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30 Day TV Challenge
This was another one that immediately sprang to mind. Although I couldn’t settle on one episode so I’ve gone for two…
Futurama
Yancy Fry in Luck of the Fryish (Season 3 Episode 4)
Seymour in Jurassic Bark (Season 4 Episode 7)
I think it speaks volumes about both me and the quality of writing in this show that it’s a cartoon I’ve picked for this category. I couldn’t decide on which was the saddest because they are both pretty sad. I haven’t really got anything else to add to this.
If you haven’t seen either episode – you really should as they are amazing and very emotional.
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30 Day TV Challenge
I’m currently sat rewatching this through as James (HELLO) has never seen it properly and in order so it seems fair and somehow I haven’t mentioned it in this yet…
The Office (US)
The Office (US) is great. I was a bit apprehensive about watching it as I love The Office (UK) and wasn’t sure what to expect with this one. I watched the first season and it was okay, it was basically a remake of the UK version which was weird. After that though, the show found its own feet and went a different way to the UK one. And it’s all the better for it. Well, it was. The last few seasons haven’t been great but seasons 2-4 are fantastic.
We’re currently midway through season five which is still pretty good.
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30 Day TV Challenge
I can’t really think of a good pilot episode and all the shows I do watch, I watched the pilots ages ago. The only one I could think of that’s fairly recent is this:
Modern Family
Modern Family is pretty good. It’s solid and consistent and whilst it can be a little over sentimental at times, it’s still really watchable and entertaining. The first episode was really strong and had one or two properly great moments and the episode culminates in a brilliant ending which made me do a laugh in real life which I rarely do when watching TV alone.
Plus, Phil is an excellent character and Haley (it’s okay, I checked and she’s definitely legal, 19 when it first started so I’m not a paedo…) and Gloria are great eye candy.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBS
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30 Day TV Challenge
This was an absolute no brainer, Flash Forward’s ending was bullshit but that’s because the whole show was fucking toilet, this one was probably the biggest letdown to the ending of anything ever.
Lost
I don’t really want to write much on this because of how infuriatingly bad it was. The whole show spent seasons and seasons building up so many mysteries and questions that you’d expect they’d answer at least a few of them but instead they give it the most contrived and limp ending ever. SPOILER ALERT: They were all dead.
What a load of cop-out bollocks.
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30 Day TV Challenge
I was going to say Six Feet Under or Game of Thrones here but I’d have to download both of those and James (HELLO) has the following show on DVD so I’ll just steal it from him.
Sons of Anarchy
I’ve been meaning to watch this show for ages but just never got round to it. I’m almost certainly going to like it but I’m not expecting it to be the best thing in the world. Henry Rollins is in it as some Neo Nazi nutcase or something which sounds awesome (not the racism, just Rollins being a nutcase). And an English guy from Queer As Folk is in it too. So is Ron Perlman being Ron Perlman.
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30 Day TV Challenge
This was a no brainer. It’s too difficult to pick just one, so I’m cheating.
The Office (UK)
This is probably littered with loads of excellent quotes, enjoy:
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30 Day TV Challenge
I don’t know if it’s massively sexist of me or I just hate women in general but all of the contenders for this category were female. Carla from Scrubs, Angela from The Office and Walt’s wife from Breaking Bad (she’s so annoying I can’t think of her name) were up there but I plumped for this one…
Sophie from Peep Show
Peep Show is excellent. We all know that and if you don’t, then you’re an idiot. The show follows Mark and Jeremy (The El Dude Brothers), two dysfunctional late 20/early 30 year old blokes that live together in London. It’s worrying that the two are both pretty socially inept yet there are regular occasions when you can relate to them exactly.
Anyway, Sophie is a love interest of Mark and is just a general irritant. Mark initially falls for her but then soon comes to realise he doesn’t actually like her much at all the longer he gets to know her and out of sense of politeness and lack of balls, even ends up marrying her (which is one of the most awkward things ever). She basically just acts like a bit of a woman (OH I WENT THERE) and she isn’t even that hot (SEXIST HEDGES STRIKES AGAIN).
But yeah, annoying character.
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30 Day TV Challenge
This immediately sprung to mind and in fairness it could’ve taken a lot of the categories here but I actually started watching it half way through this year so can’t retrospectively go back and add it in, plus, I’m trying to pick a different show for each day (as I mention every time I post one of these).
The Wire
The Wire is brilliant. And anyone that isn’t a moron has seen it and discussed just how brilliant and amazing it is to death. It’s almost like a rite of passage for people that like good TV it seems. This and The Wire are ranked so highly. I was a bit apprehensive when I first started watching because I had such high expectations and was expecting to be disappointed.
I needn’t have been because it’s just so fucking GOOD. It doesn’t pander to the audience and dumb anything down at all which is great and just adds to the authenticity. Anyway, I’m going to stop gushing about it.
The finale to the last season is excellent. It wraps up all of the loose ends and storylines in a brilliant montage that doesn’t answer every single question but resolves everything you’d want it to and leave enough there for a discussion.
If anyone is reading this and hasn’t seen it, please go and watch it all right now. If this is responsible for just one person watching it, then I’ll be very happy. And an absolute king.
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30 Day TV Challenge
Scrubs
Easy choice here. This was the first show I properly got obsessed with and watched repeatedly. It’s a shame it ran for so long because the latter seasons are pretty bad and the last season without Zach Braff was very nearly the worst thing I’ve ever seen and almost ruined the perfect end to what I’m going to pretend is the actual last season.
Yes, it’s schmaltzy, over sentimental and cheesy at times but the first three seasons are ruddy bloody brilliant and make me grin a lot. Scrubs is one of those shows I’ve see so many times that I can usually pinpoint an episode (or at least the season) within seeing a few seconds of it if it’s on TV. I’m also one of those annoying twunts that quotes the show as is goes along – I am everything I hate.
It has two of the best characters in TV in Dr. Cox and The Janitor and I think it’s the relationships between the main case that make the show work so well. JD and Elliott’s on and off again thing is well done (at least in the first stages) and the bromance of JD and Turk is brilliant.
Embarrassingly, the series finale (season 9 doesn’t exist) made me tear up happy tears on more than one occasion. To be fair, I was in a delicate state at the time and the ending is just so overwhelmingly happy that it made me a mess. Hmm.
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The first of Charlie Brooker’s new three part TV series aired tonight. It was called The National Anthem and was basically about how much of an influence Twitter and mob rule can have in modern life. The episode was about a member of the Royal family being kidnapped and the kidnapper demanding that for her to return, the Prime Minister would have to have sex with a pig live on national television.
It sounds pretty ridiculous written down but was actually really good and despite being a bizarre premise because it was played quite straight-laced it seemed sort of believable. There are bits I could nit-pick at but on the whole I really enjoyed it and I think it was Brooker playing devil’s advocate to some extent as he obviously doesn’t hate technology/Twitter/whatever.
I’m looking forward to the rest of the series – the next looks like some extreme X Factor show and the last one apparently is about a world where you have the Sky Plus recording ability in your head.
Daily Hedges 