Best character on tv. Swanson eating the 4th graders lunch to teach her about government taxes was fantastic.
Modern Family's been pretty ho hum lately I agree. I knew that Ron dancing would be a gif right when I saw it. It's like the show knows what will meme out.
i just started watching this show a couple of weeks ago. half way through season 2. awesome so far. i've actually put my scrubs marathon on hold for it.
Good to see NBC living up to its name, nothing but c***suckers, screwing its two best shows Community and Parks and Recreation next year by sticking them at the 8pm slot vs Big Bang Theory (most likely), and Simon Cowell's X-Factor. I don't know whether to be happy that NBC sucks so that good TV can stay on the air, or be angry that the new boss is setting them up to fail on purpose... http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-a...atism-donald-trump-and-one-last-year-of-chuck
Theory is in a transitional enough phase plot and character-wise that it could begin to falter, like Mad About You after the pregnancy. American X-Factor is technically an unknown quantity in what one would hope is a fading genre. And Thursday ad dollars are bigger regardless of the network (due to movie trailers), so maybe NBC is just practicing good business and giving both shows the opportunity to make more money. Even irrespective of all of that, your post seems a bit much.
Maybe, but it's a tentpole show. The age of the cast and relative novelty of the geek/fanboy archetype appeals to younger viewers, and its accomodation of social/intellectual and low-grade ethnic stereotypes locks in older viewers. And the Dwayne Wayne/Whitley Gilbert opposites attract love story provides a multi-season story arc.
great work by the writers and april getting in a Jeff Mangum reference... just awesome this series 3 is just outstanding every week, really struggle to think of better comedy on right now
Thank you. I've only seen a few episodes of BBT, but it was one of the worst TV shows I've seen. I guess people need laugh tracks to help them when the show completely falls short of comedy.
I wouldn't say it is a complete wast, Jim Parson's character is one of the best on tv (although very similar John Lithgow's in 3rd Rock from the Sun), I will watch episodes that feature him, however the rest of the characters are most of the plots are completely unbearable
BBT is fine, just not Community and P&R quality. The internet favorite 'laugh track' criticism is old and busted by this point.
Ron Swanson very will could be the greatest character ever created in television history. This season has been fantastic so far
TV in general frustrates me in that a tiny fraction of the dumbest people with the least going on in their lives are the ones who get to decide what everyone else is watching. Really, time slots shouldn't matter at all with DVR, Hulu and AppleTV, but the logic the network heads seem to use on a show is baffling to me. Parks and Recreation breaks out like The Office did in its 2nd season, stays on to shoot 6 additional episodes with a marketable guest/perma-star in Rob Lowe, and has the very unique vehicle of SNL to promote Amy Poehler. And what do they do? Bump it for Outsourced, a show that was DOA and wasted the post Office slot. So they return P&R to the slot midseason when all the momentum is lost, and blame the show for bad ratings, so they can move it out of its most logical time slot. I just don't get their strategy. I'll give full credit to NBC for even ordering and supporting Community; the show is definitely weird and niche, but doesn't that weirdness play better late at night, and not against the other "geek bonus" show? As long as NBC is happy with drawing a small audience and doesn't use it as a justification to cancel the show (like Chuck), then I'm fine with it. However, something tells me that Kabletown is going to be much more concerned with raw numbers and big hits that it can leverage into gouging Time Warner and AT&T for NBC access.
