SPOILER WARNING: Prestige Television Discussion

Book 4 is the most boring book. They're working with boooooring stuff this season.

"The weather is starting to turn in the north" OMG when is Winter fucking coming lol

Julian, wrote:

killsaly wrote:
By the way, they have four seasons now (13, 13, 10, and 6 episodes each). 

I actually thought season 4 was the best. Very compact, no red-herring bullshittery.

^ What I think about every time that I hear that

so i was listening to NPR last night, and they had a panel discussion about the end of the current TV season.  one of the panelist (TV critic for the NYT or some much) said, i kid you not, "I believe that the final episode of Mad Men marks the end of the era of prestige television".

so i guess after Mad Men ends, we'll need to shut down this thread?  can't be living in the past, folks.

I thought the AV Club was the source of what was Prestige TV?.

sweetcell wrote:
so i was listening to NPR last night, and they had a panel discussion about the end of the current TV season.  one of the panelist (TV critic for the NYT or some much) said, i kid you not, "I believe that the final episode of Mad Men marks the end of the era of prestige television".

so i guess after Mad Men ends, we'll need to shut down this thread?  can't be living in the past, folks.

<wanders of in search of Fortitude or Wolf Hall animated gifs>

sweetcell wrote:
so i was listening to NPR last night, and they had a panel discussion about the end of the current TV season.&nbsp; one of the panelist (TV critic for the NYT or some much) said, i kid you not, &quot;I believe that the final episode of Mad Men marks the end of the era of prestige television&quot;.

so i guess after Mad Men ends, we&#039;ll need to shut down this thread?&nbsp; can&#039;t be living in the past, folks.

Well, three things:

(1) Mad Men has already ended.
(2) While Mad Men ending might, ostensibly, end a certain era of "prestige television," that type of program is probably at peak popularity and networks are racing to create more of that style of program, as Kosmo alluded to in his comments.
(3) The idea of this messageboard consciously making efforts to not live in the past is so funny I nearly killed myself laughing. You understand there's an entire weekly thread where people masturbate furiously to the thought of concerts they saw that week XX-number of years ago, right?

Mad Men is not the end all be all of television. I liked it, and thought it was beautifully filmed, but there are better shows. I've never understood the gushing.

Julian, wrote:
(3) The idea of this messageboard consciously making efforts to not live in the past is so funny I nearly killed myself laughing. You understand there&#039;s an entire weekly thread where people masturbate furiously to the thought of concerts they saw that week XX-number of years ago, right?

well at least someone got my joke…

sweetcell wrote:

Julian, wrote:
(3) The idea of this messageboard consciously making efforts to not live in the past is so funny I nearly killed myself laughing. You understand there&#039;s an entire weekly thread where people masturbate furiously to the thought of concerts they saw that week XX-number of years ago, right?

well at least someone got my joke…

Oh, I got it but I'll never pass up an opportunity to call out the oblique pathetic-ness of the contingency of this board that has no social/recreational life outside of concerts.

Julian, wrote:
I&#039;ll never pass up an opportunity to call out the oblique pathetic-ness of the contingency of this board that has no social/recreational life outside of concerts.

other than music we discuss:
- baseball, hockey, football
- running
- beer
- whisk(e)y
- tv shows, movies, and formerly a book thread
- restaurants/food

but, you were saying…

Julian, wrote:
Oh, I got it but I&#039;ll never pass up an opportunity to call out the oblique pathetic-ness of the contingency of this board that has no social/recreational life outside of concerts.

Contingent.

sweetcell wrote:
other than music we discuss:
- baseball, hockey, football
- running
- beer
- whisk(e)y
- tv shows, movies, and formerly a book thread
- restaurants/food

We discuss those things. You and I do. As do many others on here.

But to act like there's not a group of wackjobs on here who have zero interests/social life outside of music is just being obtuse.

You forgot dead celebrities.

Julian, wrote:
But to act like there&#039;s not a group of wackjobs on here who have zero interests/social life outside of music is just being obtuse.

Or maybe some people do not share everything about their lives on music bulletin boards.

Apparently season three of Twin Peaks will now be 18 episodes per actors at some comic con thing yesterday. Also Twede?s Cafe is being restored thanks to Lynch's holdout for more $$.

Been watching episodes of Wayword Pines, pretty interesting
;D

[Red]I just started season 3 of Breaking Bad.  OMFG. [/RED]