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“Sister abducted by aliens now I’m mad forever” is a plot beat killed to death by the X-files like 30 years ago. Can Apple ever do something original?
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Escobarbarian posted:Sugar spoilers Is it still worth a watch now that I know the surprise?
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May 18, 2024 04:04
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Escobarbarian posted:Wait how did Sugar have a sister if he’s an alien She was also an alien, we saw her in the flashback. I assume we are meant to think that she was brought to earth in secret somehow.
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May 18, 2024 04:17
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huh posted:Is it still worth a watch now that I know the surprise? i would say yes, colin farrell is good enough to carry the show beyond the reveal
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May 18, 2024 04:17
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huh posted:Is it still worth a watch now that I know the surprise? Yeah, I think so. I didn’t know what the surprise would be, but I only started watching the show because I knew it was something other than the trailer indicated.
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May 18, 2024 04:18
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Dark Matter’s acting might largely be sort of meh outside of Connelly and Simpson but the music is really on point. Excellent ambient that gets progressively more unsettling.
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May 18, 2024 06:40
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Not quoting that post from the previous page but goddamn I didn’t want that spoiled for me :-(
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May 18, 2024 07:21
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It’s totally worth watching regardless, it’s great noir with an unique visual style, or maybe I’m just clueless, have there been similar films/series that do the whole visual thing Sugar does? Idk how to even describe it, it’s like ADHD camera settings sometime
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May 18, 2024 07:39
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I think the twist of Sugar and his friends being aliens ruins the show for me. I really enjoyed the noir detective part. It was a fun story and him figuring out all the clues was great. Then we get to the end and Bleep blorp, we are aliens, we are leaving forever soon. Here is the address that solves your case, we knew the entire time, also we knew that this guy was in on it. Noooo, why wouldn't you want to come back with us? It ruins/negates everything Sugar has done up to that point, and destroys what was a great show without the dumb parts.
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May 18, 2024 07:57
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frogbs posted:Not quoting that post from the previous page but goddamn I didn’t want that spoiled for me :-( Me either, but I also assumed it was a joke until people responded. But yeah dick move.
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May 18, 2024 08:56
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Sorry gang. I honestly didn’t think anyone reading this thread didn’t already know that by now
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May 18, 2024 12:19
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I'm not bothered by it, just probably won't watch it now. Don't worry.
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May 18, 2024 12:31
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If you were the least bit curious about the show, I implore you still give it a shot. Vulture, a website I enjoy enough to PAY to subscribe to, spoiled the episode 6 reveal on its front page a week or two back, with a picture and everything, and that was right before I decided to resubscribe to Apple to binge the show leading up to the finale. Knowing the twist forced me to watch the show in a different way than I normally would have, searching for any clues, but I still enjoyed the heck out of it. It is in my Top Five shows of 2024 so far, and will certainly make my end of the year Top Ten. Neo-noir is already my favorite genre, I'm obsessed with L.A. and its seamy, sordid strangeness, Colin Farrell has matured into a great actor, and even the score is amazing, from two musicians I love and follow and have seen perform live: Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (formerly of A Tribe Called Quest), who did the Black Dynamite and Luke Cage soundtracks together. We are currently watching Palm Royale (my wife's choice, after I chose Sugar). It's campy and soapy and not my thing at all, but she is enjoying it. Once we wrap that up, we'll switch to Dark Matter, which will hopefully be further along. Last time we had an Apple subscription, we tapped out of Ted Lasso an episode or two into the final season. I absolutely loved the first season, but it felt worse and worse as time went on. We also enjoyed Silo and loved Severance.
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May 18, 2024 19:24
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Seconding watching Sugar. The twist was spoiled before the show even came out. It's visually stunning and the cast put in solid performances. More Neo-Noir please apple.
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May 18, 2024 21:05
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Yeah, Sugar is a good show that doesn't necessarily gain much from being coy about the main character being a drow. Frankly, knowing the specifics of the twist earlier might have been beneficial because it would have meant I wouldn't have been bracing myself for the possibility of the reveal being that it's all a loving simulation or whatever that would have fundamentally undercut the stakes of the story.
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May 18, 2024 22:30
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Sir Kodiak posted:Yeah, Sugar is a good show that doesn't necessarily gain much from being coy about the main character being a drow. Frankly, knowing the specifics of the twist earlier might have been beneficial because it would have meant I wouldn't have been bracing myself for the possibility of the reveal being that it's all a loving simulation or whatever that would have fundamentally undercut the stakes of the story. My dumb rear end thought it was going to be about Sugar having some rare reverse-diabetic body explaining his ability to process alcohol so well or some nonsense. I figured the group or org he worked for was some billionaire funded PI group that went around doing the ‘right’ thing, like some action version of the bill & Melinda gates foundation Thinking back the real twist makes much more sense 
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May 19, 2024 00:30
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ghouldaddy07 posted:Seconding watching Sugar. The twist was spoiled before the show even came out. It's visually stunning and the cast put in solid performances. It being pitched as sci fi and having him not metabolise liquor properly in the first episode idk why people were like OMG SPOILERS. But I respect it enough.
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May 19, 2024 00:33
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Cojawfee posted:I think the twist of Sugar and his friends being aliens ruins the show for me. I really enjoyed the noir detective part. It was a fun story and him figuring out all the clues was great. Then we get to the end and Bleep blorp, we are aliens, we are leaving forever soon. Here is the address that solves your case, we knew the entire time, also we knew that this guy was in on it. Noooo, why wouldn't you want to come back with us? It ruins/negates everything Sugar has done up to that point, and destroys what was a great show without the dumb parts. This is pretty much exactly where I landed. Can't think of something that turned me off of a show I was otherwise enjoying as completely at this did -- really just a twist for the sake of having a twist.
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May 19, 2024 06:53
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Here's tiny Alice Braga in those nice but very impractical high heels. And then they make her run. I see what you did there, Tim Apple.
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May 19, 2024 08:45
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Sugar the show thinks its so clever but it cant help itself with big dramatic reveals one after another. anything to try to secure that second season I guess
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May 19, 2024 14:56
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I do think Sugar does have a problem with two massive twists two episodes apart. The first one is at least mostly set up but the second kind of comes out of nowhere. Although it is kind of goofy to imagine the original version where both twists happened in the finale.
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May 19, 2024 16:58
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This entire season of Sugar should have been a two-parter pilot establishing the concept, followed by Sugar solving a new mystery every week while simultaneously collecting clues to the whereabouts of his sister and the bad guy. It feels like a perfect setup for one of those types of shows, but we rarely get those any more.
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May 19, 2024 17:07
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We finished Palm Royale tonight, and I didn't like it at all, but I realize I am not the target audience. My wife was kinder, but it ended with a major cliffhanger and multiple unresolved plotlines, and I would be surprised if it gets a second season.
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May 20, 2024 05:21
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SimonChris posted:This entire season of Sugar should have been a two-parter pilot establishing the concept, followed by Sugar solving a new mystery every week while simultaneously collecting clues to the whereabouts of his sister and the bad guy. It feels like a perfect setup for one of those types of shows, but we rarely get those any more. 
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May 20, 2024 08:14
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I don't think that's a fair critique in this case.
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May 20, 2024 08:22
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Yeah I don't think Sugar was surf dracula. it was a good show up until it wasn't.
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May 20, 2024 08:49
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Get ready to watch 2 stupid people being extra stupid in the intro for this week's episode of Dark Matter
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May 22, 2024 03:14
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Scrotum Modem posted:Get ready to watch 2 stupid people being extra stupid in the intro for this week's episode of Dark Matter Amanda is very stupid for no reason but time filler. Just make a 35 min episode and have characters act like reasonable people??
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May 22, 2024 04:00
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I haven’t watched past episode one, but one of my problems with the book was how characters acted/their decisions etc. The author adapted the show so I am not surprised by what I’m hearing.
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May 22, 2024 13:33
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Acapulco was great as always. Big Box Show, ok. Dark Matter, Can we have Schrodinger's cast, minus Jimmy Simpson, walk through the door to Black Hole Sun Earth?
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May 22, 2024 19:14
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Could I get some recommendations for some recs? I've seen Ted lasso, one for mankind, the weird office show, and now sugar. Not really sure what else is worth watching before cancelling my subscription. Thanks!
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May 23, 2024 01:59
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Slow horses, drops of God, shrinking
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May 23, 2024 02:04
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Could I get some recommendations for some recs? I assume the weird office show = Severance? If not, you should watch that. Silo, Prehistoric Planet, Manhunt, Bad Sisters, Slow Horses, Little America BetterLekNextTime fucked around with this message at 02:25 on May 23, 2024 |
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May 23, 2024 02:21
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See, Last days of Ptolemy Grey, Lessons in Chemistry, Loot, Monarch. Shrinking is also pretty good.
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May 23, 2024 02:33
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The Last days of Ptolemy Grey is my favorite show on there.
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May 23, 2024 02:44
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Dang those are a lot of good shows! Maybe I'll cancel next month.
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May 23, 2024 03:13
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I just “bought” a 3 month free trial for Apple TV from Best Buy dot com.
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Black Bird.
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