Recent comments in /f/television

ChesswiththeDevil t1_j69248l wrote

I love that interoffice relationships are included in the morality clause, but corporate ethics vs. profit mandates or not. In other words, it’s really important that you always make the company appear to be moral, but let’s look the other way when it comes to doing the right thing, even if it means affecting profits a little.

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JMCrown t1_j690lox wrote

“One more face lift on this one and she’ll have a beard.”

I aspire to be Patsy.

Sadly, Ab Fab is also responsible for cursing us with the pathetic attempt to recreate an American version, “High Society.” But if you’re not going to commit to well written jokes about drugs and sex then it’s going to be crap.

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StandardBoah OP t1_j6909wv wrote

Im just going with the time frame order as I dislike going backwards and forwards in time all the time, confuses me. Does the order change for each viewer? That might make it a 3/5 for me.

It's fun but I found the plot relied on conveniences a bit too much for my liking. Like the glasses left in the vault and the ex druggie fbi agent being a galaxy brain,

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NathanTheSnake t1_j68zsht wrote

I actually got a time-lock safe on Amazon, specifically to hold my phone during TV/movies, so I wouldn’t be able to dick around on my phone. I set it for the length of the runtime, and then there’s nothing to do but watch TV. The result is that I watch fewer things overall, but enjoy the things I do watch more.

One thing I did learn is that the phone and especially the infinite-scrolling apps are the really addictive part. If you can disrupt that dopamine loop, the rest isn’t as hard to resist as you’d think. There was nothing stopping me from browsing Reddit’s desktop site on my laptop, but I didn’t bother. It’s specifically the hand-held information geyser that destroys my focus, not the mere existence of distractions.

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jogoso2014 t1_j68z1bq wrote

I like it.

I’m about 4 episodes in.

I don’t think the gimmick is as groundbreaking as some are saying.

The episodes are written in such a way that it doesn’t matter that much so far for me.

It’s very episodic and so chronology is not that important. Maybe if the heist itself is included in the randomness which would be kind of baller.

They may do this since I’m not finished.

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wittor t1_j68ymfk wrote

>Even if the quality of the 3 shows will decline if it keeps on getting renewed for more seasons , Fox will never cancel them as they will be their cash cow that will never be cancelled especially that recent adult animated shows that air on FOX are mediocre and forgotten.

I think this is more like the reason people can use it and pass as human. I mean, at least the machine would use proper syntax rules.

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KingEuronIIIGreyjoy t1_j68wymq wrote

I think that's just one of the issues with watching stuff at home. We have those other distractions and there's no penalty to looking at your phone or talking with someone else. In a movie theater, that's not acceptable (or at least it shouldn't be, I see way too many people pulling out their phones and distracting me with the brightness while the movie's playing). James Cameron made a point about that recently; when you see a movie in the theater, you're consciously choosing to give yourself entirely to a piece of art. All of your attention is on the sight and sound of the movie (or again, it should be) for however long it lasts. The home viewing environment is just entirely different.

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SafetyMan35 t1_j68vx47 wrote

Morning news anchors want to present a strong family picture. The core audience after all is stay at home moms. If the cute blonde anchor that you thought was sweet and innocent and had her life together and had a life that was wonderful and happy and the handsome muscular man wearing a perfectly put together suit turned out to both be lying cheating bastards, you would turn away. They broke the image of the perfect family (The Today show was for a long time using the tag line “America’s First Family-TODAY on NBC”).

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