TV Talk
I thought that while they were performing, there was the imaginary elaborate background stuff, and then at the end of the song they came back to reality and were really just in a plain school hall.
Keep giving it a chance! The characters are exquisitely well-written, once you get to know them. Maybe see if you can find it in English?
There is hope, but not for us.
I can buy that for the sets and lighting, but no way i'm going along with that if they're imagining half the student body in their group.
I couldn't get into it either. Loved the production design, it all looks fabulous but to me the characters were all fairly neurotic and annoying, and there were a lot of episodes where nothing really happened. I didn't find it any more shocking that watching a movie or tv series from the time it's actually supposed to be set in. I watched the first two seasons just to be sure it didn't get any better, and then I gave up on it.
The first season was a character study, not a lot happens until towards the end of it. The second season picks up a bit and i haven't seen the third. It's mostly a really pretty soap opera with less melodrama.
Plus Christina Hendricks.
*swoon*
(I may watch that show someday. May not.)
This is why we can't have nice things.
Exactly. Watched by a lot of people who would scoff at watching soap operas, I'm sure. Where's that double standards thread?
Nate, I think you'll love Breaking Bad. It's available all over the innernets.
I don't find it soap-y at all. I think it just has a much different pace than things we're used to seeing on TV. The show is brilliant in that it doesn't connect the dots for the viewer, and (for me, someone who's obsessed with character development) it's a much more interactive TV experience than the average show.
There is hope, but not for us.
Pushing Daisies was a brilliant show that didn't get the attention it deserved :
It's a favourite in the Barbwig household.
pretty much none of what bryan fuller has done gets the attention it deserves. Dead Like Me was sooooo good, it's a crime it didn't last longer. The story behind it though, is a good reason why. Stupid network, good think they got Dexter and half saved their ass.
Oh, and when a guy can take a show like Heros and make it interesting, you know he is talented (he wrote two of the best episodes from that God-awfully long series)
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Nate,
Give Mad Men a try...it grows on you. I was slow at first, much like The Wire, but it picks up and for my opinion, is one of the best shows on T.V. The last episode of season 1, The Wheel, is just about as good as TV gets. His monologue about a Kodak product just kills you emotionally. In season 3 there is something with a John Deer that is very Tarantino-esque on the scale of shocking weirdness. And in season 4, let's just say, a secretary dies in a black humor sort of way.
Regarding Breaking Bad that is even better than Mad Men...better than most things. You can watch the first season in a day. The transformation the lead makes over the course of the first two seasons is crazy. And there are about three or four episodes where you'll find your pulse racing, the tension and action is that good. It's rare for me to feel that way about TV.
Anyway...that's my wheat penny on the subject.
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no, but i should
I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence --- Amy Hempel
I'm always comparing Mad Men to The Sopranos. They take a lot of chances, will sometimes do entire special episodes with just one or two story threads, the act breaks are in odd places, they don't place much emphasis on any traditional sense of plot resolution, they'll "kill off" characters (in their own way)... And then you've got the whole 60s setting that others have talked about, but they take great care not to whitewash and idealize it like it exists in most folks' minds. I love it.
There hasn't been any Big Bang Theory talk here yet? Like most people, I love it too.
I would like:
have you seen any shows of Big Brother though? Is it that big a deal there when someone gets voted out? Even still? Hasn't that show been around for like 10 years now? Also, they replace roommates when they're voted out? How does the show ever end if they keep replacing people?
I watched the very first series when it started here in Britain, and didn't watch a full series ever again. I couldn't tell you the rules of it now on voting, they change it so many times and add new things, bring in new housemates halfway through a series and so on.
It started here in Britain in 2001, it was axed by the channel it was shown on here and the last series was shown a few months ago. It could continue however if another channel buys it...
It must be quite a big deal overall, because one of the past memorable contestants called Jade Goody, died at a young age from cervical cancer, her funeral and so on was shown on mainstream television and it was in the news for donkeys...
I can't tell though if you were being sarcastic or not in your post lol.
I can't think of a more annoying character then Lisa from Six Feet Under.
I'm watching some old episodes right now and whenever she comes onscreen I want to reach through the TV and garrote her.
have you seen any shows of Big Brother though? Is it that big a deal there when someone gets voted out? Even still? Hasn't that show been around for like 10 years now? Also, they replace roommates when they're voted out? How does the show ever end if they keep replacing people?
I watched the very first series when it started here in Britain, and didn't watch a full series ever again. I couldn't tell you the rules of it now on voting, they change it so many times and add new things, bring in new housemates halfway through a series and so on.
It started here in Britain in 2001, it was axed by the channel it was shown on here and the last series was shown a few months ago. It could continue however if another channel buys it...
It must be quite a big deal overall, because one of the past memorable contestants called Jade Goody, died at a young age from cervical cancer, her funeral and so on was shown on mainstream television and it was in the news for donkeys...
I can't tell though if you were being sarcastic or not in your post lol.
Anyways, the last episode of this is on tonight and I think i've come around to liking it. I think it was when the one producer dude yells at the one girl if things are just shapes and colors and the occasional sound in her head and then shits into a garbage can. I was like "Finally, a character I can relate to!"
ha ha, yeah, he shouldn't of had so much caviar and champagne if I remember right...lol
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Watched the first two episodes of Breaking Bad (first season). It seems awesome.
That show is a slow burn. Sometimes it's excruciating to watch. So good though and it's consistently good, not like most "good" shows.
It's a slow burn, but not like Mad Men. There are actually episodes of Breaking Bad where you're on the edge of your seat. And stories go places you don't imagine.
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I agree -Season 3 of Breaking Bad had me on the edge of my couch for almost the whole way through. In fact, Breaking Bad Season 3 was some of the best TV I've ever watched in my life. I won't ruin it if you only seen seasons 1 and 2, but season 3 is the ultimate. I Cannot wait for season 4, and I don't get like that with TV. I don't watch much TV. By the way, anyone like Sons of Anarchy? Sucks this season. Season 2 was decent though, and I had high hopes for it, but...
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I love 30 Rock so bad.
"Tracy owns the world's only all-giraffe basketball team, the New York Necks."
There is hope, but not for us.
they did a pretty good job with that live episode a couple weeks back.
It was good tonight.
It was! I think this season is excellent so far.
There is hope, but not for us.
anyone going to watch Conan's show tonight? I might DVR it and just watch it tomorrow when I can just fast forward through all the needless standing applause for him being back on tv and the commercials. Hopefully there will actually be some good guests.
Yep, very stoked to see the red wave on TV again.
I'm not going to watch it, but I hope this means that they'll stop all the stupid promo ads telling us he's back on tv.
yeah, you know it's bad when your promos are worse than election commercials.
did anyone ever watch that new David Cross show? I got them all recorded but, ehh, just can't bring myself to sitting through watching them yet.
I need to go ahead and watch them though because they're taking up a lot of space!
"Tracy owns the world's only all-giraffe basketball team, the New York Necks."
I know that you have a mole on your... list of exotic pets to get
Two of my all time favorite commercials are from Breaking Bad.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
I need to go ahead and watch them though because they're taking up a lot of space!
He previewed that when he came to Kansas City...I had no idea it was even on yet.
We've just got Sons of Anarchy in NZ. Any of you seen that?
I kinda like it. The main dude Jax is kinda hot, which helps.
The first couple of Dexter episodes where only meh, but the show has picked up quickly. Anyone else watching it?
I think that show finally found its stride. The past few episodes have been pretty dark and twisted in an unapologetic way. Unpredictable too. I have no idea where the season's going.
Yeah, it took a few episodes for it to get over Rita's death. Now that's it's been dealt with the show is getting good like it used to.
They handled that realistically too. The show doesn't care about being unemotional about things or having Dexter carry his baby around while he finds victims and stuff.
I keep expecting a connection between the voodoo killings and the barrel bitches.
And good to see ol' Johnny Lee Miller back on TV.
I have, and I honestly don't care much for it. The whole show is predicated on this guy's lies that have snowballed to ridiculous proportions, and you spend most of your viewing time screaming at him to just fess up to the truth for once and all this would go away. Anyway, I liked the first episode, but the character gets old pretty quick, so I'd watch the first few and see what you think. Great to have Will Arnett on there, though.
I'm going to be getting the first season of In Treatment through my queue in the next few days. It's in its third season and I had no idea it even existed until a week or so ago.
There is hope, but not for us.
Anyone see The Walking Dead? Its going to be the next phenomenon, it will be a reason to watch AMC.
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― Friedrich Nietzsche
Where have you been Zach?
This is why we can't have nice things.
Been busy as hell, we are short handed at work and we keep releasing new software complete with bugs, I have been getting my place ready for my spawn to arrive. And Windows broke on my home comp....
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
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My favorite show (when it's in season). It doesn't matter which season you start with, as each is a new slate of patients, but do watch from the beginning of said season.
does he cure each patient before the end of each season? That's a pretty good doctor!
I love Gabriel Byrne.
also, watched that Rocky Horror Glee show tonight. It's the first one i've seen since last year. Wasn't the whole premise of the show that it's this rag-tag handful of school outcasts that are able to come together in this underfunded little Glee club? What's with there being like 50 kids in it now and they got full costumes and make up, not to mention elaborate sets and lighting?
Why'd Levi have to go and get banned? He's the only one that could explain this shit.