#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 We musnt forget that Lee is "sensitive" when it comes to the visual style of a TV show of film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Watch season 1 again, it looks like TV. Subsequent seasons look like film.The pilot opener managed it too, as I mentioned earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Ironically season one is the only one where there is one scene actually shot on film rather then digital.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 I guess it shows that fantasy on a budget won't look great whatever the format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamTheater 131 Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Supposedly the "worst" episode of Breaking Bad.Nah, it was just different in tone, even a bit of comedy (but nothing severely out of tone), some more Walt & Jesse moments, which is always good.I suppose you're overreacting a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 No i was surprised to find that is the lowest rated episode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 Modern Family 6x13 Rash Decisions4 good stories this week: Phil helping Andy with real estate and Luke being jealous; Alex interviewing for Princeton and Haley not caring, but providing help anyway; Claire unable to lay the law down at work until Mitch helps her out; and Joe thinking he has to give Stella away to Mitch and Cam until he doesn't. Lots of laugh out loud moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 Netflix failhttp://mashable.com/2015/02/11/netflix-house-of-cards-season-3/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,173 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 After watching Twin Peaks (finally) and The Leftovers, I'm once again rewatching Coupling. It remains the pinnacle of TV comedy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlDbDVxMpFI I know most of it by heart now, but I still have to laugh out several times during each episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 12, 2015 Author Share Posted February 12, 2015 Oh man do I love that show! Great taste!The American remake, also, is really not as bad as it was made out to be, especially after episodes that directly re-did UK episodes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,173 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 I only watched the first episode of the US show, and found it amazingly bad. It's exactly the same script, only poorly acted (with the exception of Sonya Walger) and with various British terms replaced by American ones and some jokes inexplicably left out. The timing, which is so perfect in the UK version, is completely off and ruins whatever may have been left of the script. The last season of the UK version is rather lousy (with some exceptions), but probably still better than the remake. Of course, the three seasons before that are nearly entirely perfect. The way jokes are set up and developed throughout each episode is masterful, and there are dozens of hilarious one liners that without context would hardly seem to make sense. Later episodes became increasingly ambitious and "artsy" (I'm not using that as a negative term here), with stories told in split screen, nonlinear narratives and scenes repeated from various points of view. I believe that How I Met Your Mother, in its best episodes, often owes a lot to Coupling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 Oh yea, absolutely it does. Seriously, the unaired US episodes of coupling were actually pretty good. NBC canceled it before it got a chance to show what it could do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Imagine if they did the same with the US Office, which was a bit shaky the first few episodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Deep Space Nine "Circle" trilogy that opens season 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 The first season of the US Office was pretty bad, but then season 2 was one of the best seasons of any comedy ever. Who knew? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I think season one was pretty good, it was just something you had to get used to, even if you had seen the UK version. Watching it in retrospect is perfectly enjoyable for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 Yea who knows how I'd feel about it now; I've seen each episode exactly once around when they aired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 There's something about the UK version, maybe having more actors looking like this:that makes the BBC version always more appealing to me. The lack of polishedness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 They are two almost completely different shows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 It's curious that Coupling really took off in the States; it was barely known on home soil. I never found the small parts I saw of it very funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,326 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 It's like watching Top Gear USA. Why bother? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I've never watched that. Surely it can't be the same? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 It was the UK's answer to Friends (3 female and 3 male twentysomethins hanging out), but much more clever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 The creator of The IT Crowd is making a new comedy set on a space station Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,326 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I've never watched that. Surely it can't be the same?For the record, I was talking about The Office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 Brooklyn 99 2x15 Windbreaker CityFunny stuff! I like when the gang gets out of the office and all gets the same story together. Nick Kroll was good, I guess this is the real end of the Eva Longoria arc, now. The subplot and Gina and Holt and the personality test was hilarious. Amy's power pose stuff was really funny too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 Girls 4x04 CubbiesWow - very little Hannah, one scene with Adam, and lots of Shoshanna and Ray? Easily the best episode of the season! Shosannah was hilarious as usual, and also very real in her scenes with Ray. Finally the writers are figuring out what to do with her again. They still have no idea what to do with Jessa at all. And every second of the Marnie scenes this year are insufferable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 Parks and Recreation 7x08 Ms. Ludgate-Dwyer Goes to WashingtonEvery time I think the writers have run out of ideas and the show has run it's course, the very next scene ends up being an amazing one that makes me realize I was wrong. This week the Ben and Andy, and eventually Ron storyline was kinda meh, but then the April/Leslie scene happened and it was so very good. It's because we know these characters so well that scenes like this are extra special. I also liked the job April ended up at, it fits. Her arc this season has been a good, and relate-able one. Though, I don't really get why they introduced her and Andy buying a home in Pawnee as part of it, now that they'll be moving to D.C. (what will happen to Andy's show?). Speaking of that, it was kind of weird to see them just living in it this week, all of a sudden. Wasn't it supposed to be a bit of a fixer upper? No Tom at all this week, kinda strange! Also strange was how quickly April and Leslie took jobs across the country without discussing it with their husbands? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 It was the UK's answer to Friends (3 female and 3 male twentysomethins hanging out), but much more clever. doubtful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Jason is actually sort of right. I really would not compare it to Friends though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 It's definitely more clever than Friends. More sharp writing, less broad comedy.Both shows are great in their own ways, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I saw FRIENDS for the first time last year (more than a snippet) - it was so boringly square i began to imagine the 3 Stooges breaking through the walls to liven it up. Alas, the moment never came. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Indeed. I've seen funny moments but it seems very prone to Very Special syndrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 What's that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 Any Wheel of Time fans here?Interesting article about a pilot that just aired for it, and why it aired at 1:30am with no advertising for it whatsoever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurmm 91 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Just done watching the final episode of The Wire. Wow, this series in its entirety is a stunning piece of work. Majestically epic and intimate in the same breath. By the end you feel like there are a tonne of stories left to tell in the city of Baltimore, and yet at the same time it feels complete. Like a circle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 It's curious that Coupling really took off in the States; it was barely known on home soil. I never found the small parts I saw of it very funny.Same. Compared to stuff like The Office, Peep Show, the first series of Green Wing or People Like Us, it doesn't hold up well. Nothing against Steven Moffat, I just don't think comedy's his strength. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 This SNL 40th anniversary special on right now is great. JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 This SNL 10th anniversary special on right now is great.40th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Yea, I typed 40th and my phone autocorrected and I didn't notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,272 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 This SNL 40th anniversary special on right now is great.My biggest takeaway from it was that it reminded me how much I miss Celebrity Jeopardy. That is one failproof sketch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I missed it. As well as The Walking Dead. So I hope the former ends up on Hulu, and I have to stay off the Internet tomorrow for the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Yea, I typed 40th and my phone autocorrected and I didn't notice.Sure, blame the phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Sabrina the Teenage Witch.Another marathon out of the way. The first three seasons were packed to the brim with comedy gold. The way the humour was executed during that period was exceptional. It gets problematic from Season 4 onwards because of cast changes and writing staff changes. This resulted in a slightly different feel to the show, but Melissa Joan Hart managed to keep it all together with her perkiness and charisma, and Salem the cat was one of the funniest characters on television. Season 7 is almost unanimously but unfairly detested by fans, but I thought it was a decent send-off despite its flaws.Apparently they're rebooting it in a new movie due out in 2017, but I'm skeptical that they'll be able to recapture the magic of the 90s series. Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 So what good tv shows do you watch, Drax? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Good is a point of view, Quintakin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Drunk History - Season 1Pretty funny show based off the old web series. I enjoy the combination of funny acting, drunk narrators, and actual history. It's cool how many famous people they get to be on here as well. I also like how the head guy travels from city to city and hangs out with people, and is there on screen with them as they tell their stories. The show is also paced well, which each story going by fairly quickly - enough to tell the story and have lots of funny parts, there's no bloat. You'll get a few laugh out loud moments per episode, what more can you ask for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,173 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Drunk History is hilarious, but the constant bleeping is seriously annoying. I don't suppose the DVDs are uncensored? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 I have no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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