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I've decided the marketing people at the television networks and/or ad space executives have caught on to the whole DVR/Tivo thing - instead of putting commercials between shows, they put the last five minutes of the commercials right before the last five minutes of the show - so that instead of your DVR cutting off the last one or two minutes of commercials, it will cut off the teaser for the next episode, if you are lucky, if not, it will cut off the last minute of the episode. Clever but also highly annoying.
Ringer
Very oddly written show...okay maybe not oddly written if you are in the habit of watching "American" daytime serials. It's also funny in some of the same ways that American daytime serials are unintentionally funny. (I remember laughing my head off at the daytime serial Texas - these two characters were constantly trying to hide the mummified corspe of one of the character's ex and they were bungling it. It was hilarious.)
After a bunch of fairly slow episodes where we aren't told anything and just go around in circles, then suddenly out of the blue, we get this action packed episode filled to the brim with weird plot-twists and reveals. I have whiplash. Okay grant it, in comparison to a few other series that I won't mention...fairly lame plot-twists and reveals..but you can't have everything. Plus some incredibly frustrating cliff-hanger teases. (Considering we won't have another episode for two weeks, exceedingly frustrating cliff-hanger teases. I honestly think these writers like to torture their audience.) I really hate it when tv shows do the cliff-hanger tease (ie. they tease you that a big secret, a huge thing will be revealed or will happen...but no, something stops it from happening just in the nick of time and you leave the show feeling like someone stole your favorite cookie and you just want to kick them.). I want to say: "Stop teasing me show - you did that last week. It's getting old."
( spoilers )
Ringer
Very oddly written show...okay maybe not oddly written if you are in the habit of watching "American" daytime serials. It's also funny in some of the same ways that American daytime serials are unintentionally funny. (I remember laughing my head off at the daytime serial Texas - these two characters were constantly trying to hide the mummified corspe of one of the character's ex and they were bungling it. It was hilarious.)
After a bunch of fairly slow episodes where we aren't told anything and just go around in circles, then suddenly out of the blue, we get this action packed episode filled to the brim with weird plot-twists and reveals. I have whiplash. Okay grant it, in comparison to a few other series that I won't mention...fairly lame plot-twists and reveals..but you can't have everything. Plus some incredibly frustrating cliff-hanger teases. (Considering we won't have another episode for two weeks, exceedingly frustrating cliff-hanger teases. I honestly think these writers like to torture their audience.) I really hate it when tv shows do the cliff-hanger tease (ie. they tease you that a big secret, a huge thing will be revealed or will happen...but no, something stops it from happening just in the nick of time and you leave the show feeling like someone stole your favorite cookie and you just want to kick them.). I want to say: "Stop teasing me show - you did that last week. It's getting old."
( spoilers )