lol i think thats a pretty good read of the show. i actually think season 1s mythology episodes are the best ones because they’re the most mysterious, the further in you get though the higher the chance a mythology episode will make you roll your eyes. the show really doesnt start to get dumb until like season 7 , and they move to LA so the vibes are all weird, but theres a lot of amazing monster of the week eps. The only truly unwatchable stuff is like the revival, and even then there’s still Morgan and Wong episodes nestled in the shit
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millennium season 1 and 2 are great if you like vampire the masquerade bloodlines though chris carters love of violence against women is rampant in the first season, and season 2 is like literally christian mysticism lance henriksen vs the forces of evil it’s fucking AMAZING. it’s better than xfiles of the same era, probably because the show runners left that writing room for millenniums. and just don’t watch season 3. I beg you
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I watched the 2019 Mad About You “reboot” over the last week, and it was much better than I was led to expect, especially starting somewhere around the midpoint of the season. I’m a longtime fan, so I’m a pretty easy sell, but it really ended up working for me.
Which has also led me to revisiting some old Mad About You, and man, I’m sure there aren’t a ton of fans of it on here, but the show still really hits for me. Those rhythms between Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt are amazing.
One of my biggest disappointments in the revival was that while they got Anne Ramsay back as Lisa, they didn’t do quite enough with her.
Mad About You’s reputation is really kinda interesting, as it’s not remembered as fondly as a lot of its 90s peers, despite being so huge at the time. A lot of the reviews I’ve looked at for the 2019 show refer to it as having been essentially designed as a warm but uninvolving show designed for background noise, which isn’t really how I think people experienced it back in the day, given that it was a pretty good ratings hit at its peak.
Anyway, @Sleazy, are you aware that there’s a guest appearance by Jean Smart, playing the same character she played as the lead in a basically forgotten Peter Tolan-created sitcom (Tolan developed this revival) from 1998, Style & Substance?
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I am aware and it is such an amazing move. Everyone in Hollywood should do this with their OCs
Was fascinated how this show and Roseanne and Will & Grace made their very conclusive finales non-canon to make sense of continuing.
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Marvelous Mrs. Maisel was never anything more than just promising for like three seasons, with moments of decent characterization, dramatic escalation, and a consistent stream of fun zaniness. But season 4 is so awful. I’m pretty sure it will never become really good, like Gilmore Girls regularly was. Not like I totally blame the creators all that much since it must be really difficult to go from developing your plot and characters in a the form of 7 seasons of 28 episodes to just 8 hours for an entire season. But they didn’t take to the challenge gracefully in my opinion.
The season three finale was really as good as it gets, and it was almost good enough for them to call it quits right there.
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I got 6 months of Disney plus courtesy of Verizon and I guess eventually I’ll catch up on all the Star Wars and MCU stuff because I can’t help myself, but the first thing I watched is just an episode of Bonkers. First episode actually goes kinda hard: guest cameos pretty exciting action, good gags.
Real B- Disney afternoon stuff
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I never really liked Mrs. Maisel, found the first two seasons slightly grating but a little interesting and occasionally funny, but by the end of the third season, I was so exhausted with it. I’m all about kinda terrible, unlikable characters being protagonists, but the show seemed to think Maisel was actually, indeed, a marvelous person, and that was just untenable for me (along with other things, but that was the main thrust of my problems).
Tony Shaloub and Marin Hinkle as her parents were a delight, though. I could’ve watched a show just about them.
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tony shaloub and alex borstein’s performances were what got me through the couple seasons that i watched
i spent season 1 wanting to learn more about everyone other than the title character and season 2 thankfully obliged by letting tony shaloub be an absolute weirdo more often. loved the sunrise calisthenics in a form fitting onesie
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fuck yes bonkers
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my exgirlfriend said I should enjoy perry mason because he also doesn’t care about getting his ass kicked
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Hard to say any aspect of this show was underrated but I do feel like we could have talked more about how it made excellent, anachronistic use of the greatest hits of the late 90s/early 2000’s “twilight of alt rock” era, glad to see they’re continuing the trend in this new trailer
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having a fantastic time watching poker face. it’s actually episodic television! lyonne is a great officious weirdo protagonist just like russian doll. it’s less ostentatiously clever than either knives out and just asks one key suspension of disbelief in return
plus the darnielle and hodgman cameos canceled out so the latter was barely annoying
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ive been watching true blood with someone and this show has it all… vampires, inadvisable accents, awful cgi, 
restaurant drama. the whole thing feels like an incredibly clunky metaphor for a lot of things at once and also nothing at all. highly recommend
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the accent work is such a brilliant meta joke in season 1 of true blood
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true blood is the best, I found a fan in ffxiv
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i’d never seen buffy the vampire slayer before voting present to someone else’s rewatch but it really is patient zero, huh
of all of the dialogue “stylists” in the 90s this is what stuck
it’s quaint when they do stock star trek episodes but most of the runtime is maudlin pathos derailed by quips
just saw the episode where buffy gets telepathy and thought about how thoroughly true blood’s rules anticipate recap blogger quips
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Back into Letterkenny after a hiatus and my enjoyment is renewed. The bad jokes they won’t let die are still there but what’s good is still quite amusing.
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trailer park boys’ last season’s finale does a weird transition into animation while they are tripping on mushrooms and then they continue that in the animated series
it is very bizarre and the animated series is not nearly as funny without John Dunsworth
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yeah I almost watched it but I can’t have trailer park boys without lahey
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