I am an extreme television viewer. I give almost all new scripted shows (except L&O or CSI like procedurals which I absolutely can't stand) 3 episodes. Shows with writers or actors who have worked on projects I have enjoyed in the past get 5 or 6 episodes before getting deleted from the DVR.
Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.
'Potential'
The Minearverse 6: Fiery Thread of Death
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!
Tamara - May 08, 2008 8:30:24 am PDT #620 of 4535
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
smonster - May 08, 2008 9:20:07 am PDT #621 of 4535
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
indeed. Ultimate Drew didn't join the staff until season 7, which seems hard to believe.
His first episode was "Selfless," which is interesting if you consider (Cloverfield spoiler) the heart-ripping out spiders in the frat house vs. the Ebola insects in the subway tunnels
The "House" strike episode had the strikers carrying signs that had the same color scheme/font as the writers' strike signs.
I'm looking askance at Dollhouse for subject matter and casting race issues, but giving it a shot. See Plei re: SPN, though my love for that show has dwindled to almost nothing.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 08, 2008 9:45:30 am PDT #622 of 4535
"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 tend to be a much harder sell. Generally speaking, if the first episode I see of something doesn't grab me, I'm gone. Joss, Tim, and Bryan Fuller get a few extra episodes, though really Drive is the only series by those three that's needed them.
lisah - May 08, 2008 9:47:55 am PDT #623 of 4535
Punishingly Intricate
I could only give The Wire two tries.
Really?! Why? (I've never met someone who has seen the show who hasn't loved it. But, obviously, I'm biased.)
Allyson - May 08, 2008 9:50:52 am PDT #624 of 4535
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Oops, not a craft!
Jesse - May 08, 2008 9:51:28 am PDT #625 of 4535
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The Wire was slow to pull me into it -- it just has such a different rhythm than other shows.
Wolfram - May 08, 2008 10:01:37 am PDT #626 of 4535
Visilurking
I think it helps to know going in that The Wire does not work in stand-alone episodes. The shows are like chapters, each season is like a stand-alone book, and the series is like a memfault (series of sequential books that tell a broader story.) The beats of the episodes are sometimes much different than regular television.
§ ita § - May 08, 2008 10:09:59 am PDT #627 of 4535
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
casting race issues
Which ones?
Laga - May 08, 2008 11:54:33 am PDT #628 of 4535
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Really?! Why?
I'm not a big fan of cop dramas and it didn't seem all that different from any other cop drama. And I really wanted to like it on account of I'm a McNulty.
edit: I would have given it another shot if my roommate had liked it but he was meh on it too so I took it off the Netflix queue.
dcp - May 08, 2008 2:58:00 pm PDT #629 of 4535
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I could have bought the three episodes of Drive I hadn't seen from Amazon for $6, but I splurged and bought the whole series for $9.
I know what I'm doing this weekend....