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Portlandia Season Two Preview: Let's Try This 'Battlestar Galactica'?
The lovely Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen try out a new television show in the second season of Portlandia, which airs on IFC starting January 6. (Thank you, Mary.)
For me, it was the first season of 24. "Boop boop be boo, boop boop be boo." (The CTU phone.) And you? We're on a twelve-day slumber party now, by the way.
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Me with LOST before the ending ruined my life.
@Kerri Mercury Morris@facebook Ditto.
The fella and I came in late to the game and decided to start watching it like a week and a half before Season 4. We didn't have a DVR for the new season so we actually had a deadline in which to complete three seasons. The stress.
@Kerri Mercury Morris@facebook
I decided to "get into" LOST approximately 3 weeks before the last season's premiere for the guy I was dating at the time. I am not kidding when I say that I literally watched it all day everyday for those 3 weeks.
We stopped dating not long afterwards and I will never forgive him for making me deal with that ending.
@pro_gingers Oh the things we'll do for the men we'll eventually hate.
Actually was BSG for me. I also just shotgunned Luther this weekend, but it's only got the one season (with only six episodes whyyyy?) on Netflix.
@The Everpresent Wordsnatcher I finally just watched Luther as well. Need more!
@The Everpresent Wordsnatcher What's Luther?? What's Luther! Should I add it to my queue???
@lagreen Idris Elba goes around London solving crimes, or not, and being hot and conflicted and breaking things, WATCH IT IMMEDIATELY.
@The Everpresent Wordsnatcher The second season is only like 4 episodes. I'm rationing the finale.
@MaryRichards I saw that they were only up to 10 episodes on IMDB, but I didn't realize that that was ALL THERE WAS. I think I'll try and ration them until I get more Sherlock.
GPOY
BSG is great and all, but is it better than the fried chicken at Screen Door? I'm not sure I could make that choice.
@elizabeast I created an account just to second this sentiment, and to note how much it made me miss Portland! And BSG, actually.
@aphrabean Yes! Actually, I had a really weird, rude waiter experience at Screen Door? But the fried chicken was still awesome and I made up for it by eating a mountain of corned beef hash at Gravy the next day.
Basically, I ate my way through Portland last spring and it was the best week of my life.
@elizabeast I cackled when I heard that – my brother lived above Screen Door for about 8 months and took my family to dinner there. I seem to remember that the drinks were strong and I kept trying to take cellphone photos of this girl in really unfortunate denim shorts.
The Wire!! I once watched a full season in a day.
@heyad Oh thank god, I'm not alone!!
@kpoparazzi YES! Mine is definitely The Wire. That one really got us. And also, Dexter, but at least we can still get those.
Considering BSG though, we just finished Arrested Development and winter has barely even started!
@heyad Yep. New Years, 2010: seasons 4 and 5 in the space of about 36 houts.
@heyad Definitely The Wire. When my boyfriend and I first started dating, I had just moved and didn't have cable or internet hooked up, but I DID(/do) have the DVD set of all five seasons (ETA of The Wire), so we watched them all on my laptop, eating Chinese food in bed (gross!) one weekend.
And also Boardwalk Empire.
@heyad Love that one too! But we've been watching it from the beginning, so it's always portion-controlled. We never got to gorge on it, but how delicious!
First season of 24 also! I never watched another season.
This kind of happened to me last Saturday with the original version of The Office. I started it when I woke up and after melting into a Tim and Dawn induced aww-puddle, I was like, Hm. I should probably eat something and possibly move from the couch. It's dangerous to leave me alone with the Netflix, I've come to find.
I freakin' HOUSED BSG last Christmas! I was pretty much exactly like these two. That shit got dark, though…not the best Christmas fare. Still, a skosh more uplifting than that year my parents and I watched all of S4 of The Wire over Christmas day and the 2 days after. So. Sad. We just sort of moped around each in our jammies.
oops, my roommate and I just did this with Greek, of all the things. We got to what we thought was the end and then found ten more episodes and then actually screamed.
This happened to me years ago with a 72-hour "Soap" marathon on some random cable channel (maybe Comedy Central, back when they didn't have their own shit yet?). Except I was on Christmas break from college, so I had the time to dedicate.
I've also been known to do this with those New Year's "Twilight Zone" marathons.
@LastMinuteLulu AHHH, "Soap" has the best theme song.
this has pretty much been the last 2-3 months for me while i've tried to finish multiple work projects and am still not winning at that. downton abbey, friday night lights, twin peaks are only partly to blame…there was something else but i don't even remember anymore. its pretty bad, folks.
My husband and I totally cracked out on the first season of LOST for a weekend, just as the second season was starting. We bought the first 3 eps of that season from iTunes just to be caught up to what was airing. Watching it in real time kind of sucked after our marathon viewings.
The West Wing, BSG, and (currently) Felicity!
The first "episode" of BSG was a miniseries that ran 180 minutes, not 45. I'M JUST SAYING, PORTLANDIA.
(p.s. Portlandia, I love you like Apollo loved Starbuck)
@embley: Yes! My boyfriend and I sat down the other day to start watching BSG and two hours later were like WHERE DID THE TIME GO and also, DAMN THAT TOOK FOREVER. So… close, Portlandia, but it's even worse, really.
@embley I know, you made me and my girlfriend watch it. We really tried to like it. FOR YOU.
@embley YES THIS. 45 minutes my ass.
Also aaaahhhh Starbuck, you are my favorite.
@The Everpresent Wordsnatcher The part where they discuss whether Starbuck would call sealed this video as wonderful for me. OH STARBUCK MY STARBUCK
Arrested Development, whole thing's on Netflix, takes only about 1.5 days of post-breakup self-pity burrowing, accompanied by an entire tube of cookie dough. Boom goes the dynamite.
@sarabara Boom!
During one of my last rounds of finals in university, I watched four seasons of House in a week while cramming ten weeks of knowledge into my brain. I'm not actually sure how I accomplished this, but considerable amounts of coffee were involved. By the end, I knew a lot more about the symptoms of amyloidosis and sarcoidosis than I did about the Fillipino economy or statistics whoops.
Six Feet Under. The whole series. I spent a week eating graham crackers and lusting after owning a hearse.
@Lunch Kitty THIS! But not owning a hearse. What?
@Lunch Kitty That show made me want to be an undertaker for a solid 2 years.
I gulped down the first season of Friday Night Lights. Now I'm in the second season and it's a little harder to swallow.
@andrea disaster I'm doing the same thing with FNL right now. SO GOOD. I want to slow down so I don't rush through it all and get depressed, but I know it's gonna happen.
@andrea disaster The 2nd season is the weakest of the series (and was also mercilessly cut short by the writers' strike), but it's still excellent. AAAHHHHH I love Friday Night Lights so much, I cannot even tell you how many times I've cried over it.
@andrea disaster The second season is lame. It's going to pick up in the third. By the time you get to the fifth, you'll be telling yourself "ONLY TWO EPISODES A DAY! ONLY TWO!!"
if they had really watched battlestar galactica, the last scene would be like WTF RDM WHY DID YOU RUIN EVERYTHING WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
@blahstudent TRUTH.
I think the Wire started it off. Other notables: Downton Abbey, Party Down, Luther, Damages, Friday Night Lights.
@Tammy Pajamas Oh yeah, Downton Abbey. I didn't get up from the couch until it was done and then I yelled at all my friends for not telling me about it sooner.
Friday Night Lights, seasons 1-5 in 1 1/2 weeks. I feel so empty now, I need to fill the void.
I just did this w. Parks and Rec. What is even worse is that I now make all these obscure Parks and Rec references nobody gets. One could only get them if they watched the entire show in 5 days and all that shit is fresh in their mind.
@Manatee I did this with Parks and Rec a few months ago! Make references to meeee!
@Manatee Oh man, I watched all of Parks & Rec two months ago, too. However, unlike when I did this with The Wire (so heavy), I just can't get enough of it. I keep re-watching, starting at the beginning of season 2 (season 1 was so bad), and going all the way through again. I need a new show to distract me.
@Manatee I mean, who DOESN'T have gay thoughts?!
@Manatee I recently yelled "EVERYBODY PANTS NOW" at a party…no one got it. I think they think I'm the dumbest now.
@Manatee I have called a bathroom a 'whiz palace' just to smoke out other P&R fans.
@sarabara I did the same at a party and people joined in, despite not watching P&R, so don't stop believing. I really want a friend who knows Jean Ralphio so we can talk like Tommy and Jean. Especially when we're flush with cash!
My whole family watched the complete first season of The Walking Dead after our Thanksgiving meal this year. Zombies, apple brandy and 5 hours on the couch equals good times.
@RocketSurgeon Did they enjoy it? We usually go to my parents on Sunday night for dinner and often ended up staying to watch on their nice TV. My Mom would leave the room and then sort of hang out doing something else, but sneak peeks in and ask questions. But no, she doesn't watch that show or anything with zombies in it..heh heh heh.
Veronica Mars, in January when it was 11 degrees out and it was still on Netflix Instant – I spent the entire weekend watching episode after episode and refusing to leave my apartment to face the cold.
Remember in, like, February of 2010, DC (and most of the East Coast) got a horrific snowstorm, and the federal government was closed for a solid week?
Yeah. ALL OF BSG. And that was before it was on Netflix Instant, so I was using all sorts of illegal sites.
Nooo, I can't watch! Curse you, Canadian IP address!
@Marika Pea@twitter pssst Marika: http://io9.com/5869221/how-battlestar-galactica-addiction-can-ruin-your-life
@hyphenanne <3 <3 <3
I did this with Entourage awhile back.
Currently, semi-embarrassingly: Hart of Dixie… release more episodes on Hulu! HURRY, CW!
I did all seven seasons of Buffy in about two months. I was in AmeriCorps and too poor to go out, and too poor to adequately heat my apartment, so I just stayed in bed with Buffy until it got warmer out.
@travelmugs : Me too! Out of work for two years–"Buffy", "The Office", and (don'thateme) "America's Next Top Model"–total gorging.
@travelmugs This happens to me every time I watch Buffy!
The Wire, for sure. And pretty much every show I obtain on DVD, even shows I've already seen. And I re-watched BSG with an ex who had never seen it. We chugged along Portlandia-style for a while but then he stopped watching before the end (should have been a sign – actually this might be a metaphor for our entire relationship), but I re-watched the rest by myself. Even though I knew that ending was coming.
@redonion My ex and I independently started watching Battlestar Galactica before we started dating. I was a little ahead of him, so I let him catch up, then we started watching it together. We stopped watching before the series ended…yes, this should have been a sign.
He used to do a really funny Colonel Tigh impression that I think about every time I see a BSG reference and then I become quite wistful…
How about any TV show on instant watch? Well, most stuff. The movies on my queue are getting really lonely.
Over the summer my family and I got hooked on Little Britain and we watched Series 1 and 2 in about four days. Vicky Pollard is my spirit animal.
@Clare Nooburtyarrrbutnouuubutyarrr
@Polina SHAT AP!!
@Clare Quit givnme evols!
@Polina I never did nuffin or nuffin!!
@Clare Am I bovvered?
(Because if we're talking spirit animals..Catherine Tate's Lauren would be mine!)
My worst example of this was Friday Night Lights. 4 seasons in 2 weeks.
SKINS SEASON ONE AND TWO
@elysian fields BUT ONLY ONE AND TWO!!!
I would try watching this show if I could find it on my TV. Is it on the TV or somewhere else?
@Trilby It's on TV, on IFC, which I think is basic cable most places.
I am pleased to report that the CTU phone sound is the default ringtone on my cell. No one who has heard it go off has ever seemed to notice it or recognize it, to my surprise.
@purefog I think 24 is my personal record for consecutive viewing. We watched it from about 9pm-4am (real time..I mean..real real time).
@Polina 24 is one of those shows that's WAY better to marathon. My college roommate and I watched season after season after season almost in a row (thank you, Netflix four-at-a-time account – we both had one) and were SO disappointed when we ran out and had to watch episodes as they aired. It loses momentum.
@tortietabbie Yeah, agreed. We mooched off a friend who bought each season, so we would wait until then and watch them all over holiday break.
First Season of Dexter.
Freaks and Geeks!
BSG, first three seasons of True Blood, and Friday Night Lights. Boyf and I just finished FNL a week and a half ago and I still get choked up thinking about it and am going through active withdrawal.
I do this with Bones whenever a new season comes out. Usually by the second episode it involves a drinking game that requires a shot every time one of the cast members does something completely ridiculous or the writers clearly didn't do any (literally, even the most cursory of googlings was not done) research before busting out with something flat-out ridiculous.
Dead Like Me – the whole series was on Netflix streaming. I actually convinced myself to call out of work one day because there was no way work was going to be anywhere near as enjoyable as that.
Breaking Bad, oh my god Breaking Bad! Wouldn't you all like to curl up on the couch and be tortured by a tv show this christmas? I will be doing it for the second time this year. I seriously expected it to be so boring when I saw the pilot, but then it swallowed me whole and I cannot escape it. I'm just glad I waited until season four to get into it. I don't know what I would've done if I'd actually had to wait for episodes.
@Tropical Iceland Usually when it comes to tv/movies I am nothing if not: 1) patient to a fault, 2) not easily disgusted/grossed out. I gave up after three episodes of Breaking Bad. I'm told I need to keep watching?
@Polina I would say at least finish the first season. I watched the first season over the course of a month, and then the rest in a week. It takes a little while to really get exciting. And you kind of have to be okay with hating the main character. At least I do?
@Polina I think I got through the first six episodes, but I just found it really punishing and unenjoyable.
@Tropical Iceland I probably will eventually since the person I watch with liked it more than I did.
@Lucienne Yeah. Normally I am so incredibly patient. But exactly, it just felt like I was torturing myself for no apparent reason.
I guess I should have realized BSG wasn't for me when I wanted to slap Starbuck upside the head in the first episode. It only got worse from there, and yet I watched the whole freaking thing. The beauty/curse of Netflix Instant, I guess.
@bitzyboozer WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO SLAP STARBUCK?!
The Wire is king, but I can't be the only Hairpinner obsessed with Deadwood! Mr. boomforreal and I have been having a Breaking Bad marathon this winter–so good. Bryan Cranston's grim mouth deserves a special achievement award.
@boomforreal Oh yeah, Deadwood! I watched all of it in a weekend, falling ever-increasingly in love with John Hawkes and unable to believe it really only got three seasons. Of all the injustices!
The Vampire Diaries.
… I can't be the only one, either.
@Lucienne Yes! All of what's on Netflix. Over Thanksgiving. I didn't leave my apartment; it was glorious.
Portlandia is soooooooooo overrated.
Skits that wouldn't cut it on SNL, and that's setting the bar low.
I'm considering committing to this with The Tudors. Is it worth the time/inevitable loss of my job?
@everythingbagel Honestly, no. I got through two episodes by forcing myself but it is just pretty people being pretty and boring; also the historical inaccuracies started getting way too ridiculous (I have read multiple Tudor biographies because I have a problem and had no idea what the fuck was happening).
@everythingbagel Err..I loved the Tudors. It is totally ridiculous and inaccurate but the drama! I can't even hear the theme song without wanting to watch it..
TOO MANY. I was out of school and working part time for about 6 months last/earlier this year, and rather than deal with my severe depression and lack of motivation I binged on Netflix Instant instead.
Notables:
Party Down, Downton Abbey, Doctor Who, followed immediately by Torchwood (I KNOW I totally watched Torchwood and I loved it so shut up), Pushing Daisies (rewatched), Skins (1-3 but season 3, WHUT?), Parks and Rec
…I am wasting my life
Uh oh. This just seemed like a documentary to me. My fandoms are PRETTY HARDCORE.
This is how I got into Community last year, this is how I discovered Misfits, Downton Abbey, and probably 6 more shows. I watched Game of Thrones in real time, but did I also MARATHON it online and then track the Tumblr tag so that whenever there was a new development, I'd know right away? Yes!
Portlandia just GETS IT!
I'd never seen portlandia before but now IT IS ON NETFLIX AND I AM GOING TO POUND IT THIS WEEKEND.