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The PopFilter 2014 TV Challenge
Round 2 TIM AND ERIC’S BEDTIME STORIES vs MADAM SECRETARY Follow the action at http://challonge.com/POPFILTER The second episode of Tim and Eric’s Bedtime Stories finds Bob Odenkirk playing a doctor that specializes in toe removal. The second episode of Madam Secretary finds Tea Leoni and crew essentially reading the same script as the…
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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 MR. PICKLES VS MADAM SECRETARY SEE THE BRACKET AT challonge.com/popfilter Ahhh…fall is back. When the leaves change color, children are buying new stencil sets for their stencil classes, and a nation of television watchers mildly prays for mediocrity. Please, oh please, at least just give us mediocrity. Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Greatest…
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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…
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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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The PopFilter Fall TeeVee PreVee CABLE! THE AFFAIR (SHOWTIME) PREMIERES SUNDAY OCTOBER 12TH WHAT IT BE: In Treatment creators Hagai Levi and Sarah Treem jump to Showtime for this 10 episode story of two couples, and the affair that breaks them apart or brings them together, or both, seeing as how it lasts for ten…
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The PopFilter Fall TeeVee PreVee THE CW THE FLASH PREMIERES TUESDAY OCTOBER 7TH WHAT IT BE: The CW’s follows up the success of Arrow with another DC character that isn’t part of their Big 3 (Batman, Superman, and Batman). The Flash follows the adventures of a young Barry Allen as he attempts to…
Read MoreTOP TEN – TV CHARACTERS WHO WENT MIA
TV Characters Who Went MIA Judy Winslow – Family Matters Before Urkel’s influence made it all about experiments with cloning and nerd hormone, this TGIF staple focused on the Winslow family and their three kids…and Grandma…and Aunt and adorable baby Cousin. Youngest daughter Judy wasn’t old enough for romantic or rebellious subplots like Laura and…
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