There's Peyton Kennedy (Kate Messner), a sophomore who's coming to terms with her sexuality, and Luke O'Neil (Jahi Di'Allo Winston), a freshman who's trying to fit in and woo Peyton and the good news is the co-stars are a thrill to watch. Though Everything Sucks! occasionally feels like it's trying too hard - beating you over the head with on-the-nose music cues, references, and borderline absurd dialogue - it makes up for its shortcomings by tackling admirable territory and populating its world with sympathetic characters. Set in the '90s, the show tells the coming-of-age stories of one Oregon high school's A/V and Drama club members, embellishing the proceedings with plenty of pop culture and slang from the era. Netflix's version of Freaks and Geeks won't scratch quite the same ensemble dramedy itch, but it was solid enough for a single Netflix season (R.I.P.). Calling all Hulus and Netflixes: Please revive this amazing show! - JS old face! And we'll never find out how the hell mankind would ever survive the devious aliens, now that their entire home planet had arrived in Earth's orbit, AKA the titular Event. We'll never again see that girl who, in the show's most memorable moment, turned around to reveal. We'll never find out what happened to the always good Ritter's charismatic everyman Sean and his perpetually imperiled girlfriend Leila (Sarah Roemer), who had just revealed that she was pregnant while also suffering mightily from an alien pathogen designed to eliminate the human race. That number quickly dwindled by more than half and those of us who watched to the actually good cliffhanger finale were met with the grim news that NBC had canceled the series. Hyped repeatedly as, well, a big event, the premiere episode of this sci-fi corker starring Jason Ritter, Blair Underwood, and Željko Ivanek drew a respectable audience of nearly 11 million. The vibe is completely different from Battlestar, the claustrophobic space opera politics and human-vs-robot dogfights replaced by a Gattaca aesthetic and grounded Shakespearean intrigue, and was meant as an entry point into the saga for an entirely new group of fans. The show begins 58 years before the Cylons enacted their final revenge, and chronicles the blood feud between two families, the Graystones and the Adamas (sound familiar?), as they live unknowingly in the last decades of humanity's empire, in a time of wild prosperity where virtual AI avatars and cyborg technology run amok.
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Except, Syfy's prequel series Caprica, which aired after Battlestar ended but was in the works long before, is actually really good. We don't need to know the stuff before that. The Battlestar Galactica reboot found itself in this kind of situation: we know humans used to live in the Twelve Colonies and built a race of androids that became sentient religious zealots and overthrew their creators in a surprise coup that left little more than a single spaceship alive with the remains of humanity. We don't really need to know what happened in the past that got us to whatever point the main story started off at, and though many creators may find it fun to play around with backstories and new angles, it's more often than not a waste of time. Prequels and prequel series almost unequivocally kind of suck.
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It's easy to see why it wasn't renewed - it was truly so, so weird - but TV became a duller place without it. It's like Robot Chicken, but also not at all.
"For Aretha," "For Knowles," "For the Jenners," etc.
It's both nothing, with extremely short, unconnected, absurd sketches or songs about, like, living in the woods featuring familiar characters, if you've seen any of Neely's other projects, and also… something, with each episode title addressed to some female pop culture icon, ie.
What BNHNSP (don't make me type it again) is about is… well, I'm not exactly sure. He let it all hang out in Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio, the purposefully nonsensical title for his one-and-done animated sketch show intended for the late night bloc on Adult Swim with episodes clocking in at a brisk 11 minutes. Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio (2016)īrad Neely - creator of YouTube deep cuts such as " George Washington" and TV shows such as China, IL - is a weirdo.