Frownland

I get what you mean, but do you have some examples? I can think of a few but I don't know how far you are.

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grindy

I'm in the middle of season two.
Dunno, mostly stuff involving his wife, also her sister and her husband.
I get that probably most of it did or will end up being somehow important to the main plot but it often feels kinda half-assed.

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Frownland

I think that a lot of that is to illustrate just how dull his regular life is and why he'd jump to those decisions. I do think that Marie is a lazily underdeveloped character though.

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Trollheart

No it wasn't. I've seen episodes where you can groan and still laugh - the one where Joe decides to end his life at Niagra Falls, for instance (FG) or the one where Stan wants to spend his holidays alone so puts his family in a sort of virtual reality every year (AD) - but this did nothing but irritate and frustrate me. It was terrible. It was not so terrible it was good, it was just simply terrible.

FG and AD both had their moments, but the emphasis is very firmly on the "had" in that sentence. They should quit now, not while they're ahead (cos they're not), not before they embarrass themselves (cos that ship has sailed a long time ago) but just out of pure respect for their ex-viewership.

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LoathsomePete

I think Family Guy, American Dad, and The Simpsons should all enter a suicide pact.

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Trollheart

Homer would never go through with it. Come to think of it, Stan would probably trick the other two into carrying it out and then have blanks in his gun or a special rope that breaks at the crucial moment or something. But yeah, I agree. Can't really think of a "mature animated show" that still stands up today. How's South Park these days? Watched some old episodes yesterday, reminded me how great it can be. Something about porn channels and Minecraft?

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Goofle

South Park seems to have gotten better over the past few years, but that is based on very irregular watching. Not seen any of the latest series though.

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Paedantic Basterd

Re: Attack on Titan

**** you guys, I loved that ****.

I thought Breaking Bad was just okay until I finished it. The last 10 or so episodes are wild.
It's short. It's like 26 episodes. That said, eh. I don't feel like I gained anything from watching it.

Frownland

It didn't feel as thought out or rewarding as the earlier seasons for me, but it could just be that it's a pretty different animal. It takes on a far more cinematic feel in the last season.

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Paedantic Basterd

To be honest, I hated Walt. I quit watching the series for about 2 years because I hated Walt so much. One day I realized that I was spending my free time making myself angry, and I quit. I only finished it because I realized at some point that I'd bailed at the end of the series and only had ~10 episodes to go, so I figured I might as well finish it.