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I liked The Wire a lot better than The Sopranos, but I agree that both are a little overrated and kind of went on for a little too long. Breaking Bad though is really a great TV show from start to finish, and everybody involved with the show totally deserved all of the awards and accolades they received.
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Truly. Breaking Bad never went off the rails even once, and there are a lot of other outstanding series that can't make that claim.
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Better Call Saul is better than Breaking Bad
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silence_kit posted:I liked The Wire a lot better than The Sopranos, but I agree that both are a little overrated and kind of went on for a little too long. The Sopranos is great but has one clunker every season. A lot of its rep is from trying things that just didn't happen on TV before it.
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Feb 26, 2022 19:41
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Better Call Saul is better than Breaking Bad I enjoy Better Call Saul a lot. I haven't seen the latest season because I am only watching it through a Netflix subscription, but there is no way that that is the case, unless the most recent season is really really excellent.
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Feb 26, 2022 19:42
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I think we can all agree that Oz is the worst of all prestige television and never would have been a hit if not for the stars of the show - Chris Meloni's dick and butthole
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Feb 26, 2022 19:45
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Henchman of Santa posted:The Sopranos is great but has one clunker every season. A lot of its rep is from trying things that just didn't happen on TV before it. Maybe it was just my feeling/mood at the time of watching it, but I kind of lost interest in the show in the later seasons. I have read that people credit The Sopranos for really putting TV at the same level as movies in terms of quality. TV before that was kind of seen as the lesser, lower quality form of entertainment, with a lot of filler.
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Feb 26, 2022 19:49
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Anyone who thinks Breaking Bad is better than The Sopranos or Deadwood instantly goes on my "smile and nod when they recommend a TV show and then never watch it" list.
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Feb 26, 2022 19:50
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Deadwood was and is a great show but introducing Hearst as the main bad guy for the remainder of the series was a boring choice I liked the narrative of competing factions in a lawless boom town and didn't appreciate them all coming together like Voltron to fight off Major Dad
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Feb 26, 2022 20:03
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So many actors in The Sopranos are so bad. They just sound like amateurs in most scenes. The main people like Tony, Carmella, Christopher, Dr Melfi, Uncle Junior are all amazing of course. But others like the teen kids or most of the mob characters are just godawful actors.
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Feb 26, 2022 20:03
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Recently watched Ed Wood’s “Glen or Glenda”, and honestly that movie rules. Yes, it’s VERY badly outdated and incompetently made, but it’s more compassionate towards trans and genderfluid people than a lot of stuff made after it.
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Feb 26, 2022 21:12
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Better Call Saul is better than Breaking Bad It's true
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Feb 26, 2022 21:17
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Shibawanko posted:i liked season 2 because egg beer looked tasty I was watching s2 shortly before a Tuska festival and drank raw egg in beer every day when woke up hung over. It was just kinda slimy going down, but shocked some people with it so worked out great.
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Feb 26, 2022 21:39
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silence_kit posted:I enjoy Better Call Saul a lot. I haven't seen the latest season because I am only watching it through a Netflix subscription, but there is no way that that is the case, unless the most recent season is really really excellent. I like BB more but the most reason season is really really excellent
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Feb 26, 2022 22:12
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If I make it to 70 or whatever and the world doesn't end before that, I'll enjoy watching through Lost, Breaking Bad, Prison Break, Game of Thrones, Deadwood, The Wire, 24, etc. all for the first time. JK I'd never watch 24 I tried one episode and the protagonist (I'm assumin) was a straight-up fascist.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:If I make it to 70 or whatever and the world doesn't end before that, I'll enjoy watching through Lost, Breaking Bad, Prison Break, Game of Thrones, Deadwood, The Wire, 24, etc. all for the first time. Never seen it but still lollin that a literal United States supreme court justice cited that loving show as to why torture is good and cool, actually
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Feb 26, 2022 22:27
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Never seen it but still lollin that a literal United States supreme court justice cited that loving show as to why torture is good and cool, actually RBG I bet.
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Feb 26, 2022 22:33
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3D Megadoodoo posted:If I make it to 70 or whatever and the world doesn't end before that, I'll enjoy watching through Lost, Breaking Bad, Prison Break, Game of Thrones, Deadwood, The Wire, 24, etc. all for the first time. Probably. Although really Jack is just completely nuts.
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christmas boots posted:Probably. Although really Jack is just completely nuts. I don't mean to offend anyone, but I don't think fascism is for the sane.
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Feb 26, 2022 23:27
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Jack Bauer gets the job done while all the liberals shake their heads and clutch their pearls and ask each other”whatever are we to do with this extremely competent man who saves the world on a weekly basis”
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oldpainless posted:Jack Bauer gets the job done while all the liberals shake their heads and clutch their pearls and ask each other”whatever are we to do with this extremely competent man who saves the world on a weekly basis” What was the plot against the world?
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The Shield is better than breaking bad, better call saul, and the wire. The only reason it isn't as well regarded is because of timing and the network it was on.
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It hasn't aged well at all. Have you seen it recently? It tries to be so edgy. With Kid Rock. I remember some of the guest actors b eing incredible like Forest Whitaker.
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Feb 27, 2022 00:25
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What was the plot against the world? Nuclear weapons
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I assume. I never watched the show.
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Mu Zeta posted:It hasn't aged well at all. Have you seen it recently? It tries to be so edgy. With Kid Rock. I've watched it like 20 times. And that was in the first episode, but regardless, please do not disparage kid rock. and it only seems like it was trying to be edgy in hindsight. If they had AMC's budget or HBO's it could have been better, but they did it all first and in my opinion better.
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oldpainless posted:Nuclear weapons I think it covered most of the big ones. Hostages, assassinations, nerve gas one time, etc
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christmas boots posted:I think it covered most of the big ones. Hostages, assassinations, nerve gas one time, etc How does the nerve gas cross oceans?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:How does the nerve gas cross oceans? I think it was terrorists mostly
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Opinion: no-one should watch more than 7 hours of TV a week.
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Jerry you reveal your age, it's not TV anymore, I don't even own a TV.yeah I eat rear end posted:The Shield is better than breaking bad, better call saul, and the wire. The only reason it isn't as well regarded is because of timing and the network it was on. yeah I eat rear end posted:I've watched it like 20 times. And that was in the first episode, but regardless, please do not disparage kid rock. The Shield is good but as someone who has watched it and all those it's like, as good? Also why are you watching a show 20 times, that time could be spent better eating rear end.
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It's 2022. People posting online should be free to post but all sites should score based on simple readability. If you want your post read, learn your loving primary language; otherwise, expect the defaults to filter your post into oblivion. The first spell checker was built more than 60 years ago. The first grammar checkers for basic punctuation and such are nearly 50 years old. There is no excuse. All sites would drive improvements to general literacy.
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The relatively large amount of people leaving California for other states is probably a good thing
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My plan is to move to texas when I retire but if California houses ever become cheaper I'd move back
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silence_kit posted:Breaking Bad though is really a great TV show from start to finish, and everybody involved with the show totally deserved all of the awards and accolades they received.
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Mu Zeta posted:My plan is to move to texas when I retire but if California houses ever become cheaper I'd move back Texas will accept you on the condition that you are neither liberal tech bro driving up prices or yeehawboo chud who will be pissed that the vietnamese make the best food in Houston. Seriously, the only good outcome of the Vietnam War was adding vietnamese to the already incredible mix of cuisines on the gulf coast.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:If I make it to 70 or whatever and the world doesn't end before that, I'll enjoy watching through Lost, Breaking Bad, Prison Break, Game of Thrones, Deadwood, The Wire, 24, etc. all for the first time. 24 was a decently made show with a good gimmick that had a colossal amount of luck in coming out just after 9/11.
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i don't want to just outright call any popular tv shows bad because i'm just not the target audience for most of them, i enjoyed the first seasons of sopranos and breaking bad and game of thrones so i think they are good tv shows, i just never really care much after a dozen episodes the last tv show that filled me with a sense of mystery and longing to know more was Lost, that poo poo was crack, fans forums, wikipedia dives, crazy theories but it kinda ruined all future tv shows for me - i just rarely give a poo poo about mystery or overarching narrative or plot of what happens to fictional characters anymore because the satisfying payoffs arn't usually there Squid Game for example was a brilliant and entertaining series but the ending felt kinda disappointing - then again it only lasted 10 episodes so it's not as big a deal
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JollyBoyJohn posted:i don't want to just outright call any popular tv shows bad because i'm just not the target audience for most of them, i enjoyed the first seasons of sopranos and breaking bad and game of thrones so i think they are good tv shows, i just never really care much after a dozen episodes Modern film and tv have a real problem accepting that stories end. Our grandchildren are going to be contracting the latest covid variant watching the fifteen elderly spiders-men in the latest disney smash hit. Take a lesson from Tolkien. He started on a LotR sequel and realized it was poo poo, then just stopped. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 15:16 on Feb 27, 2022 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Texas will accept you on the condition that you are neither liberal tech bro driving up prices or yeehawboo chud who will be pissed that the vietnamese make the best food in Houston. And that you're straight, naturally. Your state government is making that crystal clear.
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