Most epic binge-watch ever
August 25, 2014 | 20:58 | Written by: snake911
FXX is currently playing a marathon of The Simpsons. What’s so epic, you ask? Oh, nothing. Just showing every episode ever made, is all! That’s 552 episodes spanning across a period of 12 days!!!! Ay Caramba!
The marathon started Thursday morning and I watched a great deal of it since Thursday afternoon. The TV was basically fixed on FXX all weekend long. They're showing them in order and currently on, as of Monday morning, season 9. Today will be my last day watching this marathon as that is when I feel the show stared to drop in quality. To be exact, in my own opinion, seasons 1-8 are gold. Season 9 is okay, but you can tell the writing was changing for the worst; and every season after that is…well, poop.
Actually, here’s an interesting article from The Verge where they believe the show ‘jumped the shark’ and when Home turned from a “hapless father with a good heart” to a “caricature of a moron.” I agree with the author’s theory.
I do applaud FXX for showing the episodes in their entirety. Every episode seemed to have at least one scene that has been ripped out for syndication broadcasting, so every episode during this marathon included a nugget of content of what seems new to me because I haven’t seen those clips since they originally aired them. FXX does get a mild jeering too as they changed the aspect ratio of the older episodes from 4:3 to 16:9 by zooming and cropping. Anyone who doesn’t play back films in their native aspect ratios are monsters imo. Okay, old man rant is complete.
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