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Krispy Wafer posted:I was paying attention and I didn't realize Michael Bluth was dead until about 10 minutes into the next episode. Not realising till episode three is reasonable, because it was pretty ambiguous at the end of episode two. There was someone earlier in the thread though who didn't realise even several episodes later when it was much clearer.
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Yeah I didn't know either at first because it just fades to black after the shooting. Eventually it gets implied and later on they discuss his grave and going to it and asking his wife for permission for a while. There's also the last words reference. It's admittedly kinda humorous not noticing but I totally don't blame him for tuning out of the show because I kinda did a lot too.
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They do the same thing with the murdered boy's mother. You see her collapse and then nothing else until you find out about the BOGO free deal on embalmings. Did King do that in the book or did the show's writer decide this was going to be his or her stylistic calling card?
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Mar 18, 2020 21:22
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:You're probably better off just quitting while you're ahead. I wish I'd read this post instead of just bookmarking the thread to come back to when I'd finished the rest of the series
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Krispy Wafer posted:They do the same thing with the murdered boy's mother. You see her collapse and then nothing else until you find out about the BOGO free deal on embalmings. Tiptoes fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Mar 19, 2020 00:46
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Tiptoes posted:There was a follow up scene in the hospital that did not have any spoken dialogue but was clearly the father and son waiting outside a hospital room and the doctor giving them bad news about the mom.
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Mar 19, 2020 05:13
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It was a definite stylistic direction from the writer that I liked it and then liked less each time they did it. At least there was no doubt at all when Alec bought it with a big bullet hole in his head.
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Mar 19, 2020 12:56
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this show was a dud but goons inability to pay attention to basic plot points is always entertaining
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Mar 20, 2020 00:04
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I dunno I didn’t actually see bootleg Jason Bateman burn up in the car so Is he really dead???
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Mar 21, 2020 03:22
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That was so stupid. Guys I'm gonna run for it. Don't cover me.
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Mar 21, 2020 04:07
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They should bring Jason Bateman back for season 2. Have him just be the full time face of the monster. He played creepy so drat well
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Mar 21, 2020 04:59
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Watched the penultimate episode and I know it's  but got a little weirded out by them talking about the plague. Not to mention they start talking about the way they view everything changing.
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Mar 22, 2020 00:53
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I binged this show and I can't tell if it's HBO or King but both have a very bad habit (HBO's being just lately) of making GBS threads the bed completely at the 75% point. At least The Leftovers ended really well.
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Mar 23, 2020 11:32
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Just caught up on this and I reckon it started off very well, began to meander partway through and finished kind of weakly, but overall was enjoyable enough. Pretty much a pitch-perfect King adaptation.
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May 19, 2020 02:26
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Lemon posted:Just caught up on this and I reckon it started off very well, began to meander partway through and finished kind of weakly, but overall was enjoyable enough. Yes
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May 19, 2020 10:01
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Thought the show was very good at times, especially until Bateman died, but was at least two episodes too long. If this had been compressed to a 6 episodes (like Chernobyl, which doesn't have a single wasted scene) I think it could have been a lot stronger. But I would and have recommended it and will watch Season 2 even though the idea of that is weird and I predict it will be a train-wreck.
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Jul 7, 2020 13:54
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I enjoyed it a lot. In fact, I came to like some of the characters so much that I actually found myself putting off the last two episodes. The acting and direction truly elevate the material. Good job by that British actor as the strip club shift manager.
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Oct 13, 2020 12:09
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IbrahimSom posted:I enjoyed it a lot. In fact, I came to like some of the characters so much that I actually found myself putting off the last two episodes. The acting and direction truly elevate the material. Paddy Cosidine is really popular at HBO right now. This was his first show, of what's now three. In one year. wtf.
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Oct 13, 2020 12:15
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Good for him. I remember him from Hot Fuzz. By the way, the somewhat amorphous nature of the baddie in this show, its cycle and inconsistencies etc, is just Stephen King being himself. I don't believe King plots out or plans his novels most of the time, he just takes a concept ( eg a man getting framed by his body double) and runs with it, and it turns out it's The Journey That Mattered All Along most of the time (as another poster said upthread.). The only issue with that is he often builds up the Evil Entity so much that when/if the good guys win it almost always feels anti-climatic (IT and The Stand are other examples, though IT was a good reading experience. The ending of "The Stand" angered me.)
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Oct 14, 2020 05:34
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Really liked this one.
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Oct 14, 2020 13:07
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I did not finish the season, but we're getting a second one? https://www.slashfilm.com/the-outsider-season-2-update/
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Fartington Butts posted:I did not finish the season, but we're getting a second one? Nice. Show runner is Richard Price, a fairly successful and well known novelist. He wrote some of the best episodes of "The Wire." He and Stephen King are probably mutual admirers.
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