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i'm got suckered in to watching Midnight, Texas. Peter Mensah gets a lot of residual love from me. drat it all, it's entertaining. Muffy the vampire slayer, in Texas. Basically. You got your Muffy, yur wereanimal, your Hellmouth, your witch, vampire with a heart gold, gypsy's doing gypsy stuff. I DO love me a good gypsy curse.
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Aren't there supposed to be a bunch of other theme parks of different eras as part of that whole fiction?
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IRQ posted:Aren't there supposed to be a bunch of other theme parks of different eras as part of that whole fiction? There's at least one other (Samurai World) that we've seen indications of, yeah. And that comic is stupid, because while we make fewer Westerns now than we used to, that's only because they were a mega-popular genre for so long that it got kind of played out. And it's not like little kids don't still want/pretend to be cowboys, and hey, wouldn't you know it, Westworld is literally just the adult version of that.
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Chris James 2 posted:Channel Zero: Candle Cove was great and watched/loved enough it's already been renewed for 3 more seasons. Season 2 premieres this fall The standard of journalism in this thread smh
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Really the western just morphed into sci-fi. The same themes run through a lot of it, but the old west setting got too familiar and demystified. Like it's not coincidence that TNG starts out calling space the final frontier.
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It's true, Star Wars is a western.
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Then Stargate is the ultimate western
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MiddleOne posted:Then Stargate is the ultimate western A western retelling of Stargate: SG-1 would basically be if the Chinese had conquered and Enslaved the Native Americans, and the westward expansion of the Americans was about overthrowing Chinese rule and recruiting Native Americans to fight against them. While stealing and appropriating Chinese technology to facilitate westward expansion. Like instead of capturing gates, they'd be capturing train stops on the Chinese railroad.
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ShakeZula posted:There's at least one other (Samurai World) that we've seen indications of, yeah. In the original movie there was also a MedievalWorld and a RomanWorld. IIRC they mention one of those in the TV show? I could be making that up.
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Oh my god the scene in Comrade Detective where they explain Monopoly
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precision posted:Oh my god the scene in Comrade Detective where they explain Monopoly Yeah, it's amazing.
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Sadly the season 1 thread here is archived, but netflix just released a trailer for season 2 of The Crown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ-BCMOolNI Comes out Dec 8th. Michael C. Hall plays JFK.
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Finally got around to watching Unbreakable season 3 and it's much, much better than Season 2. That said for how much I enjoy it in the moment I can't help but feel that a few years from now it'll have aged terribly and we will all recognise Tina Fey has being an amazingly hateful writer.
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UKS is definitely more overtly condescending than 30 Rock was about a whole bunch of crap
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The most amazing thing in Comrade Detective is when the priests sermon is presented as archetypic police procedural cult scene.
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I'm looking forward to starting it once I finish Patriot. I have mixed feelings about it, the episode I just watched (4) was a perfect example of everything I like and dislike about the show. It can be overly maudlin and it has some long takes that border on indulgent, and there's a very Wes Anderson feel to the way shots are framed and the color and lighting design. However it has really sharp jokes, great characters and in one episode they had two scenes unlike anything I've ever seen in a TV show before the taping-the-dude long-take scene and the stairway fight with the dude in his backpack I'd probably give it a recommendation but qualify it with "You're going to have to sit through literal 2 minute takes of the protagonist's face as he walks up a hill and makes different grimaces"
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I like how your sentence structure insinuates that Wes Anderson-esque is inherently bad lol But yeah!!!!! Patriot rules!!!!!
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I love auteurs who are fully in control of their uh idiom but Patriot just seems like a pastiche
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Patriot has some of the most amazing recurring in-jokes since arrested development. As well as tons of low-key sight gags.
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The dude who's like his groupie is hilarious. He has a real lowkey acting style that makes him seem very realistic. When he had that "revelation" of why there are so many safes falling on cartoon sidewalks I lost it. The folk lyrics to his songs are pretty funny but the whole father-and-son folk music stuff is kind of silly to me, despite the obvious talent of both O'Quinn and Dorman.
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That's his brother. But yeah, that actor is great in everything. I should learn his name.
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Snak posted:That's his brother. Not Michael Chernus, Chris Conrad. The glasses guy who gives him the clean piss in the pilot.
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Oh. Yeah. Also hilarious. The whole scene where he takes his shirt off to prove he's buff is amazing. Also when he translates.
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I googled Chris Conrad and apparently he was in a 90's spin-off prequel of Kevin Sorbo's Hercules called YOUNG HERCULES starring RYAN GOSLING how is this a thing I never knew of
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Not Canadian enough perhaps.
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PriorMarcus posted:Finally got around to watching Unbreakable season 3 and it's much, much better than Season 2. That said for how much I enjoy it in the moment I can't help but feel that a few years from now it'll have aged terribly and we will all recognise Tina Fey has being an amazingly hateful writer. Tina Fey is a national treasure.
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Is there any legitimate way to watch Mr Mercedes without having DirectTv? I want to watch it, but who the hell has DirectTV these days?
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drunkill posted:Sadly the season 1 thread here is archived, but netflix just released a trailer for season 2 of The Crown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ-BCMOolNI Comes out Dec 8th. Oh, yay! I quite enjoyed the first season.
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It's supposed to rain pretty hard here the next few days and our pumps aren't working so it will probably flood, meaning I won't be able to work, meaning I will probably be binging Comrade Detective sometime in the next few days.
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It's only six episodes. I've only watched the first like, 2 and a half, cause I kind of wanted to make it last longer.
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Repeating a question nobody answered earlier: can that show really sustain 40 minutes at a time? 20-30 I could get, but that's a bit much for the joke imo.
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Escobarbarian posted:Repeating a question nobody answered earlier: can that show really sustain 40 minutes at a time? 20-30 I could get, but that's a bit much for the joke imo. It helps that the show is played dead straight and hits all the beats of a real cop show; the music's even done by Joe Kraemer of The Way of the Gun and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.
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Escobarbarian posted:Repeating a question nobody answered earlier: can that show really sustain 40 minutes at a time? 20-30 I could get, but that's a bit much for the joke imo. Oh sorry yeah, it absolutely does. It's not just a comedy and the gimmick isn't just a joke. It's more like an alternate reality serious cop show. But there are definitely a lot of really funny lines.
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It also helps if you've seen enough 80's era american macho shows and movies to "get" the role reversal that's being done. Because it's a parody, but not in the over the top style of like, 22 Jump Street, just like "this is exactly how we portrayed Freedom and Democracy vs. Soviet Oppression, but reversed."
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Ok, that all sounds pretty fascinating! That'll be the next new show I check out for sure.
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"My brother was seduced by the west. It did not go well. He ended up having to buy a car wash..." "What the gently caress's a car wash?" "Capitalists are so lazy they pay other people to wash their cars. Anyway, soon one wasn't enough, so he opened another, and another... terrible" "She's a capitalist, isn't calling her a prostitute redundant?" "But there's no such thing as a corrupt Romanian policeman, so..." "Jor... dack... ee?" "The E is silent." "Jordach?" "Great, so he's a goatfucker."
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Pictured: How X-Files should be all the time.
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My favorite joke in Comrade Detective isn't really very ha ha funny but it has layers man. "What was it Marx said? To each according to his ability, and from each according to his ability." "I don't think that's right."
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Lurdiak posted:Pictured: How X-Files should be all the time. Hollywood A.D. is so good. The one scene where you can see Scully in the background, teaching Tea Leoni how to run in heels is A++++++, just zipping back and forth.
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American Crime Story: Katrina is back in production after being retooled. It sounds like Murphy had difficulty trying to find an angle originally but now everything seems to be working out as they're going to adapt the book "Five Days at Memorial." Which is about Memorial Medical Center and how they dealt with completely losing power after the storm. Here's a hint, it is super loving depressing.
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