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

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

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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.

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!

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

game kinda sucks

I had no idea about the game, that's pretty cheesy.

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.

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.

I'm all caught up with Orphan Black now. HOLY SHIT.

I can't imagine 1600 Penn airs for much longer.

― 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!

crazy day for TV news! Whitney, Up All Night, and Guys With Kids also canceled

lol @ Up All Night

Probably the finest self-destruction of a tv series I can recall.

i never saw an episode of the multi-cam version. did they go through with it?

No, Christina Applegate quit before those even got off the ground.

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

Go On has been cancelled sorry Matthew Perry

I didn't like it as much as Mr. Sunshine, and I only kind of liked Mr. Sunshine.

I kept meaning to check out Go On and kept forgetting. I liked Mr Sunshine

Goon had some moments here and there were it was really hilarious, but they were fleeting

They really should have marketed the show as GOON.

otm

i mainly wanted to see it for Brett Gelman who I love

GoOn was a good show, sorry to see it go.

GAWN