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Stegosnaurlax posted:Should i watch the Bear? I hate the pretenciousness of a great deal of chef related shows, and i can't stand Matty Matheson For what it's worth for me, the first season didn't quite click for me. It felt like it was trying to find itself and what the show was. The 2nd season was much better, clearer than Season 1. So here are a few reasons to watch: 1) The actors are good, have a great sense of pacing and dialogue. 2) The show doesn't glorify the pretentiousness of the food scene and also doesn't glorify the industry. 3) You need to think of each episode as a mini-play, it feels very stage. My only thing, I don't get the comedy label. So don't go in looking for lots of sidesplitting humor.
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Shageletic posted:Of course professionals watch shows of their jobs as long as it's good and isn't too silly about it, alot of these shows have good consultants. Like I've heard Scrubs has some realistic points to it amidst the silliness, and some of the David Kelly shows have some realistic points from my viewpoint. Lawyer friends of mine say My Cousin Vinny is the most realistic court movie ever made. But I’m not a lawyer. I’m a software developer. Silicon Valley was pretty accurate to my job in the first couple seasons (even using Agile Sprints and things like that), but I stopped watching it after that. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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Jan 28, 2024 16:17
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swickles posted:I don't think there is a standout medical show currently aside from first reaponder based ones to be fair. This is kind of what I meant. Everyone had seen every episode of House by the time I started first year, and most had seen most of Scrubs and GA. That was over 10 years ago. I don't know a student or colleague now who has watched The Good Doctor or New Amsterdam. And the majority of people I know well enough to discuss TV habits with are doctors. edit: GA was cool. I almost stopped watching when in the first episode the patient's buzzer pages the intern. But I powered through and liked it. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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Jan 28, 2024 16:38
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Fictional depictions of scientists tend to be... Well, very fictional, but honestly that is a good thing because the actual work is about as dry as you'd expect. It's nice when they get scientific stuff at least close to the ballpark, like on crime shows sometimes, and if it's just absolute technobabble that's fine too, it moves the character drama along. I don't imagine actual lawyering is like the antics on Boston Legal, and frankly if real MD's live like the people on Grey's I feel sorry for 'em  I choose to imagine that actual policemen in the US are an amalgam of Elliot Stabler and Tom Selleck's moustache, however!
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Jan 28, 2024 16:56
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Bright Bart posted:I don't know a student or colleague now who has watched The Good Doctor or New Amsterdam. And the majority of people I know well enough to discuss TV habits with are doctors. New Amsterdam is a little different because (at least in season one), they really pushed for medical accuracy. If an actor wasn't precisely nailing a surgical procedure, they'd have a real surgeon scrub in to do it on camera. Real medical professionals don't wander the hallway loudly discussing their patients, but you know.
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Jan 28, 2024 20:04
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theflyingexecutive posted:Real medical professionals don't wander the hallway loudly discussing their patients, but you know. It's adorable that you think that  Shageletic posted:Of course professionals watch shows of their jobs as long as it's good and isn't too silly about it, alot of these shows have good consultants. Like I've heard Scrubs has some realistic points to it amidst the silliness, and some of the David Kelly shows have some realistic points from my viewpoint. Alhazred fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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Jan 28, 2024 20:27
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I finally got started on season 2 of Halt and Catch Fire, and I like it so far, but the whole thing with Joe not getting paid for his Cardiff shares doesn't make any sense to me. Isn't it ultimately the buyer's responsibility that the shareholders get paid for the shares that they are buying? Why is the former CEO even involved in this process? It's literally none of his business anymore! If Joe hasn't gotten paid for his shares, then the buyer's owe him money, and he should talk to them directly. This should be a slam-dunk case, but he just gives up, and it isn't even mentioned in episode 2. Am I missing something here? Anyway, I will keep watching. I took a break after season 1, and when I wanted to start again, the show had disappeared from all streaming services over here and only recently came back. The streaming era can be annoying at times.
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Jan 28, 2024 21:04
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They could make a TV show out of Men Who Hate Women but flesh it out with deeper stuff not in the book.
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Jan 28, 2024 21:05
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thrawn527 posted:Lawyer friends of mine say My Cousin Vinny is the most realistic court movie ever made. But I’m not a lawyer. I’m a software developer. Silicon Valley was pretty accurate to my job in the first couple seasons (even using Agile Sprints and things like that), but I stopped watching it after that. Been a minute since I've seen My Cousin Vinny. But litigating and pretty much any other legal work (like I do) are basically two different jobs. Then the latter category can be broken down by a host of sub jobs only united by being able to research and write well, and having good communication and reasoning skills.
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Jan 28, 2024 21:14
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Alhazred posted:Scrubs gets the seal of approvement because the doctors actually research stuff, unlike House that just magically comes up with a diagnosis. They're all supposed to be geniuses from Johns Hopkins, McGill, Columbia, and UPenn. But these are the same people who would do the most reading on cases like this. So it tracks. But it never being lupus? I see SLE all the time. Shageletic posted:But litigating and pretty much any other legal work (like I do) are basically two different jobs. In several European countries they are literally two separate occupations and sometimes professions. Barristers and solicitors in the UK for example. And in Poland attorneys (solicitors) and counsellors (barristers) even have different degrees. An attorney can file your will or give you advice about a merger, and a counsellor can go to court for you. Technically that is. Because you wouldn't go to these people for those things. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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Jan 28, 2024 21:14
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As a history professor, I honestly can't think of a single fictional depiction of my profession at all, accurate or not. In terms of professors in general I heard from a few people that the Netflix show with Sandra Oh from a few years ago was accurate, but I never watched it. I will say that in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indy being behind on grading term papers is also pretty spot on. And the importance of archive work that he mentions once at the start. But being mobbed by students in office hours? I think I had two students total come to office hours in all of last year.
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Jan 28, 2024 22:59
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Chairman Capone posted:As a history professor, I honestly can't think of a single fictional depiction of my profession at all, accurate or not. It's a movie, but The Man from Earth. Though it doesn't really put the profs in a professional setting, as it were.
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Jan 28, 2024 23:17
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Rappaport posted:It's a movie, but The Man from Earth. Though it doesn't really put the profs in a professional setting, as it were. Big fan of that flick.
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Jan 28, 2024 23:20
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Chairman Capone posted:I will say that in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indy being behind on grading term papers is also pretty spot on. And the importance of archive work that he mentions once at the start. But being mobbed by students in office hours? I think I had two students total come to office hours in all of last year. I think how surprising that is may depend on how Harrison-Ford-hot you are.
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Jan 28, 2024 23:21
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I also think that the crowd of students represents how absentee of a professor he is. Half the people in that crowd probably wanted to talk to him about how unfair his grade was on their last paper—and they were probably right, because while he was marking it up his mind kept wandering to how he was going to acquire the Cross of Coronado.
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Jan 28, 2024 23:26
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Chairman Capone posted:But being mobbed by students in office hours? I think I had two students total come to office hours in all of last year. Maybe it depends where you teach? I went to one of the schools from the House post for undergrad and there were very much line-ups. Some of the more popular/mini-celebrity professors had to have a no closed door policy ostensibly to prevent misunderstandings. Thought the rumour was that this wasn't their own choice.
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Jan 28, 2024 23:26
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Probably different before you could email and he had a big stack of unanswered messages on his desk.
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Jan 28, 2024 23:28
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Rappaport posted:It's a movie, but The Man from Earth. Also a big fan. Never dared to watch the sequel, any good? There was a show a while back about a trainee lawyer / sex worker by night that a lawyer friend heard was very accurate, at least the former part. (girlfriend experience?) We watched the first couple and the miserable paper shuffling while being abused by/sucking up to seniors is apparently close. It looked incredibly cold and clinical and not a keeper, though I'm willing to bet at least some of that was due to motion smoothing.
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Jan 28, 2024 23:30
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Chubby Henparty posted:Also a big fan. Never dared to watch the sequel, any good? It's... Well, it's not. It changes genres and it's just a different type of story. Would not recommend
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Jan 28, 2024 23:39
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Noted, thank you
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Jan 28, 2024 23:40
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Chubby Henparty posted:
Yup that's a Soderbergh joint. Now I gotta check it out
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Jan 29, 2024 00:15
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Chairman Capone posted:As a history professor, I honestly can't think of a single fictional depiction of my profession at all, accurate or not. God its like National Treasure doesn't exist to you people...
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Jan 29, 2024 00:29
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Chairman Capone posted:As a history professor, I honestly can't think of a single fictional depiction of my profession at all, accurate or not. Faculty in the humanities in movies and tv are often vain, selfish obstacles of some kind, sometimes doddering, sometimes stern, sometimes seducers or abusers. They’re almost always a problem. It used to bother me until someone pointed out that obviously the people who write movies and tv shows majored in things in the humanities, so when they met sleazy or horrible professors, they were in the humanities. People who met horrible computer science professors aren’t writing scripts. It does kind of bother me that US representations of college are so often anti-intellectual, but you can’t tell an exciting story about falling in love with ideas or being encouraged and supported by caring faculty, I guess.
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Jan 29, 2024 00:37
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Dr. Daniel Jackson had like 3 movies and a whole tv show.
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Jan 29, 2024 00:37
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IRQ posted:Dr. Daniel Jackson had like 3 movies and a whole tv show. He also famously flamed out with "ancient alien"  theories long before reaching tenure
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Jan 29, 2024 01:17
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Chairman Capone posted:As a history professor, I honestly can't think of a single fictional depiction of my profession at all, accurate or not. In the show Falling Skies the protagonist is a history professor and his skills are apparently useful in starting an uprising against alien invaders?
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Jan 29, 2024 05:40
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Mu Zeta posted:In the show Falling Skies the protagonist is a
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Jan 29, 2024 09:46
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history professor and his skills are apparently useful in starting an uprising against alien invaders?
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Fighting alien overlords is exactly like fighting the 18th century British colonial forces. With AKs.
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Jan 29, 2024 13:14
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Mu Zeta posted:In the show Falling Skies the protagonist is a history professor and his skills are apparently useful in starting an uprising against alien invaders? I actually watched Falling Skies and completely forgot that he was a history professor. And actually almost all details about the show, or that it even existed, let alone aired for five seasons!?
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Jan 29, 2024 13:21
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Well i watched the first episode of The Bear, so much yelling, quick cuts, obscenely close close ups. I'm not sure i can do this. But Episode 2 the main character falls asleep watching Pasta Grannies and i might just finish the season.
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Jan 29, 2024 13:37
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Jack Ryan is also a history professor, but only the Harrison Ford version, not the four others
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Jan 29, 2024 13:38
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Stegosnaurlax posted:Well i watched the first episode of The Bear, so much yelling, quick cuts, obscenely close close ups. I'm not sure i can do this.
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Jan 29, 2024 14:10
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EricBauman posted:Jack Ryan is also a history professor, but only the Harrison Ford version, not the four others How do they explain how Ford knows his way around a standard issue weapon? I think in the Krasinski and such versions he's meant to have been ROTC in college or a staff lieutenant in an academic role at some point. The latter wouldn't explain anything but the fundamentals of firearm safety and basic manoeuvres from officer selection but at least it'd be a starting point for what he picks up rapidly as a field agent. mystes posted:It's good but it's very stressful. I ended up liking season 1 a lot but I still haven't watched season 2 because I haven't been in the right mood for it. That scene that everyone says makes the show a masterpiece from that point onwards? Where he breaks down and finally talks about his brother? How he loved and hated him? Is glad to be rid of the mess he makes in everybody's life but would give anything to have him back? I watched it. It's fine. Maybe more than fine. And I obviously missed the build-up and context. But I've seen better. I listen to more touching stories every week irl
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Jan 29, 2024 14:20
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Rando conversations don't mean poo poo without the backstory and buildup, what are you on about
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Jan 29, 2024 14:24
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Episode 03 of Monsieur Spade is out and it was more-than-just-fine to very-fine. We meet the ostensible primary antagonist, albeit in a flashback. He's a piece of work and it was worth the wait. And given the focus on war changing everyone for the worse I don't expect he'll be any more cuddly going forward. The ending of the episode was exactly what I should have expected but I got lulled into a false sense of ease right beforehand. It was also more hardcore than I remember seeing in an AMC show up to this point. Finally, we have a transgender actress playing an ostensibly cisgender woman who may in fact be a cross-dressing cisgender male MI6 agent. If that's not progress when it comes to representation I don't know what is.
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Jan 29, 2024 14:26
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Bright Bart posted:How do they explain how Ford knows his way around a standard issue weapon? He was a marine who washed out with a back injury, I think He's definitely played as now cerebral by Ford than the others, but how can't you, with Indiana Jones on the poster
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Jan 29, 2024 14:32
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EricBauman posted:He was a marine who washed out with a back injury, I think Yeah Jack Ryan was a Marine who injured his back in training and his girlfriend/eventual wife fixes it in an early book. Edit: IIRC the Sum of All Fears movie with Ben Affleck does bring up the back problems.
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Jan 29, 2024 14:43
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EricBauman posted:Jack Ryan is also a history professor, but only the Harrison Ford version, not the four others Ford was the only good Jack Ryan anyway. Also, I think that's accurate to the books for like Patriot Games era at least.
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Jan 29, 2024 14:45
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I'm pretty sure Alec Baldwin's Ryan is also a history professor in Hunt for Red October. He has that exchange with Ramius where he says he writes books.
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howe_sam posted:I'm pretty sure Alec Baldwin's Ryan is also a history professor in Hunt for Red October. He has that exchange with Ramius where he says he writes books. Yeah, and Ramius says his books are terrible, saying his conclusions are all wrong. Baldwin was a good Jack Ryan, too, and the most "book accurate", if that part matters to you at all. Even if he's apparently bad at writing his own books. Red October is a great movie.
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