Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Those females are strong as hell!tragabigzanda wrote:Now that I'm thinking about it, I can actually see some of Gilmore Girls DNA in Kimmy Schmidt.durdencommatyler wrote:Gilmore Girls is a bonkers show. The tone is outright bizarre most of the time. Not to mention all of the direct references to Twin Peaks and David Lynch and all of the actors who appear on both shows. It's all right there!tragabigzanda wrote:What the hell are you talking about? Outside of an obvious love for diner scenes featuring good coffee and yummy pastries, this sounds like a bunch of crazy talk.durdencommatyler wrote:I'm pretty sure that Twin Peaks and Gilmore Girls take place in the same universe. There's so much genuine connective tissue between them. I won't go so far as to call GG a spin-off. That would absurd. But it has some of TP's blood running in its veins. I wonder if Amy Sherman-Palladino has ever explicitly talked about Twin Peaks as an influence for her show.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Kimmy Schmidt bonkers is way less Twin Peaks bonkers than Gilmore Girls bonkers is, though.
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The writers & studios have a reached a tentative deal.
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Biff Pocoroba wrote:The writers & studios have a reached a tentative deal.
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Have you guys ever noticed that Rob McElhenney looks exactly like Billy Ray Cyrus
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Is it Rob or Billy Ray? There is literally no way to tell.
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How do you people have time to watch so much tv? There's always shows I want to see but don't. And that's just with the network/cable series; I've barely seen any of the streaming only shows.
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I feel the same way.Biff Pocoroba wrote:How do you people have time to watch so much tv? There's always shows I want to see but don't. And that's just with the network/cable series; I've barely seen any of the streaming only shows.
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The New Girl has been renewed for a seventh & final season. It's time.
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I'd love to see NYPD Blue in 16:9 and in HD:
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I'm thrilled by this announcement. I love that they aren't going beyond S7.Biff Pocoroba wrote:The New Girl has been renewed for a seventh & final season. It's time.
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I've been watching Sopranos again. I watched it when it first aired years ago, and after watching it again I have to say it is still one my favorite tv-shows ever. What I've noticed though is that even though the show has violence, it's so much less graphic than in e.g. Game of Thrones or Boardwalk Empire. That's one of the things that turned me off in both of those shows. Why do you have show it in so much detail when someone's skull is cracked etc. I wonder if they've done any studies recently about whether the violence in tv-shows has gotten more graphic over the last decade or so.
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Maybe I getting older but I think graphic violence is up.
Context matters though. The Walking Dead can be graphic but the gooey gore shots of zombie violence doesn't bother me a bit while there's been times I've felt the human/human violence has been much more tense or disturbing.
Context matters though. The Walking Dead can be graphic but the gooey gore shots of zombie violence doesn't bother me a bit while there's been times I've felt the human/human violence has been much more tense or disturbing.
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They should have stopped years ago. That one nosedived hard.durdencommatyler wrote:I'm thrilled by this announcement. I love that they aren't going beyond S7.Biff Pocoroba wrote:The New Girl has been renewed for a seventh & final season. It's time.
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I still think it is funny, although the Jess/Nick dynamic jumped the shark years ago.BurtReynolds wrote:They should have stopped years ago. That one nosedived hard.durdencommatyler wrote:I'm thrilled by this announcement. I love that they aren't going beyond S7.Biff Pocoroba wrote:The New Girl has been renewed for a seventh & final season. It's time.
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I couldn't finish season 5, and I only got through 4 out of obligation. The characters turned into parodies and it started trying so hard to be Friends.E.H. Ruddock wrote:I still think it is funny, although the Jess/Nick dynamic jumped the shark years ago.BurtReynolds wrote:They should have stopped years ago. That one nosedived hard.durdencommatyler wrote:I'm thrilled by this announcement. I love that they aren't going beyond S7.Biff Pocoroba wrote:The New Girl has been renewed for a seventh & final season. It's time.
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It's definitely up. I think it might be peaking though. I think a lot of people are turned off by it, judging from the ratings.Biff Pocoroba wrote:Maybe I getting older but I think graphic violence is up.
Context matters though. The Walking Dead can be graphic but the gooey gore shots of zombie violence doesn't bother me a bit while there's been times I've felt the human/human violence has been much more tense or disturbing.
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