You went out of your way to point out something you perceived as hypocritical with a political undertone out of context and in response to a completely apolitical comment. So yeah, I think that hints at some zealotry. And the second part of your question doesn’t make sense, you just said something bad about democrats (in Hollywood) so I wouldn’t be surprised if you never said a bad thing about republicans in your life. My point is that you’re taking pot shots at one side of the aisle out of the clear blue to make a point and I’m asking you if you’re an equal opportunity sniper taking pot shots at republican hypocrisy. It’s an honest question, maybe you are. Maybe you’re a crusader against hypocrisy and if you were, I’d respect that. I suspect that’s not the case but happy to be wrong.

first, did you find that 'zealous'?

second, why does that matter? let's say i've never said a bad word about a Republican in my life... does that change the validity of what I said?

Still haven't gotten around to the new episode, but really curious to see adult Lottie and whatever tf she is up to.

Season1 is the best. It gets weirder in season2

I like shows like Frazier. I think the writing these days is not intelligent enough; it's like they think we are all stupid . The characters are too over the top; we can't see them as real people anymore. They are also too pretty and perfect so we can't relate to them. Seinfeld for exemple had a diverse cast of really unperfected characters who didn't always do the right thing and that why it was funny.

> You're a love interest and you're not a main cast member? 90% of the time you're doomed to fail.

Every TNG or DS9 episode with a guest star the someone falls hopelessly in love with (with one exception) it's like they get to the episode and "well it was fun later"

Our attention spans have shortened so you can't setup jokes over a page or two. You have to do them rapid fire or you risk losing the audience. That's really hard to do well. I think some of Chuck Lorre's shows have been amazing that way.

A lot of people watch TV while on their phones or laptops, and it's difficult to write for that. You have to over-explain stuff or repeat it because part of the audience wasn't paying attention.

We're a lot more sensitive than we used to be. Somebody has to be the foil in a joke. A lot of people don't want to see people the the victim. (When I fall down a manhole, it's a tragedy. When you do it, it's comedy.)

I think some shows confuse funny with randomness. If you have a proper setup, something random can be funny. Just random, not so much.

We also have less in common with each other than we used to. Ages, economics, beliefs, education, likes/dislikes, etc. One group may find a comedy hilarious while other groups are left scratching their heads. Comedies that attract a broad audience are getting harder to do.

Comedy's also harder than it looks. My two cents.

I cant wait to see what our deranged forest cannibals get up to next. Even with me actively anticipating them going crazy, they still made me cringe with that ending scene in the premiere. And its only going to get worse from there.

I mean I watched it because it was weird and offbeat. But if that's not your thing, this isn't the show for you.

>“Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?” that detailed a woman known as “The Savant,” an investigator whose job is to take down the country’s most violent men before they can carry out large-scale attacks.

are you serious with this shit man?

I forgot just how much I love Christmas Ricci as Misty. She’s so funny

Edit: Wait since when did I write Christmas Ricci lmao? Well that’s embarrassing, but I’m not changing it now.

Dexter: New Blood had the previous streaming record for Showtime.

It was up 110% from the series premiere and up 40% from the S1 finale.

I think it's possible to make a more plot-driven sitcom that's still good. I haven't seen it yet but I've heard The Good Place is like that. But no one seems to want to make the old-school, meandering, slice-of-life sitcoms anymore - even though audiences obviously still crave those shows, since everyone is apparently just rewatching Friends or The Office or Community or whatever over and over again.

The problem won't be solved until the people making TV let more slice-of-life sitcoms be made again, and give them time to build momentum.

I mean, he’s comparing HIMYM to HIMYF, so, it’s a pretty fair comparison.

Older shows had some time to find their footing with the audience to make adjustments. You have to consider relative to the budget if the show is too expensive it could be canned far easier and if the show has star power that could keep it afloat for another season. Today you have to jump out the gate with it being strong in quality and numbers. Seinfeld, Breaking Bad didn't start out with big audience viewership. It had time to grow.

Comedy is another issue, we kind of gone too far and rounded off the edges in comedy that it's perfectly too smooth and safe. Comedy can get dark, absurd, and crude all without having to go over in that Mature rating. It's like a gradient and when comedy doesn't have all the shades of color, we run into problems where now a normal person can tell easily something is off because they can foresee the setup and punch line when they shouldn't mostly. Comedy is still here, it's that TV comedy just got social neutered a little too hard trying to be too mindful of others that it weakened jokes.

I love when a guest star character comes back a season or two later, so the main cast has to be like “hey, remember that person we’ve never mentioned again since the moment their episode ended, we talk about them all the time off screen, right? They’re good friends with us” and you’re like “gee I wonder who’s guest starring this week?”

So did the whole main cast imo, Vince Vaughn in particular. But hard to follow up serial killer story with a routine gangster who wants to go legit..

I love those crazy women!! Can't wait to see Elijah Woods character this season with crazy Misty.

Too many things in this show took me out of the moment. I'm usually really forgiving of unrealistic things in TV shows and like to just stay in the moment. It started with the cop sneaking up on her when she was hiding in the house (since when do cops enter houses quietly). Then many little things bothered me. The killers kept finding them all the time and they never thought they might be being tracked. Even just when he hid in a room and magically knew when the SS guy had walked past. Other SS guys talking about the only escape route right where he was hiding. Etc etc.

Amenadiel is great though lol.

What I don’t understand is why they announce whether someone is a guest star or series regular

People need to get over that none of the showrunners thought Dexter deserved anything approaching an ending that didn't give him back his karma.

:'(

> They just weren't giving any priority to comedy.

Excellent point.

Yeah and I think it's not that modern sitcoms have changed so much, it's that modern audiences have wildly different expectations of what a show is supposed to be.

My mistake, I probably misremebered with disney, disney doesn't have CC. We'll try the CC next for Korean and see if it does the same thing or not.