Alpha House [Amazon]

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Richard Dower wrote: »

Amazon have released all there pilots and the show with the most votes gets made into a series:: the pilots for Zombieland, Alpha House, Dark Minions, Betas, Onion News Empire, Those Who Can't ... are out there if you wanna check them out.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001155581

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kK6f-bAGOo

Amazon will offer the first three episodes for free. Subsequent episodes
will be released week by week — and available only to Prime Instant Video
subscriber

Is the pilot any good?

JohnK

Anyone watching this? Had a look at the first 10 episodes over the last 2 days and I'm really enjoying it a lot more that I expected to.

IvaBigWun

Amazon are in the TV show making business now?

Duck Soup

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Amazon are in the TV show making business now?

Yep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_House

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Studios

JohnK

Yeah they've started doing some of their own shows, like Netflix has, but they seem to be sticking with the weekly episode format rather than releasing a whole season in one go.

Duck Soup

This is Amazon Studio's other show, Betas, that made past a pilot and into a 11 episode first season.

After network TV, there was cable TV. Now after cable, there's content providers - Amazon, Netflix - producing their own exclusive and original content.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-amazon-betas,0,5645815.story#axzz2pfxrvZZQ

FloatingVoter

Seen the first nine myself - No. 10 lined up for tonight. Hopefully it will get a more mainstream release. It doesn't deserve to be a one season wonder in a niche market. I can't see John Goodman hanging around if it just stays where it is. And Bill Murray - please get out of jail soon.

Watched this over the past two days and really enjoyed it. It's a rather familiar and unexceptional but it's consistently funny and Goodman is a joy to watch.

The storylines are a little bland but as the series progresses it does improve and much like Veep, once the stakes are raised it does became rather interesting.

Started series two this evening and much like the first, it's a pleasant distraction that's fitfully funny and features a cast who are impossible not to warm to. Its a shame that the show has never really gained the audience it deserves, it should be airing on prime time over here as it's vastly superior to most of its ilk.

With nothing else to do today and a bit of a migraine and an inability to sleep I binged on this and just on episode 9. It really is just a wonderful little show and one which I would happily watch 24 episodes of a year, it's a smart and funny show with likeable characters and a bit of heart. You could easily see how the show could be retooled as a more cynical and scathing show but as it stands it's just right.