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BlazinLow305 posted:I've got a problem. I think I've already seen the majority of shows people talk about on here, at least types that have ongoing serialized story arcs. I'm not picky on genre at all, I just enjoy a show I can watch/binge whatever with an involving story. Damages is heavily serialized, each season has its own contained story arc but there are many ongoing subplots and recurring characters. It's pretty good and features a lot of great cameos from actors you wouldn't normally expect to do dramatic work. Glenn Close and Rose Byrne really nail the tension, Close in particular plays bitch so well you wonder if its just natural. I found some parts of the second and third season to be off but they always do the late season climaxes well. It's been a critical darling for awhile but unfortunately always seems to disappoint in viewership, I remember reading that DirecTV might not pick it up again. I was pretty shocked they gave it another 2 seasons back in 2010. Anyway it'll give you a solid 4-5 seasons of material to check out and it was on Netflix last time I checked.
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Ok, just stopping by to tell everyone to watch the Good Wife.
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Finished Southland. It was very... OK? I'll certainly watch more if it returns, and I hope it does; I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone looking for a solidly executed "cop show", nothing more or less. A lot of the performances are quite good, Regina King and Michael Cudlitz especially. The thing that keeps nagging at me is a consistent pattern of what strikes me as frankly bizarre decisions in their storytelling. The first season ending with one of the detectives getting shot, but in a way that really has nothing to do with police work, could've happened to anyone who knocked on the wrong door at the wrong time. Following that his partner goes through a string of potential replacements for him who seem like they're being set up to take the role permanently and then disappear without explanation. Or Wood Harris being brought in to serve as what looks like the main criminal villain of the season, like The Shield used Anthony Anderson. And then he only appears in maybe four scenes? At first I chalked this up to uncertainty about its future, and the fact that its first two seasons add up to only a single season on cable and half for a network drama -- well within the grace period for finding its legs. But it continues: in season 3 when one of the main detectives is killed, this is barely referenced at all in the following episode. And maybe that's an interesting idea -- maybe, in reality, nothing much happens that day -- his partner would get debriefed and told to go home, his family would make their arrangements, the rest of the cops who didn't actually know him would say "that's lovely" and go about their business. But it really doesn't make any dramatic sense. And it shows up in the procedural case-of-the-week stuff as well: grandparents caring for their meth-addict daughter's child are found murdered. The junkie and her boyfriend are the obvious suspects, but a piece of evidence later implicates the victims' other, well-off daughter and her husband -- and that's the end of the case. Care to share with us why they did that, Southland? Maybe in a standard interrogation scene like that commonly found in every episode of every police drama ever made? No? OK then. It's like somebody there is aware of the principle that good dramas can trust their audience to follow along without having everything spelled out for them but is grossly misapplying it. Or the writers are forced to produce episodes at random without any idea of what happened on the previous episode. Somebody please tell me I'm not the only one seeing this.
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Apr 21, 2012 01:28
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Starting the final of Six Feet Under tonight, mainly because of the fact that there's nothing else on TV tonight so I might as well start. I also started watching Married... With Children and I can honestly say that it was ahead of it's time. If it started airing today, it would be your standard primetime comedy, but for the time frame that it aired it was very risque and also hilarious.
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Apr 21, 2012 16:24
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All of season 4 of Eureka so I can continue with the start of 5.
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Apr 22, 2012 15:17
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Echoing Supernatural. Really fun show.
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Apr 23, 2012 02:38
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Reno 911! and Trailer Park Boys. They're almost companion pieces.
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Apr 23, 2012 04:31
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On season 5 of Newsradio. It lost a lot of what made it great with Phil dying but everyone other then Andy Dick is still funny.
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Apr 23, 2012 04:56
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bobkatt013 posted:On season 5 of Newsradio. It lost a lot of what made it great with Phil dying but everyone other then Andy Dick is still funny. I stopped watching during the first episode of Season 5. The first episode was kind of a tribute to Phil but they were making jokes about the characters in show death and the cast of the show was simply not up to joking about it. For those who don't know Phil was murdered in his sleep by his wife after an argument about her cocaine use which was made worse by claims that Andy Dick had introduced Phil's wife to cocaine. Then in the episode Andy Dick's character believed that Phil/Bill wasn't dead but was pretending to be dead instead. The whole thing was pretty out of taste so I stopped watching which is a shame as the first few seasons were amazing. Do they stop talking about Phil's death as the season goes on?
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SolidRed posted:I stopped watching during the first episode of Season 5. The first episode was kind of a tribute to Phil but they were making jokes about the characters in show death and the cast of the show was simply not up to joking about it. For those who don't know Phil was murdered in his sleep by his wife after an argument about her cocaine use which was made worse by claims that Andy Dick had introduced Phil's wife to cocaine. Yeah, they brought in Jon Lovitz to replace Hartman. But the show just wasn't the same. If it makes you feel any better, Jon Lovitz eventually beat the poo poo out of Andy Dick for his role in Phil Hartman's death.
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SolidRed posted:I stopped watching during the first episode of Season 5. The first episode was kind of a tribute to Phil but they were making jokes about the characters in show death and the cast of the show was simply not up to joking about it. For those who don't know Phil was murdered in his sleep by his wife after an argument about her cocaine use which was made worse by claims that Andy Dick had introduced Phil's wife to cocaine. It was actually a really tasteful tribute to Phil. It is hard to watch as all the cast are in shock. Also for the rest of the series in Dave's office there is a magazine cover with Phil’s face. If you think that episode is uncomfortable watch the Titanic one which is Phil’s last episode.
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Apr 23, 2012 13:32
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BlazinLow305 posted:I'm not going to bother trying to list everyone, but I haven't seen Damages yet and I think I remember hearing good things. Is it a decent show? Serialized story arcs? Also check out Murder One if you haven't already.
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thrakkorzog posted:
Wait what? I've never heard about this. Are thee details somewhere?
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ApolloCreed posted:Wait what? I've never heard about this. Are thee details somewhere? It happened at a comedy club in LA, I remember reading about it a long time ago. Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman were friends and JL blamed Andy Dick for the death and also just generally being a douchebag that no one likes. Andy Dick also apparently goaded him a lot on the set. I hadn't heard the drug rumor, I thought it was over an affair but who knows with the lifestyle a lot of them lead out there.
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Apr 23, 2012 16:49
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The Gunslinger posted:It happened at a comedy club in LA, I remember reading about it a long time ago. Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman were friends and JL blamed Andy Dick for the death and also just generally being a douchebag that no one likes. Andy Dick also apparently goaded him a lot on the set. I hadn't heard the drug rumor, I thought it was over an affair but who knows with the lifestyle a lot of them lead out there. If you read the artice it says that he went over to him and told Lovitz he was going to put the Hartman hex on him and he is going to die. John Lovitz also blamed Andy for getting Phil's wife back on drugs.
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Apr 23, 2012 17:13
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Netflix got smart and added at least one show I want to binge watch after giving a shot this season, Archer. (I guess it's a new release? We've only had it about a month.) Two episodes down, with the balance of Seasons 1 and 2 to go. So far, between those episodes and the chunk of Season 3 I saw, it's a series that is on the border of interest and disinterest, but I'm looking forward to seeing where the seasons go. Now if only they'd add Southland's first couple seasons...
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Apr 24, 2012 00:10
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CBJSprague24 posted:Netflix got smart and added at least one show I want to binge watch after giving a shot this season, Archer. (I guess it's a new release? We've only had it about a month.) It's no Southland, but Chicago Code also went up recently. It's a drat shame that show only made it one season.
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Apr 24, 2012 00:49
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I've been bingeing through Avatar: The Last Airbender to get psyched for Legend of Korra. Such an amazing show. I also just saw Adventure Time for the first time, and I can't wait to hit that up - genuinely hilarious and creative animation. Outside of animations, I recently did a one-day Game of Thrones marathon to get up to speed for season 2, and I'm thinking I'll smash Wonderfalls again soon. Been too long.
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Apr 24, 2012 08:25
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Well, I just finished Journeyman in two days. It was a great show and as I feel there is still a lot of room for stories that could have been told. Thanks to whoever recommended it on this forum, definitely worth the time and the ending is beautiful for a premature ending. Kind of reminds me of the ending of Stargate: Universe, which was also fine by me.
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Apr 25, 2012 12:49
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My fiancee and I have a tradition of watching half-hour shows before we go to bed. We've gone all the way through Friends, How I Met Your Mother, M*A*S*H, and My Name is Earl so far. We started Scrubs, a show I have a distinct fondness for. However, I totally have to admit... it's pretty crappy circa seasons 5-6. There are a few gems in there, but the humor is way too zany and lots of jokes are at the expense of character continuity. (Laverne has always been the Christian disapproving of premarital sex, and then we get a throwaway line that tells us she and Kelso once had a hot affair? Kelso's gay son has a fiancee named Brad in one episode, and the next he has a lifepartner named Eduardo?) I hear the show improves in season 8 (and then is terrible for season 9) so I guess I'll just keep going...
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Apr 25, 2012 21:30
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Yeah, season 8 was a nice return to form. It was a proper send-off. Season 9 really should not have happened, but luckily it's easy to ignore.
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Archer's teaching me something about myself in terms of TV watching. Archer is an insufferable prick, but, possibly due to the people around him or his stupidity that may negate his abrasive personality, he's somewhat likeable. Virtually everyone on Allen Gregory was an insufferable prick, yet there was nothing enjoyable about them other than rageposting in the AG thread on TV IV.Chamberk posted:We started Scrubs, a show I have a distinct fondness for. However, I totally have to admit... it's pretty crappy circa seasons 5-6. There are a few gems in there, but the humor is way too zany and lots of jokes are at the expense of character continuity. (Laverne has always been the Christian disapproving of premarital sex, and then we get a throwaway line that tells us she and Kelso once had a hot affair? Kelso's gay son has a fiancee named Brad in one episode, and the next he has a lifepartner named Eduardo?) I hear the show improves in season 8 (and then is terrible for season 9) so I guess I'll just keep going... I watched reruns of Scrubs for about 6 months just after Comedy Central started showing them in syndication. It was fun for a while, but I got too annoyed with it, primarily virtually anything Carla did and the Family Guy-style side jokes/daydreams.
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Season 8 is possibly in my top 2/3 seasons of Scrubs. I think it's fantastic. Season 9 shouldn't have happened at all but it's still better than seasons 6/7.
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I'm going through The West Wing, and just watched Two Cathedrals. Goddrat. (Why haven't I watched this show before.)
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Apr 27, 2012 03:16
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Lord Hydronium posted:I'm going through The West Wing, and just watched Two Cathedrals. I'm a strong believer that that episode just gets better with each rewatch. In fact I think I'll pop that in right now.
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I really love the 3-4 episode arc that leads up to Two Cathedrals as well. It's such a great payoff.
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Apr 27, 2012 03:34
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One of my friends is going through season 2 now and I can't wait for him to get to 17 People.
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I'd watched the first three eps of Supernatural like a year ago and thought it was just okay, but it seemed like my kind of show, so I decided to give it another go (also Annakie promised that meeting Castiel would change everything). Finished off the first season and wasn't super impressed, second season got better, but I still wasn't really getting it. But by the third season I was really enjoying it and started to understand why everyone raves about this show. And then I got to season 4 and 5. Holy crap. The seasons-long stories, the acting, the writing, and of course Castiel (  ) all absolutely blew me away. I finished season 5 last night and can't believe what a perfect finale that was. ALL MY TEARS. Thank you God for not only bringing Cas back, but returning his powers so he could save Bobby! I'm taking a few days break to emotionally recover (I did s4+5 in the span of about six days) but I can't wait to see more. I've heard s6+7 aren't as good as 4 and 5 (but how could they be, they were perfection), but as long as Sam, Dean, and Cas go around kicking rear end and being hot and snarky, I'll be happy. 
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Nate RFB posted:Yeah, season 8 was a nice return to form. It was a proper send-off.
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Watching The West Wing again because I never finished it the first time I tried to go through it, and because it's loving awesome why did I not finish it?
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FateoMcSkippy posted:Watching The West Wing again because I never finished it the first time I tried to go through it, and because it's loving awesome why did I not finish it? You got to season 5? Rewatching Veronica Mars. It is so weird seeing all these famous people before they became famous. The latest episode has Levy from Wire as a decent guy. bobkatt013 fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Apr 29, 2012 |
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bobkatt013 posted:You got to season 5? And then there's that episode with Jonathon Taylor Thomas, where you can see the famous person after he stopped being famous.
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Ratatozsk posted:And then there's that episode with Jonathon Taylor Thomas, where you can see the famous person after he stopped being famous. Yep and the episode before that had his brother from Home Improvement.
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Just started binging through The Wire, next up will probably be The West Wing or Fringe, can't decide which quite yet.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Archer's teaching me something about myself in terms of TV watching. Archer is an insufferable prick, but, possibly due to the people around him or his stupidity that may negate his abrasive personality, he's somewhat likeable. Virtually everyone on Allen Gregory was an insufferable prick, yet there was nothing enjoyable about them other than rageposting in the AG thread on TV IV. For irredeemable people to work in a sitcom, I find that they need to get their comeuppance on a regular basis. George Costanza would regularly suffer from setbacks, the Always Sunny crew's schemes constantly backfire, and even Archer has suffered the consequences of his bullshit. From the couple of episodes I saw and what I read in the thread, Allen Gregory was a horrendous brat who almost always got his way. It also helps that Archer's antics are much funnier than anything anyone on Allen Gregory did. I've been going through Star Trek TNG the past several days on Netflix. I was under the impression that I had seen most of the really good episodes on various runs on cable over the last several years, and was delighted to find out how wrong I was. And I have the luxury of knowing some of the ones to skip, like the one about the creepy ghost who keeps having affairs with Dr. Crusher and her ancestors.
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bobkatt013 posted:Yep and the episode before that had his brother from Home Improvement. Whoah, I forgot about that one. But to be fair, he never got quite as famous as JTT.
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bobkatt013 posted:You got to season 5? I think that's the season I got to, but I honestly can't remember not liking it. I just got busy with other things and just stopped.
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Shin Doctor posted:Just started binging through The Wire, next up will probably be The West Wing or Fringe, can't decide which quite yet. I've actually returned to The Wire, season 3, but I'm totally unable to binge it. I'll watch the first four or five episodes over the course or a week or two and then maybe marathon the end of the season over a couple of days. But then I walked away completely for a few months between seasons. I'm absolutely in love with the show. But for some reason I can't digest it any faster.
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There's no advantage to binging through The Wire. You'll probably miss a lot of stuff that way. It gets better on the second viewing any way.
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Mu Zeta posted:There's no advantage to binging through The Wire. You'll probably miss a lot of stuff that way. It gets better on the second viewing any way. ...to be fair, if you binge through The Wire, it just means that you're that much closer to your second viewing 
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