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►Astraeius's Best of 2013◀︎ (TV) | TOP 20 DRAMA: #5 - #1
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I need to watch Modern Family
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fantastic #1
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Modern Family #1!
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Modern Family slaying
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Modern Family and New Girl. <3
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fantastic #1
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What else but Modern Family. It was a no brainer.
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I use. I still need to watch a lot of the shows you listed, but I only heard great about them.
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I haven't checked Veep
But Louie and MF
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I need to watch Modern Family
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You guys should check them out, theyre all amazing.
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The Big Bang Theory, 2 Broke Girls are amazing, especially 2BG! they are only 2 comedy shows I'm watching right now tho
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MF and Girls
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Top 5 Reality TV Shows of 2013
#5 ~ #1
Here it is folks
#5
I only started watching this show this summer when I was suffering from Big Brother withdrawal after its season finale, and I have to say I can understand how it delivers its monster ratings. Although after a while I have to admit i did start to lose interest in the show. It focuses too much on the 'action' aspect instead of the 'people' aspect so it becomes very hard to root for someone (and there is virtually no drama)
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Originally posted by Wikipedia
The show maroons a group of strangers (as one or more tribes) in a desolate locale, where they must provide food, water, fire, and shelter for themselves, while competing in challenges to earn either a reward, or an immunity from expulsion from the game in the next of the successive votes for elimination. While much less common than elimination by vote, medical conditions, such as injury or infection, have eliminated several contestants. The last two or three survivors face a jury composed of the last seven, eight, or nine players voted off. That jury interrogates the final few, and then votes for the winner of the game, the title of Sole Survivor and a million dollar prize.
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Never really understood why ratings for Masterchef have been persistently declining. It seems to be getting better every season. Oh and. Gordon Ramsey. That is all.
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MasterChef is based on the first season of the Australian format, produced by FremantleMedia Australia, which in turn was based on the British BBC series MasterChef. Chef, television personality and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay together with restaurateur and vineyard owner Joe Bastianich and chef Graham Elliot are the judges in the US version of MasterChef. The competition takes place in the MasterChef warehouse which includes a large area with several cooking stations which is overlooked by a balcony, a well-stocked pantry, and a fine-dining seating area used for certain challenges.
Amateur chefs are initially selected through nationwide auditions, selecting a total of one hundred competitors to the start of the televised competition. In the preliminary rounds, each of these has an opportunity to prepare a signature dish for the trio of judges. They are given a limited amount of time to prep their dish, and then given five minutes before the judges to complete the cooking and assembly of the dish, during which the judges will ask about their background. The three judges will taste the dish, and vote "yes" or "no" to keeping the chef in the competition; two "yes" votes are required for the chef to move on and receive a MasterChef apron, while those that fail to do so leave the competition. This process weans the field to about one-third of the original size.
One or more rounds are then used to trim the number of remaining chefs to about 16 or 18. One type of challenge has the chefs performing a routine task such as dicing onions, during which the judges will observe their technique. Judges can advance a chef to the next round or eliminate them at any time during the challenge by taking their apron. A second type of challenge is to have the chefs invent a new dish around a staple ingredient or a theme, with the judges advancing or eliminating players based on the taste of their dishes.
Subsequently, the formal competition begins typically following a four-event cycle that takes place over two episodes, with a chef eliminated after the second and fourth event.
This cycle continues until only four chefs remain, upon which the judges eliminate two chefs to select the final two competitors. These two face off in preparing a complete three course meal (appetizer, main course, and dessert) in a fixed amount of time, in which both the individual dishes and the overall meal's composition are evaluated by the judges. The judges then select the winner of MasterChef.
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Okay so maybe I felt a bit obligated to place this show 3rd since I started the Amazing Race thread but it really never fails to deliver. Every season there are people to root for and hate, and occasionally things like this happen:
Oh and don't forget to check out the Amazing Race thread. All star season is approaching!
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The Amazing Race is a reality television game show in which teams of two people, who have some form of a preexisting personal relationship, race around the world in competition with other teams. Contestants strive to arrive first at "Pit Stops" at the end of each leg of the race to win prizes and to avoid coming in last, which carries the possibility of elimination or a significant disadvantage in the following leg. Contestants travel to and within multiple countries in a variety of transportation modes, including airplanes, hot air balloons, helicopters, trucks, bicycles, taxicabs, cars, jeepneys, trains, buses, boats, and by foot. Clues provided in each leg lead the teams to the next destination or direct them to perform a task, either together or by a single member. These challenges are related in some manner to the country wherein they are located or its culture. Teams are progressively eliminated until three are left; at that point, the team that arrives first in the final leg is awarded the grand prize.
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I can't be the only person to watch this show and not be totally ashamed of it.
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The only TV program that could imaginably contain more farts than the one-hour premiere of Honey Boo Boo is How Stuff Works: The Whoopee Cushion Edition. But the show is intimately concerned not only with the output, from whatever orifice, of its characters—irrepressible Alana Thompson who, due to her imitation of a “sassy black lady,” got herself the nickname Honey Boo Boo and a TV show; her 300-pound mother Mama June; June’s three other daughters and her baby daddy, Sugar Bear—but what they put into their bodies as well. There is no show on television that plumbs the extremely real and loaded connections between food and class in America like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, a series that regularly sneers at the lower-class family it films because of what and how they eat and how what they eat makes them look. But there are worse things than never eating your vegetables, and more important ones too. The Honey Boo Boo clan often transcend the narrow condescension of the series’ producers—between-scene interludes include shots of humping dogs and the sound of a toilet flushing—with a deep familial affection and a rousing, Amelia Bedelia-esque esprit de corps.
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For a certain segment of the population, the idea that a loving parent could not give a hoot about what her children put in their mouths or how loud they farted it out or if they exercised is beyond the pale. Mama June genuinely doesn’t seem to care about these things and if her kids are unhealthier than they might be, they also seem, especially compared to many reality-TV families, loved. Alana, a little ham who in a more affluent family would just be enrolled in acting classes, talks about how wrestling and making dog piles are her family’s favorite things to do, which essentially means everyone jumping up and down on each other in June and Sugar Bear’s bed, cackling and screeching in the small house with one bathroom that they all share. If the producers want to make much of all the noises emanating from that bathroom—and they do—the stink is on them.
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Okay so maybe season 15 was a complete dud. Queens Helen, Jessie, Candice and Elissa were robbed of their victories and that rat Andy along with the mess Ginamarie won the prize money. Even so, this was a complete no brainer. No reality show has ever caused as much drama and scandal as Big Brother (This season there were the racist bigots Aaryn and Amanda and ofc there was the child-**** hitler loving Spencer) and no reality show will probably ever will.
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Big Brother is a reality game show franchise created by John de Mol. The premise of the show is that there is a group of people that are housemates or houseguests living together in a large, usually specially constructed house. During their time in the house they are isolated from the outside world and are not commonly aware of outside events. Contestants are continuously monitored by in-house television cameras as well as personal audio microphones during their stay. Each series lasts for about three months, with 10–20 contestants entering the house. To win the final cash prize, a contestant must survive periodic (usually weekly) evictions and be the last housemate or houseguest remaining in the compound by the series' conclusion.
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Originally posted by TV Guide
If you thought the banter among the Big Brother houseguests couldn't get any worse this season ... think again.
Contestant Spencer Clawson is under investigation by his hometown police department after he went on an eye-popping tangent about child ****ography this week. It's pretty clear that Clawson intended the comments as a joke — he had grabbed the microphone of fellow contestant McCrae and was pretending to be McCrae — but authorities were apparently not amused.
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Originally posted by Today
It was a summer of controversy on "Big Brother" thanks to repeated displays of racism, sexism and homophobia inside the made-for-reality-TV house. But while the TV audience, live feed viewers and headline readers on the outside reeled from the remarks and actions, the contestants responsible for the bad behavior remained in the dark about the controversy — that is until the competition came to an end on Wednesday night.
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I know all of them except #2.
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"The Amazing Race" is so good
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Well actually I only know Big Brother but I don't like so much, whatever I want to see yoour other tops
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The Amazing Race!!
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HONEY BOOBOO SLAAAAAAY
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BIG BROTHER YESSSSSSSS but it's probably your own country one that I don't know anything about..
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Big Brother #1 where it should be
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Amazing Race
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Survivor and The Amazing Race.
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Top 20 Dramas of 2013
#20 ~ #16
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Originally posted by The Hollywood Reporter
Ichabod Crane arrives in the modern day Sleepy Hollow. He's followed quickly by the Headless Horseman. There are scores to settle from the past and tons of secrets in the present. A lot of unexplained phenomena here, but also a lot of fun if the emphasis stays more on the ridiculous and less on the mythological.
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Fox's new drama gets better the more silly and fun it becomes. Awesome Ichabod Crane? Crazy Headless Horseman? Popping up in the modern day? Opt in on that and get yourself entertained.
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Empty-headed hokum about people who one day realize they're special -- as in being one of the Tomorrow People. One cool thing they can do is teleport. But none of them use that very wisely. Anyway, they are being hunted by a group called Ultra. Which puts two crazy names into one crazy show. Other stuff happens but you really shouldn't watch this unless you're immortal and time doesn't matter to you.
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Originally posted by The AV Club
At the very least, Klemmer’s Tomorrow People is always going to be a shiny bauble that’s pleasant to look at, a continuation of The CW’s unexpected move to bring a cinematic gleam and genre intrigue to TV screens with a liberal serving of style and a soupçon of soul. There are some shots and some sets in the pilot that look like the show is getting more out of significantly less money than the Hulk-sized piles of cash Disney is throwing at Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. That’s bound to change as the show gets accustomed to playing with the budget of a continuing series on a second-tier network, a point at which Amell and his fellow Tomorrow People will need to develop fuller personalities or face up to the deeper, troubling implications of what Pellegrino proposes in this pilot—something to fill the special-effects and fight-choreography void. The Tomorrow People could represent the next step in The CW’s evolution, so long as it’s allowed to utilize all the latent potential on display in this first episode.
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The Americans is an American television period drama series created and produced by former CIA officer Joe Weisberg. The series premiered in the United States on January 30, 2013 on the cable network FX and completed its first season on May 1, 2013. The series has been renewed for a second season, which will premiere in February 2014.
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys), two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. with their unsuspecting children (Holly Taylor and Keidrich Sellati), and their neighbor, Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), an FBI Counter-Intelligence agent. The series focuses on the personal and professional lives of the Jennings', sometimes incorporating real-life events into the narrative. The series has been described as a story about marriage by its creator
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Supernatural
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Haven't seen any of those, but Supernatural sounds great
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Can't comment on much of the TV shows so far, but I have to say that season 6 of BBT was probably my favorite other than 3. It's just great. Haven't watched an episode of season 7 yet, but I plan on doing so shortly.
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Supernatural
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