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Tuxedo Jack posted:That's all I needed to know. I'll skip the rest. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3651893
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I watched the first episode of Longmire after seeing it mentioned in this thread a few times. It was pretty good. I was incredibly surprised when they solved the case at the end of the episode though, True Detective and Fargo made me forget how procedurals work.
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Aug 5, 2014 07:53
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DP is right, to be fair. The Leftovers can't be compared to Dexter at all. Dexter is way, way better than The Leftovers.
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misguided rage posted:I watched the first episode of Longmire after seeing it mentioned in this thread a few times. It was pretty good. I was incredibly surprised when they solved the case at the end of the episode though, True Detective and Fargo made me forget how procedurals work. I also started watching Longmire and binged through the first season last week. I'm liking it so far and regret not getting into it from the beginning, although in my defense I saw one of those pre-trailer promos in a movie theater that made it look like some kind of cheesy cowboy drama and completely turned me off from checking it out until now. There are occasional rough spots (the number of times the super honorable, old-fashioned sheriff breaks the law For The Right Reason™ is kind of silly) and the main dude sometimes makes Raylan Givens look like a wall street banker by comparison, but I really like most of the character dynamics and the stuff with the reservation police force and politics is interesting without being too heavy-handed. And I wish Peter Weller would show up in and direct episodes of every show I watch. That dude continues to be loving awesome.
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Aug 5, 2014 08:35
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Bown posted:DP is right, to be fair. The Leftovers can't be compared to Dexter at all. During the Doakes years, maybe.
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Mu Zeta posted:During the Doakes years, maybe. Nah, Bown is my bro but I've got to disagree with him on that. Despite The Leftovers flaws (I don't like it, shocker) its production quality is head and shoulders above what Dexter ever was. Even the second season of Dexter, the last one with Doakes, was warmed up poo poo.
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Aug 5, 2014 09:25
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Why are you guys ruining my fun posts by taking them seriously
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Bown posted:Why are you guys ruining my fun posts by taking them seriously This is me every day.
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Aug 5, 2014 09:37
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What's the worst drama of the past 5 years? The Leftovers is worse than that one. and Masters of Sex continues to own bones
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Aug 5, 2014 09:39
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Bown posted:What's the worst drama of the past 5 years? The Leftovers is worse than that one. Dexter. It's always Dexter. Assuming were not counting one season and cancelled dramas. Maybe The Walking Dead comes close if we're judging it purely on its drama credentials, but it at least as competent production levels where as Dexter poo poo the bed on everything from writing, to framing, to acting all the way up to SFX. Of course there's been worse shows in a sense, anyone who read the thread along with it airing knows that Dexter had the good grace to be funny and stupid, where as the Leftovers and Rising Sun (is this the right name?) are just boring and stupid.
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Aug 5, 2014 09:44
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What bothers me so much about The Leftovers is how people use its premise to forgive all sorts of totally unrealistic nonsense and the characters being assholes all the time. It's like Occ tried to say in IRC that he thought the cult were a totally realistic thing that would happen in the wake of such an event, even though it would make way more sense for all those people to just kill themselves or something.
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Aug 5, 2014 09:49
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Irish Joe posted:For all the Leftovers talk going on in this thread, I still don't know what the show's about or why anyone would think its good. I mean, I know a bunch of people disappear and poo poo, but.. so what? It's about most of the world having to come to terms with the aftermath of Guy Fieri coming to town.
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Aug 5, 2014 13:43
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I heard Tex Wasabi's isn't that bad. I want to try a deep fried crab roll with donkey sauce.
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Bown posted:What bothers me so much about The Leftovers is how people use its premise to forgive all sorts of totally unrealistic nonsense and the characters being assholes all the time. It's like Occ tried to say in IRC that he thought the cult were a totally realistic thing that would happen in the wake of such an event, even though it would make way more sense for all those people to just kill themselves or something. Cult's thinking: "Life is worthless, everything is worthless." *Lives on to be an rear end in a top hat because they don't know what else to do.* Does this cult even pay taxes? They have chores, but they don't hold a job or even sell girl scout cookies. How the hell do they afford to eat? Or is Oatmeal the only thing they can afford? "I ain't paying a single dime until the government gets back those ten friends I lost on Facebook! Which ten friends? We-well, I can't tell you that, I'd be divulgin' their private information. But there are ten friends that I'd like to reconnect with that are currently missing, and you see officer, that's why I can't pay my taxes. I needs to see the government do something for me!"
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Aug 5, 2014 14:24
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Anybody know what "that scene" would be w/r/t Outlander?
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Complaining about TV characters being assholes in the year 2014.
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Aug 5, 2014 14:31
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zoux posted:Anybody know what "that scene" would be w/r/t Outlander? Is this the show based on the Gabaldon books? I think it's torture with homosexual undertones that ends up being not an undertone when it turns out one of the characters is gay. Also the gay Byron-esque torturer looks just like the time-traveling woman's husband back in 1945 or whatever. Or something like that. I dunno if that's the first book though, or if I'm misremembering something. DirtyRobot fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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Aug 5, 2014 14:46
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Yeah it is. I've just seen a couple of references to it here and there.
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Aug 5, 2014 14:49
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I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT THE ONLY REASON I KNOW THAT IS BECAUSE MY MOM LOVES THOSE BOOKS. OKAY GUYS!?
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Aug 5, 2014 14:55
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Oh, okay. Because that makes it better, not worse.
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Aug 5, 2014 14:56
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Bown posted:What's the worst drama of the past 5 years? I haven't seen Dexter but I'd have to put True Blood up there. The actual drama portion of the show is nothing more than a setpiece to get beautiful people to gently caress, kill, have gently caress dreams, and have backwards-head hate sex. It's gloriously campy and fun but pretty much fails in every way as a drama.
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Aug 5, 2014 14:56
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The worst drama of the past 5 years is some no name show that never really went anywhere, like Persons Unknown.
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muscles like this? posted:The worst drama of the past 5 years is some no name show that never really went anywhere, like Persons Unknown. That's like saying the worst art ever created was made by Timothy Johnson, age 6, of Minnetonka, MN in 1983.
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Aug 5, 2014 15:02
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timp posted:That's like saying the worst art ever created was made by Timothy Johnson, age 6, of Minnetonka, MN in 1983. Wanna see this art.
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timp posted:That's like saying the worst art ever created was made by Timothy Johnson, age 6, of Minnetonka, MN in 1983. Hey, it was on TV.
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Aug 5, 2014 15:04
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hope and vaseline posted:I haven't seen Dexter but I'd have to put True Blood up there. The actual drama portion of the show is nothing more than a setpiece to get beautiful people to gently caress, kill, have gently caress dreams, and have backwards-head hate sex. It's gloriously campy and fun but pretty much fails in every way as a drama. For as dumb as True Blood is (and it is dumb) - the last few seasons of Dexter were exponentially worse. I'd stake Alcatraz or Flash Forward in that race.
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Aug 5, 2014 15:06
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The Event. Or Heroes post s1. The Cape. Help I thought about NBC and now I can't stop listing terrible dramas. My Own Worst Enemy!
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Aug 5, 2014 15:09
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zoux posted:The Event. Or Heroes post s1. The Cape. Help I thought about NBC and now I can't stop listing terrible dramas. My Own Worst Enemy! I legitimately enjoyed The Event and was bummed when it was cancelled. There was some pretty decent acting, but every plot device was "I'm sorry, I have to! He threatened my family!"
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Aug 5, 2014 15:14
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Timothy Johnson was underappreciated in his time. History will prove him a genius.
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Aug 5, 2014 15:15
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The first ~50 episodes of Star Trek: Next Generation are godawful. 50 hours of poo poo before it gets good. That puts it above the 1-season wonders.
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zoux posted:The Event. Or Heroes post s1. The Cape. Help I thought about NBC and now I can't stop listing terrible dramas. My Own Worst Enemy! I would rather watch those than Dexter.
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Aug 5, 2014 15:19
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I'm old. Someone explain the pig joke in the thread title.
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Mu Zeta posted:The first ~50 episodes of Star Trek: Next Generation are godawful. 50 hours of poo poo before it gets good. That puts it above the 1-season wonders. Season 2 had some great episodes, and even season one had a couple.
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SunshineDanceParty posted:I want a job on a multicam sitcom. http://youtu.be/CBCaxYm_pJs [0:31]
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DivisionPost posted:Okay, I'm perfectly happy to admit that The Leftovers is a hard show to like and as such I have zero interest in defending it. But comparing it to Dexter Season Anything? gently caress right off.
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I'm on episode two of the Leftovers and it's truly riveting stuff. Will we ever find out the identity of bald dog shooting man? Mysteries like this make me want to keep watching.
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After hearing what you guys have to say about the Leftovers, does anyone know how well it's doing? Especially compared to HBO's other shows? I don't imagine I could give it another go unless they dove deep into the reasons why those people disappeared, and even then, I'm not sure I'd want to drudge through the mopey stuff. The premise is super-interesting, but the story they chose to tell in this world is not. The only line from the episode that stuck out was, "The Pope, I can understand... But Gary Busey?" - That's the show I want to watch.
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DirtyRobot posted:I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT THE ONLY REASON I KNOW THAT IS BECAUSE MY MOM LOVES THOSE BOOKS. OKAY GUYS!? It's cool man, my wife likes those books a lot so I've already seen the first episode of the show. It is not good.
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Irish Joe posted:I'm old. Someone explain the pig joke in the thread title. The most glorious television event in Canadian history: THE STARLOST.
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