Yeah True Detective is legit. Too bad each season is a complete different story, it'll be hard to top this first one (and there's still two episodes to go!). On the other hand it's an original proposition, it'll be interesting if they can keep this level with interchanging stories and casts.
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TV Shows aka Sir Didier being upset that non-hipsters like Game of Thrones
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Did anyone bother watching the How I Met Your Mother finale? I stopped watching the show 3 episodes into the new season as it was just unbearably bad. My girlfriend persevered so I was occasionally exposed to an episode here and there, and they all seemed like shit.
The finale, which I haven't seen but I've been told what happened, just confirms what I thought that this show took a steep nosedive to Shitsville a World Cup or so ago.
The finale, which I haven't seen but I've been told what happened, just confirms what I thought that this show took a steep nosedive to Shitsville a World Cup or so ago.
I never understood the hype around that show. Neil Patrick Harris is cool and all but that show never looked like it was any good.
Also, call me crazy, but I can't buy into him playing a playboy when I know he's gay in real life. Although I did find him really entertaining in Harold and Kumar.
Also, call me crazy, but I can't buy into him playing a playboy when I know he's gay in real life. Although I did find him really entertaining in Harold and Kumar.
He carried the show for 5-6 seasons, but over time they butchered the character with cumbersome character arcs that were just shit.
The show captured the Friends essence just at the time when people were missing it, but was different enough to not plateau. It nosedived horribly though. The writers just don't understand character development and all the faults that Friends suffered in the last 3 seasons were multiplied to a million here.
The show captured the Friends essence just at the time when people were missing it, but was different enough to not plateau. It nosedived horribly though. The writers just don't understand character development and all the faults that Friends suffered in the last 3 seasons were multiplied to a million here.
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Mandieta6;3649620 said:
I did, and I agree, this season was just a bunch of waste of time. I would play catch up every month or so just to see what was happening. It has gone downhill for a few seasons, and it did confirm what I too suspected was going to happen.
Also, caught The Walking dead Season finale. It did catch me by surprise how it ended, and also, what almost happened to the boy. Look forward to next season.
Hmmm. Friends was rubbish at the end.
How I Met Your Mother had a terrible ending and was worse.
It seems like most shows discussed here are US-based. What about European (British)? Or Australian?
How I Met Your Mother had a terrible ending and was worse.
It seems like most shows discussed here are US-based. What about European (British)? Or Australian?
Not much good Australian TV exported.
The INXS mini series was decent. And we has a good crime series called Underbelly a few years ago, based on a true story, but they've kept the series going, based on different new stories every year and it keeps getting worse and worse.
There is some absolute gold on British TV. The Inbetweeners, The Office, The Green Wing and Extras all all brilliant (though the American versions of the first two don't compare). Any suggestions from anyone for shows along these lines?
GoT new season starts in 4 days. Exciting times!
The INXS mini series was decent. And we has a good crime series called Underbelly a few years ago, based on a true story, but they've kept the series going, based on different new stories every year and it keeps getting worse and worse.
There is some absolute gold on British TV. The Inbetweeners, The Office, The Green Wing and Extras all all brilliant (though the American versions of the first two don't compare). Any suggestions from anyone for shows along these lines?
GoT new season starts in 4 days. Exciting times!
in Zed, the local TV station showed Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (yeah, the one from the 60s) on random weekends in the mid 90s ...Alex;3649754 said:
yeah, awesome show ... wasn't as good without Jeff, but Steven Moffat had already proven how good a writer he was ... Sherlock reinforced that (with the exception of his take on Moriarty) ...Alex;3650122 said:
where do you stand on the older British shows like Yes Minister, Mind Your Language, Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, Blackadder, Red Dwarf, etc.? I personally will never tire of the antics of Balders and Bladder, which got better with each series ...
Alex;3650223 said:
Not really man. So many clips from Only fools and Horses are all over Youtube and they are still great.
The Batman episode is one of my all time favorites. Same for the one where he fell through the foldable bar counter top while trying to pick up European women. Or as he called them "modern Euro birds".
On the west side of the Atlantic, things have taken a little nose-dive after Seinfeld..the exception would be The Office, which I thought was good at the beginning. How I Met Your Mother was ok. Friends was also good at the beginning, but like The Office took a nose dive mid way through....a stronger drop in the case of the Office.
I think every show that goes beyond 4-5 seasons drops. Some shows drop after a season or two, even. But where Community or Friends, while obviously worse than their earlier episodes, were still good shows throughout their run, HIMYM went from being good to being atrocious. Friends' season 9/10, easily their worst periods, were as good, if not better, than pretty much every other sitcom season that has followed them. I'd say that HIMYM first 3-4 seasons have a case of being better (but not by much, certainly not at the level of Friends' season 2/3) but afterwards they dipped to a level that, had they debuted that way, would have been cancelled within 6 episodes. Or perhaps not, since lots of lowest-common-denominator shows are very successful.
The reason why The Big Bang Theory, for example, doesn't get the same grief as HIMYM, despite being a similar brand of humor and having clearly gotten worse, is that their characters have developped properly and have not been turned into caricatures for the sake of forcibly manufacturing a gag to rely on as a crutch). The jokes aren't as funny (they were never that funny to begin with), but they have not shat the bed, yet.
It's hard to blame HIMYM's writers, I guess. I mean, all the well-written shows (Community, 30 Rock, Arrested Development) get no ratings while Michael Sheen tears it up. It is commercially better for a TV show to be shit than be funny. Every once in a while I turn on the comedy channel and see all these new shitcoms and think 'hey, maybe one of these is good', and tune in for an episode. You always see the same jokes, the same set-ups, the same situations, and rarely are they at least done properly to begin with. I would watch another Ross-Rachel narrative, even if it isn't original, but it needs to be funny. I can watch a 'the odd couple'-premised show, but it needs to be funny. Shows aren't funny anymore.
I had high hopes for House of Lies but I tuned out in the 2nd season. Still have it recorded, maybe I'll give it another go so it still had its moments.
The reason why The Big Bang Theory, for example, doesn't get the same grief as HIMYM, despite being a similar brand of humor and having clearly gotten worse, is that their characters have developped properly and have not been turned into caricatures for the sake of forcibly manufacturing a gag to rely on as a crutch). The jokes aren't as funny (they were never that funny to begin with), but they have not shat the bed, yet.
It's hard to blame HIMYM's writers, I guess. I mean, all the well-written shows (Community, 30 Rock, Arrested Development) get no ratings while Michael Sheen tears it up. It is commercially better for a TV show to be shit than be funny. Every once in a while I turn on the comedy channel and see all these new shitcoms and think 'hey, maybe one of these is good', and tune in for an episode. You always see the same jokes, the same set-ups, the same situations, and rarely are they at least done properly to begin with. I would watch another Ross-Rachel narrative, even if it isn't original, but it needs to be funny. I can watch a 'the odd couple'-premised show, but it needs to be funny. Shows aren't funny anymore.
I had high hopes for House of Lies but I tuned out in the 2nd season. Still have it recorded, maybe I'll give it another go so it still had its moments.
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Another series that was great but then went downhill (although you have to blame ABC for that one), was Scrubs. I truly enjoyed that show and the first ending was great. After that, it was no longer the original Scrubs show, it was just a new cast with the same name.