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

australian version will be Australia / NZ, taking place mainly on the water

tbh border of US + Mexico is much more interesting to me than border of Sweden + Denmark

vikings vs vikings FITE

Israel and Lebanon would be a good one.

It was uptight, by-the-book Swede vs slobbish, band-the-rules Dane, iirc. A lot of the Swedes are like THIS, Danes are like THAT jokes got lost in translation, really.
xp

xp have u seen the flick beaufort?

Haven't, but I'll look into it.

i need to tivo bridge like now

Anyone watching 'The Bridge' on FX?

Really, really good imo. First episode off to a ripping start. I was afraid the Aspberger's thing would be a bit on the nose but it seems to be handled ok -- and I seriously love the dude playing the Juarez cop Ruiz. He's so old and grizzled and beaten down, he reminds me a lot of Tommy Lee Jones' character in No Country For Old Men.

I'm in on this show. Loved the first episode and hope the vague eeriness maintains. I've been to El Paso a couple times and it does feel like the whole city is lit with dust and sodium vapor street lamps.

Actor playing the cop was on Weeds for several seasons. He's better here.

ok what matthew lillard??

yup

he's not bad for a change

this thread is for americans i guess but the french show "revenants" (being shown on the bbc w/ english subs) is remarkable (if you can get yr hands on it)

Les Revenants/The Returned is magnificent.

I'm also watching Top of the Lake, but it's a slog so far.

Top of the Lake is worth seeing out, not that I am saying it is perfect. Whatever you you say about it, you can't accuse Campion of complacency.

Dedicated thread for Revenants/Returned fans: The Returned (French supernatural drama on Channel 4)

is that the smarter, frencher walking dead zombie show i've heard about?

Yes.

The Lying Game was canceled, but Bunheads still hasn't been. They could've announced the fate of Bunheads at the same time, obvs. Pretty sure ABCF is just fucking with me, personally, at this point.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/hey-abc-family-just-renew-bunheads-already,100223/

Wow, that's great!

Finished Top of the Lake. The last episode in particular seemed like it was about 3 hours of tv crammed into 1 hour. I guess I liked it overall, but never even came close to loving it.

^ france in a nutshell imo. there's this weird twinning of over-the-top sentimentality and cold brutality at the heart of pretty much every great french cultural endeavor

say didn't you marry a french lady, what about that cultural endeavor, hey hey

what does france have to do with top of the lake

I think Tracer was conflating Top of the Lake with Les Revenants/The Returned. No biggie.

its a big deal to me

the bridge is very promising but the aspergers/autistic lady is not acting the part well imo

ah whoops

xpost really? maybe i'm just biased because she was in Inglourious Basterds and I kinda dig her

i dunno, it seems really hamhanded and not especially nuanced to me. She was fine in Basterds. This seems out of her depth? Maybe I'll be proven wrong. I hope so.

She reminds me of Claire Danes in Homeland.

It's a pilot, people. She's got plenty of time to improve.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/07/sports-could-save-the-tv-business-or-destroy-it/277808/

Let's talk about a channel that many non-sports fans might consider utterly critical to the bundle: AMC.

You might think that AMC makes money from all the people who watch "Mad Men" or "The Walking Dead." The opposite is true. AMC makes money from all the people who don't watch "Mad Men" or "The Walking Dead."

Here's what I mean. Only 2.5 million people watch the typical "Mad Men" episode. Eleven million watch the zombies. The other 80+ million households who have, but don't watch, AMC still have to pay between $3 and $3.50 each year to the network out of their cable bill. They don't have a choice.

Much more than advertising, it is these mandatory fees that explain exactly how AMC makes money. Reading from the company's 10-K annual report: "Affiliation fees [i.e.: a little more than $3 from each pay-TV household each year] represents the largest component" of AMC's revenue.

"Mad Men" and "The Walking Dead" might still be produced in an a la carte world. But maybe not. We only know that today, these sensational shows exist because the vast majority of the country that doesn't care who Don Draper is still pays for his suits.

That's the AMC Tax.

Second episode of The Bridge encouraging. Also, Lyle Lovett!

In other news, the Emmys still suck.

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.

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