They never gave any indication of 5 being the last season AFAIK
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2018-19 Season TV Cancellations/Pilots: Perfectionist Horseman commits perjury, held In Contempt
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They never gave any indication of 5 being the last season AFAIK
6 seasons for BCS sounds right. Last year the showrunner hinted about it having a similar number of eps as BB, which was 62. Each of the 4 BCS seasons so far has been 40. There's still plenty to tell, including potentially in the period after BB. I actually think they've been a bit slow getting to where they're at now. When the show was first announced I thought we'd be seeing more of Saul's capers as a dodgy lawyer, instead it's taken 40 episodes just to reach that point.
https://www.vox.com/i-think-youre-i...all-saul-finale-interview-recap-winner-ending
https://www.vox.com/i-think-youre-i...all-saul-finale-interview-recap-winner-ending
I was sad for a second because I thought the show already got 5 seasons out. This sounds about right really.
Is this going to be more choose your own adventure stuff? If not, I'm interested.
Monday night's ratings:
Legends is so cancelled after season 5. Jesus. Even by CW standards that's painful.
The CW renewed a show averaging a .1, I don't think we can make predictions based on their live ratings anymore.
(But yeah, there already was a rumor that season 5 is going to be the last)
Matt Zoller Seitz: Sundown on Deadwood David Milch, battling Alzheimer's, finally finishes his TV Western.
I didn't know Milch was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
EDIT: Some discussion of his post-Deadwood work:
I didn't know Milch was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
EDIT: Some discussion of his post-Deadwood work:
They mostly get posted in the monthly threads, but I don't think there's a global index for the entire calendar year unless there's something I'm overlooking.
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Thanks, I'll just keep checking that thread.
I go here, but there's no updating when things are added, you just have to look through the whole thing every day.
http://www.metacritic.com/feature/tv-premiere-dates
You're definitely not alone in that.
Joss Whedon's "The Nevers" casts its lead. Boy, I can't wait for a majority-female cast to have their dialogue written by Mr. Strong Female Characters himself.
What/If explores "the ripple effects of what happens when acceptable people start doing unacceptable things. Each season will tackle a different morality tale inspired by culturally consequential source material, and the power of a single fateful decision to change the trajectory of an entire life." The first season of the series is expected to follow "two struggling newlyweds who accept a powerful woman's ethically perilous proposition to secure a badly needed financial windfall.
In other Netflix news:
Netflix Orders New Adult Animated Series From 'Gravity Falls' Duo
I belive this is also Hirsch's first announced project for Netflix, though it doesn't sound like he's a creative principal here.
The premise of this show reeks of being C-tier Syfy fare.
LOL.
Wtf at milch?! God that's depressing. I'd imagine this is his swan song then. I sure hope someone picks up that Boss Tweed project and makes it a reality :(
I'd just like to add that the vulture article about Milch that cornballer linked to is beautiful and worth a read
I'd just like to add that the vulture article about Milch that cornballer linked to is beautiful and worth a read
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Man that sucks to hear.
Oh hey, that casting fits the pattern
All their stuff is down, Legends is slightly below Supergirl and Charmed is lower than both
Yeah. I have to wonder what's been dragging their ratings down across the board. It can't just be show fatigue, can it? Obviously the Netflix deal helps keep the shows safer than they would be on another network, but it really feels like the CW is bleeding out in general.
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yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus. The show is so damn good, they really started hitting it out of the park with season 2 onward.
'Showtime' Drama About 1980s L.A. Lakers From Adam McKay Gets HBO Pilot Order
It's going to get a wee bit confusing if HBO picks up a series called "Showtime".
It's going to get a wee bit confusing if HBO picks up a series called "Showtime".
After The Big Short and Vice, I'll follow Adam McKay to the ends of the Earth...
I'm excited for this.
The Showtime Lakers were doing some crazy thing and are lucky social media wasn't a thing, so it really depends on what they cover.
Watching rich athletes party, fuck, and feud isn't super compelling to me. In my mind, this isn't the kind of history that demands longform dramatization. There's no "there" there.
Killing Eve week 3
620K on AMC
361K on BBC America
981K total
A Discovery of Witches week 3
539K on AMC
137K on BBC America
676K total
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Killing Eve was up and ADoW was dead even with last week
I don't have particularly strong feelings about Whedon either way, and I'll almost certainly give The Nevers a shot for at least the first few episodes, but it's definitely interesting to see just how much online geek culture has soured on him over the past few years.
How has it soured on him? Not arguing that, genuinely curious, since the MCU stuff seems to be so well received. I used to be a huge fan of his back in the day with Buffy and Firefly. Since then, Dollhouse sucked, and the MCU stuff is great for what it is, but it's not like I watch those for the writing. Now I feel about him about the same as you do.
Eh, Dollhouse is better than Firefly by the end and better & more consistent in its quality than most seasons of Buffy, especially if you watch the OG unaired pilot and then skip the first five or so aired episodes and start from episode ~6 onwards (like the show was originally intended to go before FOX wanted more episodic fluff at the beginning and a lot of the OG pilot material got spread into several episodes).
The OG pilot is a really efficient start for the show and skipping to the later episodes after that skips pretty much all of the filler FOX forced on the show at first as well as some other problematic aspects (the sex slavery thing is handled a bit too light-heartedly, but there's far less of it later on & unless my memory completely betrays me, the worst stuff is contained in episodic filler episodes at the start). This helps you get a lot faster into the meat of the story & the more sinister, darker themes of the setup & all the cleverer usages of the setting.
The second season especially is peak-level Whedon (warts and all). Dushku isn't the best actor but she's ok enough not to drag the show down completely and the cast is excellent otherwise, which brings the overall quality of the show up.
The OG pilot is a really efficient start for the show and skipping to the later episodes after that skips pretty much all of the filler FOX forced on the show at first as well as some other problematic aspects (the sex slavery thing is handled a bit too light-heartedly, but there's far less of it later on & unless my memory completely betrays me, the worst stuff is contained in episodic filler episodes at the start). This helps you get a lot faster into the meat of the story & the more sinister, darker themes of the setup & all the cleverer usages of the setting.
The second season especially is peak-level Whedon (warts and all). Dushku isn't the best actor but she's ok enough not to drag the show down completely and the cast is excellent otherwise, which brings the overall quality of the show up.
Angel Season 5 >>>>>>> everything.
He is and isn't. In his court/style of lower-to-mid budget genre fiction/TV, I don't think there are a huge number of people who can reach or exceed the highs that Whedon's work reaches at its absolute best when it comes to offering engaging storylines (especially some really good twists & endings), fun characters & compelling character dynamics, but he also has some really low lows that many others don't fall to. He's also better at writing than he is at directing. He brings his own distinct style to his writing (that you may like or hate) but there's really nothing all that remarkable with most of his directing work, outside of some singular moments/episodes (The Body still being one of the highlights of his career in both writing & directing).
This is a good take
His feminist writing hasn't evolved with the times though which is what has lead to a lot of the modern backlash
Also Angel S4 is damn good too, I didn't mind them going fully dark and serialized (why Buffy S6 was good)
I generally liked Firefly and a fair amount of Dollhouse, but I'd be afraid to revisit those as someone who has aged and now knows much more about Whedon's personal qualities. Cabin in the Woods is great, for whatever his involvement was worth. Hated Dr Horrible and Avengers.
HBO throwing money at him for this low-rent premise just feels like a willful refusal to acknowledge that it's 2019 and not 2004. In a slightly different way, I feel the same way about HBO greenlighting that JJ Abrams show. *insert whatyearisit.jpg*
HBO throwing money at him for this low-rent premise just feels like a willful refusal to acknowledge that it's 2019 and not 2004. In a slightly different way, I feel the same way about HBO greenlighting that JJ Abrams show. *insert whatyearisit.jpg*
Dollhouse was never anything other than atrocious and writing a role where an actor as weak as Eliza Dushku had to play multiple characters was sheer lunacy.
Not rocket science, but also entirely uninspired and uninspiring. These are two guys who haven't created or run any good TV in at least a decade. HBO can do better.
Can they really? Like who?
I'm giving both a chance since one of my favorite recent HBO shows came from Damon Lindelofof all people.
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