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Yo here's the TVIV poll peeps were askin for link ok peace
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The characters in 'Mom' are now on their 5th house of the season. Guess they want to get their money's worth out of the team that builds sets for them.
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Dec 7, 2014 01:13
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Rarity posted:If we're talking creepy relationships nothing beats Aria and Ezra on Pretty Little Liars. The best thing the show did was make Ezra an actual overt "he really is a creepy stalker" bad guy for like half a season. The worst thing was handwaving it almost entirely the following season within like five episodes so that Aria and Ezra could still be "true love". (Handwaving guys being terrible creeper assholes just because girls are in love with them seems to be a running theme of this show.)
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Dec 7, 2014 01:28
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Also pedophilia.
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Dec 7, 2014 01:49
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hcreight posted:Also pedophilia. 
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Dec 7, 2014 01:55
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choosing between Boardwalk Empire or Downton Abbey, looking for some help.
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Dec 7, 2014 08:24
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Both series are an absolute slog.
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Dec 7, 2014 08:37
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Boardwalk Empire has Michael Shannon as the world's most constipated man
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Mu Zeta posted:Boardwalk Empire has Michael Shannon as the world's most constipated man
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Dec 7, 2014 08:59
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blue squares posted:choosing between Boardwalk Empire or Downton Abbey, looking for some help. Well, Boardwalk Empire is a bowl full of your favourite ice cream, and Downton Abbey is a bowel full of your favourite ice cream.
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Dec 7, 2014 09:19
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Haha perhaps neither then?
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Dec 7, 2014 09:27
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Boardwalk Empire has plenty of problems but it's still worth watching. The production values are incredible and almost all the acting is good except for Paz de la Huerta in season 1.
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Dec 7, 2014 09:47
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Boardwalk Empire is one of the best shows of the last few years.
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Dec 7, 2014 12:17
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except for most of the second and third season, maybe which is half of of the show.
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Dec 7, 2014 12:19
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Actually those were really great too.
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Dec 7, 2014 12:21
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Rocksicles posted:except for most of the second and third season, maybe which is half of of the show. And the first and the last. There's a reason it's final season was shuffled off unceremoniously. Even the creator got bored of it.
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Dec 7, 2014 12:21
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Seasons 2/3 of BE were the best ones. I'm surprised to learn some disagree.
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Dec 7, 2014 13:08
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Bown posted:Seasons 2/3 of BE were the best ones. I'm surprised to learn some disagree. To be fair I suspect I'm kind of an outside case too. I liked the show enough to watch it, but forgot about it between seasons. It certainly didn't feel like it was at the same quality of other HBO shows to me. Basically, it just never fully clicked. I thought Nicky was kind of a dull main character and the timeskip meant we missed most of the payoff.
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Dec 7, 2014 13:23
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Bown posted:Seasons 2/3 of BE were the best ones. I'm surprised to learn some disagree. Agreed. I thought Season 1 and 4 were just "good", but 2 and 3 were great.
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Dec 7, 2014 19:33
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Manos del Sino posted:Agreed. I thought Season 1 and 4 were just "good", but 2 and 3 were great. EDIT: I swear when I wrote this post I didn't consciously realize that seasons 1 and 3 have the most Arnold Rothstein in them. 
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Dec 7, 2014 21:46
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Thanks for the discussion. I'll give B.E. a shot even though I found the pilot a little slow. But I try not to judge shows until I've seen a few eps.
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Dec 7, 2014 21:52
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Boardwalk Empire is a really, really good show that more than any other HBO show that aired alongside it understood that it worked in seasons so it changed its storytelling to have season-long arcs with payoff in the penultimate/finale episodes So you look back on a season and realize that everything about each season that happened was part of a cohesive whole that pulled, as one, to its finale which always paid off its setup
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Dec 7, 2014 21:57
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Yeah BE is a really slow show, it's just that it does it on purpose as part of its storytelling rather than just kind of spinning its wheels waiting for something to happen like most boring/slow shows tend to do. I found each season super interesting, but I can kind of see the criticism from people who simply got bored and couldn't keep watching. Like Toxx said though the season finales/penultimate episodes are really worth it, and being able to binge through episodes should help with the whole "Nothing happened this week except some people calmly talked to each other" thing.
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Dec 7, 2014 22:22
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Anyone else going to watch The Librarians tonight? I've never really cared about the dtv movies but this does have some Leverage pedigree.
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Dec 7, 2014 22:24
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muscles like this? posted:Anyone else going to watch The Librarians tonight? I've never really cared about the dtv movies but this does have some Leverage pedigree. I'm going to watch it at some point, it looked ok and we're slowing down into the winter tv wasteland.
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Dec 7, 2014 22:35
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VDay posted:Yeah BE is a really slow show, it's just that it does it on purpose as part of its storytelling rather than just kind of spinning its wheels waiting for something to happen like most boring/slow shows tend to do. I found each season super interesting, but I can kind of see the criticism from people who simply got bored and couldn't keep watching. Like Toxx said though the season finales/penultimate episodes are really worth it, and being able to binge through episodes should help with the whole "Nothing happened this week except some people calmly talked to each other" thing.
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Dec 7, 2014 22:37
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The 2nd season of The Transporter started up on TNT, so I'll probably spend the winter catching up on that and The Librarians.
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Dec 7, 2014 22:48
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GreenNight posted:The 2nd season of The Transporter started up on TNT, so I'll probably spend the winter catching up on that and The Librarians. Like the Jason Statham movies The Transporter?
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Dec 7, 2014 22:56
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Transporter is not very good, redeemed only by its (mostly tepid) action sequences. Season 2 is a slight improvement due in part to a much better female lead, but still only worth watching if you have nothing better to watch. Some episodes have sufficient action to be diverting, others are painfully boring.
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Dec 7, 2014 23:04
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Don't forget that tonight is the Discovery special where the guy gets eaten alive by the snake.
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Dec 7, 2014 23:30
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IRQ posted:Like the Jason Statham movies The Transporter? Yes, but without Jason Statham and really lovely and poorly acted.
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Dec 7, 2014 23:38
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muscles like this? posted:Don't forget that tonight is the Discovery special where the guy gets eaten alive by the snake. Oh right, that thing. I'll certainly fast forward through most of that.
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raditts posted:Yes, but without Jason Statham and really lovely and poorly acted. So just without Jason Statham then.
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Even with these exciting finales functioning well as a seasonal apex unloading plot and theme with great catharsis, Boardwalk Empire is stylistically just a slow and ambient period drama. It's not rushing anywhere like say Breaking Bad, it's a different type of greatness. It's more similar to something like Mad Men or The Sopranos as this casual stroll where you basically need to be willing to walk alongside and smell the roses, focusing on where you are without worry where you're going. Those times when it gets crazy it does get really crazy, but for the most part it's about the journey and detours. One of my favorite aspects is how it often it touches rarely explored viewpoints of the era that have large bearing on the story and characters, but would and have been overlooked in more traditional takes on prohibition. The initial question how other realms of society effected (or were affected by) prohibition allows for introducing so many import areas: the war and post-war institutions, the women's rights movement, the life of immigrants, the negro communities, importance of The Chruch and religion, etc. And back to the "main" story beat, it also goes beyond that struggle between gangsters and prohibition officers. We delve from existing political-oriented crime structure into a changing from the old guard to the new--gangs getting stronger, more violent, and branching out both geographically and into "new" ventures like the heroin trade. Erstwhile, on the law's side, we start with this clear struggle to enforce a law they're massively under-equipped to handle before jumping behind the scenes to the corrupt policy makers lining their pockets compared to some of the "true believers" in the justice department as they struggle to convict (and get promoted). With less insight than those huge areas but still with important, interesting angles there are a number of smaller detours too. We get the IRA, the FBI (when it was just the BI), hospitals and mental institutions, brothels and working girls, sexual identity, and there's even some insight into show-business of the era, with everyone's favorite: Eddie loving Cantor. It's a broad, wonderful period drama that covers a lot of ground, so naturally it's pretty drat rough to jump into. No doubt about it, it's pretty slow and honestly it comes off even slower that first time around. Not very easy to binge either so that can make it seem less appealing than alternatives you might be wanting to catch up with. It's one of those shows like The Wire where it's so much better on your second run through when the plot beats are no longer at the front of your mind and you already understand the character motivations enough that the nuance clicks and you can just... breathe it all in.
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Dec 7, 2014 23:53
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Hope that everyone who enjoys watching and/or reading about awful television is suitably excited for The Newsroom tonight: https://twitter.com/tvoti/status/541447311239286784 https://twitter.com/laura_hudson/status/541741429924433920
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GraPar posted:Hope that everyone who enjoys watching and/or reading about awful television is suitably excited for The Newsroom tonight: oh god
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It's going to be about a white man killing a black man isn't it?
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Dec 8, 2014 01:54
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That's a lot of anti-hype.
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PriorMarcus posted:It's going to be about a white man killing a black man isn't it? According to one of the linked tweets, it's about campus rape.
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