TV Shows

Forum for posts that are not hockey-related.
Spangler
ECHL'er
ECHL'er
Posts: 1468
Joined: Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:31 am
Location: www.reviewjunkies.com

Re: TV Shows

Post by Spangler »

meecrofilm wrote:
Staggy wrote:
blackjack68 wrote:So Breaking Bad wins every Emmy. Meh.
No way Aaron Paul should have won over Dinklage, I was shocked by that. I guess that should have been the sign that BB was going to sweep everything. I had minor problems with Anna Gunn winning over Lena Headey, but I thought the rest of BB's awards were well deserved.
Continuity seems to reign supreme at the Emmy's.
See *another Modern Family win*. I haven't watched the show in a few years, so I don't know if the win was justified or not, but there were some really funny shows nominated.
MalkinIsMyHomeboy
NHL Healthy Scratch
NHL Healthy Scratch
Posts: 10292
Joined: Sat Apr 06, 2013 3:18 pm
Location: I say stupid things. You have been warned

Re: TV Shows

Post by MalkinIsMyHomeboy »

The only thing that matters is that the Colbert Report won two more Emmy's.
Idoit40fans
NHL Second Liner
NHL Second Liner
Posts: 55335
Joined: Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:42 pm
Location: I'm sorry you feel that way

Re: TV Shows

Post by Idoit40fans »

Aaron paul should never win anything.
DelPen
NHL Second Liner
NHL Second Liner
Posts: 59962
Joined: Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:27 am
Location: Lake Wylie, SC

Re: TV Shows

Post by DelPen »

Impressed through 11 seasons of Simpsons and there really aren't too many bad episodes after it found it's groove with stupid homer instead of mean homer. The last season I really watched was 16 so the end of the week will be interesting.
blackjack68
NHL Healthy Scratch
NHL Healthy Scratch
Posts: 11244
Joined: Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:12 am
Location: formerly Pittsburgh, now NJ

Re: TV Shows

Post by blackjack68 »

Seeing the teaser ad for The Blacklist really got me excited for its return.

Mainly because it was all Spader and no Agent Keen.
dodint
NHL Healthy Scratch
NHL Healthy Scratch
Posts: 10615
Joined: Sun Jul 07, 2013 7:57 am
Location: Sparta, WI

Re: TV Shows

Post by dodint »

Paul Reubens is getting a multi-episode story arc on The Blacklist this season. He was good enough in Blow, should be fun.
Digitalgypsy66
AHL Hall of Famer
AHL Hall of Famer
Posts: 9640
Joined: Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:21 pm
Location: Roger Roger.

Re: TV Shows

Post by Digitalgypsy66 »

I've watched 3 episodes of Doctor Who (Christopher Eccleston) from 2005. It's enjoyable, but I was expecting something...different. Are these first seasons "good" seasons, or do I need to wait for a different Doctor? Which series is "The Wire" season three, so to speak?
newarenanow
NHL Second Liner
NHL Second Liner
Posts: 42356
Joined: Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:56 pm

Re: TV Shows

Post by newarenanow »

Digitalgypsy66 wrote:I've watched 3 episodes of Doctor Who (Christopher Eccleston) from 2005. It's enjoyable, but I was expecting something...different. Are these first seasons "good" seasons, or do I need to wait for a different Doctor? Which series is "The Wire" season three, so to speak?
Quit your b*tching.
tifosi77
NHL Healthy Scratch
NHL Healthy Scratch
Posts: 14082
Joined: Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:33 pm
Location: White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer

Re: TV Shows

Post by tifosi77 »

Staggy wrote:
blackjack68 wrote:So Breaking Bad wins every Emmy. Meh.
No way Aaron Paul should have won over Dinklage, I was shocked by that. I guess that should have been the sign that BB was going to sweep everything. I had minor problems with Anna Gunn winning over Lena Headey, but I thought the rest of BB's awards were well deserved.
This was predictable. Dinklage will have many more opportunities to be nominated and win for Tyrion, Paul's run as Jesse is over. That's true of all the nominations BB got, and it's also a bit of an extra eff you to premium cable and Netflix, who dominated the nominations (again) this year. If there was nothing on network programming that was going to win, a show from cable was good enough.

Happens in da movies, too. Look at Return Of The King. It won all 11 Oscars for which it was nominated, and the general consensus among voters was that it was pretty much a referendum on the whole trilogy as much as it was the merits of that one film.
the wicked child
NHL Fourth Liner
NHL Fourth Liner
Posts: 17412
Joined: Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:11 pm
Location: :scared:

Re: TV Shows

Post by the wicked child »

Predictable, yet stupid.
shmenguin
NHL Third Liner
NHL Third Liner
Posts: 25041
Joined: Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:34 pm

Re: TV Shows

Post by shmenguin »

Dinklage had some great scenes this year, but was sort of marginalized by being locked up all season. I don't think it's a travesty that he lost to Aaron Paul
count2infinity
NHL Third Liner
NHL Third Liner
Posts: 25043
Joined: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:03 pm
Location: Good night, sweet prince...

Re: TV Shows

Post by count2infinity »

Aaron Paul was absolutely fantastic in the last couple seasons of Breaking Bad. It was well deserved.
tifosi77
NHL Healthy Scratch
NHL Healthy Scratch
Posts: 14082
Joined: Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:33 pm
Location: White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer

Re: TV Shows

Post by tifosi77 »

I know it was from season 4 of BB, but the support group scene in 'Problem Dog' was so unbelievably gut wrenching. It really encapsulated the essence of Jesse Pinkman; a fundamentally good guy, caught up in bad business, doing bad things, yet you still feel empathy for him even as he's confessing to joining the N.A. group to solicit new customers.
Idoit40fans
NHL Second Liner
NHL Second Liner
Posts: 55335
Joined: Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:42 pm
Location: I'm sorry you feel that way

Re: TV Shows

Post by Idoit40fans »

Jesse is a guy that cooks meth and the first time we see him he is presumably sleeping with a married woman. How is he a fundamentally good guy?
PensFanInDC
NHL Third Liner
NHL Third Liner
Posts: 27917
Joined: Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:28 pm
Location: Fredneck

Re: TV Shows

Post by PensFanInDC »

By show's end he certainly is
Idoit40fans
NHL Second Liner
NHL Second Liner
Posts: 55335
Joined: Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:42 pm
Location: I'm sorry you feel that way

Re: TV Shows

Post by Idoit40fans »

Relatively, sure. Im not sure hes actually good.
tifosi77
NHL Healthy Scratch
NHL Healthy Scratch
Posts: 14082
Joined: Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:33 pm
Location: White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer

Re: TV Shows

Post by tifosi77 »

Small potatoes compared to the moral vacuum he gets sucked into.

Cooking meth and hooking up with married chicks....... shoot, I've done that. (Well, the married chick part)
PensFanInDC
NHL Third Liner
NHL Third Liner
Posts: 27917
Joined: Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:28 pm
Location: Fredneck

Re: TV Shows

Post by PensFanInDC »

I'm pretty sure he's learned his lesson and would probably live the rest of his life on the up and up.
count2infinity
NHL Third Liner
NHL Third Liner
Posts: 25043
Joined: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:03 pm
Location: Good night, sweet prince...

Re: TV Shows

Post by count2infinity »

Just ask Jesse...

[youtube][/youtube]
Staggy
AHL'er
AHL'er
Posts: 3174
Joined: Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:33 am
Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Re: TV Shows

Post by Staggy »

shmenguin wrote:Dinklage had some great scenes this year, but was sort of marginalized by being locked up all season. I don't think it's a travesty that he lost to Aaron Paul
I agree, but I think that same reasoning applies to Paul. Jesse really didn't have much to do this season, he just kind of marched around catatonically except for the one episode he went bonkers. I just thought Dinklage was slightly better in his trial scene than Paul was in his submitted episode.
tifosi77
NHL Healthy Scratch
NHL Healthy Scratch
Posts: 14082
Joined: Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:33 pm
Location: White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer

Re: TV Shows

Post by tifosi77 »

Which episode did he submit? I know Cranston (wisely) submitted 'Ozymandias'.
Dickie Dunn
AHL All-Star
AHL All-Star
Posts: 7237
Joined: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:05 am

Re: TV Shows

Post by Dickie Dunn »

tifosi77 wrote:Which episode did he submit? I know Cranston (wisely) submitted 'Ozymandias'.
"Confessions", the third episode of the second half of the final season.
Spoiler:
Jesse refuses to cut a deal with Hank. At an arranged public meeting, Walt, Skyler, Hank, and Marie try to negotiate. When Walt's attempts to negotiate with Hank fail, he leaves Hank and Marie with a DVD of Walt implicating Hank as the mastermind of the methamphetamine business. Walt offers Jesse money to leave town for good and assume a new identity. Jesse agrees, until he realizes that Saul took the ricin cigarette from him so that Walt could poison Brock. Jesse lapses into a rage and breaks into the White home and douses it with gasoline.
DelPen
NHL Second Liner
NHL Second Liner
Posts: 59962
Joined: Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:27 am
Location: Lake Wylie, SC

Re: TV Shows

Post by DelPen »

Digitalgypsy66 wrote:I've watched 3 episodes of Doctor Who (Christopher Eccleston) from 2005. It's enjoyable, but I was expecting something...different. Are these first seasons "good" seasons, or do I need to wait for a different Doctor? Which series is "The Wire" season three, so to speak?
Moffat took over at Series 5 with Matt Smith as the Doctor. Going to assume these are the best shows.
shmenguin
NHL Third Liner
NHL Third Liner
Posts: 25041
Joined: Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:34 pm

Re: TV Shows

Post by shmenguin »

Staggy wrote:
shmenguin wrote:Dinklage had some great scenes this year, but was sort of marginalized by being locked up all season. I don't think it's a travesty that he lost to Aaron Paul
I agree, but I think that same reasoning applies to Paul. Jesse really didn't have much to do this season, he just kind of marched around catatonically except for the one episode he went bonkers. I just thought Dinklage was slightly better in his trial scene than Paul was in his submitted episode.
Yeah you're probably right. Dinklage's trial scene was one of the best moment's of the year in TV. Can't say the same for any singular Jesse Pinkman moment
Digitalgypsy66
AHL Hall of Famer
AHL Hall of Famer
Posts: 9640
Joined: Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:21 pm
Location: Roger Roger.

Re: TV Shows

Post by Digitalgypsy66 »

Yeah, I don't see Breaking Bad's wins as unearned, but they were certainly "body of work" awards, much like Jon Hamm's will be next year.