I hate almost every episode of The Good Wife that involves her kids. I want to punch them in the throat.
Yes, actually, the movie started as a TV pilot that wasn’t picked up, so he decided to continue and resolve the story as a film, which is why the language and nudity don’t pop up until over an hour in, and why you get the wonderful Robert Forster for 10 seconds. Lynch just didn’t bother trimming the other random threads out–which I actually kind of like, even if any retcon efforts to explain them are mostly beside the point.
I used to be OK watching ROYAL PAINS, but at some point realized they were never going to subject the detestable brother Evan to an inopportune shark attack, so I gave up on the show.
Did they ever resolve the plotline where the daughter wanted to join a dance troupe? I remember the parents absolutely losing their shit because the troupe had college kids in it and they posted videos of their routines ONLINE :eek:.
For a show that normally does so well with tech stuff, that episode just made me go… “Huh?”
That’s how the ethics advisor’s voice got so breathy.
Sure, and when Law & Order first started out, it didn’t have a lot of personal stuff going on either, and was a huge success. This leads me to support the theory that it’s actors flexing their muscles once they get established on a highly successful show. Playing the straight man or woman doesnt give them much of an opportunity to stretch as actors, I suppose, so they bitch about and the writers throw them a bone, unaware that they are fucking up the show (though you’d think they’d have figured that out by now).
OTOH, maybe there are a lot of SpoilerVirgins out there who like character development in the leads in a series. I have no basis in fact for any theory, nor have I seen anyone advance any factually-backed ideas.
Me, too. I stopped watching the series when the Great Conspiracy started taking up too many storylines.
You’re creating a false dilemma here. I don’t care much for violence, chases and explosions, but I DO like twisty plotlines that surprise me and interesting characters among the suspects. Most crime TV shows rely on those more than chases and explosions, because they haven’t the budget for the chases and explosions. Much cheaper to write a plot that is interesting or a character that is interesting … but perhaps harder to do, after a point.
I can same for Red John in The Mentalist and ‘Who shot Beckett’s Mom?’ in Castle.
Those may have been more dramatic, but they just weren’t fun.
Amen, brother!
Yep, once that started to take over I was out as well.
Byron from the final season of Babylon 5 was awful (I know the history of the show and why things happened like they did - but damn that was a boring character/plotline).
Mind you, I found the whole Data/Pinocchio stuff in ST:TNG tedious and overused as well, so: YMMV