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TheBeardedOne

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Wayward Pines needs to die. Season 2 was awful...so much so that I stopped watching it near the end. I had to force myself to watch it.

The first was nothing special, but it was loads better.
 

firehawk12

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I just found this amusing because I wonder if they just get actors to pose like that because of how the Netflix UI is designed.
 

Fable

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Three episodes into the second season of The Crown and it's once again got me hooked. I was planning on watching Godless but I couldn't resist once I saw it was available. So much tv!
 
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berzeli

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I'm never going to have to update the thread title ever again, I'm a genius.

Also, glad that creeps are finally getting their comeuppance. Long overdue.
 

Danthrax

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When a Penn and Teller rerun gets significantly higher ratings than a new episode of a scripted show.... You gon get cancelled.

I'm actually not so sure. I wouldn't be surprised if Valor got canceled because, yeah, 0.2 is bad. But here are the demo averages for all the CW shows this season:

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So, all the shows from CBS (as opposed to the shows from Warner Bros.) are at the bottom, as per usual. But our two freshman CBS series, Valor and Dynasty, are doing better than Crazy Ex, which makes me think they won't bring back CEG despite its critical acclaim. Especially since Dynasty probably is cheaper (Valor probably isn't, though? Who knows).

Meanwhile, Jane the Virgin is doing better than the other three, but it's getting a little long in the tooth narratively (
she's not a virgin anymore and the man she chose to marry has died
) so I'm not sure that comes back, either.

CW might just bring back the two freshman CBS shows and drop the CBS vet that's run its course and the CBS vet that's doing worse than the freshmen.
 
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berzeli

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Netflix And DreamWorks Animation TV Reveal Six New Series Including 'Trolls', 'She-Ra'
DreamWorks Trolls: The Beat Goes On! (Jan. 19, 2018)

The Netflix original series is an all-new chapter in the endlessly upbeat adventures of the Trolls as Poppy, Branch and all of Troll Village keep the party going in their fantastical forest home. Executive produced by Matthew Beans (Robot Chicken), the series features Skylar Astin (Pitch Perfect) and Amanda Leighton (This Is Us, The Fosters) as the voices of Branch and Poppy with original songs written and produced by Alana Da Fonseca (Pitch Perfect 3). Watch the trailer below.
She-Ra (Premiere date TBA 2018)

The trailblazing girl power icon originally debuted in 1985 to satisfy overwhelming demand for a female lead fantasy series. With Stevenson's unique voice at the helm, fans are in store for an epic and timely tale that celebrates female friendship and empowerment, lead by a warrior princess tailor-made for today.
The Boss Baby: Back in Business (Premiere date TBA 2018)

Boss Baby, with the help of his big brother and partner-in-crime Tim, continues to navigate the cutthroat corporate jungle gym of Baby Corp, while angling to achieve the near-impossible: the work-life balance of a modern career baby. From Emmy-winning executive producer Brandon Sawyer (Penguins of Madagascar).
Harvey Street Kids (Premiere date TBA 2018)

From its never-ending games of kickball to the infinite flavors of its ice cream truck to the greatest climbing tree in the universe, every day on Harvey Street feels like a Saturday. And that's largely thanks to the Harvey Girls – Audrey, Lotta, and Dot – the block's self-appointed guardians and the world's bestest BFFs. They will do whatever it takes to keep Harvey Street the best block to never grow up on and transform every afternoon into a wild adventure. The series comes from executive producer Brendan Hay (Dawn of the Croods, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) and Emmy-winning Aliki Theofilopoulos (Phineas & Ferb, Descendants: Wicked World).
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants (Premiere date TBA 2018)

Based on the epic books by Dav Pilkey, DreamWorks The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants follows the adventures of George Beard and Harold Hutchins, two best friends who've bonded through their love of pranking, comic books and being the thorns in Principal Krupp's side. Their fun gets them mixed up in adventures crazier than their outrageous comic books, which is when they call on their greatest creation: Captain Underpants! The series comes from Peabody Award and Emmy-winning executive producer Peter Hastings (Animaniacs, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness).
Trollhunters (Part 3) and 3 Below (Second installment of Tales of Arcadia Trilogy)

DreamWorks Trollhunters Part 2, from Guillermo del Toro, premieres on Netflix, on Friday, Dec. 15, with a third and final chapter of the Emmy-winning series set to debut in 2018. 3 Below, the second series in the previously announced Tales of Arcadia trilogy, will premiere in late 2018 and feature two royal teenage aliens and their bodyguard who flee a surprise takeover of their home planet by an evil dictator and crash land in Arcadia. Now on the run from intergalactic bounty hunters, they struggle to blend in and adapt to the bizarre world of high school all the while attempting to repair their ship so they can return and defend their home planet. A final chapter, Wizards, is set to debut in 2019.
 

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I'll finally start Godless either this weekend or early next week, just waiting for a few shows I'm watching to have their winter finales so I'm not trying to watch too much at once.
 

luca

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Lady In The Mask: Psychological Thriller in Development at The CW
Lady in the Mask is set in the near future in a time where people can back-up their brains like a computer to a hard-drive. According to the site, the show, "centers on a woman who awakens in the hospital after a suspicious car accident and learns her memory was damaged and restored from a two-year-old 'back-up.' As she tries to return to her seemingly loving husband, high-profile job in her family's tech VC firm, and otherwise normal life, the details about her missing years begin to contradict each other, leading her to believe she's being manipulated by someone close to her, that the accident was no accident, and that she's at the center of a much larger conspiracy…unless she's just losing her mind."
Read more at http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/9...-in-development-at-the-cw#zXf0vAcICd6lZ1xC.99
 

RatskyWatsky

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One show that keeps popping up and ranking highly on a lot of critics' Best of the Year lists is Better Things. I've watched every episode and I just find it to be...fine. It's a perfectly fine show, but inessential in my opinion. Like, there was maybe one really good episode this season (the beach trip one) and the final scene in the finale was oddly transcendent, but it rarely rises above fine for me. I honestly don't get what critics see in that show, especially not what makes them rank it so highly.
 

firehawk12

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One show that keeps popping up and ranking highly on a lot of critics' Best of the Year lists is Better Things. I've watched every episode and I just find it to be...fine. It's a perfectly fine show, but inessential in my opinion. Like, there was maybe one really good episode this season (the beach trip one) and the final scene in the finale was oddly transcendent, but it rarely rises above fine for me. I honestly don't get what critics see in that show, especially not what makes them rank it so highly.
I think it's because there isn't really a show that offers a voice that's even close to the one here, particularly in the sitcom/comedy space.
 

dead souls

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One show that keeps popping up and ranking highly on a lot of critics' Best of the Year lists is Better Things. I've watched every episode and I just find it to be...fine. It's a perfectly fine show, but inessential in my opinion. Like, there was maybe one really good episode this season (the beach trip one) and the final scene in the finale was oddly transcendent, but it rarely rises above fine for me. I honestly don't get what critics see in that show, especially not what makes them rank it so highly.

Better Things is decent, but it's not making my top ten by any means. Television critics are garbage for the most part and it's only getting worse as we get more and more shows being produced. I've been rolling m eyes at many of the lists I've seen so far. Multiple episodes of single shows on top ten episode lists? Give me a break. Shut off Sepinwall's podcast when his hack ass listed Twin Peaks after spending most of the season bitching about it. The fear of admitting the emperor is nude knows no bounds, I guess.
 

Mindwipe

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Oct 25, 2017
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I'm actually not so sure. I wouldn't be surprised if Valor got canceled because, yeah, 0.2 is bad. But here are the demo averages for all the CW shows this season:

So, all the shows from CBS (as opposed to the shows from Warner Bros.) are at the bottom, as per usual. But our two freshman CBS series, Valor and Dynasty, are doing better than Crazy Ex, which makes me think they won't bring back CEG despite its critical acclaim. Especially since Dynasty probably is cheaper (Valor probably isn't, though? Who knows).

Meanwhile, Jane the Virgin is doing better than the other three, but it's getting a little long in the tooth narratively (
she's not a virgin anymore and the man she chose to marry has died
) so I'm not sure that comes back, either.

CW might just bring back the two freshman CBS shows and drop the CBS vet that's run its course and the CBS vet that's doing worse than the freshmen.

CEG has a megabux Netflix international deal that almost cetainly pays the entire production cost of the show and means it costs CW very little to air.

Valor won't sell internationally at all.

Also, there's no justice in the world where more people watch 9JKL that CEG. These people aren't even being waterboarded for crying out loud, but deliberately turning on their televisions when 9JKL is on.
 
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berzeli

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I think HBO is treating us Nordics like guinea pigs again, their new tech platform might be what we just got (or parts of it). They sent out an email about how is is a mandatory update to the Android/iOS app (the old versions won't work any more) and the desktop website got revamped
First impressions:
+The desktop site + mobile app is a lot smoother to browse
+(maybe) I think the video quality is slightly better than the last time I tried the mobile app. Not sure though. Desktop seem about the same
-It still uses Flash on desktop
-The fuck did you do with the UI? I'd like a menu not having to scroll around to find the right category
-Bugs

And as one website here put it, the app before the update had a rating of 1.6/5, after the update (and only counting the new reviews) it stands on a 1.7/5

So... good job HBO?
 
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