Posts Tagged ‘Fall TV’
Popfilter’s 2014 Fall TV Challenge
Round 3 HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER VS TRANSPARENT Check out all the action at http://challonge.com/popfilter I’ve been looking forward to this match up since reviewing each of these pilots. These have been two of the best quality shows of the new fall season. So far, the shows we have compared have been unequally…
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ROUND ONE BAD JUDGE VS GRACEPOINT View the bracket at http://challonge.com/popfilter Dear Everyone Involved with Bad Judge, Shame on you. You’ve managed to produced a show devoid of any redeemable quality whatsoever. Your lead, played by Kate Walsh, is essentially that girl from freshmen year who instead of developing interests and a personality partied too…
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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 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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