TV/Movies Megathread

[Ed Anger]

Fatty Arbuckle raped many kraut women.

[Josephus]

The show is becoming a little too Fiona-centric.

I think she's the best thing in the show, though. Her role when she got arrested was Emmy-nominating for sure. Most of the other plots are boring. I hate William H. Macy. He's great when he's trying to scam, but his whole dying role this year has been annoying. All the bits with the gay son, his lover and his prostitutes is boring. It's only the only brother who otherwise interests me, and at least acts as a foil to Fiona.

this season has arguably been the best since the premiere. And it totally went off the rails in Season Two with retarded baby and the sex addict guy.

[Admiral Yi]

But retarded baby mom was a nice looking piece of jailbait.

I think Frank dying has some good bits to it.

[garbon]

I hate William H. Macy. He's great when he's trying to scam, but his whole dying role this year has been annoying.

He really is my least favorite part. Though I don't hold it against him as Frank was my least favorite character on the UK version too.

All the bits with the gay son, his lover and his prostitutes is boring.

Not surprisingly, I liked the gay subplot but I agree that it hasn't been good this year. Completely uninteresting since his return from the army.

[Josephus]

But retarded baby mom was a nice looking piece of jailbait.

I think Frank dying has some good bits to it.

Yes, retarded baby mom was nice to have around. The scene with her and Frank in season one was quite shockingly over-the-top. That's the thing about Shameless it really has pushed the envelope.

[Admiral Yi]

I must have missed that episode.  Did Frank bang her or what?

[Tonitrus]

Since no one else brought up the last episode of Walking Dead...

[spoiler]Terminus looks way too innocent and sweet...so obviously it will probably be a psychotic nightmare (and the teaser for next sure made it seem like that)...though after Woodbury, psychotic nightmare towns might start to seem trite. 

It may just be the TV replacement for Alexandria (from the comic), as I kinda figure doing real Alexandria would be beyond the budgetary scope of the show.

And I didn't even recognize Denise Crosby until the dude on Talking Dead mentioned her name.[/spoiler]

[garbon]

That's a great show but I have a lot of trouble watching it.  They get a ton of details about Chicago wrong. 

Yeah because on the other hand, when a show takes place in New York, the details are generally spot on.

[Ideologue]

I liked that documentary, Friends.

[CountDeMoney]

Another valuable and talented character actor lost.

James Rebhorn, in his own words
By Breeanna Hare, CNN

(CNN) -- Before he died Friday, it seems, James Rebhorn wrote his own obituary.

St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Jersey City, New Jersey, has shared a letter titled "His Life, According to Jim" that's signed by the actor and dated March 2014.

According to the church, Rebhorn, 65, was a longtime member who "will be remembered not so much for his many screen and stage accomplishments as for his firm faith, his strong leadership, his care for others, and his unfailing good humor."

And in the obituary, Rebhorn's faith and love for his family are particularly evident.

It includes recognition of the influence of his parents, who "gave him his faith and wisely encouraged him to stay in touch with God," and his sister, who was "his confidant (and) ... bridge over troubled waters." He also mentions how his wife, Rebecca, and their two daughters "anchored his life and gave him the freedom to live it."

"Without them always at the center of his being," the obituary continues, "(Rebhorn's) life would have been little more than a vapor. Rebecca loved him with all his flaws, and in her the concept of ceaseless love could find no better example."

Rebhorn was born in September 1948 in Philadelphia. After graduating from Ohio's Wittenberg University and earning a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia, he soon found his way to both the stage and the screen.

If his name isn't familiar, his face probably is: Rebhorn played the headmaster in 1992's "Scent of a Woman," a district attorney on the series finale of "Seinfeld" and the secretary of defense alongside Will Smith in 1996's "Independence Day."

Most recently, he was on television as "Homeland's" Frank Mathison, the father of Claire Danes' Carrie.

Throughout his life, Rebhorn's obituary says, he was "fortunate enough to earn his living doing what he loved. ... A lucky man in every way."

Although his representative did not specify Rebhorn's cause of death, she said he died "at home with his loving family in attendance."

In addition to his wife and daughters, whom he says "made him immensely proud," Rebhorn noted the numerous family members and friends he's leaving behind.

"He loved them all," Rehborn said, "and he knows they loved him."

[Ed Anger]

Ugh, just saw a commercial for that Draft Day movie.

UGH

[garbon]

Ugh, just saw a commercial for that Draft Day movie.

UGH

Right?

[CountDeMoney]

Superman II is on.  Unfortunately, it doesn't rank with Ide as high as Superman III does, what with Richard Pryor's penetrating and career-defining performance.

[Ideologue]

I haven't seen either in about twenty years.  I can literally not remember a single frame of 3.  I can relate the plot only because I've read about it in the past year or so.

But it does fit neatly into your window of active attention to popular culture, so I'm sure you're enjoying it.

[CountDeMoney]

Your Assburger Generation's attention span would ensure you forgot you made that crack by this time tomorrow.