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Terriers - Season 1 - Wednesdays on FX

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If this show gets canned, I'll rage so hard. Every single ep is great week after week. How slick were those time jumps in the latest one?

And dat twist, cotdamn.
 
I would like to say that this series has really taken me. Again, GAF has a thread about it. Cornballer, I would like to buy you a beer someday. You seem to have the best taste regarding TV shows. Every one of your threads are quality TV shows. I didn't even know this thread was on GAF honestly. Just now found it. Now I need to go check out the Walking Dead thread. There.....there is a thread on GAF about that show right?
 
captive said:
just emailed that address, first time ever for a TV show.

Great news if true on those ratings!
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I love this show, but going from a 0.2 to a 0.4 isn't great news. Either rating is cancellation worthy.
 
Am I evil for wanting Hank to fall off the wagon? Because alcoholic Hank in last episode was a pure joy to watch. :lol
 
- Promo for next week's episode and two sneak peeks courtesy of SpoilerTV.
- FX executive John Solberg's Twitter account in case you want to sent him a message explaining how much you like Terriers.
- TVbytheNumbers takes a look at Terriers and shows some concern about ratings before the upcoming Thanksgiving break.

Also, Maureen Ryan with some comments on how to support shows:
Maureen Ryan said:
Question: What is the most effective way to get a network to renew one's favorite show if it's struggling in the ratings? (Aside from watching live, of course)?

Answer: Well, getting all the Nielsen families you know to tune in would be swell. Otherwise, yes, try to watch the episodes live ['Terriers'], and if they are on your DVR, try to watch them soon, not several days after they air ['Terriers']. You can also watch them online, download them from iTunes; networks monitor that kind of traffic too ['Terriers']. They also keep track of online buzz on Web sites, Twitter, Facebook and the like, and they also keep track of emails sent to the network [user@fxnetworks.com]. So keep gabbing about your favorite show all over the place, in hopes that it will help build momentum and get other people interested in the struggling program ['Terriers'].

Did you notice the subliminal message in the paragraph above? It might have been too subtle, so I'll spell it out. 'Terriers' fans, please help the show, and if you're not watching the FX drama starring Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James, check it out (I wrote more about why you might want to do so here). Right now, no other show is more deserving of this kind of assistance. Its renewal is a (very long) long shot. But it's terrific and the kind of show that fan campaign might just be able to help.
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- New Haven Advocate article about Alex Berg (he plays one of the tech geek guys)
As big a thrill as landing “Terriers” was, that thrill is matched by the frustration that literally no one is watching.

“It’s terrible. I think everyone thinks it’s a show about dog catchers,” referring to the abysmal FX marketing campaign which featured a snarling dog instead of its winning cast or creative pedigree. “Critical acclaim for the show has been consistent and glowing, but on the other hand — the ratings fucking suck.”
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“It’s terrible. I think everyone thinks it’s a show about dog catchers,” referring to the abysmal FX marketing campaign which featured a snarling dog instead of its winning cast or creative pedigree. “Critical acclaim for the show has been consistent and glowing, but on the other hand — the ratings fucking suck.”
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That's fucking depressing. Though I have to admit before I heard the guys at screened.com talk about this show I assumed it was about dog catchers too. *hangs head in shame.

Instead, it's my favorite show of the season in a year that has had some really great TV.
 
Anecdotal evidence says that ratings are not going to be any better tonight, considering I'm a massive fan of the show and even I'm not going to be watching due to Thanksgiving Eve.
 
Thanksgiving Eve is typically a night of low ratings, and usually most places don't show new content because of that. I doubt the ratings are going to be good.
 
Cornballer said:
I'm a little uncomfortable thinking about how much darker it can get given what we've seen already.
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Last week, my immediate reaction to the episode was "huh, this wasn't as heavy as other episodes of this show." And then I realized I was talking about an episode in which a man violently beat up an innocent man and a cop used his power to be a serial rapist.

This is going to be insane.
 
dead souls said:
I love this show, but going from a 0.2 to a 0.4 isn't great news. Either rating is cancellation worthy.
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its certainly better than going from a .2 to .0! captain pessimist.
 
I'm of the belief that every person without a Nielsen box is watching this show, and one of them is gonna firebomb FX's office if this gets cancelled.
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
I don't even know if it matters. Don't you need a Nielsen box to count as a real person?

Nielsen blows hard.
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Actually, we are a Nielsen family and they paid us $30 just to write down what shows we watched for 2 weeks. Pretty sweet deal, and yes we wrote in Terriers1
 
daw840 said:
Actually, we are a Nielsen family and they paid us $30 just to write down what shows we watched for 2 weeks. Pretty sweet deal, and yes we wrote in Terriers1
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How can I become a Nielsen family and get paid to watch the shows that I was already gonna watch?

serious question.
 
daw840 said:
Actually, we are a Nielsen family and they paid us $30 just to write down what shows we watched for 2 weeks. Pretty sweet deal, and yes we wrote in Terriers1
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I did this once maybe a decade ago, which raises a question. What does Nielsen use the written ones for? They report estimates and then "finals" the very next day, so what is this method contributing to? They get them way later and certainly the public never hears about adjustments being made weeks later, except for DVR usage.
 
- Promo for tonight's episode

Dan said:
I did this once maybe a decade ago, which raises a question. What does Nielsen use the written ones for? They report estimates and then "finals" the very next day, so what is this method contributing to? They get them way later and certainly the public never hears about adjustments being made weeks later, except for DVR usage.
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Some guesswork/assumptions based on wikipedia and a couple other places - I don't think they have the set top boxes in every market, so they use the written "diary" version to fill in the holes. However, these numbers must be delayed so significantly that I wonder how they're used these days. The networks care about what the ratings are on an almost instantaneous basis, so I can't see them waiting for more accurate numbers that are showing up later.
 
- Sepinwall's review
Part of the episode's success is that I don't think even Britt entirely knows which side he's on. (Your mileage may vary; Fienberg felt he was playing Zeitlin from the start.) He feels betrayed that Hank didn't tell him about Katie (which violated both the guy code and set Britt up to go to jail for attacking the wrong guy), he's deservedly facing real jail time, he's adrift without Katie, and he doesn't have the personal stake in hating Zeitlin and Burke that Hank does. (Nor, as Hank points out, is he an Ocean Beach resident, so he doesn't care that much if the town gets paved over to put up an airport.) I still think he's 95% on Hank's side and leaving his options open if he can find a solution that helps himself (and Zeitlin) without hurting Hank, but again: deep, murky waters. Similarly, I don't think he'd have ever turned Ashley the lawyer over to Zeitlin if she really was the mole, but he sleeps with her to find out for sure, and also because Britt could really use a rebound night right about now.
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- Onion A|V Club
The episode ends with Hank giving up the rest of his Lindus bearer-bonds to buy an arsenal from a local arms dealer. But I was more shaken by an earlier scene, when Gretchen gets the call that
Jason’s dead
, and rushes into Hank’s arms for comfort. Hank has ruined Gretchen’s life yet again and may come out ahead in the deal.

That’s the kind of touch to character and plot that I look for from Terriers—ironic in an old-school way, not a bludgeoning, symbolic one. “Quid Pro Quo” is full of those little moments that make we who’ve invested so much in these characters either smile or shudder (or both): like when Hank watches Jason call Gretchen to say he’ll be coming home late or when Katie reads the police report on Britt’s assault or when Katie goes to see Gretchen and they commiserate about their unreliable exes or when Britt refuses to laugh at one of Hank’s standard jokes because Britt’s still a little pissed at him or when Britt blows up at Laura because he doesn’t like her taking charge of their investigation. This is the kind of shit you’re not going to get from No Ordinary Family. This is what happens when writers think through who their characters are and how they behave and the actors take all those little details and work them into characters that we easily come to understand and even care about.
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Damn that was good. I was thinking that Britt and Hank were being set up for the murder when they found the bodies, but giving them a soapbox at a trial wouldn't have been good for the airport people.

God I hope it gets renewed.
 
Damn. I did not see that coming.

In the beginning they r gaining steam on gathering arsenal to take out Zeitlin, and it took Lindus minutes to the table to turn.

I want that city council man to suffer.

Can't wait for the Series Season Finale
 
BlackNMild2k1 said:
How can I become a Nielsen family and get paid to watch the shows that I was already gonna watch?

serious question.
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I have no idea how you can actually become one. They just called us out of the blue and asked. I don't know if we'll get called again or what, but it was fun for a couple weeks.
 
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