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Post by slayrrr666 on Oct 3, 2014 10:45:29 GMT -5
Bad Judge-A pill-popping, hard-partying, moral depraved judge tries to balance having fun with her judicial responsibilities while raising the foster child her actions left her in charge of. All together not too bad here, though I'm not really seeing a lot of the 'bad-judge' actions that the first few moments promised. It makes for a slightly funnier take when those are brought front and center though there's a distinct lack of that going on once she begins her parental responsibilities. Granted, some of that is funny, but it's not nearly enough to counteract the sentimentality that goes along with it. If this can find a good balance between such material, it may be onto something. With nothing else in the running for the time-slot, we'll have the chance to find out.
A to Z-Follows the burgeoning romance of a couple from the moment they first come into each other's lives to their eventual connection with each other. Still not quite sold on this one despite they're being some nice promise here. The meet-cute is fine, the eventual meeting of the couple isn't horrendous and there's more to like with the supporting cast than initially expected so it does have some promise. Just not entirely sure where this is going to go or play out: will getting them together and dating be the end of the storyline? Do they get married at the finale? Is this going to chronicle their married lives together? I'm just not solid on the entire premise to this one so there's some lingering doubt about this one in the future, but much like the above with nothing challenging this time slot I don't mind the wait.
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Post by Fenril on Oct 4, 2014 22:12:32 GMT -5
Saw the Gotham premiere (well, the re-run of it) and... nope. I mean, okay, a show about Gotham City before Batman arrived, that's good, the concept could have legs depending where you took it: it could be a cop drama that happens to feature super villains as the criminal of the day with some occasional assistance from superheroes. It could be a sort-of prequel to the Nolan movies, with a more "realistic" approach and small nods to previous continuities. It could be about predecessors of Batman such as the Reaper...
...and instead, we get the same thing as latter seasons of "Smallville". Not only must we get child Bruce Wayne as main character, but in a single episode we have teenage cat woman, young Penguin, young Riddler, young Two-face, the whole support cast (Alfred and Gordon and Bullock, and Montoya and Barbara and Carmine Falcone because why the hell not)... So, yeah, probably not going to follow this. |
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Post by slayrrr666 on Oct 8, 2014 11:54:12 GMT -5
Selfie
Manhattan Love Story
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Post by slayrrr666 on Oct 9, 2014 10:21:43 GMT -5
The Middle
The Goldbergs
Modern Family
Black-ish
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Post by Fenril on Oct 14, 2014 1:31:15 GMT -5
- American Horror Story: Freakshow. The first episode just aired here; looks pretty good, and it has the creepiest opening montage yet. We'll see how it holds up, however: "Murder house" started out average but turned out the best yet. "Asylum" started and remained strong, but around the ending it became more social critique than horror. "Coven" started excellent but grew weaker and weaker as it went on. In this one, the more frightening scenes were those with the murderous clown, but I'm not sure they can extend that for a whole season. Everything concerning the circus seems like it will lean more towards sleazy drama. Once again, there's the nods to previous similar stories, which actually helps. Just hoping this time they don't lose track of where they are going. The performances are as strong as ever. |
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Post by slayrrr666 on Oct 15, 2014 10:56:38 GMT -5
Selfie
Manhattan Love Story
Marry Me-A couple in their early 30s try to navigate the rough waters surrounding getting engaged while still having a social life with their friends and family. Not too sold on this one yet, mainly due to the fact that it's hard to find any kind of attachment to the couple the way we're introduced to them here where the opening pre-credits sequence shows them just walking into the front-door from a vacation only to have the girl launch into a tirade against him and his friends for being such a doof for not proposing during the vacation, only to learn at the end of it the entire plan was to propose at that specific point in front of the friends and family she just ranted against, a hilarious concept in theory but done in execution that makes her out like a shallow, insensitive prick that doesn't deserve any kind of happiness or success. Thankfully, it eases up on her as we get going and it becomes a lot more watchable but if the entire concept here is based on how unlucky they are as a team it's really going to wear thin as there's not a lot that's going to make this watchable over time with that kind of set-up. Hopefully, it can make it work as there's some room to grow here.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Oct 22, 2014 10:45:25 GMT -5
Selfie
Manhattan Love Story
Marry Me
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Post by slayrrr666 on Oct 23, 2014 11:23:05 GMT -5
The Middle
The Goldbergs
Modern Family
Black-ish
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Post by Fenril on Oct 24, 2014 0:34:39 GMT -5
- American Horror Story: Freakshow.
- Resurrection. Tuned in out of curiosity... if nothing else, it seems the second season keeps up the same rhythm as the first one, which I guess it's what people who liked the first one wanted to watch, so good for them.
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Post by Fenril on Nov 2, 2014 0:08:12 GMT -5
- American Horror Story: Freakshow. And man, they managed to pull of a Halloween episode that actually does advance the plot, even when it brings in the supernatural out of nowhere.
- And the annual Simpson's Treehouse of Horror marathon. As usual, the first nine or so are the real good ones, but even so there's some good pieces here and there on the next twenty... Then again, jeez, isn't 31 years too much, already?
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Post by slayrrr666 on Nov 7, 2014 11:33:47 GMT -5
The Big Bang Theory
Mom
Bad Judge
The McCarthy's
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Post by Fenril on Nov 14, 2014 0:46:04 GMT -5
- American Horror Story: Freakshow. Two back-to-back episodes. Still good, but man, is this "shocking twist that turns out to have just been a character fantasizing" gimmick annoying. And on two episodes in a row? Talk about gratuitous.
- Stalker. Saw the premiere and... entertaining enough, I guess, yet another show that's basically a slasher / thriller masquerading as a procedural. The characters are night unpleasant, however, and the fact that both our leads are established as massive hypocrites on the pilot doesn't help --to elaborate, the lead cops that work on a division specialized in stalking cases, one is stalking his own former mistress and the other has no qualms about roughing up a boy at least ten years her junior in a parking lot because she can't legally arrest him. What is it about procedurals that tends to invite this kind of double standards, I wonder...
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Post by Fenril on Nov 20, 2014 23:59:34 GMT -5
- American Horror Story: Freakshow. Well, I guess since "Coven" presented all the mothers as monsters, it makes sense that this one presents all the fathers as monsters, for balance or some such. Odd place to leave the show in a cliffhanger till after Thanksgiving, but hey...
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Post by slayrrr666 on Dec 4, 2014 11:46:22 GMT -5
The Middle
The Goldbergs
Modern Family
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Post by Fenril on Dec 5, 2014 0:18:29 GMT -5
- American horror story: Freakshow.
Also finished watching the anime "Kill la Kill" online (albeit... a year after the original broadcast).
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