Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Mon November 09, 2015 6:55 pm
by nyquillyn
I know everybody loves that final tracking shot of "The Secret Fate of All Life". But I'd probably pick "Seeing Things" (Episode 2) as my favorite episode of True Detective. The visuals, the dialogue, the sense of dread.
"I think about my daughter now, and what she was spared. Sometimes I feel grateful. The doctor said she didn't feel a thing; went straight into a coma. Then, somewhere in that blackness, she slipped off into another deeper kind. Isn't that a beautiful way to go out, painlessly as a happy child? Trouble with dying later is you've already grown up. The damage is done, it's too late."
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Mon November 09, 2015 6:56 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Skitch, what is your favorite Brooklyn Nine-nine episode?
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Mon November 09, 2015 6:58 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Mon November 09, 2015 7:18 pm
by LoathedVermin72
turned2black wrote:I know everybody loves that final tracking shot of "The Secret Fate of All Life". But I'd probably pick "Seeing Things" (Episode 2) as my favorite episode of True Detective. The visuals, the dialogue, the sense of dread.
"I think about my daughter now, and what she was spared. Sometimes I feel grateful. The doctor said she didn't feel a thing; went straight into a coma. Then, somewhere in that blackness, she slipped off into another deeper kind. Isn't that a beautiful way to go out, painlessly as a happy child? Trouble with dying later is you've already grown up. The damage is done, it's too late."
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Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Mon November 09, 2015 11:37 pm
by Dscans
Remember the Seinfeld episode that's told scene by scene in reverse? It begins in India? I remember watching that when it first aired and not liking it, thinking it was too gimmicky. But now, it's probably my favorite episode.
And The Gang Buys a Boat is the best It's Always Sunny.
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Mon November 09, 2015 11:40 pm
by Norah
Dscans wrote:Remember the Seinfeld episode that's told scene by scene in reverse? It begins in India? I remember watching that when it first aired and not liking it, thinking it was too gimmicky. But now, it's probably my favorite episode.
And The Gang Buys a Boat is the best It's Always Sunny.
pfft, email!
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Tue November 10, 2015 12:45 am
by zeb
The episode of Futurama about Fry's dog.
The episode of Black Mirror with the personal memory recorders.
The episode of Parks and Rec when Chris/Ann leave Pawnee.
That episode of True Detective with the long tracking shot is hard to beat.
The last episode of Twin Peaks.
That episode of 30 Rock, I think it's called Milf Island?
Episode 4 of season 1 of The Office (UK) - Freelove Freeway is an undeniable classic.
Those ones stick out for me, I guess. Seinfeld, Breaking Bad, Game Of Thrones, Arrested Development, Curb, Freaks & Geeks...it's really difficult to come up with a definitive favourite. Most of the shows that I love are about moments and scenes rather than compartmentalised stories or episodes.
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Tue November 10, 2015 12:50 am
by zeb
Case in point:
There's a moment in the scene above where Ron thanks Leslie for getting him a job as superintendent of a national park. After seeing the episode I read somewhere that Nick Offerman delivered that line as though he were really saying it to Amy Poehler, thanking her for the amazing opportunity to play Ron Swanson and for everything they'd shared over the course of filming that show. You re-watch that scene and watch his eyes and listen to his voice. It's magic.
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Tue November 10, 2015 1:01 am
by Peeps
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Tue November 10, 2015 1:24 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Tue November 10, 2015 1:25 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Tue November 10, 2015 1:29 am
by Simple Torture
zeb wrote:The episode of Parks and Rec when Chris/Ann leave Pawnee.
I don't even know if I've seen that one. I am wavering between the one where they're trying to find out dirt about each other ("I didn't know I was adopted") or the one where they go to the strip club ("Hello, beautiful"). I think I'll go with the former because it's also the first appearance of Duke Silver.
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Tue November 10, 2015 2:22 am
by E.H. Ruddock
tragabigzanda wrote:
zeb wrote:The episode of Black Mirror with the personal memory recorders.
Absolutely one of the best sci-fi stories I know. Apparently Robert Downey Jr. optioned this episode for a feature film.
Was that the bike merits one? That one and the Prime Minister having to shag the pig were fucking phenominal
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Tue November 10, 2015 3:11 am
by zeb
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
zeb wrote:The episode of Black Mirror with the personal memory recorders.
Absolutely one of the best sci-fi stories I know. Apparently Robert Downey Jr. optioned this episode for a feature film.
Was that the bike merits one? That one and the Prime Minister having to shag the pig were fucking phenominal
No, the one with the guy with the recorder kernel behind his ear. You'd remember it.
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Tue November 10, 2015 3:16 am
by zeb
tragabigzanda wrote:
zeb wrote:The episode of Black Mirror with the personal memory recorders.
Absolutely one of the best sci-fi stories I know. Apparently Robert Downey Jr. optioned this episode for a feature film.
I read that too. Hard to imagine how the story could be improved upon. It's perfect as is, but you could say that about the majority of that series.
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Tue November 10, 2015 3:17 am
by zeb
The episode of Ren & Stimpy where they're trying to snatch the plate of hog jowls cooling on the windowsill.
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Tue November 10, 2015 3:23 am
by zeb
The episode of Adventure Time where Finn meets his father for the first time is terrific but I like the smaller stories like Rattleballs, Princess Cookie and when Finn/Jake break into the Ice King's castle and find all the ninja stuff.
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Tue November 10, 2015 3:37 am
by Simple Torture
Aquateen Hunger Force - "The Shaving" SE02EP19
"The Shaving...The Shaving!"
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Tue November 10, 2015 3:38 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: What are your favorite episodes of television shows?
Posted: Tue November 10, 2015 3:39 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
tragabigzanda wrote:Ooh, another one: the episode of Freaks & Geeks where Jason Seagal tried out to be a drummer and failed miserably.
