11/26/13
View Logs: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. "The Well"
Directed by Jonathan Frakes. Commander Riker himself.…well, I’ve nothing more to say about that.
11/25/13
View Logs: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. "The Hub"
Been a busy week for me, so you may have noticed that these posts are late. Sorry about that.No more time for sorry, though, we’ve got Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to talk about!
11/24/13
View Logs: Homeland S3 Episode 5
Title: The Yoga PlayIt is both surprising and unfortunate that Homeland has lost me already. During my time away, most of my view log shows have been on my mind. I've been curious on how Stephen Merchant would develop his character in Hello Ladies. I've wondered how bad Dads can really get and checked Variety.com every day hoping to see it get cancelled. I've wondered about Agents of SHIELD and how my guest is doing with it. But the one show that I've consistently forgotten about was Homeland. Which is highly ironic because Homeland was supposed to be the gold standard to all of the shows I've been looking at for this blog. If there is a TV powerhouse in my line up, it should be Homeland. But it's turning out to be quite the opposite.
View Logs: Homeland S3 Episode 4
Episode Title: Game OnOnce Upon a Time... Homeland used to be good... Seriously. Back in the day, oh around early 2012 (The Emmys for 2011), Homeland shocked the TV community by being nominated in place of Dexter. That was a tough year. Game of Thrones was up for it's second season and Breaking Bad just finished it's 4th season (probably the best in my opinion). Homeland surprised further by beating Emmy regulars Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and Boardwalk Empire for the grand prize. That prize was deserved. While Season 1 of Homeland had some occasionally soap opera ridiculousness (the middle episodes of S1 was... weak to put it mildly), the closing episodes more than made up for it. It was a modern retelling of the Manchurian Candidate and it updated it superbly... (which is amusing because Homeland is supposedly a direct remake of Prisoners of War, an Israeli TV show.) Fast forward to 2013 and it's a little sad to see how far Homeland as fallen (although the Emmys apparently seems to still keep giving it nominations...).
11/15/13
View Logs: Hello Ladies S1 Episode 7
Episode Title: The WeddingThere we go. This is more like it. This is more of what I was looking for in this series. The episode wasn't completely predictable like the previous two episodes but we're back to the early episodes 2 or 3 where everything is the cringe worthy moments had to make me pause the video. Some of Stuart's antics are sincerely annoying by now but this time... things are atleast different. He develops and, once again, we see quite a bit more of his past coming out in his character. What really irritated me was actually Christine Woods' character. But there's atleast some development as a result which is something the series didn't do enough in the early episodes when it had seriously painful scenes. But back to Stuart...
View Logs: Hello Ladies S1 Episode 6
Episode Title: Long BeachThis episode baffles me. It sincerely does. Honestly I consider this particular episode the worst so far and likely the worst out of the series (since there's only 8 for S1). So the premise is that Stuart is having some construction work done and he decides to try to befriend the workers... because he's scared of them. Well ok, maybe he's not sincerely scared but he would like to try to "belong" with them to not feel so alienated around them. This reminds me of the episode in The Ricky Gervais Show (sorry I don't remember exactly which one) in which Stephen Merchant talks about being frightened by blue collared workers because of their physical strength. The skit and subsequent talk about that was charming but this episode in Hello Ladies just felt like an overly drawn out version of that Ricky Gervais bit.
View Logs: Hello Ladies S1 Episode 5
Episode Title: Pool PartyI must admit that Hello Ladies is gradually getting a little stale on me. It's starting to become a little too easy to predict the content of each episode. Stuart will come up with a scheme to meet women. It'll work just for a little bit at first but things don't go exactly to Stuart's plan or things aren't moving along fast enough for him. Thus, he tries to force the situation and this makes him super awkward but he's so concentrated on his goal to meet women (specifically hot model women) that he doesn't notice how badly he's screwing up the situation. Then he'll either get flat out rejected or leave out of frustration and find out that things would have turned out far better if he didn't push it.
11/11/13
View Logs: Hello Ladies S1 Episode 4
Episode Title: The DinnerMy jaw dropped within the first 30 seconds of this episode. I... won't be able to do it justice describing it but I need to describe it. Jessica is going out dressing well, Stuart comments on it and asks where she's going. Jessica says she and a few of her actress friends are going out to a gay club because they don't want the hassle of being hit on by men all night. Stuart instantly thinks that he would have no competition at the place and RUSHES TO TAG ALONG.
My. Jaw. Dropped. Stuart... this is a new low point for you.
View Logs: Hello Ladies S1 Episode 3
Episode Title: The DateI'm going to be honest here. I did not enjoy this episode. Now... apparently there's a higher power who is screwing with me... Do you remember in one of my Dads view logs I mentioned how big of a douche Seth Green's character is? (If you don't read my Dads view logs... Seth Green's character is supposed to be this loveable sarcastic snarker but he's really just a douche). Stephen Merchant's character... is a douche... So not only am I irritated by one dick character who is poorly written... I'm also irritated by another in a properly written show... What are the chances that I happen to pick two shows who are, craft wise, totally opposite ends of the quality spectrum but have main characters who irritate me in very similar ways. Ugh... Actually, speaking of quality assessments, as of episode 3 I'm unsure how I'm to judge Hello Ladies. But I'll get to that in a sec... first... I need to explain why this episode was so painful.
11/8/13
View Logs: Dads S1 Episode 7
Episode Title: Foul PlayThis... show... has... no shame. In a very bad way and not in ways the Family Guy writers probably intended...
View Logs: Dads S1 Episode 6
Episode Title: My Dad's Hotter than Your DadI almost can't believe I have to reference Louie again... remember when I talked about that fake sitcom in one of the Louie episodes that makes fun of really horrible sitcoms? The opening to Dads is a sincere example of Louie's fake sitcom. This show just finds new ways to piss me off... I can't believe that after JUST comparing the Louie Season 2 Episode 7 scene to Dads Episode 5... I need to do it again IN THE NEXT EPISODE...
View Logs: Dads S1 Episode 5
Episode Title: Oldfinger"Dads is recorded from a live studio audience"... no... more like a high studio audience. Seriously, only someone on drugs would laugh at jokes this unimaginative. But hey... once again... atleast they are jokes... I'll look forward to the day when this statement will no longer be acceptable. But at the moment... beggers can't be choosers I suppose...
View Logs: Dads S1 Episode 4
Episode Title: Funny GirlYou now... this episode sincerely started out well... Ok it wasn't the best opening I've ever seen for sitcoms but it was alteast competent. I actually got my hopes up that I might not be wishing I was broken while watching this... then the episode went into the 2 minute mark... and the bad jokes came again.
View Logs: Dads S1 Episode 3
Episode Title: Clean on MeI'm going to break character for this one. I didn't think I'd ever have to do it ever. After all despite my harsh criticisms I am doing this to have fun and perhaps blow off some critical steam after a few shows. But this episode... no... this episode is where we get serious because the terribleness of it is so overwhelming that I have to preface my own personal life to this show... Don't worry, I know reviewers shouldn't ramble about themselves I'll keep this short :P
11/7/13
View Logs: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. "FZZT"
"FZZT," huh? That's the same sound my drink made when I opened it at the beginning of the episode. Said drink was some kind of strawberry daiquiri wine-cooler-type-thing, so I was not watching this episode entirely sober, but not technically drunk. Heh, I'm typing a View Log on an episode called FZZT while buzzed. Don't know if that's ironic, and I don't much care! Let's begin!Actually, quick tangent first. So, Cablebox, you thought “Uh… Oh… Ah…” or whatever it was had a stupid name? At least those are sounds that the human mouth makes! I mean, “FZZT”? You might as well name the episode “Pkhkh.”
Um, that’s the sound of a gunshot or something as done by my mouth.
And then typed.
Poorly.
This is completely irrelevant to everything, but I wonder if the blue-with-white-gloves S.H.I.E.L.D. uniforms from the comics will ever appear.
Oh, yeah, the episode. Let's talk about it.
11/6/13
November Status Update
Well... admittedly I'm a little embarrassed. I unfortunately made a few promises I didn't keep. I'm still around, still as motivated as ever. School just piled on a lot of stuff that spilled over into this week but I am FINALLY done and free. My exams went well my projects went well... (actually had to submit a finished video game to some indie festivals so yeah... managing all that was fun...) I've just had to sacrifice literally all my free time to get those results...But yes I am back and I know I have a lot of TV to catch up. But I don't think I've fallen too far behind. I now have a list of stuff I need to watch and a few binge sessions can likely catch me up fairly soon. Sorry again for the long wait, and thank you all those who have stuck around.
I'd also like to give a HUGE thank you to my guest Newt for being so awesome and keeping up with his schedule. I'm ready to take the super negative side again :P
Also... seems my trakt.tv bar broke while I was away... suppose that was apt timing. But this time it's not on my end. Trakt seems to be having some problems with it. I'll hope they sort that out in the near future.
View Logs: Hello Ladies S1 Episode 2
Episode Title: The Limo
I'm starting to get a little worried about Hello Ladies. Now to get this out of the way, I think the writing is still quite great. Stephen Merchant is still wonderful and there's still a lot of character put into these really quick moments. So... what I'm about to say I'm really unsure how to judge. It's either a personal preference or it's something ingrained in the way the writers approached the material. The former can be just shrugged off but the ladder would mean that there's some minor problems in the writing despite the great characters. But I guess I'll just describe my gripe.
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