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This is one of the two main community threads I frequent so hopefully I'm okay in saying this in here.

With the change in ownership, I am not sure if I am going to be posting here as much. Some of the details of the newly affiliated websites laid out in this closed thread give me misgivings. I hope I am allowed to say that. It does not appear to be against TOS and I don't intend to create any drama - nor am I requesting discussion of the findings in that thread.

This is just all to say that with the migration of many posters to new sites, it looks like Famiboards may be my new online home. That seems to be where much of the community is going. I hope you all will check it out because I'd love to see each of you there. It would be great to get a similar TV thread going there, if there's interest for it.

In the meantime, thanks to everyone in here who posts their impressions about TV and the industry, these threads have been one of my favorite reads on the internet for several years.
 
TheNatureBoy

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Seem to be a lot of passionate people involved. I hope it finds a new home.
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I plan to finish out the season, believe there is 3 episodes left, but so far the show has just been okay to me. Hasn't been able to reach the highs of the comic and considering how difficult it was to bring it to the screen not sure who would be eager to pick it up.
 
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Not surprised at all - despite the fair bit of hype for the series over the years, there is absolutely zero buzz about it now. It's not a great adaptation and I won't really be that sad to see it go.
 
RatskyWatsky

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I liked the comic back in the day but found the show to be just okay. Instead of watching new episodes when they drop on Mondays, I always end up putting it off until Thursdays or Fridays.

They wanted to take their time with the story, probably for budget reasons, but it should have been more propulsive like the comic. They needed to hit the ground running but instead they chose to wallow.

Still, sucks that fans waited all this time for an adaptation only for it to get cut short after just 1 season.
 
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glad to hear IATSE is signing the deal, although honestly I would be totally cool if Hollywood did a deal where summertime only had reruns and gave all crew 3 months paid time off. I miss the model where 6 months of the year you just watched reruns, and six months was new stuff. Now its new stuff every week and if it doesn't hit big, it can take years to catch up with the netflix generation (Parks & Rec, 30 Rock, Manifest, Lucifer, etc).

Y The Last Man is totally unsurprising, wife and I bailed after 3 episodes. It wasn't quite misery porn but all the characters were so unlikeable. It wore its politics on its sleeve too. I really hope the popularity of Squid Game gets Hollywood writers to realize you can write politics into your shows but its far better to be subtle and SHOW what happens due to executions of ideology, instead of the uncreative shortcut of having characters give long pedantic speeches.

Y had caricatures of multiple Karen types, to the point it felt like I was watching a Fox news hour instead of a scripted TV show.
 
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I really hate this trend of crying to Twitter when your show gets cancelled to claim victimhood and mobilize Internet anger. Virtually nobody wants their show to be scrapped, that's not unique and special. And then leaning into the veiled persecution complex just feels gross and cynical. It's really hard to look at the big picture of Y: The Last Man's development context and reception and conclude it wasn't given every opportunity and all the support.

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I have to imagine that it bombed pretty hard for Hulu to cancel such a high profile show after only 1 season. That's how it goes sometimes though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
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DanGo said:
I really hate this trend of crying to Twitter when your show gets cancelled to claim victimhood and mobilize Internet anger. Virtually nobody wants their show to be scrapped, that's not unique and special. And then leaning into the veiled persecution complex just feels gross and cynical. It's really hard to look at the big picture of Y: The Last Man's development context and reception and conclude it wasn't every opportunity and all the support.
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I don't really care when people do that. It's like the letter writing campaigns of the past, it's just easier to do. At least it's not the stupid thing where people mail stuff to the studio, like nuts when Jericho was cancelled or tabasco sauce for the original Roswell.
 
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I don't really care when people do that. It's like the letter writing campaigns of the past, it's just easier to do. At least it's not the stupid thing where people mail stuff to the studio, like nuts when Jericho was cancelled or tabasco sauce for the original Roswell.
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I think it's different when it's organically started by fans rather than kickstarted by the showrunner. I also think, frankly, that this recent trend is often about boosting the showrunner's profile so that they can parlay the cancellation into an overall at another network, especially when all these streamers are eager to throw money around at creatives out of FOMO. I've seen enough of how these work nowadays to be cynical.
 
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glad to hear IATSE is signing the deal, although honestly I would be totally cool if Hollywood did a deal where summertime only had reruns and gave all crew 3 months paid time off. I miss the model where 6 months of the year you just watched reruns, and six months was new stuff. Now its new stuff every week and if it doesn't hit big, it can take years to catch up with the netflix generation (Parks & Rec, 30 Rock, Manifest, Lucifer, etc).
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Sorry I'm a day late with this (again), but here are this week's WORLDWIDE Top 10 Netflix TV shows, for the week of October 17, 2021:
https://flixpatrol.com/top10/netflix/world/2021-10-17/

1.Squid GameSeason 1South Korea= (4th Week)
2.YouSeasons 1-3United StatesNEW
3.MaidLimited SeriesUnited States↓ 1
4.My NameSeason 1South KoreaNEW
5.The Five JuanasSeason 1Mexico↓ 1
6.Sex EducationSeasons 1-3United Kingdom↓ 3
7.Hometown Cha-Cha-ChaSeason 1South Korea↑ 1
8.The Chestnut ManSeason 1Denmark↓ 2
9.A Tale Dark and GrimmSeason 1United StatesNEW
10.Paw PatrolSeasons 1-8United States↓ 1
Out from last week: Alice in Borderland, On My Block, Grey's Anatomy

And this week's US Top 10 Netflix TV shows, for the week of October 17, 2021:
https://flixpatrol.com/top10/netflix/united-states/2021-10-17/

1.YouSeasons 1-3NEW
2.Squid GameSeason 1↓ 1
3.MaidLimited Series↓ 1
4.ShamelessSeasons 1-11NEW
5.CocomelonSeasons 1-4NEW
6.My NameSeason 1NEW
7.The Great British Bake OffCollections 1-9= (2nd Week)
8.The Baby-Sitters ClubSeasons 1-2NEW
9.On My BlockSeasons 1-4↓ 6
10.A Tale Dark and GrimmSeason 1NEW
Out from last week: Midnight Mass, The Five Juanas, The Blacklist, Bad Sport, Baking Impossible
 
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G_Shumi said:
Sorry I'm a day late with this (again), but here are this week's WORLDWIDE Top 10 Netflix TV shows, for the week of October 17, 2021:
https://flixpatrol.com/top10/netflix/world/2021-10-17/

1.Squid GameSeason 1South Korea= (4th Week)
2.YouSeasons 1-3United StatesNEW
3.MaidLimited SeriesUnited States↓ 1
4.My NameSeason 1South KoreaNEW
5.The Five JuanasSeason 1Mexico↓ 1
6.Sex EducationSeasons 1-3United Kingdom↓ 3
7.Hometown Cha-Cha-ChaSeason 1South Korea↑ 1
8.The Chestnut ManSeason 1Denmark↓ 2
9.A Tale Dark and GrimmSeason 1United StatesNEW
10.Paw PatrolSeasons 1-8United States↓ 1

And this week's US Top 10 Netflix TV shows, for the week of October 17, 2021:
https://flixpatrol.com/top10/netflix/united-states/2021-10-17/

1.YouSeasons 1-3NEW
2.Squid GameSeason 1↓ 1
3.MaidLimited Series↓ 1
4.ShamelessSeasons 1-11NEW
5.CocomelonSeasons 1-3= (2nd Week)
6.My NameSeason 1NEW
7.The Great British Bake OffCollections 1-9= (2nd Week)
8.The Baby-Sitters ClubSeasons 1-2NEW
9.On My BlockSeasons 1-4↓ 6
10.A Tale Dark and GrimmSeason 1NEW
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So much for America discovering international content exists.
 
Strafer

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Why is NCIS LA trending? Please dont tell me someone on the cast is getting cancelled. I'm too scared to look.
 
Auros01

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Finally got caught up on Heels. Not a perfect show by any stretch but, in the end, I really enjoyed the payoff and would be interested in a second season.
 
Captjohnboyd

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Absolutely devestated about Y. More that it never really came together than the fact that the show failed. I loved the comic back in the early aughts and I'd been watching it's path to the screen for years now hoping it would make it. Of course now that it finally had I only managed to watch four episodes lol. The biggest sin you can commit in our new streaming era is to be boring and Y was boring as heck.

While I would have finished the show, and didn't actively dislike it, it truly was a sad adaptation. There was plenty of room there to adapt the story for a more current era and to make it exciting television but the show runners weren't up to the task. A soul less, trite, and all together bland adaptation. Here's hoping to next comic or novel to small screen doesn't disappoint so much
 
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I would have kept watching Y but I get why it wasn't popular. The show just meandered too much and where I last saw was already in pretty standard post-apocalypse mode. I wish they focused more on the government crumbling as that could have been intriguing to see reverberate out. Instead, in that part of the show, we got catty remarks and face offs that didn't really build.

Hopefully other FX fair is doing well on Hulu because I dig the convenience.
 
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I started watching this new La Brea show this past weekend. Of all the shows that tried to recapture Lost's success, this one feels the most blatant. I think they even name drop Lost in their first episode. Still, it's not terrible, I might stick with it for the rest of the first season, but my gut says this might not get renewed for a second.
 
PanzerKraken

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Wasn't Y essentially in the can for several years already? It seems this show we had seen pics and previews for it already a long time ago and that it was filmed and just floating about for a while. The huge gap in release if anything probably didn't help anything, the contracts to get back for a season 2 were gonna cost more and if it didn't hard from the start, it wasn't gonna be worth it.
 
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I started watching this new La Brea show this past weekend. Of all the shows that tried to recapture Lost's success, this one feels the most blatant. I think they even name drop Lost in their first episode. Still, it's not terrible, I might stick with it for the rest of the first season, but my gut says this might not get renewed for a second.
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Quality aside, it seems to be doing well for NBC

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‘La Brea’: Disaster Drama Debut Doubles Total Viewers & Triples Demo; Becomes Top NBC Premiere On Peacock

NBC disaster drama series La Brea has avoided a linear ratings sinkhole and instead taken off on Peacock and among the younger demo.
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Quality aside, it seems to be doing well for NBC

deadline.com

‘La Brea’: Disaster Drama Debut Doubles Total Viewers & Triples Demo; Becomes Top NBC Premiere On Peacock

NBC disaster drama series La Brea has avoided a linear ratings sinkhole and instead taken off on Peacock and among the younger demo.
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My wife has been watching this and it hasn't grabbed my attention. I will absolutely root for it to do well, though. We need more sci-fi on network TV.
 
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