Television thread

[HaemishM]

Just caught Smith and Studio 60, both were decent and worth a watch.

Smith reminds me of Heat which is always good and I'm interested in where the characters are going.  Also makes me wonder whatever happened to that show Thief.

It got shitcanned after the first season finale.

[WayAbvPar]

I like the premise/concept of Smith. However, the instant I heard "from the Producer of The West Wing and ER" I instantly abandoned all hope. Not sure I will bother to even check it out.

[Xanthippe]

Thief didn't live up to it's promise for me.  Started off great, then fell apart.  I don't know what happened; it's as if they got a whole new team of people or something behind the scenes.

I won't miss it but I hope to see the actors again in other interesting shows.  They were great; just not given much cohesion.

[Furiously]

If the pilot is any indication, Heroes is worth watching.

Friend had taped it and I watched it last night. Much better then I anticipated.

[WayAbvPar]

Heroes definitely has some potential, but it might take a while to get there. Too many characters, too little exposition to tell me wtf was going on. I don't get Ali Larter's power at all (other than to be continually cast as a hot girl when she is actually a butterface). Is it a split personality? Does she have a ghost twin that fucks people up?

All in all I still found it intriguing enough to Season Pass it. God bless TiVo.

[Sky]

I dunno, I didn't like Heroes much. I'm going to give it another shot and DVR it next week, but it's On Notice. I'm glad Universal HD picked up Firefly, that's a good show. They're going to air the Dickey Betts show on HDNet again, for those that have that channel. His band smokes, and he's upgraded his second guitar player (on tour, not in this show) to Andy Aledort, the guitar magazine guy. The Stargate cliffhangers leading to the season ends were both great, I can't believe they'll cancel SG-1 now that it's back in full swing. Ah, well.

Dwight got a hooker!  :-D

[WayAbvPar]

Dwight got a hooker! 

LMAO! I wish that was a one hour episode- so much more they could have done with that situation, Michael's 'party', and the rest of the convention.

[Yegolev]

Dwight got a hooker!  :-D

Heh... pretty much the only thing I watch now is The Office and Venture Bros.

[WayAbvPar]

S60 was solid again last night. Amanda Peet is slowly growing on me in her role, and I think Steven Weber is great playing a corporate stooge. Once we get to know the characters better it will really be fun.

TiVo'ed Heroes, but haven't had time to watch it yet. Still have high hopes...

[Nevermore]

Heroes was very good last night.  Writing looks good so far.

Speaking of good writing, it seems that Blade isn't going to be renewed for a second season.  I guess Spike TV couldn't find any room in their schedule for a well written show, what with the eleventy billion CSI reruns they play every single night.

Has anyone seen Smith?  The description makes it sound like it's a rehash of Thief, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.  Haven't had a chance to watch it yet though.

[HaemishM]

Blade got shitcanned? Bit of a shame considering the cliffhanger they left it on. But really, it wasn't a show about Blade, it was a show about a bunch of vampires that happened to have Blade in it. And it was more like Blade-lite than actual Blade. Or Blade 3-era Blade.

I finally caught the season(series) finale to Thief the other night. That show started with a good bit of promise, but the wheels really came off in the end. The whole subplot with the daughter was interesting on paper, but it just seemed to get in the way of the story rather than deepen it. The same goes for the Chinese assassin subplot, especially when he kills his boss. If the whole point of his pursuit of the main character was to save face for Uncle Lau, why kill him or his annoying nephew?

[Margalis]

That sucks about Blade. Maybe sci-fi will pick it up or something like that.

They really blew it with the pilot, which was terrible compared to other episodes. It was nice to have a fresh genre-fiction voice amongst the Stargates and Whedon-projects of the world.

[Trippy]

S60 was solid again last night. Amanda Peet is slowly growing on me in her role, and I think Steven Weber is great playing a corporate stooge. Once we get to know the characters better it will really be fun.

Enjoy it while it lasts, it's sinking fast in the ratings. My problem with the show is that it's not nearly as well cast as The West Wing was. Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford, Amanda Peet and Steven Weber are all good but all the cast members are incredibly uninteresting including, sadly, D.L. Hughley.

[Llava]

http://hughley.ytmnsfw.com/

[Yegolev]

Over the weekend I discovered that SciFi is now showing the Tenant episodes of Doctor Who, and of course I have removed the thingy from my Tivo since it seemed to want to continue recording the Eccleston episodes... dammit.  Now I will have to either wait until they start showing them again or torrent them.  Bleh, I guess it's Torrent Time for me.  And BSG starts up again this week, no?

[WayAbvPar]

S60 was solid again last night. Amanda Peet is slowly growing on me in her role, and I think Steven Weber is great playing a corporate stooge. Once we get to know the characters better it will really be fun.

Enjoy it while it lasts, it's sinking fast in the ratings. My problem with the show is that it's not nearly as well cast as The West Wing was. Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford, Amanda Peet and Steven Weber are all good but all the cast members are incredibly uninteresting including, sadly, D.L. Hughley.

Yep. Seems America isn't as interested in being smugly told how bad TV is as I am 

Watched the 2nd ep of Heroes. Wow. That is some dark shit. It is kind of giving me a Lost feel, in that they feel the need to show several minutes of scenes from previous episodes to catch everyone up. Hope that doesn't continue- that just bugs the hell out of me.

[HaemishM]

Heroes was real good. I imagine they are probably going to continue with the "previously on" type of scenes, because the continuity is going to get pretty complex. There are what, 7 major characters, each with a set of minor characters who have their own subplots, as well as the "villain." That's going to be a lot to catch up on for a new viewer.

[tazelbain]

The resemblance to the Lost format wise is striking.  We have come a long way since Babylon 5.  If I like a show, I don't mind recaps.  It is better than the episodic format.

[schild]

Heroes is nothing like Lost. Lost had no clue where it was going. Just when it couldn't get more ridiculous, it raised the bar. Heroes on the other hand seems to know EXACTLY what it's doing. There are multiple, very clear and very present dangers. They come in the form of 2 supervillains and 1 g-man. The groups and their motives are well-defined. Also, they've created the ULTIMATE storyline character. You have a guy who can jump Into The Future. That's right. He sets up the story arcs. He's Spoiler Man, he tells you how it's gonna be, and it's fucking brilliant.

[Sky]

Well, and the painter guy.

[XboxGod]

Best shows on TV right now:

1.) Weeds
2.) Gray's Anatomy

[WayAbvPar]

Best shows on TV right now:

1.) Weeds
2.) Gray's Anatomy

I have heard good things about Weeds. If the show was called Izzie's Anatomy and was on HBO (to provide numerous glimpses of said anatomy), I would be far more interested.  Katherine Heigl...

[Johny Cee]

The resemblance to the Lost format wise is striking.  We have come a long way since Babylon 5.  If I like a show, I don't mind recaps.  It is better than the episodic format.

Storyline driven TV in a 22 or 26 episode format sucks.  Catching a show every week becomes a necessity,  rather than a joy,  and the storyline tends to get either MASSIVELY dragged out (Firefly, most Whedon stuff)  or so convoluted that it's impenetrable as the run progresses(X-files seasons 5+).

I refuse to watch anything with an ongoing storyline of more than 13 episodes in a season.  Rome, Sopranos, Rescue Me, etc.  all tend to have ongoing stories,  and wrap them up well and on time. 

Deadwood would have been in that last group if season 3 didn't seem to drag it's feet so much.

[stray]

Heroes is great. I'm sticking with it.



Until it gets canceled, of course.

[HaemishM]

Best shows on TV right now:

1.) Weeds
2.) Gray's Anatomy

No, it really isn't. Grey's Anatomy is just ER with more sex and less medical stuff. It's painful to watch. You want a good medical drama? Watch House.

Also, Eureka's season finale was last night and it was damn good. That show has consistently been pretty brilliant and if Sci-Fi fucks it over, they deserve to be trampled by Sodomites.

[Zetleft]

Also, Eureka's season finale was last night and it was damn good. That show has consistently been pretty brilliant and if Sci-Fi fucks it over, they deserve to be trampled by Sodomites.

I've only ever seen the premiere episode of Eureka and that season finale and I liked em both.  Hell if sci-fi decides to actually show the rest on rerun, instead of all the bug-of-the-week-movies-crap, then I will definately watch them. 

[Johny Cee]

Also, Eureka's season finale was last night and it was damn good. That show has consistently been pretty brilliant and if Sci-Fi fucks it over, they deserve to be trampled by Sodomites.

I've only ever seen the premiere episode of Eureka and that season finale and I liked em both.  Hell if sci-fi decides to actually show the rest on rerun, instead of all the bug-of-the-week-movies-crap, then I will definately watch them. 

I've been watching it occasionally.  It's Northern Exposure meets X-Files, and a pretty good show.  My life is too stressful at the moment to do much else.

Wiki link:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_(TV_series)

According to Wiki,  it's picked up for a second season as well as being broadcast in the UK.  I vote for an Ironwood review!

Edit:  Bah,  get to the end of the wiki story after writing this and they make the Northern Exposure comparison.

[XboxGod]

I have heard good things about Weeds. If the show was called Izzie's Anatomy and was on HBO (to provide numerous glimpses of said anatomy), I would be far more interested.  Katherine Heigl...

I couldn't agree more. I've loved her ever since she was in that movie on the Disney Channel. Mmmmmm...

[Trippy]

I'm liking Shark.

[Sky]

I want to work in Jim's new Office, though I'd get them to play BF2 instead of CoD.

[Miasma]

I want to work in Jim's new Office, though I'd get them to play BF2 instead of CoD.

Crappy work computers could probably only handle CoD.

I think The Office is the only program I actually bother to watch on TV, I'll watch My Name is Earl but mainly because it comes on before The Office.

That was a great episode.  Him running around trying to kill people with the smoke grenade, the emergency meeting, getting yelled at for spawning as a sniper, heh.

Coworker "Why did you do that!?"
Jim "I'm just trying to kill the Germans."
Coworker "WE'RE THE GERMANS, SHOOT THE BRITISH."
Jim "We're on teams?"

[Trippy]

Smith is gone.

[Merusk]

BSG was awesome.. and then they ruined part of it in the 'this season on BSG' trailer.   :-(

[Margalis]

James Woods rules so there is a limit to how bad Shark can be. Hell I'll even watch John Carpenter's Vampires.

How many movies has Woods been in where he wasn't the best actor by far?

[stray]

How many movies has Woods been in where he wasn't the best actor by far?

Casino maybe? And even then, I'm not sure about that. At the very least, he was just as good as Pesci and De Niro. None of them were as good as Sharon Stone.


Anyways, I like him too. Didn't realize he was in a new show.