dead souls
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Once you're done with that you can watch American Horror Story: Freak Show
if you hate yourself.
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2014-15 TV Cancellations: Under the Dome canned, what will CBS do with CG cows next?
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Once you're done with that you can watch American Horror Story: Freak Show
AngmarsKing701
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The sarcasm drips from this post like marmalade off the edge of a silver spoon.
RatskyWatsky
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Orphan Black's third season is a definite improvement over season two. I'd recommend it to anyone who dropped it last year.
Yep, they lost me after season 2 as well. Maybe I'll return to it once season 3 shows up on streaming services.
WarrenMax007
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How's Complications? I usually check out most of USA shows, but reviews for this one didn't sound very good. On the other hand it's Matt Nix's show and i loved Burn Notice.
RatskyWatsky
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I feel like UnReal would be a moderate/big hit if it aired on ABC.
TheAbsolution
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Yeah, I feel you there.
However, I feel like the shorter episode run helps this show.
RatskyWatsky
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For sure, though I don't think that would be an issue with ABC's new "shorter/split season" model.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
If you're not watching Mr. Robot (USA network), I highly recommend it. It's a very taut, smartly written, pulpy hacker conspiracy thriller set in the near future. The writers seem to have a great handle on the computer / hacking side of things, it really feels like it's written by people who experienced this stuff. I can't guarantee the story will go anywhere but so far it's fun. Great visual presentation too. Feels like it was made for a destination that's much less shitty than USA. It also has elements of Fight Club.
The themes are sort of Occupy Wall Street, Anonymous, Hackers, networked society, instability of major institutions, social networks, mental health, pharmaceuticals. I think if you thought Watch_Dogs could have been conceptually cool and wanted it to be not shit and then it was shit, you'd want to check this out.
Finally, it's already renewed for a second season.
I'm thinking about making a thread sometime soon to recommend it, Unreal, Catastrophe, and maybe a few other shows. I had hoped to watch Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell before doing it.
The themes are sort of Occupy Wall Street, Anonymous, Hackers, networked society, instability of major institutions, social networks, mental health, pharmaceuticals. I think if you thought Watch_Dogs could have been conceptually cool and wanted it to be not shit and then it was shit, you'd want to check this out.
Finally, it's already renewed for a second season.
I'm thinking about making a thread sometime soon to recommend it, Unreal, Catastrophe, and maybe a few other shows. I had hoped to watch Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell before doing it.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Amazon is making a Zelda Fitzgerald TV show called 'Zelda' - that's not the same show everyone was thinking was going to be based on "The Legend of Zelda", is it? XD
Amazon trolling GAF after not picking up Hannibal; doesn't stop.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Thanks. I'd been seriously thinking about watching that, aware of the initially positive reception, but wasn't sure if it held up past the pilot.
Do it! More people need to be made aware of UnReal and especially Catastrophe. I'm also curious to see what other hidden gems you think are worth recommending.
dead souls
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Yeah, Mr. Robot is great. I watched all four aired episodes over the weekend. I'm not sure why it took me so long to start it since the reviews have pretty much all been glowing.
WarrenMax007
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When talking about lesser known shows, i will always mention Kingdom. It's so fucking good. Seriously. watch it. Frank Grillo and Jonathan Tucker are killing it.
It was Sky's big entrance into the "serious TV" market in the UK and cost $50 to make.
Months after it aired I still have mixed feeling about it. The setting and cinematography are incredible and some of the performances are brilliant , but it had some pacing issues and the story is pretty weird.
It's definitely worth a watch , and it's getting a second season as well.
Wiktor
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That's cheap. Were the cast and crew members paid with snow?
That's an offensive generalization.
They were paid with Snow BLOWERS, Hockey Sticks, and Maple Syrup.
firehawk12
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Apparently Tut is doing well for Spike. It looks like there's still room for more trashy historical/fantasy epics. Too bad about Hieroglyph. lol
That's cheap. Were the cast and crew members paid with snow?
Well it was filmed in Iceland , so maybe ?
Of course I should have typed 50 million
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I felt it was very atmospheric, different, and visually interesting, but lost some interest by about half-way through the season, personally.
Yeah, second half went a little off the rails in a bad way. I'd say it's worth watching for Stanley Tucci's performance alone though.
Cornballer
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HBO's stable of shows is pretty light right now (too much in development, not enough on the air) plus the ratings for TD S2 have been pretty good. It will be renewed in spite of the poor critical and general reaction to the second season. Yes, we do receive some limited information about how HBO and other pay cable shows are performing, though their model for renewal is different because they're subscription services.
RatskyWatsky
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I'd really love to see more period shows set in unexplored (for TV) settings, so hopefully the (so far) success of Tut helps to facilitate that.
In terms of live viewers (which only represents a small piece of the pie), season 2 is averaging 2.72 million per episode so far. For comparison, the first 5 episodes of season 1 averaged 2.03 million viewers.
With the Mr. Robot talk...is anyone else having problems watching USA Network shows online? Their website won't play episodes for me because my flash is supposedly out of date (it's not) and nothing I do fixes it. Hulu just redirects to USA Network last time I checked. Is there any other option?
Yeah I already asked this once but I won't ask again, sorry.
RatskyWatsky
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HBO has, of course, renewed The Brink.
Dedication Through Light
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I think I really dislike the cast of The Zoo. Only the peppery french woman is interesting. This doesnt make me want to read anything from James Patterson.
James Wolk is in Zoo. You don't like James Wolk? What are you, a monster?
Zoe
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Are you using Firefox? You have to add the site as an exception when it prompts you.
RatskyWatsky
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bub bunsun sux
Ad block messes with videos sometimes.
I couldn't finish my sets at the gym because I couldn't stop laughing at this post
damn you Ratsky
firehawk12
Subete no aware
So I just saw that there's a British version of King of the Nerds hosted by Charlie Brooker's wife, Konnie Huq. I take it he won't be shitting on it if Screenwipe ever comes back. lol
I remember him saying doing screenwipe became much harder because when he would meet people off shows like X Factor they were really nice.
You know, I tried this on Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, and I would turn off adblock on both, and don't have adblock on IE period, but it wouldn't work. BUT I got a new adblock on Firefox in the past week and I turned that off and ...now the video player works. I always turn off adblock for these sorts of websites anyway, so that's just so weird... Ugh but it's been WEEKS and the damn thing finally works so thanks!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
lol
I guess it's just like that internet thing. You can say George Lucas sucks on a message board, but if you met him, you'd still probably still turn into a fanboy.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
dead souls
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Good riddance.
I wasn't surprised at all to hear this given how long the season has been delayed, plus the fact that Starz has never had a show go beyond three seasons. I guess Outlander will be the one to break that trend.
metsallica
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:sadface:
TheAbsolution
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RatskyWatsky
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Spartacus!
Blood and Sand
Gods of the Arena
Vengeance
War of the Damned
But I think Power will get to season 4 before Outlander does, just by virtue of airing earlier in the year.
WarrenMax007
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I hope Black Sails gets a season 4.
RatskyWatsky
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Oh right, I forgot about Black Sails. That should get a fourth season before any of the others.
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