TV/Movies Megathread

[Queequeg]

Started watching Hannibal. On episode 4.

Will Graham is the dream man

Hannibal's not far off

Bryan Fuller makes Ryan Murphy or Alan Ball look straight. He's mad homo. Pushing Daisies is like half Musical Theater references.

[Sheilbh]

Five episodes in. I really hope this whole show ends with Will Graham retiring to neon Miami and pounding synths.

Edit: [spoiler]Also I liked how the angel maker talked about 'becoming'.[/spoiler]

[CountDeMoney]

Five episodes in. I really hope this whole show ends with Will Graham retiring to neon Miami and pounding synths.

Heh, wait until Hannibal meets an..."admirer".

[Queequeg]

Five episodes in. I really hope this whole show ends with Will Graham retiring to neon Miami and pounding synths.

Edit: [spoiler]Also I liked how the angel maker talked about 'becoming'.[/spoiler]

Welcome to the bewilderingly intense world of Gay Fainnibaldom, Sheilbh. 

[MadImmortalMan]

The Baby Effect:


Recently, now that TV shows are available to watch in multi-year increments, I've noticed something. The writing staff eventually settle down, have kids and then the show gets crappy. I guess it's natural that the circumstances of your life will affect your creative input. But injecting kid things into otherwise good shows tends to be a bad idea.


Liz Lemon wants to adopt, Ron Swanson becomes an uber-babysitter for his single mom girlfriend, name any show where one of the main cast members has a baby, etc.

[Eddie Teach]

Writers run out of ideas, so they do things like make characters have babies. Doesn't necessarily mean the writers themselves are having babies, though I'm sure some of them are.

I don't think the increased crappiness of the show is directly related to introduction of the new babies; that is a symptom not a cause.

[celedhring]

A screenwriter friend of mine can't stop pushing the parenthood angle in anything he writes since he had a girl.

[garbon]

Liz Lemon wants to adopt, Ron Swanson becomes an uber-babysitter for his single mom girlfriend, name any show where one of the main cast members has a baby, etc.

I don't recall either show becoming crappy when that happened.

A show that did would be Bones but then it has been on seemingly forever.

[Eddie Teach]

This season of Parks and Rec has been the worst since season 1.

[Queequeg]

True Detective Spoilers:
[spoiler]I'm really worried the show is going to end up with a "Southern Preachers commit satanic, misogynistic murders" ending, which was already an old concept with Night of the Hunter. Really hope the show goes either in the Metafictional or Supernatural route. Cohle always seems on the verge of a Sophie's World "I am inside a text" realization, which is awesome, but I really hope we get to see the Yellow King, with Marty or Cohle playing Prince Prospero in The Red Death and trying to unmask him. Cohle could be denied his wish of death to become one of the King's angels.[/spoiler]

[Grey Fox]

I hope that none of your wish happens.

[Eddie Teach]

QQ thinks too much.

[Queequeg]

I hope that none of your wish happens.

[spoiler]They've established an entire semiotic system and the show and the ending punchline is going to be that it's nothing but a bunch of child molesters in Carnival outfits.  It's going to be a big fuck-you to the obsessive audiance.  [/spoiler]

[Grey Fox]

Yes, and that's awesome.

[Queequeg]

[spoiler]Not really.  It means it takes all of Cohle's bullshit seriously.[/spoiler]