Law & Order is Terrific (And always will be)

[davy]

It's kind of hilarious how much Popmatters loves Farscape.

I don't know if it's just one guy writing a bunch of articles or a general consensus (I suppose I could find out easy enough), but they are nuts about some Farscape. The fawning would be adorable if I hadn't been so turned off by the show's significant flaws.

(edited because my sentence didn't make any sense before)

[ellaguru]

Well, I liked Farscape quite a bit, and I do plan to pick this up ... sometime when I run into it used and cheap.

[ellaguru]

When I copied season four of Friday Night Lights onto my USB stick to watch from, I didn't get the last episode (not enough space, probably), so I just watched the penultimate episode thinking it was the finale. And you know, it woulda worked great. No resolution, and everybody loses. I was up for that.

On the up side, though, I still have one more episode to go!

[diesel_powered]

"You feel the show is your child, but you're an overprotective parent, constantly hovering and nattering. You'd better be careful otherwise your little boy will end up in a clock tower with a rifle..."

God I love Slings & Arrows. Creatives should tattoo that quote on their foreheads.

And I just realized that it's Constable Benton Fraser in the lead role, probably due to the fact that I didn't make the connection between the Brylcreem-glazed mountie from Due South and the ranting nutbar from Slings & Arrows. (Yeah, totally had a major crush on the Constable when I was in high school... those were the days...) I'm kind of sad that it's only 18 episodes, but better a conservative 18 episodes than padding it out with bullshit to a typical 66.

[Greg Nog]

Nick Knight, everyone's favorite 1990s Canadian vampire cop, is in Season 2!

[davy]

I sure do hate that Ladders commercial. You know, "100K+ jobs for 100K+ people/talent?"

Ugh. And it's been on tv for YEARS.

[davy]

I mean, the sheer number of different groups of people it offends is almost impressive, really.

[diesel_powered]

What, you mean the losers who don't have 100k talent? Why should we care what they think?

[Greg Nog]

What commercial is this?

[diesel_powered]

There's one where there's 400 oafish people on a tennis court, all hitting balls in random directions. The tagline is something like "Does this remind you of most job search sites?" They're pretty insufferable.

[davy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31ZevWuxrNE

Fit, youngish white guy starts playing tennis/looking for a job. He's then interrupted by a bunch of neanderthals who interfere with his holy quest. See, he is 100K+ people...those other folks--the overweight, the women, the hippies, the blondes, the blacks, the Mexicans--all those chumps need to GET OFF HIS COURT.

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[davy]

There's one where there's 400 oafish people on a tennis court, all hitting balls in random directions. The tagline is something like "Does this remind you of most job search sites?" They're pretty insufferable.

The tagline is actually even worse: "When you let everyone play...nobody wins."

[davy]

And it's worth noting that when the commercial came out, the slogan was "Only 100K+ jobs, for only 100K+ people."

Now, it's "Only 100K+ jobs, for only 100K+ talent."

[Greg Nog]

Holy crap!  How have I never heard of this before?

[davy]

It's been on pretty heavy rotation for at least 3 years.

[G.C.R]

I am having a hard time persuading the boyfriend to watch Sapphire and Steel with me. I just need to get his ass on the couch and the dvd in the player because after that the show can work its own magic, so I'm thinking some sort of trap, baited with potato chips and the insistence that they be eaten in front of the tv...
until then its all *pouty face/whiny voice* "Isn't that some cheap British sci-fi show?"  Like its some sort of bad thing.

[ellaguru]

I am still enjoying Make It or Break It, ABC Family's teen soap thingy about gymnasts. Last couple weeks Marina Sirtis has been on it, so that's been fun. However, the last episode I saw was right on the heels of finishing season four of Friday Night Lights, so in the world of TV shows about teenage sportos, it was a pretty severe step down.

About to start season 1 of Gilmore Girls after finally having been beaten into submission by LPTJ on that one.

[diesel_powered]

So agent whatsisface from White Collar totally played Bizarro Jerry on Seinfeld.

[dieblucasdie]

I am still enjoying Make It or Break It, ABC Family's teen soap thingy about gymnasts. Last couple weeks Marina Sirtis has been on it, so that's been fun. However, the last episode I saw was right on the heels of finishing season four of Friday Night Lights, so in the world of TV shows about teenage sportos, it was a pretty severe step down.

About to start season 1 of Gilmore Girls after finally having been beaten into submission by LPTJ on that one.

Yessss.  I can't imagine you not loving it, really.

And yeah, that season of FNL was absolutely killer.  I basically agree with Sepinwall's take, which is that though the overall arc of the season (Lions/Coach suffer humiliation after humiliation, but he shapes them into a team and they beat the cocky Panthers in a season-ending moral victory) was pretty much exactly what you'd expect to happen as far back as S3's finale, every single damn character had been so beaten down by life the entire season, that, emotionally, I couldn't have handled anything other than a Lions win.  And of course special props to Zach Gilford for that fucking AMAZING funeral/funeral home episode, and to whoever was responsible that beautiful last scene of Tim walking to the sheriff's office.

Were I going to get all "Teen Dramas are Important" here, I'd write a whole big long thing about how FNL almost comes across as a conservative response to The Wire for me.  Where The Wire says, "This shit is fucked-UP and the best you can hope for is that some cog in the machine will stop drowning his sorrows long enough to do a bit or two of good,"  FNL says, "This shit is fucked-UP, but don't worry, you just need a solid patriarch and his tough-but-dutiful wife to fix everybody's problems."

[heather marie]

I am still enjoying Make It or Break It, ABC Family's teen soap thingy about gymnasts. Last couple weeks Marina Sirtis has been on it, so that's been fun. However, the last episode I saw was right on the heels of finishing season four of Friday Night Lights, so in the world of TV shows about teenage sportos, it was a pretty severe step down.

About to start season 1 of Gilmore Girls after finally having been beaten into submission by LPTJ on that one.

Yessss.  I can't imagine you not loving it, really.

And yeah, that season of FNL was absolutely killer.  I basically agree with Sepinwall's take, which is that though the overall arc of the season (Lions/Coach suffer humiliation after humiliation, but he shapes them into a team and they beat the cocky Panthers in a season-ending moral victory) was pretty much exactly what you'd expect to happen as far back as S3's finale, every single damn character had been so beaten down by life the entire season, that, emotionally, I couldn't have handled anything other than a Lions win.  And of course special props to Zach Gilford for that fucking AMAZING funeral/funeral home episode, and to whoever was responsible that beautiful last scene of Tim walking to the sheriff's office.

GOD SERIOUSLY I KNOW. Perfect television. Like, this might sound like some crazy fucking hyperbole, but those bits are almost as perfect as the last 15 minutes of the Six Feet Under finale.

[dieblucasdie]

Yeah, I was generally  about Tim's arc over most of the season, but the stuff in the finale made it all worth it.  Fucking heartbreaking. 

And the way that final game was executed, just perfect and satisfying without being melodramatic:  "I'm going to enjoy watching you beat him all night."

Like I said upthread, I'll refrain from calling it the Best Show on TV this Season until Breaking Bad S3 airs, but damn, it probably will be.

[edison]

Big Love last night was completely fascinating!

By which I mean that this was the stupidest episode so far. Like, really, really huge levels of stupidity.

[girl]

Big Love last night was completely fascinating!

By which I mean that this was the stupidest episode so far. Like, really, really huge levels of stupidity.

Yeah, at this point it's more ridiculous than a Mexican soap opera.