LetMeSleep wrote:2 Eps are out for S2. I'll just watch them next week.
It's on a similar plane to The Good Place. I think I prefer Miracle Workers though.
Season 2 isn’t half as good as S1.
you make me sad.
I shall still watch...whenever.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Fri February 21, 2020 4:30 pm
by LetMeSleep
bune wrote:
LetMeSleep wrote:
LetMeSleep wrote:2 Eps are out for S2. I'll just watch them next week.
It's on a similar plane to The Good Place. I think I prefer Miracle Workers though.
Season 2 isn’t half as good as S1.
you make me sad.
I shall still watch...whenever.
Not as sad as the bloody 4 eps have been. It could be setting up for some pay off but I can't see it.
And the last 2 S1 Corporate eps sucked too. I hope S2 becomes available soon here.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Fri February 21, 2020 4:39 pm
by bune
last two? but the penultimate episode is the one where God visits his family and that had me in stitches.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Fri February 21, 2020 4:40 pm
by LetMeSleep
no not Miracle Workers.
The show Corporate. S1 has been really good until the last 2 eps.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Fri February 21, 2020 5:23 pm
by bune
AH. see, season 1 was kinda corporate hence the confusion.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sat February 22, 2020 2:17 am
by Strat
WTF?
It’s official: The cast of Friends is reuniting for a one-off unscripted special on HBO Max. Consider it “The One Where They Get Back Together”.
Rumors of a reunion special started simmering in November, but The Hollywood Reporter has now confirmed that the core cast of the beloved series — that’s Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer — is set to return for the limited special. The TV show’s creators, David Crane and Marta Kauffman, are also expected to participate.
The reunion special is set to be filmed in Burbank on Stage 24 of the Warner Bros. Studio lot. If the location sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the same place where the entirety of Friends was shot during its 10-season run from 1994 through 2004.
The reconvening of all six principal cast members didn’t come cheaply, as each actor stands to earn “more than double their former per-episode fee for the reunion and be paid between $2.5 million and $3 million for the special,” per The Hollywood Reporter. If you’ll recall, amidst their original on-air run, the cast famously renegotiated their contracts to receive then-historic salaries ($1 million per episode).
“Guess you could call this the one where they all got back together — we are reuniting with David, Jennifer, Courteney, Matt, Lisa, and Matthew for an HBO Max special that will be programmed alongside the entire Friends library,” Kevin Reilly, chief content officer at HBO Max and president, TBS, TNT and truTV, noted in a statement. “I became aware of Friends when it was in the very early stages of development and then had the opportunity to work on the series many years later and have delighted in seeing it catch on with viewers generation after generation. It taps into an era when friends — and audiences — gathered together in real time and we think this reunion special will capture that spirit, uniting original and new fans.”
The Friends reunion special will debut on HBO Max when the streaming platform officially launches sometime in May. All 236 past episodes of Friends will also be available on HBO Max, following the series’ departure from Netflix late last year.
Below, find the official Friends reunion announcement that was posted by all six cast members.
unscripted? So are they all just hanging out and talking about the show?
Dumb.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sat April 11, 2020 3:18 am
by BurtReynolds
i think about this clip a lot
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun April 26, 2020 5:35 am
by Biff Pocoroba
Favorite YouTube talk show clips:
Jon Stewart interviewing stand up friends, especially Louis CK & Denis Leary.
SNL alumni riffing together and telling stories.
Realization: Norm McDonald is a great talk show guest. No one does No Fucks Given better; his material isn't necessarily great but no on has better delivery or pausing.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun April 26, 2020 10:24 am
by wease
That clip of Norm on Conan with Courtney Thorne-Smith is one of the funniest things ever.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun April 26, 2020 8:46 pm
by Jorge
Foghorn Leghorn is an underrated Looney Tunes character
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun April 26, 2020 9:31 pm
by wease
theplatypus wrote:Foghorn Leghorn is an underrated Looney Tunes character
You’re absolutely correct.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun April 26, 2020 10:19 pm
by bada
wease wrote:That clip of Norm on Conan with Courtney Thorne-Smith is one of the funniest things ever.
I went down the Norm YouTube rabbit hole a few months back and remember that appearance. Hilarious.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon April 27, 2020 1:50 pm
by wease
bada wrote:
wease wrote:That clip of Norm on Conan with Courtney Thorne-Smith is one of the funniest things ever.
I went down the Norm YouTube rabbit hole a few months back and remember that appearance. Hilarious.
I do that every few months. That's appearance has got to be Top 3. If not Number One. He's just on fire the whole time and then that very last crack is sheer perfection.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon April 27, 2020 2:17 pm
by epilogue
theplatypus wrote:Foghorn Leghorn is an underrated Looney Tunes character
He's my dad's favorite.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon April 27, 2020 2:47 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: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon April 27, 2020 2:55 pm
by Monkey_Driven
tragabigzanda wrote:The number of shows I feel are must-see doesn’t seem to be getting any bigger lately. Have we peaked already?
We peaked years ago.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon April 27, 2020 2:58 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:The number of shows I feel are must-see doesn’t seem to be getting any bigger lately. Have we peaked already?
Absolutely not. We're just too spread out and we all consume on different schedules. The term "must-see" has shifted. And the lack of weekly event TV and a place to discuss it with people who are actually watching it in real time is probably the biggest reason you're feeling what you're feeling.
For example, Devs is absolutely "must-see". But it's FX on Hulu (and I'll be honest, I don't know if that means it's on both or just on Hulu; I watched on Hulu and don't have FX). Because not everyone has either of those options and because it aired mostly during a time when people couldn't get together to talk about it, it fell through the cracks. People aren't talking about it as must-see. Because a lot of people didn't see it.
The quality is still there and I would argue growing.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon April 27, 2020 3:15 pm
by oasisfan35
tragabigzanda wrote:The number of shows I feel are must-see doesn’t seem to be getting any bigger lately. Have we peaked already?
The curve has flattened.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon April 27, 2020 3:26 pm
by Monkey_Driven
Quality shows still exist, but it is just exhausting to wade through all the mediocrity and to manage subscriptions.
Re: Post Random T.V.-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon April 27, 2020 4:38 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.