CCCToad on 21/9/2011 at 21:21
So my buddy has both Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy on his disk drive.
Which one should I start first?
Queue on 21/9/2011 at 21:51
How can you be sure it's not just some twisted underage porn title: Breaking Bad Sons of Anarchy? You sick bastards.
june gloom on 22/9/2011 at 00:59
what's on YOUR disc drive queue
Scots Taffer on 30/9/2011 at 05:24
Community is back, but not for long I reckon. The death knell has definitely sounded for this show.
For context, I think season 1 was the best as it was consistently hilarious and really spent a lot of time developing the characters, layering them and adding a lot of pathos to their exchanges. The constant riffing on pop culture and TV tropes was part of what made it so smart, but also the writing was just brilliant and there was a nice level of genuine emotion to it. Season 2 had high points way in excess of season 1 (like clip show, abed's christmas breakdown, D&D episode) with maybe the exception of the paintball finale of s1 (a high watermark for the show and its equivalent in s2 was the worst kind of sequel in many ways, bloated and less inventive) but the second season also had way more lows. I think it wasted a lot of time on character development that veered into melodramatic and even ponderous, but worse than that (because that's not necessarily a bad thing) it bore no fruit in future episodes, conveniently forgotten about so they could revert to comic norms again.
Two things pervaded the first episode of this season:
1. Dan Harmon feels the impending cancellation and is embuing the season with a ton of (bitter) referential comedy regarding this, this sort of baggage was carried into the Arrested Development third season but it carried it off much better and fit it within the established framework of the plot
2. We are losing mileage with the comic constructs set up with these characters over two seasons, so we're back to old conflicts (pierce and the group, is jeff the leader, ABED IS KERAZY, Britta is awful, etc) and dragging in standard sit-com norms - let's introduce new faces (GUEST STARS!) as external atagonists to shake things up, ohhh a new dean, air conditioning, security guards and an ex-con teacher who doles out life lessons...
:bored:
I'm keen to see if the situation improves with episode 2 as the first definitely left me underwhelmed.
edit: I will say this though, the table-as-monolith Chimpanzzz's-fuelled dream sequence was a touch of the same genius that used to litter the show.
icemann on 30/9/2011 at 06:23
Up to season 3 of Voyager now. Shows still going strong. The final episode of season 2 was quite good in particular + the episode "Tuvix" which was especially good.
SubJeff on 3/10/2011 at 18:04
One episode that isn't awesome and you write it off Scots? Don't be such a buzzkill.
fett on 4/10/2011 at 03:41
Watching The Wire again and fuck me if it isn't better the second time around. I'm gay for Bunk.
icemann on 4/10/2011 at 06:40
In addition to Voyager I'm currently enjoying the daily "Monster Madness" special going on over at (
http://cinemassacre.com). Monster madness is a Halloween themed month long special that James Rolfe does every October, and generally involves the review of old horror movies. Very enjoyable every year :).
This time round he's reviewing sequels to old horror classics, which this week is focusing on Frankenstein.
Forever420 on 4/10/2011 at 07:31
Quote Posted by fett
Watching The Wire again and fuck me if it isn't better the second time around. I'm gay
LOL-corrected :)
Though Cedric bettter character & acting.
