This is super true! And there's apparently a petition going around to try to send to Fox or another network to pick up Lucifer.
Fox cancels Brooklyn 99 and picks up Tim Allen drek. The Roseanne Effect is in play. Every network will want a conservative comedy show now.
Buy three months of Direct TV and get a 4K Apple TV.
So freaking tempted.
@bobotron I really hope someone picks up Lucifer. It was the most unexpectedly endearing show in ages.
Oh fucking well.
Cobra Kai was unexpectedly good. It's a sequel (30-something years later) of the original Karate Kid, with Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence's actors back at it.
It's not amazing and the budget is as low as it gets, but it's endearing and nostalgic... and many times, funny. There are even karate montages in it! Lots of them! And as much 80s music as you'd expect.
Sci-Fi cancelled The Expanse.
This makes me sad because I enjoyed the Expanse.
This makes me happy because Sci-fi sucks and maybe someone else will pick it up.
@arkandel
I have had people tell me that this show is worth picking up Youtube Red to watch. Nothing but positive reviews that I hear.
@bobgoblin said in Good TV:
Sci-Fi cancelled The Expanse.
This makes me sad because I enjoyed the Expanse.
This makes me happy because Sci-fi sucks and maybe someone else will pick it up.
First Dark Matter, now The Expanse.
This is the point in the SyFy cycle where they forget the name of the network and start bringing in reality shows and pro-wrestling again.
I believe both the Expanse and Dark Matter suffered from the same problem. SyFy didn't actually make them, they just bought the broadcast rights or some such (I know Dark Matter was this way and think I read the same about the Expanse). They got zero revenue from streaming so it was harder to justify the expense. If that's true they should probably figure out how to actually not make garbage in house so they can feed out of the streaming trough like everyone else.
I know that was the problem with DM, but I was under the impression that either they were more involved in The Expanse or else their deal was better.
Oh well. I guess that just means I should read the books now.
@admiral said in Good TV:
Every network will want a conservative comedy show now.
So ... not a comedy, but a tragedy?
@arkandel I hear there's some really strong language in it though, which is a shame, because my nephew just picked up karate and would probably get a kick out of a karate show. (See what I did there???)
@arkandel I hear there's some really strong language in it though, which is a shame, because my nephew just picked up karate and would probably get a kick out of a karate show. (See what I did there???)
Har har!
But yes, there is. I think it's a love letter to us 80s kids, so it didn't bother me any, but I can totally see how it'd make it hard to watch for a younger person. It's not just the language, a lot of the themes are pretty adult - bullying, abandonment, alcoholism, etc.
Also! Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was renewed for a (probably last) season, yay!
Damn you NBC for canceling Rise. Damn you.
I love Cobra Kai, sooooo much, but I would not recommend it for a kid. 13ish would be as young as I'd see it, depending on maturity levels. Not that it would really screw with a younger kid exactly so much as like, the themes it deals with and so on aren't really target appropriate.
@sunny It is pretty great. I find Johnny very interesting and it's frustrating to watch him struggle to redeem himself when he has no tools for doing so. The actor is deadpan gold.
@sg It's hard for me to watch for that reason. I was right on the edge of giving up on it because the characters just COULD NOT get a break (I thought it was going to be another one of those shows where the people who created it mistook depth for 'only bad things happen and every win is really a loss') when it gave just enough to keep me. I can't binge it for similar reasons to Jessica Jones, but I really do love it. That actor is incredible, he really is.
Damn you NBC for canceling Rise. Damn you.
I wanted to physically punch Josh Radnor's character in the face, but there was SO MUCH about that show I loved. I didn't do a ton of drama in high school, but I played around with it a bit and it took me back. It wasn't perfect but I feel like it really could've figured itself out in a second season. The young cast was great.
I still don't know if Ralph Macchio is getting out-acted or if it's just his role that has less meat to it. Although they certainly gave Daniel some things to struggle with, he's still privileged and acts from a position of relative privilege.
@arkandel
I think his role most certainly had less meat to it and I felt it was deliberate since the series presumed that many of the audience already knew Daniel's story.
I love Cobra Kai, sooooo much, but I would not recommend it for a kid. 13ish would be as young as I'd see it, depending on maturity levels. Not that it would really screw with a younger kid exactly so much as like, the themes it deals with and so on aren't really target appropriate.
