Counterpart

Good call. Parademons come pouring out of the new tear and the two current worlds have to team up to repel the demon invasion. Slow reveal to find out that the show was funded by valve and is really the extended teaser for the long awaited release of Half Life 3.

Would have liked to have seen what they had planned for another season...but "Mira's Revenge" at the end was pretty cliche.

Yeah, I wouldn't have minded another season but then again this season was so cliche and pointless most of the time I'm not sure I would have cared at all. It takes bits and pieces from other shows but all of them - Fringe, 12 Monkeys, Stargate, Americans, Homeland, 24 - do it better, the only thing this tried to add was a layer of romance drama and most of that was just awful.

Man it musta sucked to be one of the scientists who worked on the flu 2.0, like you get this crazy new disease which kills millions and then you say "ok i'll work next on a way to spread it around an entire planet quickly and efficiently" and Mira just says "nah dog, you ever see the movie 12 Monkeys? We'll do basically that, but also a backup single spreader". Crazy cold bitch though, gonna infect her others kids like it ain't no thing.

one minor thing I read, its possible the two Howard's switched at the end which i guess is supposed to be cool but just seems... stupid.

I feel like this season was Mira going "I have an army" in a Loki voice and Emily going "We have a Howard" but then her army was 10 kids being babysat by a British guy who liked to watch his copy fuck the local whores.

Aside from the actual moles inside the office she had jack shit yet could pull off headliner movie villain operations while the actual intelligence wings of an organization dealing with parallel universes employed stormtroopers. Hell, Pope was more believable as a mastermind and he got done in by beta Howard.

spronk said:

We'll do basically that, but also a backup single spreader".

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Actually don't think he was a "backup" spreader. You figure they were sending everyone else away to major population centers, he was their designated one to remain right there.

Man I'm slow. I just finally realized that Quayle is Viserys Targaryen.

Attog said:

Man I'm slow. I just finally realized that Quayle is Viserys Targaryen.

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holy fuck i had no idea lol

Starz COO Jeffrey Hirsch addressed the cancellation at the TCA summer press tour and admitted that the show’s audience was “too male” to fit into its new female-focused strategy.

“Counterpart was a great show, we had great partners in MRC and Justin is a great writer, but it was a very complicated show, a very male show. We had picked that show up and made a two season commitment before we’d honed in on this premium female strategy,” he said.

“When you look at bringing shows back, it really has to serve that core premium female audience and if it doesn’t we have to find something else,” Hirsch added. “If it doesn’t serve our core strategy, we’re just not going to do it.”



lol starz, the network that brought you Spartacus and Black Sails, is now pursuing a premium female strategy

I would rather JK Simmons not be tied down to a network with those goals.

After reading that article, it didn't sound like they had a problem with the female to male ratio in the show, but how many women their research showed, watched the show (nelson ratings, or whatever metric maker they use). The head of the network said that their target demographic is women (probably under 50), network wide, and this show was too complex for the women they wish to court.

He basically called women simple.

this is like the time syfy decided it didn't want to do Science Fiction anymore and dropped BSG to focus on Wrestling and Ghost Hunters

the funny thing is Starz is pretty much the last indie cable network, its owned by Lionsgate but they aren't owned by Warner (HBO) or Disney or anything