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[TV]I've Already Consumed The Required Calories For This Day Period

Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
edited March 2015 in Social Entropy++
This is the television thread where we post about television and I'm Perd Hapley.

Parks and Recreation ends next week and Once Upon a Time returns soon after thus prompting millions to go into a deep depression.

Is Parks and Rec the best sitcom ever? It's definitely up there.

Is Once Upon a Time the worst show ever? Nah, but it sucks pretty hard.

I should watch Justified?
And I keep meaning to watch The Knick.
And YaYa has a podcast or something about TV shows... It was a lot cooler when TLB was on it.

So harken unto thee and post about TV.

Talk about the lack of good Native American characters (except Ken Hotate, he's the damn man)

Talk about multi cam vs single cam

Talk about New Girl or how Modern Family isn't that great anymore.

Talk about whatever the hell you want I guess.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    justified is pretty good

  • Devlin_DragonusDevlin_Dragonus Gorgeous Dallas, TXRegistered User regular
    Banshee has great Native American characters

    I got nothing for you now. Try again later.

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Thread title just makes me think of "MORE POISON? I MEAN TEA?"

  • Devlin_DragonusDevlin_Dragonus Gorgeous Dallas, TXRegistered User regular
    So Banshee just did something really neat.

    The did an entire robbery job but used only POV cameras, cover cams, and Sec. Cams all while doing thier, by now patented, Banshee style.

    Even the same tense brutal fight scenes and shoot outs.

    Its pretty neat.

    Like a live action version of Payday.

    I got nothing for you now. Try again later.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    What network is Banshee on?

  • Devlin_DragonusDevlin_Dragonus Gorgeous Dallas, TXRegistered User regular
    Its on Cinemax.

    I got nothing for you now. Try again later.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Fucking Cinemax!

  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited February 2015
    Banshee has great Native American characters

    I can't even tell you how amped I am to get to the good Kinaho shit

    So far, I've only seen the one episode at the casino. But it's definitely the most accurate portrayal I've ever seen of an Indian casino. I even thought the joke a white dude cracked about its agedness (Something like, "The Kinaho have a deep respect for their history, which I guess is why they haven't updated anything since the 70s") was way more clever than most white-dudes-joke-about-Indian-shit jokes.

    It's worth noting that this is one of the rare cases where I'm okay with a totally fictionalized tribe. As outlandish and violent and cartoonish and weird as the show gets, I think it's smart to have a fictionalized tribe instead of dragging somebody's real heritage into a live-action Itchy & Scratchy cartoon. That it still feels authentic while being an utter fabrication is something that sets it apart from, like, Infamous: Second Son.

    Poorochondriac on
  • Devlin_DragonusDevlin_Dragonus Gorgeous Dallas, TXRegistered User regular
    Just saw the finale for Constantine.


    WHAT.

    I got nothing for you now. Try again later.

  • Devlin_DragonusDevlin_Dragonus Gorgeous Dallas, TXRegistered User regular
    edited February 2015
    See this is why im so happy that you are watching Banshee.

    I always wanted to rave about it but i did not want to sound insensitive and i don't think i could possible have described "Sheriff Hoods" schnick any better than you did in your earlier post.

    My description would be: a modern version of "Man with no Name".

    I honestly think if they ever reveal his real name it will most likely be so huge narratively speaking, that it will be saved for the last season.

    Devlin_Dragonus on
    I got nothing for you now. Try again later.

  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    Aw man, I was excited because I had 2 whole seasons of black mirror to watch, then I found out each season was 3 episodes.

    bnet: TheStig#1787 Steam: TheStig
  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    Honestly I don't think I could handle a regular length season of Black Mirror.

  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
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    And YaYa has a podcast or something about TV shows... It was a lot cooler when TLB was on it.

    hey

    ...

    shut up

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    YaYa wrote: »
    T
    And YaYa has a podcast or something about TV shows... It was a lot cooler when TLB was on it.

    hey

    ...

    shut up

    I love you

  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    Honestly I don't think I could handle a regular length season of Black Mirror.

    I get really bored being awake at night on my days off.

    bnet: TheStig#1787 Steam: TheStig
  • DracomicronDracomicron Registered User regular
    I've been watching Empire. It's basically King Lear, but with the music business. Also it's a spiritual sequel to Hustle & Flow (which I never saw, but identified as such immediately because Terrance Howard and Taraji P. Henson basically play the same characters in all but name 17 years later).

    Also the only character that you can legitimately root for as a "good guy" is the gay son. Everyone else is various shades of conniving, monstrous assholes.

    Courtney Love is also in it, essentially playing a massive fuckup who is not Courtney Love (but is, seriously, Courtney Love).

  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    I'M WATCHING MY STORIES

    Episode 23: Don't. Fuck. With. Polar. Bears.
    Carlos and Alex get chilly in Fortitude (1-2), whack the shit out of a kid in The Slap (1-2), and cut their life into pieces, this is their Last Resort (5-8).

    @Balefuego and I get so salty about The Slap

    download here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/imwatchinmystories/Ep_23_complete.mp3

    or subscribe here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ImWatchinMyStories

  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    Holy crap, Banshee sure is a show.

  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    Holy crap, Banshee sure is a show.

    The first season is really scatter shot, so far, but in a way that's extremely watchable. Basically, if they get bored of a storyline, they jettison it with admirable speed and gusto.

    Which is jarring, but bullshit-free

  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    Holy crap, Banshee sure is a show.

    The first season is really scatter shot, so far, but in a way that's extremely watchable. Basically, if they get bored of a storyline, they jettison it with admirable speed and gusto.

    Which is jarring, but bullshit-free

    I've only watched the first episode this morning, but I'm really kind of digging the almost grindhousey fever dream feel of it.

  • THESPOOKYTHESPOOKY papa! Registered User regular
    I've actually been wondering about Banshee once I get done with The Americans

    It seems like it's good, but give me the elevator pitch

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    THESPOOKY wrote: »
    I've actually been wondering about Banshee once I get done with The Americans

    It seems like it's good, but give me the elevator pitch

    John Carpenter directs a crime thriller, which also happens to have Amish folks and Indians

  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Hoo boy, this prison flashback episode of Banshee is no fucking bueno

    Flashback episodes are pretty much always the worst, and this is no exception

    What a pile

  • THESPOOKYTHESPOOKY papa! Registered User regular
    THESPOOKY wrote: »
    I've actually been wondering about Banshee once I get done with The Americans

    It seems like it's good, but give me the elevator pitch

    John Carpenter directs a crime thriller, which also happens to have Amish folks and Indians

    sooooold

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  • Devlin_DragonusDevlin_Dragonus Gorgeous Dallas, TXRegistered User regular
    Hoo boy, this prison flashback episode of Banshee is no fucking bueno

    Flashback episodes are pretty much always the worst, and this is no exception

    What a pile

    Is the this the episode with the MMA fighter?

    I got nothing for you now. Try again later.

  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Hoo boy, this prison flashback episode of Banshee is no fucking bueno

    Flashback episodes are pretty much always the worst, and this is no exception

    What a pile

    Is the this the episode with the MMA fighter?

    Maybe? Big albino prisoner who can't act for shiiiiiit, and a guy who looks just enough like Jon Lovitz to make me desperately wish it was actually Jon Lovitz

  • nicopernicusnicopernicus Registered User regular
    During the Oscars I keep seeing commercials for "Secrets and Lies"... ABC is really bad at naming shows.

  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    During the Oscars I keep seeing commercials for "Secrets and Lies"... ABC is really bad at naming shows.

    AMERICAN CRIME.

  • Virgil_Leads_YouVirgil_Leads_You Proud Father House GardenerRegistered User regular
    I miss Brian Williams.

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  • knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    So did the guys with the RPG.

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    i need mad men to be back right now. okay thanks

  • Good Looking Fat GuyGood Looking Fat Guy West Hartford, CTRegistered User regular
    knitdan wrote: »
    So did the guys with the RPG.

    That joke's a bit in poor taste.

  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Black Sails is back for it's second season, and it's pretty good so far.

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    knitdan wrote: »
    So did the guys with the RPG.

    That joke's a bit in poor taste.

    So's bullshitting a war story

  • THESPOOKYTHESPOOKY papa! Registered User regular
    Sorce wrote: »
    Black Sails is back for it's second season, and it's pretty good so far.

    having watched 3 episodes of Black Sails

    this seems like a trick

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    edited February 2015
    knitdan wrote: »
    So did the guys with the RPG.

    That joke's a bit in poor taste.
    Is it? No one was killed in the actual attack and I can't find reports of injuries.

    Gvzbgul on
  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited February 2015
    THESPOOKY wrote: »
    Sorce wrote: »
    Black Sails is back for it's second season, and it's pretty good so far.

    having watched 3 episodes of Black Sails

    this seems like a trick
    Well, there's not really a wealth of nice people when most of the characters are pirates.

    Sorce on
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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    I watched maybe the first three episodes of the first season of Black Sails.

    It did not sell itself to me.

  • THESPOOKYTHESPOOKY papa! Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    I watched maybe the first three episodes of the first season of Black Sails.

    It did not sell itself to me.

    was it

    then

    no sail?

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  • DracomicronDracomicron Registered User regular
    THESPOOKY wrote: »
    Blake T wrote: »
    I watched maybe the first three episodes of the first season of Black Sails.

    It did not sell itself to me.

    was it

    then

    no sail?

    I almost flagged that comment.

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