The Inconsistentillies wrote:Big Brother 8 starts this Thursday



I'm not sure why - but I love the show....

Did you see my notes on page 113?

I think John from Cincy is pretty enjoyable, you can really tell that Milch writes it

BigEd76 wrote:

The Inconsistentillies wrote:Big Brother 8 starts this Thursday



I'm not sure why - but I love the show....

Did you see my notes on page 113?

yep - thanks!

the Bill Engvall Show

All TBS original shows are terrible.

I don't know why they even try anymore at this point.

TBS knows funny

mpmcgraw wrote:All TBS original shows are terrible.

I don't know why they even try anymore at this point.

because while both unfunny, My Boys and House of Payne were pretty successful. We'll see about Bill Engvall, but if 5 million black people will watch Payne, I'm sure 5 million white trash southerners will watch Engvall.

are you fucking serious?

i. hate. america.

well yea, thats cable kid. its programming for niche audiences. while you may like something on the history channel or discovery channel, someone else may like a stupid sitcom with repetitive jokes and recycled plots. to each his own.

tbs is quickly establishing itself as a good place for comedy, outside of its own shows. they just got reruns to the office and my name is earl, too.

that's what pisses me off about it, I like a few of the old sitcoms on there (mostly Seinfeld and ELR)

that's great news about the office reruns when will TBS start airing them?

I found my boys entertaining

jemagee wrote:I found my boys entertaining

honestly, that is the single most disgusting thing you have ever said

mpmcgraw wrote:that's what pisses me off about it, I like a few of the old sitcoms on there (mostly Seinfeld and ELR)

that's great news about the office reruns when will TBS start airing them?

cant remember when exactly, i think either this fall or january 2008.

pacino wrote:I think John from Cincy is pretty enjoyable, you can really tell that Milch writes it

It's midly interesting but pales in comparison to Deadwood which was brilliant and shot dead way too soon...

ANyone follow "Big Love", I didn't see the first season but have watched the first few of the second season... while the theme is unorthodox and it focuses on a slice of life from another less seen on TV realm of the country, it's really just 'regular TV', there's nothing particularly different about the characters or dialog if you strip it away from Utah and polygamy.

Philly the Kid wrote:ANyone follow "Big Love", I didn't see the first season but have watched the first few of the second season... while the theme is unorthodox and it focuses on a slice of life from another less seen on TV realm of the country, it's really just 'regular TV', there's nothing particularly different about the characters or dialog if you strip it away from Utah and polygamy.

Yes, if you strip aware two core components of any television show you'll probably not have much...or maybe you just don't get it?

Philly the Kid wrote:ANyone follow "Big Love", I didn't see the first season but have watched the first few of the second season... while the theme is unorthodox and it focuses on a slice of life from another less seen on TV realm of the country, it's really just 'regular TV', there's nothing particularly different about the characters or dialog if you strip it away from Utah and polygamy.

There's nothing "regular TV" about Ginnifer Goodwin and her portrayal of Margene.

Big Love is probably my favorite show right now - maybe it helps to have watched from the beginning. I think they've set up a number of interesting plots and created several vivid characters.

And it does reveal kind of a country within a country - Mormon Utah within the United States - and that's kind of timely due to the Romney candidacy.

BuddyGroom wrote:

Philly the Kid wrote:ANyone follow "Big Love", I didn't see the first season but have watched the first few of the second season... while the theme is unorthodox and it focuses on a slice of life from another less seen on TV realm of the country, it's really just 'regular TV', there's nothing particularly different about the characters or dialog if you strip it away from Utah and polygamy.

There's nothing "regular TV" about Ginnifer Goodwin and her portrayal of Margene.

Big Love is probably my favorite show right now - maybe it helps to have watched from the beginning. I think they've set up a number of interesting plots and created several vivid characters.

And it does reveal kind of a country within a country - Mormon Utah within the United States - and that's kind of timely due to the Romney candidacy.

It's been a great season thus far. I can't believe anyone would think there is "nothing particularly different about the characters". Nearly every character on the show has something that makes them unique, if not flat-out bizarre. From Roman, to Rhonda, to Wanda, to Albie, to Bill's mother, to Nikki....the development of the characters has been awesome. There is rarely a scene in which at least one character doesn't keep you highly interested in the dialogue.

Richard Thon wrote:

BuddyGroom wrote:

Philly the Kid wrote:ANyone follow "Big Love", I didn't see the first season but have watched the first few of the second season... while the theme is unorthodox and it focuses on a slice of life from another less seen on TV realm of the country, it's really just 'regular TV', there's nothing particularly different about the characters or dialog if you strip it away from Utah and polygamy.

There's nothing "regular TV" about Ginnifer Goodwin and her portrayal of Margene.

Big Love is probably my favorite show right now - maybe it helps to have watched from the beginning. I think they've set up a number of interesting plots and created several vivid characters.

And it does reveal kind of a country within a country - Mormon Utah within the United States - and that's kind of timely due to the Romney candidacy.

It's been a great season thus far. I can't believe anyone would think there is "nothing particularly different about the characters". Nearly every character on the show has something that makes them unique, if not flat-out bizarre. From Roman, to Rhonda, to Wanda, to Albie, to Bill's mother, to Nikki....the development of the characters has been awesome. There is rarely a scene in which at least one character doesn't keep you highly interested in the dialogue.

Agreed with everything Thon just said here- I thought last night's episode was particularly good- it had one of those tense, edge of your seat feelings about it- especially when Albie popped out and pull a "lover's lane patrol duty" on Sarah and her 28 year old boyfriend.

SteveJeltzPhanClub wrote:

Richard Thon wrote:

BuddyGroom wrote:

Philly the Kid wrote:ANyone follow "Big Love", I didn't see the first season but have watched the first few of the second season... while the theme is unorthodox and it focuses on a slice of life from another less seen on TV realm of the country, it's really just 'regular TV', there's nothing particularly different about the characters or dialog if you strip it away from Utah and polygamy.

There's nothing "regular TV" about Ginnifer Goodwin and her portrayal of Margene.

Big Love is probably my favorite show right now - maybe it helps to have watched from the beginning. I think they've set up a number of interesting plots and created several vivid characters.

And it does reveal kind of a country within a country - Mormon Utah within the United States - and that's kind of timely due to the Romney candidacy.

It's been a great season thus far. I can't believe anyone would think there is "nothing particularly different about the characters". Nearly every character on the show has something that makes them unique, if not flat-out bizarre. From Roman, to Rhonda, to Wanda, to Albie, to Bill's mother, to Nikki....the development of the characters has been awesome. There is rarely a scene in which at least one character doesn't keep you highly interested in the dialogue.

Agreed with everything Thon just said here- I thought last night's episode was particularly good- it had one of those tense, edge of your seat feelings about it- especially when Albie popped out and pull a "lover's lane patrol duty" on Sarah and her 28 year old boyfriend.

Wow, I had no idea how much support there was for Big Love. I guess to me, it's the whacko bitter mom, the power controlling older guy, the sort of upstanding dad who wants to play it straight but feels he needs 3 wives... to me, when you break it down, it's no more rich or quirky than Desperate Housewives. The 3 wives are all playing their roles, the original wife, the young preciocious innocent, and the troubled needs acceptance wife 2.

Teenagers going through their stuff, parents and kids, money and family, it's really the usual dynamics. I didn't say it stinks. I've enjoyed enough to keep watching, but shows like the Wire, Deadwood and Sopranos, were really breaking some ground... I was really talking about John from Cincy and Big Love in terms of "what does HBO have left?" I don't think those 2 ongoing can comp with the other 3 I mentioned... still compared to most of the pablum on TV like Numbers, Cold Case, JAG stuff like that, well of course, Big Love is way deeper than that stuff... Harry Dean Stanton is cool ....