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Television!
wandering
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Serial works of art such as Firefly, Arrested Development, Mystery Science Theater 3000, and The People's Court are called television shows. The word "tele" means "far" in Greek - television means "far vision"!
Let's talk about old TV shows that we are watching. Or new ones!
"Yes but can I discuss free web series here instead?" No! Haha just kidding, I don't see why not! It's basically the same thing except not funded by large corporations!
We've got threads on: It's Always Sunny in Philadephia, Hell's Kitchen, The Daily Show and Colbert Report, Alphas, Slenderman, Western animation, Game of Thrones, True Blood, Torchwood, Breaking Bad, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Top Gear, The Legend of Korra, Doctor Who, Futurama, Thundercats, The Wire, Stargate Universe, Louie, Community, One Piece, Chuck, Burn Notice, Weeds, Star Trek, Chopped, The Walking Dead, Parks and Recreation, The Deadliest Warrior, Mad Men, Fringe, The Venture Bros., Archer, Dexter, The Dark Tower, Power Rangers, Todd & The Book of Pure Evil, The Boondocks, Sons of Anarchy, Happy Endings, Sailor Moon, White Collar, House, South Park, Bones, Justified, Glee. Also MMA, NHL, MLB, College Football, Tennis. Plus Social Entropy++ probably has some TV threads, who knows?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/06/netflix-mad-men
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I don't know how I feel about this.
That remote would take me 5 minutes to get from Current TV (326) to Comedy Central HD (623)
Do not want.
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Catholic?
If you have DVR you can just skip commercials, you know that right?
And True Blood is fantastic.
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It is the best television show. We even have a thread about it being the best television show.
There are three seasons of it on DVD and Blu Ray. I recommend the Blu Ray.
Start from the beginning. I cannot emphasize this enough.
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I do not have DVR. I have almost zero interest in TV shows anyway, I've no use for it.
True Blood is okay. But seriously, way too much sex. It's getting a little ridiculous.
Features Brendan Small and H Jon Benjamin.
but they're listening to every word I say
he is best sherlock
sooo gooooood
Been catching the odd Dr. Who episode as well. Cheesy as hell and the dialogue is sometimes painfully bad, but there's just something about the show that is fun to watch. I kinda miss the actor that played Dr. Who in the first season, though.
If so, everyone should be watching Doctor Who with Matt Smith. Season 5 is (mostly) great and on Netflix Instant Watch, and doesn't require knowledge of the past 4 seasons to get into.
SOLD.
Speaking of H Jon Benjamin, everyone with Netflix owes it to themselves to watch the first season of 'Archer' on Instant. If you've already seen it, no harm in watching it again.
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I mean, what else do you want? What else do you need?
I'm almost through watching it. I find the acting, dialogue, and animation lackluster and the plots mixed but still enjoy it. My favorite moment was from their Age of Apocalypse episodes, because it was almost certainly added in at the last minute by a standards & practices type department:
After he falls down, Fitzroy comments "He'll be all right in a few days." Master Mold responds with a perfectly dispassionate "whatever" right as it cuts to commercial.
Perhaps I shall allow her to marry me.
Also because we get cut down versions of British Top Gear, and terrible U.S. Top Gear.
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Give me hundreds of hours of development and story any day (month) of the week (year).
Here's one for my It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia thread.
Quoted for Psych ... Great show, although it does tend to get a bit formulaic at times, but the whole character dynamics and pop culture references always make it greatviewing
(Um. Also quoted for Gilmore Girls, which I think was excellently written, and great character development, but which I will never admit to watching. Also, I've always liked the theme song. Um. Yes)
Edit : Thought'd flag Stargate SG-1. Not only a great sci-fi show, but lots of back references, which I always appreciated. Helped with the world building and establishing a show mythology. Got a bit lackluster in the last couple of seasons when MacGyver moved on though.
30 minutes of commercials to 30 minutes of show is not so good. You probably read this and wondered why I didn't just skip past commercials. I do watch it with on-demand, but it's very glitchy. It ends up 10-20 seconds after where I press the play button during a fast forward operation. That gets irritating very quickly. I'll watch this last episode after it airs on Sunday, but I might not be around for season 2.
Somehow SciFi Channel's commercials never bothered me, but they were probably more relevant to my interests. TNT played the same three ads over and over: a car, some crime drama, some medical drama.
Speaking of, The Walking Dead is an awesome zombie apocalypse show on AMC. If you know anything about AMC's current record with great shows, you know that this show features excellent writing, good actors, and good effects.
Really top notch show. It is coming back in October.
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The well-known actor did it!
Psych has had two bad episodes in 5 seasons and regularly has me near crying from laughing so hard. If you blink you'll miss 5 jokes and it regularly self-references itself back to several episodes and/or seasons before (Bruton Gaster, Chad). The theme episodes are regularly fantastic. It's not my favorite show, but it's pretty high up there.
:^:
He/she's an [OCCUPATION], but he/she's not a normal [OCCUPATION]. He/she used to be at the top of his/her field until something tragic or unexpected happened. Now he/she's poor and disreputable, working his/her way back up the ladder in a trendy vacation spot as an unorthodox or street [OCCUPATION], along with a small crew of wisecracking side-kicks and enough pop-culture references to choke a horse. It's called [OCCUPATION PUN] and it airs [EVERY NIGHT FOREVER] on USA Network! Characters [GREETING].
Invented by a Frenchman as well.
Catholic as hell.
...I'll grab my coat.
EDIT: Actually, a German, but from East Prussia, which I believe was predominantly Catholic at the time (it would become Poland later). So....still works.
There have been several sign gags that I've had to freeze frame to read. I'm talking entire flyers being revealed under another piece of paper that only exists in two frames. So, so good.
They have lots of episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000, including the first five episodes ever broadcast on national TV.
I'm also trying to recapture a lot of my childhood- mostly through a lot of old Pink Panther cartoons- the classics, not the modern stuff. Plus Mancini's theme is still classy as all hell.
Let's see... I'll have to duck through my recently played list to see what else is there. Back in a bit.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
Along with a billion episodes in a row of Law and Order: {Acronym} and you have a money making lineup!
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Just tore through Kolchak the Nightstalker a bit back, it's like a cheesy 70's X-Files and I found it to be good fun.
Currently watching Mad Men and Joseph Campbell's Mythos miniseries both of which are awesome as well.
Outside of Netflix I'll add a +1 the Breaking Bad recommendations. Easily my favorite currently running show.
In the end I think it's because we both have crushes on Nathan Fillion.
But the show is pretty damn funny.
Currently on Netflix streaming I am splitting my time between MacGyver, Star Trek (TOS), The Dead Zone, and a few animated shows.