TV shows or speecials you like; notable/favorite episodes

TV shows or specials you like; notable/favorite episodes

Let's talk about TV shows that we like. It can be a series, special, documentary, one off or just particular episodes that stand out and/or might appeal to Priuschatters.

Now, there are plenty of places to talk about TV shows in general like Now Playing - TV Show Talk - TiVo Community or TWoP Forums (Powered by Invision Power Board) so perhaps we shouldn't go into too much depth about a particular show or set of eps...

I'll start. I happened to stumble upon Home | Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump | Comedy Central thanks to TiVocommunity. It was mostly funny. It was a bit odd that the roasters seemed to rip on each other more than they did The Donald. The Situation from Jersey Shore (UGH!!) bombed on the roast.

On that note, there was an SNL ep (no, I don't normally watch SNL) years ago when The Apprentice was still new and it featured The Donald. It was very funny.

I also somehow stumbled across Shatner's Raw Nerve - On BIO Channel, I believe from going thru a Star Trek keyword wish list on my TiVo. I happened to catch eps where he interviewed Walter Koenig (Chekov), Levar Burton (Geordi) and Leonard Nimoy (Spock).

I don't normally watch Futurama but there was a great ep [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_No_Fan_Has_Gone_Before"]Where No Fan Has Gone Before - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame] which had most of the Star Trek TOS cast in it and tons of Trek references.

Years ago, there was Roast of William Shatner Official Site | Comedy Central.

MANY years ago, there was an ep of Weakest Link (I'd never watched the show until that point) featuring a whole bunch of Star Trek actors. It was quite funny and IIRC, the EMH or Geordi won w/most or all of the actors being pretty good. It looks like someone uploaded it to Star Trek: The Weakest Link Video by Doctor Memory - Myspace Video.

I also caught an ep with where all the contestants were Playboy Playmates. They were not exactly pinnacles of intelligence.

Those of you w/DVRs might want to set an equivalent to TiVo's auto-record wishlist in case any of the above interest you or look for them on DVD. Unfortunately, I don't believe any of the above are being rerun in the next 2 weeks.

 

Wah?!?! There's TOO MUCH good stuff on TV and no time to watch it all.

Mythbusters is good but I'm way behind on it. Bizarre Foods w/Andrew Zimmern is entertaining too but I'm really behind on it.

CNBC has done some great stuff like News Headlines (about the whole mortgage mess and reckless lending). [ame="http://www.hulu.com/watch/46536/cnbc-originals-the-age-of-wal-mart"]Hulu - CNBC Originals: The Age of Wal-Mart - Watch the full episode now.@@AMEPARAM@@http://www.hulu.com/embed/kl_IS2zGrVcFn4QosF3wsg@@AMEPARAM@@kl_IS2zGrVcFn4QosF3wsg[/ame] and News Headlines were good too. CNBC did a documentary on Target and that was boring though... don't bother w/it.

There have been so many great eps of Ultimate Factories | National Geographic Channel like the ones on IKEA, Porsche 911, Rolls Royce, the Chevy Volt (about the pre-production/pilot line stage), and Bugatti Veryon (1001 hp car).

Food Tech — History.com TV Episodes, Schedule, & Video usually was good too.

If you watched at least some of Enteprise and had seen the Star Trek TOS ep "Mirror, Mirror", then the two parter "In a Mirror, Darkly" of Enterprise was AWESOME!

 

Hahaha! I never was a fan of Dr. Who TOS and I think I tried an ep of the remake and didn't like it either. There are some fans of the remake though...

I do like the remake of V (on ABC) but you have to suspend disbelief and ignore all the gaping plot holes. It's in hiatus right now. It never did very well in the ratings, so I wouldn't be surprised if it gets canceled.

 

Interesting... I'd never heard of it. Two things that baffle me are WAY before reality shows were big (and I like some reality shows) I tried watching COPS and boy, did it suck. Yet, there's the thread at COPS: Does TV get any better than this? - TiVo Community.

The other is Jersey Shore. UGH!! As I said, I like some reality shows but I tried watching an ep. Boy... what a bunch of idiots!

My opinions were summed up at Forced to watch a full episode of "Jersey Shore" for the first time... - Page 2 - TiVo Community. I can't believe this show was doing very well for a cable show. I know of some people who watch and it some describe as their "guilty pleasure". Why do people watch this garbage? (I'm guessing there probably is least one Jersey Shore fan here and I've probably offended them...)

Right now on the US iTunes store, the last ep of the season "At the End of the Day" is the #2 on the TV ep sales chart.

I liked BSG TOS and TNS. However, TNS/the remake went really downhill towards the end w/a fair # of (lower budget) "internal episodes" as RDM termed there where they don't leave the ship, have few effects and unfortunately, to me, added little to the storyline.

On BSG TNS, apparently, Ron Moore attended a http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Frak_party of one of the season finales. He did a bunch of Q&A w/the attendees and it's up as a podcast.

Although this isn't a favorite (by a long shot), I did finally check out an ep of http://www.aetv.com/hoarders/. Wow. My apartment's messy and I have a lot of stuff, but these people really take the cake.

 

I liked BSG and even liked the final ep. Out of the spinoffs, BSG: The Plan wasn't really that great but I liked Razor.

As for Caprica... I tried watching a few eps and never grew motivated to watch more. Eps kept piling up on my TiVo and finally I just deleted them all (lack of time and too much other good stuff on TV) after reading thru the summaries of my unwatched eps.

A lot of the criticisms I'd read online and from friends on FB was that so little happens. One of my friends wanted "less human nonsense and more Cylon nonsense". I agree. It just wasn't interesting. I cared so little about the characters or what was going on. As someone at http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=8171548#post8171548 felt,

I don't think I missed much by not watching.

I was blown away by how much some folks on TWoP would get into Caprica. I could barely get myself to watch an ep, let alone discuss to the depth they were at. To each his/her own, I guess.

Back to BSG (and relating to Caprica), I liked BSG's music. Although Bear McCreary is no John Williams, I liked much of what he did for BSG. Watching some of the extra on DVDs/BDs or online (?) of his work doing the music for BSG was quite interesting. He uses lot of unconventional instruments like those from Armenia and Japan, esp. taiko drums.

I ended up buying the soundracks for seasons 1-4 of BSG on CD. I bought a couple songs from the miniseries which were done by Richard Gibbs and a rather different style.