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Who else tried to serialize shows with different actors? I'd start plugging your brain there. TD1 is just so good. My current favorite. The ep where Cole(?) is infiltrating the biker gang is better than 99% of movies.
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numberoneposter posted:Who else tried to serialize shows with different actors? I'd start plugging your brain there. Post Duchovny X-files is nothing to masturbate home about
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ElectricSheep posted:I feel like Skyler was done for in the eyes of many a viewer in the first episode, when she gave Walt a half assed handy for his 50th
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Snooze Cruise posted:the critic A strong contender.
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Groovelord Neato posted:is there any show with a quality gap between seasons as bad as true detective. A bunch of shows do the new season is a new story thing now, fargo is really good. I think there's a few others?
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yeah TD season2 was awful and the most disappointing show, especially coming off the amazing first season I really liked the unnerving rural Louisiana hellscape which really sold it well I just started Fargo S2 and it's real good so far,
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people have some rose tinted views of sopranos. show got bad and stupid. entire seasons were just bad tv hey this mobster hits girls and we dont like that. hey but hes a made man and we cant do anything. boy thats a clever problem. oh now he likes your sister tony. another stupid problem that should thrill no one. gee how will it all end? an entire season of this it got really bad when there were episodes i wished were about that one guys boring attempts at screenwriting
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Ein cooler Typ posted:Italians aren't white Ever tried to sell an actual Italian on that (rather than an Italian-American)?
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gary oldmans diary posted:people have some rose tinted views of sopranos. show got bad and stupid. entire seasons were just bad tv i just watched the sopranos for the first time recently and i unironically agree 100%
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Groovelord Neato posted:is there any show with a quality gap between seasons as bad as true detective. in reverse, but parks and rec season 1 is god awful trash and seasons 2-7 are hilarious
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I think a lot of shows from the late 90's to mid 00's suffer from being binge watched now. I recently watched a bunch of X-files/Buffy/Xena with the gf because she had never seen it due to being very religious when it came out and she was curious about TV from that time period (again because at the time she was 100% banned from ever watching non-Jesus and Joseph Smith centric media) and it reaaaally doesn't hold up if you watch huge bricks of it at one time. But then you remember that it was never meant to be watched in a block and poo poo like really repetitive story beats from episode to episode wouldn't have been apparent when you were watching it on a week to week basis.
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Apr 6, 2017 11:11
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Strategic Tea posted:Ever tried to sell an actual Italian on that (rather than an Italian-American)? Northern Italians would probably enthusiastically agree that people from southern Italy aren't white, they even have a political party with that as their main platform
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Apr 6, 2017 11:23
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klapman posted:parks and rec seasons 2-7 are hilarious Disagreed. That show is sickeningly sweet.
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gary oldmans diary posted:people have some rose tinted views of sopranos. show got bad and stupid. entire seasons were just bad tv
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Breaking bad is good, but sci-fi TV is never good unless you are 14 years old of younger.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:fargo is really good I quit halfway through the first season due to Billy Bob Thornton's amazing god powers that turned everyone he encountered into a complete retard.
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FogHelmut posted:I quit halfway through the first season due to Billy Bob Thornton's amazing god powers that turned everyone he encountered into a complete retard.
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Tumble posted:it would have been a better ending but i'm still pretty happy with the show overall; i wish they focused more on the european connection instead of the nazis tho Yeah, the scene where the Madrigal guy sloppily taste-tests some new sauces as a makeshift "last meal" before killing himself on the toilet is one of the best in the entire show.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:I think a lot of shows from the late 90's to mid 00's suffer from being binge watched now. I recently watched a bunch of X-files/Buffy/Xena with the gf because she had never seen it due to being very religious when it came out and she was curious about TV from that time period (again because at the time she was 100% banned from ever watching non-Jesus and Joseph Smith centric media) and it reaaaally doesn't hold up if you watch huge bricks of it at one time. But then you remember that it was never meant to be watched in a block and poo poo like really repetitive story beats from episode to episode wouldn't have been apparent when you were watching it on a week to week basis. I agree with this, whenever I try to mow through old shows on netflix I usually get bored before the first season is done even if its just a couple episodes a night, meanwhile when a modern one clicks and im bored on a sunday I'll watch like 5 hours of it no problem.
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numberoneposter posted:Who else tried to serialize shows with different actors? Fargo, and they pulled it off around the same time as True Detective. Fargo seasons 1 and 2 are way better than True Detective seasons 1 and 2, like consistently good and also better. Noah Hawley made Nick Papagiorgio look like a chump.
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Blue Train posted:Hbo turned it down, and yea I would to see the alternate reality where they didn't because I'll bet it would be even better Breaking Bad? HBO would have filled it with gratuitous sex and nudity and remove all the humor and charm. It would probably be even more focused though. The Dennis System posted:Disagreed. That show is sickeningly sweet. I would say seasons 2-4 of Parks and Rec are great. It's cool how the first 4 seasons are mostly one tightly knit story about the power of people working together to accomplish one goal. It was to turn the pit into a community park and this inadvertently leads to Leslie joining city council with their help. Season 5 and later is where it got nauseously upbeat and positive because the characters are no longer working on one goal but are all sent off on their own individual arcs in which they have endless great opportunities thrown at them and every single thing works out perfectly for every character. It got so ridiculous that you couldn't even keep up with the character's arcs because they changed every 2 episodes.
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sweetmercifulcrap posted:I would say seasons 2-4 of Parks and Rec are great. It's cool how the first 4 seasons are mostly one tightly knit story about the power of people working together to accomplish one goal. It was to turn the pit into a community park and this inadvertently leads to Leslie joining city council with their help. This is accurate. I think myself and most people I know got pretty tired of P&R after season 4/5, not it seemed to have got completely bad but just completely lost interest and one day you're like "wait i'm 2 seasons behind? ehh oh well", mostly for those reasons
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von Braun posted:Breaking bad is good, but sci-fi TV is never good unless you are 14 years old of younger. The Expanse. Dark Matter. Black Mirror. Continuum. Defiance. Travelers Colony. There's dozens more.
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von Braun posted:Breaking bad is good, but sci-fi TV is never good unless you are 14 years old of younger. breaking bad is pretty much science fiction
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the arguments for BB that state its a more mature show than most television are kinda silly, like its themes and its basic mythic approach have been done before, its just different in that it applies it to this meth dealer and this very specific subsection of american culture right now. there is nothing wrong with that, but i personally don't enjoy the execution. Now Riverdale, that is a show with interesting things to say.
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Snooze Cruise posted:the arguments for BB that state its a more mature show than most television are kinda silly, like its themes and its basic mythic approach have been done before, its just different in that it applies it to this meth dealer and this very specific subsection of american culture right now. there is nothing wrong with that, but i personally don't enjoy the execution.
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sweetmercifulcrap posted:I wish all shows could have the caliber of cinematography and editing that Breaking Bad had. A lot of scenes in the show are basically frivolous or unimportant but the cinematography alone is enough to make them interesting and fun to watch. Better Call Saul is an even better example because it uses the same style and is a super tense show despite not a whole lot happening in two whole seasons now. lol its not even that great its just not Everybody Loves Raymond
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*has literally only ever seen NCIS* the cinematography is beautiful. it's easily the best thing on television.
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Blue Train posted:Weeds was bad
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Lol yeah people have elevated it strangely, it's more like weeds but serious, especially in the first few seasons(which were especially hit and miss). Breaking bad was great but it wasn't like, amazing or world-shattering or anything. I mean all television drama is being elevated these days. We been in this so called golden age of tv for almost 20 years. But its funny, because someone earlier in this thread said name a show with better writing than BB, and like the first thing that comes to my mind is a ton of different comedies. But we just don't give the same sort of prestige to televised comedies as we do dramas.
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nigga crab pollock posted:*has literally only ever seen NCIS* the cinematography is beautiful. it's easily the best thing on television. yeah seriously, like teen dramas and poo poo have had oddly good cinematography for a while now. its weird.
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Snooze Cruise posted:I mean all television drama is being elevated these days. We been in this so called golden age of tv for almost 20 years. Deadwood, the wire, true detective s1 are all good answers to that question though.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Most comedy writing is pretty horrendous IMO. Comedy TV is better comedy movies at least but it's usually not great. Deadwood, the wire, true detective s1 are all good answers to that question though. I mean it depends on what you are looking at. Most drama writing is pretty horrendous, if you are looking at cop procedurals and so forth, and same for comedy if you are looking at network sitcoms. But like Review is written brilliantly, and if you allow for sketch the second season of the Birthday Boys is has some of the tightest sketches ever written.
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Comedy film is awful yeah. Like they can still be "entertaining" in that jokes are jokes and they make you laugh, but we used to have poo poo like a Fish Called Wanda, which has a brilliant script and works as an actual movie, not just a series of sorta funny scenes some of which are 'improvised"
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I've never heard of that one so you got me!!!
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