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Props to this show's musical selection - great use of Rappin' 4 Tay's Player's Club. Also, after that intro I spent the entire episode holding my breath, convinced someone was getting into a car accident.
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Dead Snoopy posted:Also, after that intro I spent the entire episode holding my breath, convinced someone was getting into a car accident. Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one
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Aug 10, 2015 15:16
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The show DID start with a fatal car accident. The Brink is excellent at getting characters into and out of poo poo, of their own and other's design. On Ballers, nearly every problem could be solved with honesty, which makes the characters assholes. Which Cordry can pull off.
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Aug 10, 2015 19:25
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Boner guy!
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Aug 11, 2015 00:05
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Charles is so going to get crippled or paralyzed his first game back. The level of foreshadowing is almost insulting. Hell I thought he was going to hurt himself pushing the SUV.
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Aug 11, 2015 00:53
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Shooting Blanks posted:One of the big criticisms of Entourage, especially the early seasons, was that Vince was the only person who had any real character development, and arguably Ari. In later seasons the other characters got fleshed out but early on it was definitely the Vince and Ari show, oh and some other guys. Personally, I think the pictures, the MRI, the golf thing, etc. are all attempts to mitigate that criticism from coming up again. HBO knows exactly what worked and what didn't in Entourage, and they're trying to improve on the formula. Pictures: resolved by Spencer (it's all good) MRI: resolved by Spencer (it's all good) the golf thing: resolved? did not involve Spencer, no mention of it in this episode Philthy posted:I thought the preview showed something else happening. Maybe next week? There's no thread because it's too hard to nitpick an all-out satire like The Brink How are we going to post, "It's so unrealistic..." when that's the whole point of the show!?
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Aug 11, 2015 11:54
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Does anyone else think the funniest thing on the show so far was finding out that when alone in his car, big tough ex-footballer Spencer likes to sing along with - not Lil Wayne or some other hardcore rapper, but Taylor Swift.
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Aug 13, 2015 11:29
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Binary Logic posted:Does anyone else think the funniest thing on the show so far was finding out that when alone in his car, big tough ex-footballer Spencer likes to sing along with - not Lil Wayne or some other hardcore rapper, but Taylor Swift. There are the people who sing Taylor Swift in the car and then there people who are filthy liars.
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Aug 13, 2015 20:36
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lostleaf posted:There are the people who sing Taylor Swift in the car and then there people who are filthy liars. There exists a video of me shouting along to Iggy and waving my hands everywhere on one of my friends phones. People do crazy stuff in cars.
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Aug 14, 2015 00:56
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Binary Logic posted:Does anyone else think the funniest thing on the show so far was finding out that when alone in his car, big tough ex-footballer Spencer likes to sing along with - not Lil Wayne or some other hardcore rapper, but Taylor Swift. I was always meh on Tay-Tay but 1989 is a good album and there's no shame in singing along to it. 
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Aug 14, 2015 01:10
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People sing funny poo poo when they're happy. Also, jokes.
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Aug 14, 2015 02:16
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Someone mentioned it on the last page but he seems to like that song. The fun lip syncing starts around 0:50.
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Aug 14, 2015 02:59
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M_Gargantua posted:There exists a video of me shouting along to Iggy and waving my hands everywhere on one of my friends phones. Yeah Iggy's fun to sing along while driving! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opBcpTyG0s4
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Aug 14, 2015 10:49
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I make the beep beep beep noises when ever I am forced to back into a parking spot. IM CRAZY
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lol nice move with the range rover e: this is so awkward Waroduce fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Aug 17, 2015 |
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Aug 17, 2015 03:09
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This is a terrible representation, the Marlins never have this many people in attendance!
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Aug 17, 2015 03:27
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I loving laughed my rear end off at the ending. That was hilarious.
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Aug 17, 2015 04:56
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Holy gently caress that ending was amazing.
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Aug 17, 2015 10:40
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Loved this episode. Lots of feel good moments. Reggie getting a little comeuppance. That hilarious ending. It can only mean that something is going to go wrong for Strasmore on the next episode.
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Aug 17, 2015 11:07
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I really thought Dan was going to turn around and drill Spencer with the ball, but what happened was a million times funnier.
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Aug 17, 2015 14:16
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That was a very weird kind of feel-good ending but I liked it. Good to see this show's quirky side.
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Aug 17, 2015 14:36
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ballers is doing great and I enjoyed that ending... but the brink is hilarious, easily my favorite tv show right now... they even got me to like jack black... that hasn't happened ever. And the Navy guys started off lame but I like where their story is at right now. I wish we had a brink thread :/
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Aug 17, 2015 19:00
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I really though that Bill was going to stroke out or something just after he threw the pitch, making the rock feel even more guilty.
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Aug 17, 2015 19:03
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Azmodaii posted:ballers is doing great and I enjoyed that ending... I have no idea how no one ever made a Brink thread. I hadn't even heard of it besides small mentions in this thread, and I still had no idea what the show was about. I smashed all 8 episodes in a row the other day -- it is extremely my poo poo, and I would have jumped on it had I known about it. Jack Black and a hilarious Tim Robbins as government officials during a nuclear standoff in the middle east? I don't know why it hasn't had more press, either.
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Aug 17, 2015 20:02
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At the very least change the title to include both shows. Its not like this is an incredibly active thread.
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Aug 18, 2015 01:48
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lostleaf posted:It can only mean that something is going to go wrong for Strasmore on the next episode. It's already going wrong. They don't offer a giant contract like that and not have something go wrong. They can't even find what's his face. Can't the agent guy just say "yes" on his behalf?
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PaganGoatPants posted:It's already going wrong. They don't offer a giant contract like that and not have something go wrong. They can't even find what's his face. Can't the agent guy just say "yes" on his behalf? No because than you end up drafting or signing people who are dead or in jail
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PaganGoatPants posted:It's already going wrong. They don't offer a giant contract like that and not have something go wrong. They can't even find what's his face. Can't the agent guy just say "yes" on his behalf? It's like a contract when buying a house or whatever, the agent negotiates it, presents it to his client then they go in and sign in the GM's office or whatever. Even if he said yes, he'd still need to locate his client and hope to hell he agreed. If he says yes and then his client says "gently caress that" he's screwed, teams won't trust him which hurts his viability as an agent etc.
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Aug 19, 2015 02:17
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TTD is the best character on this show.
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Aug 20, 2015 02:24
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The way this show is working right now, the Cowboys will think Vernon's playing head games with them and, against all logic, end up offering him more than his and Reggie's 'insane' ask, which will make Vernon love Reggie again because 'he knew how much I was worth all along, and you guys didn't.' I do wish they hadn't waited until the next to last episode of the season to finally confirm Dule Hill was the Dolphin's GM, though.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The way this show is working right now, the Cowboys will think Vernon's playing head games with them and, against all logic, end up offering him more than his and Reggie's 'insane' ask, which will make Vernon love Reggie again because 'he knew how much I was worth all along, and you guys didn't.' This is a feel good show, everything turns out OK in the end, look at what happened to Spencer - no head trauma, the guy forgives him and he works out Vern's situation perfectly. They'll find Vernon and sign the contract. Rock, bald guy and agent dude will go off and setup a new company. Charles will get back into the game and cocky bloke will makeup with his lady (or find a new one)
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notaspy posted:This is a feel good show, everything turns out OK in the end, look at what happened to Spencer - no head trauma, the guy forgives him and he works out Vern's situation perfectly. They'll find Vernon and sign the contract. Rock, bald guy and agent dude will go off and setup a new company. Charles will get back into the game and cocky bloke will makeup with his lady (or find a new one) Yeah, its been said before that Ballers is just Entourage with football players and they never had bad ending in Entourage (at least not the first 3 seasons which is where I stopped watching).
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Solice Kirsk posted:Yeah, its been said before that Ballers is just Entourage with football players and they never had bad ending in Entourage (at least not the first 3 seasons which is where I stopped watching). They tried doing a serious storyline on Entourage with Vince getting hooked on drugs and it was insufferable.
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Aug 20, 2015 17:15
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Yeah Entourage got pretty dark in the last season or two. I recall an episode where Vince pretty much gets held hostage by a suicidal guy who ends up shooting himself.
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Kevyn posted:Yeah Entourage got pretty dark in the last season or two. I recall an episode where Vince pretty much gets held hostage by a suicidal guy who ends up shooting himself. Uh, no, the guy was just being a prick about a movie script, had a breakdown and locked himself in the bathroom while Vince tried to talk him down. The crazy guy pulls a gun from under his sink and shoots himself in the head. The next episode has Vince trying to pass a drug take using a fake dick and its played up for comedy. It's like it took the writers 8 seasons to finally admit no, Adrian Grenier literally can't act anything other then "I'm a famous chill douce movie star"
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Aug 20, 2015 20:52
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Entourage also did that thing, which Ballers also does, where it is so lazily written that they half-forget the storyline they're developing and write it off via some awkward dialog when they need to jumpstart a story. On the boat party, wasn't Vernon doing cocaine? Why, then, did they have like six scenes where the photos are showing him drinking and smoking weed and that's the scandal? Also, why was the whole "Reggie secretly caused the problem by trying to gently caress photo-girl" something that happened entirely off screen and only came up in the episode after the character appeared? There's half a dozen better ways to do the same lovely story.
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Last Buffalo posted:Entourage also did that thing, which Ballers also does, where it is so lazily written that they half-forget the storyline they're developing and write it off via some awkward dialog when they need to jumpstart a story. The answer to this question is because its written to be a show that you can veg out and watch without thinking about. Add a laugh track and its basically a Chuck Lorre show.
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Aug 21, 2015 21:06
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Yeah, but why not write it in a way that's also funny. Like did you laugh at the scene where they reveal reggie took his dick out? There wasn't a joke, just a hamfisted plot point and some weird out of character bullshit about "not disrespecting women."
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Aug 21, 2015 21:11
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They don't like disrespecting women man! Right after they talked about the difference between a hood rat and an upright girl.
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Yeah, they never really commit to the bit and make these guys actually trashy or petty or even human. Things always have to work out, and the dudes all need to be stand-up, old school bros that everyone loves.
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