I haven't watched The Middle, but I always see this as a response:
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2017-18 Season TV Cancellations/Pilots: E Corp does hostile takeover. Shuts down fsociety
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Nah, their being lower middle class is always a thing. The financial aid ep for the daughter was pretty well done
Is food stamps lower-middle or is it lower?
Having watched The Middle, they seemed to be struggling quite a bit as well, not so much near the end since 2/3 kids moved out but they've neglected and ignored various parts of their house because they couldn't afford to fix them. The biggest struggle they dealt with last season was when the dad sold his share of his side business so that he could pay for his daughter's semester of classes since she forgot to apply for financial aid by the deadline.
Having watched The Middle, they seemed to be struggling quite a bit as well, not so much near the end since 2/3 kids moved out but they've neglected and ignored various parts of their house because they couldn't afford to fix them. The biggest struggle they dealt with last season was when the dad sold his share of his side business so that he could pay for his daughter's semester of classes since she forgot to apply for financial aid by the deadline.
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So uh, as always BBC America uses L+3 ratings (and those differ from these) and these are not final results, so grain of salt, etc. But uh:
KILLING EVE last week 0.11 485
KILLING EVE this week 0.13 701
That's a ~~bump~~ esp. in total viewers. Also the first week it broke into the top 50 Cable Casts.
KILLING EVE last week 0.11 485
KILLING EVE this week 0.13 701
That's a ~~bump~~ esp. in total viewers. Also the first week it broke into the top 50 Cable Casts.
I've been surprised that he hung on at Uproxx as long as he did.
It's a good move for Sepinwall - cool to see him back in print. I wonder if any of their current staff (Sean Collins, Rob Sheffield) are moving on.
I'm wondering if they let him keep doing his podcast with Brian Grubb. It's been an easy way for me to get a pulse on new shows to check out.
He tweeted that today they're recording the last one.
Such a bummer. They were so nerdy and loving of things. I need them to do final send off in the form of their tv character draft picks.
That's really good news! Eden Sher's Sue Heck was the breakout character of the show and a spinoff with her could work really well. I wonder if they'll go super happy and perky with her or tone it down like with Yara Shahidi's grownish.
In Roseanne didn't Dan own a construction company, and bike shop? Then they brought the diner?
That shit ain't cheap
I caught that also and thought there was some other poet from 30 years ago I didn't know about. lol
Roseanne was a line worker at a plastic factory and lost her job when she walked out in protest. After that she could only get odd and demeaning jobs. Dan was a contractor who specialized in drywall. When they tried to sell the business to get a loan for the bike shop, the bank refused saying he was the business, so they had to take out a second mortgage on the house. The bike shop folded in less than a year when everything else in the town folded, so both Dan and Roseanne were unemployed and couldn't pay the bills. Roseanne used 10 thousand given to her by her mother (proceeds from selling the father's house) to buy into a four-way partnership for the diner. Shortly after this Dan got scammed into house flipping, but Jackie and Roseanne's mother bailed them out. Dan eventually got a job at the city garage.
Dan ended up leaving the cushy city job to go back into contracting (very dumb, and spent his vacation payout to take the entire extended family to Disney World), and we know that at some point the diner folded.
Once they had the diner and Dan got a city job, they were stable, but things were very rocky for the first half of the show to the extent that their utilities were getting cut off.
They need to get off their ass and add Live support to more platforms. I have a Samsung smart TV and still need to use my Xbone for it.
Reminder to watch NBC's Reverie tonight. *Reminder*
Will be my first time...ever(?) watching an NBC scripted show.
Will be my first time...ever(?) watching an NBC scripted show.
Oh, I'm interested in that one. Wonder how reviews are.
http://www.metacritic.com/tv/reverie
Not awesome, but maybe they're mostly based on the pilot alone. The EW one seems to be. I liked the first season of Extant a lot (same creator as this show)
Reverie intrigued me. Not at first, but the more I see the commercials the more I figure it may be worth watching. The idea behind it is somewhat interesting. I guess I'll set it to record.
I read about the Roseanne news and am not upset she got cancelled. I did watch the latest season, because I'm a sitcom junkie and live in the past too much. The show reminds me of better times, back when it was first on, though I only watched it occasionally when nothing else was on. I felt kind of bad supporting it, and am glad that they did pull the plug based on her remarks. Good riddance.
As for The Middle: That was a truly underrated show. I didn't like it a lot at first, but it really grew on me to the point where I loved it. They were definitely not doing well financially, and a lot of the episodes had them buying and eating food from a very cheap store, having to use things quickly before they expired further and not being able to afford to fix up their home.
That show was really well cast.
I like Eden Sher as well, but Sue's happiness and positivity sometimes was a bit much for me. I will watch the spin-off, but always preferred Axl and Mike.
I read about the Roseanne news and am not upset she got cancelled. I did watch the latest season, because I'm a sitcom junkie and live in the past too much. The show reminds me of better times, back when it was first on, though I only watched it occasionally when nothing else was on. I felt kind of bad supporting it, and am glad that they did pull the plug based on her remarks. Good riddance.
As for The Middle: That was a truly underrated show. I didn't like it a lot at first, but it really grew on me to the point where I loved it. They were definitely not doing well financially, and a lot of the episodes had them buying and eating food from a very cheap store, having to use things quickly before they expired further and not being able to afford to fix up their home.
That show was really well cast.
I like Eden Sher as well, but Sue's happiness and positivity sometimes was a bit much for me. I will watch the spin-off, but always preferred Axl and Mike.
Glad for Alan, but dangit my favorite (and only) TV podcast listen bites the dust....again.
If either of them start/continue with a new podcast, I'll surely follow. Not getting my hopes up though.
Boo, no more TV podcast. :(
Tim Goodman's show is bleh, and Extra Hot Great always feels out of date because they only really cover one show a week. No more TV news for me again I guess...
The thing is that The Middle has The Glassners, basically their poor white trash neighbours. They were clearly poorer than their other neighbours, but they were still "normal" compared to the other family that terrorized the neigbourhood.
I guess by that measure Justified and Breaking Bad are about poor people too... but I just don't see those shows as about poverty per se, but that their socioeconomic class informs the crime situations they find themselves in.
Earn is poor, but they hardly touch on it other than showing it a few times. Maron's thing was tied to his drug meltdown.
Honestly not sure how I feel if they replaced the black family with a white female lead. lol
You seem to follow this thread pretty closely yet don't seem to absorb any news unless it's in podcast form thinking.emoji
Well, if someone here starts getting screeners and starts spoiling TV shows, please let me know. lol
Wow that's shitty. Regardless of current news, the old show is a classic and I watched it on Hulu which I pay for.
Barr fucked over people's residuals with her shenanigans, that's pretty nasty. Considering the popularity of the show some of them were probably living off them.
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Looks like Roxanne McKee isn't returning for the new season, which I'm not really mad about because she was definitely the weakest link in the new cast.
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