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Cojawfee posted:Yeah those guys were much more serious than a small town wrestling promotion. I doubt Junior would go from cartoonish wrestler who doesn't seem to want to break kay-fabe and then straight to assassin squad. Something is going on in the background that we don't know about. Makes me wonder if that driver even worked for the Gemstones, and what the deal was with that. Seems too coincidental that the bus ends up at that gas station and the guy goes inside right as the motorcycle dudes show up. The whole thing was absolutely a setup intended for Eli.
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Blue Raider posted:Calling an ambulance for Kelvin and putting him on a gurney for broken thumbs is a pretty funny character beat I genuinely thought that part was going to be wound back and just be Eli's vision of what would happen if he did break Kelvin's thumbs. I'm so glad it was reality.
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Jan 24, 2022 21:06
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Cojawfee posted:Yeah those guys were much more serious than a small town wrestling promotion. I doubt Junior would go from cartoonish wrestler who doesn't seem to want to break kay-fabe and then straight to assassin squad. Something is going on in the background that we don't know about. Makes me wonder if that driver even worked for the Gemstones, and what the deal was with that. Seems too coincidental that the bus ends up at that gas station and the guy goes inside right as the motorcycle dudes show up. If the driver was part of the hit, why would he just randomly take someone other than the target? I could see a Gemstone driver acquiescing to Jesse because he knows Jesse is important and can get him in trouble, but if the driver is a plant then Jesse has no power over him (if Jesse makes a scene it would jeopardize the job, but not as much as deliberately picking up the wrong person altogether.)
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Jan 24, 2022 22:11
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It was clearly an intimidation job because they made no effort to enter the vehicle and finish it.
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Jan 24, 2022 22:14
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Golden Bee posted:It was clearly an intimidation job because they made no effort to enter the vehicle and finish it. The episode ended before we saw any evidence of this, didn't it?
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Jan 24, 2022 22:17
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:The episode ended before we saw any evidence of this, didn't it? And you know there will be guns in the bus, and amber can take care of herself
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Jan 24, 2022 22:25
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Yeah at some point Amber’s gotta go full John Wick on some mfs
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Jan 24, 2022 22:34
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MizuZero posted:I love how this show and Succession are two sides of the same coin. Both regularly portray absolute opulence, but where the Roys have a modicum of taste the Gemstones are absolutely trashy with their wealth, with the decor at BJ’s adult baptism being a great example That's because the Roys are wealthy and these hicks are just rich. The entire family's net worth is $600 million and each of the Roy kids are worth over a billion.
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Paper Lion posted:sad about harmon Yeah it took me a minute realize that wasn’t something they had just done for the show. Poor kid.
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veni veni veni posted:Yeah it took me a minute realize that wasn’t something they had just done for the show. Poor kid. what do you mean "just for the show"? if you're talking about his disability i don't think the actor has it himself.
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Jan 25, 2022 00:10
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The bathrooms scene with Judy was incredible. From her trying to be intimidating swagger, the incest thoughts admission, how she almost kisses KJ (I really thought she was going to). and finishing it off with the backwards walk into a stall. I was really hoping they had a scene where KJ lingers in the bathroom just to see how long Judy lingers in the stall waiting for her to leave. I had to pause it when I saw BJ's outfit I was laughing so hard.
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Jan 25, 2022 00:20
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The Harmon actor has brittle bone disease or something and I guess the shoulder thing is just some current problem he got between now and 2019
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Jan 25, 2022 00:21
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bj's sister was a very funny foil to everything, hoping his family pops up once more eventually
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Jan 25, 2022 00:21
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“This is a very nice hotel.” *Wide shot of the most average hotel possible*
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moist turtleneck posted:The Harmon actor has brittle bone disease or something and I guess the shoulder thing is just some current problem he got between now and 2019 oh gently caress, that's awful. the whole time I kept staring at it wondering how i never noticed his shoulder when he showed up last season
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Golden Bee posted:“This is a very nice hotel.” *Wide shot of the most average hotel possible* I was laughing because I’ve stayed at that hotel multiple times for work.
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As a fellow southerner, I appreciate how Walton Goggins’ accent in this is embellished but quite real. Contrasted to the multiple instances of “deddy,” which while funny, aren’t the same.
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I used to watch a lot of BBQ television and Myron Mixon's son calls him "deddy" but they're from Georgia.
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Now that I think of it, the fake accents sound more Texan than anything. But who cares, I just wanted to point out how loving awesome Walton Goggins is.
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I feel like the writers looked at Judy's stalking speech and asked themselves "how can we get Edi Patterson to say even more monstrous funny things?" and she has just been HORRIFYING this season! Which is hilarious, and I'm glad I don't really think this is the kind of show where she will go on to murder BJ. But she might.MizuZero posted:I love how this show and Succession are two sides of the same coin. Both regularly portray absolute opulence, but where the Roys have a modicum of taste the Gemstones are absolutely trashy with their wealth, with the decor at BJ’s adult baptism being a great example God I wanted the cake scene to be BJ's Tom-eats-the-chicken moment, poor guy  Cojawfee posted:Yeah those guys were much more serious than a small town wrestling promotion. I doubt Junior would go from cartoonish wrestler who doesn't seem to want to break kay-fabe and then straight to assassin squad. Something is going on in the background that we don't know about. Makes me wonder if that driver even worked for the Gemstones, and what the deal was with that. Seems too coincidental that the bus ends up at that gas station and the guy goes inside right as the motorcycle dudes show up. Oh yeah for sure. I think the bus hit is connected to the real circumstances behind Thaniel's murder, and all that being directly linked to Junior's anger at Eli (and the hilarious amateur heel thug he sends) is a red herring. Mameluke fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Jan 25, 2022 |
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I'm of the opinion the whole bus setup was meant for Eli, but my partner disagrees. "Whoever set it up knew drat well that Jesse would push his way onto "his daddy's" bus, why the hell would Eli rent a party bus for himself? That's not his style." I need longer episodes each week, this show is so good.  WrightOfWay posted:What an amazing episode. Edi Patterson is incredible. Blue Raider posted:But who cares, I just wanted to point out how loving awesome Walton Goggins is.  To both of these. Kelvin's and Lyle's accents are True Blood-levels of bad (but hilarious!), meanwhile Goggins and McBride have great Southern accents since they're actually from the South.
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Blue Raider posted:Calling an ambulance for Kelvin and putting him on a gurney for broken thumbs is a pretty funny character beat the god squad was really into the whole "physically fight your dad" thing so i wonder if the last straw was kelvin losing the fight or kelvin writhing around in the lobby weeping about his thumbs Read After Burning posted:I'm of the opinion the whole bus setup was meant for Eli, but my partner disagrees. "Whoever set it up knew drat well that Jesse would push his way onto "his daddy's" bus, why the hell would Eli rent a party bus for himself? That's not his style." I need longer episodes each week, this show is so good. judy arranged the party bus, the chauffeur said as much. "the host only made arrangements for Doctor Gemstone" as he's holding a little Dr. Eli Gemstone placard whether or not the chauffeur was in on it is a question. i guess if you have a dirtbike hit squad you can just go anywhere the vehicle breaks down at after it is sabotaged Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Jan 25, 2022 |
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I love the episode titles being Bible quotes. The last one is about the Pharisees scheming on how to defeat their holier foe, which happens in the baptism pool.
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Golden Bee posted:I love the episode titles being Bible quotes. The last one is about the Pharisees scheming on how to defeat their holier foe, which happens in the baptism pool. Episode 1.6 is entitled “Now the sons of Eli Were Worthless Men” and it’s loving amazing.
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It’s ballsy to name your finale “better is the end of things than its beginning”.
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The "You're always gonna remember this Christmas" line to Harmon was great. But I think "You gonna buy Harmon a cat today. Trust me, he's gonna need it" is just as dark and hilarious.
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Nice to take a beat from the big stories and have an episode dedicated to Judy’s thinking and event planning. Absolutely monstrously tacky
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cheese eats mouse posted:Nice to take a beat from the big stories and have an episode dedicated to Judy’s thinking and event planning. Absolutely monstrously tacky I think it was an interesting episode in that way. It was a break from stuff to focus a lot on Judy but at the same time the stuff from this episode is going to have some serious blowback and ramifications. Jesse admitting to the Lisson's that he doesn't have the money, the God Squad breaking up and Kelvin just being totally humiliated by his dad. Baby Billy ditching his wife and kids. And there's no way Eli can just brush off breaking his son's thumbs in front of a crowd of people. Eli also appears to be just totally broken at this point. He doesn't give a gently caress about his kids at all. Baby Billy was right. He's on his way down. We'll have to see how it all plays out, but this episode sort of felt like the culmination of everything that's been brewing since S1E1.
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It was for Eli. Either to scare him into stepping down or to kill him. It’s gonna be tied to whatever scheme the Texas preachers are heading/caught up in. The bikes being gaudy makes me think they’re behind it, but who knows. They could just be caught up in the scheme and need to bring more people in or something. How it’s all gonna tie in with Amy Leigh, I have no idea but I’m sure it will.
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Golden Bee posted:“This is a very nice hotel.” *Wide shot of the most average hotel possible* Yeah that was a great touch Wish I coulda ignored the weird anachronistic poo poo in the opening flashback or whatever but whatever.
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Terra-da-loo! posted:Wish I coulda ignored the weird anachronistic poo poo in the opening flashback or whatever but whatever. Why would you want to ignore it?
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Jose Oquendo posted:Jesse admitting to the Lisson's that he doesn't have the money, the God Squad breaking up and Kelvin just being totally humiliated by his dad. Baby Billy ditching his wife and kids. And there's no way Eli can just brush off breaking his son's thumbs in front of a crowd of people. Then we'll get another season set 10 years ago of similar backstabbing and soul destroying to reveal Aimee-Leigh's influence was...exactly nothing. What else can possibly explain how lovely the Gemstones are?
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Blue Raider posted:As a fellow southerner, I appreciate how Walton Goggins’ accent in this is embellished but quite real. Contrasted to the multiple instances of “deddy,” which while funny, aren’t the same. I grew up in southernmost Alabama, and if Baby Billy spoke a little slower, his accent would fit in perfectly along the Gulf Coast between roughly Biloxi and Perdido. But the refrain "go on now" punctuating his lines is a level of Southern authenticity that doesn't get enough credit. That said, Judy is the most threatening and manic character on TV. I absolutely adore her on this show, but I can honestly say I've met lunatics like her, and they somehow always have a "BJ" tagging along putting them on a pedestal. I actually think this is my favorite show, ever, because it's so godamn relatable, but from an embellished lens. I could easily envision the last scene in the series finale one day panning out to reveal it's been a story told by Baby Billy to one (or more) of his kids, or a new wife.
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I was legit shocked that BJ's sister wasn't named HJ.Doronin posted:That said, Judy is the most threatening and manic character on TV. I absolutely adore her on this show, but I can honestly say I've met lunatics like her, and they somehow always have a "BJ" tagging along putting them on a pedestal. Mordja fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Jan 25, 2022 |
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Yeah she's great in Vice Principals, just an extremely Real type of person turned up to 11
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This weird poo poo reminds me of this show so much. https://twitter.com/chadopitz/status/1485414918371221504 Doronin posted:I grew up in southernmost Alabama, and if Baby Billy spoke a little slower, his accent would fit in perfectly along the Gulf Coast between roughly Biloxi and Perdido. But the refrain "go on now" punctuating his lines is a level of Southern authenticity that doesn't get enough credit. Northern Alabama here, but that constant "now" is on point.Mordja posted:If you haven't seen Vice Principals yet, she's even crazier in that! I think it's fair to say it was her breakout role. Absolutely. Love that show, and her character is great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4RsQiZo-Mk As is Goggins's character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLRhfzw6OW4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEVMREcc07E Read After Burning fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Jan 25, 2022 |
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