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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Yeah they seem a little frustrated and anxious that they're gonna have to do something about the $7.50 place, it makes them all nervous and Rudy knows it's his responsibility but no one wants to pull the trigger. Wasn't it all but spelled out for us that Rudy's man (forgot his name, Tommy or something?) set fire to that place at the end of last week's episode?
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timp posted:Wasn't it all but spelled out for us that Rudy's man (forgot his name, Tommy or something?) set fire to that place at the end of last week's episode? Oh I actually forgot that was last week - I binged the first 3 episodes yesterday and yeah, he did that.
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Orange Devil posted:I have this sinking feeling that cocaine is going to just murder and destroy so much of what we've been getting familiar with. AIDS first, coke second and a resurgent financial industry/real estate market bringing up the rear.
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Did Method Man call Anwan Glover a murdering motherfucker? Haha, nice bit of The Wire humor there.
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JethroMcB posted:AIDS first, coke second and a resurgent financial industry/real estate market bringing up the rear. Truly, bankers are worse than AIDS.
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Darko posted:Did Method Man call Anwan Glover a murdering motherfucker? Haha, nice bit of The Wire humor there. how did i not
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What was the bouncer's original role before he started working for Vince? I'm hazy on what he originally did in season 1.
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veni veni veni posted:What was the bouncer's original role before he started working for Vince? I'm hazy on what he originally did in season 1. Big Mike was just a guy who hung out in the area getting high, he happened to be at the Hi-Hat on opening night when somebody pulled a gun. Vince hired him as muscle on the spot.
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Oh yeah. now I remember that. Thanks.
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Sep 26, 2018 02:29
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Frankie trying to back into the dry cleaners and spilling coffee all over himself while customers yelled at him angrily was loving comedy
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A bit confused as to why we went down that road with Frankie at all - were we really supposed to believe he'd go straight and settle down? I anticipated the dry cleaning store to gradually turn into a front of some kind, maybe even leading him into contact with a different crew of criminals, but instead we're already through with it. Larry's turn into Master Thespian that can transfix the entire crew on Take Number One was maybe a little too much, too fast...but I'm enjoying his story and am eager to see where it goes.
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JethroMcB posted:A bit confused as to why we went down that road with Frankie at all - were we really supposed to believe he'd go straight and settle down? I anticipated the dry cleaning store to gradually turn into a front of some kind, maybe even leading him into contact with a different crew of criminals, but instead we're already through with it. I have absolutely nothing to back this up, but that felt kind of like one of those "based on a true story if you can believe it!" kind of sub-plots that David Simon will occasionally run with. Like it's something that really happened at that time and place and he had to include it because it's just too bizarre not to or something.
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JethroMcB posted:A bit confused as to why we went down that road with Frankie at all - were we really supposed to believe he'd go straight and settle down? I anticipated the dry cleaning store to gradually turn into a front of some kind, maybe even leading him into contact with a different crew of criminals, but instead we're already through with it. It was an amusing bit of farce, and it drove home the point that Frankie is rapidly running out of options. He's going to blow through the money he sold it for in a week and then he's going to be broke and more desperate than ever. Larry's porn monologue was cheesy as hell  I do like how Larry and C.C. continue to be the Goofus and Gallant of pimps.
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CC just invented gonzo porn though. Also, Larry wasn't a master thespian (it clearly showed his acting was the most wooden you've ever seen), he just turned on his pimp-game on camera. Also I found it kinda weird that Candy had someone basically throw herself at her going "please involve me in this project I can write", blowing her off saying she needed to do it herself, quickly concluding she is not, in fact, able to write, and then concluding she needed to involve an altogether different writer. Seemed a little harsh to not give the woman a shot first. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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holy poo poo, that shot of Paul entering the cruising spot, cherry-red cigarette (and ashes!) burning through the oppressive, ultraviolet blue lighting...DP had a field day with that one My only complaint with this episode was the same one his girls were shouting: Not enough Larry!
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Oct 8, 2018 04:02
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Please don't kill the dog, CC.
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nooneofconsequence posted:Please don't kill the dog, CC. CC will kill the dog, just to drive home to the viewer that it's meet and right for someone to kill CC.
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Oct 8, 2018 05:41
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I just caught up with the last few episodes, this season is going great!
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CC is such a piece of poo poo.
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Oct 10, 2018 18:45
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veni veni veni posted:CC is such a piece of poo poo. There is almost no chance in hell he isn't gonna get got, and hopefully by one of his girls.
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I dunno, I have a feeling he's just going to hold on to the pimp game for too long and everything will pass him by. Next season is supposed to be in the early '80's, isn't it? He might just still be working 1 or 2 girls and looking considerably less fancy.
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Milo and POTUS posted:There is almost no chance in hell he isn't gonna get got, and hopefully by one of his girls. Mainstream storytelling would have Lori leave him and then he ends up taking it out on the girl that left him and is doing the activism, but that feels a bit too obvious for Simon.
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Oct 10, 2018 22:01
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Still not sure why this show needs two James Francos. "Hey Vinnie, your brother hosed up again" "Dats my brudder for ya" Repeat 5 times a season.
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Oct 11, 2018 02:40
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Because the real people they were based on were twins.
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So... I hate to say this, because Maggie Gyllenhaal is a great actress, but Candy's whole schtick is starting to wear thin. Last season I felt like she was a struggling, developing, three-dimensional character. This season she feels like a one-note cutout. With so many great characters interacting with each other in new and interesting ways, she's really starting to seem shallow, and the premise they're running with right now isn't as interesting or profound as the showrunners seem to think it is. After really getting into last week's episode, this week's felt a little slow -- it definitely suffered from being a "the season has picked up momentum and something's going to go down but we've got to build tension some more" episode. I have to say, though, that the way this show has handled the mob element is pretty genius. I keep expecting every scene involving the mobsters -- like the "are these all left shoes?" scene -- suddenly to turn violent, and I keep being surprised when they don't. This show has to have the most decent mobsters I can think of in a crime drama. Cue next week's episode when Frankie gets killed after finally pushing things too far...
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Mr. Pipilo just wants to make lots of money and if other people make lots of money too, then everything is just swell. 
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MeinPanzer posted:So... I hate to say this, because Maggie Gyllenhaal is a great actress, but Candy's whole schtick is starting to wear thin. Last season I felt like she was a struggling, developing, three-dimensional character. This season she feels like a one-note cutout. With so many great characters interacting with each other in new and interesting ways, she's really starting to seem shallow, and the premise they're running with right now isn't as interesting or profound as the showrunners seem to think it is. Yeah this show is doing a really good job of portraying mob characters as being humans. Also I was really, really disappointed when Frankie actually fired Christina. Goddamn, Katrina Cunningham is a very attractive lady 
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It's not even that the mob guys are good dudes or particularly lovable, they just function in a way that feels much less sensational than most mob stuff. They are dirt bags, but they aren't complete psychos.
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We’ve all probably seen it a million times since we were kids, but behold Candy’s inspiration: Red Hot Riding Hood
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Professor Shark posted:Yeah this show is doing a really good job of portraying mob characters as being humans. My friend keeps referring to Christina as "thicc Kate McKinnon" and now it's all I can think of when I see her. That being said, when she took her "grandma" coat is one of the few times I've ever uttered "drat, girl." I also wonder if we're going to see the AIDS plot come not from Paul and his partner but instead from the closeted city worker and his wife.
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veni veni veni posted:It's not even that the mob guys are good dudes or particularly lovable, they just function in a way that feels much less sensational than most mob stuff. They are dirt bags, but they aren't complete psychos. Let's not forget that the mob has already burned one woman to death in this show though.
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Professor Shark posted:Yeah this show is doing a really good job of portraying mob characters as being humans. Remember Bey and his fishies? Orange Devil posted:Let's not forget that the mob has already burned one woman to death in this show though. Remember Bey and the strippers?
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Mob violence seems to be ramping up. I wonder who Vincent pissed off
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Part of me wondered if it was Rudy himself doing it as a warning over Vincent wanting to get out but uhhh... unless there was MASSIVE miscommunication no way in hell would he be anywhere near Vincent when that goes down. Also thought it was an interesting parallel to earlier in the episode where Vincent warned Abby about being extra alert with the company she keeps. He should start following his own advice.
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Professor Shark posted:Mob violence seems to be ramping up. I wonder who Vincent pissed off Nobody, probably. I assume somebody's just trying to hit Rudy's organization in retaliation for the parlors and Vince is low enough on the totem pole to be fair game (where going after Rudy or Tommy would bring the full force of the family down in retaliation.)
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Maybe they thought they were taking aim at Frankie.
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JethroMcB posted:Maybe they thought they were taking aim at Frankie. Honestly that's where my mind went to first, but Frank was in this episode for all of 30 seconds. Seeing Vince work the bar was pretty nice  It's too bad he's in too deep.
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Straight White Shark posted:Nobody, probably. I assume somebody's just trying to hit Rudy's organization in retaliation for the parlors and Vince is low enough on the totem pole to be fair game (where going after Rudy or Tommy would bring the full force of the family down in retaliation.) This is basically what they said in the post show. Went after Vince for the parlors but got unlucky with Rudy being there.
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Is Michael Gandolfini's terrible posture part of his character?
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I'm still on last week's but god i died at the right shoe truck, haven't laughed that hard at a line delivery since BSG's paper shortage
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