courtney Vance along with two honest to god lost alums (Dominic Monaghan, Sonya Walger) and the whole show was based on the flashback/flashforward concept. It was...disappointing to say the least. There is a TV commercial for it on Youtube and the two songs it features are the LotR trailer version of Lux Aeterna alongside a version of Mad World. Two incredible cliche promo songs in one package.
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I just want to thank this thread (I am reasonably sure it is this one) for recommending the Whirely Pop. Gonna watch The Mitchells vs The Machines tonight with a serving of that. (And thanks to Mr. Robot, we're going to dump a bag of M&Ms in there too.)
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Tars Tarkas posted:Are they aliens if they used to live on Earth? Have we discussed how racists view Native Americans and some tell them to home to their country?
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:There was also Persons Unknown, which was billed as a one-season Lost clone that would wrap its mysteries up by the end of the first season. It did not. Persons Unknown also had a pre-movie star Chadwick Boseman.
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I'll never forget FlashForward if not for Joseph Fiennes' really, really over the top performance
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fancy stats posted:I think it means he has cancer? lol
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Vandar posted:So wait...what actually WAS the titular event in The Event?
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AceOfFlames posted:The aliens teleporting their home world into Earth’s orbit with the intent of taking it over, since they used to live on Earth before humanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usSZ2LKXqGI You forgot the best part though, the First Lady telling her kid "we're home" as the planet warps in Dun DUn DUN MonsieurChoc posted:What the gently caress!? KINGS was fantastic, top tier Ian McShane but everyone was giving it their all. AccountSupervisor posted:Kings was great. Very early awesome Sebastian Stan performance. Assepoester fucked around with this message at 02:59 on May 1, 2021 |
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The MSJ posted:...cursed by screwing over Orlando Jones. This also happened to American Gods, by the way. oh poo poo, I was just about to start watching American Gods. I enjoyed the book. How bad does it get and when? I enjoyed the Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel miniseries that the BBC made, was that made because of LOST or because of Harry Potter?
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