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ShowTime posted:True Detective Season 1 is up there among the best TV ever. Season 2 and Season 3, not so much. But you still get some incredible performances from people like Mahershala Ali and Colin Farrell, but I guess they always deliver so that's not so surprising. This looks awesome from the trailer.
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Can I just skip season 2? 3 Is worth watching yeah?
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Apr 25, 2023 21:31
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mystes posted:This appears to combine all the types of tv shows I hate the most into one show, lol Haha I felt the same way when my partner wanted to watch it, I was certain I’d dislike it at best. Instead, it became one of my favorite shows of the year so far. It plants itself firmly on the side of “the main guy is the hero of the story”, so there’s no mean pranks or super cringe stuff.
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Apr 25, 2023 21:40
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Steve Yun posted:Can I just skip season 2? 3 Is worth watching yeah? Skip season 2. Hardly any reason at all to watch it. Season 3 is better than 2 but not nearly as good as 1. The two leads both do a great job with Stephen Dorff surprising pretty much everyone. I enjoyed it, but I went in with low expectations.
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Steve Yun posted:Can I just skip season 2? 3 Is worth watching yeah? Don't skip season 2; it's worth watching for all the ridiculously over-the-top faux-noir dialogue:          The last one inspired me to make this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHn0B7R8li8 Season 3 is good, but it is good in the same way that a lot of other shows are great if you know what I mean. For all the flaws of season 2, there is nothing else quite like it. SimonChris fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Apr 25, 2023 |
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SimonChris posted:Don't skip season 2; it's worth watching for all the ridiculously over-the-top faux-noir dialogue: Yeeesh, I forgot about all that. I remember it seemed like all the actors saw season 1, then they all tried to be the Rust Cohle of season 2.
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Apr 25, 2023 22:16
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Just a few more I forgot:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wift4FuvvYk The dialogue is so florid that "vinceposting" - the act of writing fake lines for Vince Vaughn's character - became a meme on 4chan for a while. You have to respect a script with a style distinct enough that parodies are instantly recognizable. SimonChris fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Apr 25, 2023 |
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Apr 25, 2023 22:42
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SimonChris posted:Don't skip season 2; it's worth watching for all the ridiculously over-the-top faux-noir dialogue: these must've been cribbed from some david milch script that never got used
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Apr 25, 2023 22:51
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You can't blame the actors, though. The delivery of this one is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gGNCyNXCtw
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Apr 25, 2023 23:27
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The new Dead Ringers miniseries on Amazon Prime was excellent. Rachel Weisz did career-best work playing very different twisted twins. Now I need to finally watch the original movie to compare and contrast them.
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Apr 26, 2023 13:08
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Octy posted:Rabbit Hole is filling a Kiefer Sutherland sized hole I didn't know I had. Him and Dance having breakfast (I think episode 2) was so great.
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Apr 26, 2023 14:37
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Slothful Bong posted:Haha I felt the same way when my partner wanted to watch it, I was certain I’d dislike it at best. Instead, it became one of my favorite shows of the year so far. It's really a solid show. Especially when you see the last episode and how they story-boarded three different outcomes for everything based on how the main guy would react to stuff, and they had to all adjust on the fly
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Apr 26, 2023 15:31
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We Own This City, holy poo poo. Started the second episode last night and then just could not stop. Incredibly bleak television but compulsive watchable. It's wild how in the interim between the final season of The Wire and the present, the policing situation in Baltimore has only gotten more hosed up and hopeless. I'm jonesing for more David Simon, now, so I may have to do a Wire rewatch. Has anyone seen Show Me a Hero (2015), the limited series starring Oscar Isaac which he cowrote with William F. Zorzi and was directed by the abominable Paul Haggis?
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Rental Sting posted:We Own This City, holy poo poo. Started the second episode last night and then just could not stop. Incredibly bleak television but compulsive watchable. It's wild how in the interim between the final season of The Wire and the present, the policing situation in Baltimore has only gotten more hosed up and hopeless. I'm jonesing for more David Simon, now, so I may have to do a Wire rewatch. Has anyone seen Show Me a Hero (2015), the limited series starring Oscar Isaac which he cowrote with William F. Zorzi and was directed by the abominable Paul Haggis? Show me a hero is great although possibly his most depressing show. The first two seasons of the Deuce are also really good, falls off a bit with the third. Haven’t seen plot against America.
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Show Me a Hero and Plot Against America are both good tight one season shows. Show Me a Hero is better, and will make you mad in similar ways to We Own This City. Plot Against America is way more fictional than what Simon usually does. Shows like The Wire and Treme are fictional obviously, but they base a lot of what's happening around actual real events and sometimes real people, while PAA is alt history stuff.
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Cool, sounds like I should watch Show Me a Hero because I love being bummed out. Of the HBO stuff, I've seen everything except The Corner, SMaH and The Plot Against America, but I've read the novel and I'm usually cold on adaptations of things I've already read.
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Apr 26, 2023 19:51
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Show me a hero is the reason i have a massive crush on oscar isaac  Very bleak though, needed some time to sit until the bad vibes dissipated from that show
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If you really want to be bummed out, watch Unbelievable on Netflix.
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Poker Face is a solid neo noir with Natasha Lyonne as the lead and a minor role going to Mountain Goats' John Darnielle. Chloe Sevigny and Adrian Brody and a ton of other game indie actors from the 2000s. Twisty murder plot aside it's just a good time
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:Poker Face is a solid neo noir with Natasha Lyonne as the lead and a minor role going to Mountain Goats' John Darnielle. Chloe Sevigny and Adrian Brody and a ton of other game indie actors from the 2000s. Twisty murder plot aside it's just a good time Also a Columbo tribute.
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Agent Elvis. It is really, really stupid but so well written its actually really fun. I am not 100% certain it actually needs second series, but it will most likely get one. ...And for some really unexplainable reason I kept getting Ducktales 2017 vibes out of it.
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The Mandalorian's third series was solid. For a minute I was worried it'd get completely hijacked into trying to excuse the absolutely inexcusable pile of poo poo sequel movies, but it narrowly avoided that fate and leaned into its own, fanservicey tongue-in-cheek Good Star Wars. Here's to hoping this was the last series because that would make the final scene pitch perfect.
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Getting at least a Mandalorian movie so there’s gonna be a little more.
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Dicty Bojangles posted:I’ve been enjoying Warrior a lot, but worried it won’t come back for a third season. June 29th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXgq6xQSyko I might have to catch up in time to watch it. That was kind of a boring teaser though.
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Invalid Validation posted:Getting at least a Mandalorian movie so there’s gonna be a little more. Yeah I heard they’re gonna do a mando, boba, Ashoka(?) movie once those have all run. They are so kill happy with star wars films tho that could or could not end up happening.
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ShowTime posted:June 29th.  hell yeah
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Octy posted:Rabbit Hole is filling a Kiefer Sutherland sized hole I didn't know I had. I just came here to talk about that show. I binged all 6 episodes today.
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I finished Dragon Prince season 4 and the whole thing might have been a waste of time because I don't remember a single thing that happened. Even individual episodes aren't memorable at all. They all just kind of end in a random spot and the credits start rolling.
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Finished up Party Down Season 3. The new season quite possess the spark it had during the original run, maybe because there have been so many similar edgy half-hour workplace comedies in the meantime, but it was still often very funny and it was great to revisit the characters again.
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Took my time with the third series of Godfather of Harlem, only 2 episodes a day, to appreciate what it was building up to. Loved the new antagonist but was a bit miffed by the turns Stella's character takes. And maybe Malcolm X's appointment with destiny weighed a little too heavy on the narrative, because I felt the ending was a bit of a cop-out, just a number of deus ex machina's to reset the status quo instead of resolving everything that had been building up so far. Still, pretty good TV.
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I finished the first 3 seasons of Frasier. Never got into it before so this is mostly first watch. You think casting cheers was lightning in a bottle then they did it again.
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phosdex posted:I finished the first 3 seasons of Frasier. Never got into it before so this is mostly first watch. You think casting cheers was lightning in a bottle then they did it again. Also been rewatching it and you are correct. Just fantastic.
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phosdex posted:I finished the first 3 seasons of Frasier. Never got into it before so this is mostly first watch. You think casting cheers was lightning in a bottle then they did it again. i watched cheers when i was a kid and frasier was much more my thing, it really was one of the best sitcoms ever made
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Doktor Avalanche posted:i watched cheers when i was a kid and frasier was much more my thing, it really was one of the best sitcoms ever made And to think of what it could have been.
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Been going through Couples Therapy on Showtime. It is what it sounds like a show about a therapist counseling relationships. Really enjoyable if your into therapy stuff at all. My friend who got me into it says it's pretty fun to watch with your significant other cause it can open dialogues about how you communicate with each other. Unfortunately I'm single at the moment so I can't vouch for that aspect but I'm still vibing with it.
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Poker Face has been a delightful little murder mystery romp with some great cameos. Columbo 2 in a way, but also very much its own thing.
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:Poker Face has been a delightful little murder mystery romp with some great cameos. Columbo 2 in a way, but also very much its own thing. I've been thinking of checking that out, but I've been over Natasha Lyonne's whole "thing" for a while now.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:I've been thinking of checking that out, but I've been over Natasha Lyonne's whole "thing" for a while now. I know exactly what you mean, don't let it put you off this show, it's really good.
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Doktor Avalanche posted:i watched cheers when i was a kid and frasier was much more my thing, it really was one of the best sitcoms ever made Gary Gulman has a bit about what a tremendous spin-off the New Testament is and that Jesus is the Frasier of Nazareth.
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Rollos posted:Been going through Couples Therapy on Showtime. It is what it sounds like a show about a therapist counseling relationships. Really enjoyable if your into therapy stuff at all. My friend who got me into it says it's pretty fun to watch with your significant other cause it can open dialogues about how you communicate with each other. Unfortunately I'm single at the moment so I can't vouch for that aspect but I'm still vibing with it. Wow this is great! Thanks for the recommendation! We started watching Shrinking but I'm not convinced. Is this show going to end up with some kind of anti mental health message? I'm a bit worried that The ending of ep 1 gives a real good lesson in why there are ethical boundaries between patient and provider. Are they then going to U turn into some fantasy where mentally ill people just need someone to talk to? I don't need that in my life right now.
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