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BonoMan posted:They did. I have several theories why. First, the idea of spores being in a "contained" area is kind of dumb and only applies to video game logic. They'd just be invisible in the show obviously because its' more grounded in reality and that wouldn't make for interesting visuals or storytelling. You'd never really have a good mechanism for showing them in the show unless you made them comically big and things just get out of hand with viewer immersion then. It'd start to look farcical. Also it becomes an easy out that would lose the trust of the viewer. I think you're over thinking it. They just don't want to hide all of the casts faces.
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Medullah posted:I think you're over thinking it. They just don't want to hide all of the casts faces. I know that's part of it, but doubt its the whole thing. Their interaction with contaminated areas is very limited (regardless of the mechanism they've made it clear they are prioritizing the non-zombie related parts of the story above all. Which is the correct choice). So I don't think any time they would have been in masks would have been *that* significant.
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You all make good points which a google search confirms to be correct. Still a shame, though. Despite being video-gamey, spores are the means by which fungi spread and reproduce. I guess it now spreads through creeping tendrils? This explains how the elderly invalid from the pilot would not be able to avoid the tendrils creeping into her mouth while asleep, Body Snatchers-style.
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It's also probably a happy accident that the show mirrors another aspect in nature. the real cordyceps in question do spread via spore buts it much more localized contagion. The wider spread happens when birds and other predators see a helpless ant that climbed to the highest point to fruit, eat it, and spread the contagion much wider than the spores could reach.
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precision posted:Yeah the complaint that it's too precious and White Guy Problems prolly only comes from people who turned it off after 20 minutes That was the show until the last 2 eps.
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The last of us was perfectly fine in a kind of generic apocalypse tv show kind of way. I know absolutely nothing about the game and almost peaced out after the first zombie reveal because holy poo poo that genre is super played out. The actors are enjoyable to watch though and maybe fungus zombies are juuuust different enough it won’t piss me off so I’ll see how it goes.
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ozmunkeh posted:The last of us was perfectly fine in a kind of generic apocalypse tv show kind of way. I know absolutely nothing about the game and almost peaced out after the first zombie reveal because holy poo poo that genre is super played out. The actors are enjoyable to watch though and maybe fungus zombies are juuuust different enough it won’t piss me off so I’ll see how it goes. Yeah the mouth sprouts was sufficiently creepy and then I got Annihilation vibes from the guy they found grown into the wall.
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Just got a fresh apple+ trial. What’s the gooncensus on Servant? Any good? I generally enjoy Shaymalans stuff but not sure how involved he actually is, IME big name directors attached to TV shows is just marketing.
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Starks posted:Just got a fresh apple+ trial. What’s the gooncensus on Servant? Any good? I generally enjoy Shaymalans stuff but not sure how involved he actually is, IME big name directors attached to TV shows is just marketing. watch severance before you bother with anything else on ATV+ it's phenomenal
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Starks posted:Just got a fresh apple+ trial. What’s the gooncensus on Servant? Any good? I generally enjoy Shaymalans stuff but not sure how involved he actually is, IME big name directors attached to TV shows is just marketing. I actually enjoyed it at first, but it just kept on retreading the same ground over and over. I got a couple episodes into season 3, and realized, I didn't give a poo poo anymore, and gave up. Despite how much money they are throwing at it, there actually aren't a lot of good Apple shows. I love For All Mankind, and season 1 of Ted Lasso (not season 2). The Planet Earth style Dinosaur show was fun I guess. People here really loved Severance, but I got frustrated with it being yet another mystery box show that hardly ever revealed anything without adding more mysteries on top of mysteries. It felt like it was trying to be weird only for the sake of being weird.
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Nihonniboku posted:I actually enjoyed it at first, but it just kept on retreading the same ground over and over. I got a couple episodes into season 3, and realized, I didn't give a poo poo anymore, and gave up. Despite how much money they are throwing at it, there actually aren't a lot of good Apple shows. I love For All Mankind, and season 1 of Ted Lasso (not season 2). The Planet Earth style Dinosaur show was fun I guess. People here really loved Severance, but I got frustrated with it being yet another mystery box show that hardly ever revealed anything without adding more mysteries on top of mysteries. It felt like it was trying to be weird only for the sake of being weird. Slow Horses rules though.
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Rental Sting posted:Slow Horses rules though. Haven't heard of that one somehow. Looks like it's gotten pretty good reviews, and the cast seems great.
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Starks posted:Just got a fresh apple+ trial. What’s the gooncensus on Servant? Any good? I generally enjoy Shaymalans stuff but not sure how involved he actually is, IME big name directors attached to TV shows is just marketing. I binged Servant and Invasion and at the end of both of them I immediately felt bad for anyone who watched that poo poo week to week. I don't feel bad saying the first episode of both shows is the most interesting, and then nothing happens after that for several seasons e oh yeah watch Severance, duh
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I loved Severance and Slow Horses, and I enjoyed For All Mankind enough to watch all three seasons. For All Mankind seems to get wackier as it goes on though
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Paul T. Goldman is amazing. I can't wait to see how it wraps up in a few days.
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See is really good and really dumb.
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Memnaelar posted:See is really good and really dumb. See is a never ending series of "why did you do that?" Entertaining and beautiful as hell, but I'm a few eps into season 2 and finding the weird dialects and vocabulary are morphing into more contemporary dialog.
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Starks posted:Just got a fresh apple+ trial. What’s the gooncensus on Servant? Any good? I generally enjoy Shaymalans stuff but not sure how involved he actually is, IME big name directors attached to TV shows is just marketing. Servant's great. There's a bunch of cool formal constraints in the way it's filmed, mainly the way they limit the camera set ups almost exclusively to the house and the narrow band of street immediately outside the house. The second season amps up the comedy too, and Lauren Ambrose's performance is tight as hell. Shaymalan's heavily involved in the directing, but not so much the writing as I understand it. Jury's out as to how well it'll end, but I've got a good vibe. theflyingexecutive posted:See is a never ending series of "why did you do that?" Entertaining and beautiful as hell, but I'm a few eps into season 2 and finding the weird dialects and vocabulary are morphing into more contemporary dialog. The last two seasons had a new showrunner, I don't think they're quite as interesting.
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Nihonniboku posted:Haven't heard of that one somehow. Looks like it's gotten pretty good reviews, and the cast seems great. A British spy show starring Gary Oldman as Dr House. It's real good.
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I am watching the Reacher show months if not years late on Prime. It's real dumb, but dumb fun. I would say the same of the Cruise adaptation. Just don't bother with the second movie.
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Reacher was good and the character read as autistic to me which is funny if that wasn't actually intended
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Paul T. Goldman is amazing. I can't wait to see how it wraps up in a few days. It's one of the only shows I look forward to watching every week. I watched the first 3 back to back and I regret not starting when it started because drat this show does cliffhangers right. I also hope it doesn't get a second season because I want to see how it wraps up and also Paul doesn't deserve any more time in the spotlight.
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Name Change posted:I am watching the Reacher show months if not years late on Prime. It's real dumb, but dumb fun. I would say the same of the Cruise adaptation. Just don't bother with the second movie. I thought it was hilarious how everyone in the show allied with Reacher was some secret badass with a tragic backstory.
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Thanks for the recs- should have mentioned I’ve already seen severance and slow horses S1. Both were great. Slow Horses is like a funnier (and pulpier) version of a Le Carre novel. Stark contrast to that garbage Jack Ryan show. Will give Servant and the dinosaur show a whirl.
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Name Change posted:I am watching the Reacher show months if not years late on Prime. It's real dumb, but dumb fun. I would say the same of the Cruise adaptation. Just don't bother with the second movie. I like how in the flashbacks to his childhood, his parents also call him "Reacher".
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Watched the new night court pilot, it wasn't as terrible as I thought it would be. John Larroquette obviously is the high point but the judge and the bailiff were pretty fun too, the sets look like a courthouse that was slowly updated over the decades since the last show. Some characters hopefully will get a little more to work with but I think this could be a pretty fun show.
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Reacher is a great show if you like watching the protagonist just roll over everyone and never be in trouble. It's the best
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yeah its like the epitome of a mary sue power fantasy and they just lean into it lol. like if superman made a cameo he would lose in a fistfight with reacher
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I thought Night Court had the basic sitcom pattern of a really bumpy pilot that is laying everything on too thick and awkwardly to start but then gradually settling in to something ok. I'll hang with it for a few more episodes and see what it becomes. I think sitcoms more than narrative shows really need that time for the formula to develop and everyone to kind of figure out what they're doing. There's no deep plot to jump right into, its just a lot of jamming.
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I liked the first two Night Court episodes so far. Anything that puts Larroquette on my screen gets a fair shake. I really hope we get to see Nostradamus Shannon, the Wheeler family, and Dan's buddy Phil.
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oh god oh gently caress posted:Reacher is a great show if you like watching the protagonist just roll over everyone and never be in trouble. It's the best You've discovered the appeal of late 80s Steven Seagal movies (and a couple of recent DTV movies starring Scott Adkins). Sometimes it's fun to watch a big galoot/martial arts dude house a bunch of jerks. Nothing wrong with admitting it!
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Tiny Timbs posted:Reacher was good and the character read as autistic to me which is funny if that wasn't actually intended We sent a terminator back in time to be a private eye.
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I haven't seen Reacher but I'm pretty sure Alan Ritchson's "acting style" is just "repeated head trauma."
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Glad to see Night Court is getting relatively positive reviews. I have a soft spot for the original and was hoping a reboot wouldn’t be a complete disaster.
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isaboo posted:I liked the first two Night Court episodes so far. Anything that puts Larroquette on my screen gets a fair shake. Would also love to see the kid Harry was fostering for a little bit, that felt like it ended on such a down note.
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A MIRACLE posted:yeah its like the epitome of a mary sue power fantasy and they just lean into it lol. like if superman made a cameo he would lose in a fistfight with reacher Can it be a Mary Sue if he’s only interacting with (from what I can tell) local cop nobodies? It’s more like a generic boomer dad power fantasy.
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Oh no, that 90s show exists now ... I don't completely hate it!
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Aight, so I watched all of Mindhunter on this thread's recommendation. What's something else about unsolved mysteries that isn't a poo poo-tier documentary? If it's a documentary, I want it to be great with good production value and all. Also didn't someone mention Tokyo Vice? I like the actors in it.
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