The scenarios are ridiculous, the choices the characters make are mind numbing, the acting was OK in season one but got progressively worse. I got half way through season four when i finally said enough is enough. It's a bad show.

For those of you who may or may not know Spirit Riding Free, found its base in the 2002 animated film Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron. The movie was about spirit a wild mustang, and his adventures in the plains region of North America. Specifically his quest for freedom from a group of US soldiers who were rounding up wild horses to break and tame them, while simultaneously slaughtering the Native American tribes of the surrounding area. The TV show, which is so loosely based on the same story that I hesitate to even say it’s related, is about a little girl who moved to an incredibly immaculate “Wild West” town. Once she arrives she promptly meets a captive Spirit and frees him. After which he spontaneously decided to become her glorified taxi service wherever she wants to go. Notice the contradiction, the movie is about a wild horse struggling to maintain his freedom. The TV show is about a little girl mounting up a wild horse and using him to facilitate her adventures. Now don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against the concept of the series, and I realize that any historical inaccuracy is likely due to the fact that this is meant to be a show for children. The problem I have is that they took the name of a fantastic movie, and slapped it onto a tv series that has a completely different meaning. If they wanted to make a spirit TV series they failed epically, and if they wanted to make a series about a girl and her horse why even associate it with Spirit in the first place? I know that many people argue that they are trying to play of the popularity of an already established title, but anyone old enough to remember spirit is in their 20’s by now like me. In addition I have a hard time believing that anyone who liked the movie would want to watch this series, as it’s not at all true to the movie. I guess I just want to know why this happened?

This season has been overrun by rants and Hardwick's mom. Even Doug Benson gives him shit for talking incessantly like anyone cares. This first 5-9 minutes of every show now is just the host talking, and they cut the comedians. I know it's his show, but I watch to see the comedians, not Hardwick's mom. Now I just fast forward through. Anyone else annoyed?

I recently finished TV's Netflix's Marvel's Daredevil, and it is my new best example of one of the most annoying superhero tropes: The No-Kill Rule.

The show's writers try to create dramatic tension, and a possible dramatic arc, in our hero's struggle to decide whether it is immoral to kill bad guys.

And so we're forced to watch a dozen boring scenes where the Devil of Hell's Kitchen talks to a Priest about right and wrong.

Know how I know these scenes suck? You could cut them out of the show entirely and you would everything would still make sense, and no important events or plot points would change.

So, that's the first problem with those scenes: they're boring.

The second problem is that I'm just not buying it that the Daredevil should feel bad about killing bad guys, especially the Big Bad, Fisk.

The show tries to build up tension during the whole season and tries to make us care about Matt's internal struggle, but I think it falls flat.

The show uses the old "we're not so different you and I" line when our hero talks to the villian and the "if you kill you'll be just like them" line from the well-meaning sidekick.

Bullshit! Bullshit on both counts. It's not even close to the same thing.

To kill an innocent person is evil. To kill a serial murderer of innocent people is justified. In fact, I would argue that it would be immoral not to stop the villian (whether by imprisonment or death), because it would make you complicit in their next act of violence against another innocent victim.

Anyway, a bunch of superhero characters follow the no kill rule, and a bunch of shows try to milk some drama out of it, but it always falls flat, in my opinion, and makes for boring and frustrating scenes.

P.S. Yes I'm aware of the simple explanation for why this trope exists: it's a plot device to keep the villians alive so they can the stories / drama going indefinitely. But to me, that just proves that its a product of convenience/laziness not artful, original storytelling.

Look, The Simpsons is one of the greatest television shows of all time. Its humor along with its social commentary is amazing. THIS IS TRUE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRETY OF THE SERIES! Within every single season, not just 2-9, are filled with quality entertainment. Seasons 10+ may not be as good as the golden age of Seasons 5-8, but it is far superior to the rest of the copycats on tv like Family Guy or American Dad (but Bob's Burgers is amazing, though). I know this for a fact because I recently watched every. single. episode. one by one. And it was one of the best times of my life. If you have the stamina, try it. You will enjoy every second of it.

Alright, I know I'm not going to be the most popular guy in the place, but I have to say this.

Sherlock is a bad TV show. We get yet another anti-social weird genius that nobody understands with an attitude that would get him punched in the face at least 10 times a day and that threats everybody like shit. This is the first and major problem with the show. I get that it's Sherlock Holmes and even in the books he can be a dick, but that much ? Come on, I don't want to see a Downey Jr. replica with another name, but Cumberbatch seems to have found a niche with this kind of weird genius roles. The other main issue I have with the show is the famous ''mind place''. That is what turned me down for good. His mind his like a computer and sits down and moves in hands in the air like he's on some sort of flat screen like in Minority Report and he can find back the trail of information he let in his mind... all that with nice little visual effects of the words in his mind going away like a page you don't want to see on your iPad you just sweep it away. Fuck off. I saw that, I said I'm done with this, close the damn video and watch something else.

I don't get what people love so much about this show, it's like any other generic tv show only with better budget, it's like the Criminal Minds of the rich people.

Juliet is a hexinbeast, and a complete badass now. She exploded a guy's head, out powered that one wesen, and completely destroyed Adalind in a witch duel. How awesome was that?! Obviously she's too powerful to just be a good guy fighting alongside Nick in this state. There would be some serious villain decay (although it's time the show upped the ante anyway, we have yet to know what's so special about these Royals other than the fact that they have a lot of money and sometimes happen to be a minor inconvenience).

So clearly, they are going to do something with Juliet's character. They could either kill her, take her powers away, or make her go dark a la Willow from season 6 of Buffy. The last choice might end up being awesome, but it would be pretty easy to screw up too. Her and Nick have some things in their relationship they need to work out (also, why didn't they just get married a season ago??). But you know what the writers should never, ever have Juliet do? Sleep with Renard! That would be dumb, annoying to watch, and a retread of story they already wrapped up seasons ago. And I'll give you one guess as to what these writers had Juliet do last episode.

Also, why the balls is Adelaide pregnant again?! I get that the actor is pregnant IRL, but how about just not have her around for a little while? It will be OK, I promise. Literally every major problem in the show can be traced back to Adilind.

Anyway, I've never been more interested in Grimm than I am now because of some of the storylines happening. But I've also never grimaced as much at the show's twists as I have this season. I hope they can pull it out in the end, but I'm not holding my breath.

The Following would be my 2nd.

But UTD is just in a league of its own.

Come at me

What did you think of this show?

I thought it got off to a great start. The limitation of having so few characters felt like a fresh take and those first couple episodes were unlike any TV comedy I have ever seen. The second half dragged, but I'm intrigued to see where they go with it next season.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this show to me is that I think that it is really testing the limits of audience sympathy for an unlikable protagonist.

Other shows featuring anti-heroes, like Breaking Bad and Dexter, were supposedly testing those limits as well, but I never really felt like Walter was in danger of having me emotionally turn on him and to start rooting against him.

With Phil in LMOE, they give him moments of redemption and honesty, but man, they really don't shy away from making look like a pathetic loser and a narcissistic asshole.

It's interesting that having a character be a narcissistic loser is a lot more effective at making him unlikeable than having him be a serial murderer.

My random observations:

• That Oliver-Felicity sex scene was kind of awkward/unintentionally funny — particularly this clumsy lift move. Why did they not re-shoot that? IDK, maybe they thought it fit her character.

• I've been hearing complaints about Felicity's acting, particularly in her crying scenes and now its become really obvious to me. She's not very good at crying or selling any of the emotional/upset/angry scenes — though she's got the awkward comic timing thing down pat.

• I'm actually intrigued by this whole League of Assassins storyline. It seems like it has the potential to raise the stakes and the scope of the Arrow's world. The whole Starling City crime-fighting with a 'crime boss of the week' thing was getting boring. If Oliver ends up going through some training and than overthrowing and dismantling the league and then heading back to the city to stop bank robbers it'll feel like a major let down. So, here's to hoping that the writers have got something interesting planned.

i only really tune in to see gino get worked up.

I know this show gets torn to shreds online but it still remains one of the most popular shows on television. I have heard every criticism about nerd blackface and low-quality writing so I don't need to hear more of that. I absolutely despise the show but I am curious to hear the opinions of people who truly enjoy it.

I recently started a YouTube channel ("TVJunkie") to discuss television in the context of researched video essays, and I thought this is a great place to share this project. This isn't normal YouTube vlogging, my goal is to be equal parts entertaining and informative.

Topics I have covered so far include what makes for a good or bad quality series finale, has NBC improved in the five years since Comcast took over, and in my latest video, I preview the television upfronts happening next month.

Here's a quick minute and a half channel trailer that gives you an idea what I'm doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dltER_UqdI The latest video, "Road to the Upfronts": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6ni_1p_ofM And the channel altogether: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCODgXL5z-WEJUIYoetBpdrA

Other than the airplane scenario in the very first episode, and the Bob's tryout flashbacks in another episode there is nothing in this show that even remotely reflects the book. The little annotation should read "the producer had an idea for a TV show while reading Inside Delta Force" instead.

Peaky Blinders on Netflix

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2442560/

Synopsis: It's a period piece about a gangster family in post-WWI England called the "Peaky Blinders."

My Rating: ★★★★☆ (4 out of 5 stars)

To my friends who like good TV but are already watching most of what's good out there, this is the show I am currently recommending. It's gotten some acclaim, but it's not widely known yet.

What's good about it?

Everything in this show is at least good, nothing is bad, and some of it is pretty close to great.

My highest rating would actually go to its cinematography, it's beautifully shot and the sets and costumes have high production value. If you're a cinephile definitely check this one out. It's cinematic in look and feel.

The acting and dialogue are also high quality. Very naturalistic with perhaps one notable exception*. Solid acting all around with a few standout "character" actors.

Why am I talking about it?

I don't know, really. I'm not profiting from it. I just like good art. And when creative people give us a good art, I sometimes feel that what I can do to give back is to spread the word.

If you've seen the show, do you agree or disagree with my appraisal?