Season two starts next month

scully > dr. who ****** 100%

is there anyone besides some ******'s agent that really thinks remaking a british miniseries as a US tv show with the same actor just magically transported to america is a good idea?

Gracepoint was pretty good. Definitely in my rotation.

Yeah, I'm gonna keep watching. I didn't recognize Nick Nolte at first.

Mulaney was awful, no idea what they were trying to do. It seemed like a parody of a bad Seinfeld ripoff.

Mulaney seemed quite lazy too. He basically just took apart his standup verbatim and made it into a 30 minute pilot. I would have expected a lot better...I like John Mulaney so much I'll give it two more weeks unless it is so excruciatingly bad my head explodes and I die before then.

Also, I think the laugh track on this show is absolutely terrible. Laughs seem mistimed and overdone. I think there might be a decent show somewhere in there, but it sure isn't present at the surface.

There is no way I would ever watch another show with a laugh track. I can forgive Seinfeld because it's Seinfeld, but that's it.

I have a feeling the laugh track is being used as a joke. It's almost like it wasn't done in front of a live audience (claims it was), and that they just paused for where the laughs would be as a joke on multi-cam sitcoms (and then timed most stuff poorly, with badly executed laughs). This show is made by pretty much an expert sitcom director and editor, so I have to believe it was a meta joke. It seemed too intentional to me. Otherwise, like his stilted "acting", it would just be objectively terrible. So, either this stuff is intended as a troll of the typical sitcom watching audience (oops, none of them watched it), or he's intentionally doing a bad job because he hates it so much.

I also believe there is a show in there, but it's buried really deep. There's enough potential for me to check out other episodes, but I don't have a lot of confidence it will get better.

So nearly all comedies ever made and ever will be made.

Right now, there are a bunch of sitcoms that don't have laugh tracks.

Also I don't recall a single "show built around a comedian" that didn't do the same thing.

Legit is exactly the same thing for example, I recall Louie CK doing the same in his first series which failed, Garfunkel and Oates and I'm sure without looking it up Portlandia has lots of recycled material.

This is incredibly wrong.

I agree they're likely trying somehow to be meta. But ugh, Jesus. It's pretty much a failed SNL sketch.

hahaha, yeah, think of an SNL sketch (I haven't watched that show in over 20 years) with a good look and that's very similar to how it played. Without the stilted lighting it plays really odd for people to be so "off".

I agree completely. It felt almost meta the way the laugh track was executed. I know Mulaney is a big watcher of television and I could see him intentionally want to play with an awkward laugh track. Most of his standup bits were written like he was writing them through the lens of a television watcher. Whatever his reasoning behind the laugh track, it horribly doesn't work.

I expected him to base many episodes around his show, and its clear Jefferies and CK adapted a lot of their material to use in many of their episodes. The difference is the amount of his material he used and the complete lack of adaptation. Certain scenes are literally his act, verbatim, with no tonal differences or even extended adaptation to make it more into a show and less of a bit. Also, in twenty minutes he covered many of his best bits from his one real special that is known. Louis CK and Jim Jefferies have a lot bigger catalogs of material from which to draw their episodes. If Mulaney's next two episodes are similar to this one, he won't have any stories from his standup left to tell. CK devoted a whole episode to a single fart joke. Jefferies has so many stories he would have one episode that would focus on each story. Mulaney just crammed 3 or 4 of his better stories into one episode and basically tried to wrap a bow on it. He is just so talented I expected better.

Apparently nbc picked up his show first, dropped it before airing, and then Fox picked it up and added Martin short. I'm not excusing the egregious use of his stand up but his hand might've been forced by Fox. The show itself was cringeworthy.

The original premise was that he woke up from a blackout drinking night and decided to change his life.

How the hell did that become this? And why would they think that was a good idea?

Original premise seems kind of similar to Are You There, Chelsea? Did NBC really not know what he was planning going in? I'm positive they didn't want a repeat of that show.

I'm sure there was a lot more to it then that. Probably a good amount of the stuff in this version, just with that as a beginning. I really have no idea. But still.

the vampire diaries is back on tonight.

Started last week.

oh wtf

Awesome.

Ramsay's costa del la nightmare is pretty good.
3 eps as of now

There are literally dozens of us!

(The Originals is better atm)