New Futurama season less than a month away. I can’t wait.

New Futurama season less than a month away. I can’t wait.

I’m practically squeeing with excitement.

That’s because Catholicism is “different” from “normal” WASP America, and is therefore “special” and “new” and “unique”. You’ll find the third most-used religion is hard-right-wing Protestantism, but only if the family is villainous or a side character.

They’re always either evil, annoyingly nice, sort of dumb/slow, or very prudish.

Very true. They may also be homophobic, racist, or anti-intelligence/science.

Also, if a family is not religious, it’s implied that they’re Episcopalian or Anglican or something, because they represent “normal” America. Which is true to a certain extent, but it means that the TV people think that, in order to show that the family is not Protestant, they have to show them practicing their faith. Which means they make the family religious.

Personally, I’d like to see a show where they all have to celebrate Lent. Closest I’ve gotten is The Vicar of Dibley, because she accurately portrays the harrows of chocoholism.

And I must try to find the seasons at my library or something.

Unfortunately, it’s just one season.

Personally, I’d like to see a show where they all have to celebrate Lent

Oh, they did this on The Brothers Garcia, which was this show on Nickelodeon. Everyone in the family had to pick what they were giving up for Lent.

Yes, they are Hispanic. And that is rather stereotypical, but they did do Lent, so it was authentic. I thought it was a decent show though. I liked it. American Dreams did a good job with Catholicism, I think, in portraying it. I’m not Catholic though, so I wouldn’t really know how accurate it was.

American Dreams takes place in the sixties. The first episode ends with the Kennedy assassination.

I’m practically squeeing with excitement.

Same here, except replace “practically” with “actually.”

Me and my brother are on the season 1 finale of The Wire. The show’s even better the second time through, since you can better pick out the cleverer subtleties. For example, one of the plot threads that emerges near the end of S1 is about somebody in the detail ratting out any breaks in the investigation to the deputy of operations(which typically screws up whatever said break is, since the higher-ups don’t give a damn about the case), and it took me by surprise the first time I watched. This time, though, I noticed all sorts of almost invisible cues from the guy who ends up being the rat, and having a better understanding of his character now makes it obvious that he’d be the guy to do it.

I don’t think The Wire has aired in Australia

Actually, I saw an ad for The Wire on my TV… I think it’s in ABCwhatevernumber or SBS...?

Wish you told me that about a month earlier… watched 1 episode and never returned to watch it again.

Many would agree with you there, sansa.

Final episode of current Bones season coming up. D:

You’re a high school grad now, NP, so I have no reservations recommending it to you. Obligatory warning though: It contains violence(very graphic in maybe one instance, but no brains flying out or anything like that), drug use, extremely strong language, and occasional nudity.

What you should really be wary of is the existential hopelessness/despair that lies beneath most of the plots and character arcs. The cops can’t ever truly win, since drugs are essentially a force of nature, and their struggles are ultimately just pissing in the wind. The dealers can’t ever really win either. They either quit The Game(not that The Game, although you just lost it), or they eventually get got, since it only takes one error to end up dead or in prison.

It’s also committed to realism to the point that the various plots don’t finish tied up in a little bow. It’s not like a show such as, say, Dexter, where they spend a season setting up a plot and then it all falls into place. Resolutions are always jagged at best.

There’s a sort of beauty to the despair, though. It’s probably the only TV show I would consider to be a work of real art.

But yeah, I’d say give the first season a try if you think you’d be interested. I can hook you up if you can’t get access to it.

Oh, that’s a fair point. Obviously I associate with too many pirates.

Yeah, but it had pretty turrible ratings relative to its quality(most of the cast is black, and the closest thing to the standard white male lead is an almost insufferable asshole[which we the viewers love him for, but it’s tough to market]).

Nevermind, you got it.

Yeah, I don’t really know how they stayed on. I guess the execs at HBO decided to bite that bullet. I do know that they weren’t able to get funding for a spin-off(which would’ve been called The Hall, and dealt with the political aspect of the Baltimore drug war) because The Wire’s ratings weren’t high enough, so they ended up merging the proposed plots with those already in the show. I’m okay with that, though, since the overall story has some crazy sprawl to it in the later seasons as it is.

I just watched the latest episode of Glee. I have to admit that the adults’ acting is brilliant, and this episode was really good at capturing pent-up emotion, but it was a little over-the-top dramatic for me.

Anyone else watch Glee? I recommend it, as long as you don’t mind the constant Firefly effect.

I finished the first season of Legend of the Seeker. The finale was creepy, with the whole demon-child thing.

That’s my brother’s favorite show! He keeps me up to date on it, though mainly about Richard and Kahlan’s love life.

I do, SmartAlien.

I think it’s amusing in its campiness, but there are definite issues with the writing being too heavy-handed. Althoguh super funny.

that was pretty awesome. Too bad I dont know half the people. Arrested Development seemed to get quite a bit of love. I dont really get why it has a lot of people from movies though if its TV.

Otherwise, it was totally awesome.

I agree.

The Wire had Assistant Dean, Corporate Raiding, and Transitional Business Management. Awwwww yeah.

Simon and Giles and Summer and Michael Scott and NPH and Jan Itor are on there.

I approve. :D

Decided to check out what True Blood’s about, and I’m currently watching a bull goring some pagan girl.

NUMB3RS WAS CANCELED??????

So says the Numb3rs page on Facebook. They cut the number of episodes down to sixteen and the ratings are way, way down.

HOW DO RATINGS GO DOWN? IT HAS TO DO WITH THE NINE O CLOCK SLOT TIME, BECAUSE APPARENTLY SHITTY SITCOMS ARE ONLY GOOD! DAMN SITCOMS. JUST ANOTHER REASON TO KILL THEM ALL.

I have on my rageface now. Excuse the caps lock please.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE PLETHORA OF WAYS THAT DOES NOT WORK?

MORE THAN THAT. COUNTING TO TEN FRUSTRATES ME BECAUSE IT DOES NO GOOD.

B-But… NOOOOOOO! MINISTER OF SEXY HAIR COME BACK!! NUMB3RS IS NOT ALLOWED TO BE CANCELED! ;.;

Pilot of Glee. Don’t like any of the characters so far.

You still remember that?! :D

Of course I do! :P It made me laugh so hard when I first read it…
Glee... Well, Finn is cute, but stupid, and Rachael is just a pain in the ass. Plus, the series gets worse as it goes along. Don’t bother with it, Puppet.

I watched the 4-5 eps and have decided that Glee is a waste of my time. I want to reach into the screen and strangle every single one of the characters.

Kurt has very few redeeming qualities, especially in the back nine.

Episodes. The ones that started up after the winter break.

The first season is the best, and the second is just as good. After that, mileage varies but it never gets unwatchable.

Well it stays fairly contained through the end of season 2, but around 3ish the mythos is expanded a lot, and the quality varies. At least stick around for William Fichtner in the second season, he steals the show.

The Boondocks and FMA:B are the only ongoing shows on AS that are of any worth.

Has anyone seen The Vampire Diaries? My friends are all forcing me to watch it and I’m not looking forward to the prospect.

Torchwood got renewed for a new series.

The IT crowd is brilliant. I <3 Richmond. :D

Glee’s gay kid made me want to go hurt gays.

Just watched his character, and I’ll agree with the above.

I actually saw a Boy Meets World that I had never seen before. It made me happy. :)

You don’t even love Brittany? She’s hilarious.

Watched all of Glee.

A feat even I haven’t managed. I salute you, Puppet. :D

But…but…but Kurt. :C

...No. NO NO NO NO WHY ELANOR WHY? NOW WE CAN NEVER BE FRIENDS.

Even if Kurt wasn’t gay, he would still be a tremendous douchebag.

He wasn’t so bad in the first half, the second half of the season… >.>

But—Quinn! Puck! I love them both.

Yes. :D

Puck is a douchebag, but he’s a douchebag in the right ways. The difference between Puck and the other characters is that Puck realizes that he is a douchebag.

Bland background people with no souls.

Heh. I haven’t even seen the show, but just about every show has those people.

Not MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000.

Criminal Minds, I love you. Especially you Reed. Be my boytoy please.