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[wallus]

AP Bio is back on and is off to a great start.

[pitchleague]

This season of Brooklyn 99 has been rather meh. There's been way too many episodes which almost entirely focus on one character and whatever their "personal struggle" is at the moment. It's a comedy, make me laugh. If I wanted the feels I'd watch This Is Us or some crap like that.

 

I agree with this statement. When the show was on FOX, I would routinely have at least one or two loud belly-laughs per episode. This year, I've yet to really laugh much at all. A few giggles and that's been it.

[GAME05]

Sure seems like the case with so many shows. As soon as some main character gets married, the show loses its edge.

[RobDeer 45]

This post isn't very current, because the finale was awhile ago, but man The Americans final season was so great! I posted earlier that I love this show, but the final season, and finale were home runs. The finale effected me all day yesterday. So much open for you to finish with your own mind. I know a lot of people dislike this type of ending, but I prefer it. Leaves a lot up to your thoughts and feelings. Makes me want to go back and watch the whole thing again! Someday.

[TURBO]

Sure seems like the case with so many shows. As soon as some main character gets married, the show loses its edge.

 

Two topics I hate on tv shows:

 

Marriage

Baby(s)

 

Those two things almost always make me lose interest, yet they all do it...

[jerichoholicninja]

This season of Brooklyn 99 has been rather meh. There's been way too many episodes which almost entirely focus on one character and whatever their "personal struggle" is at the moment. It's a comedy, make me laugh. If I wanted the feels I'd watch This Is Us or some crap like that.

 

I agree with this statement. When the show was on FOX, I would routinely have at least one or two loud belly-laughs per episode. This year, I've yet to really laugh much at all. A few giggles and that's been it.

 

It almost seems like season 4 of Arrested Development where the actors were all busy and they couldn't ever get them together at the same time to shoot so each episode is like it's own side story about a character or two. I'm a couple behind but the last episode I watched had a lot of golden lines from Captain Holt trying to act undercover.

[nodakfan17]

AP Bio is back on and is off to a great start.

I dig AP Bio too, but I think it will always be a perpetual bubble show even if it survives this season. I loved the first episode last Thursday. Tonight’s episode was so-so.

[pitchleague]

For the record, I thoroughly laughed and enjoyed last week's episode of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine". Probably because it was filled with sophomoric jokes and one-liners. A lot more than in recent episodes. I guess that tells you a lot about myself!

[jerichoholicninja]

For the record, I thoroughly laughed and enjoyed last week's episode of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine". Probably because it was filled with sophomoric jokes and one-liners. A lot more than in recent episodes. I guess that tells you a lot about myself!

 

Ya, the last few episodes have been pretty good. I still hate the "after school special" moment they seem to have in every episode now. It's totally pointless and adds nothing.

[pacopete4]

Never watched Arrested Development before. Started it on Netflix and I enjoy it. Fun show.

[tmwiese55]

Never watched Arrested Development before. Started it on Netflix and I enjoy it. Fun show.

 

Yea the original seasons are pretty much gold. The new Netflix added stuff isn't as good but still it's better they made it than not.

 

It will be a show that struggles to hold up years and years down the line due to so many current affairs related things like Iraq/Bush, etc. But for people above like 25 it should be good for everyone.

[nodakfan17]

The original 53-episode run of Arrested Development was 10 years ahead of its time.

[homer]

So Game of Thrones....

 

Any thoughts? Use the

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[trwi7]

So Game of Thrones....

 

Any thoughts? Use the

spoiler

buttons.

 

 

I can't wait until this show is over so people shut up about it.

 

[bjkrautk]

So Game of Thrones....

 

Any thoughts?

 

 

Hodor.

 

 

...sorry, couldn't help but say it.

 

GoT is the reason that I can't consider Killing Eve to be appointment television. While it's getting the DVR treatment for the next few weeks, it's quite the interesting show. Jodie Comer deserves all of the awards.

[OnTheBlack]

On Saturday we finished out the series Longmire.

 

If you're into westerns and/or crime drama, be forewarned, it's fairly addicting.

 

 

It's also like a lot of TV shows, exponentially better to binge watch than to watch an episode at a time. I remember trying to get into it when it was on AMC and I couldn't. Then it went to Netflix and got into it.

[OnTheBlack]

When I was in high school in the late 70's early 80's my dad and I would watch reruns of M*A*S*H every night at 10:30 after the news (I think they were showing reruns while the show was still creating new episodes in prime time) . I did enjoy the show a lot, but I thought it really lost a lot of comedy after Larry Linville (Frank) left, and the last 2 or 3 years of the show were pretty much unwatchable to me. After a while I believe they switched from M*A*S*H reruns to Cheers reruns at 10:30 (I think it was Channel 6 in Milwaukee that showed those reruns).

We had a three strikes rule with regard to MASH.

 

Strike 1 - Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) instead of Trapper John (Wayne Rogers). Hunnicutt was just a lot more boring than Trapper.

 

Strike 2 - Col. Potter (Harry Morgan) instead of Col. Blake (McLean Stevenson). Stevenson was a very funny comedian, and he played off the other actors really, really well. Morgan was fine as Potter, and sort of acted as a moral compass at times. But Stevenson contributed to the anarchy of the early shows.

 

Strike 3 - Winchester (David Ogden Stiers) instead of Frank Burns (Larry Linville). Frank was just a brilliant character - it was hard to top that.

 

Each of these three replacements were fine. The actors were good and so forth. But each made things a little more staid and a little more conventional. Also, when Wayne Rogers left, it made Alan Alda the sole star. And Alda definitely pushed the show into his own direction over time.

 

In all of these cases, I think part of things simply reflected on the tone and writing of the show. As the show aged, the show lost its edge. There were often moments of brilliance, but they were fewer and further in between.

 

How about the series finale? I'd never seen it as it was before my time by a little bit. So I only recently(a year or two) actually saw that scene when the guy is yelling at the women to shut the chicken, which...spoiler alert, is actually a baby and a result of Alan Alda's PTSD. Jesus...what a grisly way to end a historically great sitcom!

[OnTheBlack]

AP Bio is back on and is off to a great start.

I dig AP Bio too, but I think it will always be a perpetual bubble show even if it survives this season. I loved the first episode last Thursday. Tonight’s episode was so-so.

 

 

AP Bio brings me back to one of my all time favorite shows, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. I even liked the Mick.

 

I haven't seen Mack in anything, but Charle, Dee and Dennis have basically moved on to different shows with the same characters and I've found them all hilarious...even though the last few years of the show really tapered off(a point I think the actors were actually making several times when one of them would ask, "haven't we done this before).

 

But watching Glenn Howerton in AP Bio is awesome.

 

As for It's always Sunny, I know Charlie Day said he plans on doing 15 seasons to break a record...but I haven't really paid attention. I kinda thought the series finale of season 12 was a good ending. Dennis trying to have one of those Sitcom ending moments and "the gang" badgering him....yelling at him, arguing until he just huffs and finally walks out.

[HiAndTight]

So Game of Thrones....

 

Any thoughts? Use the

spoiler

buttons.

 

 

I can't wait until this show is over so people shut up about it.

 

 

I'm shocked....SHOCKED I tell ya that trwi7 would take one of the most popular TV shows of all time and complain about it!

 

Guessing you had equal disdain for the Soprano's, the Wire...other shows that are escaping my memory at the moment?

[trwi7]

So Game of Thrones....

 

Any thoughts? Use the

spoiler

buttons.

 

 

I can't wait until this show is over so people shut up about it.

 

 

I'm shocked....SHOCKED I tell ya that trwi7 would take one of the most popular TV shows of all time and complain about it!

 

Guessing you had equal disdain for the Soprano's, the Wire...other shows that are escaping my memory at the moment?

 

I have literally never seen a second of The Sopranos or The Wire.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

GoT never pulled me in. I watched the first two seasons and found it to be good, a worthy time killer, but I never saw it as this unbelievable masterpiece I had to stop time for.

 

Breaking Bad was a much better all-around show in my opinion. Just more creative and better written.

[trwi7]

Breaking Bad was a much better all-around show in my opinion. Just more creative and better written.

 

Guessing you had equal disdain for the Wire

 

[TURBO]

The Sopranos is one of my top 10 favorite shows of all time...

 

Sons of Anarchy (Sopranos on motorcycles) is also in my top 10.

 

I have not seen the Wire, but have been told it is great! I did enjoy The Shield, but often felt dirty after viewing it.

 

Love Justified, also a great series.

 

Sorry for the random comments.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Breaking Bad was a much better all-around show in my opinion. Just more creative and better written.

 

Guessing you had equal disdain for the Wire

 

 

Family Guy trying to make this joke is pretty funny and not in the way they wanted it to be

[cesser000]

I did enjoy The Shield, but often felt dirty after viewing it.

 

Love Justified, also a great series.

The Shield is my all-time favorite series. I've re-watched the entire run probably 6-7 times.

 

After The Shield ended I started watching Justified, strictly for Walton Goggins, and it turned out to be a great series as well. Absolutely great acting and writing in both shows.