Second episode of The Bridge encouraging. Also, Lyle Lovett!
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 July 2013 10:07 (ten years ago) link
In other news, the Emmys still suck.
― Simon H., Thursday, 18 July 2013 12:55 (ten years ago) link
I'm surprised to say that The Bridge has actually gotten worse? I don't care about any of the characters and as of episode four, they're starting to leap in and out of established character with frightening regularity. And now some FBI agent is beating a missing girl so they cut his head off and turned that in along with cell phone video of him with the girl? Ahma try one more episode but the acting is VERY hit or miss and the story is needlessly complicated and dopey.
― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 August 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
I gave up on The Bridge too.
― polyphonic, Monday, 5 August 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
File with The Killing, which was never much cop but at least took a couple of seasons to become as uniformly terrible as The Bridge did by the 2nd ep. I have not watched the original Bridge yet, so can't compare. Kruger's performance of a woman with autism is one dimensional and panders to male fantasies about sexy young women with autism wanting to sleep with ugly old plain men, because they have no inhibitions and an animal sex drive, yeah sure. Her performance is bad and seriously fucking counter-productive. Stopped watching it weeks ago and I do watch some garbage.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Monday, 5 August 2013 22:48 (ten years ago) link
original bridge is freakin great
― max, Monday, 5 August 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
Wish I had watched The Killing this season tbh. Meant to be very good.
― Gukbe, Monday, 5 August 2013 23:25 (ten years ago) link
Interesting to see the changes in The Bridge between the pilot and what they're shoving out the door now - what started off as a moody and rather effective border procedural is now a TexMex Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. If Kruger was a better actor, she might save the rotten lines she's given but episodes 3 & 4 power-dived straight into the ground. I'm out.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 00:27 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, the actress may not have been able to save this show but she sure ain't helping.
― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 00:46 (ten years ago) link
ok i just hit the part in OITNB where the two mustache guys talk about their mustaches LOL
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 02:50 (ten years ago) link
wow way to go The Bridge in teasing us with some notion of having broader thematic issues and resonance and then swapping that out for some straight se7en revenge fantasy
― "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites (s.clover), Saturday, 14 September 2013 02:21 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, seriously disappointing.
― Simon H., Saturday, 14 September 2013 02:22 (ten years ago) link
I'm one or two eps behind but yeah, this show has pulled the rug out from under me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 September 2013 02:39 (ten years ago) link
Intrigued by the first episode of Continuum though it falls into a lot of low-budget sci-fi/procedural traps. I know it's not really 2013 but it's premiering in the US in 2013.
― Gukbe, Friday, January 18, 2013 7:24 PM (11 months ago)
man i could look at rachel nichols all day
and this has cancerman from x-files and that chick from andromeda in it too!
― j., Friday, 17 January 2014 01:47 (ten years ago) link
she's the only reason I've thought about watching that show tbh
― Nhex, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
still haven't seen it though
― Nhex, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
damn you rachel nichols
― Nhex, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
it's decent so far, got a lot of ideas to play with.
but really… sigh…
― j., Friday, 17 January 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
what is the 'chicago fire' spinoff going to be about? arson investigators? arsonists? burn unit nurses? fire code inspectors??
― j., Saturday, May 11, 2013 2:32 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
apparently it is… cops. blurb is bound to be a tease
District 21 of the Chicago Police Department is made up of two distinctly different groups: The uniformed cops who patrol the beat and deal with street crimes, and the intelligence unit, the team that combats the city's major offenses, such as organized crime, drug trafficking and high-profile murders.
this seems like a ploy by dick wolf to get me to watch his boring firefighter show, since there's crossover
and there's gonna be an SVU crossover! i love that connected-worlds shit.
― j., Friday, 31 January 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
wait what? what shows are talking about?
― Nhex, Friday, 31 January 2014 02:37 (ten years ago) link
second broad city ep also very funny
― Mordy , Friday, 31 January 2014 02:44 (ten years ago) link
lol this isn't the right thread
― Mordy , Friday, 31 January 2014 02:45 (ten years ago) link
do we have a winter 2014 thread?
― Nhex, Friday, 31 January 2014 02:47 (ten years ago) link
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.
― j., Friday, 31 January 2014 02:53 (ten years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Friday, 31 January 2014 03:44 (ten years ago) link
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.
― j., Friday, 31 January 2014 03:53 (ten years ago) link
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
― j., Friday, 31 January 2014 05:03 (ten years ago) link
Broad City is my jam.
Anyone watch Chozen? I liked the first episode more than I thought I would.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 00:41 (ten years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 00:46 (ten years ago) link
ilana glazer looks & has similar manerisms 2 eric andre imo
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 00:48 (ten years ago) link
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
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 00:54 (ten years ago) link
man...
― Nhex, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 01:41 (ten years ago) link
I totally noticed this too!
― Simon H., Tuesday, 4 February 2014 01:57 (ten years ago) link
We don't, but this one is more current.
2013 Fall TV Thread: Previews, Evaluations, Ridicule and Mourning
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 02:26 (ten years ago) link