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No Butt Stuff posted:That's because people let Jenji Kohan do whatever she wanted and no one had the stones to tell her it wasn't about an empowered woman, so much as about a real piece of poo poo. Then again Showtime actively insisted on this kind of treatment of the subject matter in Dexter (they vetoed killing him off in the end) so I'm not sure it was just the showrunner.
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Family Guy just got lazy. Offense is fine if you're making a point or you have conviction behind it, but the show does it in this insincere "we're being ironic OR ARE WE?" way. There's no substance. Hell even MacFarlane wants to move on these days, but it's hard to say no to lots and lots of money.
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Sep 14, 2015 00:51
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I never thought Frasier dipped too far- I'd argue maybe Season 10 dragged , but 8- and the entire "fat Daphne" suplot- is worth it for "Daphne Returns" alone. It was always a good show.
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Sep 19, 2015 02:34
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It pains me to say this, but Absolutely Fabulous. Seasons 1-3 are superb- a well written comedy with great banter and slapstick, and it sparked my lifelong crush on Julia Sawalha. They had a planned ending and it was just fine. Later they did a special, The Last Shout, and that was fun too. Season 4, done in late 2001, was a little uneven but had its high points. But it kinda kept going, and I dunno. It's a show where by nature, nobody changes very much (the whole point is to keep Patsy and Edina from having many redeeming qualities, so they're kept fairly broad), so I think after a while they started to exhaust comic possibilities. The later years are not without their moments (I do like the episode where Saffy puts on a play about her horrible childhood and everyone treats it like a comedy) but they started to focus on really unfunny side characters (Mo Gaffney had a recurring role and her character turned into the oldest, hoariest southern preacher routine you can imagine) to the point where, in the episode where Saffy has a baby, a good portion of the running time is given over to the side characters we don't know much about doing this medley of Chicago songs for no adequately explored reason. (And don't get me started on the kid's father, who was this weird joke of an African engineer who kept talking about plumbing or something.) It may just be my Sawalha crush talking but I felt like Saffy got short shrift in later seasons- she kinda turned into the show's Meg and didn't give as good as she got anymore.
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Sep 19, 2015 03:52
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Sleeveless posted:MadTV ran until 2009. Holy poo poo. I remember when E! got exclusive rerun rights to SNL, and Comedy Central switched from showing that show to MadTV. It was a dark day.
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Sep 19, 2015 03:59
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Gaunab posted:Most live action adult swim shows should have been canceled after their first episode, the obvious exception being Eric andre. Mr. Pickles is not live action?
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Sep 19, 2015 04:10
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crazy eyes mustafa posted:Hell's Kitchen stopped being entertaining several seasons ago. As a cooking show, 'reality' show and game show, it does none of these things particularly well. But I will watch anything with Gordon Ramsay. I tend to tune in once per season just to see how low their standards get each year.
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Sep 25, 2015 04:24
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Have you seen Childrens Hospital? I'm not a fan of the wacky/random Adult Swim style of humor, but I love that ridiculous little show and everyone on it. Most of them have built up a lifetime of goodwill with me, and sometimes it's amazingly clever and ambitious for what they accomplish in 12-minute episodes. Also its spiritual cousin NTSF:SD:SUV. I want more of that.
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Sep 29, 2015 01:25
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But the girlfriends on BBT are like the best part of the show. I would totally watch a spinoff that's just Penny, Amy, and Bernadette.
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Oct 3, 2015 02:40
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