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Vegetable posted:I gotta say I never saw the point of desecrating a corpse, it’s the equivalent to hitting a bush with a stick, doesn’t actually do anything Older religions placed a significant correlation between treatment of one's corpse/funerary rites and admittance to the afterlife. Beyond just proving that you had kicked someone's rear end to the nth degree, desecrating the corpse also potentially kept them out of heaven or otherwise cursed them to wander the earth as a ghost, just as a final "gently caress you". It also sent a message to that corpse's allies that you didn't fear or give a poo poo about inviting curses or wrathful spirits upon yourself for doing that poo poo.
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Vegetable posted:I have no idea where all that money was spent. For a pretty good show, The Crown never looks very good. Probably an exorbitant CGI budget. And it's funny you say that; I've always felt The Crown is more interesting to look at than actually watch--the coronation episode, for example, was just interminable.
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Chris James 2 posted:Annnnnnnnnnnnnd my interest in American Gods is gone No you won't. This is his curse, and it is our curse too.
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Well, the good news it that Longmire is over and they can't gently caress it up any more.
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Jaffa cakes are way over rated anyway. Tim-Tams any day.
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Montana Matlock.
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Escobarbarian posted:what even is longmire what do you keep talking about Longmire is the best modern series about an stubborn old-fashion sheriff in Wyoming, his friend Lou Diamond Phillips, and his deputy Starbuck. Approximately four people watched it. It ran for 6 seasons and it's over now. The quality of it is... inconsistent.
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Snak posted:Longmire is the best modern series about an stubborn old-fashion sheriff in Wyoming, his friend Lou Diamond Phillips, and his deputy Starbuck. I stopped watching after Branch went off the reservation, so to speak.
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Rocksicles posted:I stopped watching after Branch went off the reservation, so to speak. Oh man, it gets real good in the middle. Season 2-4 are the best seasons. Season 5 felt like it was a setup for a really epic and conclusive season 6, and then... season 6 was bad and the ending was bad. The finale of S5 sets up a really great ideological evil and conflict that is perfect for the fractured cast to unite against and bring their character arcs to a close. They wrap this premise up uncermoniously a couple episodes into the final season with "well that thread is erased from the plot now" and go back to "WHAT IF NIGHTHORSE IS ACTUALLY THE REAL VILLAIN???!!!!!?!?! (he's probably not BUT HE MIGHT BE! (he's not))" It's loving dumb. The very last shot of the show is pretty good/funny, so there's that, I guess.
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Timby posted:Probably an exorbitant CGI budget. And it's funny you say that; I've always felt The Crown is more interesting to look at than actually watch--the coronation episode, for example, was just interminable. I'm so torn on whether to jump in on this show or not. I have friends that loving LOVE it and others saying watching paint dry is more interesting. I know it's Netflix, but I assume it was one of those international co-productions so it's also weird that it's 10 episodes and not the usual 3-6 that Britain does
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It's very good, but ymmv if you don't care much about Elizabeth II and the royal family. If you're the kind of person who loves watching shows for good acting I'd say it's worth it, also. I love period dramas + the royals so it was 100% my jam, personally. It's by the dude who wrote The Queen, so if you like that maybe watch it.
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esperterra posted:It's very good, but ymmv if you don't care much about Elizabeth II and the royal family. If you're the kind of person who loves watching shows for good acting I'd say it's worth it, also. 
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In a perfect world they'll get to the final season, which iirc is supposed to be before or during Di's death, and he'll just recast Helen Mirren.
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Party Plane Jones posted:GOT is around 10 million an episode; The Crown on Netflix had a 130m budget over 10 episodes. The Crown's producers have strongly denied this is the case. Latest speculation I saw was that price was probably the total of the initial deal, which was for the first two seasons. Most expensive, counting overruns is probably The Get Out or Goliath. Wasn't The Get Out price rumoured to be getting up towards $20 million an episode? And Goliath season 2 is such a cluster-gently caress that they spent $65 million before getting a single episode in the can.
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Also literally not a single person has watched Goliath
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I watched it. Just for Olivia Thirlby, though.
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Mu Zeta posted:Also literally not a single person has watched Goliath The Billy Bob Thornton as a washed up ace lawyer who comes into the case with a personal vendetta? It started really strong and then kind of fizzled out. Aside from Transparent (which I assume is dead with the Tambor accusations) has Amazon produced any huge hits? Mozart in the Jungle was really popular for a while then kind of went away. A lot of their shows get an initial burst of popularity and free marketing from reviews but a few months later nothing anywhere. Even Sneaky Pete just kind of stopped being talked about.
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Mrs Maisel better be a hit, or I'll riot.
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Sell me on it.
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feedmyleg posted:Sell me on it. Nearly ten thousand people have rated the show on Amazon and it's standing at a 4.9, for what it's worth.
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DivisionPost posted:Nearly ten thousand people have rated the show on Amazon and it's standing at a 4.9, for what it's worth. The most highly rated thing on tv is football and I'd rather have a root canal. What is this show actually about?
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IRQ posted:The most highly rated thing on tv is football and I'd rather have a root canal. It's a screwball comedy about a perfect Jewish housewife in 1958 Manhattan who falls into stand-up comedy after her punk-rear end husband (who wants to be a stand-up comic) leaves her because he can't stand being a failure at life.
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It's pretty funny, easily the most consistently funny thing the Paladinos have done. (It's also got that same love of exceedingly wealthy basically conservative people that Gilmore Girls has, which puts my teeth on edge.) But the show's cool, whatever.
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IRQ posted:The most highly rated thing on tv is football and I'd rather have a root canal. Ms Maisel is a struggling NY quarterback...
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Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is adorable and very funny and well-shot and the lead character and performance are among the best of the year.
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Premiering December 15 Jean Claude Van Johnson season 1
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And I guess The Bland Tour is back on the 8th as well.
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Basically not gonna be making my top 10 for the thread until New Year’s Eve at least
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pentyne posted:Even Sneaky Pete just kind of stopped being talked about. Because SA is the only place where people spend the offseason talking about a show ad nauseum and thirty new shows debut every month.
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Man, sneaky Pete was awesome though. Guy who just got prime, go watch Patriot, Sneaky Pete, and The Tick. The tick is only 6 20-30 minute episodes (the second half of the season is coming in February) so you can watch all of it in an afternoon. It's fantastic.
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Yep!GreenNight posted:Premiering December 15 I'm not expecting great things. I really liked the pilot, but it was a weak setup for a series. It would have been much stronger as an episodic show than just having JCVJ trying to get his ex back for a whole season.
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BTW, the second season of Easy dropped today as well. If you watched the first season and liked it, the second season is more of that.
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Confederate has been put on hold.
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lelandjs posted:Confederate has been put on hold. I guess HBO didn't want all those sweet sweet MAGA subscriptions.
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IRQ posted:I guess HBO didn't want all those sweet sweet MAGA subscriptions. They all share one anyway, they're national socialists.
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feedmyleg posted:Amazon's version sounded more interesting anyway. Are you referring to Man in the High Castle, or are you suggesting some upcoming series that I'm not aware of yet?
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