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Post by LazBro on Nov 14, 2016 13:20:47 GMT -5
This one may get me shunned. I don't like Better Call Saul.I admire it. I think it's an astonishingly well-done show, in virtually every way that a show can be. But watching it feels like doing homework. We gave up mid-second season because it was getting harder and harder to force ourselves to watch it. This was about six months after it aired, most of which time it had been sitting, unwatched, on the DVR. Granted, if they gave Mike a show, I'd probably watch that. I still really like the show and look forward to the third season, but I am willing to go as far as saying that S1 was better than S2 and that at this point, for me, people who defend the show's glacial pacing come off like apologists. For example:
The sniping scene was tense but also unsatisfying. Hinting at the return of Gus Fring is not season finale material. Introducing a returning Gus Fring is season finale material.
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Nov 30, 2016 11:52:31 GMT -5
Gimore Girls has always looked awful and twee and I would very much like the interwebs to stop going into raptures over this new mini-series.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Dec 1, 2016 15:51:07 GMT -5
Gimore Girls has always looked awful and twee and I would very much like the interwebs to stop going into raptures over this new mini-series. I've no opinion one way or the other regarding Gilmore Girls, I am just waiting for the 3% fandom. Any day now. Aaaaaaany day now. |
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Post by rimjobflashmob on Dec 1, 2016 22:00:46 GMT -5
Gimore Girls has always looked awful and twee and I would very much like the interwebs to stop going into raptures over this new mini-series. I've no opinion one way or the other regarding Gilmore Girls, I am just waiting for the 3% fandom. Any day now. Aaaaaaany day now. There's two of us now, that's enough to start a gif-laden tumblr account, right? |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Dec 2, 2016 1:18:26 GMT -5
I've no opinion one way or the other regarding Gilmore Girls, I am just waiting for the 3% fandom. Any day now. Aaaaaaany day now. There's two of us now, that's enough to start a gif-laden tumblr account, right? So this The Third Per Cent show is good? |
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Post by rimjobflashmob on Dec 2, 2016 1:21:33 GMT -5
There's two of us now, that's enough to start a gif-laden tumblr account, right? So this The Third Per Cent show is good? Yes! |
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Post by songstarliner on Dec 3, 2016 16:25:14 GMT -5
Shut up already haters: I love the show Girls. Almost finished with season five.
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Post by ganews on Dec 6, 2016 22:49:36 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.
McKinnon's Conway joke is the same note repeated every time, "I ran Trump's campaign and hate myself", and there's nothing else to the character. Baldwin's Trump voice is admittedly spot-on, but the mugging isn't very good. The bits are within themselves highly repetitive, relying totally on Baldwin's impression with no other structure, and after you've seen the character once you have to do something new. In the last cold open where they drop "Steve Bannon" at least three times and a guy in a skeleton mask and robe walks in, it's just as flat as can be (I guess they didn't have the chutzpah to have someone wear a Klan robe).
Maybe I'm just used to the subtleties of Jordan Peele, Tina Fey, and Darrell Hammond, or maybe Trump is too outsized (though so was Sarah Palin). But it's not funny.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Dec 6, 2016 22:55:41 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. McKinnon's Conway joke is the same note repeated every time, "I ran Trump's campaign and hate myself", and there's nothing else to the character. Baldwin's Trump voice is admittedly spot-on, but the mugging isn't very good. The bits are within themselves highly repetitive, relying totally on Baldwin's impression with no other structure, and after you've seen the character once you have to do something new. In the last cold open where they drop "Steve Bannon" at least three times and a guy in a skeleton mask and robe walks in, it's just as flat as can be (I guess they didn't have the chutzpah to have someone wear a Klan robe). Maybe I'm just used to the subtleties of Jordan Peele, Tina Fey, and Darrell Hammond, or maybe Trump is too outsized (though so was Sarah Palin). But it's not funny. Wait, Peele was never an SNL cast member, was he? |
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Post by Nudeviking on Dec 7, 2016 2:25:47 GMT -5
I liked TV better before it became almost entirely serialized and obsessed with "continuity." Remember back when a two part episode was a rare treat? Now it's just "Yup, every episode ends with a cliffhanger...whatever." Some of us have lives beyond TV and can't be assed to watch a TV show every Sunday evening and are against binge watching on moral grounds and preferred the largely stand alone nature of television from days of yore. Basically, give me hour long shows where I can watch a single episode from the middle of season 3 and enjoy it as much as someone who has seen every episode without having to ask any questions beyond, "What's the main character's name again?" and I will be a happy man.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Dec 7, 2016 8:02:31 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. McKinnon's Conway joke is the same note repeated every time, "I ran Trump's campaign and hate myself", and there's nothing else to the character. Baldwin's Trump voice is admittedly spot-on, but the mugging isn't very good. The bits are within themselves highly repetitive, relying totally on Baldwin's impression with no other structure, and after you've seen the character once you have to do something new. In the last cold open where they drop "Steve Bannon" at least three times and a guy in a skeleton mask and robe walks in, it's just as flat as can be (I guess they didn't have the chutzpah to have someone wear a Klan robe). Maybe I'm just used to the subtleties of Jordan Peele, Tina Fey, and Darrell Hammond, or maybe Trump is too outsized (though so was Sarah Palin). But it's not funny. Wait, Peele was never an SNL cast member, was he? Nope, though he was on Mad TV. |
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Post by ganews on Dec 7, 2016 8:14:22 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. McKinnon's Conway joke is the same note repeated every time, "I ran Trump's campaign and hate myself", and there's nothing else to the character. Baldwin's Trump voice is admittedly spot-on, but the mugging isn't very good. The bits are within themselves highly repetitive, relying totally on Baldwin's impression with no other structure, and after you've seen the character once you have to do something new. In the last cold open where they drop "Steve Bannon" at least three times and a guy in a skeleton mask and robe walks in, it's just as flat as can be (I guess they didn't have the chutzpah to have someone wear a Klan robe). Maybe I'm just used to the subtleties of Jordan Peele, Tina Fey, and Darrell Hammond, or maybe Trump is too outsized (though so was Sarah Palin). But it's not funny. Wait, Peele was never an SNL cast member, was he? No, but on his own show he had one of the all-time great presidential impressions regularly. |
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Dec 7, 2016 8:21:00 GMT -5
McKinnon's Conway joke is the same note repeated every time, "I ran Trump's campaign and hate myself", and there's nothing else to the character. I think everyone was so enamoured with her first Kellyanne Conway bit - the one where she's having a fun day off being interrupted by Trump's shit repeatedly hitting the fan - they decided to keep it around when it became clear there wasn't a future in her admittedly fantastic Hillary performance. It's also of a part with, say, Laura Benanti as Melania Trump on the Colbert Late Show saying she secretly voted for Hillary - the joke being that hey, there's no way any woman would really be for Trump, they're secretly on our team. Besides being condescending, the joke just also rings false. Trump may have not been Kellyanne Conway's pick for the GOP candidate, but before him, she was with Ted Cruz; she's never said anything to indicate other than being supportive of the Grand Old Party, and the Kellyanne Conway who's gunning against Romney in public has little resemblance to the panicked buyer's remorse of the McKinnon character. It also reminds me of those popular 'TRUMP/RYAN' tweets during the campaign - they began by satirising Trump's casually contemtpuous relationship with Ryan, but before long they were casting the likes of Chris Christie as secret heroes. As if sooner or later all these comic bits need someone in the Trump Team to quietly voice what the liberal audience feels. Not everyone's a Colin Powell, guys. As for Trump in general: I can't think of a single good comic take on him yet. But it's four years. Sooner or later someone will get it - just as it wasn't until Key & Peele anyone had a take on Obama I thought was worth a damn. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Dec 7, 2016 12:49:15 GMT -5
I didn’t like McKinnon’s Clinton, actually. It felt like a Luther without an Obama. I think Douay-Rheims-Challoner has it—they feel like they need someone for the liberal audience to hold onto. Don’t do that, especially with Conway. Let the hate floooowwwwww. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 13:54:42 GMT -5
Also, it is SNL they can only be mildly entertaining at best these days. Not since Will Ferrell as Bush over 10 years ago have they been consistently good at political humor. I know SNL is an institution, but let's be real, it is not what we should go to for humor.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Dec 20, 2016 18:57:46 GMT -5
Also, it is SNL they can only be mildly entertaining at best these days. Not since Will Ferrell as Bush over 10 years ago have they been consistently good at political humor. I know SNL is an institution, but let's be real, it is not what we should go to for humor. It's an institution. Willowbrook was another institution. I haven't really watched any of the SNLs lately and I don't doubt Baldwin is amusing as Trump, but let's be frank it's basically just playing a massive asshole. He was 95% of the way there beforehand. Has Alec Baldwin been memorable in a non-asshole role in the last quarter century? |
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Jan 3, 2017 21:36:13 GMT -5
Community is not doing much for me. There are some funny bits, but overall I can take it or leave it.
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Post by Sanziana on Jan 21, 2017 8:22:58 GMT -5
I never liked anything about Inspector Spacetime. Abed's nerdery was always at its most interesting when it was about something real - the time he Dinner With Andre-ed Winger, his love of Farscape making him listen to a guy trying to hit on him, his Rankin-Bass Christmas special hallucination, his role as a Dungeon Master, his argument with a professor as to Who's The Boss, etc. This is why season five beginning with a spiritual sequel to his Who's The Boss subplot - Nicolas Cage, good or bad? - was so refreshing. I love that Nic Cage episode. Season 5 fell off hard after Donald Glover left, but the first half is just stacked with classic episodes. I didn't mind when Donald Glover left and I don't think his departure affected the show negatively at all. I never actually enjoyed his character, and I was over the moon when Chevy Chase left. Pierce was the worst. Shirley I missed a lot though. |
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Post by Sanziana on Jan 21, 2017 8:24:37 GMT -5
I dislike Seinfeld so much I will leave the room when it's on. Same goes for Always Sunny. Community was just fine. I wouldn't put Arrested Development in my top five or top ten comedies. It is also just fine. The State sucked. I hate Seinfeld with a passion. Overindulgent crap. Same goes for Friends. |
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Feb 9, 2017 8:44:33 GMT -5
McKinnon's Conway joke is the same note repeated every time, "I ran Trump's campaign and hate myself", and there's nothing else to the character. I think everyone was so enamoured with her first Kellyanne Conway bit - the one where she's having a fun day off being interrupted by Trump's shit repeatedly hitting the fan - they decided to keep it around when it became clear there wasn't a future in her admittedly fantastic Hillary performance. Belated thought: The recasting of her Conway as a Roxie Hart-style flim-flam woman is a much better take than the earlier mortified careerist. |
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Post by firstbasemanwho on Feb 13, 2017 23:30:51 GMT -5
Does "I haven't given a flying shit about The Walking Dead since midway thru the first season" count for this thread.
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Post by rimjobflashmob on Feb 13, 2017 23:32:12 GMT -5
Does "I haven't given a flying shit about The Walking Dead since midway thru the first season" count for this thread. I thought this was such a popular opinion that many people are redacting their last 5 years of fandom in support of it. |
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Feb 18, 2017 22:11:02 GMT -5
You guys, I sincerely do not get the Golden Girls love. Sure, it's unique and nice to have a sitcom starring four older women, portraying them as friends who have, y'know, actual friendships and not what Hollywood tends to show as "female friendships", but it's just terrible, y'all.
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Post by songstarliner on Feb 20, 2017 22:18:26 GMT -5
I love Girls, 100% unironically love it. It's hilarious and wonderful, and makes me laugh. Maybe it's because I don't expect people to be perfect? And I kind of love them for being flawed and awful? And all throughout my life my best friends made up for their genuine awfulness by being mostly wonderful? Anyway, I think it's really funny, AND I think the hatred for the show is funny too.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Apr 13, 2017 8:12:41 GMT -5
BBC America has been playing a ton of Dr. Who lately, and rewatching old episodes has just reinforced what I've believed for a long time:
Screw the haters, I like Moffat more than Davies.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 22:45:23 GMT -5
BBC America has been playing a ton of Dr. Who lately, and rewatching old episodes has just reinforced what I've believed for a long time: Screw the haters, I like Moffat more than Davies. So.... only been watching the first smith season then? |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Apr 16, 2017 15:56:48 GMT -5
Although I was never a massive Who fan I enjoyed the show until the second Smith season—everything always seemed to be pitched to the back row, not just dramatically (which did get old) but in terms of sound/music. It might be the only TV show I stopped watching in part because the sound editing and design bothered me so much.
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Post by Pastafarian on Apr 19, 2017 21:27:44 GMT -5
I have no interest in watching New Girl. I was immediately turned off by the feeling it was just Manic Pixie Dream Girl: The Series, and the whole "adorkable" thing irritated me so much I swore I'd never watch it. This despite a bunch of people telling me it is legitimately great. I don't have a ton of TV watching time so it feels like no big sacrifice. Anyway I'm as stubborn as particularly contrarian mule so I get to enjoy the rut I've dug my heels into.
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Post by Pastafarian on Apr 19, 2017 21:28:44 GMT -5
Edited: Oh, and I cannot stand the theme song to Orange is the New Black. I love Regina Spektor, but if anyone (other than her and her biggest fans) claims to like that song I highly suspect they are lying. |
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Post by ganews on Apr 29, 2017 21:39:17 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.
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