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nate fisher posted:While I agree season 4 was a letdown, it never made me angry. I just got the entire show to watch (and trust me it's paining me to avoid reading your spoilers while writing this reply) and now I'm not so sure if I want to anymore.
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Six Feet Under is a good show if you like watching shitheads yell at each other Watched the latest This Is Us and drat Kate u a idiot
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MiddleOne posted:I just got the entire show to watch (and trust me it's paining me to avoid reading your spoilers while writing this reply) and now I'm not so sure if I want to anymore. Do not read them please (major season 5 spoiler in there). My complaint overall is a minor one, and if you binge watch the series season 4 may not seem that bad. Remember when I watched it when it aired which can make issues more frustrating, because you have to wait a week or even a year for the next season. Also my mother and her husband watched it last year for the first time, and they had no issues really. So watch it. I didn't make my user name Nate Fisher, because I didn't like the show (I loved it). The show is great, it is just not perfect. I actually miss it. Escobarbarian posted:Six Feet Under is a good show if you like watching shitheads yell at each other This Is Us doesn't come close to Six Feet Under. It is such middle of the road. nate fisher fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Oct 4, 2017 |
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^^^^^^^^EDIT: Alright, cool.  I keep wishing that someday the characters on This Is Us will start behaving like actual human beings instead of contrived drama machines. The show totally doesn't bother to earn its dramatic moments. I get it, you have a sad music quota for every episode but please give your characters some time to actually breathe between one life crisis and the next.
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MiddleOne posted:I just got the entire show to watch (and trust me it's paining me to avoid reading your spoilers while writing this reply) and now I'm not so sure if I want to anymore. Just watch Six Feet Under, it's a good show. Even season four -- which is probably the worst season, even though I prefer it to season one -- is worth watching. It's easily the show at its most ambitious. I mean, you know how serialised television will often have a really dark season somewhere in their run, where the cast ultimately spends most of the season at their absolutely lowest point, before rallying just at the very end? Season four of Six Feet Under is that, except without the melodrama. And the entire thing ends on a massive, deliberate, aggravating anti-climax. Like actually, it's amazing. I don't think it's meant to be an enjoyable season, but I think it's pretty drat powerful, and it's part of the reason why the final season is so satisfying. Also, season four has That's My Dog, which is one of the most harrowing hours of television ever made, and a woman who confuses escaping sex dolls for the Rapture. It's totally worth it. nate fisher posted:I didn't make my user name Nate Fisher, because I didn't like the show (I loved it). The show is great, it is just not perfect. I actually miss it. Alan Ball's got a new HBO show next year, which is meant to be similar to his work on Six Feet Under. (And not his work on True Blood). I'm excited.
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What do you think America are we ready to buy Jim from the Office as an action star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJiaYnmUw60
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zoux posted:What do you think America are we ready to buy Jim from the Office as an action star
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Open Source Idiom posted:a woman who confuses escaping sex dolls for the Rapture
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Josh Lyman posted:He played a member of Seal Team 6 in Zero Dark Thirty. You mean Chris Pratt?
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Josh Lyman posted:He played a member of Seal Team 6 in Zero Dark Thirty. You're thinking of the Benghazi movie
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zoux posted:What do you think America are we ready to buy Jim from the Office as an action star Sure, but Harrison Ford is Jack Ryan and I will cut anyone who says otherwise.
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Mu Zeta posted:You mean Chris Pratt? zoux posted:You're thinking of the Benghazi movie
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IRQ posted:Sure, but Harrison Ford is Jack Ryan and I will cut anyone who says otherwise. Alec Baldwin is better. The Ford movies are so boring except for that ambush scene.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Alan Ball's got a new HBO show next year, which is meant to be similar to his work on Six Feet Under. (And not his work on True Blood). I'm excited. That's good to hear. After True Blood and Banshee it is good to see him go back to a show that is a little bit deeper.
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Hunt for Red October is the only good Jack Ryan movie.
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Josh Lyman posted:Hunt for Red October is the only good Jack Ryan movie. Hmmm...I would say the only great movie, because the one with Ned Stark was good (which haven't seen since it was in the theaters, so I could be wrong).
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Given that he wrote Grace Under Fire, Cybill and American Beauty as well as True Blood, Six Feet Under may be the exception rather than the rule for Alan Ball.
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nate fisher posted:Hmmm...I would say the only great movie, because the one with Ned Stark was good (which haven't seen since it was in the theaters, so I could be wrong). Patriot Games was great yeah.
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Oct 4, 2017 15:38
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FactsAreUseless posted:This is the only thing I remember from that show. Snopes.com could have gotten a writing credit with how many of those opening deaths were based on urban legends. It even did the myth about airplanes emptying their toilets mid flight and creating lethal meteors of poo ice.
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Did anyone else watch the Family Guy season premiere? It sure was... something.' All three of Fox's animated shows had gimmicks, Simpsons' was that they were in the GoT universe (I guess? I turned it off after a couple minutes), Bob's Burgers had the characters switching to different fanart-based character designs every scene (which was really distracting), and Family Guy did a broad scale Peak TV parody with maybe one or two good points/gags. I was disappointed about all of them. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Oct 4, 2017 |
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Oct 4, 2017 16:12
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Stop having expectations of them being good and occasionally you'll be pleasantly surprised.
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I don't think it's unreasonable to have high expectations of Bob's Burgers. Family Guy and The Simpsons I simply don't want to completely suck and both failed.
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I watched Family Guy and Simpsons and they seemed pretty much the same as always.
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WRT Simpsons of Thrones, Bob's Burgers did it better a season or two ago.
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Why would anyone waste their time in 2017 watching Family Guy or The Simpsons 
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zoux posted:What do you think America are we ready to buy Jim from the Office as an action star We sure are. 
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Ah, I thought it was odd he was married to Emily Blunt
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zoux posted:Ah, I thought it was odd he was married to Emily Blunt
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American Horror Story season 6 (My Roanoake Nightmare) is actually really loving good for the first six episodes. The last 3 are weirdly rushed and they made a super weird choice to waste the potential of what happens in them, but the first half is just super fun, especially episode 6.
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lelandjs posted:
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List of functions female characters in Tin Star serve: - to get shot and/or injured - to have tragic things happen to them - to get hosed - to serve drinks - to be Christina Hendricks.
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The Family Guy premiere was beyond absolute garbage. My wife doesn't watch any of the shows while I knew most of them, and we both hated it about the same.
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Escobarbarian posted:- to be Christina Hendricks. Like, to do anything as Christina Hendricks...?
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Escobarbarian posted:List of functions female characters in Tin Star serve: Yeah, I'm only five episodes in, but I'm at a loss as to why Genevieve O'Reilly left Glitch to do this. I guess the money was just that good?
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Escobarbarian posted:List of functions female characters in True Detective serve:
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Escobarbarian posted:List of functions female characters in Tin Star serve: *ears perk up* Is someone talking about Strike Back.... oh.
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Escobarbarian posted:List of functions female characters in Tin Star serve: I feel like this is incredibly reductive? All the the characters have agency and seem pretty well developed. You're describing plot point, but not characterization. You could say literally the same thing about every other character except Tim Roth's character. Especially "to have terrible things happen to them" is an especially bullshitty point, because terrible things happen to basically every character in the show. I don't know how you can look at the things Angela does and say she's only there to serve drinks and get hosed. Edit: I would also say that the show is arguably about toxic masculinity and why it's an attractive behavior. I don't think it's a coincidence that it's mostly about Men trying to kill each other and women trying to put their lives back together. like, look at the difference between how Denise reacts to being shot and how her boyfriend does. Denise is upset, but she's also moving forward, focusing on what's next. Her partner is obsessed with blame and payback. She's the only character who is both a good person and behaves like an adult. Snak fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Oct 4, 2017 |
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GreenNight posted:Again, the Chris Pratt effect. Steroids and CGI?
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