WS TV Log Discussion Thread

[Chris]

Just finished rewatching S07E09 of Agents of SHIELD and it's up there with my favorites of the whole show, that speech by Enoch at the end was just beautiful

Also finished Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood for the second time, this time watching subbed and I also watched the 4 short films that I didn't know existed the first time too. Fucking amazing, probably my favorite anime ever still with my small sample size to choose from.

 

[Chris]

And I'm done with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D...again Well that was my first actual rewatch of the last two seasons since they aired live outside of a few episodes I rewatched the week they came out lol don't think any show ever gonna make me so emotional again

 

[Zany Clowny]

One liners, cliff hangers, cop worship, absurd technological leaps like a cross referencing database for butterfly wings in the state of Florida - CSI: Miami is nobody's idea of high art. I always thought it was pretty to look at, though. How odd is it that Miami was revived after a 90s pop cultural lull, both in the present and nostalgia for the past? GTA: Vice City made the music cool again and attached it to a stylized, neon soaked backdrop.

Is time moving so quickly that we're ready for 2000s Miami nostalgia? Digital cameras, cranked saturation oranges and cyan blue, Dwyane Wade, Shottas, Miami Vice (2006), Rick Ross music videos, Driv3r...an intersection that some artist will inevitably decode.

The first episode shows how complicated nostalgia for the 2000s is, how contemporary culture was shaped and formed by reactions to reactions to reactions. A disconnected Floridian equivalent of a bayou is the opening shot, and a poorly rendered CGI plane viscerally crashes into the background, smoke plumes and the dramatic music cues. The pilot episode aired in 2002, how do we ensure that our spin off is a success? To recreate, relive and reexperience 9/11 again. Call it the Jack Bauer method.

With 24 and Bauer, the show is undeniably more akin to our lives today when stripped down to the studs: Always on the move, cellphones and gadgets attached to the hip, real time mattering more than the past and the future, either keep up or be swallowed up by moving parts. It was easily the most popular American show of the mid oughts, yet it's an afterthought to zoomers who cling to shows that less represent the logistics of their characters worlds, but the perspectives of the people - Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire.

First responders and police officers portrayed in black and white as heroes who prevent the subway you commute to work with from blowing up almost reads as parody, but it was at one point the consensus in entertainment and mainstream politics. Families huddled around the television, watching the good guys torture brown people or shoot housewives above the knee cap to protect freedom. CSI: Miami having the same casting demographics of a daytime soap opera in Ireland is another hurdle to jump with younger viewers.

With how time continues to accelerate, as does degradation, CSI: Miami was eaten by the same cancer that consumed the Simpsons, taking the two or three traits of the show that are unique and adding about seven layers of hyperbole to it. The first season watched concurrently will give the impression that the origjnal creators left the show or died, it's much more grounded, without the constant explosive action and cringe inducing dialogue. It honestly reminded me of a CSI equivalent of Burn Notice at times.

Give the first season a second chance and proceed with caution from there. No guidebook, vaporwave album or t-shirt prepare you to take in this side of the 2000s, which makes it fascinating to watch. I wonder how Alias has aged?

 

[Marty McFourth]

CSI Miami is amazing. Of course everybody remembers the incredible opening as it has huge meme potential, but it was by far the best CSI to me. I loved David Caruso in the main role.

 

[Zany Clowny]

I can't believe I typed all that horseshit without mentioning that damn YEAAAH meme. Those jokes were ubiquitous at the time and now they're an artifact. Again, just goes to show you how much of a vortex that 2002-2008 period was, how much got sucked down the memory hole.

I don't know if it's the best CSI, the original is probably objectively better written for its time, but CSI: Miami is easily the most fun to watch, and at the time was a palette cleanser for the dreary New York styled cop shows that you couldn't avoid. Most of them other spinoffs lol.

Spoiler: YEAHHHHH

 

[Apoho Creed]

I've never been more pissed with a Season Finale than I am with the CW Network and it's Owners. Charmed was one of the Shows Cancelled recently and I can get it after the Ratings was dropping since Season 1 but the ending really CW. The Show ends with this Universe of Charmed ones saving the help with the help of past Charmed ones sacrificing their lives and after all that chaos they arrive in a different Universe. You may ask what Universe is that it's the House of the Charmed ones of the 90s...and it's the actual House with the same Doors and everything. Multiverse was going to be introduced with the possibility of the 90s cast returning and that is clearly not on the Table anymore.

 

[Marty McFourth]

Finished Sweet Home today. Easily one of the best horror shows I've watched in ages, couldn't stop watching the next episode so binged it all like a maniac. I'd highly recommend it, it's super high quality. Especially the writing and the characters, they are so fleshed out. Thought the visuals were kick ass too.

 

[Y2Jayne]

Season 5 of Ray Donovan was amazing. Definitely one of my favorite moments of television. Top notch writing and very emotional episodes. I just wish the show had avoided that annoying cliché of characters seeing hallucinations of their loved ones after they die.

 

[Y2Jayne]

I tried Bob' Burgers as some people recommended it. I'm two episodes in and I think it's average so far. It might pick up after a few more though so I'll keep watching. I really like the voice actor for Bob but he will always be Archer in my head so it's weird to have that voice on that kind of character.

I also tried Schitt's Creek, and I am a bit puzzled by this show. It feels extremely light when it comes to tone, jokes aren't too crude, situations are almost childish, and then out of nowhere they drop an F bomb.

 

[Marty McFourth]

Been watching this British show called Liar, it's really good. I think it might have aired on ITV over here initially but I'm watching it on Netflix. Paced really well and quite the tense watch. Joanne Froggatt is amazing honestly, she's always been a really quality actress in anything I've seen her in. Ioan Gruffudd is also excellent, a lot of really neat twists & turns. Very good characters and writing. I'm on Season 2 and it's honestly just as great as the first season was

 

[Y2Jayne]

Disney is working on an Eragon series

 

[Y2Jayne]

Finished Schitt's Creek. It started off very slowly, got interesting by season 2 and after a couple of seasons it kind of lost its way and it was just... there.
Reminds me a lot of The Big Bang Theory getting stale and missing its own point when all the guys got a girlfriend.

I loved the cast though, most characters were very likeable.

 

[Chris]

So I'm watching season 5 of The Twilight Zone and I noticed the episode order on Paramount+ was off from the air date....this is why

"Probe 7, Over and Out" was intended to air a week after the premiere of "Night Call," which was scheduled for Friday, November 22, 1963[1] — the previous episode, "Uncle Simon," having aired a week earlier on November 15. Hours before "Night Call" was to air though, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Thus it was rescheduled, as were all of the other network shows. As a result, "Probe 7, Over and Out" immediately follows "Uncle Simon" in original broadcast order. "Night Call" was eventually broadcast on February 7, 1964.

 

[Marty McFourth]

Got Netflix again so good chance I'll be catching up on some shows, what's everybody watching? I could do some with some suggestions. I was thinking The Sandman to start out as it was on my radar, reviews were looking pretty positive too

 

[Deezy]