General Television Thread

[GoGo Yubari]

I can't really respond to your post, Benji, because I think it comes down to straight-up difference of opinion (I think Blaine is a competent performer but a super-boring character). So, noted! I will say that Michelle is a theatre actress and you can really, really tell. She emotes big.

The solution to everything is more Naya Riviera.

Wooooooooooooooord. Naya Rivera saved season 2. She can't work miracles all the time ("I Kissed a Girl" was the absolute low point of season 3, but that's because they focused way too much on what Santana coming out meant to Finn for some fucking reason instead of, uh, her actual girlfriend) but she's still the shit.

[Summers]

Naya. Oh Naya.

[GoGo Yubari]

Also I've watched 3/4ths of season 3 of Friday Night Lights. A big improvement over season 2, though it has a couple of glaring weaknesses (Cash. Oh god, Cash). I sort of feel like they pressed the reset button a bit too hard on season 2 in general;

The only major development that actually carries over is that Jason Street had a kid. The Landry/Tyra reset button stuff felt totally pointless and undid one of the only things that really, really worked in season two. Also Santiago vanishing without a trace was pretty awkward. I mean, I guess his stuff in season two was kinda Blind Side but still.

Still, I liked giving Smash and Jason half-season stretches each where the show dealt with giving them proper endings. Jason's was a little contrived but Scott Porter acted the shit out of it. And just like casting Glenn Morshower as Landry's dad was brilliant, casting Kim Dickens as Matt's mom is pretty great.

[EddieG]

Wait, Lea Michele is good at acting? :lmao:

And I haven't seen Glee, but that statement I find hilarious. (In my opinion. )

[Summers]

Wait, Lea Michele is good at acting? :lmao:

And I haven't seen Glee, but that statement I find hilarious. (In my opinion. )

If you haven't seen Glee then you're basing this statement on, what? New Years Eve? She was fine in that.

[TKz]

It's okay though guys, because he said "in my opinion". Can't argue with that. No matter how stupid the statement is.

In other news, oh man, that Sean Penn guy is awful! I haven't seen any of his films, but that's just my opinion.

[GoGo Yubari]

Clearly Bad Eddie is a huge Spring Awakening purist.

But yes, I like her acting just fine. I think she's very well-cast as the sort of semi-anachronistic obsessive musical theatre kid that Rachel's character is.

[TKz]

I love that she's apparently a theater actress. I mean, I guess that should've been obvious because "lol musical theater" (some of the drama class hate for musical theater kicks back in >_>) but yeah, I don't know how that wasn't more obvious before. Maybe I just pegged it as the show being fairly melodrama and not just her.

[Summers]

The thing I find annoying about her on the show isn't even really her fault. Because she's a theatrically trained singer & actress her miming is very.. I want to say OTT but I don't mean it in a bad way, but it just looks OTT when the studio vocals are put onto the show. It doesn't match up well.

[GoGo Yubari]

Lea Michele's Broadway debut was apparently in 1995. So. Yeah. Looking at her filmography on Wikipedia, basically prior to Glee she was in one movie and maybe a couple of episodes of TV shows, and that definitely means being prone to melodrama and acting big.

[Guest Owned by Quickquid]

Finished Season 2 of Boardwalk Empire a while back. Didn't think it was *that* much better than Season 1, but didn't think Season 1 was *that* bad either. Excited for Season 3. I suppose there'll be a new villain and I'm sure Eli isn't really that in line.

On to Party Down!

[Josh]

Lea Michele's Broadway debut was apparently in 1995. So. Yeah. Looking at her filmography on Wikipedia, basically prior to Glee she was in one movie and maybe a couple of episodes of TV shows, and that definitely means being prone to melodrama and acting big.

Didn't Spring Awakening consume nearly all of her teen years? I thought I heard she was cast in the original musical production on Broadway, but it took several years to develop before it actually debuted.

[Pesci]

On to Party Down!

Party Down is an awesome, underrated show and another one I have EWB to thank for getting me into! Shame it ended when it did.

[GoGo Yubari]

There is a lot of talk about doing a TV movie.

[Baddar]

The Falling Skies finale was pretty awesome. Can't wait for season 3.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Catching up on Hell On Wheels Season 2, just finished episode 3.

Colm Meaney and Christopher Heyerdahl continue to be absolutely awesome as Doc Durant and The Swede. The cold open with The Swede's narration about the country being built on blood was pretty good, and by the end it went in a completely different direction than I thought - I assumed that one (or both) McGuinness brothers would die, but then they attacked the butcher and fed his remains to his pigs. That was brutal.

I liked Timothy V. Murphy as the butcher as well, but I was hoping for more - for the conflict between the butcher and the McGuinnesses to be a subplot for a few episodes, at least.

[Predak]

Lea Michele's Broadway debut was apparently in 1995. So. Yeah. Looking at her filmography on Wikipedia, basically prior to Glee she was in one movie and maybe a couple of episodes of TV shows, and that definitely means being prone to melodrama and acting big.

Didn't Spring Awakening consume nearly all of her teen years? I thought I heard she was cast in the original musical production on Broadway, but it took several years to develop before it actually debuted.

Yeah, she was in the original Broadway cast of Spring Awakening. It's one of my favourite musicals.

[Benji]

Fistful of Paintballs!!

(Community S2 Finale spoilers)

JOSH HOLLOWAY!!

[Benjamin]

That's the season two finale, no?

[GoGo Yubari]

Ayup.