What are you watching on TV?
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Yeah, Firefly was fantastic. Watching those DVD's and the cast commentary about how much they all loved doing the show made me mad and sad that it was cancelled. Now, go watch the movie Serenity if you haven't already.
Yes, Eureka returns on 7/10 to finish off Season 3 with 10 more episodes. I just started watching the first two seasons on DVD, and I DVR'd a marathon of the first half of Season 3, so I'll be caught up before it comes back.
Burn Notice is just pure fun and coolness!
Yes, Eureka returns on 7/10 to finish off Season 3 with 10 more episodes. I just started watching the first two seasons on DVD, and I DVR'd a marathon of the first half of Season 3, so I'll be caught up before it comes back.
Burn Notice is just pure fun and coolness!
Awesome casting news for Dexter Season 4!
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Dexter News
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Dexter News
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It's kind of a tough sell to recommend a show whose premise is a highschool teacher dying of cancer and becoming a meth dealer. However, if you're willing to follow a show that can be uncomfortable and unsettling, Breaking Bad just concluded one of the most stunningly brilliant seasons of television ever.
The abbreviated (7 episode) season one was very good once you get past a couple of harsh moments in the early episodes, but I was unprepared for the soaring heights the show would reach in season two. The writing, ensemble acting and cinematography are all top notch. If Bryan Cranston deserved his Emmy for the first season (and he did) he should get a special quadruple Emmy for this year. The acting is amazing all around, with special notice due to two very surprising guest star performances by John de Lancie (Q from Star Trek: TNG) and Bob Odenkirk (from Mr. Show).
For me, it's among the three best shows currently on TV by a wide margin, alongside Mad Men and Dexter, and Breaking Bad just put out the best single season among them so far.
The abbreviated (7 episode) season one was very good once you get past a couple of harsh moments in the early episodes, but I was unprepared for the soaring heights the show would reach in season two. The writing, ensemble acting and cinematography are all top notch. If Bryan Cranston deserved his Emmy for the first season (and he did) he should get a special quadruple Emmy for this year. The acting is amazing all around, with special notice due to two very surprising guest star performances by John de Lancie (Q from Star Trek: TNG
) and Bob Odenkirk (from Mr. Show).For me, it's among the three best shows currently on TV by a wide margin, alongside Mad Men and Dexter, and Breaking Bad just put out the best single season among them so far.
Life After People - The History Channel. This week they're looking at what would happen in Las Vegas if people just disappeared - poof - off the face of the earth. Pretty interesting concept. They start 24 hours after people and project outward in increasingly large increments of time, usually ending some 50,000 years after people. They talk about what structures last, how they fail, how long various things like traffic lights, etc. work ... Right now, they're showing the Wax Museum and what will happen to the figures once the temperatures start to rise inside.
I've been watching the new Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
I've actually always been a huge fan of his and am glad he is getting this opportunity. However, I do miss going to bed on Thursdays to ER, KCRA and Jay Leno.
I've actually always been a huge fan of his and am glad he is getting this opportunity. However, I do miss going to bed on Thursdays to ER, KCRA and Jay Leno.
He's good on SNL but man, I can barely even watch his show.
I just realised that, whoever at abc made the decision to cancel Pushing Daisies, needs to be hanged, or at least yelled at for an hour or so. This show is so massively addicting and the end was just incredibly rushed. Far too many threads that still need picking up what about the pie-maker's dad, or Chuck's dad for that matter? What exactly happens with Emerson Cod's daughter, or that new/re-born family of Chuck and her aunts? So many question, so little hope for answers, it's frustrating. I'll be holding out for the film, I hope it will a) actually be made and b) not disappoint.
I have yet to watch the last ep, but you are right jalfa. Though it is amazing that a show as offbeat like Pushing Daisies ever aired in the first place. When it was gone the first time I was sad but my DVR breathed a little as I didn't have to scramble to watch everything I recorded. But these final eps really reminded me what a fantastic show it was. On the other hand I'm glad they didn't totally mangle the show in a failed attempt to survive like many other favorites, it kept its charm all the way until the end.
I'd nearly suggest you spare yourself the last episode, as it's basically just a rushed attempt at closure, but I know that's something I can't ask of you . Thus far, I've been lucky, in that most of my favourite shows have enjoyed long runs (Six Feet Under and Gilmore Girls for instance), and there's just Firefly that I'd want to complain about, being cut short. But when it happens, it just royally sucks.
. Thus far, I've been lucky, in that most of my favourite shows have enjoyed long runs (Six Feet Under and Gilmore Girls for instance), and there's just Firefly that I'd want to complain about, being cut short. But when it happens, it just royally sucks.