TV show thread (2022-?)

Enjoyed the first season, not feeling it much so far after 3 of this season. Don’t know what it is, maybe just me getting easily distracted. These very mannered and artificial concepts are one of my things, but maybe best in film length or single season. I’m concentrating more on the heavy make up than the obtuse dialogue! It’s just me, I need a reset

You’re the problem here. Go reset then re watch.

Yeah, it was like a mini self therapy session at everyone else’s expense. I’d be first to whinge about not enough interesting television🤪

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The Newsreader S3 has started on ABC, Sunday night 20.30. All 6 eps available on iView.

Highly recommended. Too much Marg Downey is never enough!

Season 2 or Rogue Heroes coming to SBS in 10 or so days. Cannardly wait.

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Wasn’t everybody killed or captured at the end of the first series?

Nope.

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@theDJR

This popped up on my Facebook feed:

It’s from Sarah Michelle Gellar

So…… you might have heard some news this week, but I realize you haven’t heard from me.

Three years ago, I got a call from my dear friend and mentor, Gail Berman. She told me that she wanted me to sit down with Chloé Zhao to hear her take on a potential “Buffy” revival. I was blown away that Chloé even knew who I was, but, as I’ve always done, I told Gail that I just didn’t see a way for the show to exist again. We’d always been aligned on that, but this time I heard something different in her voice. I eventually agreed to go (mainly just to meet Chloé) and our twenty minute coffee quickly turned into a four hour adventure. We laughed, we cried, but mostly we both talked about how much this show means to us.

While I didn’t agree to anything at that meeting, I did shock myself by agreeing to continue the conversation. These conversations did, in fact, continue over the next few years and eventually we added the incredible Nora and Lilla Zuckerman to our little tribe until ultimately, one day, we landed on an idea.

I have always listened to the fans and heard your desire to revisit “Buffy” and her world, but it was not something I could do unless I was sure we would get it right. This has been a long process, and it’s not over yet. I promise you, we will only make this show if we know we can do it right. And I will tell you that we are on the path there.

I feel so lucky to be on this journey with these four unbelievably talented women, all of whom love “Buffy” as much as I do. And as much as you do. Thank you to all the fans who never stopped asking for this. This will be for you.

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Did you watch episode 4?

You didn’t include the image!

I didn’t want you to get too excited :wink:

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Too late!

Bit nervous about this one as a Buffy nerd. If they redo it with a new young cast taking centre stage with SMG as an occasional mentor/guest star figure, I think that’s the best way to go about it. There’s all sorts of issues with the original cast. Marsters and Boreanaz are too old to be playing apparent-age-20 immortal vampires any more and HOLY CRAP I don’t want a new sereies to pick up that old love triangle all over again. Eliza Dushku is retired from acting, Nicholas Brendon is a worthless scumbag criminal waste of skin and nobody is going to be hiring him for anything. No issues with Hannigan as far as I know, ASH lives in the UK and isn’t a spring chicken any more, he’d be an unlikely starter. Emma Caulfield is still acting, but her character is pretty damn dead (which admittedly is only a minor handicap in the Buffyverse). But everyone watching the new thing will be wanting to know what happened to the characters from the old series, so you can’t just ignore it all.

So … observing with caution. Buffy was very much a thing of the early 2000s zeitgeist, you’d need to update it thematically and stylistically too, but would it still be Buffy after that? It could be veeeery bad. But hey, so was seasons 6 and 7, so who knows?

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I seriously don’t think they should do this reboot.

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It’s presumably NOT a reboot, but if they are following a similar path (one slayer) they first have a massive bar to get close to and second WTF who turned off all the other slayers?!?

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I think the plan was for a sequel series, not a reboot. And you can certainly do that without winding back the many-slayers thing. You can’t do One Girl In All The World any more, but you could do, for example, The One Girl In New York City. Then there’s the option of backup (and cameos!) from the wider Slayer world and the old cast who can visit.

The real question is what role Buffy/SMG plays in the setup of the show. The original show was basically an extended metaphor for growing up. You can’t do that again if Buffy is the main character, not with SMG approaching 50. Does Buffy take the Giles role as a mentor for a younger Slayer? Or maybe she is an occasional reoccuring character in order to not overshadow the new cast? And who is your target audience? If it’s the same age as the target audience of the original series, then an older lead is a tall order, and won’t let you do the whole high school thing. Or if you’re targeting returning fans who watched the original series at the time, do you make Buffy the main character, and instead update the series theme/metaphor to be all about the trials and life experiences of … middle aged people? That’d be a … daring … creative choice.

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Busy single mum Buffy Summers juggles work, paying her mortgage and raising her talented but rebellious teen daughter. When a visit from an old friend dredges up unfinished business from her complicated past, Buffy must assemble her old gang again to go on one last mission.

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Rupert has a new set of enemies and these guys play nice.

PS how can your two most iconic roles have the same name?

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Anyone who knew what Buffy was will consider it a reboot and view it as such.

ESPN coming to Disney+.

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