#way funnier than portia

[adoribullpavus]

something that isn't talked about enough is how funny sandrock is, like why was i not told earlier that some awkward lil autistic guy is gonna invite me over to watch paint dry and ask for my opinion on how he should display his rock collection??

[iliveforyouilongforyouvesuvia]

for the mini hcs, what do you think the M6 would make of mc's familiar being a crab🦀?

I'm sorry but i cant shake off my mind the thought of Julian making intricate stage fights with it like this guy:

P.S love your writing and your blog everything here is just so neat.

The Arcana Mini-HCs: When MC's familiar is a crab

@therowdymagpie thank you for the little compliment, I'm so glad this space is bringing you joy!! :D In return, please see the silly little joke I learned from a Scottish minister years ago at the bottom:

Julian: as previously mentioned, he sees this as his opportunity to stage fights with the crab, and on occasion, might even set it up to fight one of his leeches when it doesn't behave as it should

Asra: so. many. puns. "out of groceries, huh? that puts us in a pincer." "what's gotten into him? no need to be crabby about it." giggles at their own jokes every time with that :3 face of theirs

Nadia: never commented on it being a crab, to the point that you start to think she hasn't noticed. until you start getting jewelry inspired by its shell and you notice how rarely seafood is served

Muriel: more worried than anything about the crab having a healthy habitat way out in the woods. Builds it a tank and spends days hauling buckets of salt water from the harbor to fill it up

Portia: makes more jokes than necessary about giving it to Mazelinka to steam and put into her soup. Pepi has become extra protective of it as a result and will even scold her master for it on occasion

Lucio: routinely forgets the difference between crab and lobster and gets pinched for it. having learned what an effective training tool it is, he likes to borrow your familiar to threaten people he doesn't like

Q: Whats the difference between an old bus stop and a crab/lobster with breast implants? A: One's a crusty bus station and one's a busty crustacean

(this sounds a lot funnier when it's said out loud)

[thekatebridgerton]

Bunty aur Babli AU with Bridgerton couples

You know I’m glad I’m not the only one that has a thing for any movie Rani Mukerji is in, because it makes me feel validated as a fan. This is a funnier version of the classic Bonnie and Clyde dynamic. Which I loved.

This one would have made a super good Polin au, where Anthony gives Colin an ultimatum of either get a serious job or be disinherited, and Portia likewise tells Penelope that she either gets married to a random old suitor or she’s going to be kicked out of the house. So both Colin and Penelope get the brilliant idea of running away from home on the same day, and find each other on the same ship to America. Colin of course can’t let Penelope travel alone, and proposes that they stick together as friends until they make their fortune in America and return home rich.

Easier said than done. Turns out that when you’re nobility and your practical skills amount to very little in the new world, finding work is easier said than done. That is until Colin and Penelope team up to get revenge on some business man who fooled Colin into giving away a family keepsake, and in the process of recovering the heirloom and getting the businessman thrown into jail they discover that they are both very talented at conning people.

So Penelope proposes that they simply make some money tricking the rich, until they make enough to go back to England and buy themselves a piece of land. With her Lady Whistledown skills of sussing out information and Colin charm, it’s easy to wear a disguise and pretend to be some Nigerian Prince that needs a thousand pounds. Or some fortune teller that can communicate with the dead and needs a wealthy widow to deed Colin half her fortune. Why can’t Penelope pretend to be the long lost daughter of a politician, if the politician had affairs behind his wife back, then that’s his fault.

Turns out that the more money they make, the less they want to go back to England, despite the fact that Penelope knows that Colin’s elder brother has sent bow street runners to track them down and bring them home. Colin instead thinks that he would rather start his own family with her, the woman who has quickly become the love of his life and not only his partner in crime. In all her life Penelope believed that she wasn’t destined for adventure, but an adventure with Colin is really all she’s ever wanted. Not only because she has always been inlove with him but also because he compliments her mischievous nature perfectly. And really what they do isn’t that bad, people are giving their money willingly, with a little con men persuasion sure, but it’s not like Penelope is helping Colin rob a bank. Getting married is only going to make the adventure more fun and she is helpless to resist him. Just as he is helpless to resist her.

I like to think that Anthony eventually catches them before the police does, and they are forced to give up their life of crime and return to England. With some very heavy string pulling on both the Featherington and Bridgerton side to avoid being recongized in England as wanted criminals in America. But Colin and Penelope never truly give up mastermind ways, and still sneak out to con a noble or two every once in a while.

And that’s the tea

[dexabite]

don't get me wrong, i fucking LOVE something rotten the musical, any bootleg on the internet there is, i LOVE IT. SO MUCH.

but the thing i noticed with two bootlegs on youtube (tap dancing eggs, and the one with the original cast), is that the performances have different tones, if you get me.

tap dancing eggs (the one with rob mcclure) is much funnier, and i can really understand the characters personalities well there and they performed REALLY FUCKING WELL. it's my favorite performance, actually. they give the songs personality and their own little twists to it, and i listen to that bootleg instead of the original recordings, more often than not.

and the one with the original cast is so much more serious compared to the one with rob mcclure in it... it has everything that was missing in the tap dancing eggs bootleg; drama, betrayal, and the consequences of nick's actions could really be seen in every character's reactions. i mean hell, LOOK AT BEA AND NIGEL!!! THEY WERE SO FUCKING BETRAYED. also there's an extra song so 😍

but really they're both lacking to me ngl... we just need the sweet, sweet, sweet middle of comedy and drama that the two bootlegs have...

another thing was that they were both lacking in the representation of all the characters traits. because the tap dancing eggs bootleg showcased the characters good traits: you can see nick being genuinely protective of nigel, you can see the bottom brother's relationship there in a positive light, bea's really fucking funny and strong and assertive. (i'm going to leave out shakespeare and portia, since they really just stayed the same in both productions). and their arguments, jokes, and whatever, all translate so well. i can't tell you how many times i found so many moments amusing because of the way they deliver them. they feel more energetic in this production, much more care put for the character they're acting as!

in the original cast's production, they're more serious... it feels faster, and most of the quips and jokes made are said in a talking voice, instead of the over-exaggerated voices and movements they had in the tap dancing eggs bootleg. nick here is much more controlling, much more fatherly than brotherly despite them being brothers 😭 his relationship with nigel seems more strained too, which actually feels realistic since nick's been a dick to him. bea feels more... flat. her character falls flatter there i am sorry to admit 😭 but the consequences for nick's actions there are much more SERIOUS. like you genuinely see him being left by both bea and nigel because of his betrayal, and he sings "to thine own self (reprise)" on his own, instead of being surrounded by the people he loves... which i fucking LIVE FOR.

so really: ALL WE NEED IS TO MIX THE FIRST ACT OF THE TAP DANCING EGGS PRODUCTION AND THE SECOND ACT OF THE ORIGINAL CAST'S PRODUCTION. that is the real solution here.

[oneweekobsession]

ok ok ok julius caesar at the bridge was *pretty fucking intense*

[elsyrel]

Arcana headcanons: main 6 and how they use the internet

I thought I wouldn’t write any more headcanons, but... lmao. What can I say? It’s funnier than I expected. I’m not the most versed person on social media myself, but I’m writting this anyway. Modern AU: 

Asra

Watches anime on pirate webs. Everytime it takes 5 to 10 minutes to start the episode because he doesn’t have Adblock installed. If you tell him to install it, he laughs and assures you he will. Next time, he hasn’t.

Aesthetic Instagram. Varies from the most beautiful art to the most absurd psychedelic nonsense.

Posts a controversial bomb on delicate site (twitter), and magically disappears when the discourse starts as if nothing had happened.

Has several art accounts where he posts from drawings to artesanal crafts. Sells commissions but obviously doesn’t pay taxes. 

Offers tarot readings to strangers. Uses thousands of emoticons to sound as unthreatening as possible.

Nadia

Exhaustive + extremely technical tutorials. Used by university cathedratics in their classes on daily basis without credit.

Periodically recieves several offers from companies to become an influencer. Politely rejects them all every time.

Not very interested in social media, uses the internet mainly for research. However, she is surprisingly generous with likes and reblogs for her friends.

Builds her own computer by buying each individual component and ensambling it all together. The result is a monster with the power of a NUCLEAR REACTOR, even though she doesn’t even need so much potency. Somehow, she manages to make it aesthetically pleasing and elegant.

Always... always... always grammatically correct, no matter the setting.

Julian

He is like a grandpa. Doesn’t understand shit. Has Windows XP as operating system. Calls the IT guy to delete the rejected documents from the recycle bin.

Mispronounces all social media names. No matter how many times you correct him, next time he will mispronounce it again. The weirdest thing is he never pronounces it the same way twice. You suspect that sometimes he does it on purpose to pull your leg.

Accidentally downloads multiple virus while trying to watch the most anodyne film. When weird shit starts to happen, he freaks out as if the government hackers were after him.

Resends the corniest chains. He sees nothing bad with Comic Sans font, or with pure red text over pure blue back. Your eyes will bleed.

Uses facebook to flirt with single moms and dads in his area.

Muriel

Ghosts everyone on whatsapp. He checks new messages once every 6 days at most.

Has a secret Tumblr nobody but Asra knows about. Follows mainly bird tematic blogs. Likes mainly funny videos of chickens and cute animals.  500 Likes. 0 Reblogs. 0 Posts.

Incognito mode for absolutely EVERYTHING, no matter how innocent. If he accidentally enters the Google page without incognito mode, he deletes the historial.

Sticks a piece of tape on the computer camera, just in case.

Listens to music in the shittiest quality and doesn’t give a fuck.

Portia

Cat. Picture. Hell. 70% of her phone memory are just pictures of random cats. Nine hundred and eighty seven photos of Pepi, and counting.

Posts advice for garden care... and it’s really, really good. Really thoughtful, with tons of examples and pictures. If someone asks something, she always knows the answer.

Has a youtube channel with videos of her exploring abandoned buildings, recorded by herself or Julian. Base of followers slowly but steadily going up.

Frequently makes funny videos of dumb stuff. All of them with shitty quality and too moved. A few of them have gone viral. 

Meme avalanch in the group chat at 7 in the fucking morning. There is no meme she doesn't know. The bombardment of memes and puns by whatsapp is constant and endless. Run.

Lucio

The most OBSSESSED with social media. Has an account on every single one of them and literally never shuts up. He gets really frustrated when he realizes that gaining followers is not as easy as he thought. Posts the most stupid opinions, then gets angry when he loses followers. ‘People don't know what’s good’.

Potential victim of cryptocurrency frauds.

The most exibitionist bitch on the net. Of course, he has an Onlyfans. But if you ask nicely, he just posts the nudes publicly anyway. 

Thirsty thirsty THIRSTY for notes. Checks every two minutes.

He is a famous patron in the furry artist community. He spends just. So. Much. Money. Some furries even debate if he is a real person, or just a myth, or maybe even several people. He is kind of a legend, actually.

[apprenticeofcups]

Can I get HC from the main six for an MC who is pretty confident and outspoken and kind of reckless in everything except for romance? So basically wouldn’t bat an eye and public speaking and would scale a mountain cliff but someone flirts with them and they become a Mess? Your writing is amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing 😭

💖💖💖thank you!!

😳Main 6 + Fearless Fumbling Flirter MC

Asra

ohhh boy

(we all know the face, right?)

He sees the irony right away

His favorite time to flirt with you is while you’re doing one of those oh-so-daring things

Climbing a mountain or braving the Nopali desert to find a long-lost magician’s tomb, he’ll stop suddenly and give you one of those long, adoring looks

“Your eyes, they’re like the desert - deep, storied…I wouldn’t mind getting lost in them”

If you fall off the cliff face or blush so hard you get heatstroke, it’s on him

He can’t help it - it’s just so funny

Julian

ohohohohohoho BOY

Did someone say “reckless”?

He’ll climb any mountain with you, follow you on hundreds of adventures with all his usual swashbuckling swagger

And Julian loves to flirt, especially when he gets such a reaction

He has no trouble laying it on thick - poetry, flowers, swooning declarations

You’ve gotten pretty good at spotting his vielle when it’s stashed somewhere for a surprise serenade

That being said, he’s…pretty much the same, when someone flirts back

So once your brain starts working again, dish it back and watch him “uh - mm - ah - aheh” himself to death

Nadia

It’s hilarious

Nadia’s not exactly a shrinking violet, and you’re even more adventurous than her

But she tucks your hair behind your ear, and you forget how to speak?

She adores it, really - both your confidence and your total romantic ineptitude

And she’s not gonna stop flirting with you, not for one second

Double-meanings, tiny, lingering touches, fawning, eloquent compliments - she likes it when you come undone

She does avoid doing it in public, though, because she doesn’t want you to be embarrassed

Muriel

He’s not really a “flirty” person - more of a quiet, physical affection and meaningful-looks person - so he rarely sets you off, but when he does

panic

He relies so much on your confidence and extrovertedness, so when a simple compliment (that he had to work up courage to make, by the way) makes you stammer and blush, he is distressed

By all accounts, something has to be bad to throw you off your game, and now he’s worried he upset you

He feels better once you explain yourself, but he’s still careful

He starts “warning” you before he compliments you (“Don’t take this the wrong way, but…you look…nice today.”)

You realize when you catch him hiding a smile that he is, he’s teasing you

Portia

Seriously, you’re describing the Devorak Brand™ to a tee

The girl is fearless, but when you flirt with her, she’s a puddle

She’s sneakier than you are, though

And she knows it

She doesn’t lead up to it like Julian or Nadia - just casually bounces from planning your next cliff-diving trip to how hot you are when you play with your hair

One minute, you’re laughing and teasing her about skinny-dipping, and then next - your brain stops firing

It’s so subtle, and it hits you like a train 

Lucio

You think you’re reckless

A lot of his attempts at flirting don’t get you twisted-up like you normally are

The first time he lands one, he’ll think he hurt your feelings

When you let him know how romance gets you tongue-tied, first, his ego will soar - 

Then he’ll want to know why you didn’t blush and stutter when he winked at you this morning? called you that new nickname last night? made that pun about your butt last week?

What do you mean he’s not as smooth as he thinks he is? 

He turns the “charm” up to eleven, to see if he can get you to unravel, and he’s so proud of himself when he can - but it’s funnier when he can’t ☕

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[arrested-family]

Arrested Development | Season Five Part 1 Review

First of all let me say that I think a lot of people don’t think that Season 5 is funny because they don’t understand the jokes and they don’t understand that Season 5 IS A VERY AWKWARD Season for all of the Bluths!

The Bluths are back and they are… somehow worse than they were in Season 4, if that’s even possible. Someone has killed Lucille 2, they’re all hiding secrets from each other whilst trying to seem as “normal” as possible and they’re all trying to work together while simultaneously lying to each other and the only person who couldn’t careless about the whole situation is Maeby; I know this might be a stretch but she might actually be the worst Bluth there is.

Michael and George Michael are lying to each other about being with Rebel Alley. Michael is trying to teach Lucille a lesson by having Buster arrested and thrown into prison. George isn’t feeling like himself, to the point of trying to kill himself twice in the first four episodes. GOB is gay (and is completed obsessed with Tony Wonder) but is having a hard time hiding it from his family; he’s hired a woman to act as his beard. Lucille for some reason kept Tobias as her therapist, she started see the error of her ways; until she heard the president of the United States (I don’t even like saying his name!) talking about putting up a wall between USA and Mexico.

Lucille then manipulated Lindsay into running for Congress (against Sally Sitwell) so she could put the wall. Lindsay hires Maeby as her Campaign Manager and you can guess how well that’s going. Lindsay has FINALLY had enough of Lucille (to the point of covering herself with the sheets because her mother is never satisfied with how she looks trust me I know how she feels! 😂) and has gone to find her biological mother; that should be good. Maeby is basically trying to rip her whole family apart and no one notices that she’s doing it as usual. Tobias is trying his best to fit into the Bluth Family but as usual he’s failing miserably because he’s trying too bloody hard!

So overall I’m really enjoying Season 5, it feels like Season three all over again, I’m so happy the Bluths are back but… I understand why they have to body doubles / green screens in Season 5. Honestly it makes Season 5 so much funnier because AD has always walked the thin line between fiction and "reality”.

Update: I finished watching the first half of season five last week and I have to say it’s so nice to see the Bluths back! Season is by far the best season so far, I can’t wait to see the second half and I honestly believe that AD, Jason Bateman and Mitch Hurwitz deserve and Emmy for the season; seriously it’s incredible!

Also one part that made me serioulsly LOL was when Tobias found DeBrie at Marky’s Ostrich farm, Tobias then told Lucille to use DeBrie as Lindsay’s body double at the Second of July parade. The part that made me laugh was when DeBrie was wearing the black sheet over her head and she then falls through the wall on Lindsay’s float! I honestly couldn’t stop laughing! 😂

“Once a Bluth, always a Bluth” - Portia de Rossi

[kentuckertv]

great news review andrea martin

It’s ‘Great News’ That This New Sitcom Is So Good A delightful surprise, Great News immediately becomes one of network television’s best sitcoms with its NBC premiere on Tuesday night. Conceived by Tracey Wigfield (30 Rock, The Mindy Project), it takes a familiar TV setting—behind the scenes in the making of a TV show—and populates it with fresh characters, none of whom is fresher-in-every-sense than star Andrea Martin.

Martin is, of course, the great comic performer who helped make SCTV legendary and has recently brightened the Billy Eichner-Julie Klausner show Difficult People. In Great News, she plays, Carol, the mother of Katie Wendelson (Briga Heelan), a producer for a cut-rate afternoon news show called The Breakdown. The first episode sets up the gimmick: senior-citizen Carol, loud and brassy, joins the shows as an intern; mortification of her daughter immediately follows.

The show—whose executive producers include Tina Fey and Robert Carlock–plays on the notion that, as an aging boomer, Carol is perplexed by the fast pace and high-tech of a TV studio, to say nothing of current pop culture (she refers to Drake as “the Canada wheelchair guy”). But she deploys her natural inclinations to be boisterously friendly, snoopy, and honest to make herself valuable to The Breakdown’s staff. Martin plays this with all the bravura gusto she can muster, and believe me, she can muster a heckuva lot.

In daughter Katie—intelligent, talented, but a little tentative about promoting herself professionally–Wigfield has created a vivid character. You can easily imagine why, as the daughter of Carol, Katie has turned out the way she has. Her initial panic and subsequent mild-panic-resignation about her mom as an office-mate makes for a unique mother-daughter TV relationship, and Heelan–excellent in Netflix’s Love and a bright light in unworthy vehicles such as Undateable and Ground Floor--has found a fine showcase here for her subtle comedic style, characterized by deft double-takes, rapid-fire dialogue-delivery, and a plucky commitment to physical gags. (The episode in which Katie learns to ride a bike is aces.)

Wigfield—who also appears on the show as a possibly-demented weather forecaster—has cherry-picked bits of 30 Rock and The Mary Tyler Moore Show and added her own, original spin. The newsroom is complete with an egotistical yet insecure anchor (John Michael Higgins, the always-funny veteran of Christopher Guest comedies), his ditzy co-anchor (Nicole Richie, surprisingly not-bad), and the news show’s jittery producer (Adam Campbell). It’s possible to nit-pick some flaws—Richie’s Portia is just a variation on 30 Rock’s Jenna Maroney; producer Greg is a flighty coward one moment, a stern task-master the next—but Great News steamrolls over your reservations. The show is jammed with jokes; if you don’t laugh at one, there for six more waiting to tickle you in the next 30 seconds. Just the urgent chyrons running beneath The Breakdown’s broadcasts (“Is There A Silent Killer In Your Family’s Handguns?) are funnier than most sitcoms.

Great News airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on NBC.

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[subvertingyourexpectations]

It’s (the New) Arrested Development

Arrested Development has been my favorite show ever since the first time I watched it. I’ve always thought the comedic timing (and the comedic intricacies) paved the way for some of the funniest jokes I’ve ever seen in a television show. I fell in love with the characters, the sets, and the zany plots that inhabited both. I think seasons one through three are some of the best television seasons of all-time, bar none.

  And then season four came along, and to be honest, I think season four is brilliant; in its own way. In a very different way from the rest of the show. Where the original show kind of worked with all the characters moving in tandem and bouncing off of each other in the moment, season four opted instead for giant arcs that spanned almost a decade; and it had to, because, well, the show had been gone for almost a decade. It felt like the humor was still there, but the circumstances had completely changed.

  In many ways, I think season four came at a bad time. Virtually every main character was a bigger star than they had ever been on the original run, and so it created two problems: one, it was hard to get everybody together to shoot at once, and two, it made the possibility of a season five even murkier. Think about it, season four, a season that spanned eight years and nine characters shooting off in a thousand different directions, needed a season five where everybody came back together. But we needed season five in 2014, or 2015, and instead we’re getting it a whole five years after season four originally aired. If we keep getting years-long gaps between these seasons, it’s not going to do anybody any good, because it’s just so damn easy to lose the thread.

  That’s one of only two major problems I have with season five. The other big one is Portia de Rossi, who announced that she wanted to retire from acting. Rather than try and write her out of the show, Mitchell Hurwitz decided to keep her on the show anyway, with brief scenes in half the episodes. Simply put, I’d rather have them find a way to write her out rather than stick her in as few scenes as possible, and when she is there she sticks out like a sore thumb (literally, she’s green-screened in every single scene). Given that one of the plotlines of season five (spoilers, maybe stop reading if you haven’t seen the whole thing) is that she’s missing, perhaps she’ll get a proper send-off in the second half of the season, but we’ll just have to wait and see.

  Other than that, I really like season five. I think at its worst it tries to reconcile everything from season four (this is especially at its worst in the first three episodes, which I don’t like), but at its best, it sets up a bright and delightfully convoluted future for the show. I feel like I’m starting to see the “three act structure” that Jason Bateman talked about a year ago, and as long as they stick the landing, I think I’d be okay with season six being the last.

  One of the many reasons that I like season five is that when it really hits its stride, it’s firing on all cylinders. The plotlines all duck and weave around each other in a kind-of ballet-like fashion, and the comedy that follows is all music to my ears. Some of the individual jokes feel a little weak, but the crazy plotlines are just as good as season four.

  And I think that’s the important comparison to make, because this new season is really only comparable to, well, the other newest season. Four and five are never gonna be on the same caliber as the original show, and honestly, the sooner you can accept that the sooner you can start enjoying it. Is Tobias running around with his son impersonating every character as funny as all those times he blue himself? Of course not. But it’s still funny, and it’s still a bizarrely hilarious performance from David Cross. It’s still the same characters doing hilarious things, it’s just different. That’s the way I start to view every plotline in season four and five; it’s not about what’s funnier, it’s just nice to be funny at all.

  And just because it’s not as funny doesn’t mean it isn’t smart in its own ways. Where the original show really seemed to shine with individual moments and throwaway gags, I truly believe the new Arrested Development does overarching plotlines perfectly. With both seasons four and five, the writers deftly maneuver the plots around each other in a way that is undeniably satisfying to watch.

So it’s a different kind of enjoyment we get from the show, but again, it’s still enjoyment. I’m just so glad they’re making Arrested Development at all, that I’m not gonna worry whether it’s “like the original show” or not. As Lucille says, forgive, but don’t forget. Or maybe it’s forget, but never forgive. I’ve heard her say it both ways.

[pastelgayfairy-blog]

What Are The Best Tv Shows On Netflix

Best TV Shows on Netflix Right Now Scattered one of the better TV shows on Netflix are more and more of the streaming platform’s own original series. Watching TV on Netflix has gotten better and better as the support continues to add to its amazing catalog of network and cable collection, not to mention the proliferation of flashy Netflix originals. In reality, the business that spent its formative years in an effort to to see films has since become in the world’s main enabler of binge-watching. Our listing of the greatest shows on Netflix is here to help you discover the next TV series to devour, and we’ve appeared through the enormous catalog (USA only, sorry) to find these suggestions.

Breaking Bad

Creator: Vince Gilligan Stars: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul Giancarlo Esposito Network: AMC One of the things that created Breaking Bad one of the alltime greats was the writers did a phenomenal job introducing plot lines, complicated themes and tips, and then weaving them all together for an excessively fulfilling conclusion. It’s not an easy thing to do, especially when the display asks the audience to hold on tight until the end to see where it’s all going. In that way it’s similar to The Wire, a show that didn’t hammer its audience within the the pinnacle constantly with flashy occasions, but requested for patience as all the plot threads gradually untangled. And with Breaking Bad’s narrower focus, the stakes and emotional ties we have using the story and figures can be significantly higher.

Sherlock

Creators: Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat Stars: Rupert Graves, Benedict Cumberbatch Mark Gatiss Network: BBC One h-AS only to seem in the sterling monitor record of Steve Moffat to witness a showrunner godin the creating. The guiding hand behind such English hits as Press Gang and Coupling, Moffat has acquired the most attention for resuscitating Dr. Who into the Anglo Saxon ambassador of science fiction. But Moffat and frequent collaborator Mark Gatiss transcended their best work with Sherlock, the BBC drama that hi Jacks Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic sleuth into the present with awe-inspiring intelligence and type. Calling Sherlock a TV series is a tad misleading, although; the series h AS created two seasons consisting of three 90 -minute episodes each. In other words, a feature film has been averaged by the Sherlock group every 90 days since the Summer of 2010. The immaculate second period dug deeper into the psychological faultlines of Holmes, played with sterile arrogance by Benedict Cumberbatch (or as Seth Meyers mentioned on SNL, the only real man with a name mo Re preposterous than Sherlock Holmes). When the audience wasn’t trying to piece together the secret of the week, we were discovering fleeting clues to the guarded humanity of London’s best “Consulting Detective,”typically to the chagrin of longsuffering accomplice John Watson (Martin Freeman) and volatile love curiosity Irene Adler (Lara Pulver).

Dear White People

Creator: Justin Simien Stars:: Logan Browning, Brandon P. Giancarlo Esposito, Bell, DeRon Horton, Antoinette Robertson Ashley Blaine Featherson Network: Netflix Based on creator Justin Simien’s 2014 indie, Netflix’s unique series—narrated by Breaking Negative and Better Call Saul’s Giancarlo Esposito—replicates the pungent humor of the movie without ever see-ming stale, or static: Its knives are sharp, and they’re pointed in every path. Though its primary goal is white privilege, in forms both egregious (black-face events) and mundane (calls to finish “divisive”politics), Expensive White People, established on the campus of a fictional Ivyleague university, is even funnier when it turns to the information on the black students’ individual and ideological choices, transforming the the idea of the “problematic fave,”from the McRib to The Cosby Present into the engine of its own entertaining, incisive comedy.

The Fall

Creator: Allan Cubitt Stars: Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Valene Kane, Séalinín Brennan Bronagh Taggart Sarah Beattie Network: BBC Let it be known that before he was Christian Grey, Jamie Dornan proved his performing chops and charisma as a disturbingly undisturbable murderer in this superb psychological thriller. Dornan’s mild mannered husband, father and grief counselor (!) is on the list of most terrifying onscreen serial killers in recent memory. Paul Spector is a stalker, as exacting and methodical as his eventual pursuer. Enter Gillian Anderson’s Stella Gibson, a British detective superintendent called to Belfast to look into a spate of gruesome murders. As the cat-and-mouse sport intensifies, Anderson’s characterization is its own triumph: analytical, uncompromising, reserved, but brazenly sexual on her own terms, completely unfazed by the politicking and dick-swinging of her male colleagues. That we know the identification of the killer from the show’s first frames, but can’t t-AKE our eyes off the screen is a testament to the stealth creep with which The Fall operates.

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The Office (U.K., U.S.)

Creators: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant; U.S. edition developed by Greg Daniels Stars: U.K.: Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis, Oliver Chris, Patrick Baladi, Stacey Roca, Ralph Ineson, Stirling Gallacher; U.S.: Steve Carell B, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer. J. Novak, Oscar Nunez, Brian Baumgartner, Angel A Kinsey, Ed Helms, Creed Bratton, Phyllis Smith, Leslie David Baker, Kate Flannery, Mindy Kaling Networks: BBC, NBC Ricky Gervais’ immortal Brit-Com deserves full marks for establishing this comedy franchise that killed the laugh monitor and introduced us to a hilarious bunch of paper-pushing mopes. Defying expectations that it could pale in comparison, NBC’s Workplace became an institution unto it self. While displaying much more heart in relation to the gang could muster in old England at its best, the American model was just as awkward as its predecessor.

Parks and Recreation

Creators: Greg Daniels Stars: Rashida Jones, Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, Aziz Ansari, Adam Scott, Rob Low-E, Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza Network: NBC Recreation and Parks began its run as a relatively common mirror of The Off Ice, but in its third-season, the student became the master. As it’s fleshed-out with oddballs and unusual metropolis quirks, Pawnee has become the greatest tv town since Springfield. Today, the present flourished this yr with a few of the most unique and interesting figures in comedy. With one of the one of the biggest creating staffs of any present, Re Creation and Parks is only got better with time.

30 Rock

Creator: Tina Fey Stars: Judah Friedlander, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer, Scott Adsit Network: NBC The religious successor to Arrested Development, 3 Rock succeeded where its competition failed by mainly ignoring the real process of making a television show and instead focusing on the life span of one one person responsible of the procedure, played by display creator Tina Fey. 30 Rock never loses track of its own focus and generates a remarkably deep character for the its circus to spin around. But Fey’s perhaps not the only one that makes the sequence. Consistently spot-on performances by Tracy Morgan—whether frequenting strip clubs or a werewolf bar mitzvah—and Alec Baldwin’s evil plans for microwave-tele-vision programming produce an ideal le Vel of chaos for the show’s writers to unravel every week. 30 Rock doesn’t have intricate themes or a deep concept, but that stuff would be in the way of its own goal: having probably one of the most of the most regularly funny shows on Television. Suffice to say, it succeeded.

Arrested Development

Creator: Mitch Hurwitz Stars: Ron Howard, Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Portia de Rossi, Tony Hale, David Cross, Michael Cera, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Alia Shawkat Networks: Fox, Netflix Mitch Hurwitz’ sit-com about a “wealthy family who lost every thing and the one son who'd no choice except to keep them all together”packed an entire lot of awesome into three short seasons. How much awesome? Well, there was the chicken dance, for starters. And Franklin’s “It’s Maybe Not Simple Being White.”There was Ron Howard’s place-on narration, and Tobias Funke’s Blue Man ambitions. There was Mrs. Featherbottom and Charlize Theron as Rita, Michael Bluth’s mentally challenged love curiosity. Not with every loose thread tying s O flawlessly in to another act h AS a story line that is comic been therefore perfectly built, since Seinfeld. Arrested Development took self-referencing post modernism to an intense that was absurdist, jumping shark but that was the level. They even induced the initial shark-jumper—Henry Winkler—as the family lawyer. When he was changed, normally, it was by Scott Baio. All of the Bluth family members was one of the better characters on tele-vision, and Jason Bateman performed a man that is straight that is brilliant to all of them. And after years of rumors, the present came ultimately back to Netflix for a fourth season—different in both construction and tone, but nevertheless, a gift to enthusiasts who'd to say goodbye to the Bluths alltoo so-on.

Orange is the New Black

Creator: Jenji Kohan Stars: Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon. Harney, Michelle Hurst, Kate Mulgrew Network: Netflix Orange is the New Black is completely suited for the Netflix shipping program, if only as it might have been agonizing to wait a week for a new episode. But there’s more; the construct felt cinematic and compared to your average show, and I couldn’t help but feel that the all-at once release airplane freed the creators to make some thing less episodic and more free-flowing. Taylor Schilling stars as Piper Chapman, a woman living a content contemporary existence when her past rears up abruptly to tackle her from behind; 10 years earlier in the day, she was briefly a drug mule for her lover Alex Vause (the the wonderful Laura Prepon), and when Vause needed to plea her sentence down, she threw in the towel Piper. The story is based on the real-life events of Piper Kerman, whose e-book of the same title was the inspiration, but the truth is that the screen version is miles better. Schilling is the engine that drives the plot, and her odd blend of normal serenity combined with together with the growing rage and desperation in the late turn her life has taken strikes the perfect tone for a lifetime inside the women’s jail. Within the first few episodes, jail is treated like an almost-quirky novelty she’ll have to experience for 15 months, along with the wisest option director Jenji Kohan made (and there are many) was to heighten the stakes so that what starts as an off kilter journey quickly assumes the severe proportions prison lifestyle demands. And as fantastic as Prepon and Schilling are together, the cast is therefore universally outstanding that it almost beggars belief. You can find too many characters who make gold making use of their constrained display time to mention individually, but suffice it to say that there’s enough comedy, pathos and tragedy here for several exhibits. The reality that they fit therefore effectively into one makes OITNB a triumph .

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Creators: Tina Fey Stars: Sara Chase, Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Jane Karkowski, Carol Kane, Lauren Adams Network: Netflix NBC has made any number of mistakes over the years, but few greater than shelving Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s 3-0 Rock follow up, before punting it over to Netflix. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt wound-up becoming one of the highlights of a great year for TV comedy. The fast-paced and flip sit com showcased breakout performances by Office vet Ellie Kemper as the titular former “mole woman”attempting to make it on on her behalf own in New York, and Tituss Burgess as her flamboyant and put-upon room mate, Titus Andromedon. (NBC has recently tri Ed to make it up to Kemper for dropping the ball on this by planting her in the guest host chair at Today—too little, also late, peacock peddlers.) Throughout the first season’s run, some writers and critics seemed deadset on finding some kind of flaw to pounce on using the present, zeroing in on the way in which the minority characters are re-presented. This may be a wild generalization, but I feel this was an organic reaction to perhaps one of the most of the most feminist sitcoms ever produced. Kimmy Schmidt is definitely upsetting the natural purchase of your network sit com that is typical. The show’s titular character is defining her li Fe on her own conditions and by her own standards. For many reason that still freaks out some people so they dismiss it or find some way to poke holes in the automobile for that idea. That is what makes the prospect of a second time so exciting. As the show can go in a myriad of directions that are different, so too can Kimmy Schmidt. Now that she has put the awful time in the bunker to mattress, she is able to face a brand new day with enthusiastic embrace of life-experience mindset, and that smile. Sorry nit pickers and network executives; Kimmy Schmidt will make it after all.

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Jabberjaw Media Network Launches New Podcast Shows

Jabberjaw Media, an independent talk and entertainment podcast network founded by Matt Carter (Emery, The BadChristian Podcast) and Mike Mowery (Outerloop Management & Records), has been paving the way for podcast platforms since their launch in November 2015. The network's unique and groundbreaking shows include Lead Singer Syndrome with frontman Shane Told of rock band Silverstein, the Modern Vinyl Podcast, Washed Up Emo, The Mike Herrera Hour, The MetalSucks Podcast, The Bad Christian Podcast, Break it Down with Matt Carter, 100 Words or Less, Peer Pleasure, and more. In its first year, Jabberjaw Media has hosted groundbreaking shows and interviews - such as John Bunch's final interview before his untimely passing on Washed Up Emo. The success of Lead Singer Syndrome has paved the path for the show's exclusive All Access Club, and the show continues to produce engaging interviews with a diverse array of lead singers with the approach of peer to peer candor. Further, the shows Break It Down with Matt Carter,Modern Vinyl, Mike Herrera Hour and Peer Pleasure are all shows that can be heard weekly on idobi Radio. Today, Jabberjaw Media Network is thrilled to announce a massive addition of six new podcast shows covering topics from the music industry, to dating in the 21st century, and even cocktail creation. Starting tomorrow, Jabberjaw Media will welcome Kill Rock Stars' The Future of What, The Ex Man Podcasthosted by Doc Coyle, O Marks the Spotby Outerloop, The Metal Podcast with Chuck and Godless, Too Old to Date, and cocktail-focused The PourTaste Podcast. This is what co-founder Mike Mowery has to say about the addition of the new shows: "It's a fantastic honor to be able to add new shows to the network. In the time since we launched, I've watched broader acceptance of podcasting within the music business, and the proliferation of more and more great shows. I'm excited that in this round of additions we are adding our first female host, our first podcasts not directly associated with music and our first scripted show. Our community continues to grow and we look forward to what's in store for the remainder of the year." - Mike Mowery Jabberjaw Media was formed after founders Matt Carter and Mike Mowery saw a need for podcast hosts to strategize and find ways to build stronger audiences and share tips under one roof. They collaborated to create an entertainment-centric podcast network that enables direct communication between artists and their audience without the influence of media conglomerates or other gatekeepers. The artist-friendly network will work with its hosts in creating compelling content and encouraging free expression of thoughts, ideas, and beliefs. Jabberjaw Media exists to aggregate present podcasts and help them thrive while seeking to produce great content from interesting personalities within independent music and beyond. Jabberjaw Media shows will provide a wealth of knowledge, offer insightful stories, and thought-provoking topics. Network members and hosts not only work in the their respective industries today, but they are also genuinely passionate about the people that make up this community. As a result, the network is full of shows relevant for both fans and professionals alike. More about The Future of What Podcast: The music business is evolving rapidly, and can be difficult to understand - even for those who have been in it for years! These changes have had significant effects on those who love music, and everyone from creators to distributors are trying to keep up. The Future of What is an hour-long radio show and podcast that explores issues and trends in the recording industry - where it is and where it's headed. Host, Portia Sabin, president of the independent record label Kill Rock Stars cuts through the noise with music business experts to provide an authoritative look at this multi-billion dollar industry. In the last two years, The Future of What has discussed issues facing the music business for the benefit of musicians, independent artists, people working in the industry, and the general public. On joining Jabberjaw Media, Sabin says "Jabberjaw hosts a bunch of great music-related shows, and many of them are hosted by actual musicians, which makes Jabberjaw unique amongst podcasting networks. We're so excited to be joining them!" The newest episode of The Future of What looks at musicians in podcasting and features Shane Told, frontman of rock band Silverstein and host of Lead Singer Syndrome, Hrishikesh Hirway, musician and creator of Song Exploder, and musician and podcaster Joe Pug. Catch Portia Sabin and The Future of What at upcoming events such as a panel on "The State of Indie Music" at Treefort Festival, Boise ID (March 2017), keynote interview with Robyn Hitchcock at The Recording Academy's Songwriters' Summit in Seattle, WA (April 2017), keynote speaker at Upstream Music Festival + Summit in Seattle, WA (May 2017), and a panel on "Investing in Independents(ce)," at A2IM Indie Week in New York, NY (June 2017). Hear new episodes of The Future of What here: http://killrockstars.com/thefutureofwhat/ More about The PourTaste Podcast: Cocktail team, Jon and Lindsay Yeager will be hosting the cocktail-focused PourTaste Podcast, which will feature Jon, along with special guests, and discuss cocktail and spirit history, methodology and trends with each 30-45 minute episode ending in a cocktail recipe. Jon will walk the guest through the concept of the recipe, offering tasting notes and seasonal variations along the way. Each podcast episode will have a 10-minute bonus in conjunction, highlighting another cocktail recipe based off each episode's theme. PourTaste officially began in 2011 after Jon Yeager held one of the opening bartender positions at the Holland House Bar & Refuge in Nashville, TN. After a year of working at this highly acclaimed, speakeasy-style cocktail bar, the Yeagers were asked to help design other menus throughout the city, train bartenders and help to provide a craft bar experience at various events. Since 2011, PourTaste has grown to become the go-to epicenter for all things cocktail. In addition to their product line, E Harlow, which focuses on handcrafted tonic and the world's only Magnolia Bitters since the Civil War, Jon and Lindsay Yeager have created cocktail, beer and wine menus for hotels, restaurants and bars while consulting for events, festivals, retail shops and brands. The Yeagers are also the creators and producers of Music City Spirits & Cocktail Festival, Nashville's premier festival focusing solely on the craft of the cocktail. Their yet to be named beer-cocktail recipe book, from Skyhorse Publishing, will be released fall 2017. Hear new episodes of The Pour Taste Podcast here: http://www.pourtaste.com/podcast/ More about The Ex Man Podcast: Ex-God Forbid guitar player Doc Coyle talks to professionals in the music world and other creative industries about the challenges and transitions of leaving monumental ventures. This podcast is for those passionate and driven 20 & 30-somethings at a crossroads trying to figure out "What's next?" On joining Jabberjaw Media Network, Coyle states, "I couldn't be more thrilled than to announce this partnership with The Ex Man and Jabberjaw Media Network. I am a fan of and have been a guest on a few of the Jabberjaw shows like Metalsucks and 100 Words Podcast. I have to give huge thanks to Mike Mowery at Outerloop for thinking of me, and the opportunity to grow The Ex Man Podcast to a wider audience is a tremendous opportunity." Hear new episodes of The Ex-Man Podcast here: http://www.doccoyle.net/ More about Too Old to Date Podcast: So you're single. You've tried Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, OKCupid, JSwipe, Christian Mingle, Farmers Only, Purrsonals. Shut up, we know you have. So we wrote a show about using them to find dates. Not an advice show, a scripted show. Like on TV, but you can't watch it. You can listen to it though, and imagine that we're more attractive than we really are. You can feel comfort in knowing that you're not alone. Well, technically we're all alone. We all die alone anyway. But this show is funny! Way funnier than dying alone. Too Old To Date consists of eight-episode seasons culled from the desperately lonely minds of creators Brad Garoon & Mike Tanzillo. Keep an eye out for bonus episodes as well. They're generous like that. On joining Jabberjaw Media Network, the hosts state: The Too Old To Date team is proud to announce that we will be joining the Jabberjaw Media Network. In just one short month since its creation, Too Old To Date has been downloaded by thousands listeners and garnered a passionate Instagram following. Too Old To Date is very excited to bring its dating world-obsessed audience to Jabberjaw." Hear new episodes of Too Old to Date here: http://toooldtodate.com/ More about The Metal Podcast: The Metal Podcastcontinues a long pairing of hosts Chuck Loesch and Godless (formerly of MetalSucks), delivering their take on the world of metal today. Their weekly examination of metal news headlines, topics and generally inane banter warrants tuning in, but stay for the interviews. Affectionately dubbed the "Barbara Walters of Metal" this duo has interviewed the top brass in the metal world from the old guard: Slayer, Anthrax, Metallica, Testament to the up and coming bands: Psycroptic, Black Dahlia Murder,Deafheaven, and so many more. Staying away from the typical face palming questions and trying to dig deeper into their subject showing their human side, and sometimes getting some true confessions. A truly unique podcast in the world of heavy metal. On joining Jabberjaw Media network, Chuck Loesch states: "Now that The Metal Podcast created our own nest, being part of the Jabberjaw Network is a no brainer, bringing like-minded podcasters together to grind it out every week, we'll make millions, well, maybe not millions, but you know what I mean." Hear new episodes of The Metal Podcast here: http://podcastmetal.com/ More about O Marks the Spot Podcast: Mike Mowery, Lance Rowe, and Suzie Lee give behind-the-scenes looks to the happenings at Outerloop, a boutique music management firm and record label. Detailing budding ideas and how they come to fruition to moments where everything that can go wrong does go wrong, the podcast reveals what goes into the work of teams behind every band, a rare perspective for fans, musicians, and aspiring music professionals. Guests on the podcast include current clients and industry professionals. Hear new episodes of O Marks the Spot here: http://bit.ly/olooppod Head to JabberjawMedia.com for more information.