You May Now Resume Watching [TV] Shows About Cops And Other, Worse Shows Not About Cops

Mr. G

It's the end of May, what's on TV?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tiPOMd14eQ

...oh

But by god, we'll make do

There's still a couple Game of Throneses and Mad Mens left!

There's that new AMC show about computers, that could be good!

And Louie's back!

TV is just fine, guys

Tell me a story about TV

Sorce

Orphan Black S2 is just ramping up, and Graceland S2 will be starting in a few weeks, so summer isn't all bad.

Grey Ghost

I typically don't watch a lot of stuff which is either food- or travel-based, but I've started watching Parts Unknown and holy shit Anthony Bourdain is just the coolest motherfucker

Lars

Hannibal finale tonight.

Also, I think we're only about halfway through Fargo's first season.

Joshmvii

Just past half. Hannibal has aired 6 episodes out of 10.

Theodore Floosevelt

Grey Ghost wrote: »

I typically don't watch a lot of stuff which is either food- or travel-based, but I've started watching Parts Unknown and holy shit Anthony Bourdain is just the coolest motherfucker

Anthony Bourdain really is just, the man is cool

old-school cool, baby

chiasaur11

Well, we got a few more Veeps and Silicon Valleys.

Better than nothing.

Theodore Floosevelt

Man speaking of, I had no idea that Christopher Evan Welch, the actor who played Peter Gregory, had died

that's sad as heck, and i feel like the show already misses what he was bringin'

THESPOOKY

https://twitter.com/ZooHannibal/status/469872372078899200

https://twitter.com/ZooHannibal/status/469867097980682240

Mr. G

Netflix is allegedly in talks to do a 10-episode Wet Hot American Summer prequel series, much like the 4th season of Arrested Development

The plan would be to have all the actors return playing younger versions of the same characters despite all being 10 years older

Muddy Water

Louie's daughter was really good in this week's episodes.

Joshmvii

I'd heard they were going to do another wet hot american summer movie reuniting the cast, so it sounds like maybe the movie deal fell through and Netflix is thinking about doing it.

The Judge

Obligatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNXF2UEGDqI

Hermano

The "So Did The Fat Lady" episode of Louie was

Really fucking good, damn

The Geek

Warehouse 13 just finished up its 5 year run in Monday.

I'm gonna miss that show.


Defiance, another original SyFy show, issue back in June.


The end of the Supernatural finale was pretty whoa.

Also, I am super looking forward to Galavant, but I forget when that's starting.

Maximum

HBO on Amazon is going to dominate me.

Finally got the chance to see Eastbound & Down, and after watching the first episode last night, I'll probably spend all weekend watching the rest.

PaperLuigi44

I'm anxious to jump into episode 4 of Fargo, this show continues to leave me guessing.

And Parks S5 on DVD finally has a date here - five months later than usual.

DMAC

Theodore Floosevelt wrote: »

Man speaking of, I had no idea that Christopher Evan Welch, the actor who played Peter Gregory, had died

that's sad as heck, and i feel like the show already misses what he was bringin'

Wow, that is really sad. Nice that people are able to enjoy his final performance though. I wonder what their plan is moving forward.

Mr. G

Would like to see the raw uncompressed audio file of this Hannibal finale

That clock's probably a 3 second audio loop over 80% of the episode

Sweeney Tom

Holy shit that Hannibal finale

Johnny Chopsocky

I've been eating my own knuckle for the last fifteen minutes. Thanks for the elevated heart rate, Hannibal.

I haven't felt that tense watching an episode since One Minute.

Jimothy

Hannibal

I love how the finale is just EVERYONE MIGHT BE DEAD

Also, for as much as people had speculated in the past that Bedelia might be in cahoots (this might be overstating it, he did almost kill her earlier this season) with him or that Abigail might be alive, I was still super shocked when those things happened. I also yelled "ARE YOU SERIOUS" when he smelled Will and red hair started appearing

The ticking clock made the entire episode super tense from the word go, and I did spend most of the episode expecting Abigail and Beverly's actors to appear in some capacity, I just thought it'd be hallucinations like Garrett Jacob Hobbs.

If Abigail dies, it's super cruel of them to bring her back and kill her in twenty minutes. She was always a favorite of mine.

Mr. G

And now for a moment, let us slip into a parallel dimension

One where Hannibal was cancelled and that was the ending of the show

Consider that

Sweeney Tom

I thought I read a Fuller interview (can't find the link right now though) where he basically said that ending was written so it could be both a series finale and a season finale, depending on what wound up happening with the renewal negotiations. But it was such a cliffhanger that he hoped it'd be renewed.

Poorochondriac

Good thing I didn't really want to do anything tonight

Jesus CHRIST, that Hannibal

Jimothy

Bryan Fuller on Hannibal

AVC: Are we supposed to believe that what Beverly saw in Hannibal’s basement that shocked her so much was Abigail?

BF: That was the idea that we had always talked about. Did she see this poor girl down in the basement, and was like, oh my God, he’s been holding her captive like an animal this entire time, and she turns around in a rage of “you monster!”? That was something we had talked about. What exactly did Beverly see? In my mind it was always Abigail Hobbs down there in some way, caught with her hand in the candy jar. That felt like it was the genuine surprise.

Also:

Bryan Fuller wrote:

...the Silence On The Lam through-line of season three.

Poorochondriac

Oh, Fuller. You and your puns.

Hacksaw

I feel like I'm missing something by not watching Hannibal.

But then I also feel like I don't need to add more things to my already overflowing pop culture backlog.

Crimsondude

AMC has the first episode of Halt and Catch Fire on its tumblr. I'll probably watch it Sunday since there's no GoT.

Hacksaw

Halt and Catch Fire looks really good.

Though that may just be because I have a serious urge to rub my face against Lee Pace's face.

THESPOOKY

I don't even know what to say at the end of episodes of Hannibal any more

I try to process that finale and all that comes out is a guttural noise-thought

Poorochondriac

Hannibal is a very unique show for me, in that I actively avoid any analysis of it

I'ma do my best to articulate why, but no guarantees as to if I'll succeed or not

The dreamlike (or, more accurately, nightmarelike) quality of it makes the show feel much, much more intimate than anything else on TV. It's not as concerned with moving pieces around the plot chessboard as it is with capturing mental landscapes, transplanting emotion to screen, painting with mood. The show's focus on psychology is apt, because its emphasis of emotional storytelling over logical storytelling kinda turns the whole enterprise into a Rorschach test. The parts that stick with you, the lines that speak to you, are more indicative of your psyche than of the show's plans.

So when I read discussions of Hannibal, read about what people Think It All Means, it starts to feel like people talking about, like, my nightmares. My dreams, my brain. The intimacy the show cultivates makes discussion of the show feel like an intrusion, somehow. Like it's the critic/commenter coming into my head and saying, "Oh, well, here's why you have that feeling," which is unsettling.

Never been a show quite like this one.

Bubby

Poorochondriac wrote: »

Hannibal is a very unique show for me, in that I actively avoid any analysis of it

I'ma do my best to articulate why, but no guarantees as to if I'll succeed or not

The dreamlike (or, more accurately, nightmarelike) quality of it makes the show feel much, much more intimate than anything else on TV. It's not as concerned with moving pieces around the plot chessboard as it is with capturing mental landscapes, transplanting emotion to screen, painting with mood. The show's focus on psychology is apt, because its emphasis of emotional storytelling over logical storytelling kinda turns the whole enterprise into a Rorschach test. The parts that stick with you, the lines that speak to you, are more indicative of your psyche than of the show's plans.

So when I read discussions of Hannibal, read about what people Think It All Means, it starts to feel like people talking about, like, my nightmares. My dreams, my brain. The intimacy the show cultivates makes discussion of the show feel like an intrusion, somehow. Like it's the critic/commenter coming into my head and saying, "Oh, well, here's why you have that feeling," which is unsettling.

Never been a show quite like this one.

It's a very beautiful show, and the most visually interesting of anything on TV right now. Though I have to say that it's almost complete lack of care for logic makes it feel a bit superficial if the emotional beats seem hollow to me (which they have several times this season).

I kind of feel the same way about criticism of any show or movie I truly love, though. Any movie on my top 10 has spoken to me directly in one way or the other.

Anyway, the finale was great.

Will, Alan, and Jack will survive. I'd be very very surprised if they kill any of them off.

THESPOOKY

Hannibal thoughts

I really loved Mads Mikkelsen this episode, more than anything

He sounds hurt about butchering the main cast of the show, but only in that "Why didn't you just go with the flow?" way, like someone who had to go one extra block out of their way because a bad driver cut them off from the turn lane.

I also felt like throwing up a little bit the second time I watched the house scenes, without the benefit of being totally dazed by the rest of the episode. It's like a Greatest Hits edition of "Ways I don't want to die, a lot".

Quetzi

I don't know what y'all's talking about, summer is great for TV

'cause summer means Teen Wolf is back

Crimsondude

Summer is time for catching up on the shows I didn't get to devote time to, like Justified and Orphan Black (I need to catch up).

Muddy Water

Fucking hell, Hannibal.

When is this fucker going down already? I need some catharsis dammit!

Olivaw

Poorochondriac wrote: »

Hannibal is a very unique show for me, in that I actively avoid any analysis of it

I'ma do my best to articulate why, but no guarantees as to if I'll succeed or not

The dreamlike (or, more accurately, nightmarelike) quality of it makes the show feel much, much more intimate than anything else on TV. It's not as concerned with moving pieces around the plot chessboard as it is with capturing mental landscapes, transplanting emotion to screen, painting with mood. The show's focus on psychology is apt, because its emphasis of emotional storytelling over logical storytelling kinda turns the whole enterprise into a Rorschach test. The parts that stick with you, the lines that speak to you, are more indicative of your psyche than of the show's plans.

So when I read discussions of Hannibal, read about what people Think It All Means, it starts to feel like people talking about, like, my nightmares. My dreams, my brain. The intimacy the show cultivates makes discussion of the show feel like an intrusion, somehow. Like it's the critic/commenter coming into my head and saying, "Oh, well, here's why you have that feeling," which is unsettling.

Never been a show quite like this one.

See, I feel the same way, but I sort of embrace the analysis of it and seek it out, because I want to know more about how it accomplishes the things it does and the intent that it had and whether or not it had the same effect on anyone but me

This finale in particular hit me hard, not only because, y'know

everyone is lying in pools of blood at the end and it's super graphic in a way that the show has toyed with before but never fully committed to (Hannibal kills Abigail and there's no cutaways or edits, he just cuts her throat and the shot seems to last an eternity)

But also because of the futility of it

It's one thing for something to come out of nowhere, to surprise you and catch you off guard, it's a whole other thing to see the thing barreling down, to know there's nothing you or anyone can do, and just watch it happen

The last ten minutes of this season are just one long protracted look into the mouth of hell. It was the most explicit the show has ever felt about Hannibal as the devil--he might as well have conjured demonic fire and declared himself Lucifer fucking Morningstar

And you just have to watch unblinking as it all happens and everyone suffers horribly

And that's the roughest part about it, for me at least

I really can't wait for the next season

What a tremendous fucking accomplishment

Raijin Quickfoot

Woodhouse's back story is awesome.

Sweeney Tom

Hannibal spoilers from Fuller

Fuller: Oh yeah, it would be huge! It would, it would make a huge impact on the series. Whether or not Jack Crawford survives this night, you know, he has got a shard of glass in his neck, and it's gonna be bad when they pull it out, if he is still alive when the paramedics get there. I think the fun in frustration is, oh my god, basically the main cast, except for the title character, is lying dying, and you won't know until episode 2 of Season 3 who survived. You won't even know in the first episode who survived.

IGN: Because the premiere will be so Hannibal-and-Bedelia centric?

Fuller: Yes.

Crimson King

hannibal

man i dunno if i can handle another five seasons of nobody just saying "fuck it" and shooting the guy

it's so frustrating having to sit there watching him do whatever the fuck he wants