TV: Last TV Show Episode You Watched and Rate It (Part I)

[Everlasting]

TWD - Episode 1 - 3

Decided to rewatch after taking a break from the series. The first 3 episodes are not bad. This is walking dead at its finest. The writing isnt bad, but not amazing. Acting is good too.

7.5 / 10.

Criminal Mids - season 1. 6/10.
Above average crime of the week drama with a diffent twist.

Criminal Minds - season 2, ep 1 - 20. 8/10.
Way better than season 1, in every aspect. But it still has some bad episodes, but at the same time, some really awesome ones. I belive i only have 2 episodes left.

 

[sully1410]

I just watched the first two episodes of Band of Brothers last night. I had forgotten how good that show is.

9/10

 

[Shareefruck]

Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe - 2.5 (Good) Clever, funny, informative, truthful-- the only thing I'm not crazy about is the supplementary animations/poetry that occasionally make it into an episode)
Cop Show with Collin Quinn - 1.5 (Neutral)
Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 1.0 (Negative)-- Very promising, but the show still hasn't entirely found its footing yet)
Daily Show with Trevor Noah - 1.0 (Negative)

 

[Led Zappa]

The Grinder - Little Mitchard No More 7/10


I'm starting to like this show. I really like Rob Lowe and wanted to give this show a go even though it looked kinda bad. Not great, but I'm getting some chuckles out of it and I still really like Rob Lowe.

 

[Virtanen18]

I just watched the first two episodes of Band of Brothers last night. I had forgotten how good that show is.

9/10

I've watched the first four episodes two different times. Never "got" that show.

 

[Shareefruck]

Mad Men: Season 3, 4 - 3.5 (Great)
Definite improvement over the first two seasons. It's better crafted and has more nuance than many of the other critically acclaimed shows like Breaking Bad, Fargo, True Detective, etc. I still can't say I'm all that interested in Draper's past (that whole plot-line still seems hokey to me). But the artful storytelling, subtle overarching ideas in every episode, smart dialogue, well defined characters that bounce off each other, and most of all it's restraint when it comes to leaving memorable moments alone/cutting off on just the right note are big plusses. Still doesn't feel like some masterpiece to me, but it doesn't have to be.

 

[HanSolo]

I'm through 8 episodes of the first season of Orange is the New Black.

Pros:
Well acted
Nice balance of drama and comedy
Doesn't get too bleak as it very easily could for a prison show.
The backstory cutaways for the inmates are intriguing

Cons:
-Not entirely realistic...I don't know. I feel like it just holds back at times
-Sometimes it falls into cliches that you can see coming a mile away
-Taylor Schilling's Piper to this point seems to be a hollow passenger along the way. There are moments where she seems genuine and you feel her pain but for the most part...I don't know. I feel like there's something fake about her in general. It's almost as if she's hiding something really dark about her past, but it seems like they already revealed that. Past that I've heard that as the series goes along, the focus shifts away from her but it already seems as though she's just a witness to all the other storylines. She's very much barely a protagonist.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

Last night's episode of the Flash was was my favorite of the new season so far. They got back to the Multi-verse story and Earth 2 Harrison Wells was great. Looking forward to seeing more of him as the season goes on.

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Season something.

The Mooninites gather all the ATHF bad guys for...some reason. On the moon. They were going to go to New Jersey to beat up Frylock or something. The balding action figure guy kept drinking things he discovered on the ground, , the logic cube eventually died, the cybernetic ghost of Christmas past from the future told a few stories that went nowhere while Err sucked back the smoke, and the Brownie monsters ended up adopting part of a highway. Then they all went to the ATHF house and Carl told them they'd gone to Hawaii. He corrected himself a few seconds later to say they'd gone to live in Hawaii after Ignignokot spotted Master Shake in Carl's window. Frylock then came out, shot lasers out of his eyes, and Ignignokt then ran away to his pixelated spaceship to return to the moon.

Based on a true story.

 

[Shareefruck]

Deadwood: Season 1 - 4.0 (Perfect)
Really tasty performances and writing, great look and feel to it, the right amount of restraint, no shortcuts and cheap hooks at all, really deceptively simple but unexpected idea executed the right way. Rather than being about conflict and good guys vs. bad guys like you initially think it will, instead it turns into this story of the ugliest personalities in the Wild West slowly growing and being forced to work together as a community.
Mad Men: Season 5 - 3.5 (Great)
I'm pretty much won over now. There's so much craft and so many understated ideas peppered throughout this series (that you could easily not notice and mistake the show for being a more shallow drama like I did). It's pretty amazing that the show is able to create such memorable and solid characters with Betty and Draper, considering that neither actor/actress seem to be all that great in any other context/show.
Bob's Burgers: Season 5 - 2.5 (Good)
Still my favorite of the non-critically acclaimed type shows. So much charm, warmth, and playfulness in this series. Really reminds me of a poor man's early Simpsons.

Favorite TV Shows of All Time:
5.0 (Masterpiece)
1. The Simpsons S2-S4
2. The Wire S1-S4
3. Monty Python's Flying Circus - S1
4.5 (Brilliant)
4. Decalogue
5. Arrested Development S1-S3
6. The Office UK
7. Louie
8. Planet Earth
4.0 (Perfect)
9. Cowboy Bebop
10. Blackadder
11. Freaks and Geeks
12. Deadwood S1-??
3.5 (Great)
13. Seinfeld S3-S5
14. Spaced
15. The Sopranos S1-??
16. Avatar: The Last Airbender
17. Mad Men
18. Mr. Show
19. Samurai Champloo
20. Last Week Tonight
3.0 (Very Good)
21. Twin Peaks
22. Curb Your Enthusiasm
23. Six Feet Under
24. In The Thick of It

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Z Nation.

Latest one.

Our plucky band of zombie slayers continue in their motorhome past the Grand Canyon, where they see a horde of zombies miles wide and deep on the horizon. They ditch the RV and split up. Warren, Vasquez, the cute chick and Murphy discover a Native casino that's still occupied by the not-very-welcoming natives. Doc and 10k scale some rocks to high ground, and find some really pissed off natives. Doc gets to have a fun peyote trip with the medicine woman (who reminds me a lot of my cousin if she were native and not Irish/Italian), everyone discovers the value of working together, and with their cobbled-together radio equipment, they manage to reach Citizen Z at the demolished NSA listening post in the Arctic. They talk him through blowing up a zombie with a rocket launcher, and eventually they funnel the zombie herd into the Grand Canyon, saving everyone on the show. Murphy's depressed at seeing all the zombies being destroyed as he's basically half zombie, and Roberta ends the episode reminding him he's going to have to pick a camp: human or zombie. And once again, 10k meets a cute chick he likes, but doesn't get laid.

Adapted from the trilogy of plays by Euripides.

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Big Bang Theory

newish one I guess...the blond chick had short hair.

Sheldon's having trouble getting ideas on how to proceed with his research on dark matter, so after a night of nothing, he tells the rest of the cast to make things difficult for him to break him out of his comfort zone. Howard and Raj spar about Howard's new game of "Cinnamon or Emily" where he challenges the listener to tell if the following Raj quote was to his dog or his girlfriend, Bernadette is still shrill, Amy is still dowdy and sexually frustrated, and at some point Sheldon winds up on a bus hallucinating about talking to an armadillo in a suit. Who was supposed to be Isaac Newton or something.

If I lived in the same building as them, I'd still murder them all inside a week.

Oh, and last week I saw an episode of BBT with Billy Bob Thornton (Ooooo...never realized his name has the same initials as the show...) in a guest role. That was actually pretty funny. So were the episodes with Bob Newhart, come to think of it. Always liked Bob Newhart. He was one of my comedy idols back when I was a wee one and my parents wouldn't let me listen to anything more raunchy than Bob Newhart or Rolf Harris.

 

[HanSolo]

I'm on season 2 episode 11 of the American version of the Office.

And I have to ask when does this get good? I tried it in the past and gave up after one episode but I've been more diligent this time in trying to get past the early slowness the way I did with Parks and Rec which I ended up loving. But it was about this point in Parks and Rec that it started finding itself and getting good.

The first time I tried watching this show the thing that bothered me was the actors always looking into the camera. I've gotten past that as I understand it's a distinct stylistic choice, but what bothers me know is that this entire show is built around the dynamic of Micheal being this horrifically awkward boss that always tries some silliness with his subordinates and is almost always met with awkward and uncomfortable silence.

And I can understand how this could be funny, if it actually worked. It's often times funny on Louie because it's set up properly and in a way that would actually make me the viewer feel uncomfortable and awkward. The thing is the awkward silence not only comes at times when a little more responsiveness would've been believable in that situation, but it pretty much is the same response to every ****ing thing that comes out of Micheal's mouth. And I get that becoming cumulatively annoyed with one person you don't like can lead to you being sick of that person...I mean...me personally I still act more animated with even peers that I can't stand not to mention superiors I can't stand. It's disingenuous and when it's basically the same joke/scenario with nothing more than different words it grates on you and I'm only like...what...17 episodes in?

I'm seriously asking, does it start to change? Cause if not I'm giving up on this.

Something I can tell won't be changing is that this show probably has the most annoying "will they won't they" courtship ever. I've sat through 17 episodes of this tense, awkward, white, and annoying Pam and Jim attraction that I already know eventually ends up in them tying the knot cause I've seen the commercials. But they don't waste an episode of using this plot dynamic which shamelessly pulls in weekly viewers by hooking them into these romantic subplots. And for the weekly viewer, fine, it makes sense to keep people coming back, but as I watch these one after the other...it's grating and annoying.

Overall I feel like I should just get back to Jessica Jones and finish that (I was planning on watching a new episode every week to savor it). Like I'd rather go back and rewatch Parks and Rec.

 

[Trap Jesus]

I'm on season 2 episode 11 of the American version of the Office.

And I have to ask when does this get good? I tried it in the past and gave up after one episode but I've been more diligent this time in trying to get past the early slowness the way I did with Parks and Rec which I ended up loving. But it was about this point in Parks and Rec that it started finding itself and getting good.

The first time I tried watching this show the thing that bothered me was the actors always looking into the camera. I've gotten past that as I understand it's a distinct stylistic choice, but what bothers me know is that this entire show is built around the dynamic of Micheal being this horrifically awkward boss that always tries some silliness with his subordinates and is almost always met with awkward and uncomfortable silence.

And I can understand how this could be funny, if it actually worked. It's often times funny on Louie because it's set up properly and in a way that would actually make me the viewer feel uncomfortable and awkward. The thing is the awkward silence not only comes at times when a little more responsiveness would've been believable in that situation, but it pretty much is the same response to every ****ing thing that comes out of Micheal's mouth. And I get that becoming cumulatively annoyed with one person you don't like can lead to you being sick of that person...I mean...me personally I still act more animated with even peers that I can't stand not to mention superiors I can't stand. It's disingenuous and when it's basically the same joke/scenario with nothing more than different words it grates on you and I'm only like...what...17 episodes in?

I'm seriously asking, does it start to change? Cause if not I'm giving up on this.

Something I can tell won't be changing is that this show probably has the most annoying "will they won't they" courtship ever. I've sat through 17 episodes of this tense, awkward, white, and annoying Pam and Jim attraction that I already know eventually ends up in them tying the knot cause I've seen the commercials. But they don't waste an episode of using this plot dynamic which shamelessly pulls in weekly viewers by hooking them into these romantic subplots. And for the weekly viewer, fine, it makes sense to keep people coming back, but as I watch these one after the other...it's grating and annoying.

Overall I feel like I should just get back to Jessica Jones and finish that (I was planning on watching a new episode every week to savor it). Like I'd rather go back and rewatch Parks and Rec.

If you don't like it by now, no real point in you continuing. I felt that Season 2/3 was the climax of the show, but if you aren't liking it at all I don't see why you'd like Season 3. Anyways, it goes into a pretty sharp decline after that. Still watchable for a couple seasons, then it's really awful.

 

[Shareefruck]

Personally, I don't see the American version of the Office as anything more than an effective gateway TV show that gets casual viewers into the door of great but (for some) unfamiliar shows like Arrested Development and Curb. I don't think it's a particularly great show in its own right.

Watch the British version of The Office instead-- It's ****ing brilliant, the whole thing is only twelve short episodes, and it's one of the greatest shows of all time, in my opinion (probably my 5th or 6th favorite).

 

[HanSolo]

Thanks for the tip guys.

 

[Shareefruck]

Last Week Tonight: Season 2 - 3.5 (Great)
Far and away the best television currently airing, and the only thing that should be an absolute staple for everyone, IMO-- It's a fantastic upgrade on the political fake news model. Regularly knocks these great essays out of the park while striking the perfect balance between information and entertainment. John Oliver is fantastic. I'm so glad this thing exists. Can't really think of a weak episode throughout its full two year run, either.

W/ Bob and David: Season 1 - 2.0 (Positive)
Obviously, it's not quite Mr. Show but it's still a labor of love from two very funny guys. Some really sharp moments every episode and other parts that fall a bit flat.

Master of None (First two episodes) - 1.0 (Negative)
Saw the first two episodes. First impression-- while it's relateable and its heart seems to be in the right place, it feels pretty damn bland to me. Like it has things it wants to say (that are technically true and relateable, but not necessarily all that insightful or creatively explored) but doesn't have any idea how to pull them off or something. Alot of painfully wooden acting and dialogue (it feels like a series of robots just describing the plot and themes to each other back and forth), too cute and on the nose, and I didn't like Azis as the lead guy. It honestly felt more like I was reading a corny/poorly written lifestyle article rather than watching a good TV show. Also, we talked about how it doesn't need to be funny, and I still think that, but for the record, I didn't really find myself amused/smirking even once in the two episodes, personally. Not a fan so far. I guess the silver lining is that you might respect the guy for at least wanting/trying to do something that's personal to him, but right now, I don't see it as a successful effort.

 

[Captain Bowie]

Been watching Six Feet Under. Early season 4.

Great show, only one major grievance. It's been 2 seasons since Nate and Brenda broke up, why do they continue to show her boring ass storyline? I do not care about her character at all, and I didn't like her when she was with a main character. I don't know if they get back together or not now that Lisa is dead, but I would be disappointed if they do.

Other than that great show. Michael C Hall is a fantastic actor love his relationship with Keith, and Claire is amazing most of the time. I find the mom and Nate annoying at times. Rico is OK.

 

[Captain Bowie]

Last Week Tonight: Season 2 - 3.5 (Great)
Far and away the best television currently airing, and the only thing that should be an absolute staple for everyone, IMO-- It's a fantastic upgrade on the political fake news model. Regularly knocks these great essays out of the park while striking the perfect balance between information and entertainment. John Oliver is fantastic. I'm so glad this thing exists. Can't really think of a weak episode throughout its full two year run, either.

Man I wish I had HBO. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah is OK, I watch it sometimes, but as a hardcore TDSw/JS fan, It's not just the same. John Oliver kicks ass I wish I could watch his show.

 

[Captain Bowie]

Sorry for the flooding of posts, forgot about this thread.

Personally, I don't see the American version of the Office as anything more than an effective gateway TV show that gets casual viewers into the door of great but (for some) unfamiliar shows like Arrested Development and Curb. I don't think it's a particularly great show in its own right.

Watch the British version of The Office instead-- It's ****ing brilliant, the whole thing is only twelve short episodes, and it's one of the greatest shows of all time, in my opinion (probably my 5th or 6th favorite).

The US Office is a great show. It gets really good when Jim and Pam get together. The first couple seasons is them finding their footing in a somewhat unfamiliar format. And then it stays good for 1 season after Michael leaves. I's say seasons 4-8 are it's peak.

And this is coming from someone who is a big fan of the other shows you mentioned.

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

Sorry for the flooding of posts, forgot about this thread.



The US Office is a great show. It gets really good when Jim and Pam get together. The first couple seasons is them finding their footing in a somewhat unfamiliar format. And then it stays good for 1 season after Michael leaves. I's say seasons 4-8 are it's peak.

And this is coming from someone who is a big fan of the other shows you mentioned.

It's so damn good. Top 10 sitcom of all time for sure.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

I've been watching Daredevil and I thought the first three episodes were kinda boring. Things have started to pick up in Episode 4 and especially episode 5-6. Last night was the first night in two weeks of watching this show where I actually felt the need to somewhat binge it.

 

[izzy]

Watched the first 3 episodes of Ballers

Probably won't go any further, pretty boring and the characters aren't exactly likable. 5/10. Tried it because Corddry but can't do it any longer.

 

[Shareefruck]

Sorry for the flooding of posts, forgot about this thread.



The US Office is a great show. It gets really good when Jim and Pam get together. The first couple seasons is them finding their footing in a somewhat unfamiliar format. And then it stays good for 1 season after Michael leaves. I's say seasons 4-8 are it's peak.

And this is coming from someone who is a big fan of the other shows you mentioned.

That's probably the first time I've ever heard anyone say that it really starts to take off after Jim and Pam get together. I always figured it was the other way around (and seemed that way when I stopped watching)

I saw the first five seasons because I liked it as a teenager. It's okay, but we disagree-- I don't think of it as anything close to great, personally. Maybe it takes off after I stopped, but I'm super super skeptical about that (caught episodes here and there and I really disliked the tone of the newer ones).

 

[Captain Bowie]

That's probably the first time I've ever heard anyone say that it really starts to take off after Jim and Pam get together. I always figured it was the other way around (and seemed that way when I stopped watching)

I saw the first five seasons because I liked it as a teenager. It's okay, but we disagree-- I don't think of it as anything close to great, personally. Maybe it takes off after I stopped, but I'm super super skeptical about that (caught episodes here and there and I really disliked the tone of the newer ones).

I guess it's not just for you.

Despite slowing down in the last couple seasons, had one of the best Finales in Comedy Television history. No better way to wrap it all up.