Random TV Gossip

**Rutabaga** · Sep 20th, 2010, 07:27:20 PM

I'm going to watch The Event, because I want to see what all the hype is about.

**CMJ** · Sep 21st, 2010, 01:27:32 PM

Lone Star is the first show in several years to hook me. Too bad nobody watched it.

**Yog** · Sep 21st, 2010, 02:42:35 PM

Lone Star seems to be one of those critically acclaimed shows no one heard about.

Ahh... Bill Maher's Real Time back on TV, finally. I loved this season of True Blood. Season 5 premiere of Dexter this upcoming Sunday.

Edit - btw CMJ, one critical acclaimed show I am watching now that you might enjoy is Boardwalk Empire. It is a show on HBO, directed by Scorsese and is about the Prohibition era.

**CMJ** · Sep 21st, 2010, 03:01:21 PM

Yeah, I'm gonna wait for the DVD I guess.

**Rutabaga** · Sep 21st, 2010, 07:23:13 PM

The Event hooked me, I will definitely be back next week to keep watching.

I also watched the first episode of Boardwalk Empire...although I'm not a big fan of organized crime/mafia stuff, I DO like Steve Buscemi. I liked the first episode and will be continuing to watch that as well.

I'm going to watch Raising Hope tonight and Undercovers tomorrow, and I'll give No Ordinary Family a chance when it first airs. Plus Fringe returns Thursday, yay!

After many years of not watching much network TV, I actually have some interest in the fall schedule right now.

And Yog, I'm also happy that Bill Maher is back. He can be a narcisstic jerk sometimes, but I appreciate the intelligent conversation that happens on his show.

**Crusader** · Sep 22nd, 2010, 12:49:44 AM

Castle is back

***Lilaena De'Ville*** · Sep 22nd, 2010, 01:16:41 AM

Boardwalk Empire is awesome, I'm definitely in for the ride on that one.

The Event... was WAY too confusing. Five hundred time leaps backwards in an hour, they told us NOTHING, not even enough to care about what we didn't know - because we know nothing other than the big thing at the end - plane gets portaled somewhere omgz. I'm giving it some more time but they better start explaining/showing things linearly or I'm out. I mean - five minutes of exposition in an hour of show? Ugh.

I caught five minutes of Lone Star, had a great line in it too. "Its a house of cards - you don't get to live in it!" That line alone kinda made me want to watch it.

But, I didn't.

Wanted to see Raising Hope, but my DVR froze up so I'm hoping it'll show up On Demand.

**Rutabaga** · Sep 22nd, 2010, 06:42:24 AM

Raising Hope was SO WRONG, but SO FUNNY! Really tickled my subversive funny bone. Can't wait to see more.

I have to believe that The Event won't do quite so much time-jumping as it goes on...they will very quickly lose viewers if they keep doing it, because so many people have a short attention span. Like my sister, she hates things that jump around too much. She could never get into Lost because of it. It was an interesting way to start presenting things in the pilot, but I agree that they can't sustain it as being the standard way of telling their story.

**CMJ** · Sep 22nd, 2010, 09:43:16 PM

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethe...ase-watch.html

I'm gonna be beyond sad if it's cancelled after 2 freaking weeks.

**Jedi Master Carr** · Sep 23rd, 2010, 08:34:04 PM

I saw the Event it has potential but I will jump off if it doesn't seem to be going anywhere. I am not shocked Lonestar was canceled, it had potential but it was risky. I had no interest but that was just me.

**CMJ** · Sep 23rd, 2010, 09:40:42 PM

It hasn't been canceled yet.

Sorry it's not up your alley Carr - it's really the best pilot I've seen in years.

**Rutabaga** · Sep 24th, 2010, 02:25:17 PM

Undercovers was light frothy fun

***Lilaena De'Ville*** · Sep 24th, 2010, 02:56:20 PM

Undercovers didn't have great ratings.

We haven't watched it yet, its still on the DVR.

**Liam Jinn** · Sep 25th, 2010, 11:38:55 AM

I liked Lonestar. I didn't bother watching The Event, Lost burnt me out on that type of show.

**Rutabaga** · Sep 25th, 2010, 05:54:51 PM

I enjoy puzzles, conundrums, logic pretzels, and time shifts, so I'm intrigued with The Event so far. However, I sincerely hope it doesn't turn out like Flashforward. That show had a really strong pilot and then turned to silly shit pretty fast.

**Jedi Master Carr** · Sep 26th, 2010, 11:02:24 AM

Originally Posted by Rutabaga

I enjoy puzzles, conundrums, logic pretzels, and time shifts, so I'm intrigued with The Event so far. However, I sincerely hope it doesn't turn out like Flashforward. That show had a really strong pilot and then turned to silly shit pretty fast.

Flashfoward actually recovered in its last 6 episodes, unfortunately they lost a lot of people during the middle of that season.

**Rutabaga** · Oct 6th, 2010, 07:47:01 PM

I am quickly becoming bored with The Event. I'll probably try to watch the entire season, but it's already lost a lot of my attention.

**Captain Untouchable** · Oct 8th, 2010, 02:56:09 PM

Stargate Universe just made me cry. *sniff*

If you made it through Season 1 and thought "meh, this isn't for me", give the first couple of episodes of Season 2 a try. Total change of pace, and it looks like everything is on the brink of falling apart.