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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #250 on: April 01, 2014, 08:22:12 AM »
I've seen a season and a half of Breaking Bad and it still hasn't grabbed me.

Please don't kill me.

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #251 on: April 03, 2014, 01:47:28 AM »
"Is that rhetorical?"
"No. It just seems that way because you can't think of an answer."


The pilot of House isn't anything special, but I do really like this exchange.

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #252 on: May 11, 2014, 08:02:32 PM »
The X-Files: Jose Chung's From Outer Space (ep 320)

Over the last couple months I've been watching the X-Files since I'd only seen an odd assortment of episodes when I was younger. I've thoroughly enjoyed it, to say the least, and I just got to this episode last night and it blew me away. One of the smartest, funniest episodes of television I've ever seen. It plays with perception, memory, and the idea that the Truth is a very subjective thing, while also being laugh-out-loud hilarious. Highlight of the season, and maybe even the series so far.

I can't believe Community never tried to riff on this.

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #253 on: May 11, 2014, 09:09:07 PM »
Just went through the first episodes of Fargo. Incredibly solid. Maybe my joint-favorite show currently airing along with Game of Thrones.

Also caught up with Orphan Black. Tatiana Maslany seriously deserves an award for her work on that show.

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #254 on: May 11, 2014, 10:16:00 PM »
The season finale of Revenge let me down. It pulled the most obvious soap twist. I could read into it and saw it's playing into the theme of how futile revenge is, but that would be giving it way too much credit.

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #255 on: May 11, 2014, 11:14:11 PM »
The X-Files: Jose Chung's From Outer Space (ep 320)

One of the smartest, funniest episodes of television I've ever seen.

Darin Morgan is an amazing writer with too small a body of work. He wrote 5 episodes of The X-Files, culminating in Jose Chung and went on to script 2 episodes of Millennium which are every bit as good. ("Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense'" and "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me") Worth seeking those two episodes out, and I wouldn't worry about having to watch the rest of the series to understand them.

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #256 on: May 12, 2014, 10:26:28 AM »
I looked up Darin Morgan after this and was shocked at how short his list of writing credits is. Season 2's "Humbug" and early Season 3's "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" are also very high on my list of favorite X-Files episodes so far.

I'll check out those Millenium episodes.

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #257 on: May 12, 2014, 10:32:53 AM »
Darin had a reputation for being their genius in residence. He would take forever on a script but when it was done, that was it. No revisions. No rewrites. They never knew when he would hand something in, which is why his scripts are stand-alone adventures.

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #258 on: May 16, 2014, 05:36:08 PM »
Watching some really good TV, but don't have the time to write much, so just using grades for now. Maybe I'll do some write-ups along the way.

Game of Thrones 406: B (A bunch of ho-hum before the big finish. That is not a euphemism.)

Mad Men 705: B (Finally picking up the pace)

Orphan Black 204: A (Best show on TV right now)

Silicon Valley 106: C+ (I really miss Christopher Evan Welch)

The X-Files 401: B+ (Maybe the worst cold open of the series so far, but a strong episode followed)

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #259 on: May 19, 2014, 03:07:25 PM »
Mad Men 706: B (Scatter-shot with many moments that didn't land as heavily as I would have hoped)

Silicon Valley: C+ (Really, really miss Christopher Evan Welch)

The X-Files 402 "Home": B (Surprisingly twisted for network TV but some tonal disconnects kept me from loving it)