Television General Discussion

lmao I think I remember that scene.

I’ve been enjoying Peaky Blinders. Watched the first few episodes today. It takes a lot for me to be interested in period piece shows/movies as I’ve only liked a handful of them (Legend of the Fall, Tombstone and a couple more).

One thing I noticed is that it takes the UK approach with shorter seasons. I’m coming to like that approach as it allows for better pacing compared to the standard 13 or 23 episode seasons in US, where the narrative clearly is being stretched for the sake of filling the episode order. LOST is a great example as it was originally written to be a four season show, but ABC ordered an extra two seasons when the rating for S1 were going through the roof. Imagine having to stretch that story over 46 extra episodes, not including two hour premieres, finales and special mid-season episodes. That easily bumps it to at least 50 hours of extra content.

I do like how this is being combated with more series taking the anthology approach like AHS and American Crime.

Midseason Previews!

Colony

Spoiler

https://youtu.be/bxglHSaRuKo

Billions

Spoiler

https://youtu.be/_raEUMLL-ZI

Legends of Tomorrow

Spoiler

https://youtu.be/c7LlmaFg0lw

Mad Dogs

Spoiler

https://youtu.be/841XDVYqWxw

X-Files

Spoiler

https://youtu.be/_1SmJUBT5q0

…more in the link

Colony Pilot was pretty decent. USA has really stepped up there production quality. Colony plus Mr.Robot, USA is doing things right.

Billions and 11/22/63 look good

their production value has been good for a while.

http://nerdist.com/teen-titans-live-action-series-officially-dead-at-tnt/

Well the proposed Teen Titans show on TNT got canned…

Ah, one of the few cancellations we can celebrate.

Simpson’s intro with the 80’s revamp

Watching the documentary Making a Murder on Netflix. Just got done with episode 2 this is so fucked up feels like a movie script.

Just wait, it gets worse. Far worse than you can ever imagine. I couldn’t believe the shit that happened in that, the amount of police misconduct is unbelievable

watching ep 5 now :anguished:

Shades of Blue has a lot of potential. I wasn’t sure about it b/c I’m not a fan of J-Lo’s acting, but overall the show seems like it can go somewhere.

The Blacklist was dope as usual. Just give James Spader every TV award for Best Actor. Other characters have gotten more interesting, but this dude takes over every scene he’s in - for the better. Ressler is still a tool, he doesn’t piss me off as much as Parkman from Heroes, but he’s on the list.

Hell yeah, another crossover is happening soon with CW’s vamp shows…

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/10/vampire-diaries-originals-crossover-spoilers

Anyone check out The Shannara Chronicles? I saw it pop up in an ad and it seemed interesting, but then I saw it’s on MTV so I was like fuck that. If I hear good things, I will pirate it.

No knowledge about the book it’s based on either.

Heroes Reborn canceled.

Another NBC show canned:

Nothing But Cancels!

It had Heroes in its name. As far as I’m concerned that’s a Mercy Kill for us all.

Still NBC lol

That was fast lol

It was terrible