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sticklefifer posted:Well I mean, without it there would be 5 more episodes instead of 6. It's not like there was an extra episode they canceled to make this one. Whenever I see people bitching about filler, I just think of the S1 thread and how it was packed with people complaining about how various plot threads were pointless and irrelevant that ended up paying off big time later.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Whenever I see people bitching about filler, I just think of the S1 thread and how it was packed with people complaining about how various plot threads were pointless and irrelevant that ended up paying off big time later. B-b-but, what about the outrigger?!?
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The GDR lady who torments Kevin is freaking fantastic in The Handmaids Tale.
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Matt Zerella posted:The GDR lady who torments Kevin is freaking fantastic in The Handmaids Tale. I know everyone loves Carrie Coon but Ann Dowd is the best on the show.
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Also Ann Dowd had a small role on a show called Quarry which is really good and she killed it.
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Ann Dowd was phenomenal. Emmy worthy performance imo
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Ann Dowd and Margo Martindale should play sisters or best friends in something. Like, they both need to headline a show. Watch Justified S2 to see what I mean.
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Ann Dowd is also in The Handmaid's Tale.
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She was also a minor character in Quarry, like Niwrad said, but you shouldn't watch that show
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Ann Dowd was in a movie called Compliance based on a true story.
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Onomarchus posted:Ann Dowd was in a movie called Compliance based on a true story. Saw this, enjoyed it for the "holy gently caress, HOW did this ever happen?!" value.
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She was also in a little show called True Detective that some people liked
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Onomarchus posted:Ann Dowd was in a movie called Compliance based on a true story. Holy crap, yes that was a great movie.
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She was also in The Leftovers on HBO
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The Leftovers Season 3: It's Ann Dowd all the way down
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Why did Kevin kill Patti the way he did? Maybe it's because Justin Theroux is apparently... well-Ann-Dowd  Edit: G'night, everyone, you've been wonderful! Tip your waiter.
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Onomarchus posted:Ann Dowd was in a movie called Compliance based on a true story. Just watched this based on this recos in this thread and, drat, what a powerful but totally hosed up movie. Dowd was great, reminded me of bosses I had as a teenager.
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So are there any theories on the guy who burned himself alive? Is he someone who was turned down from the people who will help "send you over" to the other side?
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Let the mystery be
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Niwrad posted:So are there any theories on the guy who burned himself alive? Is he someone who was turned down from the people who will help "send you over" to the other side? This seems likely to me. If they're the types to put people through IQ exams and various other screening rigamarole, a moral quiz with utilitarian trolley problems seems in-character too.
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Game time! Also I'm all on the Ann Dowd train.
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I'm someone that's been a bit critical so far this season but that episode was fantastic
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What a fantastic episode. No other tv show can pull off the variety of music each episode has. Uncanny.
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I never thought I'd see take on me used to such incredible effect drat. Also I really want to hear the full piano version of it now too. Things are really starting to get awesome so stoked for next week
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The twist with the woman not being Evie was telegraphed a little too hard, but otherwise that was a pretty good episode. Insane Kevin is best Kevin.
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Christ in hell this show is a wrecking ball.
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Great ep overall but I think that final shot rocketed things to another level, despite being maybe the most on-the-nose visual possible. It was just so drat effective and evocative, especially with the nice diegetic fade to black. The sad realization that we're already halfway through the season makes me wonder exactly how much farther any of these plot threads have to run. Given the tease at the beginning of the season, I'm guessing things...aren't going to get a whole lot better from here on out, for any characters we know or the world at large.
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Based on the trailer, the next episode better use the Doctor Who theme for the opening.
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SLOSifl posted:Christ in hell this show is a wrecking ball. This season might have replaced Rectify and The Americans for best tv ever for me.
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They're laying on the pregnancy symbolism pretty thick. At first they were being subtle, like shots of the blurry baby changing table in the background while they had bathroom sex, and a couple vague references last episode. But then they went full tilt with mentioning the IUD and the final shot.  at that bullshit question Nora had to answer though. How is THAT relevant to qualifying? It reminded me of the Voight-Kampff test in Blade Runner.
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It's a Utilitarian thought experiment. If you subscribe to the idea that moral good stems from maximizing pleasure and minimizing suffering, you let the baby die in order to save untold millions. If you're on board with some other moral philosophy (maybe you're a Kantian concerned with the morality of specific acts irrespective of justifications), then you refuse to kill. Of course, the question is useless. Killing a baby is straight-up unthinkable in practical contexts, so the scenario has to laboriously pile on a ton of absurd bullshit (clairvoyance and cancer cures) to even put the idea on the table-- which means the question has nothing to do with practically-applied morality. Then again, maybe that's what the interviewee is supposed to recognize and respond with. The guy who immolated himself in the previous episode gave the opposite answer from Nora, so it seems like they want some third-way trick answer, a rejection of the question, or a particular way of thinking about the question that Nora and the other guy failed to demonstrate. Supercar Gautier fucked around with this message at 09:12 on May 8, 2017 |
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Supercar Gautier posted:It's a Utilitarian thought experiment. If you subscribe to the idea that moral good stems from maximizing pleasure and minimizing suffering, you let the baby die in order to save untold millions. If you're on board with some other moral philosophy (maybe you're a Kantian concerned with the morality of specific acts irrespective of justifications), then you refuse to kill. Or there is no machine, the question and rejection is there to gently caress with the people they've roped into believing the machine is possible, and all the disappearances are from people offing themselves rather than getting machine'd.
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According to this episode, everyone who had committed to entering the machine is now a missing person. If everyone was just killing themselves in their own way out of despair, they wouldn't be missing, they'd be on record as suicides.
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Supercar Gautier posted:According to this episode, everyone who had committed to entering the machine is now a missing person. If everyone was just killing themselves in their own way out of despair, they wouldn't be missing, they'd be on record as suicides. Plus there is the issue of all the recorded statements.
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