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Season 6 premiered tonight on FX.

i honestly thought it was over.  maybe i still has a wishlist...nope.

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It wasn't good. The narration was annoying, Mario Lopez was annoying, and Matt was annoying as usual.

Yet still i will watch.

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I still watch also.  It was actually rather odd realizing I was watching two Ryan Murphy series back-to-back.  And Nip/Tuck has so badly gone down various roads from the place where it started (although the beginning part about how the credit crunch/recession had impacted their business and lives I thought rather good), that it leaves me fearful for Glee.

How the hell did Starbuck morph into a one-legged stripper?!  And mime? Really? Gah.  Why am I still watching this?

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The Other Joe Uppity Heeb/Righteous Web Nerd "Don't poke the Ackerbear!"

I always find it funny where people draw the line with this show.  It's been an insanely over-the-top live-action cartoon for multiple seasons now... Matt as a mime armed robber is just the latest zany plot twist.  I got a good laugh out of it.

Agreed on the recasting of Sean's lover, though.  I really liked Katee Sackoff and it's jarring to see her character as Rose McGowan now... didn't really help that her character seemed totally different than what we saw at the end of last season.

Yeah, it's always been OTT.  I guess it's just finally worn me out.  I may or may not be watching anymore...

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The Other Joe Uppity Heeb/Righteous Web Nerd "Don't poke the Ackerbear!"

Those first three years were crazy, but still recognizably human for the most part.

1) That was quite a few seasons ago at this point.

2) And I would say that the Carver storyline from S3 was a pretty big precursor for the inasne over-the-top tone that future seasons have embraced, between the incest, Costa being a eunuch, and the absurd finale.  (Not to mention the running subplot that season of Matt befriending a transvestite and dating a girl whose family was heavily into white supremacy, leading to an almost equally batshit finale.)

i never saw the finale but that sounds like it's just as well.  i'm too lazy and disinterested to find the video.

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Jesus, Matt...just fuckin' DIE already.

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The Other Joe Uppity Heeb/Righteous Web Nerd "Don't poke the Ackerbear!"

I've embraced it's OTT nature. Just when I can't imagine what they'll come up with next something like Matt as a villainous mime happens!

But I did find the re-casting of Teddy jarring. So much so, that for a bit I thought it was a completely new character that had been introduced "off-screen."

 

100% agreed on both counts.  It's no longer the show it used to be by any stretch of the imagination, but as lurid, absurd, outrageously over-the-top live-action cartoon, I'm still finding it to be an enjoyable guilty pleasure-type show.  That said, I would prefer if the plotting didn't give you whiplash -- Liz goes from despising Christian and wanting to leave him broke to just wanting to move on from everything after one psycho patient?  The Teddy plotline is resolved by... introducing a previously unseen serial killer?!  Um, OK.

>> But I did find the re-casting of Teddy jarring. So much so, that for a bit I thought it was a completely new character that had been introduced "off-screen." <<

That annoyed me too, especially since I like Sackhoff more than McGowan.  I guess it kind of worked a little since the idea of the character is that she adopts new identites and new looks... but it was still pretty awkward.

<-That said, I would prefer if the plotting didn't give you whiplash -- Liz goes from despising Christian and wanting to leave him broke to just wanting to move on from everything after one psycho patient? The Teddy plotline is resolved by... introducing a previously unseen serial killer?! Um, OK.->

Yeah, I'm kind of wondering at this point if the show isn't done as an ever-increasing dare to FX to "CANCEL US ALREADY!"

The thing I just couldn't get over was Christian's holier-than-thou attitude towards Matt committing some armed robbery when he's the dude, you know, that shoved the mother of his other son off of a building.

Is the guy playing Matt still dating Joely Richardson? If so, I wonder why he didn't bail from the series around the same time that she did at the end of season four.

That was an accident though, he shagged her off rather than shoved.

I think they've already announced that the show is ending at episode #100 -- which is 14 episodes away (5 more this season and 9 more in the final season).  So I guess the idea is just to go as gonzo as possible on basic cable?  I dunno.

Accident my ass.  He knows very well just how long his schlong is.  IT WAS MURDER BY PENIS!

But I did find the re-casting of Teddy jarring. So much so, that for a bit I thought it was a completely new character that had been introduced "off-screen."

I didn't realize it until just now!

I think Candis Cayne is very pretty, but there's no way she passes to Christian who's not only a plastic surgeon, but has issues with perceived queerness and was already "fooled" by a trans woman (Famke) and would likely be hyper-vigilant about this as a result.

i'm glad i'm not alone.

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Especially because she's like 10 feet tall!

And I think they could have done a much better job of her as a dude at the end.

This episode seemed like a bit of set-up. Didn't have quite the outrageousness I've come to expect. But it looks like we can look forward to some Julia/Sean hijinks and Matt/prison rape... Woo-hoo!

 

hear, hear!

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Apparently the writers have repressed the Rosie O'Donnell incident with the Christian Big Beautiful Woman, i wish i could.  Let's just pray it's not a storyline.  Sleeping with patients - OY.

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Any episode without Matt is a good episode.

Aww man! I was really hoping for Matt with tits. Now that would have been the show topping itself!

 

Ugh! Thank goodness, so little family crap in this ep.  I always enjoy the stuff with the crazy-ass patients so much more than all the McNamara/Troy family drama.

And yeah, when that gal said "you've never been with a fat girl" I immediately thought "sure he has -- Rosie O'Donnel!"

And Kimber's got the right of it: she and Christian are made for each other in their own fucked up and dysfunctional way.

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The Other Joe Uppity Heeb/Righteous Web Nerd "Don't poke the Ackerbear!"

yeah!

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Burned through the last three episodes of this mini-season last night... meh.  I'm glad they aren't stringing out the finale as long as originally planned (2011!).  Absence definitely isn't going to make the heart grow any fonder of this show at this point -- let's just burn through to the end.

The plotting on this show seems to have gotten even more disjointed, with stuff like Christian's debt issues becoming a big deal for one episode and then completely vanishing for the next few.  Though I have zero doubt that the loan he forged Sean's signature on will come back to haunt him in the back half of this season.

And I'm not the only one who wished that Matt would just get left in prison and forgotten, right?  (sigh)

Also: so apparently nipples are what makes naked breasts too objectionable for basic cable?  The wannabe Barbie doll had her nipple-less breasts on full display in that episode...