Stephanie Rose
Popfilter’s Fall TV Challenge
ROUND ONE STALKER VS A TO Z See the bracket at http://challonge.com/popfilter Ryan and I are about halfway through round one! It’s very exciting. But so far, our matches haven’t made a lot of sense. We often compare two shows that are diametrically opposed to one another, i.e a 30 minute comedy and a 90…
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Round One HAPPYLAND VS TRANSPARENT See the winners and losers at http://challonge.com/popfilter Today’s fight is brought to you by MTV and Amazon.com. It’s not enough to say that one show is better than the other. One show is clearly better than the other. This is Pacquiao versus a middle school junior varsity wrestler named…
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ROUND 2 SCORPION VS GOTHAM Follow the bracket at http://challonge.com/popfilter Sometimes is very difficult to weigh the merit of one show against another. Comparing two shows, what each show did wrong, what each did right and declaring one better than the other can be challenging. Sometimes it’s hard to choose a winner. This, however, is…
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HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER VS BLACK-ISH See the bracket at challonge.com/popfilter Today’s installment of the Fall TV challenge pits two ABC shows against one another. Black-ish is kind of a modern Jeffersons. It’s a 30 minute family comedy in the vein of Modern Family. It stars Anthony Anderson as the father who…
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Round One GOTHAM vs NCIS: NEW ORLEANS As of this article I am contractually obligated to not talk about Gotham. We are just two days away from the debut of the brand new PopFilter Podcast, The Superhero Hour Hour, which is a show completely dedicated to comic book television. This will also most likely be the last…
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Round One FOREVER VS SCORPION You can see the bracket at challonge.com/popfilter Here’s the debate about television: instead of it being this art form that is presented to an audience for sheer entertainment value, it is actually a mirror held up to the general public that reflects our mores and values–who we are as…
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Round One RED BAND SOCIETY VS TIM AND ERIC’S BEDTIME STORIES SEE THE BRACKET AT challonge.com/popfilter Comparing Red Band Society and Tim and Eric’s Bedtime Stories is like comparing apples and orangutans. Tim and Eric’s Bedtime Stories is a 15-minute comedy on Adult Swim from two alt comedy darlings, and Red Band Society is a…
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ROUND ONE RED BAND SOCIETY VS THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA SEE THE BRACKET AT http://challonge.com/popfilter Red Band Society is the kind of trash that, once you’ve been watching pilots for a couple of years, you find yourself almost hoping for. It’s not good, and it suffers from a severe case of pilotitis, a…
Read MorePopfilter’s Foreign Flick of the Week
Where Stephanie reviews a film from ‘Notmeria India’s The Lunchbox One of the most fascinating things about foreign films is that they let a viewer see how people in other places go about their daily routines. In India, office building and other workplaces do not have microwaves and refrigerators, so people don’t bring lunches…
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THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE THE POPFILTER 2014 FALL TV CHALLENGE For the last couple of seasons, the PopFilter editing staff has attempted to tackle every new fall premiere, trying to determine whether or not they were good shows based solely on their pilots. All that we learned was that pilots are painful garbage that…
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