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Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

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Hakkesshu posted:

Very much looking forward to The Expanse. I fell off Game of Thrones and didn't give a gently caress about anything that went on this last season.

Westworld S2 is not this year, right

No but Fargo S3 is.

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Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

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Reese doesn't have a hard no kill rule. He just dislikes doing it and will avoid it until it's necessary. But when it's necessary that fucker will shoot for the head without hesitation.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

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eps 4, 7, 9, 10 and 13 all set up the ground work for poo poo that will explode in the last five episodes of S1 and sets up a world where there are enough factions at play that every ep will feature movement on one of them as they try to do poo poo or gently caress with one another.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

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Pan Dulce posted:

Because TVIV voted Better Call Saul so highly, I just wanted to ask if it's really necessary to watch Breaking Bad to know what the gently caress is happening on it? There's just so much to catch up on...

It's a prequel.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

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The Machine is a black box, all it does is go "this person is worth looking into" and it's up to the people who get told this either on the relevant or irrelevant side to figure out why. The rationalization being that if no one sees what the machine sees, no one's rights are being infringed upon. Obviously this is false but the show goes into that.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

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That scene rules tho.

Also the literal premise of the show is they don't know if the people they are given are victims or perps, so I dunno where this victim only assumption is coming from.

The information it tends to spit out is based on who the most key person in a situation is. Like if someone is actively planning a murder and leaving a data trails the machine will obviously send their number but if someone has created a situation which could very probably lead to other elements wanting them dead the machine will send that person's number because it's more efficient to have that person guarded than to seek out like 5 hitmen all gunning for this vic.

edit: next episode for you provides a good example of what I'm talking about.

Zaggitz fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Jan 6, 2017

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

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Snak posted:

That's true, I guess. It does always turn out to be the opposite of the one they initially assume.

Also, that scene is really lame.

This show is like what if Blindspot was played completely straight and trying to be super serious and realistic all the time. And had no humor. It's not exciting, or badass, or interesting. It's the same plots that every procedural uses, but with no character chemistry, no humor, and the most melodramatic bullshit that we are supposed to care about.

Like, it's not lovely. It's okay. But it's definitly not clicking for me.

The police woman, Taraji P. Henson's character, is easily the most interesting character, but she does basically nothing. She seems to exist in each episode simply to show up too late to find out what happened at the end of every episode.

watch the next episode.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

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Escobarbarian posted:

I think dire is too strong a word but honestly PM is right. It's just.....not THAT good. The spiel somewhere about how it is as intelligent as Westworld when it comes to themes etc made me laugh super hard.

Says man who never got to the part I'm talking about when I say that.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

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Hi. Sell me on the Get Down, it's the one show I hadn't heard of from the Top Ten thread that really stood out to me from the glimpses I saw there.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

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If you wanna avoid derailing this thread any further, you can go ahead and livepost in the show's thread which has been pretty dead since the show ended.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3773520&pagenumber=43 here's a link to the last page so you can skip my pretty spoilery OP.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

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muscles like this! posted:

Also it looks like Jeremy Davies is the bad guy for the season and he's definitely Jeremy Davies-ing it up.

That's almost enough to make me wanna get back into that trash fire.

Almost, but not quite.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

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feedmyleg posted:

Not sure you know what "immediately" means.

I also hate procedurals, but am intrigued by POI. I'm not incapable of loving the format (X-Files, for example) but I just can't watch dozens of episodes of a show I don't like hoping to one day fall in love with it. Maybe if there were one later episode I could watch that would indicate how good it gets I could invest, but there's so much good TV out there I haven't yet seen that it always falls very low on the priority list.

I would recommend 3x5 as a good procedural/serial hybrid ep, 1x22's pretty good. For full serial I wanna recommend 2x16 but that ep doesn't really work without getting a feel for what normal episodes are like

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

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You are gonna love episode 18.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

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Did Grimm turn itself around at all? It got so massively poo poo near the end of s3 or 4 that I dropped it off my schedule entirely.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

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Clearly they saw how much TVIV loved it and decided to renew it.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

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IRQ posted:

I know right? The show was a very hard sell on me but I'm so glad I gave it a chance last month based on TVIV's endless praise.

I just got to the episode where Rebecca finds out she's broke and I love the show even more because all this time it was a running question as to how the hell she kept that up.

And then she muses about being Satan's chief financial officer and how bad a fit she would be for that job.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

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Arist posted:

See, look at this. It's so devoid of style or personality. Put your own spin on it, man!

I don't even care that you don't like the show, whatever, but whenever I see you it's the limpest, most half-assed attempts to rile people and it's really sad.


It's either that or blatant sexism, neither really works anymore now that it's so expected.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

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YO THE GOOD PLACE FINALE SURE WAS loving SOMETHING

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

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Snak posted:

The Good Place is the best show on television.

Hell, it's true.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

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Archie is so weird to me because I only ever encountered it in those big jumbo books other people inexplicably had in their bathrooms. So when I hear "that comic literally everyone has in their bathroom but never reads is getting a dark gritty tv show" I was pretty shocked.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

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Good place got renewed, in case anyone was waiting for confirmation before jumping in. Enjoy an amazing show.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

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Anybody make a Fargo thread yet? Season 3 starts next week.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

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There were hot or not apps before tinder, okcupid i know had one for a while.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

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Vice Principals second and final season hit the ground running. Ya'll are missing out if you ain't watching.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

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How is there no Good Place season 2 thread??? It starts tonight!!

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

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Escobarbarian posted:

Make it then

John from Cincinnati episode 6 is holy poo poo incredible. I doubt the series is gonna top John’s cookout speech, but that was worth the 10-hour watch alone. Amazing television.

If no one has once I'm done with work I will!!

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3834903 Good Place S2 thread is a go.

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

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I don't wanna gloss over the guy who said Punisher War Zone rules because that movie has a scene where a bunch of kids are doing sick parkour stunts when suddenly one is blown the gently caress up in mid air by a rocket launcher by the Punisher who is standing off screen. That movie extremely rules.

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Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

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The future man pilot was kind of lame but Ive been loving every other ep. Fat neckbeard Haley Joel Osment just busted out a katana like the true goon he is.

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