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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Apr 30, 2017 19:36:58 GMT -5
Roasts aren't funny. I don't just mean the Comedy Central roasts that are ripped off the old Friar's Club roasts, I mean the concept of roasts. Except for the episode of American Dad with roasts, which has one of the best insults of all time: Stan, you have the undeserved ego of Jeremy Piven, the annoying self-righteousness of Sean Penn, and the unbearable hypocrisy of Rush Limbaugh. What I'm trying to say is, you're almost as bad a person as Rachael Ray.
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Post by ganews on Apr 30, 2017 19:49:35 GMT -5
Roasts aren't funny. I don't just mean the Comedy Central roasts that are ripped off the old Friar's Club roasts, I mean the concept of roasts. Except for the episode of American Dad with roasts, which has one of the best insults of all time: Stan, you have the undeserved ego of Jeremy Piven, the annoying self-righteousness of Sean Penn, and the unbearable hypocrisy of Rush Limbaugh. What I'm trying to say is, you're almost as bad a person as Rachael Ray. Sorry, my other unpopular opinion is that I never liked American Dad. The ego/self-righteousness/hypocrisy slam is good, but not from a show that involves Seth McFarlane in any way.
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Post by Celebith on May 24, 2017 19:15:32 GMT -5
I don't find Bob's Burgers funny at all and don't understand why people love it so much. I rarely venture deep into the threads, so these replies are all very late. Bob's Burgers is great, not so much because it's funny, but because it's beautiful how much they all love and support each other regardless of how weird they are. Bob is a good, competent Dad who is also weird in his own ways, which is nice. The recent episode with the laser planetarium show and the 'American girl doll shop' storylines both worked pretty well and had some surprising but honest beats.
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Post by Celebith on May 24, 2017 19:17:51 GMT -5
*While I respect the artistry of The Sopranos, its constant dwelling in the most repulsive aspects of human nature (which I normally find interesting) became tedious after two seasons. I stopped watching around then. This is pretty much how I feel about Breaking Bad, though I'd go as far as to say that, stripped of its cinematography, BB is the polar opposite of "prestige" television. I didn't hate season 2 but 1, 3, and 4 were misery-laden messes with no sense of pacing or drama. It's on par with The Walking Dead in its pointlessly bleak and repetitive tedium. I never finished it. I quit BB with the pizza on the roof episode. I felt worse after watching each episode than I did when I started them. I don't need TV that makes me feel miserable, especially with leads that I don't even like.
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Post by Celebith on May 24, 2017 19:27:24 GMT -5
I don't think SNL's current run of Alec Baldwin/Kate McKinnon parodies of Trump/Conway are funny, and not because of reality or existential dread or anything like that. I hate SNL and NBC for enabling Trump, for continuing to employ him as executive producer on The Apprentice after the election was over and for burying the Trump L&OSVUCIS episode. I boycott their shows and hope the network goes bankrupt.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on May 25, 2017 14:44:24 GMT -5
I hate SNL and NBC for enabling Trump, for continuing to employ him as executive producer on The Apprentice after the election was over and for burying the Trump L&OSVUCIS episode. I boycott their shows and hope the network goes bankrupt. “Their shows” or “they’re shows?”
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Post by Celebith on May 25, 2017 15:08:42 GMT -5
I hate SNL and NBC for enabling Trump, for continuing to employ him as executive producer on The Apprentice after the election was over and for burying the Trump L&OSVUCIS episode. I boycott their shows and hope the network goes bankrupt. “Their shows” or “they’re shows?” Trick question - the answer is obviously 'there' shows. I don't like them there shows on that there network.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Jun 8, 2017 11:22:25 GMT -5
I was very impressed by the Archer finale. It’s weird and ambiguous and tonally mixed (I wouldn’t characterize it as shifting from tone to tone—they’re all in there together) and I wasn’t always sure what to think, but damn that’s exciting sometimes. And we finally saw the show grow into something different—maybe a bit too uncomfortable for a lot of people, but I found it rewarding for the violence to finally bubble over in a bizarre, brutal, tragicomic way,
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Post by Incense on Jun 8, 2017 11:50:46 GMT -5
I was very impressed by the Archer finale. It’s weird and ambiguous and tonally mixed (I wouldn’t characterize it as shifting from tone to tone—they’re all in there together) and I wasn’t always sure what to think, but damn that’s exciting sometimes. And we finally saw the show grow into something different—maybe a bit too uncomfortable for a lot of people, but I found it rewarding for the violence to finally bubble over in a bizarre, brutal, tragicomic way, I feel like they have really stretched what they are capable of doing with the concepts and the animation. It's becoming less funny and more interesting, which I guess is a tradeoff I'm okay with.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Jun 9, 2017 9:50:15 GMT -5
I was very impressed by the Archer finale. It’s weird and ambiguous and tonally mixed (I wouldn’t characterize it as shifting from tone to tone—they’re all in there together) and I wasn’t always sure what to think, but damn that’s exciting sometimes. And we finally saw the show grow into something different—maybe a bit too uncomfortable for a lot of people, but I found it rewarding for the violence to finally bubble over in a bizarre, brutal, tragicomic way, I feel like they have really stretched what they are capable of doing with the concepts and the animation. It's becoming less funny and more interesting, which I guess is a tradeoff I'm okay with. Agreed, and I think the fact that Archer leaned so heavily familiarity before may be one of the reasons it seems like everyone else found it so off-putting. I was ready for a break, though.
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Post by ganews on Jun 28, 2017 22:01:31 GMT -5
Weeks later, I finally got around to watching the finale of The Leftovers. And that finale highlighted the good and the bad it's been since season 2. Part psychological exploration, part science fiction, part gonzo fantasy whatever. Actually the finale was just the first two - that's why it was good as an episode and also why it was illustrative of the problem with this show. The Leftovers could never be all the things it tried to be at the same time. It's a shame, because it was really good at all three things separately. That's why it made great individual episodes but was kind of poor as a series.
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Post by songstarliner on Jul 8, 2017 21:38:17 GMT -5
Goddamn, man - I am sad about the passing of Nelsan Ellis. 39 years old is way, way too early. Thirty-nine! Sigh. I miss my sweet girl SLOW: she would understand.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Jul 9, 2017 16:13:30 GMT -5
I think Rick and Morty is gross (specifically Rick irritates me much) although I did like the Snuffles gag.
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Post by louiebb on Aug 10, 2017 16:02:32 GMT -5
Got a number.
I thought season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer wasn't that bad compared to S7. But I preferred Angel overall, after its middling first season.
I stopped watching Doctor Who after Eccleston left. No interest in any of the later doctors.
Community season 4 had its ups and downs. Probably more "downs," but Dan Harmon shouldn't have shat on the show's writers like he did, especially when he wrote the finale, which was the WORST Community episode I ever did see.
I liked the endings of both Lost and Battlestar Galactica.
I couldn't get through more than an episode or two of The Sopranos.
Outside of the one-dimensional villains in the Sun storyline, I actually like Season 5 of The Wire a lot.
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Post by Regol on Aug 14, 2017 16:39:44 GMT -5
The Vampire Diaries is awesome, even after it got bad. The first three seasons are modern classics.
Adventure Time isn't all that good.
Paul McGann is the best Doctor (though it's not really a TV opinion as the bulk of his work is audio)
Pushing Daisies is still Fuller's best work to date.
Lost's ending was indeed awesome. The flashsideways were great. The rest of the last season wasn't that good.
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Aug 25, 2017 19:08:30 GMT -5
San Junipero is not the best episode of Black Mirror.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2017 19:25:23 GMT -5
San Junipero is not the best episode of Black Mirror. Well duh, there is no pig fucking.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Aug 27, 2017 14:17:54 GMT -5
San Junipero is not the best episode of Black Mirror. Technically true, because it is the second-best episode of Black Mirror. In accordance with the thread's title, the worst Black Mirror episode is hands-down "The Entire History of You"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 19:24:58 GMT -5
San Junipero is not the best episode of Black Mirror. In accordance with the thread's title, the worst Black Mirror episode is hands-down "The Entire History of You" Also because there is no pig fucking.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Aug 28, 2017 10:16:08 GMT -5
In accordance with the thread's title, the worst Black Mirror episode is hands-down "The Entire History of You" Also because there is no pig fucking. This is true.
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Post by gillianandersoncpr on Sept 3, 2017 22:31:31 GMT -5
Apparently unpopular, I think that The Office is better than Parks & Recreation, the latter a fun show that has astounded me by having developed a mammoth fanbase. I thought early on that I was special for liking it, but I guess that I wasn't. Anyway, I think that The Office stands above between the two.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 22:53:02 GMT -5
Apparently unpopular, I think that The Office is better than Parks & Recreation, the latter a fun show that has astounded me by having developed a mammoth fanbase. I thought early on that I was special for liking it, but I guess that I wasn't. Anyway, I think that The Office stands above between the two. The Office has become underrated. Thanks to the michael-less years people seem to forget just how good seasons 2 through 5 were. Seasons 6 and 7 were a bit more inconsistent, but the highs were still pretty high.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Sept 7, 2017 18:21:26 GMT -5
Apparently unpopular, I think that The Office is better than Parks & Recreation, the latter a fun show that has astounded me by having developed a mammoth fanbase. I thought early on that I was special for liking it, but I guess that I wasn't. Anyway, I think that The Office stands above between the two. The Office has become underrated. Thanks to the michael-less years people seem to forget just how good seasons 2 through 5 were. Seasons 6 and 7 were a bit more inconsistent, but the highs were still pretty high. To extend that, the Office was overall a better show, but at its worst it was far worse than Parks was at its worst
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Sept 11, 2017 21:10:32 GMT -5
One of my friends recently commented that the animation on Bojack Horseman is kind of crude.
I am in 100% agreement, provided that by "kind of crude" you mean "so viscerally ugly that it singlehandedly cancels out any desire I have to watch the show."
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Sept 16, 2017 12:36:10 GMT -5
Apparently unpopular, I think that The Office is better than Parks & Recreation, the latter a fun show that has astounded me by having developed a mammoth fanbase. I thought early on that I was special for liking it, but I guess that I wasn't. Anyway, I think that The Office stands above between the two. The Office has become underrated. Thanks to the michael-less years people seem to forget just how good seasons 2 through 5 were. Seasons 6 and 7 were a bit more inconsistent, but the highs were still pretty high. I think the more-sort-of serialized nature makes it a bit harder to just jump back into. I’m very much in the minority in that I really think seasons two and three of Parks & Rec were good, though there were definitely good episodes afterwards (I’d say the last episode I really liked was the subsidized adult video store one, which had a lot of the hallmarks of earlier episodes). In the second and third seasons Parks was a much more grounded show, though, and they lost that with Leslie’s run and started to be more wish-fulfillment centered.
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Sept 22, 2017 8:59:23 GMT -5
One of my friends recently commented that the animation on Bojack Horseman is kind of crude. I am in 100% agreement, provided that by "kind of crude" you mean "so viscerally ugly that it singlehandedly cancels out any desire I have to watch the show." I am a bit weirded out that Bojack Horseman has become this serious show. There are limits to how seriously I can take a love story between an Asian-American girl and a bipedal golden retriever.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 22, 2017 10:23:56 GMT -5
Community season 4 had its ups and downs. Probably more "downs," but Dan Harmon shouldn't have shat on the show's writers like he did, especially when he wrote the finale, which was the WORST Community episode I ever did see. Dan Harmon wrote the Season 4 finale?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2017 10:45:02 GMT -5
Martin Sheen never winning an emmy for The West Wing is a shame. Part of it is that he unfortunately went up against the likes of Gandolfini and Michael Chiklis, but somehow James Spader won the award 3 times for his character on The Practice/Boston Legal...... Also over the likes of Gandolfini and Chiklis.
I get why some people don't like the West Wing as much as I do, or think it is as great a show. The acting though, especially from Sheen is one of the best performances TV will ever see. The only lead performance I would consider over it is maybe Gandolfini.
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Post by louiebb on Sept 26, 2017 3:48:53 GMT -5
Community season 4 had its ups and downs. Probably more "downs," but Dan Harmon shouldn't have shat on the show's writers like he did, especially when he wrote the finale, which was the WORST Community episode I ever did see. Dan Harmon wrote the Season 4 finale? Oops, meant to write "season 5 finale." But it turns out I was wrong about that, in any case.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Sept 26, 2017 21:31:13 GMT -5
Apparently unpopular, I think that The Office is better than Parks & Recreation, the latter a fun show that has astounded me by having developed a mammoth fanbase. I thought early on that I was special for liking it, but I guess that I wasn't. Anyway, I think that The Office stands above between the two. The Office has become underrated. Thanks to the michael-less years people seem to forget just how good seasons 2 through 5 were. Seasons 6 and 7 were a bit more inconsistent, but the highs were still pretty high. It is weird how kind of forgotten The Office is already.
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