TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[Famous Mortimer]

If you're a young, low-income schemer in NYC, I doubt you're in a lease situation to demand much of anything. When she does get some money she is finally able to tell Bevers (the roommate's infuriating boyfriend) to [expletive] off and that she's moving out immediately.

Tell me the episode he [expletive] off and I'll start watching from there.

I perhaps didn't explain myself very well - if you're paying half the rent for a place, and some too-awful-to-exist guy moves in with your roommate and starts stealing your food, I'd do something more than whatever she did in episode 1. I just thought he was a cartoon character in a "realistic" world.

[ghostrunner]

I think the whole world is pretty cartoonish.

The scene where they get on the bus for the wedding is probably the second best scene of the show after that one I posted.

[haltz]

I hear you, but I'd assume that she's not even on the lease, and if she were she'd get rid of her roommate and her roommate's boyfriend for anyone else. When you don't have money and you have to have roommates and you live in NYC you end up having to put up with a lot of [expletive]. That's the crux of the show. Bevers is cartoonish, but so are the characters played by Fred Armisen and Amy Sedaris along the way.

Most of it is point-of-view hyperbole. The idea that there's literally one guy in NYC who's the only person working in a giant building where you turn in your cable remote is basically a fantasy sequence.

[33anda3rd]

I just thought he was a cartoon character in a "realistic" world.

He's a cartoon character in a cartoon world.

Edit to add: yeah, what Ghost said.

[ghostrunner]

Oh yeah. The Americans comes back tonight.

[Vidor]

Oh yeah. The Americans comes back tonight.

woot woot woot

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospect ... elevision/

[Freed Roger]

At the movie theater -they showed a trailer for the Americans

[Famous Mortimer]

I just thought he was a cartoon character in a "realistic" world.

He's a cartoon character in a cartoon world.

Edit to add: yeah, what Ghost said.

Well, everyone's dismissals of what I said has turned me into a fan!

To be slightly less facetious, and I'm not going to argue any more about a show I've watched one episode of and won't bother with again, but my point was I don't think he fitted - and I find characters like that super-unfunny anyway (Matt Lucas and Rebel Wilson in "Bridesmaids" spring to mind).

[ghostrunner]

I just thought he was a cartoon character in a "realistic" world.

He's a cartoon character in a cartoon world.

Edit to add: yeah, what Ghost said.

Well, everyone's dismissals of what I said has turned me into a fan!

To be slightly less facetious, and I'm not going to argue any more about a show I've watched one episode of and won't bother with again, but my point was I don't think he fitted - and I find characters like that super-unfunny anyway (Matt Lucas and Rebel Wilson in "Bridesmaids" spring to mind).

He's not one of the stronger points, and kind of a retread, but I don't think he's used more than necessary.

My wife was thinking the girlfriend/roommate may not exist, though that seems less likely now. But it looks like she'll be one of those characters like Niles' wife on Frasier, or Norm's wife on Cheers. I do think the show exists in an exaggerated fantasy world, so I don't have a big problem with it.

Apart from leases and all of that, Abbi's apartment is very nice for someone living in New York with a crappy job. If you're trying to root her tolerance for him in some sort of realism, that's one way to do it. Most New Yorkers would find that place hard to let go.

[TAZ]

Apart from leases and all of that, Abbi's apartment is very nice for someone living in New York with a crappy job. If you're trying to root her tolerance for him in some sort of realism, that's one way to do it. Most New Yorkers would find that place hard to let go.

Mrs Taz and I binged on season 1 on Prime and holy crap is this a great show! It has a very "Flight of the Concords" feel to me, when I was expecting more of a sketch show going in (so you can tell I heard basically nothing about it except that it was good).

The awfulness of Bever (the roommate) is just another peg in the story, that Abbi's surrounded by these awful situations but it seems like she's just about to get rid of or conquer in her life but circumstances of the city keep her pushed down. She was about to

[SHOW]

get that sweet apt but then the racist commercial with her drawing came on. She was about to sub for the trainer in spin class and then the "while I'm still here" non-cancer-having-lady took over. She was about to meet the perfect guy but then lost her phone, searched all over the city, found it, and then the dude was a dud anyway.

To me the roomate fits right in...

And the Lincoln character is the funniest I've seen in a show in a long time. The dog walking scene had me rolling.

[SHOW]

Judith Light!

Anybody watching Man Seeking Woman? Last night's was great, with Sarah Silverman playing his right hand in the beginning... oh man! I like it because many comedy shows seem to put the sarcasm on real thick, but this creates a literal world or sarcasm... a really unique and intelligent show imo.