Television thread

[Yegolev]

Watched the first two episodes of Californication on Showtime.  It is funny at times, and Duchovny is good in the role.

[Mrbloodworth]

Watched the first two episodes of Californication on Showtime.  It is funny at times, and Duchovny is good in the role.

The mini first episode was kinda funny, a dark sexual comedy, if you will. I'm guessing your saying the rest of the series is good?

[Rasix]

Uhh, do you read posts at all or just say whatever is on your mind?


As for JFC, the show deserved to be canned.  It needed to be canceled to teach Milch a fucking lesson.  That stupid cocksucker needs to jump off his Shakespearean dialog gimmick. It worked in Deadwood for a number of reasons.  First, how the fuck do we know what people sounded like back then?  Also, the actors on Deadwood were real actors (and they had Al).  Granted there's some crossover with JFC and some good additions (Luis Guzman), but some of the poorer actors (Kai, Shawn, hairlip) made it just sound stupid.  Hell, that dialog just sounds stupid in a modern context.  Say what you mean, you stupid assholes and quit spilling your guts to no one in particular every time the fancy strikes you.  Saying "yes" or "maybe" doesn't need to be a 8 sentence paragraph.

If this post were written by David Milch, I'd be saying all of this to a parrot or a perhaps a stapler if it had enough emotional meaning. 

Also the pacing was again, horrible.  Milch has a tendency, due to the verbal diarrhea, to have absolutely nothing happen in an episode.  Yah, that's a good way to get people hooked to your show, have nothing happen and have no one understand what anyone's saying.  AND HAVE IT BE ABOUT SURFING. Have everyone in the show be equally unlikeable except for characters that are just unintelligible. I guess he thought since Deadwood was such a critical darling, he could meander his way through a season and survive.  Ask Tim Minnear or Joss Whedon about how well that works out and their shows didn't have near the pacing problems or the other quality issues that plagued this show.

I thought the show was interesting and had some potential, but I expected this cancellation like I expected Monday to come after Sunday.  I ponder, Slinky on my desk, was it justified?  Was there some sort of mystical gathering of the moons that made it so?  Do you will it, Slinky?  Are you some how bending these events to your will or are you being bent to theirs? Oh no, slipped into Milch-land for a second. 

While this show was moderately intriguing for a while, I'm pissed off with HBO for wasting my time with it.

At least Big Love kicked ass this year, even if Bill Hendrickson is about as likeable as a pedophile.

[Mrbloodworth]

Uhh, do you read posts at all or just say whatever is on your mind?

Little of both, but i asked, just because someone fits the role, doesn't make the show as a while, good. Besides, its all opinions in this thread. I enjoyed the first (short) episode, but it really could go any direction after that, so i asked. That, and i watch everything like that on DvD or otherwise, and pay little attention to when it came out and how many episodes it has.. I watched the entire Lost series up to its last episode that way... Sometimes 3 a night..depending..good stuff to watch it that way.

As for JFC, the show deserved to be canned.  It needed to be canceled to teach Milch a fucking lesson.  That stupid cocksucker needs to jump off his Shakespearean dialog gimmick. It worked in Deadwood for a number of reasons.  First, how the fuck do we know what people sounded like back then?  Also, the actors on Deadwood were real actors (and they had Al).  Granted there's some crossover with JFC and some good additions (Luis Guzman), but some of the poorer actors (Kai, Shawn, hairlip) made it just sound stupid.  Hell, that dialog just sounds stupid in a modern context.  Say what you mean, you stupid assholes and quit spilling your guts to no one in particular every time the fancy strikes you.  Saying "yes" or "maybe" doesn't need to be a 8 sentence paragraph.

If this post were written by David Milch, I'd be saying all of this to a parrot or a perhaps a stapler if it had enough emotional meaning. 

Also the pacing was again, horrible.  Milch has a tendency, due to the verbal diarrhea, to have absolutely nothing happen in an episode.  Yah, that's a good way to get people hooked to your show, have nothing happen and have no one understand what anyone's saying.  AND HAVE IT BE ABOUT SURFING. Have everyone in the show be equally unlikeable except for characters that are just unintelligible. I guess he thought since Deadwood was such a critical darling, he could meander his way through a season and survive.  Ask Tim Minnear or Joss Whedon about how well that works out and their shows didn't have near the pacing problems or the other quality issues that plagued this show.

I thought the show was interesting and had some potential, but I expected this cancellation like I expected Monday to come after Sunday.  I ponder, Slinky on my desk, was it justified?  Was there some sort of mystical gathering of the moons that made it so?  Do you will it, Slinky?  Are you some how bending these events to your will or are you being bent to theirs? Oh no, slipped into Milch-land for a second. 

While this show was moderately intriguing for a while, I'm pissed off with HBO for wasting my time with it.

At least Big Love kicked ass this year, even if Bill Hendrickson is about as likeable as a pedophile.

I don't agree with allot of that. Best show ever? maybe not...good, different, odd, and entertaining would be how i describe it. I disliked big love. Weeds was ,however, kinda cool, and to short lived. I do wonder if Shawn is just that way, or if thats how the character was written, so i do find him kind of odd, so i guess i agree there, unless thats just the way the character is..

EDITS: Spelling/grammer

[Abagadro]

but some of the poorer actors (Kai,

Just FYI, but Keala Kennelly (i.e. "Kai") isn't an actor. She is a world class surfer. I actually thought she was decent in the show.

[Xanthippe]

but some of the poorer actors (Kai,

Just FYI, but Keala Kennelly (i.e. "Kai") isn't an actor. She is a world class surfer. I actually thought she was decent in the show.

I thought she was quite good considering she's not an actor.  Would have loved to see her surf more, though.

I don't think the show suffered from the acting or the writing so much as from the pacing, as stated above.  Watching episodes and not knowing what the fuck is going on is ok for a week or two but by the end of the season, there should be more answers than questions.  Lost is barely, minimally competent in this regard.

[Yegolev]

Watched the first two episodes of Californication on Showtime.  It is funny at times, and Duchovny is good in the role.

The mini first episode was kinda funny, a dark sexual comedy, if you will. I'm guessing your saying the rest of the series is good?

Not really, just saying if you have an hour to spend on TV, this is better than a lot of the shit you might watch.  I have only watched the pilot and the second, and I can see where it is going already.  This one will hinge on the comedy, which it started off well with, and Duchovny's character.  Which, really, is the core of the jokes.  Great?  Not really.  Good?  Sure.

[schild]

That's a super hot Not-16-Year-Old.

I'll like this show.

[MrHat]

That's a super hot Not-16-Year-Old.

I'll like this show.

What show?

[schild]

That's a super hot Not-16-Year-Old.

I'll like this show.

What show?

Californication.

[Yegolev]

Ah, yes, I failed to mention the quantity of titties in Californication.  That 16-year-old is more like 26.

[schild]

Ah, yes, I failed to mention the quantity of titties in Californication.  That 16-year-old is more like 26.

She's 20. And super hot.

[Mrbloodworth]

That's a super hot Not-16-Year-Old.

I'll like this show.

Would you enjoy the punches? lol.


(I like how he flinches every time she comes in the room, lol)

[schild]

Would you enjoy the punches? lol.

From her? Yes.

[Mrbloodworth]

Would you enjoy the punches? lol.

From her? Yes.

Heh.

[Johny Cee]

Would you enjoy the punches? lol.

From her? Yes.

"The spirit is willing,  but the flesh is bruised and spongy" --Zap Branigan

[Margalis]

That was a great episode. Especially the alternate smiling/frowning regarding death by snoo snoo.

[Abagadro]

Don't forget about the basketball fundamentals.

[Rishathra]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYrnG-6uV94

[MrHat]

She's not that hot. Looks like someone raked her face when she was still a toddler.

[Trippy]

Huh?

[Tebonas]

That rake accident probably happened during the shooting of "The Nanny".

[Nevermore]

I was surprised to learn today that, in one of the stranger casting choices I've seen, Nathan Fillion will be joining the regular series cast of Desperate Housewives as a gynecologist.  Will this lead to the cancellation of the show, or does Fillion's particular Kiss of Death only apply to shows on FOX?

[Margalis]

Don't forget about the basketball fundamentals.

Ha ha good call.

[Trippy]

I was surprised to learn today that, in one of the stranger casting choices I've seen, Nathan Fillion will be joining the regular series cast of Desperate Housewives as a gynecologist.  Will this lead to the cancellation of the show, or does Fillion's particular Kiss of Death only apply to shows on FOX?

Mostly just FOX.

[Abagadro]

FoTC was freaking hilarious this week if you get the dancing reference.

[Sky]

I dunno, I'm not real big on fiction most of the time. Watching the new lobstering show on Discovery, LOBSTAH WAHS! My family is mostly lobsterers in Maine, so it's an interesting show as it's what I would be doing if WW2 hadn't displaced my grandfather.

Misering our last few Planet Earth HD episodes like they are video gold..."NO, we can't watch two in a row. Maybe we can watch another one next week." Only two left, forests and caves. Best tv in evar, but they only have time to touch on subjects that could be entire shows themselves.

[bhodi]

Those are the two best ones, IMO.

[schild]

My review of the Sarah Connor Chronicles First Episode.

AWESOME.

I'D FUCK A ROBOT.

[bhodi]

I'D FUCK A ROBOT.

You'd fuck a splintery hole.

I don't trust you when it comes to TV.

[schild]

I'D FUCK A ROBOT.

You'd fuck a splintery hole.

I don't trust you when it comes to TV.

[Riggswolfe]

My review of the Sarah Connor Chronicles First Episode.

AWESOME.

I'D FUCK A ROBOT.

When is this show starting? I can't seem to find any information on it.

[HaemishM]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

EDIT: Oh, and I saw the preview for this week's Flash Gordon, now with Hawkmen.

Did I mention the fucking Hawkmen don't even have wings, just shitty looking capes? If lack of wings doesn't kill that series, nothing will.

[Morat20]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

EDIT: Oh, and I saw the preview for this week's Flash Gordon, now with Hawkmen.

Did I mention the fucking Hawkmen don't even have wings, just shitty looking capes? If lack of wings doesn't kill that series, nothing will.

When I turn to Sci-Fi, I actually cover my eyes lest I see some sort of "Flash Gordon" commercial. I think it kills brain cells. This makes watching "Eureka" hard, I admit.

[Riggswolfe]

I just watched the preview episodes of a couple of new NBC series on Cox On-demand.

Bionic Woman was ok. It's got Miguel Ferra the dick corporate guy from the first Robocop movie. He's playing basically the evil government guy here. Chief Tyrol was in the first episode briefly but I'm not sure why, it seems to tie into a storyline involving the Bionic Woman's boyfriend's evil father. So far, it's interesting but could go either way.

I also watched Chuck. I liked it alot. The hot blond parading around in her bra and panties while preparing for a "date" with Chuck helped alot.