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

Magical baby portals? Melissa Etheridge? Oh NBC.

smdh at a universe where Big Bang Theory is "good"

So... syh at this universe?

well yeah

it's in a hot dense state iirc

ok so the last whitney was a Very Special Episode where her sister comes out as transgender and decides to undergo surgery. I'm actually sort of impressed.

i am amazed anyone on here is still watching whitney

Does that mean they are going to recast her sister or is the person playing her now going to do drag or is that actress transitioning in real life?

Also why the fuck am I asking this about Whitney

whitney somehow went from being excruciating in the first season to settling into a decent groove. like never aiming high, but not really falling flat either.

they just sort of parachuted in the sister out of nowhere (not a series regular) so i don't think this is something that's going to be around every episode. pretty clumsy plotting (the show consistently has clumsy plotting). its somehow still cool for a network sitcom to deal with this.

Was out sick today and caught up on the first two episodes of The Americans like I'd been meaning to do for weeks. Officially hooked now. Will probably burn through the rest of the backlog asap and catch up on this week's episode this weekend.

man 'the following' has to be the stupidest show i've watched in years

im gonna give this thing a try when it starts - http://www.sundancechannel.com/top-of-the-lake/

altho the preview thing slightly worried me w/ how many times "novelistic" was used, like they were trying 2 really force that description rather than it exising

I'm chuffed for it. Jane Campion. Heard good things. And Elisabeth Moss doing a New England accent, apparently.

new zealand

Whoops

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/03/nielsen-family-is-dead/

not sure why that article has editorial shots of Alison Brie but whatever

Never needs a reason

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

good wife getting a little maury with the paternity test.

really really enjoying the americans now that i started

Same here. And now there's a two week break. :(

well i'm only just now on week three so i'm in a good place

did i say good wife? meant scandal.

(of all the mistakes to make)

huh, i couldn't remember what that could possibly have been, chalked it up to yet another forgettable good wife trial-of-the-week

scandal is still kind of disoriented i think

i mean after they built to the last few big reveals mid-season, how are you possibly going to follow that up. so its a bit more procedural again for the moment, i guess.

if we're going to follow some procedures then she can't be talking on the phone with president mcsexy every three days or so and staring off into space and biting her lip, that's just not good business practices

um you seem to be forgetting something - when your lover is the president every inch of you is a scandal

http://www.theonion.com/articles/stars-of-canceled-show-terrified-fans-will-raise-m,31811/

new vikings show in history is really fun, at least the first two episodes

i mean, its bad, but in *just the right way*

house of cards is... not so good. thinks it is much smarter than it is. giving up after second ep.

watch the original series instead

yeah, i think i will

@JoshMalina 13m
For 150 bucks I'll come to your #Scandal-obsessed toddler's birthday party and eat cereal and Chinese food in character.

v. affordable

as outlandish as all the storylines on scandal are, somehow the huck ones manage to be the most absurd.

but even here its fascinating how much of the writing is about duty and obligation, pandering to desires to be wanted, necessary. i like how much the writing tries, how much it wants to be loved.

*this* is the "scandal" thread?

i haven't watched this week's episode, but i kind of hate huck. "he likes torturing people, but he's the one who's *really* tortured! emotionally!" and then the combination of that with him being this hacker savant. i don't think guillermo diaz has smiled once on the show.

i think all of us watching it feel too dumb to create a real thread?

the whole vision of the u.s. government and secret agencies and torture feels so obviously cartoonishly wrong on some level that it makes all the otherwise more believable stuff about political crisis management, etc. seem equally outlandish. but i also have this voice in my head saying "does not the falseness of scandal's depiction allow it to speak more freely the truth about black-ops renditions?" "are the inventions that it makes about what does occur not the necessary answer to the inventions we have been told about what does _not_ occur?" and soforth.

its actually not hard to make those sorts of arguments about this show -- it just lays all its cards out there, sees no virtue in opaqueness as 'art', but instead there's this populist romantic vision that theatricality is in big speeches and grand gestures, and simultaneously this is taking place in a world/moral landscape sufficiently corrupt that its the fact of the action being celebrated, and not its 'truth'. which is actually pretty scary, now that i think about it. like if only white people were running around in a show with this ethic i'd be worried that it had a tinge of fascismo. it probably does anyway, except to the extent that all the characters are terrible shitty people in various ways, so its somewhat hard to valorize any of their choices at all, and the romance is all just these physical gestures of desire and lust, like the president is some wounded-duck roark figure.

its really the sort of show that seems ripe for some serious critical articles. dunno if anyone's actually done so though?

I'd really like to start watching it. I actually quite enjoyed Grey's Anatomy for several seasons, though I never found it to be anything other than occasionally well-executed soap opera. I sort of thought this would be the same but maybe not.

Rectify on Sundance Channel is easily my favorite new non-miniseries show of the year. Feels like no one else is watching it though.

I'm gonna catch up soon. Heard good things.

ok well guillermo diaz did smile this week.

astrid!!!

torn between disliking the president or his wife more.

oh here you go: Shonda Rhimes and Kerry Washington are mired in a political tv show SCANDAL

Enjoying – if that’s the right word – the Hannibal series. Moody and stylish, occasionally grisly; it’s quite David Fincher-esque, and it’s more like Se7en: the Series than a TV Silence of the Lambs. And Mads Mikkelsen is effectively creepy as the title character (though not currently the show’s main character). Surprisingly good, anyway.

Also: Orphan Black - twisty-turny thing about a woman who discovers she's one of many clones. I'm now three episodes in, and it's okay, will prob stick with it.

Defiance, SyFy's sci-fi western. The acting and dialogue is a bit daytime-soapy, but it's alright if you like this sort of thing.

I tried watching the first episode of Defiance because the concept sounded promising, but it was just so poorly thought out and executed. And yeah, the acting and dialogue was pretty bad too.