2013 TV Thread: Winter, Spring, definitely Summer - pimp your new finds/threadless wonders here!

anyone watch The Following? thought it was ok. would feel better about its potential if the Hannibal knockoff wasn't played by a dimestore Gerard Butler.

I kinda want to see it but I dunno

odd thing to praise it for, but i was impressed with how grisly it was at points -- compared to cable these new network dramas tend to feel so defanged usually

ok i watched a bunch of season 2 scandal and i'm sold now. the clunky dialogue takes a backseat to total crazy soap opera stuff with elected officials -- way more fun than i remembered.

I saw The Following and was a little disappointed, but will give it a few more episodes.

WRT grislyness on network TV, I saw a Criminal Minds episode a month or so ago and was shocked at how graphic it was. It was the human marionette one, for those that watch. It was pretty much at a Dexter level of gore.

yeah i haven't watched a lot of procedurals the last few years so i may be way off on that. i just think about how timid something like The Mob Doctor seemed.

RIP Apt 23

Bummed. So bummed.

I have access to ITV and BBC players now (yay vpn) - is there anything new in British TV worth checking out?

Apparently UTOPIA is interesting but I haven't seen it.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/fox-pulls-ben-and-kate-basically-canceling-it,91502/

bummer. heard a radio interview w/ Dakota Johnson yesterday, she came off kind of distant while answering questions about the show and now maybe i feel like it's because she knew what was coming.

The Following is so fucking stupid

Really sad to see Ben and Kate go, hoping to see lots more of that cast in other stuff.

no doubt about that, IMO

going to watch the first episode of Real Husbands of Hollywood in the next few days, will report back

rip

watching now, this is actually pretty funny. Only good thing I ever learned about from First Look.

Ben And Kate cancelled.

Do No Harm premieres tonight. Based on the wretched ads, its completely ridiculous premise and the fact it's on NBC, I'm betting on one of the quickest cancellations ever. Like, maybe after the first commercial break.

Also, R.I.P. 30 Rock. ;_;

NO, NOT 30 ROCK!!!

Coming to this late, but:

compared to cable these new network dramas tend to feel so defanged usually

I caught a few minutes of that (canceled?) Dana Delany forensic doctor show a while back and watched her saw off the top of a corpse's head (that had...gasp! no brain!). Seriously made me a little queasy.

i love how nbc will have a failed high concept drama, cancel it after half a season, replace it with another failed high concept drama, cancel it after half a season, replace it with another failed high concept drama, cancel it after half a season...

They blew it with Journeyman. That show could still be on now, and they wouldn't have this problem.

Hour-long dramas begun and cancelled on NBC since 2010: Awake, The Firm, Harry's Law, The Event, The Cape, Prime Suspect, Law & Order: LA, The Playboy Club, Prime Suspect, Chase, Outlaw, Persons Unknown, Undercovers

Meanwhile the three oldest hour-long dramas on NBC are SVU (since 99) then Parenthood (since 2010) and Grmm (since 2011). Everything else started in 2012

wtf was Persons Unknown? I don't even recognize that name.

BRING BACK THE CAPE

or even better, a Cape/Revolution crossover

Man, NBC some capricious motherfuckers. You'd almost think they have no idea what they're doing.

canceling Prime Suspect was super stupid

Agreed.

Ratings were atrocious though.

It's NBC. Replacing something that has low ratings with something that will get even lower ratings is how they roll.

Will now pitch a show to NBC called 'Capricious Motherfuckers". Concept to follow.

They should really give Homonym a try.

Anyone else watch The Americans pilot? I rather liked it, save for the obvious bouts of pilotitis.

Gonna watch it via ondemand this weekend. It look intersting.

wtf was Persons Unknown?

A summer schedule filler. It was sort of Lost-lite, using the horrible NBC house style. I watched an episode.

Oh right! I remember that now. A bunch of people in a dorm or hotel or something, right?

They were in what seemed like some sort of compound. It was a one-location shoot I think.

a semi-abandoned town iirc

the following is about 90% terrible. script is bad both in plotting and dialogue to a somewhat shocking extent.

The Following is awful but at least it's violent and weird. It has a bit of a so-bad-it's-good thing imo

i think thats the only thing that keeps me hanging on but idk if i will make it past ep 3 unless there is a radical improvement. i wanna avoid spoilers but off the top of my head there have already been somewhere around 5 major plot points that are either absurdly implausible or just str8 up impossible

There was a line in the first episode where he was like "he's obsessed with Romantic-era literature, like Edgar Allen Poe, Emerson, and Thoreau" and I'm like "well, I GUESS Poe is Romantic, but Emerson and Thoreau are definitely n..." and then a lady stabbed herself in the head with a spike.

It has a bit of a so-bad-it's-good thing imo

That's what made me watch '24' for however many seasons it was on.

I really enjoyed the first episode of The Following but everything that's been said about subsequent episodes is making me sad

There was a line in the first episode where he was like "he's obsessed with Romantic-era literature, like Edgar Allen Poe, Emerson, and Thoreau" and I'm like "well, I GUESS Poe is Romantic, but Emerson and Thoreau are definitely n..." and then a lady stabbed herself in the head with a spike.

haha oh man that totally makes me want to watch it! in terms of violent/weird, how does it compare to say, American Horror Story?

I haven't watched AHS but it's violent by network standards, not necessarily by cable standards.

Jeez guys if you want violence, watch Spartacus.

ah ok, i might check out the first episode anyway. AHS is pretty difficult to beat on the "so bad it's good" scale though.

i'm not into violence for the sake of it, just um i don't know... lols-y gore? haven't seen spartacus.

its nowhere near as violent or as weird as AHS

wait what? what shows are talking about?

second broad city ep also very funny

lol this isn't the right thread

do we have a winter 2014 thread?

nhex i talking about chicago fire, chicago p.d.

sadly despite a bit of post-shield in the premise (it's like he's running a strike force, except it's AFTER he got jammed up, and now he's back on the force because IA are trying to run him to root out corruption, only it turns out he is the one seemingly calling the shots) and a seemingly nice attention to stationhouse milieu it seems like chicago p.d. is yet another attempt by nbc to get by on the bare minimum. the two-ep premiere already had a give-me-back-my-son kidnapping and a dead cop, and even though it's set in chicago and they often say 'chicago' every single out-of-stationhouse scene appears to be set in a vacant warehouse wasteland, and the unit is so white (sorry, jon seda) that the main black roles seem to be for the drug gangs that the lead visits regularly to pump for information. (bunny colvin puts in appearances now and then but he's at the commander level, so not much cause to be in and out all the time, not even for the traditional 'black lieutenant' sop to diversity casting.) elias koteas and robin weigert are around but will probably be wasted. and jon seda's wife wants him to bring his hooker informant home for dinner because she is jealous. fine writing, dudes.

robin weigert, she pops up in random stuff, always happy to see her.
that all sounds awful, dick wolf cannot do the "standard" cop/lawyer show drama well, ever

it's sad, you could see some potential, signs of freshness (he's only the producer anyway, got some old hands in there but probably not everyone), but the cast is just too small and the writing too thin. like, they conclude the kidnapping with a bus sting, and the sexy young woman officer is confronting the perp who is holding jon seda's son, and the cops do a move that jostles the bus so the son is thrown to safety and the perp is off balance while sexy young woman officer is holding on to something, WHICH GIVES JON SEDA AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENTER THE BUS AS THE LAST MOMENT AND SHOOT THE MAN WHO HAD HIS SON. cmon.

there were some moments of detail that could have built something nicer but then they just rushed too fast to beats that they landed on like elephants. time to rush into the cell and strongarm the suspect, etc.

ugh i think like 30% or more of this is gonna be OUTSIDE FAMILY ISSUES to complement main dude's declaration at the end of the premiere that his squad is a family.

'cops are like a family' has got to be the #1 fast track to a cop show with tired storytelling

i miss nyc-22

Broad City is my jam.

Anyone watch Chozen? I liked the first episode more than I thought I would.

i was just looking for this thread to say broad city is good

i will not buy a sodastream full price i will not do it

ilana glazer looks & has similar manerisms 2 eric andre imo

i watched a few chozen and im not into it

chozen is kinda meh. broad city is dope and i have a crush on both of them

man...

ilana glazer looks & has similar manerisms 2 eric andre imo

I totally noticed this too!

do we have a winter 2014 thread?

We don't, but this one is more current.

2013 Fall TV Thread: Previews, Evaluations, Ridicule and Mourning