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Sleeveless posted:This season of X-Files is amazing, it's somehow managed to have both one of the best episodes the show has ever had and one of the worst episodes the show has ever had. All within two episodes of each other. its sort of a perfect return to form in that regard.
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Brick is just a weird rear end movie with noir detective dialogue. Really creative but not really something I want to watch again.
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Brick is an old fashioned crime noir movie. It's just set in a highschool, and the script makes as little mention of that fact as possible.
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By the way, Happy Valley is back, so those of you who don't remember the joys of me obsessing over the best British drama in years and years (sorry Peaky Blinders you're a close second place) back in 2014 are gonna get it now Premiere was fantastic - I actually didn't want it to get a season 2 because it was intended as a miniseries and only got commissioned again because it was popular, but I was sold within the first minute - and FFFFFF-I can see how it's already building towards being as unbearably intense as season 1 was at its best moments. Watch this show people. Seasons are six hour-long episodes and well worth your time and only one person actually watched it last time because all y'all are jerks. Now I'm gonna go watch episode 2 eeeeeeeeeeee excitement
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Escobarbarian posted:By the way, Happy Valley is back, so those of you who don't remember the joys of me obsessing over the best British drama in years and years (sorry Peaky Blinders you're a close second place) back in 2014 are gonna get it now My mate told me about this a while back and I ignored him. I might check it out.
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So apparently David Milch gambled away all his money: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/david-milch-made-100m-gambled-866184quote:Judging from the accounts of several men and women who know him well, he is a person of extreme talent but also extreme behavior. Now a lawsuit, which was filed last year and is proceeding in Los Angeles Superior Court in Santa Monica, indicates that he lost $25 million from gambling between 2000 and 2011 alone. Colleagues estimate he has earned more than $100 million across his three-decade Hollywood career, but the lawsuit reveals he is left with $17 million in debts.
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Feb 17, 2016 16:43
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So that's why he was so loving interested in horse racing
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Feb 17, 2016 17:10
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I'd like to thank the thread in advance for it's forbearance on Luck related puns.
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Feb 17, 2016 17:23
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zoux posted:I'd like to thank the thread in advance for it's forbearance on Luck related puns. I think that would require that someone, somewhere, had ever watched Luck.
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Feb 17, 2016 17:31
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boom boom boom posted:I think that would require that someone, somewhere, had ever watched Luck. Way to beat a dead horse in regards to its ratings.
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bobkatt013 posted:Way to beat a dead horse in regards to its ratings. You son of a bitch.
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bobkatt013 posted:Way to beat a dead horse in regards to its ratings. It's the glue that holds everything together.
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zoux posted:You son of a bitch. *mare
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Feb 17, 2016 17:53
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Milch was on a talk show called Dinner for Five and all his stories were about getting drunk and buying hundreds of lotto tickets and speeding down sunset boulevard. Also when he was in Yale he was in the same fraternity as George W Bush. Apparently Bush was the leader of the frat and a chill guy.
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Feb 17, 2016 18:16
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Last night's Nikki Glaser was kind of  but still hilarious.
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Feb 17, 2016 22:06
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https://twitter.com/moryan/status/700007197443559425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Oof.
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Feb 17, 2016 22:13
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I loved Boardwalk Empire but Vinyl just looks like such a "hey aren't the 70s wild, look at all this sex n drugs CRAZY RIGHT????" type of show, that's not really interesting in and of itself
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Feb 17, 2016 22:17
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Like that one guy says premiering it on the same night TWD came back was a dumb move.
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Feb 17, 2016 22:17
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Hey someone make a bad pun joke about Vinyl going out of style.
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Feb 17, 2016 22:23
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DivisionPost posted:I've read a couple of reviews that expressed disappointment that it was another version of the kind of cable antihero drama that's in such short supply these days, and those complaints aren't without merit. By the end of the first episode, it's basically set up to be a coke-fueled Mad Men set in the New York music industry in the 70s. This is huge praise. I'll check out the first episode. EDIT: I mean I'll give it a spin.
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Feb 17, 2016 22:32
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I guess the needle finally dropped for HBO dramas no that doesn't work does it e: maybe this show's premiere was just a blip and the next HBO drama will do better. like a needle skip.
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Feb 17, 2016 22:36
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Could just be that we're done collectively going nuts over near-past period dramas about X industry.
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Feb 17, 2016 22:43
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Obviously it would've been more popular if switched out Jagger with a Beatle.
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IRQ posted:Could just be that we're done collectively going nuts over near-past period dramas about X industry. Don't you count out my Daryl F. Zanuck five season dream project you son of a bitch
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Feb 17, 2016 22:52
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I quite enjoy Michael Portillo's documentaries about railways. They are very relaxing.
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Hakkesshu posted:I loved Boardwalk Empire but Vinyl just looks like such a "hey aren't the 70s wild, look at all this sex n drugs CRAZY RIGHT????" type of show, that's not really interesting in and of itself "hey aren't the 20s wild, look at all these crazy gangsters and guns and poo poo CRAZY RIGHT????". Why boil shows down to this? Are you saying that you think that's all the show will be about? Of course that's not interesting in and of itself, but good storytelling with that as a backdrop does look interesting (I'm not saying the shows story is going to be amazing, I'm just pointing out that it's dumb to assume there isn't any).
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xcore posted:"hey aren't the 20s wild, look at all these crazy gangsters and guns and poo poo CRAZY RIGHT????". Why boil shows down to this? Are you saying that you think that's all the show will be about? Of course that's not interesting in and of itself, but good storytelling with that as a backdrop does look interesting (I'm not saying the shows story is going to be amazing, I'm just pointing out that it's dumb to assume there isn't any). I'm saying that's the reason I didn't tune in for the first episode. If it turns out that it gets good word of mouth I'll check it out later on, but nothing about how they've marketed it appeals to me
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xcore posted:"hey aren't the 20s wild, look at all these crazy gangsters and guns and poo poo CRAZY RIGHT????". Why boil shows down to this? Are you saying that you think that's all the show will be about? Of course that's not interesting in and of itself, but good storytelling with that as a backdrop does look interesting (I'm not saying the shows story is going to be amazing, I'm just pointing out that it's dumb to assume there isn't any). That's a pretty good description of Boardwalk Empire, even before Peak TV became a thing it felt like the Sam's Cola version of an actual good HBO drama.
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Sleeveless posted:That's a pretty good description of Boardwalk Empire, even before Peak TV became a thing it felt like the Sam's Cola version of an actual good HBO drama. It's actually excellent and has one of the best hours of television ever aired, hth
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I think I liked Boardwalk mostly because of that specific era, gangsters notwithstanding;I was more intrigued by something set in the roaring 20's, early prohibition rather. I mean I have faith in Terrance Winter that it will be good but nothing specific about Vinyl seems to grab me at all and all this talk about the premiere being a real slog to get through. That and the whole tortured rich middle aged white male dramas, I think I checked out of that after Mad Men.
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Boardwalk Empire was pretty great. Nearly every season I'd get to about Episode 4 and think "i don't think i like how this is going, is this the season I give up on it?" and come episodes 8/9/10 when all the chess pieces are in place and it all comes together it made me giddy and I'd appreciate all the work that went in to constructing it.
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Toxxupation posted:It's actually excellent and has one of the best hours of television ever aired, hth Seasons 2-3 were awesome but otherwise I'd say the guy is right
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I'd rather watch the worst episode of Boardwalk Empire than another minute of True Detective season 2 (gave up after 2 episodes)
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Well yeah but that season is almost unanimously considered totally awful. BE is, at its worst, 'only good', if that makes sense.
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True Detective season 2 was so bad that HBO's president of programming actually called it a failure and took the blame for it.Michael Lombardo posted:I’ll tell you something. Our biggest failures — and I don’t know if I would consider “True Detective 2” — but when we tell somebody to hit an air date as opposed to allowing the writing to find its own natural resting place, when it’s ready, when it’s baked — we’ve failed. And I think in this particular case, the first season of “True Detective” was something that Nic Pizzolatto had been thinking about, gestating, for a long period of time. He’s a soulful writer. I think what we did was go, “Great.” And I take the blame. I became too much of a network executive at that point. We had huge success. “Gee, I’d love to repeat that next year.”
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Toxxupation posted:It's actually excellent and has one of the best hours of television ever aired, hth Yeah when Richard Harrow cleans out the hotel. Not the crappy Michael Pitt character. The worst HBO show of all time is either Entourage or Arli$$
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Sorry Occ but I gotta agree with Mu here. s3 finale > s2 finale, even though I get your reasoning re not pussying out of the obvious choice although they probably set him up to die from the beginning of the season because Michael Pitt is a oval office
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Pretty much the same thing happened in Hannibal so I'm inclined to agree the person is a real oval office
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Escobarbarian posted:Like that one guy says premiering it on the same night TWD came back was a dumb move. bcs also came back this week
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Mu Zeta posted:Yeah when Richard Harrow cleans out the hotel. Not the crappy Michael Pitt character. Look how wrong you are.
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