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It's a funny show. But if you don't like Zoey Deschannel, it's not for you

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The Michael J. Fox Show, debuting to mixed notices from critics, is on in about fifteen minutes. Even if the writing is pretty shopworn, it's worth it just to have Fox back in sitcom land.


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The writing, especially on the second episode, is even more insipid than I thought it would be, but Fox has still got it, and the cast is decent overall. We'll see if the show recovers from a rocky start.

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Boss: I have found the 1st season thusfar (I am in the 6th episode) quite riveting. Excellent writing and superb acting from all involved although Kelsey Grammer is the rightful center of it all. It is at times rather self-important but there is still a brilliant drama to be mined here. I can't wait to see how the season ends as the build-up has been very pleasurable.

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On another note: why the hell anyone would ever want to watch ANYTHING on Hulu is a mystery to me. I watched a twenty minute episode of The Thick of It and there were FIVE commercial breaks during it. It felt like I was watching it for an hour! WTF? If it ever gets as bad as that here I'll cancel my TV licence.

Rubbish streaming service, unwatchable!

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Well it's free...

If you pay you don't see ads.

Hulu is also good for Criterion, they have a lot of their films on there. I did a 30-day trial just to watch all 9 seasons of Peep Show. For some reason only the first is available on DVD in the U.S. Love that show.

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We have free streaming here too, it's also ad supported, that's fair enough. But in 30 minutes of programming you expect to be interrupted by an ad break ONCE throughout - at the midpoint of the show. That's how it works here, has done for decades (including terrestrial airing).

You poor saps have just been conditioned to think that constant ad interruptions are normal. I'd probably abandon all tv if it went like that here.

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Definitely. Not sure about your Breaking Bad question but Mad Men had limited commercials with the couple episodes that I've seen aired. I recall reading an article about Matt Weiner fighting AMC because they wanted to add a couple more minutes of commercials during their broadcasts and he wouldn't budge.

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Modern Family 5x01 Suddenly, Last Summer


Not much to say - the show is consistently funny just about every episode, every season. The Mitch/Cam proposal storyline was the least interesting one; Funnier and more touching was Jay's reaction to Manny going to Colombia, and Phil and Claire reacating to their children going away and at the end reliving their proposal. Still a great show 5 years in.
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The Wire: Season 3 finale. Sheer awesomeness. There is a great feeling of closure in the season finales of this show because they are actually closing cases whether succesful or not, but here perhaps more than in the previous seasons there is a sense of coming full circle as they tie quite a few story threads together.

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The Wire: Season 3 finale. Sheer awesomeness. There is a great feeling of closure in the season finales of this show because they are actually closing cases whether succesful or not, but here perhaps more than in the previous seasons there is a sense of coming full circle as they tie quite a few story threads together.

Now quickly watch season 4!

From wikipedia:

The fourth season of The Wire has been universally lauded and hailed as one of the best seasons of television ever produced.

And you know what? It's true.

Alex

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The Story of the Jews, by Simon Schama.

Watched the final of the 5 part series, last night. Every episode was engrossing.

Brilliantly made, and Schama's (Jewish himself) enthusiasm making this really notched it up,

I knew much of the wide history it details, already, but it was beautifully made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apwypNbOp8c

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The Mentalist 6x01 - "The Desert Rose"

A brisk, mostly satisfying season opener, with the plot arguably advancing more in this one episode than it did all of last season. An intense (half of a) season lies ahead, with creator Bruno Heller promising that Patrick Jane's formidable nemesis will finally be caught by the end of the calendar year. Unlike many fans, although I find the "mystery of the week" diverting, I watch the show primarily for the Red John arc, and it remains to be seen if the series has much staying power beyond his demise, especially with so few of the show's characters being developed in any meaningful way.

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Under The Dome (second half of Season 1)

We had a marathon on Sunday while working on our computers on various things - this show long ago fell of the "must watch with focus" pile and on to the "throw on in the background while doing other things" pile - and watched the remaining 5-6 episodes of the season that we hadn't seen yet. The show actually managed to get better in its second half, surprisingly. The first half was filled with endless melodrama and focus on "problem of the week" things that reset afterwards, while the few interesting stories crawled along at a snail's pace. The second half of the season shifted those interesting stories to the foreground, with much screen time each week spent on the teenage cast and their interaction with the Egg and Mini Dome. However the payoff of that storyline wasn't especially compelling, nor was the other crap they introduced late in the season - Rennie's old girlfriend and her underground fight club, Barbie being in custody then out of custody then in custody again, etc etc and being framed for murders, etc. All that stuff was a major drag. The final episode itself didn't pay off anything in a meaningful way, ending with a stupid climax that doesn't compel anyone to want to come back in a year to see what happens next.

Overall a huge wasted opportunity, and not really worth anyone's time IMHO.

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Is there a hi-res version of this anywhere?

Also, gotta love ComingSoon's (your link) summary of the program - it's about the most pointedly streamlined and non-spoilerific description of BB I've read.

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So Joey, you never told us your thoughts on the end of the season of Under The Dome

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Let us know when you think it turns to crap.

There's an old guy who crapped in his pants. Yep.

Just watched the season premiere of the ninth and final season of How I Met Your Mother.

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Under The Dome (second half of Season 1)

Overall a huge wasted opportunity, and not really worth anyone's time IMHO.

That's why I only could watch it (the first eppy) for about 1 minute. I can't believe you saw the whole thing!

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The season finale got slagged off by the press. I've still got about three episodes left, but I just can't be arsed. I sort of went off it when I found out it had been extended to a second season, or more.

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The list is actually ginormous. Bart, Lisa, Homer, Marge, some rabbi, Edna, Apu, Sideshow Bob, Princess Penelope, and various other characters.

I would guess Sideshow Bob finally gets killed. But at this point, it's hard to care.

I made my guess while I was typing the list, independently of your guess.

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Yea... turns out there are actually a ton of possibilities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Voice-Over_Performance



Dan Castellaneta and Hank Azaria have won multiple times, and the entire cast won in 1992

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Damon Lindelof on Why 'Breaking Bad's' Finale Let Him Say Goodbye to 'Lost'

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/damon-lindelof-breaking-bad-finale-639484

WARNING! GIVES AWAY THE ENDING OF BOTH SHOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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