Also checked out Orange is the New Black. Seems like a good show although it just didn't click for me enough to pull me through it past the first episode. Compared to the creator's last show, Weeds, it's less smug, has a clearer sense of tone, and has a much more sympathetic main character. Like Weeds, it does a good job subtly educating about the mechanics of a setting, but its sense of humor rarely does all that much for me.
I'm really digging Orange is the New Black. The first episode is a bit too slow, but it really picks up in episode 2 onward. I will say the humor in the first two episodes was a little forced and ham-fisted - but they've figured it out since then.
I don't approach it as a comedy - rather, I look at it is a character drama with just enough humor to lighten the mood.
Almost all the way through Orange is the New Black. I really like it, despite my initial feelings during the first episode. Also, It keeps giving me flashbacks to middle school.
One thing I noticed is that the sex and nudity in this show, by and large, actually serves a purpose. I find it underscoring the frustration and vulnerability that the show is portraying.
I actually like Piper. She's flawed, no doubt - self-centered and self-absorbed - but she reflects that tendency in everyone. The scene where she tells her mother "You need to understand that I'm no different than anyone else in here" really drove the character home for me. She's fucking up, but she's also growing and learning.
I'm only on episode 5. I dislike her less each episode, but it hasn't gotten to the point where I like her yet. I did love the "I'm no different than anybody else in here" monologue.
On an unrelated note, Vauss/Marilllo is my OTP.
Also, It keeps giving me flashbacks to middle school.
Interesting. The characters in the show compare it a lot to High School, but it gives me a lot more flashbacks to the hospital.
Also, It keeps giving me flashbacks to middle school.
Interesting. The characters in the show compare it a lot to High School, but it gives me a lot more flashbacks to the hospital.
Well for me middle school was a lot shittier than high school, so that's why. Really any sort of big institution like that is going to have a similar atmosphere.
Finshed it. Jesus fucking Christ.
Me too. I think I enjoyed the very end more than I should have.
Is it bad that I would have become a stone-cold calculating dude far sooner than the main character of Breaking Bad? The series is good, but I feel like he wimped out a lot in the first few seasons. Maybe I'm just a terrible person.
Whelp, I finished Orange is the New Black. My "oh snap, shit just got cray cray" moments were actually all in ep 10-12 (especially the plot twist about the Christian girl). That last scene just left me laughing at how over the top it was.
Oh dang, the new episode of Breaking Bad is pretty good. I had kind of forgotten about this show, but there's a scene that involves making Star Trek (original series) fanfiction on the spot.
I've been watching season three of the US Wilfred. The show is kinda frustrating in that its difficult to tell what's real but at the same time it's genius in how it doesn't tip it's hand too fast like so many other shows. That is usually my problem with most current shows that have interesting twists. I lose interest as soon as you reveal and I enjoy that the show feeds you info but its hard to tell what you should consider legitimate info. I also like the analogous actions between Wilfred and the human character Ryan. I kinda want to watch the Australian version to see how close they line up as far as the overall show.
Been watching Elementary. Sherlock Holmes in New York solving crimes. It's not as good as Sherlock, but as the third season of that is still not here yet, it has sufficed as a replacement. Can't really say is it actually good show, but it keeps me entertained. Basically it's just another american detective/crime-solving series, but on the other hand the main character is somewhat eccentric man who solves crimes by spotting little details, drawing conclusions about those details and that's all I want from Sherlock story.
Old ass SNL. Jesus Christ, I know they were actually shit but I wish it was the 70s. Prime time was still bitter, George Carlin was still alive and funny, the music charts could be trusted -- come back, Carter, all is forgiven.
Go watch Dan Akroyd's "Final Days of Nixon" and tell me that could get made today with Obama. The materials all there, but whoever tried to make it would get fired faster than you can say PRISM.
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I don't approach it as a comedy - rather, I look at it is a character drama with just enough humor to lighten the mood.
I actually like Piper. She's flawed, no doubt - self-centered and self-absorbed - but she reflects that tendency in everyone. The scene where she tells her mother "You need to understand that I'm no different than anyone else in here" really drove the character home for me. She's fucking up, but she's also growing and learning.
On an unrelated note, Vauss/Marilllo is my OTP. Interesting. The characters in the show compare it a lot to High School, but it gives me a lot more flashbacks to the hospital.
I want season 2 now.
P.S. the yoga lady is Patti Mayonnaise
The other half was spent ogling Laura Prepon.
EDIT: And wow, you were serious about the Patti Mayonnaise thing. Totally makes sense. Sounded right and everything.
there's nothing else on
When it's not on BBC iPlayer I go here
Phoneshop series 3 isn't so great. Can't wait for Southpark to come back, Attack on Titan is making flip tables every week with their cliff hangers.
IT Crowd and The Inbetweeners have dropped off the planet. Goku still hasn't returned from training with Shenron.
TV is pretty much dead to me. I don't know what I'm missing to be honest.
I started watching Game of Thrones a while back only because Sean Bean was in it, and the mother 'uckers killed him off...AGAIN. FGS
but I continued watching it, I'm just waiting for the episode where Geoffrey gets his face cut off and fed to him.
It's not as good as Sherlock, but as the third season of that is still not here yet, it has sufficed as a replacement.
Can't really say is it actually good show, but it keeps me entertained. Basically it's just another american detective/crime-solving series, but on the other hand the main character is somewhat eccentric man who solves crimes by spotting little details, drawing conclusions about those details and that's all I want from Sherlock story.
@Asup, I prefer Sherlock to Elementary in all aspects except one - its take on Moriarty.
Go watch Dan Akroyd's "Final Days of Nixon" and tell me that could get made today with Obama. The materials all there, but whoever tried to make it would get fired faster than you can say PRISM.
EDIT: I JUST REALIZED PIERCE HAWTHORNE IS IN THIS!