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MrUnderbridge posted:I used to listen to the Jack Reacher stuff when XM had an audio book channel. It was on during my commute, and was mindless enough to pass the time. The guy who they picked for the TV show fits his description reasonably well. Basically a big walking beefcake of a man. Its actually quite a good show.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:This is the forum where someone said explaining something is endorsing it. It's got to be down to something like context illiteracy, you get people trying to claim The Wire is copaganda when the entire premise of the show is that modern policing is a broken system who's only goal is to put up good stats to make elected officials look better.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:The 24/7/ ai-generated Seinfeld stream lasted all of six days before man who would have thought ai art mirrors the exact same terrible bullshit as most of the stem-lords who masturbate to it?
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My favorite "Monk is a wreck" episode was the one where he kept being tempted to frame this nudist who had witnessed the crime enough that he could possibly be the next victim... ... because Monk has a phobia of nudity. And Monk is inherently a selfish jerk so his first thought to get rid of the nudity who was vexing him was to frame him.
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pentyne posted:It's got to be down to something like context illiteracy, you get people trying to claim The Wire is copaganda when the entire premise of the show is that modern policing is a broken system who's only goal is to put up good stats to make elected officials look better. I think you can still ask that question of the Wire though, since there is sort of this idea that there is a "good" policing that the department could do if they could just get enough funding from city hall and could focus on the real work instead of the stat game and I think the reality is that it's not that simple. There's no question that the Wire is critical of police but whether or not it's as critical as it really ought to be--which I think We Own This City is almost a response to
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Friendly reminder that the Monk dvd collection is both the greatest and worst thing ever and I love / hate it: Look at that smirk. He knows exactly what he's done.
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But why would monk trigger himself. Does each dust jacket monk exist as a separate entity, and that monk has a grievance against the rest?
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Andre Braugher got to go toe-to-toe with Hugh Laurie in House, and actually come out on top, which buys a lot of love from me. I really enjoyed that despite House's antagonism, he seems to accept Braugher's character as an equal and even as someone who knows more than House himself, for once This also brings it back to copaganda talk, since Braugher is at the heart of David Simon's criminally (lol) underrated Homicide: Life on the Street series. Aside from being the origin of Munch from Law & Order, I remember that the show dealt with a lot of criticisms and issues in policing that The Wire would continue to explore e: I would be ashamed if I missed this chance to bring up Yaphet Kotto, and what a powerhouse he is on screen
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christmas boots posted:I think you can still ask that question of the Wire though, since there is sort of this idea that there is a "good" policing that the department could do if they could just get enough funding from city hall and could focus on the real work instead of the stat game and I think the reality is that it's not that simple. There's no question that the Wire is critical of police but whether or not it's as critical as it really ought to be--which I think We Own This City is almost a response to The season of The Wire with Hamsterdam tried to ask the question of “what if we stopped overly policing drugs”, with the conclusion that the people in charge ultimately don’t give a drat if that strategy works or not in decreasing crime and improving life for citizens, because it might affect their re-election prospects down the road and is just “wrong”.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Isn't rhe whole thing about Perry Mason is the LAPD is always arresting and charging the wrong person and Mason is always exposing the real perp for them in court? This got me to look up "Perry Mason" and turns out there's a recent show starring Matthew Rhys?! Is it any good?
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Absurd Alhazred posted:This got me to look up "Perry Mason" and turns out there's a recent show starring Matthew Rhys?! Is it any good? Yeah, I'd say so. It's mainly one case for the full season instead of one case per episode, and it's chock full of that gritty LA noire that plants crave. Tatiana Maslany's pretty good in it too.
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Paper Tiger posted:Yeah, I'd say so. It's mainly one case for the full season instead of one case per episode, and it's chock full of that gritty LA noire that plants crave. Tatiana Maslany's pretty good in it too. And literally the entire justice system is portrayed as deeply deeply flawed
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Paper Tiger posted:Yeah, I'd say so. It's mainly one case for the full season instead of one case per episode, and it's chock full of that gritty LA noire that plants crave. Tatiana Maslany's pretty good in it too. There's supposed to be a new season airing sometime this year.
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muscles like this! posted:There's supposed to be a new season airing sometime this year. Starts March 6th!
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Mooseontheloose posted:House also has a problem in that either the writers or the network didn't want House to evolve and totally nuke his relationship with Cuddy in the worst way possible. Another House problem is a lot of the medicine is often fudged or completely fictionalized to keep the plot moving. From my own experience, the endometriosis episode and the DXM episode were purestrain bullshit, but there's an entire blog that breaks down the legitimateness of House plots. http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.html
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Has anyone said Cowpaganda yet
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I feel like House was all set up to be prestige TV about a decade too early when episodic formula was still the order of the day.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I feel like House was all set up to be prestige TV about a decade too early when episodic formula was still the order of the day. You get this feeling entirely from the intro credits sequence and nothing else about the show
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That, the sets, which were posh and expensive-looking, and the NJ setting complete with character actors right around the same time The Sopranos was the model to chase. Also Bryan Singer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aArqS8RHWT0  Never forget
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bobjr posted:Is Jack Reacher the one where there’s a lot of description about his ridiculously big hands? 
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Alaois posted:You get this feeling entirely from the intro credits sequence and nothing else about the show The first episode of House I saw was the season one finale, which gave me some unrealistic expectations for future episodes. The best part of House is the episode where they have a machine that lets them watch people’s dreams on a crt, which they use exactly once.
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I have seen only one House and there was a tick inside a vagina. I felt like that was enough for me.
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I AM GRANDO posted:The first episode of House I saw was the season one finale, which gave me some unrealistic expectations for future episodes. It was 4 years before Breaking Bad or 7 years before GoT, for example. House has 177 episodes over 8 seasons, so it's difficult to keep the quality consistent - most modern prestige TV have between 60 and 80 episodes if they last a comparable period of time. It's similar to something like The X-Files: a good series that can still be enjoyed with a watch list; with some really incredible episodes; and more than 3 times the number of episodes than Breaking Bad. That Italian Guy has a new favorite as of 14:21 on Feb 7, 2023 |
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They're making a Young Dexter show about him as a child. I think that covers all the bases for the recent discussion of shows about cop adjacent series where the protagonist steps outside the law and even a pre-emptive "not aged well" because, holy poo poo, it's Dexter. edit: Why isn't there a :dumpster-fire: smilie?
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Brawnfire posted:I have seen only one House and there was a tick inside a vagina. I felt like that was enough for me. It's more likely than you think. 
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mind the walrus posted:That, the sets, which were posh and expensive-looking, and the NJ setting complete with character actors right around the same time The Sopranos was the model to chase. Also Bryan Singer. Ah yeah that hallmark of prestige television all of the immitators rushed to copy: set in new jersey
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not even set in the same area of new jersey, just the fact that it's set in new jersey establishes that House MD was Prestige Television, just like Aqua Teen Hunger Force
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Alaois posted:not even set in the same area of new jersey, just the fact that it's set in new jersey establishes that House MD was Prestige Television, just like Aqua Teen Hunger Force So that's why Kevin Smith kept being referred to as an "indie darling" decades after he made his last interesting movie.
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mind the walrus posted:That, the sets, which were posh and expensive-looking, and the NJ setting complete with character actors right around the same time The Sopranos was the model to chase. Also Bryan Singer. That two parter in the asylum is pretty much when you can see the ratings/critical acclaim start to slide. I know I gave up on the show shortly thereafter.
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mind the walrus posted:I just wish I understood Lin Manuel Miranda's appeal He played House's annoying room mate in rehab in like, three episodes of House. I think House punched him or something? It was pretty fun.
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Nuebot posted:He played House's annoying room mate in rehab in like, three episodes of House. I think House punched him or something? It was pretty fun. He is good at being immensely punchable. If all he did was play roles where he got punched he would be as universally loved as he would be universally punched.
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I like Lin when he’s on podcasts being a huge nerd but he’s never made anything I liked very much.
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MokBa posted:I like Lin when he’s on podcasts being a huge nerd but he’s never made anything I liked very much. I really like the song You're Welcome but other than that, totally agree.
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