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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 9, 2021 16:03:25 GMT
13 TV episodes that were the first of several episodes directed by one of the show's cast members.
01. SMALLVILLE (Season 8) "Power" - Directed by Allison Mack 02. GREY'S ANATOMY (Season 7) "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)" - Directed by Kevin McKidd 03. Star Trek: Voyager (Season 6) "Riddles" - Directed by Roxann Dawson 04. Criminal Minds (Season 5) - "Mosley Lane" - Directed by Matthew Gray Gubler 05. Star Trek: The Next Generation (Season 3) "The Offspring" - Directed by Jonathan Frakes 06. M*A*S*H (Season 2) "Mail Call" - Directed by Alan Alda 07. BONANZA (Season 9) "To Die in Darkness" - Directed by Michael Landon 08. THE WALKING DEAD (Season 9) "Stradivarius" - Directed by Michael Cudlitz
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 5, 2021 15:10:17 GMT
13 TV episodes that were the first of several episodes directed by one of the show's cast members.
01. SMALLVILLE (Season 8) "Power" - Directed by Allison Mack 02. GREY'S ANATOMY (Season 7) "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)" - Directed by Kevin McKidd 03. STAR TREK: VOYAGER (Season 6) "Riddles" - Directed by Roxann Dawson 04. CRIMINAL MINDS (Season 5) - "Mosley Lane" - Directed by Matthew Gray Gubler 05. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (Season 3) "The Offspring" - Directed by Jonathan Frakes 06. M*A*S*H (Season 2) "Mail Call" - Directed by Alan Alda 07. BONANZA (Season 9) "To Die in Darkness" - Directed by Michael Landon 08. THE WALKING DEAD (Season 9) "Stradivarius" - Directed by Michael Cudlitz 09. ER (Season 5) "Power" - Directed by Laura Innes
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 6, 2021 16:56:20 GMT
13 TV episodes that were the first of several episodes directed by one of the show's cast members.
01. SMALLVILLE (Season 8) "Power" - Directed by Allison Mack 02. GREY'S ANATOMY (Season 7) "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)" - Directed by Kevin McKidd 03. STAR TREK: VOYAGER (Season 6) "Riddles" - Directed by Roxann Dawson 04. CRIMINAL MINDS (Season 5) - "Mosley Lane" - Directed by Matthew Gray Gubler 05. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (Season 3) "The Offspring" - Directed by Jonathan Frakes 06. M*A*S*H (Season 2) "Mail Call" - Directed by Alan Alda 07. BONANZA (Season 9) "To Die in Darkness" - Directed by Michael Landon 08. THE WALKING DEAD (Season 9) "Stradivarius" - Directed by Michael Cudlitz 09. ER (Season 5) "Power" - Directed by Laura Innes 10. SCANDAL (Season 2) "A Woman Scorned" - Directed by Tony Goldwyn
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Post by brimfin on Apr 6, 2021 17:00:39 GMT
13 TV episodes that were the first of several episodes directed by one of the show's cast members.
01. SMALLVILLE (Season 8) "Power" - Directed by Allison Mack 02. GREY'S ANATOMY (Season 7) "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)" - Directed by Kevin McKidd 03. STAR TREK: VOYAGER (Season 6) "Riddles" - Directed by Roxann Dawson 04. CRIMINAL MINDS (Season 5) - "Mosley Lane" - Directed by Matthew Gray Gubler 05. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (Season 3) "The Offspring" - Directed by Jonathan Frakes 06. M*A*S*H (Season 2) "Mail Call" - Directed by Alan Alda 07. BONANZA (Season 9) "To Die in Darkness" - Directed by Michael Landon 08. THE WALKING DEAD (Season 9) "Stradivarius" - Directed by Michael Cudlitz 09. ER (Season 5) "Power" - Directed by Laura Innes 10. SCANDAL (Season 2) "A Woman Scorned" - Directed by Tony Goldwyn 11. CHICAGO HOPE - "Right to Life" (Season 2) - Directed by Adam Arkin
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Post by lavel on Apr 10, 2021 10:24:54 GMT
13 TV episodes that were the first of several episodes directed by one of the show's cast members.
01. SMALLVILLE (Season 8) "Power" - Directed by Allison Mack 02. GREY'S ANATOMY (Season 7) "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)" - Directed by Kevin McKidd 03. STAR TREK: VOYAGER (Season 6) "Riddles" - Directed by Roxann Dawson 04. CRIMINAL MINDS (Season 5) - "Mosley Lane" - Directed by Matthew Gray Gubler 05. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (Season 3) "The Offspring" - Directed by Jonathan Frakes 06. M*A*S*H (Season 2) "Mail Call" - Directed by Alan Alda 07. BONANZA (Season 9) "To Die in Darkness" - Directed by Michael Landon 08. THE WALKING DEAD (Season 9) "Stradivarius" - Directed by Michael Cudlitz 09. ER (Season 5) "Power" - Directed by Laura Innes 10. SCANDAL (Season 2) "A Woman Scorned" - Directed by Tony Goldwyn 11. CHICAGO HOPE - "Right to Life" (Season 2) - Directed by Adam Arkin 12. OZARK - (Season 1) "Sugarwood" - Directed by Jason Bateman
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 10, 2021 14:12:16 GMT
13 TV episodes that were the first of several episodes directed by one of the show's cast members.
01. SMALLVILLE (Season 8) "Power" - Directed by Allison Mack 02. GREY'S ANATOMY (Season 7) "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)" - Directed by Kevin McKidd 03. STAR TREK: VOYAGER (Season 6) "Riddles" - Directed by Roxann Dawson 04. CRIMINAL MINDS (Season 5) - "Mosley Lane" - Directed by Matthew Gray Gubler 05. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (Season 3) "The Offspring" - Directed by Jonathan Frakes 06. M*A*S*H (Season 2) "Mail Call" - Directed by Alan Alda 07. BONANZA (Season 9) "To Die in Darkness" - Directed by Michael Landon 08. THE WALKING DEAD (Season 9) "Stradivarius" - Directed by Michael Cudlitz 09. ER (Season 5) "Power" - Directed by Laura Innes 10. SCANDAL (Season 2) "A Woman Scorned" - Directed by Tony Goldwyn 11. CHICAGO HOPE - "Right to Life" (Season 2) - Directed by Adam Arkin 12. OZARK - (Season 1) "Sugarwood" - Directed by Jason Bateman 13. THE X-FILES (Season 6) "The Unnatural" - Directed by David Duchovny
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 14, 2021 15:27:50 GMT
13 TV Episodes That Jumped the Shark or Went Too Far, Plotwise (Subjective):
01. THE COLBYS - Fallon (Emma Samms) is abducted by a UFO in the season two cliffhanger. Previously the show was set in reality but this seemed way out there. It was the final episode of the series.
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Post by brimfin on Apr 15, 2021 11:58:01 GMT
13 TV Episodes That Jumped the Shark or Went Too Far, Plotwise (Subjective):
01. THE COLBYS - Fallon (Emma Samms) is abducted by a UFO in the season two cliffhanger. Previously the show was set in reality but this seemed way out there. It was the final episode of the series.
02. THE X-FILES - "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" In this episode, we learn the background of a previously shadowy character - but it is patently ludicrous. Not only did he personally assassinate JFK and MLK, but he was also responsible for the 1980 US Hockey team winning the Olympic Gold Medal and for the Buffalo Bills never winning a Super Bowl. Plus he was just a frustrated would-be writer at heart. A laughable episode.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 16, 2021 17:36:20 GMT
13 TV Episodes That Jumped the Shark or Went Too Far, Plotwise (Subjective):
01. THE COLBYS - "Crossroads" Fallon (Emma Samms) is abducted by a UFO in the season two cliffhanger. Previously the show was set in reality but this seemed way out there. It was the final episode of the series.
02. THE X-FILES - "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" In this episode, we learn the background of a previously shadowy character - but it is patently ludicrous. Not only did he personally assassinate JFK and MLK, but he was also responsible for the 1980 US Hockey team winning the Olympic Gold Medal and for the Buffalo Bills never winning a Super Bowl. Plus he was just a frustrated would-be writer at heart. A laughable episode.
03. DEXTER - "Are You...?" Once Deb learns that her brother is an occasional serial killer, the series flounders around and characters act out of character. The show was never as good or the same again, leading to the infamous finale that pleased no one. A reveal like this should have made more of an impact.
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Post by brimfin on Apr 26, 2021 0:16:00 GMT
13 TV Episodes That Jumped the Shark or Went Too Far, Plotwise (Subjective):
01. THE COLBYS - "Crossroads" Fallon (Emma Samms) is abducted by a UFO in the season two cliffhanger. Previously the show was set in reality but this seemed way out there. It was the final episode of the series.
02. THE X-FILES - "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" In this episode, we learn the background of a previously shadowy character - but it is patently ludicrous. Not only did he personally assassinate JFK and MLK, but he was also responsible for the 1980 US Hockey team winning the Olympic Gold Medal and for the Buffalo Bills never winning a Super Bowl. Plus he was just a frustrated would-be writer at heart. A laughable episode.
03. DEXTER - "Are You...?" Once Deb learns that her brother is an occasional serial killer, the series flounders around and characters act out of character. The show was never as good or the same again, leading to the infamous finale that pleased no one. A reveal like this should have made more of an impact.
04. THE OUTER LIMITS (1993) - "The Voice of Reason" Clip shows are great for comedies, sometimes even dramas, but a clip show for a sci-fi anthology? This episode involved a hearing which took clips of totally different beings from earlier episodes and tried to link it to some paranoiac story that we were being invaded by one big alien superpower. It concluded with the man who was bringing the evidence shooting an innocent man thinking he was an alien, while the real aliens chuckled in secret afterward at their victory. As a one-time occurrence. it would have been tolerable. But sadly, it became an annual event - always with clips masquerading as something they weren't intended to be, and always with the villain winning at the end.
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Post by SIRIUS on Apr 26, 2021 3:59:23 GMT
13 TV Episodes That Jumped the Shark or Went Too Far, Plotwise (Subjective):
01. THE COLBYS - "Crossroads" Fallon (Emma Samms) is abducted by a UFO in the season two cliffhanger. Previously the show was set in reality but this seemed way out there. It was the final episode of the series.
02. THE X-FILES - "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" In this episode, we learn the background of a previously shadowy character - but it is patently ludicrous. Not only did he personally assassinate JFK and MLK, but he was also responsible for the 1980 US Hockey team winning the Olympic Gold Medal and for the Buffalo Bills never winning a Super Bowl. Plus he was just a frustrated would-be writer at heart. A laughable episode.
03. DEXTER - "Are You...?" Once Deb learns that her brother is an occasional serial killer, the series flounders around and characters act out of character. The show was never as good or the same again, leading to the infamous finale that pleased no one. A reveal like this should have made more of an impact.
04. THE OUTER LIMITS (1993) - "The Voice of Reason" Clip shows are great for comedies, sometimes even dramas, but a clip show for a sci-fi anthology? This episode involved a hearing which took clips of totally different beings from earlier episodes and tried to link it to some paranoiac story that we were being invaded by one big alien superpower. It concluded with the man who was bringing the evidence shooting an innocent man thinking he was an alien, while the real aliens chuckled in secret afterward at their victory. As a one-time occurrence. it would have been tolerable. But sadly, it became an annual event - always with clips masquerading as something they weren't intended to be, and always with the villain winning at the end. « Prev1..22
05. DALLAS - "Return to Camelot" the '85-'86 season was only a dream
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Post by brimfin on Apr 27, 2021 22:04:08 GMT
13 TV Episodes That Jumped the Shark or Went Too Far, Plotwise (Subjective):
01. THE COLBYS - "Crossroads" Fallon (Emma Samms) is abducted by a UFO in the season two cliffhanger. Previously the show was set in reality but this seemed way out there. It was the final episode of the series.
02. THE X-FILES - "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" In this episode, we learn the background of a previously shadowy character - but it is patently ludicrous. Not only did he personally assassinate JFK and MLK, but he was also responsible for the 1980 US Hockey team winning the Olympic Gold Medal and for the Buffalo Bills never winning a Super Bowl. Plus he was just a frustrated would-be writer at heart. A laughable episode.
03. DEXTER - "Are You...?" Once Deb learns that her brother is an occasional serial killer, the series flounders around and characters act out of character. The show was never as good or the same again, leading to the infamous finale that pleased no one. A reveal like this should have made more of an impact.
04. THE OUTER LIMITS (1993) - "The Voice of Reason" Clip shows are great for comedies, sometimes even dramas, but a clip show for a sci-fi anthology? This episode involved a hearing which took clips of totally different beings from earlier episodes and tried to link it to some paranoiac story that we were being invaded by one big alien superpower. It concluded with the man who was bringing the evidence shooting an innocent man thinking he was an alien, while the real aliens chuckled in secret afterward at their victory. As a one-time occurrence. it would have been tolerable. But sadly, it became an annual event - always with clips masquerading as something they weren't intended to be, and always with the villain winning at the end.
05. DALLAS - "Return to Camelot" the '85-'86 season was only a dream.
06. QUANTUM LEAP - "Lee Harvey Oswald" As much as I loved QL (and I really loved it), this premiere episode of the fifth (and last) season was a huge mistake. Written by Donald Bellisario as a rebuttal to the movie JFK it was little more than a mini-bio of Oswald's life. As a result, the story had Sam inexplicably leaping into Oswald over and over again throughout his life and not to right any wrongs as he was usually supposed to do. The two-hour episode was meandering, unfocused, unpleasant, and worst of all - boring. It may have helped lead to the premature end of this wonderful series.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 30, 2021 16:36:06 GMT
13 TV Episodes That Jumped the Shark or Went Too Far, Plotwise (Subjective): 01. THE COLBYS - "Crossroads" Fallon (Emma Samms) is abducted by a UFO in the season two cliffhanger. Previously the show was set in reality but this seemed way out there. It was the final episode of the series. 02. THE X-FILES - "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" In this episode, we learn the background of a previously shadowy character - but it is patently ludicrous. Not only did he personally assassinate JFK and MLK, but he was also responsible for the 1980 US Hockey team winning the Olympic Gold Medal and for the Buffalo Bills never winning a Super Bowl. Plus he was just a frustrated would-be writer at heart. A laughable episode. 03. DEXTER - "Are You...?" Once Deb learns that her brother is an occasional serial killer, the series flounders around and characters act out of character. The show was never as good or the same again, leading to the infamous finale that pleased no one. A reveal like this should have made more of an impact. 04. THE OUTER LIMITS (1993) - "The Voice of Reason" Clip shows are great for comedies, sometimes even dramas, but a clip show for a sci-fi anthology? This episode involved a hearing which took clips of totally different beings from earlier episodes and tried to link it to some paranoiac story that we were being invaded by one big alien superpower. It concluded with the man who was bringing the evidence shooting an innocent man thinking he was an alien, while the real aliens chuckled in secret afterward at their victory. As a one-time occurrence. it would have been tolerable. But sadly, it became an annual event - always with clips masquerading as something they weren't intended to be, and always with the villain winning at the end. 05. DALLAS - "Return to Camelot" the '85-'86 season was only a dream. 06. QUANTUM LEAP - "Lee Harvey Oswald" As much as I loved QL (and I really loved it), this premiere episode of the fifth (and last) season was a huge mistake. Written by Donald Bellisario as a rebuttal to the movie JFK it was little more than a mini-bio of Oswald's life. As a result, the story had Sam inexplicably leaping into Oswald over and over again throughout his life and not to right any wrongs as he was usually supposed to do. The two-hour episode was meandering, unfocused, unpleasant, and worst of all - boring. It may have helped lead to the premature end of this wonderful series. 07. Z NATION - "Zombaby!" Z Nation was always never far from jumping the shark most of the time anyway, but in season two, a blue human/zombie hybrid baby is born to Murphy and Serena. Little baby Lucy grows to adulthood at a rapid pace due to her being a hybrid. It's silly and blue people belong in Smurf village. Oddly enough, the show bounced back from this period. By season four, it's more gritty and more intense than ever.
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Post by brimfin on May 5, 2021 11:07:59 GMT
13 TV Episodes That Jumped the Shark or Went Too Far, Plotwise (Subjective):
01. THE COLBYS - "Crossroads" Fallon (Emma Samms) is abducted by a UFO in the season two cliffhanger. Previously the show was set in reality but this seemed way out there. It was the final episode of the series.
02. THE X-FILES - "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" In this episode, we learn the background of a previously shadowy character - but it is patently ludicrous. Not only did he personally assassinate JFK and MLK, but he was also responsible for the 1980 US Hockey team winning the Olympic Gold Medal and for the Buffalo Bills never winning a Super Bowl. Plus he was just a frustrated would-be writer at heart. A laughable episode.
03. DEXTER - "Are You...?" Once Deb learns that her brother is an occasional serial killer, the series flounders around and characters act out of character. The show was never as good or the same again, leading to the infamous finale that pleased no one. A reveal like this should have made more of an impact.
04. THE OUTER LIMITS (1993) - "The Voice of Reason" Clip shows are great for comedies, sometimes even dramas, but a clip show for a sci-fi anthology? This episode involved a hearing which took clips of totally different beings from earlier episodes and tried to link it to some paranoiac story that we were being invaded by one big alien superpower. It concluded with the man who was bringing the evidence shooting an innocent man thinking he was an alien, while the real aliens chuckled in secret afterward at their victory. As a one-time occurrence. it would have been tolerable. But sadly, it became an annual event - always with clips masquerading as something they weren't intended to be, and always with the villain winning at the end.
05. DALLAS - "Return to Camelot" the '85-'86 season was only a dream.
06. QUANTUM LEAP - "Lee Harvey Oswald" As much as I loved QL (and I really loved it), this premiere episode of the fifth (and last) season was a huge mistake. Written by Donald Bellisario as a rebuttal to the movie JFK it was little more than a mini-bio of Oswald's life. As a result, the story had Sam inexplicably leaping into Oswald over and over again throughout his life and not to right any wrongs as he was usually supposed to do. The two-hour episode was meandering, unfocused, unpleasant, and worst of all - boring. It may have helped lead to the premature end of this wonderful series.
07. Z NATION - "Zombaby!" Z Nation was always never far from jumping the shark most of the time anyway, but in season two, a blue human/zombie hybrid baby is born to Murphy and Serena. Little baby Lucy grows to adulthood at a rapid pace due to her being a hybrid. It's silly and blue people belong in Smurf village. Oddly enough, the show bounced back from this period. By season four, it's more gritty and more intense than ever.
08. GREEN ACRES - "Ralph's Nuptials" The episode starts with lady plumber Ralph Monroe telling Lisa about her date at the drive-in with county agent Hank Kimball. He went to get some treats and came back to the wrong car and got beat up. But at the hospital later he proposed to her. Later on, Ralph and Hank get married in a local ceremony and head off on their honeymoon. But then normally efficient Sam Drucker realizes his Justice of the Peace license has expired so the marriage isn't valid. In true family hour style, the couple never get to sleep together as Hank returns from an errand for Ralph and knocks on the wrong hotel room door only to get beat up again. Lisa assures Ralph they'll have another ceremony later on - but they never do. It goes back to Ralph flirting with Hank and being totally ignored. It's a staple of many sitcoms to have 2 characters consider marriage, but change their minds long before the ceremony. But it's quite another to have characters actually go through a wedding ceremony, head off on a honeymoon and start to act like a married couple - only to turn around and act like it effectively never happened. That's just cruel. Even when they did a reunion movie of the series years later, both characters remained single and alone. So thinking of this episode of the show doesn't make me laugh - it just makes me sad.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 5, 2021 17:00:06 GMT
13 TV Episodes That Jumped the Shark or Went Too Far, Plotwise (Subjective):
01. THE COLBYS - "Crossroads" Fallon (Emma Samms) is abducted by a UFO in the season two cliffhanger. Previously the show was set in reality but this seemed way out there. It was the final episode of the series.
02. THE X-FILES - "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" In this episode, we learn the background of a previously shadowy character - but it is patently ludicrous. Not only did he personally assassinate JFK and MLK, but he was also responsible for the 1980 US Hockey team winning the Olympic Gold Medal and for the Buffalo Bills never winning a Super Bowl. Plus he was just a frustrated would-be writer at heart. A laughable episode.
03. DEXTER - "Are You...?" Once Deb learns that her brother is an occasional serial killer, the series flounders around and characters act out of character. The show was never as good or the same again, leading to the infamous finale that pleased no one. A reveal like this should have made more of an impact.
04. THE OUTER LIMITS (1993) - "The Voice of Reason" Clip shows are great for comedies, sometimes even dramas, but a clip show for a sci-fi anthology? This episode involved a hearing which took clips of totally different beings from earlier episodes and tried to link it to some paranoiac story that we were being invaded by one big alien superpower. It concluded with the man who was bringing the evidence shooting an innocent man thinking he was an alien, while the real aliens chuckled in secret afterward at their victory. As a one-time occurrence. it would have been tolerable. But sadly, it became an annual event - always with clips masquerading as something they weren't intended to be, and always with the villain winning at the end.
05. DALLAS - "Return to Camelot" the '85-'86 season was only a dream.
06. QUANTUM LEAP - "Lee Harvey Oswald" As much as I loved QL (and I really loved it), this premiere episode of the fifth (and last) season was a huge mistake. Written by Donald Bellisario as a rebuttal to the movie JFK it was little more than a mini-bio of Oswald's life. As a result, the story had Sam inexplicably leaping into Oswald over and over again throughout his life and not to right any wrongs as he was usually supposed to do. The two-hour episode was meandering, unfocused, unpleasant, and worst of all - boring. It may have helped lead to the premature end of this wonderful series.
07. Z NATION - "Zombaby!" Z Nation was always never far from jumping the shark most of the time anyway, but in season two, a blue human/zombie hybrid baby is born to Murphy and Serena. Little baby Lucy grows to adulthood at a rapid pace due to her being a hybrid. It's silly and blue people belong in Smurf village. Oddly enough, the show bounced back from this period. By season four, it's more gritty and more intense than ever.
08. GREEN ACRES - "Ralph's Nuptials" The episode starts with lady plumber Ralph Monroe telling Lisa about her date at the drive-in with county agent Hank Kimball. He went to get some treats and came back to the wrong car and got beat up. But at the hospital later he proposed to her. Later on, Ralph and Hank get married in a local ceremony and head off on their honeymoon. But then normally efficient Sam Drucker realizes his Justice of the Peace license has expired so the marriage isn't valid. In true family hour style, the couple never get to sleep together as Hank returns from an errand for Ralph and knocks on the wrong hotel room door only to get beat up again. Lisa assures Ralph they'll have another ceremony later on - but they never do. It goes back to Ralph flirting with Hank and being totally ignored. It's a staple of many sitcoms to have 2 characters consider marriage, but change their minds long before the ceremony. But it's quite another to have characters actually go through a wedding ceremony, head off on a honeymoon and start to act like a married couple - only to turn around and act like it effectively never happened. That's just cruel. Even when they did a reunion movie of the series years later, both characters remained single and alone. So thinking of this episode of the show doesn't make me laugh - it just makes me sad.
09. ANGEL - "Not Fade Away" Yeah, it was the final episode, but the show really decided to end everything and everyone. This, after Cordelia and Fred, two major characters, were mercilessly killed off earlier in the season. *SPOILER* Wesley is killed in this episode, and the whole gang stand against the Circle of the Black Thorn at the very end...and it ends there. No conclusion, just cliffhanger. They knew they were ending the series but felt their fight should continue. I get that but I still feel ripped off. Can a show jump the shark in its final episode? You betcha!
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Post by brimfin on May 6, 2021 0:48:53 GMT
13 TV Episodes That Jumped the Shark or Went Too Far, Plotwise (Subjective):
01. THE COLBYS - "Crossroads" Fallon (Emma Samms) is abducted by a UFO in the season two cliffhanger. Previously the show was set in reality but this seemed way out there. It was the final episode of the series.
02. THE X-FILES - "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" In this episode, we learn the background of a previously shadowy character - but it is patently ludicrous. Not only did he personally assassinate JFK and MLK, but he was also responsible for the 1980 US Hockey team winning the Olympic Gold Medal and for the Buffalo Bills never winning a Super Bowl. Plus he was just a frustrated would-be writer at heart. A laughable episode.
03. DEXTER - "Are You...?" Once Deb learns that her brother is an occasional serial killer, the series flounders around and characters act out of character. The show was never as good or the same again, leading to the infamous finale that pleased no one. A reveal like this should have made more of an impact.
04. THE OUTER LIMITS (1993) - "The Voice of Reason" Clip shows are great for comedies, sometimes even dramas, but a clip show for a sci-fi anthology? This episode involved a hearing which took clips of totally different beings from earlier episodes and tried to link it to some paranoiac story that we were being invaded by one big alien superpower. It concluded with the man who was bringing the evidence shooting an innocent man thinking he was an alien, while the real aliens chuckled in secret afterward at their victory. As a one-time occurrence. it would have been tolerable. But sadly, it became an annual event - always with clips masquerading as something they weren't intended to be, and always with the villain winning at the end.
05. DALLAS - "Return to Camelot" the '85-'86 season was only a dream.
06. QUANTUM LEAP - "Lee Harvey Oswald" As much as I loved QL (and I really loved it), this premiere episode of the fifth (and last) season was a huge mistake. Written by Donald Bellisario as a rebuttal to the movie JFK it was little more than a mini-bio of Oswald's life. As a result, the story had Sam inexplicably leaping into Oswald over and over again throughout his life and not to right any wrongs as he was usually supposed to do. The two-hour episode was meandering, unfocused, unpleasant, and worst of all - boring. It may have helped lead to the premature end of this wonderful series.
07. Z NATION - "Zombaby!" Z Nation was always never far from jumping the shark most of the time anyway, but in season two, a blue human/zombie hybrid baby is born to Murphy and Serena. Little baby Lucy grows to adulthood at a rapid pace due to her being a hybrid. It's silly and blue people belong in Smurf village. Oddly enough, the show bounced back from this period. By season four, it's more gritty and more intense than ever.
08. GREEN ACRES - "Ralph's Nuptials" The episode starts with lady plumber Ralph Monroe telling Lisa about her date at the drive-in with county agent Hank Kimball. He went to get some treats and came back to the wrong car and got beat up. But at the hospital later he proposed to her. Later on, Ralph and Hank get married in a local ceremony and head off on their honeymoon. But then normally efficient Sam Drucker realizes his Justice of the Peace license has expired so the marriage isn't valid. In true family hour style, the couple never get to sleep together as Hank returns from an errand for Ralph and knocks on the wrong hotel room door only to get beat up again. Lisa assures Ralph they'll have another ceremony later on - but they never do. It goes back to Ralph flirting with Hank and being totally ignored. It's a staple of many sitcoms to have 2 characters consider marriage, but change their minds long before the ceremony. But it's quite another to have characters actually go through a wedding ceremony, head off on a honeymoon and start to act like a married couple - only to turn around and act like it effectively never happened. That's just cruel. Even when they did a reunion movie of the series years later, both characters remained single and alone. So thinking of this episode of the show doesn't make me laugh - it just makes me sad.
09. ANGEL - "Not Fade Away" Yeah, it was the final episode, but the show really decided to end everything and everyone. This, after Cordelia and Fred, two major characters, were mercilessly killed off earlier in the season. *SPOILER* Wesley is killed in this episode, and the whole gang stand against the Circle of the Black Thorn at the very end...and it ends there. No conclusion, just cliffhanger. They knew they were ending the series but felt their fight should continue. I get that but I still feel ripped off. Can a show jump the shark in its final episode? You betcha!
10. MEDIUM – “Me Without You” Speaking of bad finales: I loved the show the seven years it was on – but the finale was terrible. *SPOILERS* It opens with Allison’s husband Joe dying in a plane crash – and no it’s not a vision, it’s real. We return seven years later, and spend most of the remainder of the show seeing visions that imply that Joe survived and just has amnesia. And then – no, that was just a dream. Joe is actually dead and gone. The writer tries to “make up for it” at the end by showing Allison dying as an old lady years later and meeting the spirit of Joe who was waiting for her all these years. It’s a touching scene, but still no excuse for writing a script that lets a woman who helped so many others during her lifetime have to spend decades of her life as a widow – especially when the show was based on a real-life person and her husband was still alive and well, thank you very much!
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 7, 2021 15:16:18 GMT
13 TV Episodes That Jumped the Shark or Went Too Far, Plotwise (Subjective):
01. THE COLBYS - "Crossroads" Fallon (Emma Samms) is abducted by a UFO in the season two cliffhanger. Previously the show was set in reality but this seemed way out there. It was the final episode of the series.
02. THE X-FILES - "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" In this episode, we learn the background of a previously shadowy character - but it is patently ludicrous. Not only did he personally assassinate JFK and MLK, but he was also responsible for the 1980 US Hockey team winning the Olympic Gold Medal and for the Buffalo Bills never winning a Super Bowl. Plus he was just a frustrated would-be writer at heart. A laughable episode.
03. DEXTER - "Are You...?" Once Deb learns that her brother is an occasional serial killer, the series flounders around and characters act out of character. The show was never as good or the same again, leading to the infamous finale that pleased no one. A reveal like this should have made more of an impact.
04. THE OUTER LIMITS (1993) - "The Voice of Reason" Clip shows are great for comedies, sometimes even dramas, but a clip show for a sci-fi anthology? This episode involved a hearing which took clips of totally different beings from earlier episodes and tried to link it to some paranoiac story that we were being invaded by one big alien superpower. It concluded with the man who was bringing the evidence shooting an innocent man thinking he was an alien, while the real aliens chuckled in secret afterward at their victory. As a one-time occurrence. it would have been tolerable. But sadly, it became an annual event - always with clips masquerading as something they weren't intended to be, and always with the villain winning at the end.
05. DALLAS - "Return to Camelot" the '85-'86 season was only a dream.
06. QUANTUM LEAP - "Lee Harvey Oswald" As much as I loved QL (and I really loved it), this premiere episode of the fifth (and last) season was a huge mistake. Written by Donald Bellisario as a rebuttal to the movie JFK it was little more than a mini-bio of Oswald's life. As a result, the story had Sam inexplicably leaping into Oswald over and over again throughout his life and not to right any wrongs as he was usually supposed to do. The two-hour episode was meandering, unfocused, unpleasant, and worst of all - boring. It may have helped lead to the premature end of this wonderful series.
07. Z NATION - "Zombaby!" Z Nation was always never far from jumping the shark most of the time anyway, but in season two, a blue human/zombie hybrid baby is born to Murphy and Serena. Little baby Lucy grows to adulthood at a rapid pace due to her being a hybrid. It's silly and blue people belong in Smurf village. Oddly enough, the show bounced back from this period. By season four, it's more gritty and more intense than ever.
08. GREEN ACRES - "Ralph's Nuptials" The episode starts with lady plumber Ralph Monroe telling Lisa about her date at the drive-in with county agent Hank Kimball. He went to get some treats and came back to the wrong car and got beat up. But at the hospital later he proposed to her. Later on, Ralph and Hank get married in a local ceremony and head off on their honeymoon. But then normally efficient Sam Drucker realizes his Justice of the Peace license has expired so the marriage isn't valid. In true family hour style, the couple never get to sleep together as Hank returns from an errand for Ralph and knocks on the wrong hotel room door only to get beat up again. Lisa assures Ralph they'll have another ceremony later on - but they never do. It goes back to Ralph flirting with Hank and being totally ignored. It's a staple of many sitcoms to have 2 characters consider marriage, but change their minds long before the ceremony. But it's quite another to have characters actually go through a wedding ceremony, head off on a honeymoon and start to act like a married couple - only to turn around and act like it effectively never happened. That's just cruel. Even when they did a reunion movie of the series years later, both characters remained single and alone. So thinking of this episode of the show doesn't make me laugh - it just makes me sad.
09. ANGEL - "Not Fade Away" Yeah, it was the final episode, but the show really decided to end everything and everyone. This, after Cordelia and Fred, two major characters, were mercilessly killed off earlier in the season. *SPOILER* Wesley is killed in this episode, and the whole gang stand against the Circle of the Black Thorn at the very end...and it ends there. No conclusion, just cliffhanger. They knew they were ending the series but felt their fight should continue. I get that but I still feel ripped off. Can a show jump the shark in its final episode? You betcha!
10. MEDIUM – “Me Without You” Speaking of bad finales: I loved the show the seven years it was on – but the finale was terrible. *SPOILERS* It opens with Allison’s husband Joe dying in a plane crash – and no it’s not a vision, it’s real. We return seven years later, and spend most of the remainder of the show seeing visions that imply that Joe survived and just has amnesia. And then – no, that was just a dream. Joe is actually dead and gone. The writer tries to “make up for it” at the end by showing Allison dying as an old lady years later and meeting the spirit of Joe who was waiting for her all these years. It’s a touching scene, but still no excuse for writing a script that lets a woman who helped so many others during her lifetime have to spend decades of her life as a widow – especially when the show was based on a real-life person and her husband was still alive and well, thank you very much!
11. HEROES - "One of Us, One of Them" Suddenly, Sylar is Angela's long lost son and Niki is unceremoniously killed off and replaced with her own twin sister, also played by Ali Larter. Did not sit well with me.
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Post by brimfin on May 13, 2021 0:14:29 GMT
13 TV Episodes That Jumped the Shark or Went Too Far, Plotwise (Subjective):
01. THE COLBYS - "Crossroads" Fallon (Emma Samms) is abducted by a UFO in the season two cliffhanger. Previously the show was set in reality but this seemed way out there. It was the final episode of the series.
02. THE X-FILES - "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" In this episode, we learn the background of a previously shadowy character - but it is patently ludicrous. Not only did he personally assassinate JFK and MLK, but he was also responsible for the 1980 US Hockey team winning the Olympic Gold Medal and for the Buffalo Bills never winning a Super Bowl. Plus he was just a frustrated would-be writer at heart. A laughable episode.
03. DEXTER - "Are You...?" Once Deb learns that her brother is an occasional serial killer, the series flounders around and characters act out of character. The show was never as good or the same again, leading to the infamous finale that pleased no one. A reveal like this should have made more of an impact.
04. THE OUTER LIMITS (1993) - "The Voice of Reason" Clip shows are great for comedies, sometimes even dramas, but a clip show for a sci-fi anthology? This episode involved a hearing which took clips of totally different beings from earlier episodes and tried to link it to some paranoiac story that we were being invaded by one big alien superpower. It concluded with the man who was bringing the evidence shooting an innocent man thinking he was an alien, while the real aliens chuckled in secret afterward at their victory. As a one-time occurrence. it would have been tolerable. But sadly, it became an annual event - always with clips masquerading as something they weren't intended to be, and always with the villain winning at the end.
05. DALLAS - "Return to Camelot" the '85-'86 season was only a dream.
06. QUANTUM LEAP - "Lee Harvey Oswald" As much as I loved QL (and I really loved it), this premiere episode of the fifth (and last) season was a huge mistake. Written by Donald Bellisario as a rebuttal to the movie JFK it was little more than a mini-bio of Oswald's life. As a result, the story had Sam inexplicably leaping into Oswald over and over again throughout his life and not to right any wrongs as he was usually supposed to do. The two-hour episode was meandering, unfocused, unpleasant, and worst of all - boring. It may have helped lead to the premature end of this wonderful series.
07. Z NATION - "Zombaby!" Z Nation was always never far from jumping the shark most of the time anyway, but in season two, a blue human/zombie hybrid baby is born to Murphy and Serena. Little baby Lucy grows to adulthood at a rapid pace due to her being a hybrid. It's silly and blue people belong in Smurf village. Oddly enough, the show bounced back from this period. By season four, it's more gritty and more intense than ever.
08. GREEN ACRES - "Ralph's Nuptials" The episode starts with lady plumber Ralph Monroe telling Lisa about her date at the drive-in with county agent Hank Kimball. He went to get some treats and came back to the wrong car and got beat up. But at the hospital later he proposed to her. Later on, Ralph and Hank get married in a local ceremony and head off on their honeymoon. But then normally efficient Sam Drucker realizes his Justice of the Peace license has expired so the marriage isn't valid. In true family hour style, the couple never get to sleep together as Hank returns from an errand for Ralph and knocks on the wrong hotel room door only to get beat up again. Lisa assures Ralph they'll have another ceremony later on - but they never do. It goes back to Ralph flirting with Hank and being totally ignored. It's a staple of many sitcoms to have 2 characters consider marriage, but change their minds long before the ceremony. But it's quite another to have characters actually go through a wedding ceremony, head off on a honeymoon and start to act like a married couple - only to turn around and act like it effectively never happened. That's just cruel. Even when they did a reunion movie of the series years later, both characters remained single and alone. So thinking of this episode of the show doesn't make me laugh - it just makes me sad.
09. ANGEL - "Not Fade Away" Yeah, it was the final episode, but the show really decided to end everything and everyone. This, after Cordelia and Fred, two major characters, were mercilessly killed off earlier in the season. *SPOILER* Wesley is killed in this episode, and the whole gang stand against the Circle of the Black Thorn at the very end...and it ends there. No conclusion, just cliffhanger. They knew they were ending the series but felt their fight should continue. I get that but I still feel ripped off. Can a show jump the shark in its final episode? You betcha!
10. MEDIUM – “Me Without You” Speaking of bad finales: I loved the show the seven years it was on – but the finale was terrible. *SPOILERS* It opens with Allison’s husband Joe dying in a plane crash – and no it’s not a vision, it’s real. We return seven years later, and spend most of the remainder of the show seeing visions that imply that Joe survived and just has amnesia. And then – no, that was just a dream. Joe is actually dead and gone. The writer tries to “make up for it” at the end by showing Allison dying as an old lady years later and meeting the spirit of Joe who was waiting for her all these years. It’s a touching scene, but still no excuse for writing a script that lets a woman who helped so many others during her lifetime have to spend decades of her life as a widow – especially when the show was based on a real-life person and her husband was still alive and well, thank you very much!
11. HEROES - "One of Us, One of Them" Suddenly, Sylar is Angela's long lost son and Niki is unceremoniously killed off and replaced with her own twin sister, also played by Ali Larter. Did not sit well with me.
12, MY NAME IS EARL - "The Trial" For 2 years, this show had been about a former con man trying to make amends for his past misdeeds. But season 2 had also brought a storyline about Earl's ex-wife stealing a store truck, not knowing there was someone in the back and ending up with kidnapping charges. In the season 2 finale, the only way Earl knows how to save her at trial is to confess to the crime himself at the end. As a result, he spent half of Season 3 in jail and part of the second half of it in a coma and the show went downhill fast. Fortunately, in season 4 they went back to basics and finished with several strong episodes.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 13, 2021 17:35:29 GMT
13 TV Episodes That Jumped the Shark or Went Too Far, Plotwise (Subjective):
01. THE COLBYS - "Crossroads" Fallon (Emma Samms) is abducted by a UFO in the season two cliffhanger. Previously the show was set in reality but this seemed way out there. It was the final episode of the series.
02. THE X-FILES - "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" In this episode, we learn the background of a previously shadowy character - but it is patently ludicrous. Not only did he personally assassinate JFK and MLK, but he was also responsible for the 1980 US Hockey team winning the Olympic Gold Medal and for the Buffalo Bills never winning a Super Bowl. Plus he was just a frustrated would-be writer at heart. A laughable episode.
03. DEXTER - "Are You...?" Once Deb learns that her brother is an occasional serial killer, the series flounders around and characters act out of character. The show was never as good or the same again, leading to the infamous finale that pleased no one. A reveal like this should have made more of an impact.
04. THE OUTER LIMITS (1993) - "The Voice of Reason" Clip shows are great for comedies, sometimes even dramas, but a clip show for a sci-fi anthology? This episode involved a hearing which took clips of totally different beings from earlier episodes and tried to link it to some paranoiac story that we were being invaded by one big alien superpower. It concluded with the man who was bringing the evidence shooting an innocent man thinking he was an alien, while the real aliens chuckled in secret afterward at their victory. As a one-time occurrence. it would have been tolerable. But sadly, it became an annual event - always with clips masquerading as something they weren't intended to be, and always with the villain winning at the end.
05. DALLAS - "Return to Camelot" the '85-'86 season was only a dream.
06. QUANTUM LEAP - "Lee Harvey Oswald" As much as I loved QL (and I really loved it), this premiere episode of the fifth (and last) season was a huge mistake. Written by Donald Bellisario as a rebuttal to the movie JFK it was little more than a mini-bio of Oswald's life. As a result, the story had Sam inexplicably leaping into Oswald over and over again throughout his life and not to right any wrongs as he was usually supposed to do. The two-hour episode was meandering, unfocused, unpleasant, and worst of all - boring. It may have helped lead to the premature end of this wonderful series.
07. Z NATION - "Zombaby!" Z Nation was always never far from jumping the shark most of the time anyway, but in season two, a blue human/zombie hybrid baby is born to Murphy and Serena. Little baby Lucy grows to adulthood at a rapid pace due to her being a hybrid. It's silly and blue people belong in Smurf village. Oddly enough, the show bounced back from this period. By season four, it's more gritty and more intense than ever.
08. GREEN ACRES - "Ralph's Nuptials" The episode starts with lady plumber Ralph Monroe telling Lisa about her date at the drive-in with county agent Hank Kimball. He went to get some treats and came back to the wrong car and got beat up. But at the hospital later he proposed to her. Later on, Ralph and Hank get married in a local ceremony and head off on their honeymoon. But then normally efficient Sam Drucker realizes his Justice of the Peace license has expired so the marriage isn't valid. In true family hour style, the couple never get to sleep together as Hank returns from an errand for Ralph and knocks on the wrong hotel room door only to get beat up again. Lisa assures Ralph they'll have another ceremony later on - but they never do. It goes back to Ralph flirting with Hank and being totally ignored. It's a staple of many sitcoms to have 2 characters consider marriage, but change their minds long before the ceremony. But it's quite another to have characters actually go through a wedding ceremony, head off on a honeymoon and start to act like a married couple - only to turn around and act like it effectively never happened. That's just cruel. Even when they did a reunion movie of the series years later, both characters remained single and alone. So thinking of this episode of the show doesn't make me laugh - it just makes me sad.
09. ANGEL - "Not Fade Away" Yeah, it was the final episode, but the show really decided to end everything and everyone. This, after Cordelia and Fred, two major characters, were mercilessly killed off earlier in the season. *SPOILER* Wesley is killed in this episode, and the whole gang stand against the Circle of the Black Thorn at the very end...and it ends there. No conclusion, just cliffhanger. They knew they were ending the series but felt their fight should continue. I get that but I still feel ripped off. Can a show jump the shark in its final episode? You betcha!
10. MEDIUM – “Me Without You” Speaking of bad finales: I loved the show the seven years it was on – but the finale was terrible. *SPOILERS* It opens with Allison’s husband Joe dying in a plane crash – and no it’s not a vision, it’s real. We return seven years later, and spend most of the remainder of the show seeing visions that imply that Joe survived and just has amnesia. And then – no, that was just a dream. Joe is actually dead and gone. The writer tries to “make up for it” at the end by showing Allison dying as an old lady years later and meeting the spirit of Joe who was waiting for her all these years. It’s a touching scene, but still no excuse for writing a script that lets a woman who helped so many others during her lifetime have to spend decades of her life as a widow – especially when the show was based on a real-life person and her husband was still alive and well, thank you very much!
11. HEROES - "One of Us, One of Them" Suddenly, Sylar is Angela's long lost son and Niki is unceremoniously killed off and replaced with her own twin sister, also played by Ali Larter. Did not sit well with me.
12, MY NAME IS EARL - "The Trial" For 2 years, this show had been about a former con man trying to make amends for his past misdeeds. But season 2 had also brought a storyline about Earl's ex-wife stealing a store truck, not knowing there was someone in the back and ending up with kidnapping charges. In the season 2 finale, the only way Earl knows how to save her at trial is to confess to the crime himself at the end. As a result, he spent half of Season 3 in jail and part of the second half of it in a coma and the show went downhill fast. Fortunately, in season 4 they went back to basics and finished with several strong episodes.
13. IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA - "Dennis & Dee Get a New Dad" Season two introduced Frank (Danny DeVito) as Dennis and Dee's dad. The final episode of season two exposes the truth: their mother cheated on Frank and Bruce is their real father. This is a wild leap, it could have gone all wrong, but instead, it seems to have course corrected the show. Dennis and Dee can continue to act horribly around Frank, who may actually be Charlie's father instead...I haven't gotten that far yet. This is an example of a beneficial shark jump. By the way, this show is always trying to jump the shark in every episode I've seen so far.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 13, 2021 17:37:27 GMT
13 TV Episodes in Which Someone is Taken Hostage:
01. IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA "The Gang Gets Held Hostage" - The very strange McPoyle brothers (and sister Margaret) take the gang hostage at Paddy's Pub, raising the stakes to a new level in the feud between the two groups.
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