I didn't really like the Selfie pilot, but I like Karen Gillan and John Cho and the premise could be interesting (or could go terribly terribly wrong) so I think I will give it another watch if my DVR isn't too full next week. No season pass yet, though.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
This thread is for comedy TV, including network and cable shows. [NAFDA]
-t - Oct 02, 2014 4:00:56 pm PDT #7202 of 8625
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
erikaj - Oct 03, 2014 4:14:09 pm PDT #7203 of 8625
Always Anti-fascist!
I thought it was cute, too.
Vortex - Oct 04, 2014 8:20:30 am PDT #7204 of 8625
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I didn't hate it, but I also know that I would not have even considered watching it if Karen Gillian hadn't been the star.
§ ita § - Oct 04, 2014 8:51:23 am PDT #7205 of 8625
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I showed for Cho (his neck looks great!), and really hope it irons itself out. I'm currently in the phase where I want anvils to fall on everyone's head. Her came is so on the button it's distracted, but I just hope that.
I've seen two posters for it--one with just Cho and Gillian, and one with a bunch of (presumably co-workers) people yukking it up. I hope it grows up into the second show
Man, Raising Hope and Community got me back into sitcoms after a long time off, but it's definitely about the show talent, not the genre.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 04, 2014 10:56:26 am PDT #7206 of 8625
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I find I'm really enjoying The Mindy Project these days, but I have to avoid New Girl because the increasingly strong urge to punch out Zooey Deschanel endangers the TV set and it's not mine to break.
Gris - Oct 04, 2014 11:16:58 am PDT #7207 of 8625
Hey. New board.
I watched the first episode of that show with the mother from HIMYM. It was pretty good and cute. Not mindblowingly anything yet but enjoyable enough.
-t - Oct 04, 2014 11:29:01 am PDT #7208 of 8625
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I recorded that but haven't watched it yet.
JZ - Oct 04, 2014 1:31:17 pm PDT #7209 of 8625
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I didn't know there was a show with her! After HIMYM I would watch her do anything (especially if they can contrive to have her sing some Piaf while doing it). Anything except breed a brood and then die mostly offscreen after about eleven seconds of exposition so that her grieving spouse can scurry off to rekindle a romance nobody but the showrunners still cares about. Seeing her do that once was more than enough.
Not that I'm still bitter about it or anything. Heaven forfend!
Pix - Oct 04, 2014 1:41:05 pm PDT #7210 of 8625
The status is NOT quo.
Is anyone else watching Black-ish? I'm really enjoying it.
sj - Oct 04, 2014 2:32:47 pm PDT #7211 of 8625
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm loving black-ish.
I watched the first episode of that show with the mother from HIMYM. It was pretty good and cute. Not mindblowingly anything yet but enjoyable enough.
A to Z is the most adorable show I have seen in a long time and not sickeningly sweet in a way I usually find annoying.
Selfie needs a Colonel Pickering character and an end goal (at least for the season) to really do the whole My Fair Lady thing properly, but I didn't find it as horrible as many people seemed to.
I have Bad Judge on the DVR but haven't watched it yet.