not sure why that article has editorial shots of Alison Brie but whatever
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
Never needs a reason
― s.clover, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
good wife getting a little maury with the paternity test.
― s.clover, Saturday, 23 March 2013 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
really really enjoying the americans now that i started
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 23 March 2013 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
Same here. And now there's a two week break. :(
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 23 March 2013 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
well i'm only just now on week three so i'm in a good place
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 23 March 2013 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
did i say good wife? meant scandal.
― s.clover, Saturday, 23 March 2013 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
(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
― j., Saturday, 23 March 2013 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― s.clover, Saturday, 23 March 2013 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
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
― j., Saturday, 23 March 2013 05:49 (eleven years ago) link
um you seem to be forgetting something - when your lover is the president every inch of you is a scandal
― balls, Saturday, 23 March 2013 05:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/stars-of-canceled-show-terrified-fans-will-raise-m,31811/
― s.clover, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
new vikings show in history is really fun, at least the first two episodes
― max, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
i mean, its bad, but in *just the right way*
― max, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
house of cards is... not so good. thinks it is much smarter than it is. giving up after second ep.
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
watch the original series instead
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i think i will
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
@JoshMalina 13mFor 150 bucks I'll come to your #Scandal-obsessed toddler's birthday party and eat cereal and Chinese food in character.
― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Friday, 29 March 2013 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
v. affordable
― j., Friday, 29 March 2013 05:37 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Saturday, 27 April 2013 05:39 (eleven years ago) link
*this* is the "scandal" thread?
― jaymc, Saturday, 27 April 2013 05:48 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Saturday, 27 April 2013 05:50 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Saturday, 27 April 2013 06:18 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 27 April 2013 06:31 (eleven years ago) link
Rectify on Sundance Channel is easily my favorite new non-miniseries show of the year. Feels like no one else is watching it though.
― avant-sarsgaard (litel), Saturday, 27 April 2013 06:51 (eleven years ago) link
I'm gonna catch up soon. Heard good things.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 27 April 2013 06:54 (eleven years ago) link
ok well guillermo diaz did smile this week.
― jaymc, Saturday, 27 April 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
astrid!!!
― j., Monday, 29 April 2013 02:23 (eleven years ago) link
torn between disliking the president or his wife more.
― stephen taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Saturday, 4 May 2013 05:15 (eleven years ago) link
oh here you go: Shonda Rhimes and Kerry Washington are mired in a political tv show SCANDAL
― Gukbe, Saturday, 4 May 2013 05:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― DavidM, Saturday, 4 May 2013 12:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Saturday, 4 May 2013 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
Defiance, like a lot of hourlong shows these days, did a 2 hour pilot that by the time it was over had totally sapped me of any desire to watch another minute. pilots should leave 'em wanting more!
― Ship Lion (some dude), Saturday, 4 May 2013 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
Re: Defiance, once I saw the interview where the male lead was talking about the tie-in video game and saying how you played the game would affect the show's plot, I figured I had enough information to skip this show
― far too much asshole flesh (DJP), Saturday, 4 May 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
game kinda sucks
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 4 May 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
I had no idea about the game, that's pretty cheesy.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Saturday, 4 May 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
I'm only one episode in. Catching up when time permits. I like it so far, and it's good to know that it's already been given a second season.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 4 May 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
I'm all caught up with Orphan Black now. HOLY SHIT.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 6 May 2013 06:08 (eleven years ago) link
I can't imagine 1600 Penn airs for much longer.― Johnny Fever, Saturday, January 19, 2013 12:16 AM (3 months ago)
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, January 19, 2013 12:16 AM (3 months ago)
I think all its episodes actually aired? That's crazy to me, but at least the nightmare is over. Cancelled!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 May 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
crazy day for TV news! Whitney, Up All Night, and Guys With Kids also canceled
― a sentimental knife (reddening), Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ Up All Night
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
Probably the finest self-destruction of a tv series I can recall.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
i never saw an episode of the multi-cam version. did they go through with it?
― Gukbe, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
No, Christina Applegate quit before those even got off the ground.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
on continuum does rachel nichols shoot the fugitives back into the future with an electronic door-lock keychain??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Trax
― j., Friday, 10 May 2013 04:57 (eleven years ago) link
Go On has been cancelled sorry Matthew Perry
― Gukbe, Friday, 10 May 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't like it as much as Mr. Sunshine, and I only kind of liked Mr. Sunshine.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 10 May 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
I kept meaning to check out Go On and kept forgetting. I liked Mr Sunshine
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 May 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link