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post #1 of 11
6/1/09 at 6:24pm
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Is this some sort of gag? He can hear your thoughts and then uses your own thoughts to help you? Really?

Plus, his character's name is the worst:

Mason Clearears

Much better would be a show about a guy that could taste your thoughts. Main character is a chub that just chases around people who can't stop thinking about ice cream and spaghetti.
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post #2 of 11
6/1/09 at 6:31pm
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Then his arch enemy would be like this master of disguise. He'd think of like this wonderful cake, to get our hero's mind salivary glads thundering. Then, as the unsuspecting Mason is feasting on the wonderfully imagined baked good, the baddie would picture the same cake full of mold and boogers.
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post #3 of 11
6/1/09 at 6:46pm
And boogers? Diabolical bastard!
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post #4 of 11
6/1/09 at 7:13pm
The Tastener would make for a pretty cool chef show. Enter Frank Lombardo: rough-and-tumble freelance psychic cook with a past. He beds women by serving them their perfect foods. Oh, you wanted sun dried tomato cream pasta? What a coincidence, because here you go.

Episode 1: Tastener's Choice. Lombardo must choose between a ritzy job at a high-powered attorney's office or a low paying gig at an orphanage.
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post #5 of 11
6/2/09 at 1:28am
Isn't this basically the cop guy from Heroes stretched out to a full, excruciating hour?
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post #6 of 11
6/2/09 at 1:45am
What can I do to guarantee that I get more of this thread?

Besides posting in it, I mean.
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post #7 of 11
6/3/09 at 6:37pm
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Episode 8 (ate) I thought broke new ground for the series.

Knocked out and dumped in the middle of the desert by a group of mob muscle that he made the mistake of trying to thought-eat off of, Mason must make his way out before he dies of thirst.

Loved the scene where he painfully climbs a cactus to get closer to an overflying plane and is able to quickly gobble down a cucumber sandwich that the pilot was thinking of. If only the pilot had been thinking of water instead of vodka! And I liked how they showed the crueler side of the character when Mason drunkenly stumbled across the fellow desperate strandee. As the delirious man, so close to death, reached out for comfort, Mason talked him into imagining a 12-pack of Mountain Berry Blast Powerade.

Anyway, good shit. Really digging this show so far.
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post #8 of 11
6/4/09 at 3:57am
This could top the 90210 thread. I think Misfit should 'watch' this.
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post #9 of 11
6/4/09 at 3:37pm
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Originally Posted by Bluelouboyle View Post
This could top the 90210 thread. I think Misfit should 'watch' this.
I would, but the commercials are terrifying and the show that Matchstick is describing sounds so much better than reality would be. Plus, the title reminds me the Kirk Cameron college debate tour-de-force, Listen to Me. This does seem pretty ripe for a crossover with that Kyra Sedgewick show where she yammers at people until they confess, though.
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post #10 of 11
6/4/09 at 7:10pm
"It's about a cop who solves crime in his spare time."

Sorry, the power of The Simpsons quote compelled me.
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post #11 of 11
6/4/09 at 7:21pm
Stuck in a hotel room years and years ago, I gave myself a tug watching Listen To Me. I was about 15 and only had the room to myself for a few more minutes. Jami Gertz sauntered across the tv screen dressed demurely in her smart beige suit, and a few minutes later I'm stuffing a crunchy washcloth into the toilet tank. Oh, the meal the Tastener would have had invading my mind that day.
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