Speak Up Saturday & Friending Meme Announcement

[feurioo]

Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

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This Valentine's Day, we're inviting you to "join the couch... and the conversation" in our tv_talk friending meme! Binge-watching pro or casual viewer? There's a spot for everybody on our tv_talk couch! Get ready to cozy up and share your love for television.

 

Let us know here in the comments if you have any questions.

Comments

[feurioo]

I watched:
Love Scout: This will be a long, long week to wait for the next episode.

A Man on the Inside: Couldn't care less about the central mystery but I liked the parts that focused on family/friendship, health, and grief.

No Good Deed: A soapy drama without heart moonlighting as a dark comedy without the laughs.

Watson: I only genuinely liked the ending. The medical mystery was meh. They told us too much about Watson's team without letting us form an opinion first. The little bits and pieces about Sherlock didn't convince me he is a character worth waiting for. Maybe good casting will help. For me, it felt pretty dry, devoid of any humor and genuine intrigue.

[author_by_night]

A Man on the Inside: Couldn't care less about the central mystery but I liked the parts that focused on family/friendship, health, and grief.


I agree, and I think that was the heart of the show. Which makes me wonder what they're going to do in season two. Will that be more of a "whodunnit" than the first season? Or will they also focus more on a theme, with the mystery being in the background?

[shadowkat]

Since it's by the same writer who did Parks & Recreation, Good Place, Brooklyn 9-9, I'd say definitely the later. He's more of a comedy from character situations sort of a guy, with the plot being secondary.

[author_by_night]

Yeah, that's a good point. I was actually just rewatching TGP, and without getting into spoilers, each season is different, even if the basic theme is the same. Parks and Rec and B99 are more thematic, but they're not afraid to change things around. And all are very much character focused above all else.

How meta can we be on here? I have a sudden temptation to do a side-by-side comparison, even if it would be imperfect.

[shadowkat]

I think they'd allow it? I mean I've seen meta on this...I personally prefer meta to fanfic, but that's just because I like analyzing the heck out of things.

Michael Schurr - seems to be a light satirist who is mainly interested in character and workplace/philosophical satire. I'm not a fan of workplace satire (mainly because I'm living that and need to escape from it not watch it on television and I can't watch political satire any longer for the same reasons) but I do love philosophical and metaphysical satire - which was a good portion of the Good Place. I think he also did The Office, not certain.

[feurioo]

How meta can we be on here? I have a sudden temptation to do a side-by-side comparison, even if it would be imperfect.

Sorry for the late reply! You're always welcome to post meta on here! :) It should be under a cut if it's more than two paragraphs or contains spoilers. You should also note somewhere if your post contains spoilers (for the series as a whole/a specific season/a specific episode).

[shadowkat]

A friend of mine enjoyed No Good Deed, but I couldn't get into it - for more or less the same reasons you note above. I didn't find it funny, and I don't like the leads. Also there's no heart to it. I need to care about the characters - not be annoyed by them.

Man on the Inside is more about the characters than the mystery - I kind of forgot about the mystery while watching it. It reminded me a little of Only Murders in the Building in that respect, although I liked it better for some reason.