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Cole
Nov 24, 2004

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Just watched it on HBO:GO. Good show. The Rock is everything I want to be in life.

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Cole
Nov 24, 2004

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Binary Logic posted:

Yeah The Rock has charisma, even when his acting is toned down compared to his action movie roles.

It's one thing to turn off your brain; it's another to spend 30 minutes each week watching something that doesn't go anywhere. I guess I think that already being hugely successful, if Johnson and Wahlberg are going to do tv they should aim higher and have more bite or edge to their series.

Here's an example of what I'm saying: we see Spence chewing on a big handful of pills. I'm guessing they're painkillers. But he is still cut like a pro athlete who spends hours per day in the gym; his speech is not slurred or stilted. That huge dose doesn't seem to have much or any adverse affect on him at all.
Now if his drug abuse does become a problem or a plot point (eg he must be stoned to hand over $300,000 to someone who's already blown through millions, or he starts pissing blood and has to deal with health problems), to me the show would be better. If taking the pills is just a daily thing he does without any consequences, that tilts the show to being not much more than lightweight, inoffensive lifestyle porn.

remember that show on ESPN where Omar Gooding would smoke crack right before a game and then run for 200 yards?

is crack a performance enhancing drug?

Cole
Nov 24, 2004

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I like this show, but it's too short. It doesn't really have time to build on any subplots (like Charles thinking he is fat) which, consequently, makes me not care any time that the Rock isn't on screen. I don't think I'll ever really start caring about any other character.

Cole
Nov 24, 2004

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geeves posted:

A friend of mine was a personal assistant to a professional football player a few years ago and everything in this show is basically repeating her stories about him. Especially the ones about not being able to say no to family and friends and allowing the woodwork people to ask for handouts. She ended up quitting in protest after watching him throw hundreds of thousands of dollars away paying for his friend's gambling and drug habits while she was trying to persuade him to get his friend help. The final straw was when she was asked to go and pick up his friend for a dinner and she found him overdosing and he yelled at her for calling 911 instead of him so he could get it fixed quietly.

ESPN did a pretty good documentary about this exact thing if you have an hour or so to kill and wanna watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSOAwNSv8EM

Cole
Nov 24, 2004

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That feeling he had where he went to the ATM to pull out $200 and it declined? Been there.

That feeling he had when he found money in another bank account? Been there too. (But not with $3000 in a bank account. It was like $50 in a pair of pants I was about to wash.)

Cole
Nov 24, 2004

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It's not a comedy.

Is it? It serves well as a sports drama.

Cole
Nov 24, 2004

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CalvinandHobbes posted:

the clue is reggie was by his side the entire night but mysteriously doesn't appear in any pictures.

Maybe Reggie is a ghost.

Cole
Nov 24, 2004

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Affi posted:

Why would that fat guy (greene?) ever want to have sex with anything besides his own wife? That woman is smoking hot.

Have you ever been in a relationship with the same woman for more than a few months? Or at least long enough to get out of that romantic lovey dovey stage?

I'm betting no, you haven't.

Cole
Nov 24, 2004

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The sex scene was with his wife and he was fantasizing about the other girl. That's why he told his wife to be quiet; it was ruining his fantasy.

You can say he hasn't done anything too terribly wrong. I don't know a single married man who won't admit to fantasizing about other women from time to time. But the difference is when your wife can put a face (or rear end) to your relatively easily accessible fantasy.

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Cole
Nov 24, 2004

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pentyne posted:

As previously stated, we've known that from the season promos.

some people don't watch promos :shrug:

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