TV Shows

[MDS]

landry kills again

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

tonight was classic bb....58 minutes of nonsense finished with an unbelivable ending

Lots of suspense and action leading up to it, though. Last week was nonsense; this week was solid entertainment.

[Eagles_Legendz]

difference between breaking bad and some other quality shows like Mad Men is there's a degree of suspension of disbelief you have to have that isn't really present most of the time in The Wire/Mad Men etc. 

That being said, I still usually love the show.  I'm pretty simplistic in terms of how I look/rate things.  I just go by what I would want to watch most if it was coming on.  BB beats Mad Men for me. 

I'm obviously not a fanboy on igy/MDS' level with The Wire, but it's still the best show I've seen.  I am closer to SD though in that I think season 5 is less than infallible and can objectively be compared in terms of quality to other shows. 

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Not sure what message you were trying to get across, but you didn't.

[Eagles_Legendz]

That I love Lost.

[SD]

Not sure what message you were trying to get across, but you didn't.

I thought his message was brilliant

[Munson]

I just spotted Khal Drogo at the Rosanne roast

[Eagles_Legendz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j4fkspoGKM

[SunMo]

a little editing goes a long way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aNWAiq0hcg&feature=player_embedded#t=43s

[ice grillin you]

Back home in Baltimore after a long, involved shoot.

How long, you ask?  How involved?

Well, if you must know, the following figures were compiled by fellow producer Joe Incaprera.  They were delivered to the crew after the last shot of season three, outside a warehouse in Algiers amid champagne and cake.

Number of episodes filmed:  10

Number of shooting days:  113 for first unit, plus 10 days of second unit or splinter unit shooting.

Number of feet of film shot (excluding the last day of filming, which had not been compiled:  1,165,570

Number of feet of film shot for Mardi Gras episode:  165,810

Number of total company moves during filming:  280

Number of locations:  370

Number of no-parking signs posts due to location shooting:  7,000

Number of New Orleans restaurants featured:  27

Number of restaurants built as sets:  2

Number of New Orleans bars featured: 40

Number of New Orleans bars built: 1

Number of speaking parts, seasons three:  347

Number of recurring characters, season three:  95

Number of extras:  9,421

Number of New Orleans musicians filmed:  371

Number of travel memos issued by production office: 383

Number of script revisions:  66

Number of total script pages:  597

Number of times a character says "brah" in dialogue:  21

Number of songs performed live:  106

Number of petty cash and credit card receipts:  12,149

Number of marriages within cast and crew: 2

Number of babies born to cast and crew during production: 2

I've now gone through this cycle 11 times for HBO.   At the beginning, each season seems implausible.  In the middle, it just is.  At the end, one is simply numb.  Even if everything works well, there is a sense of having negotiated a minefield for a half year's walk.  And it all feels a little absurd for someone who used to tell stories in prose, engaging with himself, an editor and maybe a copyeditor.  In the military, they like to note that 60 percent of strategy is logistics.  Same with filmmaking, I suppose. All credit to Nina Noble and one of the best cast and crews with whom I've worked.

Guys, if you didn't get to the Bridge on Thursday and put a hurt on my credit card, I still owe you a couple.  Track me down in the fall, I hope.

[Eagles_Legendz]

I liked tonight's BB, though I could've done without Walter becoming Macgyver.

[Munson]

Back home in Baltimore after a long, involved shoot.

How long, you ask?  How involved?

Well, if you must know, the following figures were compiled by fellow producer Joe Incaprera.  They were delivered to the crew after the last shot of season three, outside a warehouse in Algiers amid champagne and cake.

Number of episodes filmed:  10

Number of shooting days:  113 for first unit, plus 10 days of second unit or splinter unit shooting.

Number of feet of film shot (excluding the last day of filming, which had not been compiled:  1,165,570

Number of feet of film shot for Mardi Gras episode:  165,810

Number of total company moves during filming:  280

Number of locations:  370

Number of no-parking signs posts due to location shooting:  7,000

Number of New Orleans restaurants featured:  27

Number of restaurants built as sets:  2

Number of New Orleans bars featured: 40

Number of New Orleans bars built: 1

Number of speaking parts, seasons three:  347

Number of recurring characters, season three:  95

Number of extras:  9,421

Number of New Orleans musicians filmed:  371

Number of travel memos issued by production office: 383

Number of script revisions:  66

Number of total script pages:  597

Number of times a character says "brah" in dialogue:  21

Number of songs performed live:  106

Number of petty cash and credit card receipts:  12,149

Number of marriages within cast and crew: 2

Number of babies born to cast and crew during production: 2

I've now gone through this cycle 11 times for HBO.   At the beginning, each season seems implausible.  In the middle, it just is.  At the end, one is simply numb.  Even if everything works well, there is a sense of having negotiated a minefield for a half year's walk.  And it all feels a little absurd for someone who used to tell stories in prose, engaging with himself, an editor and maybe a copyeditor.  In the military, they like to note that 60 percent of strategy is logistics.  Same with filmmaking, I suppose. All credit to Nina Noble and one of the best cast and crews with whom I've worked.

Guys, if you didn't get to the Bridge on Thursday and put a hurt on my credit card, I still owe you a couple.  Track me down in the fall, I hope.

jesus if you want me to watch this nerd show stop it with this garbage

just say its good dont go off on these lord of the rings difficult to film bullshtein. farging dungeons and dragons geeks. go play with magic cards.

[MDS]

jimmy kimmel's showing is moving to 1130 in what essentially is a preemptive strike against jimmy fallon (who will eventually take over for leno) and XXXX (who will replace dave)

and the office is thankfully ending this season. 3 years too late, but whatever.

[General_Failure]

They're replacing Leno again? I know the summer heat kills a lot of old people, but I didn't think it would be that many this year.

[MDS]

eventually, you pacific islander weirdo

its fallons job whenever leno wants out, which might not be for another 10 years. who knows.