Not Worth a Thread: TV Edition

[nacho]

Time to get ready for pilot season! io9 covers some of the (horrible!) sci-fi pilots coming up...

http://io9.com/which-new-show-will-rock-your-tv-set-first-impressions-828600560

They all sound EXACTLY THE SAME! Ugh...

I don't know what hurts me the most... turning Tomorrow People into a CW soap opera, or ripping off Starman, Robocop, and Person of Interest in almost one breath.

[Disco Dust]

Have those with WV ties (i.e. Nacho & RC) caught any of the episodes of the new "reality TV" show on the History Channel featuring the modern-day Hatfields and McCoys?

About ten minutes of the pilot was enough to turn me off for good 

[nacho]

Have those with WV ties (i.e. Nacho & RC) caught any of the episodes of the new "reality TV" show on the History Channel featuring the modern-day Hatfields and McCoys?

About ten minutes of the pilot was enough to turn me off for good 

Woah...what's the show?

[RottingCorpse]

[nacho]

Oh...how boring. I always hope someone finally recognizes Jacob Young. Now he could do a reality show out of WVA that'll make your hair curl!

[nacho]

Man...I got hooked on The Newsroom.

And Sorkin broke down the NSA shenanigans a year ago!

(I can't say it around most of the people I associate with, but I do think Snowden's a bit of a hero...)

[nacho]

I could get behind this... Some remakes should be made. Especially when the technology is 40 years out of date. A modern day Westworld could be downright terrifying.

That said, was it the idea that made Westworld or was it Yul Brynner?


HBO has given a pilot commitment to a Westworld series from J.J. Abrams, ad Robot, Jonathan Nolan, Jerry Weintraub and Warner Bros. TV.

Inspired by the 1973 movie from Michael Chrichton, the series as described as “a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin.” The movie, which starred Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin and James Brolin, was about a near-future amusement park where guests could live out fantasies in various worlds, including the western-themed West World, populated by androids. However, a malfunction spreads through the system and the androids begin to kill the guests.

[nacho]

Key and Peele are back this week!

http://www.vulture.com/2013/09/key-and-peele-football-names.html

[monkey!]

Key and Peele are back this week!

http://www.vulture.com/2013/09/key-and-peele-football-names.html

YAY!

[nacho]

Everyone's talking about Fudge.

[nacho]

Wow... The Goldbergs is weird. It's a horrible show that wants to be the Wonder Years. Unwatchable.

Except... The whole 80s nostalgia is so well done, I'm enthralled.

[nacho]

So The Site That Cannot Be Named said Lucky 7 sucked... But it doesn't! Watching it now, and it's pretty fun.

It's nothing groundbreaking, but I'm certainly involved and enjoying it.

[nacho]

When it comes to a trailer for their new season...Archer kind of knows their target audience inside and out.

[nacho]

What's awesome about this list is that they call on Buck Rogers and the still-very-scary episode Space Vampire. And then they go on to mention Dragon's Domain -- which is on the Space: 1999 lunchbox RC got me! I showed it to you, right RC? Great stuff.

And Twin Peaks gets two mentions! As does NewWho. While I agree with mostly everything on the list, I always hate to see The X-Files get the #1 spot. The love for The X-Files is so strange...the show has not aged well at all.



http://io9.com/top-25-scariest-science-fiction-and-fantasy-tv-episodes-1450803057

[RottingCorpse]

Without even looking at the list, "Home" is #1, isn't it?