TV Talk!

[DrakeVagabond]

Why didn't anyone tell me Breaking Bad is awesome. I could have been in on things.

[retrolinkx]

^

It's your own fault.

Well, not really. In this day and age anything popular is usually quite shit, but Breaking Bad was one of those shows that you can't really hate unless you try to find flaws with it or compare it to other media you think is superior.

Anyhow, Walking Dead and Better Call Saul starts in a few days, it's gunna be a good February.

And I'm up to date with Archer's 6th season. I really do want an episode where they go back in time to Nazi Germany and Krieger somehow makes a super weapon that basically starts the fuck up the timeline and Archer and co have to sort everything out.

[CLXcool]

Alright. They just aired the new episode of South park. Marking it the 19th season. Now. I had mixed feeling with the episode. The new principle is a going to get on my nerves, I won't miss him if Trey and Matt(please god will they do this please) kill him off since he's a bum.

[gamemaster1991]

After almost 15 years of being on the air (October 6, 2000 - September 27, 2015), the original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has ended. I want to say that it will be missed, but I haven't seen an episode since William Petersen (Gil Grissom) left the show in season 9. As someone who came just to see the return of Grissom and as a long time fan coming back, I'm a little unsure how I feel about the last episode. Really I don't know what I expected since I was just here for Grissom and was wondering how the show would end. It plays out like a normal CSI episode but didn't feel like they were filming it like a final episode. I like the episode but it doesn't come close to my favorite finale (which would be Star Trek: TNG's "All Good Things...").

[Mass Distraction]

I tried watching this new series called Zoo. I got to around episode 4 after I decided it's not worth wasting my time on. Every single twist is either completely implausible or a total cliche and every main character is unlikeable. What I got from the episodes I watched is that if PETA made a TV-show, it would probably be this. Painfully bad.

[retrolinkx]

After playing tons of Deadly Premonition (well 5 hours worth) along with going through Silent Hill 1-3 throughout this year, I've been hearing of the same TV show wherever I go. Twin Peaks.

It's taken me some time to actually get into it. Mostly because I've been told I should watch it while eating Cherry Pie and drinking some Coffee (but currently Uni has limited me to a Pot Noodle and Pepsi Max Cherry) but damn is it something else.

The FBI agent is basically the main character of Deadly Premonition, I think I even heard him mention "Zach" once in the show. He also makes me laugh similarly to how York does in Deadly Premonition, by saying the weirdest things in conversation. The first time he meets the Sheriff of the town, he asks what kind of trees grow here, out of all the things it's what he mentions first. Music is great too, currently listening to the main "Detective theme" since it's really good. The town seems like a nice place to live in as well.

I heard it was cancelled 20 odd years ago, but upon further review it's getting a short mini series soon. If they can get the same location and characters I think it's little cult following would love it. Hoping I can get to the end of both Deadly Premonition and Twin Peaks beforehand.

Incidentally, to anyone who has seen and played both of these. Would it be better that I watch Twin Peaks first and then finish Deadly Premonition, or does it not matter? Deadly Premonition feels like it's taking a lot from Twin Peaks and I'd hate to find that the story and killer in Twin Peaks mimics Deadly Premonition in any way (as I saw many similarities with a certain scene in the show and game even down to a similar character so it would hurt my experience of DP if it keeps staying similar)

[Arjahn]

Guys, if you haven't checked it out, I highly recommend the hit CBS TV show known as Scorpion. It's one of those special-government teams needs to solve crimes no one else can run-of-the-mill bullshit type shows, but it's so far removed from reality, that it transcends into a glorious realm of televised entertainment.

The hook of the show is that all of these guys are GENIUSES, and I will be using caps lock around that word forever now, because that's what the show is. It's caps lock for your earholes because they say the word genuis and its synonyms at least fifteen times per episode. That is not an exaggeration, I've done the math.

Anyways, they're led by this dude named Walter O'Brien, who's a real guy and also, a real fraud. Here's his publicity AMA for the show where you can discover what kind of person could inspire this masterpiece.  When he's not jerking off his IQ score (which has been shown to be exaggerated and also guys IQ tests are really silly and irrelevant in the first place), he's lying about ATTACHING CORDS TO AIRPLANES WHILE THEY TAKE OFF INTO THE SKY. That's a scene, in the show, that was originally "based on a true story".

From that point on, I think the writers realized what shit they had gotten themselves into and just flatly said to eachother:

Spoiler

FUCK IT, LET'S PUMP THE GAS AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

And pump they did. This show follows cartoon logic, and not in the usual schlocky "ooh all of the bad guys never hit the main characters with bullets" kind of way, I mean in the plotlines themselves. One of my favorite episodes has our GENIUSES hook up, and I'm not joking, a friggen Car Battery to an aging FBI agents brain to help him do parkour and catch a terrorist with a blue finger. I mean, this is premium-grade whacky hijinks, only every week for multiple seasons. Two weeks ago, they robbed a cuban bank vault WITH A HOT DOG.


I know I'm usually one for sarcasm and exaggeration, but seriously guys, give this show a chance. On the surface and in every existing advertisement, it looks painfully groan-inducing, but underneath the generic surface lies a creamy, delectably zany show written by middle schoolers.

[Kakariko Kid]

My mother has a marathon on the picture box - Golden Girls. She went back to bed. I have yet to change stations because I actually like the show. Maybe the Andy Griffith Show is on. The world needs more Mayberry.

[Boyobmas]

Just saw the new Sherlock Christmas(?) Special.
And, without giving any specific spoilers, it was both amazing and confusing.

Hate that I have to wait another year for the rest of the season. As always with Sherlock waiting for it is the hardest part.

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-01-13/robot...ming-back/

Better have Craig Charles :D

[Kakariko Kid]

Has anyone else watched Bizarre Foods? That show has me totally convinced that I could eat deer balls and yak penis and be fine with it.

[Kakariko Kid]

I'm really digging this Grease: Live. Grease is my wife's favorite movie and I think the live performance was a job well done.

Side note: I read a theory that suggests that Sandy fell in love with Danny, but Danny wasn't able to save her from drowning. The happenings in the movie were a dream in her sub-conscious up until the point where Danny and Sandy were leaving in the flying car a.k.a she died and her soul was taken to Heaven. Interesting.

[ZpaceJ0ck0]

Has anyone here watched Gotham? It is any good?

[retrolinkx]

^

I watched around 25 episodes or so before my brother stopped watching them, and thus I eventually lost interest since we used to watch them whenever, and he'd get pissed if I watched it while he was there, or some BS.

The show is alright, it's an interesting plot showing Gotham before everything happens, plus the characters that have been introduced along side Jim help to keep episodes fresh, and give us people to root for and people we hope die.

The actor who plays Penguin is perfect and plays off other bad guys well, he and Nigma were casted well, and every time you'd see them you knew it was going to be fun.

Overall, give it a watch. It gets good around 3-4 episodes in if I recall, but if you're not feeling it by episode 7 or 8, drop it. It might not be for you.

[Kakariko Kid]

I binge watched Blindspot this weekend. I hadn't watched any of season 2. I was getting bored while waiting on some cases to start making connections and then it got good. The mid-season finale was really good imo. So now I'm stuck waiting on Blindspot AND The Walking Dead to come back on in October. Sad face.