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The 2014 PopFilter New Fall TV Challenge
Round Three A to Z VS TRANSPARENT See the bracket! Today’ combatants are both part of the elite eight, but for very different reasons. Both 30 minute comedies, their formats are enormously different. A to Z is more of a standard sitcom with a familiar format. And by the third episode, its settling comfortably…
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Round One THE AFFAIR VS CRISTELA See all the bracket action at http://challonge.com/popfilter Today’s match up has Showtime’s The Affair pitted against ABC’s new sitcom Cristela. That sentence has all the information you need to determine the winner. End of article? No! Keep reading. Showtime has given the world some great television, such…
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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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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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Freaks and Geeks Episode VII: Carded and Discarded Or “Got those under-aged drinking Blues†This is Freaks and Drinks, the article that brings you a new drinking game for each and every episode of Freaks and Geeks. This week we are looking at episode six, titled, Carded and Discarded, where Lindsay and the…
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Freaks and Drinks Episode VI: “I’m with the Band†or “The 29-Piece Drum Kit†Your Pop Filter presents Freaks and Drinks, a drinking game for each individual episode of Freaks and Geeks. This time we are doing episode 6 titled “I’m with the band,†in which Lindsay encourages Nick’s dreams and Sam embraces public nudity.…
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