Cuba Gooding Jr. as O. J. SimpsonSarah Paulson as Marcia ClarkJohn Travolta as Robert ShapiroDavid Schwimmer as Robert KardashianSelma Blair as Kris JennerBilly Magnussen as Kato KaelinConnie Britton as Faye ResnickMalcolm-Jamal Warner as Al CowlingsEvan Handler as Alan DershowitzCheryl Ladd as Linell Shapiro, Robert Shapiro's wife
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link
good lord, Schwimmer?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
that cast actually does make me want to give it a shot but i hate Ryan Murphy
not a coach reboot... a coach continuation. same characters 18 years later. insane.
also the uncle buck reboot is starring mike epps.
xxxp
― Bouncy Castlevania (Will M.), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
oh god i wasn't interested in that american crime story but now that i have seen the cast list... this is going to be one of those "can't-miss" things that I hate but watch because everyone talks about it, right? ugh.
― Bouncy Castlevania (Will M.), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
hopefully it is not just a re-enactment, like a weird alt-/imagined- 'fiction' of the oj trial could be p cool imo
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:22 (eight years ago) link
It's really a shame that Adult Swim has apparently stopped putting their shows on DVD. I'd buy dozens of copies of The Eric Andre Show and distribute them like candy at a parade. For the good of humanity.
― Turn That Pout Inside Out! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
it's kinda like they want you to bootleg
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
or they just put all their crap up on netflix/az prime/on demand, that would just be fine
― Nhex, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
the adult swim app is pretty good and has a lot of their stuff for free.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
I bought the Dr. Steve Brule Bag Boy special on iTunes and discovered I couldn't play it anywhere but in iTunes so I'm done ever buying a TV show on iTunes again.
― Turn That Pout Inside Out! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
I watch all the AS on Hulu.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
i tivo and then never erase.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
Watching Eric Andre for the first time, so great, LOL'd at the Chiquita Banana song.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 02:28 (eight years ago) link
Mr. Robot is really quite goodhttp://www.vulture.com/2015/07/mr-robot-usa-hacking-unusually-accurate.html
― you are extreme, Patti LuPone. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 26 July 2015 03:26 (eight years ago) link
Kinda tempted to go into that and Humans; opinions?
― Nhex, Sunday, 26 July 2015 03:53 (eight years ago) link
The name + the Christian Slater made me disinterested in Mr. Robot from the moment I heard of it, but I've seen nothing but enthusiastic talk about it. May give it a go.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 26 July 2015 04:03 (eight years ago) link
Based on one ep, Humans is pretty but unfortunately dumb
― you are extreme, Patti LuPone. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 26 July 2015 04:10 (eight years ago) link
i've watched the first two mr robots, p great
looove that lead actor, he was so good in The Pacific, v intense dude
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 July 2015 06:24 (eight years ago) link
Just finished the pacific this week. Was pretty good! Back half espesh.
― Spottie, Sunday, 26 July 2015 06:27 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I was put off by James Badge Dale's writer character at first, but I ended up loving it
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 July 2015 06:35 (eight years ago) link
I've mentioned this in the mr. robot thread but there's a scene w rami malek in the pacific that's forever burned into my brain and just sickening but astounding, one of the most disturbing filmed portrayals of PTSD ever
― extremely lag∞n postings voice (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 26 July 2015 06:43 (eight years ago) link
The brain one?
― Spottie, Sunday, 26 July 2015 06:49 (eight years ago) link
that's the one
― extremely lag∞n postings voice (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 26 July 2015 06:52 (eight years ago) link
He does the weirdo thing really well.
― Spottie, Sunday, 26 July 2015 06:54 (eight years ago) link
otm
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 July 2015 14:29 (eight years ago) link
I guess there isn't a rolling 2015 TV thread. I am not claiming this as one of my ten favorite shows, but DIFFICULT PEOPLE on Hulu starring Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner is pretty funny.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 6 August 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
the show ALONE on history channel is p good -- ten guys seperately competing as to who can stay in the wilderness of vancouver island the longest & winner gets 500k
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 8 August 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
i really like the editing and music used
last ep a dude carved a lute to occupy himself and sung an kindof amazing low-fi folk song and then was like "next week im going to look into BUILDING A SAUNA", you can watch full eps on history channel website but i prob wouldnt recommend it as the interface/their ads are 100% terrible
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 8 August 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
Top Tier TV of the Moment:- Hannibal- Last Week Tonight- Mr. Robot- Married- Rick and Morty- Hard Knocks
Secondaries:- The Meltdown- Key and Peele- Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell- Review
Hannibal Buress' Why? is consistently and mystifyingly not funny or even entertaining but he's justified the show by creating the most interesting live music segment on television right now with Flying Lotus as his DJ/Music Director and guests thus far including Thundercat, Open Mike Eagle, Jean Grae and Two Freshhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tus4c3Mx_ps
Stalled on: Cancer - Emperor of All Maladies (deeply depressing watch tbh), Wolf Hall (great but I need full focus)
I need to set aside some time to get caught up on: UNReal, Humans
Still need to watch: Deutschland 83, Rectify, 12 Monkeys, iZombie, American Crime, Between, Bloodlines, Killjoys, Ballers, The Brink
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
watched the first two eps of s3 of Masters of Sex; hooboy that show has gotten dumb
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
UnReal went out strong fyi
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 17:48 (eight years ago) link
glad to hear! i need time to binge on it.
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link
Jordskott, Mr Robot, and Bojack Horseman are just about all I'm watching at present. I'm relieved that True Detective has finished - it means that I don't have to watch it anymore.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Friday, 14 August 2015 11:33 (eight years ago) link
damn the first ep of Narcos was good, hope it holds up?
and I keep thinking about Rectify, the first season of which I liked a lot, and then it just totally lost me shortly into season 2. now it's being heralded again... anyone watching?
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 22:39 (eight years ago) link
will update.
― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 23:14 (eight years ago) link
Yeah Rectify series 3 is pretty good so far.
― fields of salmon, Thursday, 3 September 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
yeah for me s1 > s3 > s2
Teddy Jr a quietly astonishing character/perf
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 September 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
Rectify, the first season of which I liked a lot, and then it just totally lost me shortly into season 2.
Yeah, I stopped watching after the first episode of S2. I wonder if I could pick it back up at the start of S3 without missing much.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 September 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link
the s2 finale is pretty pivotal but otherwise you should be OK
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 September 2015 19:43 (eight years ago) link
Psyched for You're The Worst and The League to be back this week.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 5 September 2015 21:38 (eight years ago) link
s1 of YTW was so great, hope they can keep it up
enjoyed Other Space way more than I was expecting to!
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Saturday, 5 September 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link
i liked season 2 of rectify a lot. i think i just like that show a lot.
digging Person Of Interest a bunch. worth it just for Cookie pre-Empire. but i dig Benjamin Linus in his role too.
― scott seward, Sunday, 6 September 2015 02:04 (eight years ago) link
ME TOO it's kind of a bummer the way this sunk without a trace given that it's actually good
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 6 September 2015 02:34 (eight years ago) link
I was v surprised at the fact that it actually makes an effort to hang together as an actual rinky-dink serialized sci-fi show, instead of just using its premise as a pretense for joeks
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Sunday, 6 September 2015 02:41 (eight years ago) link
we talked about it a bit in the Community thread, but yeah - generally positive reception by those who bothered to watch it
― Nhex, Sunday, 6 September 2015 05:04 (eight years ago) link
Summer brought a new ridiculous unseen-force vs. small group sugary serial to rival the one with the dome (successors to the Kansas one a few years back?), and if it won by a whisper it was probably because it starred my girlfriend Lily Rabe, who I've never bothered with when "horror" is in the title and unfortunately missed (visually) in the park with her other boyfriend this year, even if in lesser Shakespeare.
A little less ridiculously, I've also come around very late but not small to The Good Wife, contra my usual relative disinterest in lawyer shows (see also Better Call Saul). I'm still a bit mystified by its particular appeal to me and others, though think it may have a lot to do with the not-legal-so-much-as-professional/class milieu that I suspect accounts for most of its awards and guest spots (Frasier 2.0?), and, quite possibly and as with Meredith Grey, et al (from whom I expect returns to continue to diminish with Dempsey joining Oh in absentia), the illusion of intimacy with an intelligent (no-bullshit, perhaps a little sad, but fairly nice and genuine?) female lead (and support - Sharma, ok, but see also Tascioni), even one to whom I have no particular attraction.
Letterman, one of whose last shows (Clooney/Pacino/Waits) I caught along with some final-show-guest-gawking, is missed, and, apart from the occasional dip into Conan among others (Corden has his moments but is not yet and probably never will be Ferguson; previously-ignored Meyers has entertained cheerfully on the few occasions allowed, though I had to "laugh" whenever they cut to the pickup band led by Fake Fred Armisen (or Fake Will Ferrell Chad S.); Leno II Kimmel remains mostly unwatchable with too-faux Fallon only a notch better), largely replaced by a papier-mache of Charlie Rose and Seinfeld reruns (I've come around to Samberg too in his post-SNL life; his show may be a bagatelle but after Mindy the best I've seen of the mostly-unwatchable Koosbane-set meta-ironic-sitcoms of the Community/Parks and Rec age (who can I pay to design me an Ansari-blocker?)). Stephen may save the day, shortly. Neither he nor Stewart nor anything else on their channel ever interested me much - politics a bit too remedial, partisanship a bit too muddy, cynicism a bit too broad, comedy a bit too lowbrow, Colbert a bit too Carolinian, Stewart a bit too Jersey - and Batiste doesn't make my top dozen NoLA musicians either, but my hopes are high.
The return of Sherlock (and his Ophelia, by which I don't refer to "the woman") is certainly awaited, though not quite with looking-for-tickets-outside-the-NT levels of bated breath.
Christian Slater hasn't impressed me in two decades, but maybe I should check out this new one? I doubt I'll last longer than the 15 minutes or so I lasted with the latest from the more visually and cortically appealing Duchovny.
I'm sure David Simon's new one would make and perhaps top the list, in no small part due to its subject matter, but I no longer pay for HBO so...
― Banned on the Run (benbbag), Sunday, 6 September 2015 17:48 (eight years ago) link
/damn/ the first ep of Narcos was good, hope it holds up?and I keep thinking about Rectify, the first season of which I liked a lot, and then it just totally lost me shortly into season 2. now it's being heralded again... anyone watching? --rip van wanko
and I keep thinking about Rectify, the first season of which I liked a lot, and then it just totally lost me shortly into season 2. now it's being heralded again... anyone watching? --rip van wanko
narcos is pretty damn good, never quite gets great but that's nbd due to how consistently good it is
― slothroprhymes, Sunday, 6 September 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
The actor who plays Escobar really steals the show, even if he's never quite allowed to because of how evil Escobar himself is. It feels like reigning in the story and providing this American voiceover throughout was kind of a compromise. But I thoroughly enjoyed this even if sometimes the pacing was either too fast or too slow for the topic.
― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 14:05 (eight years ago) link
Eagerly awaiting the return of Person of InterestElementary is comfort viewing with just enough brains to be interestingAwaiting the return of Empire with some trepidationGreatly enjoying Ray Donovan, a show I caught up with when Hulu started offering Showtime shows (I'm currently in the middle of the second season of Masters of Sex as well)
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link