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See that's what I thought, but then some goons said HBO really doesn't have a choice at this point, plus Nicky is paid for until '18, then Matt MaConahey started talking about how he's pushing to be in the next season
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Jul 20, 2016 21:17
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http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0118322/ nothing I have seen lately is worse than this.
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Jul 20, 2016 21:24
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BillmasterCozb posted:its the nutshack gently caress you for reminding me this exists.
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Professor Shark posted:See that's what I thought, but then some goons said HBO really doesn't have a choice at this point, plus Nicky is paid for until '18, then Matt MaConahey started talking about how he's pushing to be in the next season I thought I heard that both parties opted out of the contract or something, but I could be mistaken. I really hope McConaughey doesn't force himself into the script. A cameo could be fine but I'd like for the series to remain an anthology.
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Jul 20, 2016 21:39
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every time I accidentally watch a bit of Everybody Loves Raymond I feel like it sucks away a part of my soul and I feel a little more hollow inside
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Jul 20, 2016 21:47
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For some reason I thought of Century City, a short-lived, pretty standard legal show, except it's set in THE FUTURE. I remember watching one episode and it just being meh, whatever, but check looking at the episode descripions I'm wondering how this wasn't the best show ever: It's like a proto-Black Mirror, but like the bad episodes General Dog fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jul 20, 2016 |
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Monkey Fracas posted:every time I accidentally watch a bit of Everybody Loves Raymond I feel like it sucks away a part of my soul and I feel a little more hollow inside I worked in an environment where sick, elderly people would turn the TV on and watch CBS or one of those networks that constantly reruns Everybody Loves Raymond and other old people shows. I wished OSHA would implement some kind-of A/V scrambler for the TVs when anyone under the age of 40 walks into the room.
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General Dog posted:For some reason I thought of Century City, a short-lived, pretty standard legal show, except it's set in THE FUTURE. I remember watching one episode and it just being meh, whatever, but check looking at the episode descripions I'm wondering how this wasn't the best show ever: I actually love that show, even though they really should have made the B plots the core of the episode. "Nanorape SVU" was lovely compared to the case of the child actor who trying to emancipate himself from his parents so he can take age-suppression pills so he can continue his sitcom career and the " quote:"Oh, my landlord had one of those"
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Jul 20, 2016 22:35
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Dexter was lovely right from the start and the only people that think otherwise are very poorly-versed in fiction or severely emotionally stunted. Seriously, the first season is about how the lead character, a super awesome serial killer that's TOTALLY JUST A FLAWED GOOD GUY WE PROMISE, finds out about his TRAGIC PAST while doing battle with his actual long-lost evil brother, and it's all played completely straight. It's certainly not the worst show ever or anything, particularly in a world where Everybody Loves Raymond and Kevin Spencer exist, but I'll never understand the people who were pissed about the ending and saying it was good until it got dumb in the last season when the show literally opened with that absurdity.
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Jul 20, 2016 23:00
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A more dramatic show about Rita would have been better than Benevolent Serial Killer
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Dexter was campy as poo poo, but it was at least captivating at first, if you allowed yourself to be pulled in. Beyond the end of season 4, though, any remnants of that dissipated very quickly.
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CannedMacabre posted:The Mentalist was exceptionally bad. It was corny, had its stereotypical characters, but the main bad guy (Red John) was intriguing that kept me watching. Now this was a serial killer who hosed up Jane just because he talked poo poo about him for a few minutes on live TV. And was always one step ahead of them, every way. Pity how they had to shoe horn him being revealed so quick in the end. And the last season or two after Red John is poo poo.
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Non-Canadians look up Just for Laughs Gags or Knuckleheads or LOL to see the kind of poo poo tv Quebec keeps excreting. Just for Laughs (the english language stand up comedy showcase) and a sketch show called YB Normal from like 1999 are the only tolerable shows Quebec has produced in it's entire history. The Traditional french comedy from the Just for Laughs festival is so notoriously bad nobody airs it. Maybe not even Quebec tv stations. The province's major cultural export is a lame prank show only the severely elderly can tolerate. To summarize: Quebec makes the worst TV shows, but limited distribution means few people see them. What is it about French that makes everything it touches profoundly unfunny?
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Sten Freak posted:How is Grey's Anatomy still on? I saw a commercial the other day and was shocked. Not saying it's worst ever but 11 or whatever seasons really? because Shonda Rhimes basically owns ABC at this stage
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Millions of Crows posted:Non-Canadians look up Just for Laughs Gags or Knuckleheads or LOL to see the kind of poo poo tv Quebec keeps excreting. Shut your mouth. JFL has a decent 1 gold for every 4 pranks, living in Quebec must be some sort of surreal experience where you never trust that cops have bullets in their guns
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Troy Queef posted:because Shonda Rhimes basically owns ABC at this stage And somehow she is still better than both MacFarlane, who owns Fox, and Lorre, who owns CBS.
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Jul 20, 2016 23:45
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https://youtu.be/5gRGS0CHQHM this show was pretty terrible. At least the video games redeemed it.
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Millions of Crows posted:Non-Canadians look up Just for Laughs Gags or Knuckleheads or LOL to see the kind of poo poo tv Quebec keeps excreting. They used to show Just For Laughs in the UK back in the late 90s early 2000s. It was 'strange' as it was so tame. We would have swearing and such all night, then this would come on and its 'whats the deal with airline food' blandness. It was our first introduction to US/Canadian comedy back at the time, even when the UK comedians appeared they were using their kid birthday party material so not to offend anyone. Was bizarre watching it. Edit: Oh, and the first 2 minutes of EVERYONES act is 'Im sure happy to be here in Montreal...'. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Jul 20, 2016 |
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General Dog posted:For some reason I thought of Century City, a short-lived, pretty standard legal show, except it's set in THE FUTURE. I remember watching one episode and it just being meh, whatever, but check looking at the episode descripions I'm wondering how this wasn't the best show ever:
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General Dog posted:For some reason I thought of Century City, a short-lived, pretty standard legal show, except it's set in THE FUTURE. I remember watching one episode and it just being meh, whatever, but check looking at the episode descripions I'm wondering how this wasn't the best show ever: Sci-fi is good at making people ponder about things, such as would you rather die or be retarded?
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After the first few seasons Homeland got totally awful. It was such a disappointing running off of the rails of a really interesting premise (bipolar CIA agent has to deal with her condition, sometimes helping her to see things that others miss but also leading her to do manic paranoid poo poo; opposite the prisoner of war manchurian candidate who has to balance his love for his family with all of his secret lives, and Mandy Patinkin), even if it was pretty much designed from the offset as a propaganda remake. It just got so drat contrived
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It did have its moments though lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kswm6a2Df1Q
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BillmasterCozb posted:its the nutshack I looked that up and checking out its IMDb page I found the following gem of a description in the "you may also like" section: quote:Wild Grinders Sounds riveting
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Millions of Crows posted:Non-Canadians look up Just for Laughs Gags or Knuckleheads or LOL to see the kind of poo poo tv Quebec keeps excreting. As I sit here reading this from Montreal (originally from NB), I have to agree, whole-heartedly. I once complained about JFL gags (I used to love the actual stand-up episodes) and was kind of jumped on by my wife's family for making GBS threads on this wonderfully comedic tradition. Holy poo poo, I can't stand that kind of humour. The French, as people, are fine, but goddamn is some of their comedy is the lamest crap. This makes me want to hurt myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z90szR0q1YU On the better side of Quebecois humour, Sugar Sammy isn't bad, but you're lost if you don't understand both languages (I barely know French).
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Nothing lowers my opinion of a person more than hearing they were a fan of Xavier Renegade Angel.
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CannedMacabre posted:You know that's right! You heard about Pluto? That's messed up, right?
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Jul 21, 2016 02:14
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MAD TV. Because not only was it terrible and unfunny but Comedy Central replaced reruns of Kids in the Hall they used to show during the day with MAD TV. Someone ought to get jail time for a decision like that.
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Gaunab posted:Sci-fi is good at making people ponder about things, such as would you rather die or be retarded? Better the devil you know
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Wow. More people came to the defense of Mentalist than I would have thought. Shame on you all.
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Imagined posted:MAD TV. Because not only was it terrible and unfunny but Comedy Central replaced reruns of Kids in the Hall they used to show during the day with MAD TV. Someone ought to get jail time for a decision like that. MADtv had maybe 2 funny actors on the cast in its entire run. And that's kind of impressive. Comedy Central is also a network that paid to air Conan O'Brian reruns, and gave up on that right away. They're just made of bad scheduling decisions.
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rocket_man38 posted:https://youtu.be/5gRGS0CHQHM this show was pretty terrible. At least the video games redeemed it.  I never knew they actually adapted it for tv. I always thought OWoD would make a good tv show. But of course it being the 90s it got handed over to the loving Spellings. Anything they made was at best so bad its good.
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I believe Kindred did well enough that it probably would've gotten another season if the star hadn't died in a motorcycle crash. Notably, it had to change the roleplaying game's mythology because they couldn't afford to film at night all the time; therefore, vampires don't burn to ashes in sunlight.
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Hrist posted:MADtv had maybe 2 funny actors on the cast in its entire run. And that's kind of impressive. Mad TV had a bunch of talented funny people over the years. I can't find it right now but there is an interview with a guy who worked there and he says that so many sketches that were great were nixed by a powerful guy because they weren't his sense of humor. So if you ever watched a skit and thought it was just so stupid, there were much funnier sketches written that were never made because some rear end in a top hat in charge thought Stuart going "look at me" was the pinnacle of comedy.
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CannedMacabre posted:Wow. More people came to the defense of Mentalist than I would have thought. Shame on you all. 
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oldpainless posted:Mad TV had a bunch of talented funny people over the years. I can't find it right now but there is an interview with a guy who worked there and he says that so many sketches that were great were nixed by a powerful guy because they weren't his sense of humor. So if you ever watched a skit and thought it was just so stupid, there were much funnier sketches written that were never made because some rear end in a top hat in charge thought Stuart going "look at me" was the pinnacle of comedy. I heard that at some point the Stuart guy eventually had to demand a thing in his contract that he would only have to do the character X number of times per season, and that he wasn't allowed to just drop it entirely.
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Blazing Ownager posted:I've never seen this show but everyone I know who watched it (including every single goon who watched it) hate it with the power of a million burning suns. I decided to watch the pilot to see if it was as bad as everyone said it was. It was worse.
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You people are terrible at watching television and having opinions.
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I had sex and now dad is dead. He died a horrible death because I had incredible sex. It's just the way life works.
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bog savant posted:Nothing lowers my opinion of a person more than hearing they were a fan of Xavier Renegade Angel. This is a weird one, because I mentioned earlier that I hated Perfect Hair Forever (watching for the first time two days ago). But my college roommates and I legit loved Xavier Renegade Angel. You're right though, today I have a very low opinion of college me.
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