Television 2014

[TripletDaddy]

Last nights SNL with Louis CK was pretty good. His monologue on religion was funny. He also was in a skit called "Black jeopardy" in which he plays an African American Studies professor from Brigham Young University.

[Omaha 680]

Last nights SNL with Louis CK was pretty good. His monologue on religion was funny. He also was in a skit called "Black jeopardy" in which he plays an African American Studies professor from Brigham Young University.

I recorded it for my wife so she could see the monologue and the skit with the man that had the body of a baby.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Last nights SNL with Louis CK was pretty good. His monologue on religion was funny. He also was in a skit called "Black jeopardy" in which he plays an African American Studies professor from Brigham Young University.

That was funny.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5057305.html

[SCcoug]

Any new series to look forward too this fall? From watching football seems like there is a Hilary Clintonesque Sec of State drama on CBS and a Batman prequel following Detective Gordon on Fox. meh.

[BigPiney]

Any new series to look forward too this fall? From watching football seems like there is a Hilary Clintonesque Sec of State drama on CBS and a Batman prequel following Detective Gordon on Fox. meh.

I use this as my guide. http://www.tvworthwatching.com/FallPreviews2014.aspx

The only shows I am going to even even consider:
How to Get Away with Murder - I will give it 2 episodes to see if it pans out
Gracepoint - This should be good, but everyone should find a way to watch the original (Broadchurch) which is better.
Jane the Virgin - All the critics I have read love this one. It would be the first show I have ever watched on the CW.
black-ish - the only sitcom that even remotely looks worth anyone's time and I am not even sure about that.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Any new series to look forward too this fall? From watching football seems like there is a Hilary Clintonesque Sec of State drama on CBS and a Batman prequel following Detective Gordon on Fox. meh.

Look at metacritic, if the show gets over a 70 cumulative then it is certainly worth a shot. Between 60 and 70 is more lukewarm territory, but it can sometimes get better.

Gotham has a 71. Sleepy Hollow had a 64 and it got better as the season went on.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

BTW, Fargo is coming back for a second season. The first season was great, easily the best new show this year. The season will center around Keith Carradine's character in 1979.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Gotham interests me, but I'm not counting on it being good.

That's the only one that I remember the name of.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

BTW, Fargo is coming back for a second season. The first season was great, easily the best new show this year. The season will center around Keith Carradine's character in 1979.

Was True Detective last year or 14? I liked it more than Fargo, but both were great.

[PaloAltoCougar]

The Roosevelts by Ken Burns was really good, although I wonder if I found it more interesting than would many of the younger crowd here because my parents spoke often of FDR and Eleanor and she was still alive during my childhood. Providing lots of excellent history and historical trivia from the first half of the 20th Century, the series rounded out considerably my understanding and biases/prejudices about what was unquestionably the century's most significant power couple. Whether or not you agree with FDR's politics, he was a much greater leader than any president we've had in many years. Comparing him to our two most recent presidents is almost embarrassing.

[Commando]

Gotham interests me, but I'm not counting on it being good.

That's the only one that I remember the name of.

I am really enjoying this; I was skeptical going in, but now it's going to be a show I watch. Wayyyy better than I would have expected- and worlds more interesting than that Avengers tv show. A series that serves as a prequel to the batman story that picks up in Gotham at the time of the murder of the Waynes and continues along that timeline without skipping ahead. It does introduce the young Bruce Wayne but focuses principally on upstart good-guy detective James Gordon. It's a crime series that stays about as bleak as you'd expect and yet still pops like a comic book adaptation.


Pros: Great casting, great writing, darker than dark, violent, twisted, and all done with beautiful production values. Cons: Some crazy overacting by Jada Pinkett Smith (forgivable I guess since it is technically comic book stuff), and I don't know how I feel about the fact that they, during the series exposition/pilot, manage to shoehorn about every batman character and cliche into the first episode and tie them all to the single thread of the Wayne murders.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I agree I've really liked the first couple of episodes.

[falafel]

Squeaking in just before the refrigerator door closes on 2014, Netflix's next original series Marco Polo launches on Dec. 12.

[Flystripper]

I will be watching

[TripletDaddy]

I will be watching

me too, but with my eyes closed!