Current TV, regardless the year

[Mike Sixel]

I used to be hip like that too. That got old and I moved on.

As I get older, I just an losing interest in sports and tv...I am sure in another twenty years it will change again

[Squirrel]

 

As I get older, I just an losing interest in sports and tv...I am sure in another twenty years it will change again

Yeah ... and that's the age difference between you and Ash so ... you got it about right.

 

I don't watch anything with any regularity anymore. Not even Netflix series or whatnot. And I don't get premium channels so nothing on any of those. The only thing I watched regularly last year and really laughed at it was 'Life in Pieces.' Can't wait for season two. And the way they filmed it was great ... was 3 or 4 little related vignettes. Was just funny. And on all age/life levels. Was good. <shrug> We each have our own.

 

I've watched four pilots so far this new season and nothing has truly grabbed me. I'd say 'The Good Life' was the most ... unique? ... if that, but will likely go to the 'meh' pile next week along with the others. And I might watch the next episode of 'This is Us' mostly because it was rated so well ... I want to really know what it's about. If it's just another episode of presenting unrelated characters full of melodrama ... big pass.

[Mike Sixel]

vikings, game of thrones, dr who......other than that, it depends on what people recommend, or how dang tired I am

 

[Craig Arko]

Superhero stuff. Cuz, escapism.

[nicksaviking]

 

As I get older, I just an losing interest in sports and tv...I am sure in another twenty years it will change again

 

Don't worry, in 20 years the network overlords will have implanted both sensory gratification and mainstream withdrawal chips in your brain so you will crave and feel like you enjoy the poorly written garbage.

[Craig Arko]

Okay, MacGyver lost me when they started captioning things. He picks up a roll of tape they caption 'adhesive.' He picks a lock with a paperclip, they caption 'paperclip.'

 

CBS, you better not f-up Star Trek.

[biggentleben]

Did anyone else watch Pitch? I'm writing up a review on it for CTTP.

[Squirrel]

Did anyone else watch Pitch? I'm writing up a review on it for CTTP.

I wanted to check it out but was busy so will have to do the On Demand thing. Any good?

[biggentleben]

 

I wanted to check it out but was busy so will have to do the On Demand thing. Any good?

 

Plenty of the typical baseball cliches, but in general, I think there's a lot of promise. It's not going to take on the Wire or Breaking Bad, but I do love the tie ins with MLB due to the partnership with Fox, which leads to very realistic scenery of the real PetCo Stadium clubhouse and the field for the game action.

[jimmer]

Designated Survivor was good.

[Squirrel]

Designated Survivor was good.

Guess I missed that, too. This is why I watch little TV. I miss an episode or two then just don't ever catch up.

[jimmer]

 

Guess I missed that, too. This is why I watch little TV. I miss an episode or two then just don't ever catch up.

so far, it's the only new show I will watch again.

[nicksaviking]

so far, it's the only new show I will watch again.

I will too, but I could see that show going off the rails really, really easily.

[biggentleben]

I did put up a review on Pitch today, but it's not exactly in depth analysis on the acting or meter of the piece or anything like that...

 

https://calltothepen.com/2016/09/24/mlb-fox-pair-pitch/

[Vanimal46]

 

Guess I missed that, too. This is why I watch little TV. I miss an episode or two then just don't ever catch up.

DVR and Hulu could help you out! Rarely do I watch TV shows live, unless it's Fargo. 

[jimmer]

Westworld starts tonight.

[jimmer]

 

so far, it's the only new show I will watch again.

I had to adjust my statement.  Along with Designated Survivor, I'm enjoying Lethal Weapon a lot.  Not only is the comedy good, but the serious parts are also very good.  A person can really feel the pain Riggs has when he thinks about his deceased wife and Murtaugh's serious moments, also very good.  It's a well done show.

[Squirrel]

I saw a couple of new shows recently. Modern takes on 'Time Tunnel' ... sort of. Not sure I'll keep up with them, but the pilots were semi-interesting. One was called 'Timeless' and the other 'Frequency.'

[jimmer]

 

I saw a couple of new shows recently. Modern takes on 'Time Tunnel' ... sort of. Not sure I'll keep up with them, but the pilots were semi-interesting. One was called 'Timeless' and the other 'Frequency.'

I saw Timeless.  I'll give it another look.

[PseudoSABR]

 

Westworld starts tonight.

I enjoyed it. The story worries me in that it may turn into a Lost like mystery of convulsion and predictability, but the acting is top notch, really. 

[Mike Sixel]

Wait, timeless was good? The unending previews looked so bad and predictable....

 

And Lethal Weapon? I would not have guessed that in a million years.

 

Huh. Well, if I do start watching more tv, at least I apparently have some options.

[Vanimal46]

It appears the shows that I'll be sticking with this fall are Modern Family, Designated Survivor, and The Good Place. 

[Squirrel]

 

Wait, timeless was good? The unending previews looked so bad and predictable....

 

And Lethal Weapon? I would not have guessed that in a million years.

 

Huh. Well, if I do start watching more tv, at least I apparently have some options.

I didn't say it was good ... said it was interesting, but we'll see. I'm not really sure of either one of the 'time travel' shows, how it will work. Well, 'Timeless' is time travel ... good guys chasing bad guys through history as the bad guys try to change it and the good guys try to preserve it. But in the process of preserving it, it ends up changing a little so the good guy travelers come back to a slightly altered future. After one episode, not sure how altered or how, why ... if it's everything or just their own personal histories that get altered.

 

'Frequency' isn't really time travel, but the lead character living in the present somehow can talk to her father in the past on this ham radio. (Yeah, I know, contrived, they both are ... ) They are both cops ... he got killed in the past, on the job, while undercover and was labeled a dirty cop. She somehow talks to him in the past just days before he gets killed and she tells him how as she unearths some buried information on it. So, as you would expect, he manages not to get killed. Then you see a montage of her memories changing because her past changed as well as her present is now different. And she remembers both pasts. But then in her new past, her mother disappears; in her present they discover her body. So, the first episode ends where she finds her past self (before her mom disappears) on the ham radio and tells her to get the ham radio to her father, who is recovering in the hospital after not getting killed. Her father knows that he's somehow talking to his daughter in the future. Anyway ... not very good synopses, I don't make them sound at all interesting, but ... at the time I watched they held my interest. But as i said, I wouldn't yet call them 'good.' But interesting enough I'll likely tune in. If I remember when and what network they were on.

 

And I hadn't even heard of them ... they just happened to be on while i was home channel surfing.

[ashbury]

I'm sticking with the reality shows that MSNBC runs in prime-time. Scary and hilarious at the same time!

[Squirrel]

 

I'm sticking with the reality shows that MSNBC runs in prime-time. Scary and hilarious at the same time!

I like Rachel Maddow for that.

[nicksaviking]

 

I saw a couple of new shows recently. Modern takes on 'Time Tunnel' ... sort of. Not sure I'll keep up with them, but the pilots were semi-interesting. One was called 'Timeless' and the other 'Frequency.'

 

Timeless is the one where the heroes include a woman and an African American going back in time and trying to fix things?

 

I think the modern day scientists in charge of of sending people back in time probably should have taken a social studies class or two to see if those would be two of the best choices for a discreet mission....

[ashbury]

Timeless is the one where the heroes include a woman and an African American going back in time and trying to fix things?

Going only by the web page for the show, it looks like they have a regular white guy with them, to make sure they don't try to marry each other or nothin'.

[jimmer]

 

Timeless is the one where the heroes include a woman and an African American going back in time and trying to fix things?

 

I think the modern day scientists in charge of of sending people back in time probably should have taken a social studies class or two to see if those would be two of the best choices for a discreet mission....

The woman is supposedly the best historian there is and the African American guy is the tech guy who helped build the machine so he knows how to work it.

[jimmer]

 

Going only by the web page for the show, it looks like they have a regular white guy with them, to make sure they don't try to marry each other or nothin'.

The special forces guy.

[Squirrel]

Timeless is the one where the heroes include a woman and an African American going back in time and trying to fix things?

 

I think the modern day scientists in charge of of sending people back in time probably should have taken a social studies class or two to see if those would be two of the best choices for a discreet mission....

Lol, I didn't even really think about it although the issue did arise in that first episode. But as jimmer said there were reasons why it was them.