precision posted:Yeah, it's great. Exactly! Also oh poo poo, this is it, the episode that freaked me out as a child, the one where the prisoners get a bunch of gross parasitic boils all over them.
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Homeland: Season 6: Goddamn you, F. Murray Abraham.
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Mu Zeta posted:Carrie is not a good mother he did her a favor Oh, Carrie is indeed a realllly bad mother, but that was more of a "Somehow Dar knows who did the bombing and is protecting them" sort of comment.
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Mar 6, 2017 09:40
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Oh right. Also that torture scene was just yikes.
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I haven't even seen the new episode yet but I already want Dar to get Saul's patented 'stick em in a trunk and shoot the gently caress out of the car' treatment.
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I’m watching Season 1 of The Good Wife on the suggestion of a lady friend. On Episode 4 now. It feels… trashy. Things happen because the plot calls for it. Characters are pretty two dimensional. Do it get better? Or at least different?
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Lurdiak posted:I was totally fine with that aspect of it, I just really didn't like how they felt the need to overcomplicate the plot with that teacher who was apparently a different kind of satanist who was secretly manipulating all the events of the episode, or things like how the kid revealing she had been abused in satanic rituals was apparently misremembering half of it. It just muddied the waters of what should've been a straightforward goofy satanic teacher's union story. That teacher wasn't a different kind of satanist. It was literally Satan, taking time out of his busy schedule to gently caress with a small town. That's what makes the entire episode so amazing. And children's faulty testimony is a HUGE aspect of the whole real world events, as 99% of the time the only thing court cases were built on were coerced testimony where the interviewer wouldn't take no for an answer and encouraged kids to use their imaginations. So that aspect felt totally necessary to include, since it was meant to contrast this reality where some teachers actually were Satanists. The entire thesis of the episode is "Satanic Panic is so dumb that even Satan can't help but laugh at it." feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Mar 6, 2017 |
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Vegetable posted:I’m watching Season 1 of The Good Wife on the suggestion of a lady friend. On Episode 4 now. It feels… trashy. Things happen because the plot calls for it. Characters are pretty two dimensional. Do it get better? Or at least different? I thought the first season was the weakest by far. It focused too much on Peters affair. The show is at it's best when Alicia does her own thing with some of the recurring clients. I didn't care much about it when I saw the first few episodes, but I really fell in love with the show later on and it still is one of my favorite shows. I don't know if you will like it, but if you like lawyer shows in general I would say stick with it.
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precision posted:e: wow you guys weren't kidding about season 4 of Sherlock being really bad, I loved season 3 but season 4 is almost impressively dire and silly I read this and I was trying to remember if I'd seen all of season 4, because I couldn't remember a thing about it. I guess my brain was blocking that stupid poo poo out, because I looked it up and all the memories came back and gently caress you for making me remember that garbage. Lurdiak posted:The satanist episode of X-files was profoundly stupid. You have to remember that it was contemporary with this
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Gonz posted:Oh, Carrie is indeed a realllly bad mother, but that was more of a "Somehow Dar knows who did the bombing and is protecting them" sort of comment. I think it's as simple as Dar knows who did the bombing because he hired them to do it, we've seen them speaking on the phone. His agenda seems to be crafting a situation where the new president has to continue to lean on Dar's way of doing things, whether by forging evidence of an Iranian nuclear program or creating a terrorist attack (with high visibility and a low body count) in the middle of NYC. It's a very interesting plot, and this season has been really good. On another Homeland note, the cabin where Astrid held Quinn this week, that was absolutely the Carrie/Brody getaway cabin from S1, right? Or do all cabins just look alike?
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IRQ posted:What so is Homeland good again?
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Looked on the CW website and apparently Episode 2 of Riverdale isn't available there. That should be something that CW would be on top of, right?..Unless there isn't an Episode 2?
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IRQ posted:What so is Homeland good again? No.
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TV Zombie posted:Looked on the CW website and apparently Episode 2 of Riverdale isn't available there. That should be something that CW would be on top of, right?..Unless there isn't an Episode 2? Are 1 and 3 up there? Sometimes networks rotate out old episodes from streaming availability. It's annoying.
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TV Zombie posted:Looked on the CW website and apparently Episode 2 of Riverdale isn't available there. That should be something that CW would be on top of, right?..Unless there isn't an Episode 2? They only keep the last 5, a la CBS, and thus they phase the earliest ones out. I'm thinking it's popular enough that it doesn't need to keep and play them all like Supergirl had to on CW for awhile to gain recognition on the network.
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ShakeZula posted:On another Homeland note, the cabin where Astrid held Quinn this week, that was absolutely the Carrie/Brody getaway cabin from S1, right? It immediately gave me flashbacks to their love nest as well.
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The pyromaniac episode is probably one of the worst season one episodes of X-Files but it is kind of awesome to see Crowley from Supernatural/Gaius' lawyer from Battlestar Galactica young and fit and with a full head of hair.feedmyleg posted:The entire thesis of the episode is "Satanic Panic is so dumb that even Satan can't help but laugh at it." The opening scene of a boring teacher conference that ends with them all "hail Satan"ing each other is such a hilarious Banality of Evil moment.
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Somehow I got back into watching Chuck again and I don't know why, please help me. At least I skipped most of season 3. e: some of it was legitimately funny, which actually surprised me. I was looked back on it as a trash show (with some heart).
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El Grillo posted:Somehow I got back into watching Chuck again and I don't know why, please help me. At least I skipped most of season 3. Just skip the last season. I loved that show for 2 seasons and then it started to get really bad. And then the last season arc was literally unforgivable. Just complete trash. It's a show with a lot of charm. Very charismatic cast all around. That carries it through a lot of bullshit. Not that last season though. Yeesh.
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Snak posted:Just skip the last season. I loved that show for 2 seasons and then it started to get really bad. And then the last season arc was literally unforgivable. Just complete trash. Also to be fair Yvonne Strahovski rocks  She needs to be in more things.
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Like, you can avoid this spoiler if you want, but the premise of season 5 is that Sarah's memory is wiped, and Chuck has to make her fall in love with him all over again. She never gets her memory back. They erase her entire character and all of her development since the beginning of the show and it's just "Chuck has to win over a hot chick". It's disgusting.
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How I Met Your Father is now dead for the second time, as the This Is Us writers who were working on it got promoted to executive producers on the show, so now they don't have the time.
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Timby posted:How I Met Your Father is now dead for the second time, as the This Is Us writers who were working on it got promoted to executive producers on the show, so now they don't have the time. Oh gee, such tragic news.
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Snak posted:Like, you can avoid this spoiler if you want, but the premise of season 5 is that Sarah's memory is wiped, and Chuck has to make her fall in love with him all over again. She never gets her memory back. They erase her entire character and all of her development since the beginning of the show and it's just "Chuck has to win over a hot chick". It's disgusting.
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It's not the entire last season. It's the last few episodes of it though.
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Snak posted:Like, you can avoid this spoiler if you want, but the premise of season 5 is that Sarah's memory is wiped, and Chuck has to make her fall in love with him all over again. She never gets her memory back. They erase her entire character and all of her development since the beginning of the show and it's just "Chuck has to win over a hot chick". It's disgusting. Ugh. I never saw the last season and always meant to go back through and finish it, but that really does sound so terrible and a betrayal of everything you watched up to that point. IRQ posted:What so is Homeland good again? The contention seems to be that once they moved past Brody and his family it got good again. I haven't bothered to check since it sounds like "good" is just 24 type stuff that I don't really enjoy and there's probably only so much I can marvel at Claire Danes acting out a breakdown. Plus I'm busy rending my heart apart by binging Shameless and Emmy Rossum so I don't have room for Danes.
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Claire Danes did break down again this episode. It must be in her contract. She's trying to beat Julianne Moore in the crying game.
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Aphrodite posted:It's not the entire last season. It's the last few episodes of it though. I guess that's true, but that does not make it better.
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Vegetable posted:I’m watching Season 1 of The Good Wife on the suggestion of a lady friend. On Episode 4 now. It feels… trashy. Things happen because the plot calls for it. Characters are pretty two dimensional. Do it get better? Or at least different? It has a rough start. In the later seasons it basically becomes The Wire except it's about rich white people exclusively.
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TIme after Time Tv Series is garbage. Ugh I really liked the movie but this is just awful.
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Snak posted:Like, you can avoid this spoiler if you want, but the premise of season 5 is that Sarah's memory is wiped, and Chuck has to make her fall in love with him all over again. She never gets her memory back. They erase her entire character and all of her development since the beginning of the show and it's just "Chuck has to win over a hot chick". It's disgusting. That's the premise of the final 2 episodes and it's clear that she's slowly getting her memory back by the end of them even if they don't show her explicitly going "oh I remember everything now, Chuck." Also, skipping season 3 was a bad idea because everything from Shaw turning evil up to the season finale was really good.
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I must have blocked the rest of the final season from my brain then. I remember the house and the dumb drawing. Either way, it's not a good season, even though I was wrong about how much of it was taken up by that bullshit. The first 3 seasons are decent though, with 2 being the real high point.
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STAC Goat posted:Ugh. I never saw the last season and always meant to go back through and finish it, but that really does sound so terrible and a betrayal of everything you watched up to that point. Yeah, never do that, the final season is irredeemable garbage. The show really went off the rails after season 3, but by season 5 it becomes a flaming wreck.
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Hollismason posted:TIme after Time Tv Series is garbage. Ugh I really liked the movie but this is just awful. I found it very average. A few twists here and there but it's not clear how exactly they're going to draw all this out into a series. And the ratings were low so they may not get more than this season.
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I'm going to offer a counterpoint to this Chuck negativity and say that while the first three seasons were definitely the best of them, the last two seasons were not garbage. I would say that the eps were at worst, bland and uninteresting, but still watchable. It's not like the show took a dark turn or anything that completely transformed it and betrayed the audience; it had just grown weary on a lot of people by then. I'll also point out that every midseason ep and season finale of every season, even the worst one (season 4), ranged from pretty good to fantastic. I didn't appreciate the amnesia development at the end of s5, but it ended in a very sweet way anyway.
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Rocksicles posted:Casting Clive Standen as Liam Neeson in Taken was a stroke of genius Yeah, he's good in the role and convincing as a young Neeson, pity the show isn't very good though.
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