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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:The Bridge is a fun watch because of all the remakes. I’ve been enjoying watching it but I’m probably missing a lot because I can’t tell the difference between the Swedes and the Danes and I’m not sure which country they are in half of the time
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The Sinner is like a dumber, schlockier True Detective but I enjoyed it anyway (well, season 2 and 3), mainly because of Bill Pullman's weirdly subdued performance as the introvert lead detective.
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Deadite posted:I’ve been enjoying watching it but I’m probably missing a lot because I can’t tell the difference between the Swedes and the Danes and I’m not sure which country they are in half of the time Perhaps you'd enjoy the British/French remake with Stannis and an autistic blond or the U.S./Mexican version with Matthew Lillard and an autistic blond.
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Origami Dali posted:The Sinner is like a dumber, schlockier True Detective but I enjoyed it anyway (well, season 2 and 3), mainly because of Bill Pullman's weirdly subdued performance as the introvert lead detective. ....How Daryl Zero is he?
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Feb 17, 2024 21:27
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Monica Bellucci posted:....How Daryl Zero is he? poo poo, I'm glad you mentioned that, I've been meaning to check it out for years.
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I’ve just spent the entire Saturday morning rewatching all the episodes of this show in an effort to figure out what in the hell it is about. What in the hell is going on. Making sure to pay attention to everything. But it has only made things worse.
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Origami Dali posted:poo poo, I'm glad you mentioned that, I've been meaning to check it out for years. You have it to look forward to, I am jealous. It also has an excellent meta joke concerning the plot.
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Thank you for the recommendations everyone, I already enjoyed Broadchurch, The Killing, Deadloch, and Mare of Easttown. Of all the detectives in these shows I liked Joel Kinnaman of The Killing the most, he is the closest to a True Detective in my mindOrigami Dali posted:The Sinner is like a dumber, schlockier True Detective but I enjoyed it anyway (well, season 2 and 3), mainly because of Bill Pullman's weirdly subdued performance as the introvert lead detective. The first season of The Sinner was some of the stupidest poo poo I have ever seen. Just a dogshit, idiot detective bumbling around with the prime suspect but it is played completely straight. It would have been better if they turned it all into a joke like Deadloch
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I expect the last episode to be shot in the style of a TV musical. If it isn't, then season 4 will be the turdiest season of True Detective Danvers' hit song and dance scene should simply be titled, "gently caress"
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Monica Bellucci posted:You have it to look forward to, I am jealous. It also has an excellent meta joke concerning the plot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcVph_23VIE I quote this all the time. It's a great tragedy that the TV pilot wasn't picked up.
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I quote The Way of the Gun and lots of people think I'm a psycho. 
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Search Party is great . It really, really goes places.
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She's hosed 2 people in the show? The teacher and the police chief guy.
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re: the cinematography, I noticed there's no stars visible in the sky anywhere, despite Rust in S1 emphasizing how great the night sky in Alaska looks. In fact I think it was the only thing he liked there. I kinda wonder if they originally meant to add them in post, to make it look like the Alaskan night sky. Either way that and the flat lighting imo contributes to the feeling that it was shot on a sound stage, even though it wasn't.
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Has there been any aurora in the show?
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Its really hard to capture both the characters and the nightsky in the same light
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State of Play rules, absolutely worth a watch.tetrapyloctomy posted:Mare of Easttown is good, but I'd go season one of Broadchurch over many I've seen. Yeah, season one of Broadchurch is excellent. Just don't expect it to be anywhere near indicative of the quality of anything else the showunner/writer has made before or since 
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I hated the ending of Broadchurch S1, felt like it turned into pure schlock. Watched 1 ep of S2 and checked out  I liked Mare of Easttown a lot though, it really captured a vibe, moreso than this show is trying to with its dumb pointing ghosts
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I'm rewatching TD season one and gently caress almighty is it ever engaging. Like I've seen it a bunch of times now and obviously its reputation is sterling so it's entirely old news how great it is, but it catches me by surprise every single time with how hard it is to not just immediately start playing the next episode. Even if it's fuckin' two in the morning and I need sleep.
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I always thought Broadchurch was twice chewed cud; a bunch of cliches of UK police procedurals (of which there are a truly staggering number) given a glow up by casting and a decent soundtrack. It's very mediocre. Compare with Happy Valley, which occasionally trends this way, but is rendered incredibly watchable by Sarah Lancaster's insanely good performance as a human steamroller. She's just so loving tired of running people over, guys, stopping making her run people over. Or even something like In The Dark, which crafts this fascinating character arc for its alcoholic, emotionally manipulative lead. When she becomes certain that the drug dealer behind her apartment has been murdered, she takes increasingly self-destructive plays in order to prove her case to the cops, her friends, literally any human being who'll listen, resulting in the complete collapse of all their worlds. There's nothing comparable in Broadchurch, it's all bitty, the characters are mostly static or they do all the typical cliched things. Murder In Small Town X (to, uh, coin a phrase) just doesn't do it for me, I guess. Broadchurch is Twin Peaks if Twin Peaks didn't have the parody, the supernatural, the camp, the surrealist horror... it's kitchen sink drama, but so far from the greats in the genre that it might as well be patio furniture drama. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Feb 18, 2024 |
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koolkal posted:I hated the ending of Broadchurch S1, felt like it turned into pure schlock. Watched 1 ep of S2 and checked out Mare of Easttown felt to me like the American adaptation of Broadchurch that should have been, as opposed to Gracepoint which looked bad enough I didn't watch it, though ironically it seems the "twist" they added to their version of the show was the same twist that Mare of Easttown did, but the latter felt pretty solid while my understanding is the former was roundly mocked?
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:IMO this show is a really good example of rushed pacing. As others have pointed out, some of the plotlines (kid cop's marriage, the nomads living in the camp, etc) just haven't been given the room they need to be impactful. The show could have really benefitted from 2 more episodes, and a lot more introspection. I think it would have been way better to have episode 1 start during the original case back when the two main characters were partners, discovering the body, getting utterly stonewalled, having the case get closed, pressure from the company, and then the second episode could be the episode 1 we got where everyone is weirdly aggressive and hate each other. There would have been less weird vibes for unexplained reasons- which maybe is what they wanted, I dunno- but the story would have certainly flowed better.
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Matinee posted:The uncanny feeling in the dialogue and general detached air of the characters is so distractingly present that it feels like it has to be deliberate, like they’re reaching for a Twin Peaks kind of vibe, but none of it works and it just makes the show unfun to watch. 
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Have we seen a single detective in this season of True Detective? Either plain clothes police or a PI?
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Origami Dali posted:the light ain't winning The viewers aren't either.
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CeeJee posted:Have we seen a single detective in this season of True Detective? Either plain clothes police or a PI?
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I want to make a True Detective board game or pencil & paper system. Without any of the characters or locations or tropes. Just so people will debate whether it's truly a TD game or only has the name stamped on it.
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Disco Elysium is basically True Detective: The Game
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You ask me, The Pale's winning
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The fight is winning.
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DaveKap posted:Oh yeah, I mentioned that after the first episode, this has a David Lynch vibe. How long until someone watches Twin Peaks and says it sounds like it was written by an AI. Never because David Lynch is an actual filmmaker with a real pov and makes exactly what he sets out to make. Also season 4 is nothing like Lynch. In fact the season closest to David Lynch is actually season 2. Vince Vaughn feels exactly like a David Lynch character.
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Toaster Beef posted:I'm rewatching TD season one and gently caress almighty is it ever engaging. Like I've seen it a bunch of times now and obviously its reputation is sterling so it's entirely old news how great it is, but it catches me by surprise every single time with how hard it is to not just immediately start playing the next episode. Even if it's fuckin' two in the morning and I need sleep. I always enjoyed the extended car rides and how the conversations evolved as time went on. You start with Marty basically saying to Rust...STFU, you are insulting our culture...to nodding his head sagely a few episodes later maybe realizing the insomniac-quasi-junkie does actually have a few nuggets of wisdom.
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The_Rob posted:Vince Vaughn that puffy motherfucker?!
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What should I do if I'm meh on the actual work of the real David Lynch, just just bad attempts to be Lynchian? Just throw myself in the garbage?
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You don't like The Straight Story? Dune?
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The_Rob posted:Vince Vaughn feels exactly like a David Lynch character. To me he felt more like somebody trying to ape a David Milch written character. Some actors can pull that off, but even then it needs the right setting and most of the other actors to talk/act in the same way, and I wasn't feeling it in any respect for Vaughn's character. I don't know how much of that was Nic Pizzolatto's writing and how much was Vaughn's acting, but given they've both done other things I've enjoyed, maybe it was just the combination?
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Speaking of good season long mystery shows, the second season of Max's Tokyo Vice has been very good so far. But the entire show is basically one mystery so far, so it's not a good idea to jump in partway through. Still, I recommend it.
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