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mike d
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I've said this before. If you want to end your marriage, ruin your life, wind up in jail or die young then get yourself onto a reality TV show.

What was the running meta gag on 'Community'? Six seasons and a movie! Most of our favorite TV shows should have never gone past 6 seasons. X-Files, Lost, Big Bang Theory, etc etc. There's no shame in ending a series when the time comes to end it. There is shame in trying to milk it, going to one last craven cash grab

I got the impression the 2015 CW series 'Containment' was meant to run 18 episodes then end (Unfortunately, they only got to 13 so the story arc kind'a fizzled at the end). In the old days networks would either do reruns, run 'blockbuster' films or churn out made-for-TV movies to fill time slots. Nobody does that

I recall the AV Club reviewer got frustrated with No Tomorrow because it wasn't properly following standard rom-com tropes. If you see the romance as NOT the central engine driving the storyline then the show makes more sense. its not really just about pretty people making bad mating choices.

CxGF appears to be popular overseas and on Netflix. It was listed somewhere as the most Netflix-streamed series in California, NY and two other populous states (who cares what Wyoming watches?). It just started streaming in France. There's a podcast series covering the show where the uber-fan who runs the podcast

In defense of 'No Tomorrow', the story had been stretched as far as it could go. Everything that was going to get resolved got resolved. It had been adapted from a 9 episode Brazilian TV series. The ending (spoiler alert) not knowing if the asteroid will hit the earth emphasized the point they were making about

This reminds me of a story of a guy who went into a bar and complained that Fox News was on the screen. The bartender said Fox pays the bar owners to run it 24/7, there's no way to turn the station and no other channels that they can switch to.

If you count from the beginning of HOUSE to the end of this season that's thirteen straight years in on TV.

I recall Loore did something similar some months back and the fringe right went bat guano crazy, started spamming entertainment discussion groups calling for boycotts. The big bad right wing is awfully thin skinned.

The episode we're discussing was pretty great, actually.

It was never about the murderer. It was about how the characters reacted to the murder.

An AV Club reviewer said she was 'traumatized' by the Grundy affair. Dexter was a show about a serial killer killing serial killers, But the reviewer was traumatized by Archie & Grundy.

Stories centered around Washington and the presidency in particular I just cannot watch anymore. Scandal is nearing the end of its 6th season. 2012 seems like a lifetime ago. I have the same reaction to 'Designated Survivor' and also to 'BrainDead' last year. I'm reminded of the time travel series 'Seven Days' from

The show is deliberately and ostentatiously over-the-top. Its an absurdist melodrama. Complaining about overacting in this show is like complaining about characters bursting into song during a musical.

Thumbs up for the DeLorean reference.

This is a TV show with a TV budget. Not some 2 hr film that cost 200 million dollars to make. Chances are this is going to look less like 'Dr Strange' and more like 'Stargate Atlantis'.

I can't believe you waited five years for this either.

Most 'suggestions' most of the time would have the effect of flattening the show. People have suggested that Archie be given an 'edge' while also suggesting everyone around him tone down their performances and act naturally. Plus they want Jughead to be happy. I think Vulture ran an article suggesting Archie Betty and

Blossom dad even sported a red Archie haircut.

Another point. All season there was the question about WHY Jason would be so desperate to get out of the house that he'd go so far as to fake his own drowning death. Well, daddy catching him then shooting him in the head kind'a answered that question. Alice or Moose or Reggie being the killer would not have explained