At first, I enjoyed the interplay between Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz and their investigations into gruesome crimes, as well as the the supporting cast, but it all wore thin very quickly.
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It's called "Coming Out," Dave. I just posted/bumped it.
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Ah thanks. I erroneously assumed it was about "Coming Out" . (It's also in MMB, where I rarely go).
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While I still like Tina the person & even as an actress, I have to say that she just isn't really funny at all. She has moments of brilliance--the Sarah Palin parody comes to mind--but overall, she's really only just okay. It doesn't help that she's so predictable in her political leanings and tendency to promote all things 'PC'.
I still like her though; there's no getting around that. But she rarely makes me laugh.
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And I'd much rather watch Fey as the repressed, overthinking nerd on 30 Rock than watch yet another parody on SNL. The latter is definitely one of those things that I used to love and now can't get into at all. Even if I don't actively hate it, for the most part I find it overhyped, padded, and stale.
Maybe I just outgrew parody-related humor as a whole, and I'd rather watch comedy that's a study of how weird and bereft of sense an individual comes across to just about anyone other than herself.
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I can't watch more than five minutes of "30 Rock" at a time. Fey, Baldwin and the rest are so over the top as caricatures I find it hard to believe they represent real people.
For that matter, series television in general is something I used to love (read: was addicted to) but now have virtually zero patience for. Every show seems like every other show of its type (crime show, sitcom, etc.) with sophomoric humor, one-dimensional characters, and story lines that passed their expiration date 30 years ago. Worse, the remote makes it unlikely that I will sit through commercials and remember what I was watching when it's time to flip back.
Dang, it's hard being crotchety and old . . . or great, I'm not sure which.
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Giffen's BWA-HA-HA Justice League. I initially enjoyed the little silly bits that were thrown in. But then the silly bits became the focal point. I got so tired of it that I didn't like it when it was brought back years later as specials. Between this, his later Legion art, and "killing" Karate Kid just because he didn't like the character has really turned me off of everything he does now.
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And I'd much rather watch Fey as the repressed, overthinking nerd on 30 Rock than watch yet another parody on SNL. The latter is definitely one of those things that I used to love and now can't get into at all. Even if I don't actively hate it, for the most part I find it overhyped, padded, and stale.
Maybe I just outgrew parody-related humor as a whole, and I'd rather watch comedy that's a study of how weird and bereft of sense an individual comes across to just about anyone other than herself.
Well, I actually like Liz Lemon, the character, when she's being played as the strait-woman.
When Tina hosts SNL...ugh. The funny is sucked right out of the room.
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Adding to HWW's comments about TV: I used to love cop shows, but I turned cold to them in the last ten years or so. The overexposure of things like the L&O franchise, combined with too much RL exposure to really terrible cops in my own city... well, that kind of killed it for me. As a whole I neither like nor trust the police in day to day life, and I'm pretty fed up with them being held up as heroes constantly in pop entertainment.
If anything, it feels like pop culture marketers are pushing cops as heroes harder and harder, in response to the phenomenon of more "average citizens" becoming distrustful and disenchanted with police conduct. I know that the recent issue of Daredevil had a heartfelt rah-rah from the title character about the glory of protecting and serving the public while in uniform. But having seen the way police behave as a rule in this town, (if they are not supposed "bad apples" they seem unable and disinterested in doing anything but protecting those "bad apples" from taking any responsibility for their actions) it just made me roll my eyes.
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One I've noticed is that the preponderance of cop shows seems to have come at the expense of private detective shows, which seem almost completely absent from the air these days.
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The only great cop show I've seen on TV in years and years was the Shield. And it addresses exactly what Cleome is talking about, and pulls absolutely no punches.
My favorite private detective show was Veronica Mars which unfortunately got cancelled. Incredibly clever and with one of the best leads ever!
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quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: One I've noticed is that the preponderance of cop shows seems to have come at the expense of private detective shows, which seem almost completely absent from the air these days.
what about Cheaters?!?!
seriously though, I was just going to suggest Veronica Mars.
Click Here For A SpoilerI love it in the later episodes where she would tazer people and/or have her adorable pitbull attack people haha!
I was really starting to get into Prime Suspect ... which was a horrible imitation of the british show at first ... then they changed it up and it was more funny and about camaraderie ... and now it's gone.
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the British Prime Suspect ... is so amazing there needs to be a new less used word that means amazing to describe it.
It has a lot of grizzly killings but ... what the show is really about ... is how messed up the cops are ... but not in a sensationalist way ... they're not corrupt, they're just a bit broken by their lives and work.
It is must watching. and Helen Mirren ! yes!
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Yeah, PS was a good show, for that and other reasons.
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