The TV thread

I gave up on Homeland halfway through this season - is there any reason for me to go back and finish it?

 

I've only recently completed episode 6 from the first season.
I can take it or leave it, but another person in the house is really enjoying it.

 

I thought the first season was quite good, and liked the beginning of the second season. It quickly went off the rails and hadn't recovered by the time I gave up around episode 5 of this season. I didn't want this to become another Dexter where I stuck with it just because.

 

Why is everyone so surprised that Brian came back? He's got a handful of future episodes in which he's in the title. I guess that could have been a red herring, but it's not like South Park-style animation where they do everything in the week leading into the episode. A bunch of people called a Brian save when they saw the description for Sunday's episode, which was already out when Brian went down.

What they should do with the time machine is go back to the pilot episode again, only this time stay there. Can the overlong and unfunny-to-be-funny gags, step back from the Very Special Episodes and go back to the show they had at the beginning of the series, which was funny and cutting without beating you over the head with it or trying too hard to be something that it wasn't. That ship's long since off the horizon, of course.

 

So you're not happy with the Family Guy's direction.

 

I am a little surprised how much attention it got, especially given the likelihood of a resurrection.

It reminds me of the mainstream media writing stories about comic book deaths. The death of Superman got plenty of attention, but so did Captain America. Of course, both returned.

Given some of the pop culture references included in Family Guy, I'm sure that is at least something of an influence on MacFarlane.

Of course, there was also this from MacFarlane.

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a538469/family-guy-seth-macfarlane-killed-off-brian-to-teach-fans-a-lesson.html

 

The Brian resurrection episode really set up the rest of the season nicely.

 

People still watch Family Guy?

Also, get off my lawn!

 

McFarlane: "I mean, you didn't really think we'd kill off Brian, did you? Jesus, we'd have to be f**king high."

I love it.

 

"I never mix booze and weed. I'm a chauffeur, not an airline pilot."

 

You're better off beginning at the beginning. Best Broadway-oriented cast currently working in a major-network, sustained series . . .

 

Hadn't thought about it, but the Broadway angle is very apt. Christine Barnaski, Alan Cumming, Nathan Lane.