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EL BROMANCE posted:Is this a joke I don't understand, because Deadwood's movie was greenlit and EW were doing photo shoots just the other day. When Deadwood was originally canceled HBO offered David Milch a movie deal to tie up loose ends and he turned them down.
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I don't know anyone in real life that liked TD S2, and I've talked to people that absolutely raved about S1. The only people to know of that liked S2 are people on the Internet, including some that get very defensive if you say that you think it was bad.
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Jun 24, 2016 03:24
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I still think Vince Vaughn did the absolute best he could with the material because I defy anyone here to say "You're being very louche" dramatically without a hint of irony.
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Jun 24, 2016 03:27
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Didn't True Detective season 2 also scrap some surreal/supernatural themes because internet fuckwits were furious that Chthulu didn't make an appearance in season 1?
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Jun 24, 2016 03:37
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Slamhound posted:Didn't True Detective season 2 also scrap some surreal/supernatural themes because internet fuckwits were furious that Chthulu didn't make an appearance in season 1? No.
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Jun 24, 2016 03:44
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I think it's totally cool that nothing supernatural really happened in TD S1, but I did like the flavor that that stuff added.
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Slamhound posted:Didn't True Detective season 2 also scrap some surreal/supernatural themes because internet fuckwits were furious that Chthulu didn't make an appearance in season 1? People getting pissy about that stuff made no sense anyways. The Yellow King and Carcosa predated Lovecraft and were more about the creepy Victorian Gothic atmosphere of ancient rites and secret societies instead of "black people and aliens are scary" from Lovecraft.
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Jun 24, 2016 03:56
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I liked True Detective Season 2, but I'm a sucker for anything pulpy and noir. It wasn't nearly as good as Season 1, so it came as a letdown for everyone. It felt like a James Ellroy pastiche, but the entire season would have been salvaged if it was a late '40s or 1950s period piece, like most of Ellroy's best novels: The closeted highway patrolman would have been a World War II veteran, in an era when it was unheard of (and dangerous) to be openly gay, and he would have been more likely to get into a sham marriage because "that's what men do." The tough female cop (Bezzerides, I can't believe I remember that) would have faced that kind of sexual harassment and career sabotage trying to be taken seriously during that era, but everything she dealt with was too insane for modern times. Velcoro, the burnout detective, would have felt right at home in that era, drinking and taking drugs while being a barely functional cop, trapped in a gangster's pocket and constantly concerned he was raising his wife's rapist's son. Frank, the gangster, talked like he was in an old-timey crime novel anyway. "Am I diminished?" Plus, we would have had cool cars and suits and hats and dresses for the dames, and the corruption and pollution scandals would have felt just as accurate in the era that Chinatown and L.A. Confidential were set in. It was a wasted opportunity, and I wouldn't be surprised if Pizzolatto even pitched it as a period piece, and HBO said it had to be set in the present. But more people would have liked it for the retro feel and forgiven the stylized dialogue, stock characters, and "Baby's First Ellroy Novel" plot.
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Josh Lyman posted:Doesn't Westworld seem to be GoT's replacement? As far as I know Westworld has been billed as a miniseries.
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If TD S2 was a period show, they wouldn't have been able to do that laugh-out-loud e-cig line.
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muscles like this? posted:As far as I know Westworld has been billed as a miniseries. No, it's meant to be ongoing; there's just doubt that it will go on due to all the issues it had behind the scenes.
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Josh Lyman posted:Doesn't Westworld seem to be GoT's replacement? You mean from a content perspective or a "this is our tentpole show" perspective?
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Rhyno posted:After shows are a blight on the television landscape. Dummies need poo poo explained.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Is this a joke I don't understand, because Deadwood's movie was greenlit and EW were doing photo shoots just the other day. I didn't know it was actually happening! I read an article talking about how David Milch owes like $20 million due to gambling debts and assumed all plans were scrapped.
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20 million...? Who bets against the Harlem Globetrotters? Is it because of that loving racehorse he bought? This is the best thing ever starring David Milch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s7nMjgpteI
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Rocksicles posted:20 million...? Who bets against the Harlem Globetrotters? Wrestlemania wiped him out.
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Slamhound posted:Didn't True Detective season 2 also scrap some surreal/supernatural themes because internet fuckwits were furious that Chthulu didn't make an appearance in season 1? In early interviews, he said that it involved the 'Secret occult history of the United States railroad', but then later jettisoned it because he didn't want to repeat Season 1. I think it was clear that they weren't ready to make S2, but I don't know that really justifies the mess in his writing either. You can have a character like Rust, because you have Harrelson there to roll his eyes at him, but S2 just felt like every character was Rust, all with their own existential issues that they will gladly sit down and tell you about.
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Jun 24, 2016 13:04
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I haven't seen any good press about the Bill Simmons show. Why did HBO see his work and decide he should host a show. His Ben Affleck interview is cringey as gently caress.
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Mu Zeta posted:I haven't seen any good press about the Bill Simmons show. Why did HBO see his work and decide he should host a show. His Ben Affleck interview is cringey as gently caress. Surprisingly, the New Yorker did not hate it.
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Jun 24, 2016 13:40
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Red Dwarf is coming back for the first of two new series in September, there is a series description here http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/red-dwarf-xi-coming-soon/ . I know opinions are mixed on new Red Dwarf but I really enjoyed X and even Back to Earth has a few funny gags in it. Anyway its pretty loving depressing in the (soon to not be) UK at the moment and this is something.
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MrFlibble posted:Red Dwarf is coming back for the first of two new series in September, there is a series description here http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/red-dwarf-xi-coming-soon/ . I know opinions are mixed on new Red Dwarf but I really enjoyed X and even Back to Earth has a few funny gags in it. i don't know how i feel about that, but i will watch it nonetheless.
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It's taken forever, I was at a conference in 2014 where they said they were filming it at the time. Maybe it got delayed. I swear no other show has the troubles RD had with regards to productions, but I was a fan of X and look forward to this next series. Must admit, I look for Rob Grant's name every time though, just in case...
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Mu Zeta posted:I haven't seen any good press about the Bill Simmons show. Why did HBO see his work and decide he should host a show. His Ben Affleck interview is cringey as gently caress.
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Mu Zeta posted:I haven't seen any good press about the Bill Simmons show. Why did HBO see his work and decide he should host a show. His Ben Affleck interview is cringey as gently caress. They wanted to do business with the brain behind 30 for 30 and got stuck with his awful tv presence.
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Mu Zeta posted:I haven't seen any good press about the Bill Simmons show. Why did HBO see his work and decide he should host a show. His Ben Affleck interview is cringey as gently caress. One of my buddies said it was insanely good. I didn't believe him.
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MacheteZombie posted:One of my buddies said it was insanely good. I didn't believe him. WE all have that "friend," there's a reason we will be too busy every time they want to do something.
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Man, BrainDead is the loving truth. Like, the satire is really rough and more than a few eyes are gonna roll at it, but their Body Snatchers game is on point. DivisionPost fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Iron Crowned posted:WE all have that "friend," there's a reason we will be too busy every time they want to do something. Is this a situation you're intimately familiar with?
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Chairman Wao posted:Is this a situation you're intimately familiar with? I really was washing my hair that day IC, for reals.
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im still washing mine rn.
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Lycus posted:I don't know anyone in real life that liked TD S2, and I've talked to people that absolutely raved about S1. The only people to know of that liked S2 are people on the Internet, including some that get very defensive if you say that you think it was bad. Season 2 was objectively bad. A trainwreck in several ways, but cinematographically it was good. Good cinematography. That's it.
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So I watched some Lucifer, and has anybody else made the obvious observation that this is just Elementary but in Los Angeles? And supernatural stuff, I guess. I can already imagine the AV Club article.
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Jun 25, 2016 12:56
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The second episode of BrainDead is gonna have to be pretty great to beat that Previously On, which is pretty much the best I've ever seen.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:So I watched some Lucifer, and has anybody else made the obvious observation that this is just Elementary but in Los Angeles? And supernatural stuff, I guess. I can already imagine the AV Club article.
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Escobarbarian posted:The second episode of BrainDead is gonna have to be pretty great to beat that Previously On, which is pretty much the best I've ever seen. It's funny because a handful of my friends hate Jonathan Coulton, and I was telling one of them "Boy I hope this second episode sucks, otherwise it's gonna feel real awkward yelling at you to watch it." There's still that caveat that the "can't we all just get along" political commentary isn't very incisive at this point (though I did love that conversation between Danny and Wheatus in the first episode), but the scripts are delivering in almost every other area that matters, the actors are killing it, and the direction is stellar; they particularly know how to end the gently caress out of an episode.
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Yeah I gotta say I'm definitely on board for this one. How many episodes are we expecting?
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It's 13, I believe.
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Rocksicles posted:Dummies need poo poo explained. No kidding. On The Walking Dead, at the end of one episode it looked like a main character was shot and killed. Less than a minute after the episode (and scene) ended, the official Twitter for the show posted "Don't worry, he's alive!" And Talking Dead often explained things in ways that were practically spoilers and/or insulting to my intelligence (yes, more than watching The Walking Dead, I'm aware of the irony) because people are incapable of watching and understanding a TV show that has no subtlety.
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muscles like this? posted:So Another Period started up again and they've recast the Hortense, the third sister, yet again. muscles like this? posted:I really don't know, it's very weird because literally everyone else is back. Well, she's on an NBC show now, so that may have conflicted with the shooting schedule.
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