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TV 10: Blacklisted Sons: The Musical

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How to Get Away with Murder was beyond bad. Which means the show will last for many years.
 
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unofan said:
How to Get Away with Murder was beyond bad. Which means the show will last for many years.
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I didn't think it was that bad. I haven't seen enough to really make up my mind. I don't even fully understand the premise, yet.
 
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I didn't think it was that bad. I haven't seen enough to really make up my mind. I don't even fully understand the premise, yet.
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The premise is there are two timelines. The main one starts out first day of law school. The flash forward one shows the four law students after they killed their professor/employer's husband three months into the semester.

Even if you're watching it as a crappy primetime soap opera that has no grounding at all in reality, it's still nothing more than a poor man's Practice/Boston Legal.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Sadly, the opening was the best part. They even managed to make Weekend Update unfunny. :(
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There was some OK bits near the end, like the sitcom parody and the second NFL skit. But yeah, the first half hour, for a season premiere of all episodes, was pretty bad. The cue card reading and tripping over lines is getting worse and worse.
 
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unofan said:
How to Get Away with Murder was beyond bad. Which means the show will last for many years.
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Beyond bad doesn't describe how awful it was. Any defense lawyer that uses students to come up with a murder defense should be disbarred. Turned it off half-way through.

5-0 jumped the shark on Friday with Honolulu streets totally empty and a biz-jet landing on a conveniently empty street.

And at least three different shows, including 5-0, had armed drones as part of the plot. :mad:
 
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I'm giving it a try. A while ago I came to accept that cop and medical drama shows were here to stay, so it's fun when someone comes up with a good twist on the old concept without making things overly contrived in terms of character interactions and make things entertaining. As for Forever's pilot goes, it met the criteria.
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Give it a try. Medical shows are the second-most lazy stories (after romance) since the default life/death setting combined with before-their-time-well-scrubbed couples and tragicute kids means writers put in 10% effort. The only "medical mystery" show worth watching was House because it intentionally played against that sensibility and created a lead who mocked the easy storyline. Forever is a hackneyed premise but at least the lead isn't trying to atone for a life of sin (Forever Night, Angel, Dracula) -- if anything it's a clone of Sleepy Hollow.

My bet is it's good until they bang; then it will be awful.
 
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French Rage said:
There was some OK bits near the end, like the sitcom parody and the second NFL skit. But yeah, the first half hour, for a season premiere of all episodes, was pretty bad. The cue card reading and tripping over lines is getting worse and worse.
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Whoever wrote and green-lit that "Animal Hospital" sketch should've been canned this morning.
 
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Kepler said:
Give it a try. Medical shows are the second-most lazy stories (after romance) since the default life/death setting combined with before-their-time-well-scrubbed couples and tragicute kids means writers put in 10% effort. The only "medical mystery" show worth watching was House because it intentionally played against that sensibility and created a lead who mocked the easy storyline. Forever is a hackneyed premise but at least the lead isn't trying to atone for a life of sin (Forever Night, Angel, Dracula) -- if anything it's a clone of Sleepy Hollow.

My bet is it's good until they bang; then it will be awful.
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I've not seen Sleepy Hollow, so that should help. :)
 
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I thought the crossover was ok, at least based on where the two shows are at quality-wise at this point. I've heard that The Simpsons has been getting better, but I couldn't make it through the 8 o'clock episode. Especially with the Simpsons binges on FXX I don't think I'll ever be able to watch the newer episodes.

I was in pure nostalgic bliss for the first four or five days of that marathon. That was some of the best TV ever produced. I tuned in around day 10 and 11 and could barely stand to watch.

As for Family Guy, when a show literally becomes a parody of itself it's time to stop. Some of the jokes are meant to be rehashed and continuous, but there's some episodes where they actually rehash rehashes.

Then Fox incredibly enough lets American Dad go, which is probably their best show currently and replace it with Bad Remake Seinfeld. John Mulaney is one of my favorite comedians but there's no way that show takes off. The acting in the previews is atrocious.
 
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SteveP said:
Beyond bad doesn't describe how awful it was. Any defense lawyer that uses students to come up with a murder defense should be disbarred. Turned it off half-way through.
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No one likes suspension of reality anymore? Isn't there enough "reality" TV? I like a little "impossible" in my fiction. Why? Cause it's fun.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
No one likes suspension of reality anymore? Isn't there enough "reality" TV? I like a little "impossible" in my fiction. Why? Cause it's fun.
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Probably just my distaste for defense attorneys, having battled them for 20 years. ;)

I suspend reality with Star Trek reruns! :D
 
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Is anybody still watching Bones? That twist at the end of the season opener really shocked me and my wife.
 
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MadTownSioux said:
Is anybody still watching Bones? That twist at the end of the season opener really shocked me and my wife.
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Have it on the DVR so no spoilers please!:)

Just watched about half of the first episode of House of Cards. Might be binge watching this weekend!
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
That's the most negative review I have ever read for HoC
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LOL. True, but funny.

I can't decide whether The Good Wife or Person Of Interest is the best TV show outside of cable. The good news is I don't have to decide I can watch both.
 
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SteveP said:
Have it on the DVR so no spoilers please!:)

Just watched about half of the first episode of House of Cards. Might be binge watching this weekend!
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I resisted the impulse to spell it out just for that reason.
 
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