General Television Thread

[LL!]

TKz's totem is a butt plug!

[livid]

You're overhyped and too long!

[apsham]

So.. do you know who is terrifying in a really visceral way on The Wire?

Snoop.

Seriously. We hardly know anything about her and every time she shows up it's just insane how little it takes for you to take her seriously.

[GoGo Yubari]

Chris and Snoop are pretty much the spectres of death, yeah.

Also, Stephen King called Snoop "perhaps the most terrifying female villain to ever appear in a television series" in an article he wrote about the show.

[MalaCloudy Black]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8zavPW3Bus

Such a great scene.

EDIT: Obviously, spoilers for season 5 of The Wire too.

[LL!]

God damn. Now I just can't wait to watch for Snoop. I think now with The Office ending tonight, I can start watching The Wire next week.

[apsham]

You won't really hit Snoop until Season 4 either - but she opens up the damn thing and had me drawn in right away. I'm over halfway through Season 4 as is.. and yeah I'm buying that it's top of the line. I'm glad there's little focus on McNulty - wasn't all that huge of a fan when it came to him, but they bookended him quite well. I would've never seen the change they made with Prez coming - they took a character that had little going for him other than a neat trait or two and turned him into something amazing.

[Ant]

I really need to watch The Wire. And The Shield. And Parcs and Rec. And Smallville.

[apsham]

Yes to all of those.

I'm just assuming on Smallville however.

[Ant]

Mad Men was on the list too but the premise put me to sleep just reading it.

[GoGo Yubari]

Good.

Also, heard incredibly mixed things about Smallville. The Shield and Parks and Rec are obviously great.

[Ant]

I take it nothing really happens in Mad Men then for it to justify six seasons?

[TKz]

Smallville is a fantastic show in the later seasons and is a pretty fantastic adaption of the DC Universe once it knows what it wants to do.

First few seasons though... It's like Buffy Season 1 without any of the fun.

[livid]

I take it nothing really happens in Mad Men then for it to justify six seasons?

There's a lot that justifies it having six seasons. Like I said before though, it's not a typical show.

[GoGo Yubari]

I take it nothing really happens in Mad Men then for it to justify six seasons?

Incredible character work and the best acting on TV and the best writing on TV happens. I just don't think you would enjoy it.

There are shows where I'm like "yeah I think you'd enjoy that" and shows where I'm like "nah, you wouldn't." Mad Men's the best show on TV but it's not for everyone (and tbf there has been vocal criticism of season 6 feeling redundant).

[Ant]

I admit i am a sucker for action-orientated shows sometimes but i may give Mad Men a go and see how i feel about it.

[livid]

I was gonna say the same but decided to give him the benefit of the doubt but I'm not sure why since he was being dumb about the premise alone.

[Ant]

I read the gist/premise of the show online and it just didn't grab/interest me. Perhaps i was being a tad harsh in saying it put me to sleep but it was the only thing i could think of at the time.

[GoGo Yubari]

Yeah, I can't blame you for that. I had a chance to start watching Mad Men from day one because I heard a story about it somewhere the same day it was premiering and I recognized Vincent Kartheiser in the cast, but I had no interest in watching a show about ad men in the '60s and Conner from Angel being in it sure as hell wasn't going to change that.

[jack95]

I absolutely adore Mad Men but I sometimes wonder whether that's only because I'm immensely attracted to every single member of the cast.