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Ravane posted:Yeah, but again, those views are rendered moot by making major vaccinations mandatory. It's really not a thing to be left to free choice. No poo poo, but we live in a democracy where people with these views will vote against making them mandatory.
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whowhatwhere posted:I'm not, I was trying to talk about the season as a whole without blatantly talking about the entire arc. I'm just sayin it's not a 1-3, it's a constant 8 that raises to 9 or 10 at points That was the main reason I quit it the first time because the self-satisfied hectoring and general misery seemed like all the show was capable of (for reference I literally quit mid-episode 7), an anti-USA show. It was good but just as surface-level and facile, just in the opposite direction To me saying "oh it's not 'gently caress the system'" sells the show incorrectly, because that's how I was sold it and the first seven episodes are SOLELY "gently caress the system", to the level that I stopped watching because I assumed it was just that shallow. To me selling mr. Robot is going "it's an anti-establishment manifesto for a vast majority of its run but ends up using that leaning and presumption to expand and reflect its scope for the audience". Because yeah if that dude goes into the show expecting it not to be "Elliot smugly rages against the machine" he will be sorely disappointed for the vast majority of its run, which sucks all the more because that final act is worth watching the whole season to see and it's built super, super well NieR Occomata fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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For some reason I keep watching Madam Secretary and I think it is the most insane show. In this episode the US ambassador to Myanmar went native and took the Burmese president hostage at gunpoint because the president was about to sign a trade agreement that would be against the interest of his people so Tea Leoni had to get a quick introduction Buddhism from her religious scholar-husband to talk him down 
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Boatswain posted:For some reason I keep watching Madam Secretary and I think it is the most insane show. In this episode the US ambassador to Myanmar went native and took the Burmese president hostage at gunpoint because the president was about to sign a trade agreement that would be against the interest of his people so Tea Leoni had to get a quick introduction Buddhism from her religious scholar-husband to talk him down what the gently caress
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CBS is the worst loving goddamn poo poo network uGHHHHH
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So TBS Is using this opportunity to promote shows that it actually thinks could be renewed, and they both seem...REALLY strange and interesting for TBS. In particular, Search Party -- co-created by Michael Showalter and staring Alia Shawkat -- looks heavy as hell.
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DivisionPost posted:So TBS Is using this opportunity to promote shows that it actually thinks could be renewed, and they both seem...REALLY strange and interesting for TBS. In particular, Search Party -- co-created by Michael Showalter and staring Alia Shawkat -- looks heavy as hell. There's apparently a big rebranding going on, they're changing their slogan (to what they haven't said) and everything. They're still comedy focused but I guess they're trying to be a little edgier.
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TBS: The Best Shows
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TBS: Home Box Office edit: "They call me MISTER TBS!"
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Toxxupation posted:I'm just sayin it's not a 1-3, it's a constant 8 that raises to 9 or 10 at points Ah, I suppose I make a distinction between Elliot & co. and the show. Elliot and everyone else are crazy loving smug anti-establishment, but the show as a whole isn't smug. But I guess that wouldn't be helpful to someone just getting into it.
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In all seriousness, the three shows they've previewed all look like they have serious potential. They just previewed People of Earth with Wyatt Cenac and Ana Gastyer, about a support group for alien abductees. Seriously, a lot of this stuff looks creative and cool as poo poo.
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whowhatwhere posted:Ah, I suppose I make a distinction between Elliot & co. and the show. Elliot and everyone else are crazy loving smug anti-establishment, but the show as a whole isn't smug. But I guess that wouldn't be helpful to someone just getting into it. Yeah, Elliot is totally doing the whole Tyler Durden "eff society maaaan, you are your khakis" bit but the show makes it pretty clear from episode one that he is a mentally ill drug addict and that his worldview isn't endorsed by the show but instead the result of a severely broken individual.
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Eh I dunno, now we're getting into Real Spoilers but i would say early on the show pretty overtly endorses Elliot's actions and worldview sure it presents him as a hypocrite (and he constantly admits as such) but it's all with the subtext of (but he's still right, you know.)
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like if I were to say the one operating credo for the first 2/3 of mr. robot season one is "everyone is an rear end in a top hat, just that these assholes happen to be doing the right thing, but that's almost coincidental"
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yeah like the lovely hunger games monologue in the pilot that's probably the weakest thing about it
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So I gather that Billions. despite having Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, and Maggie Sif, is pretty terrible.
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If you like the two main actors I think you'll enjoy it for what it is. Lots of fun scenery chewing. Also the guy's name is Bobby Axelrod.
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pentyne posted:So I gather that Billions. despite having Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, and Maggie Sif, is pretty terrible. The only review I've seen was more a C grade, so just "not good". But disappointing nonetheless- it seems like interesting material but difficult to make good TV out of.
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pentyne posted:So I gather that Billions. despite having Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, and Maggie Sif, is pretty terrible. I liked it a lot, actually. At heart it's a well-acted soap opera revolving around rich white guys, but there's a tiny, tiny chance it has something interesting to say, and I'm game to see if it does.
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DivisionPost posted:I liked it a lot, actually. no way
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Maxwell Lord posted:The only review I've seen was more a C grade, so just "not good". But disappointing nonetheless- it seems like interesting material but difficult to make good TV out of. Have you seen it? Just watch the first 2 minutes of the pilot and you'll know if the show is for you. Here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNQiefaevZw Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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DivisionPost posted:I liked it a lot, actually. At heart it's a well-acted soap opera revolving around rich white guys, but there's a tiny, tiny chance it has something interesting to say, and I'm game to see if it does.
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Escobarbarian posted:no way DivisionPost likes niche TV show! This and other headlines, tonight at eleven!
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Instead of BILLIONS they should've just brought back PROFIT.
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Anyone who likes Damien Lewis owes it to themselves to watch Life, his short-lived police procedural. Donal Logue also plays a regular in most of the series. It's nothing really special, it's mostly standard fare for police procedural with a weird characters twist. The premise is that Damien Lewis plays a cop that got sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his partner and his partner's wife. After serving 12 years in prison, during which he was brutally abused by both guards and inmates, he is exonerated and wins a gigantic, multimillionaire dollar settlement, which he accepts on the one condition: He get his old job back as homicide detective for the LAPD. He then solves crimes day-to-day while secretly working to hunt down the man who killed his partner and framed him. It's only like 32 episodes total, so it's totally worth a watch if you watch police procedurals.
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Life is an all-time great show for me, alongside Friday Night Lights, Person of Interest, and Journeyman.
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I thought you never even finished Life.
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Mu Zeta posted:I thought you never even finished Life.
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counterpoint: http://www.metatube.com/en/videos/46998/Prince-of-Persia-NBC-Life-Style
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a game console...it's like a computer isn't it?
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Toxxupation posted:counterpoint: Oh man. I forgot about that. Fuckin' lol. edit: I'm not sure that's really a counterpoint, tho.
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Detective, I'm thirty years old, I live with my mother, and...I have a Captain Kirk costume in my closet. 
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*watches the Something is Awful goon play prince of persia, is a hot girl* *starts miming using the controller like I'm some sort of fuckin rain man or some poo poo* *Damien Lewis looks at me and is all HOLY poo poo GIRLS?! CAN PLAY?! VIDEO GAMES?!*
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Toxxupation posted:Detective, I'm thirty years old, I live with my mother, and...I have a Captain Kirk costume in my closet. Is this what he says when they are like "can you get to 'level 10' of Prince of Persia?"
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It sort of bothers me how quickly both Jessica Jones and Daredevil drop the legit side job thing in their series'. Neither of them do much, if any, lawyering/PI-ing after the first two or three episodes. Jessica uses her PI skills to track people a few times I guess but beyond that they're both really poo poo at sticking to their jobs. IIRC can't Matt Murdoch's firm only pay the bills at the start because Wilson Fisk's companies are directly funding them? I doubt that lasted long enough to keep them in the black...
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Well the end of each series is them establishing their business as solid with their back-story angst resolved... I do wish that Matt Murdock was portrayed as a good lawyer.
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