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Post by crowschmo on Sept 25, 2015 15:41:36 GMT -5
Well, this was a few days ago, but I watched the new Muppets show. Holy crap. It was awful. Too bad. Love the Muppets usually. But this was just WRONG. Reality shows, just sick of them and they are terrible, so we don't need a fake one starring felt. Can we lose that whole format already?
Kermit and Miss Piggy "broken up". Please. Fozzy dating a human? Oh, brother. Talking to the camera? Just put them in their own little world and do skits or something.
Not a funny line in the whole episode.
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Post by crowschmo on Oct 20, 2015 18:16:21 GMT -5
Saw a live version of The Rocky Horror Show on BBC America. (The play version, not the movie, obviously). I'm sure it wasn't really "live" here, as it was scheduled for midnight and it probably ran at midnight across the pond (and there were commercials).
Anyway, didn't care for it. Didn't like ANY of the people they chose for the roles. It just had a wrong feel to it. Riff and Magenta were pretty much non-entities until the end (even though Riff sang Time Warp). If someone were seeing this for the first time, they probably wouldn't have even known their names. Magenta was just all wrong. I know they can't copy other actors and they put their own spin on the characters, 'cause that's the whole point of acting, but she just wasn't good.
They had multiple narrators instead of just one and Stephen Fry was one of them, that was kind of fun. And of course, Richard O'Brien, was also one, and that was neat. Damn, the guy looks the same. It's forty years later!
But, eh, didn't like it overall.
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Post by crowschmo on Oct 26, 2015 22:23:15 GMT -5
Watched Supergirl. Not much hope for this one. I don't like the actress playing her. Bit of neat casting though: Helen Slater, who has played Supergirl in the past, played her adoptive mom, and Dean Cain, who, of course, has played Superman, played her adoptive dad.
James Olsen? No. Just, no. Sure, I guess he's supposed to be older in this and not a kid anymore, but - no.
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Post by Torgo on Oct 27, 2015 21:04:53 GMT -5
I liked it for the most part, but like most pilots made under Greg whatever his name is (it escapes me) who also did Arrow and The Flash, it's too damn busy. He tries to light up so many plot thread that my gut keeps saying "save something for natual development later! Yeesh!"
Jimmy (oh I'm sorry, Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaames) Olsen was hands down the worst thing about it. They should have just made a new character entirely. I don't care about the race thing, but there comes a point in characterization where a character stops being the same character.
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Post by crowschmo on Nov 4, 2015 19:30:19 GMT -5
I watched a few episodes of The Grinder with Rob Lowe and Fred Savage. They're brothers. Lowe is an actor who played a lawyer on TV and Savage is an actual lawyer. It's pretty cute and has some funny moments. (And Fred Savage still looks like a little kid ).
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Post by Torgo on Nov 9, 2015 14:40:50 GMT -5
South Park Season 18
There's a solid reason to be celebrating South Park this year. On the third episode of it's nineteenth season it passed the episode count of King of the Hill and became second only to The Simpsons in adult animated comedy. It doesn't have a chance in hell of passing The Simpsons though, since at the rate South Park is going it would need to last until season sixty to come close, so this is probably where it will peak. It needs to treasure it while it lasts, because Family Guy is going to pass King of the Hill at some point this season, and will undoubtedly pass South Park if not this season then the next.
The one thing South Park has on both is that Paramount at least still seems gung ho about releasing both shows on DVD, while Fox has halted all Simpsons releases in favor of streaming (streaming services I can't use no less, so screw them) and Family Guy might be on the bubble of going MOD like American Dad and The Cleveland Show. (note: I still hold out tiny hope that a sublicensing deal will hit The Simpsons, like King of the Hill, and the series will return to the format) So at this point, South Park most definitely the winner of the "Not pissing fans off" contest.
I watched the eighteenth season last year on Hulu with my old roommates. It was a fairly interesting experience seeing how Matt Stone and Trey Parker seemingly took a different approach to their storytelling method this year. They took little threads from varying episodes and let the episodes that follow play off of them, allowing for semi-serialized storytelling. One of the odder ones is the character of Randy turning out to be the "singer" (I use the term loosely, because she sucks) Lorde. In the episode it's introduced, it looks like Randy is only posing as Lorde to get his son out of a jam, but from what I gather from the mini-commentaries, some idiot sent Stone and Parker an angry message of outrage that they said Lorde was really Randy in disguise, so they just made Lorde Randy to f*** with him. I like the format they were playing with here. It's a fair compensation for the cutback on episode production and makes the series fun to follow.
Like a lot of South Park, since the episodes are made so fast there's a certain bluntness about them that makes them funny. On the other side of the coin, since they're made so fast a few of them don't feel as refined as they should be, like there's an idea there that just wasn't given time to gestate. South Park is set in its ways, so that's not going to change any time soon, but this season is fairly good. There's no real standout episodes, like the previous season's Black Friday trilogy, but there's fun social comedy to be had. And Cartman's always there to remind us that "Jennifer Lawrence's butthole" will always be there on the internet.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Nov 18, 2015 1:47:26 GMT -5
Daredevil season 1, on a Netflix free trial. 3 eps so far Wow, I'm amazed how overrated this series is. It has some good in it (the brutal fights), but from the hype it I was expecting something so much better than this repetitive, draggy, often poorly acted (Karen and Foggy make me gag) series. I hope it gets better than this.
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Post by nondescript spice on Jan 18, 2016 23:43:19 GMT -5
angie tribeca
watched a few episodes of the binge marathon on TBS and i have to say i like it. it's pretty evident steve carrell and his wife are police squad fans, but that's okay because so am i. even when the gags are predictable, they are still funny. great cast and awesome guest cameo apperances - bill murray, adam scott, sarah chalke, lisa kudrow. i'm pretty sure it was cecily strong that played a woman with such severe botox you couldn't understand her in one ep, so there were subtitles. it cracked me up. it's fun to see rashida jones get to play a lead and be wackier than her usual straight-man character. hope they can keep it up.
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Post by Mod City on Jan 19, 2016 10:49:36 GMT -5
angie tribeca watched a few episodes of the binge marathon on TBS and i have to say i like it. it's pretty evident steve carrell and his wife are police squad fans, but that's okay because so am i. even when the gags are predictable, they are still funny. great cast and awesome guest cameo apperances - bill murray, adam scott, sarah chalke, lisa kudrow. i'm pretty sure it was cecily strong that played a woman with such severe botox you couldn't understand her in one ep, so there were subtitles. it cracked me up. it's fun to see rashida jones get to play a lead and be wackier than her usual straight-man character. hope they can keep it up. I caught just a little of this and thought the same thing - it's the new Police Squad! Found myself laughing hard a few times. Am going to have to try to keep tuning in.
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Post by Skyroniter on May 15, 2016 18:41:14 GMT -5
I've binged watched Z Nation this weekend. It started off promising but ten episodes in zombies are attacking our heroes because one of them farted. This series is brought to you by the fine folks at The Asylum. Should have been a clue. I'm on eleven now and even a zombie bear barely elicits a yawn.
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Post by Mod City on Jul 19, 2017 17:57:30 GMT -5
I didn't see a thread on this so I thought I'd drop this here.
Stranger Things
Finally got a chance to watch this after having picked up streaming Netflix for the MST3K revival. Tried to pace it out but finished all eight episodes over the course of about four days. It's definitely a just-one-more type of show.
Overall this was really good. It got a little uneven in places, and there are a few plot holes, but nothing derails the overall quality of the show. Wynona Rider was about as good as I've ever seen her in anything. The guy who plays Hopper - David Harbour - was also fantastic right out of the gate. And the kids are absolutely outstanding, and thank goodness. If they were sub par this show would be dead in the water. But they're brilliant, especially Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven. Brown, Rider and Harbour all received Emmy noms for their work, and it's deserved.
I would have been eight when this story takes place, so the nostalgia factor is heavy with me. I know some people thought the setting was strictly to evoke fond memories of times gone by, but I think for the story it works better than a modern setting. No cell phones. Kids still stayed out late and rode their bicycles around town. No Amber Alerts. It makes the world seem bigger to me, which enhances the fear of the unknown.
I was talking with a friend and we were comparing the show to other longtime favorites like Battlestar Galactic and Lost, but I finally realized that it reminded me in some ways of the first season of Heroes. There's a mysterious company, there is a person/people with extraordinary powers, characters appear to sacrifice themselves in the season finale, etc. It's not as glossy as Heroes - a good thing - and the mystery seems more down-to-earth. Still, it reminded me of certain things I liked from Heroes.
Can't really figure what they're going to do for the second season, but it's one I won't miss.
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