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Monday's Current TV Discussion Post!!!

Here we talk about currently airing shows!!!

Some shows that have aired since our last current shows discussion post:
[if you want to talk about events in earlier episodes, please feel free]

Extant 1x07 & 1x08
Graceland 2x10 *
Legends 1x02
Suits 4x10
Defiance 2x10 & 2x11
Rectify 2x10
The Knick 1x03
Doctor Who 8x01
Outlander 1x03
Falling Skies 4x10
Manhattan 1x05
Masters of Sex 2x07
Teen Wolf 4x10
The Last Ship 1x10
The Leftovers 1x09
The Strain 1x07
True Blood 7x10 [SERIES FINALE] *

[among other things, I'm sure]

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Specific episode discussion
General discussion on how this season is going on a particular show.
Just talk about what current shows you've been watching this summer if you'd like.
Do you have any favorites amongst the summer shows that are airing right now?

I'll make threads for True Blood and Graceland, since that's what I'm caught up with. Please feel free to make a comment thread for any show you would like to discuss!

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Oh my this show!!!

Please show, don't break my heart!

I have no idea what to do with myself.

I know! Spoilery thoughts... [Spoiler: I feel like everything can go potentially wrong with everyone right now. And I'm so worried about Charlie! And with how everything is finally coming back to bit Briggs on the ass.

And I'm so worried about Johnny down there in Mexico!!!

And OMG! Paige knows or suspects what Mike did and I can't see that ending well at all!

The team is not in good shape at all and I'm so worried that everything is going to go wrong for everyone!!!]

[Spoiler:Think how much easier it was for all of them before Mike showed up, LOL. Johnny's back in the US now, so unless he does something insanely stupid like go after Lucia, he'll be okay. I still can't believe he hasn't told his mom he's in the FBI.

I'm anxious to find out what happens with Briggs and this tape, because they did this set up SO long ago and it would have been annoying if they let him get away unscathed. Though wtf on Juan for pulling a stunt like that with a fucking drunk FBI agent! THE GUY IS TRAINED TO KICK YOUR ASS!!

Paige definitely knows what's up and this will destroy all trust she has for Mike. It would have cost Mike nothing to tell her the truth and admit he failed. This whole operation was doomed from the get go.

Do we have 1 more ep or 2?]

It looks like there are 3 more episodes to go… (13 episodes total this season)[Spoiler:Oh that's right, Johnny did head back…I just keep feeling that isn't over for him yet…and with 3 episodes left, I could be right. I know, it's crazy he hasn't told his mom he's in the FBI, wow.

I think Juan was really foolish and wrong to pull that stunt. I don't think he deserved to end up dead of course, but he had to know it was a possibility. Even if Briggs hadn't been drunk, he had some real PTSD issues with that whole thing and may still have reacted the same way.

Part of me worries that the corrupt cops with have the info on Briggs and use it to drag him into their drama for real with the threat of revealing the info if he doesn't go along with them.

Mike made bad decisions on that whole thing from the beginning. He was thinking of the bust over the lives of innocent people and that sucked. He should have listened to Paige in the first place and yeah his lie was stupid too and is just going to dig him in deeper.

Originally I felt bad for that poor guy who was living there with them in the beginning of the season…how he got kicked out when Mike came in. But now I'm thinking that he was lucky to get out while he could!]

[Spoiler:HE WAS SO SO LUCKY! And I kinda think he knew it, LOL. So ridiculous. The second Audrey bailed, we knew the doom was confirmed.

I find it funny that they use that red camera filter for all the Mexico stuff, LOL. Like things in Mexico are automatically the color of dirt.]

I am very worried about everyone right now but especially -- [Spoiler:Charlie. There's no way they're going to let her have the baby, right? I mean, unless Vanessa Ferlito is leaving the show, there's no way Charlie can raise that kid. They'd never let her stay on at Graceland with a baby and if she was somewhere other than Graceland, I doubt they'd keep her on as a regular. Then again, they've done next to nothing with her this season so who knows? Maybe it's all been set up to write her out, though I hope not because she is my main reason for watching. So I assume this means she'll lose the baby, either on the job or due to stress over the Briggs reveal. And I'm very much NOT looking forward to that.]

[Spoiler:I knooooooow, Charlie is ony of my favorites!!!!!]

Well, that's it. True Blood is officially done.

Anyone else all caught up?

Have any thoughts?

My no-spoilery reaction to the finale and to the last season as a whole is that I was incredibly underwhelmed.

I'll comment with more spoilery thoughts later...

[Spoiler:
Things I'm glad about: Pretty much the only person who died at the end was Bill. That was good. Jessica lives on, Jason lives on. Eric and Pam continue on and are awesome together, that was nice. Lafayette lives!!! I am very happy about that.

Some of my issues: So much of this season was pointless. Why did they drag out everything so long? Why drag out Bill's death? Why couldn't Bill kill himself? Why have Sookie help him? Why do that to her?

The whole unknown person Sookie ends up with….whatever.

Ugh. I don't know. I was expecting more I guess, though I'm not sure why.

]

[Spoiler:I'm agree so hard with you regarding this episode!

I really don't know what's worse: that Bill's flashbacks ate up A LOT of time per episode (all for nothing); that Lafayette had no dialogue (considering that he's a member of the original cast); Tara's whole storyline (really, show? REALLY?); that the show kept shoving Bill/Sookie at the viewers even though many of the fans had moved on...

Also, what's up with the super saccharine ending? I mean, I'm very happy to see that my faves (Pam, Eric, Lafayette, Jessica, and Jason) made it out alive to the end. OTOH, the Jessica/Hoyt wedding pretty much came out of nowhere (and how come Hoyt had no problems with the glamouring?) and I didn't care about Jason and Hoyt's ex-gf.

I remember being a huge fan of the show up to S4. And then, the show kinda got wonky. But I kept watching because there usually was something to keep me hooked. In all truth, I watched this season only because it was the last. Yet, after sitting through what amounts to 10-hrs of TV, I don't really get what TPTB were aiming at.

To me, they painted themselves into a corner with the Hep-V plot and couldn't really make up their mind as to where to take the show. It's a good thing that they brought it back to Bon Temps. However, once they got all the characters back there, they didn't give them much to do nor any kind of story lines that would add up in a cohesive way.

It's really disappointing because, truthfully, this show could've gone out in a really high note instead of the sad trombone of its series finale.

TL;DR: The series finale was terrible and boring. Good-bye, True Blood, you won't be missed. :| ]

[Spoiler:I think all Bills flashbacks plus Tara's post-death storyline were worse than Lafayette's lack of lines, though that was a bummer as well. At least he got some good story bits earlier in the season.

I don't even see the point of Bill's flashbacks. I know I complained earlier a bit about the weird Eric and Pam flashbacks but seeing how the show ends they make a bit of sense but Bill's were just a waste of time in my opinion.

I know I loved the show in the earlier seasons but sometimes I'm not sure if I would have loved it as much if it weren't a summer show. I know in the later seasons I kept thinking I'd drop it, but then it was summer and there wasn't much else on and I always ended up giving in.

I guess if they wanted us not to miss the show once it was gone, the finale could be seen as a success. ]

PLEASE TELL ME I'M NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO NEEDS TO FLAIL ABOUT THIS. WE HAVE TO WAIT TIL NEXT SUMMER NOW!!!!!!!!!!

Edited 2014-08-25 22:24 (UTC)

I haven't had a chance to watch the season finale yet but I am already dreading the long hiatus.

*FLAILS*

Uh oh. I still need to watch the last two. Sounds like I am totally going to be unhappy. lol

Not unhappy. Just super flaily. HOW IS THIS SHOW SO GOOD? I thought it'd be HORRIBLE!

Wait that was the season finale? NOOOOOOOOOO

YES! HOLY SHIT, RIGHT????

Mostly unrelated, but Sean Maguire's face is EXACTLY the face one should make in that situation :D

I agree :D

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