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

I gave up on The Bridge too.

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.

original bridge is freakin great

Wish I had watched The Killing this season tbh. Meant to be very good.

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.

Yeah, the actress may not have been able to save this show but she sure ain't helping.

ok i just hit the part in OITNB where the two mustache guys talk about their mustaches LOL

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

Yeah, seriously disappointing.

I'm one or two eps behind but yeah, this show has pulled the rug out from under me

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!

she's the only reason I've thought about watching that show tbh

still haven't seen it though

damn you rachel nichols

it's decent so far, got a lot of ideas to play with.

but really… sigh…

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.

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.

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