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Preacher was loving great. Me and mine loved it from start to finish. And I thought it did tight thematic work, and really understood how to structure a series and adapt a work to a different medium. Good stuff.
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Aren't we... aren't we too old to be watching teenage melodramas like 13 Reasons?
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Josh Lyman posted:Aren't we... aren't we too old to be watching teenage melodramas like 13 Reasons? This forum had an active iCarly thread.
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Apr 25, 2017 18:54
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Josh Lyman posted:Aren't we... aren't we too old to be watching teenage melodramas like 13 Reasons? The book is like 10 years old, if you were around the age of the characters in said book when it came out you'd be drat near 30 at this point.
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Mulva posted:The book is like 10 years old, if you were around the age of the characters in said book when it came out you'd be drat near 30 at this point. I guess... I'm on episode 7 and I was hoping this would be more like The Leftovers and less like Pretty Little Liars (a show which, to be fair, I haven't seen).
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Apr 25, 2017 19:06
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The best thing you can say about season 1 of Preacher is that if they turn the show around this season it will be easy to skip the first season since nothing that happened in it outside of the pilot episode mattered and all ended in a big wet fart.
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Apr 25, 2017 19:11
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Josh Lyman posted:Aren't we... aren't we too old to be watching teenage melodramas like 13 Reasons? It has a bunch of people recommending it. I watched the first episode out of curiosity and it wasn't for me, but then you also have people posting here that you can't judge it on the first episode. e: I saw 2-3 episodes of preacher and it was super boring.
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Apr 25, 2017 19:19
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Guy Mann posted:The best thing you can say about season 1 of Preacher is that if they turn the show around this season it will be easy to skip the first season since nothing that happened in it outside of the pilot episode mattered and all ended in a big wet fart. what he said. And I still completely believe the next season could be great.
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Apr 25, 2017 19:20
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IRQ posted:e: I saw 2-3 episodes of preacher and it was super boring.
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Preacher s1 could have been a three-episode miniseries and it still would have been a little draggy.
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Escobarbarian posted:Preacher s1 could have been a three-episode miniseries and it still would have been a little draggy.
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Apr 25, 2017 19:31
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Party Plane Jones posted:Blade Trinity was not good primarily because Wesley Snipes had gone off the deep end by that point. They were constantly changing the script and filming with his stand in because he refused to work and would only communicate with the director via post-its written to Blade. Was that the one where Snipes refused to open his eyes in one scene so they had to CGI it in?
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Apr 25, 2017 19:38
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Josh Lyman posted:Seriously, just watch the pilot, the season finale, and that fight scene in the middle. Do not listen to these people, Preacher is fantastic start to finish (just watched the finale HOLLLYYYYYYYY SHIIIIIIIIT) If you skip the first season you'd miss out on not one, but two of the best gay couples in recent TV memory. And also Jackie Earl Haley loving killing
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Preacher sucks. David Duchovny somehow aged 10 years between seasons 5 and 6 of X-files.
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precision posted:Do not listen to these people, Preacher is fantastic start to finish (just watched the finale HOLLLYYYYYYYY SHIIIIIIIIT) Which one's my daughter? And which one's the cow? He's so, so good. He's going to loving kill on The Tick this year.
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I hadn't actually heard the Tick-boot got picked up for a full order, that's super. I know some people didn't like the new one but... I don't really get why not.
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If I were pressed, it's because it's more serious and a bit more nasty than any other version I've checked out. I could image that was a sticking point. I thought it was still funny, but in a darker way. I loved the syphilis joke, it made me laugh like a drainpipe.
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For the guy watching, BOSCH S1 is 'ok' but the other two are a lot better. I think Sepinwall in his review just said that you could read a synopsis, or the book, of the first season and be fine. And I think it's one of the few 'Hey we're making a 13 hour movie' shows that doesn't feel like it has about 4 episodes too many.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Preacher was loving great. Me and mine loved it from start to finish. And I thought it did tight thematic work, and really understood how to structure a series and adapt a work to a different medium. Good stuff. Preacher is a goddamn post-modernist art-piece of a TV-season and I love it. It wasn't the best, second best or even third best of the year (which is a testament to just how good 2016 was for TV) but what it did it did really well. I'm still amazed that the season finale went out on a literal hot fart. Josh Lyman posted:Aren't we... aren't we too old to be watching teenage melodramas like 13 Reasons? Did you watch past episode 1...? Also, if the Flash, iZombie and Arrow threads are any indication we clearly are not.
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The first season of Preacher was a lot like the first season of The Leftovers, only instead of existential pretension there's an Irish vampire That's probably why I liked it more than many, I'm pretty sure the posters saying it was bad are also the ones who thought S1 of The Leftovers was bad and that is so clearly not true. And I'll admit it probably works WAY better as a binge watch. But poo poo, I didn't even watch the entirety of Patriot in one night, and that's become pretty much my new "favorite show ever".
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I'm going to burst your pre-conceptions here by saying that season 1 of the Leftovers was really bad outside of episode 3 and the two-parter season-finale.
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I loved Preacher but its the exact kind of show a lot of folks around here hate because "nothing happens" and its all about immersion in a super weird cast and setting. Like that ending is crazy as gently caress and you either embrace it for it's craziness or you get upset that "the whole season was a waste of time." I don't especially take to the "waste of time" concept of tv because the journey is more important than the destination to me. And Preacher is all journey. edit: and yeah, its a much better binge. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Apr 25, 2017 |
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precision posted:That's probably why I liked it more than many, I'm pretty sure the posters saying it was bad are also the ones who thought S1 of The Leftovers was bad and that is so clearly not true. Preacher was just boring, the whole premise to the Leftovers is insultingly stupid.
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IRQ posted:Preacher was just boring, the whole premise to the Leftovers is insultingly stupid. The people disappearing? That's not what the show's about though. Like it's right there in the title
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IRQ posted:Preacher was just boring, the whole premise to the Leftovers is insultingly stupid. Note that a fan of the 100 just wrote this sentence.
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Apr 25, 2017 22:04
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So how did season 2 of The Expanse turn out?
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Pretty great, actually. I feel like it had more direction than season 1.
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I binged The Night Manager. Is there anything else people know of that will scratch a similar itch? My god did it have Casino-Royale-Bond vibes but more real and more Hugh Laurie. The super-rich evil arms dealer thing was seriously engrossing.
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Lick! The! Whisk! posted:Note that a fan of the 100 just wrote this sentence. That's a strong word for someone that hasn't watched it in like a year+. But you're confusing terms anyway. The 100's premise was Dumb, but it knew that and embraced it, up until it kind of didn't, and then I fell off it. The Leftovers' was insultingly stupid and I never got to the part where it apparently became good.
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IRQ posted:The Leftovers' was insultingly stupid and I never got to the part where it apparently became good. hahaha wow
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IRQ posted:The Leftovers' was insultingly stupid Why?
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Mu Zeta posted:My favorite TV thing this year is the people worshipping a giant blowup doll of Gary Busey on The Leftovers. Alright what is this show? Wikipedia says it's a drama. Everyone's raving about it, but it feels like there are already at least a half dozen shows that have the same premise of a mysterious rapture-like event, and I didn't want to get into a dead-end LOST-style show. Hearing that it has a definitive end-point and seeing the Perfect Strangers opening and giant inflatable Gary Busey are making me curious though. Is it good, or another hate watch TV IV favorite?
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BJPaskoff posted:Alright what is this show? Wikipedia says it's a drama. Everyone's raving about it, but it feels like there are already at least a half dozen shows that have the same premise of a mysterious rapture-like event, and I didn't want to get into a dead-end LOST-style show. Hearing that it has a definitive end-point and seeing the Perfect Strangers opening and giant inflatable Gary Busey are making me curious though. Is it good, or another hate watch TV IV favorite? *hastily scrawled on notebok paper, held out to u* your wonder is irrelevant. you dont deserve to see the perfect strangers opening, or inflatable busey. start at season 1, we're already on the 3rd and final season. 2% of the worlds population vanishes without reason or explanation, nobody even really tries to find an explanation. Like they just blink out of existence, there one instant and gone the next. The show isn't about hard answers, the show isn't about hunting down the one rogue scientist who just might know the key to it all, or undoing the event, or anything. It's just about how the world would fall apart after an event like that took place. The cults and scam artists that would spring up in response. Is it religious? scientific? aliens? nobody even really tries to find out because they're dealing with their own poo poo. bring back old gbs fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Apr 26, 2017 |
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BJPaskoff posted:Alright what is this show? Wikipedia says it's a drama. Everyone's raving about it, but it feels like there are already at least a half dozen shows that have the same premise of a mysterious rapture-like event, and I didn't want to get into a dead-end LOST-style show. Hearing that it has a definitive end-point and seeing the Perfect Strangers opening and giant inflatable Gary Busey are making me curious though. Is it good, or another hate watch TV IV favorite? I don't watch it either, but I might give it a shot if it ends well. As far as I know, the best description is "What would happen if 5% of the population was mysteriously raptured away and nobody knows why and you don't ever figure out why so don't even ask - Seriously, if you're only watching to try to figure out the mystery of what happened to them, you're going to be disappointed so don't do that" , THE SHOW.
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People are most certainly trying to figure out what happened. Religious groups kind of skipped right to the conclusion though. There's a government department that investigates disappearance claims for payout purposes, and research into what happened. Season 1 is too slow for some people but I like the pace and mood. Season 2 is incredible in every way and has some of the best episodes of anything ever. Season 3 is a shortened final season and is moving at a great pace. The Leftovers is really good. It's dark, slightly funny, weird and ambiguous and absolutely beautifully shot. It's even better on subsequent viewings because of subtle foreshadowing and excellent symbolism throughout.
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Guy Mann posted:... nothing that happened in it outside of the pilot episode mattered and all ended in a big wet fart. All the pieces matter.
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You'd think Mulder would be better at convincing people of insane things after so many adventures with Scully, rather than just yell excitedly and ask "Don't you see?" over and over.
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Snak posted:Man, new Prison Break is going nowhere fast. They're out of the prison now, heist-ish part is over, they're gonna have to do a heck of a lot next week to keep me watching.
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