General Television Thread

[GoGo Yubari]

I've heard this too, but also that it takes a good while. I did watch a decent chunk of a later episode on the plane to Baltimore for King of Trios and it wasn't bad.

[TKz]

Whoever told me that should give me a rough estimate.

On The New Girl. I forgot it was called The New Girl until GoGo posted! But yeah. I didn't enjoy that episode of The New Girl much.

[GoGo Yubari]

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[livid]

So Alphas is pretty awesome but I wish I watched it earlier as it likely would've made my Top 15 for 2012.

Also, it's 5x the show Heroes was (at worst, equal to Season 1) on only 1/5th of the budget. Seriously though, everybody watch it immediately.

[Baddar]

Gary is wonderful!

[livid]

Gary is wonderful!

This is so true, such a great and funny character.

And Ryan Cartwright honestly deserves to be nominated for an Emmy because his portrayal of Gary is tremendous.

[TKz]

Man the entire male cast of New Girl are just dicks.

[livid]

God you watch shit shows TKz.

[TKz]

God you watch shit shows TKz.

I NEED BACKGROUND NOISE.

I don't see you suggesting any other 20 minute comedies for me to stick on whilst I level up my party. >_>

Also this is totally because I still haven't watched Justified, isn't it?

[livid]

That and your abandonment of Leverage when it needed you most!

20 minute comedy you say? Easy, Happy Endings.

[TKz]

To be fair, me watching Leverage couldn't have saved it as I can't watch it on the TV. I mourned in my own way.

And bah. I got pretty tired of Happy Endings. I couldn't stand Penny. Which is a shame, because I like the rest of the cast, but I reached like a 3 episode stretch that focused pretty much entirely on her and couldn't deal with any more.

[livid]

It may not have counted for Nielsen ratings but solidarity man!

How far in the series did you get? Because they toned Penny down quite a bit in Season 2 and on.

[TKz]

From the wiki descriptions of each episode, I'm going to say around Episode 5 of Season 2. I think that's pretty accurate as the previous 3 episodes sounds fairly Penny based.

[Summers]

New Girl is fantastic. It's just fun. So is Happy Endings, fun!

[TKz]

Yeah, it does get better. The first 4-5 episodes are rough sailing, but once they tone down Schmidt and stop making the show a joke at the expense of Zooey Deschanel being "weird", it gets pretty fun. Plus Lizzy Caplan shows up. I think I'm in love with Lizzy Caplan again guys.

[Benji]

Oh lame, Voyager just introduced... (late season six spoiler)...

Borg children. Fuck this noise.

[Toe]

Still better then the Kazons. Fuck, I hate Voyager.

[stokeriño]

The spoilered thing (does it need spoilering, really?) is far worse than the Kazon. The Kazon were at least "our purpose here is to be a threat (well...we try)", whereas that has...no purpose. None. Can't even see any real character develpment out of it.

But hey, it doesn't last all that long.

[Benji]

Eh, I spoilered it just in case, never know - better safe than ruin it for someone, though it's pretty much a ruiner in itself.

[The Sandman]

Catching up on Fringe as i got the fourth season on DVD for christmas, just watched the two Astrid's meet episode. She's in every episode but is more like side character like Broyles & Nina Sharp. She's so cute and it's about time she/they got an episode. There was that one episode in Season 2 which was Walter/Astrid centric which had a really sweet moment with them in the end after she got attacked, but this was the first one to focus on her. I really like the whole main cast which doesn't happen that often. It's definitely one of my favourite shows of recent years.

Also third season of Happy Endings has been brilliant, too bad that the ratings for it apparently suck and ABC is throwing 2 episodes a week starting sometinme in January, which is great but i kind of get the feeling that they just want to get it over with and quickly.

Edited December 28, 2012 by The Sandman