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https://deadline.com/2023/12/sherlock-steven-moffat-wants-write-british-version-the-west-wing-1235683967/ Moffat
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Chubby Henparty posted:Wasn't he the Good One that was going to save Dr Who after Davies? He ran a ship of variable quality, but he's definitely only declined since then -- Sherlock, Dracula, Inside Man...
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Jan 1, 2024 09:03
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Escobarbarian posted:- True Detective: Night Country (Jan 14) These all look awesome. Though lol at HBO Disco, having identified "True Detective" as a high awareness brand that fits their seriesdom-for-him rebranding strategy, just randomly shoving the True Detective name onto a completely unrelated show with no-one from the original involved. And also that True Detective: Green Lantern show. I'll be there for the winter photography though ngl. Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Black Sails answers the question: “what if GoT’s writers cared about their show?” Some of the action in the final two seasons is Banshee tier.
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Jan 1, 2024 10:22
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Chairman Capone posted:I'll go to bat for this just for saying that True Detective Season 4 was in development (even if very early stages) prior to the merger, and it's not like the previous seasons had any sort of connectivity at all. I think the only example was the brief mention of the season 1 events in a single scene of season 3, which was all just a red herring anyways. Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to it -- some of that photography looks sick as. That said, I think there was slightly more narrative connectivity between seasons than you're making out. However, my point was more that there's no production crew in common. The first three seasons were all developed and written by Nic Pizzaman, but this fourth season is just the show using his title. So it's probably best approached as a completely new show, you know?
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Jan 2, 2024 07:57
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fyallm posted:Is there a MAFS (married at first sight) thread? Naur
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Jan 4, 2024 04:43
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TV Cancellations: Minx (Starz) American Born Chinese (D+)
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Jan 6, 2024 02:30
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Gripweed posted:If it was that bad it's no wondering they're cancelling it I give this joke an D-
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Jan 6, 2024 02:44
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GreenNight posted:Right, except you don't need an antenna or pay for cable. Just, you know, Internet. I think the main difference between television and FAST is that several jerks got paid to come up with an acronym.
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Jan 6, 2024 03:02
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GreenNight posted:And apparently you also need internet! Gotta get specific. I mean, like, you need decent high speed internet that doesn't experience a lot of interruptions and isn't capped. So that's premium internet, and not just what you'd need to send messages and pay the bills etc. Plus it's an ongoing cost -- so, similar to cable in that sense, or perhaps UK television with its license fees, but different to linear television in that you don't just install a television aerial and buy a screen.
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Jan 6, 2024 03:46
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My concern is that television is just too piecemeal to sit comfortably alongside films. But hey ho make the content grow.
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Jan 6, 2024 06:24
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Ahhhghh The Curse is so good. The last half of this episode went from hilarious to loving eerie in minutes. Escobarbarian posted:God, I’m gonna miss Minx. I liked that show a hell of a lot. American Born Chinese was super mid though so w/e So meant to reply to this earlier. Barbie was such a great character, and the second season gave her a really sweet, understated arc that I'm sad not to see continue. I'm very happy with the implications of where she ends up, though. Joyce and Doug are such trainwrecks that I'm ironically fine with how they ended up, too.
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Jan 6, 2024 08:19
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Minor Awards Gubbins: Blindspotting deserved that choreo win. Certainly over loving Grease, which was so so tacky. Disappointed that Dead Ringers didn't get that cinematography win. Lol at both The Last Of Us and Wednesday getting nominated for "Outstanding Contemporary Costume", and The Bear for any of its "Best Comedy" awards. Also the insanity of nominating Obi Wan for literally any editing award ever, let alone multiple ones.
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Jan 7, 2024 10:25
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The Bear and BEEF cleaning up those acting awards.
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Jan 8, 2024 03:29
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I've decided, based on nothing but a sheer suspicion of the wider world and a hardy love of undergraduate statistics, that test screening audiences are boring motherfuckers whose main job is to launder producer directives.
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Jan 9, 2024 14:56
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TV Stuff: CHAD SEASON TWO 19th JANUARY Trailers: 3 Body Problem (Game of Thrones dudes, Netflix) Sexy Beast (Paramount) Tokyo Vice Season Two (Max)
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Jan 10, 2024 00:38
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The Halt And Catch Fire opening credits are so good. Sucks that their show about about a mental health facility, Rainy Day People, never got picked up to series.
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Jan 10, 2024 13:00
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Wouldn't normally do something as cringe as post an IMDB slide collection, but this list of character actors is mostly really good. With the usual caveat that it's weighted for recency and US biases. So no Dorothy Atkinson or Tom Bell or Asher Keddie, the monsters. There are a few glaring exceptions (Scoot McNairy, Damon Herriman, Edie Falco -- pretty much anyone from The Wire or Deadwood), and if you had to go with someone who emerged recently, I have no idea why you would you pick Picard Jr. when Emma Corrin is right loving there... but it gets a lot of the big picks right IMO. Man, TV is such a good place for character actors. I could go on about them for literal hours.  Edit: Speaking of excellent character actors, Disco Max just stuck a fork in Sarah Lancashire's show Julia. Gotta save up that money, buying Paramount isn't gonna be cheap, don't wanna end up in debt and have to kill a bunch of shows, that would be bad Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Jan 11, 2024 |
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Jan 11, 2024 02:48
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You joke, but that's not entirely wrong. Charcter actors tend to be known for their ability to play characters rather than bringing a specific matinee quality to their performance. As such they're not A list (so Meryl Streep wouldn't qualify) they tend to specialise in playing a wide variety of different types -- particularly grotesques or eccentrics -- and often have specific "looks". A "characterful" actor is usually synonymous with uhhh "unattractive" -- though obviously still good looking enough to be on TV AKA probably still quite an attractive person. Hollywood just has fuckrd standards. The exact opposite of The Rock.
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Jan 11, 2024 04:11
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Looten Plunder posted:Isn't this every TV actor though? The only household names on TV are movie A-Listers that make the jump. Well no, I'd probably say not. There are plenty of actors who've made a career basically playing people not too distant from themselves. Which isn't to denigrate their ability, acting is hard and what they're doing is just different. Less technically demanding, perhaps, but still hard work. But you wouldn't call -- picking two random names out of a hat -- Jared Padelecki or Tamlyn Tomita particularly characterful. It's a recognised term, you can just google it.
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Jan 11, 2024 09:46
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Cojawfee posted:Hey, maybe spoiler stuff for something that just aired. This is the general thread, not the monarch thread. I agree on principle, but in this case this is information that's literally the first scene of episode one. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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Jan 12, 2024 04:16
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muscles like this! posted:I have a problem with remembering names and if someone just says a name once I simply cannot remember it. It comes from an old job where I listened to hundred of thousands of names so my brain just automatically dumps them unless I hear them multiple times. Yeah nah this is a real problem i have both in person and with shows. I'm great with faces and facts, but names just slide off me unless I make a concerted effort to do little lists and stuff. Plus this trend towards short seasons with ensemble casts (all the better to market for). That's probably why I know so many actor names. It's just easier.
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Jan 12, 2024 05:46
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The new season of True Detective is six episodes long. ooft
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Jan 13, 2024 00:52
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More cost cutting at Castle Zaslav. Ten episode seasons are becoming eight (The Last Of Us, House Of The Dragon), and eight episode seasons are now becoming six.
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Jan 13, 2024 00:57
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I enjoyed it, but it's less lurid and was spending a whole while to get where it was going. Actually unnerving at times though, which isn't something you'd accuse the show of being.GreenNight posted:Speaking of which how was the new 5 episode season of American Horror Story? To be fair that was half a season because of the strikes, same as Chucky Season Three.
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Jan 13, 2024 04:01
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GreenNight posted:Does it have an end or...? Naur
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Jan 13, 2024 04:16
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"Everything you're feeling is normal." Lmfao
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Jan 13, 2024 09:43
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I was reminded of this by the new season of True Detective, but if anyone's looking for a really cool chilly show featuring horror elements and mysterious murder then you've got to check out Fortitude. A wild show made by Sky, featuring Stanley Tucci, Michael Gambon (RIP), Christopher Eccleston, Dennis Quaid, Sophie Grabol (The Killing) and a lot of gorgeous winter photography. Three seasons, and the second/third seasons take some cool shifts in genre as the town slowly slips into mass psychosis and eventually irreparably collapses. Really great thriller stuff, often very funny, quite gory, really great fight choreography... it's just a perfect weirdo show that shifts genre in really cool ways. The bit in the second season where the Mayor travels to the Russian mining villiage is just a perfect bit of paranoid horror, it's really stuck with me.
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Jan 15, 2024 12:48
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Lol how did we end up with two Night Country threads
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Jan 16, 2024 01:56
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Gripweed posted:It’s a lovely bit. It’s too obvious, you need people to at least not be sure whether or not you’re genuine. It also doesn’t give you anywhere to go, it’s not a bit you can build on. Actually, this is a lovely bit.
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Jan 16, 2024 04:11
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1glitch0 posted:And Paul Walter Hauser Well deserved win for Black Bird IMO.
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Jan 16, 2024 05:26
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I've tried Seinfeld a few times and I don't know if it's for me. It's like Friends, the stuff they're laughing about just isn't that funny to me. I really liked Maude though, if we're talking about older sitcoms. Plenty of zoomers love Seinfeld, I think the difficulty in cultural translation is somewhat overstated. Honestly, the old show I've always struggled the most with "getting" is The Sopranos, though some of that is being completely unfamiliar with an Italian American context and largely unfamiliar with mob films.
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Jan 17, 2024 05:54
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https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/amazon-wonder-project-faith-based-films-shows-house-of-david-1235875596/ Lol okay Amazon, keep flailing.
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Jan 18, 2024 04:07
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The ending to Boy Swallows Universe made an abrupt turn into being a Batman story, which is not what I expected out of a Tim Winton pastiche
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Jan 18, 2024 06:12
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Rap Sh!t cancelled over on Max.
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Jan 19, 2024 05:20
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Chad lives!!!!!!! I don't even care if it's good or not anymore lmfao I'm gonna fucken watch that poo poo Edit: loving perfect pagesnipe loving yes lets go chad Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 10:37 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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Jan 19, 2024 10:33
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LifeLynx posted:Everything about that show screamed Boomer Bait and I don't know how goons got themselves into it. Is it because man comically big? The average goon age is at least forty something.
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Jan 20, 2024 05:38
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It's a very random show with a very solid premise. Any season has something of value, and IMO each season has at least one all timer.
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Jan 20, 2024 14:30
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Ooft. Showtime's divested itself of another show, with the Andrew Scott Talented Mister Ripley adaptation now going to Netflix. Cute that they got John Malkovitch, and it looks gorgeous.
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Jan 22, 2024 16:33
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Death And Other Details Is it just me or is it really really obvious that Patinkin is dirty af? I'm guessing that he's a bit of a fake out and that Rahul Khouli is probably actually the second lead here. Also the show's just throwing a whole bunch of things in during quick cuts and not explaining them, right? Or did I miss what was going on with the split joker, the thing on the ceiling, Jere Burns being locked in a cupboard, etc. (please bear in mind that I am very tired) Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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Jan 23, 2024 17:39
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X-O posted:The rumor going around a month or so ago was that they had creative differences because Netflix wanted it pretty much as close to the original as possible and that they wanted to shake some of it up so as not to full on repeat themselves. Which I understand both sides if that's the case. I'm sure the creators don't want to just redo everything they've already done and Netflix has had a number of flops where they've tried to adapt properties and have changed some part of the story at the core that the fans liked. It's clear they're dumping a ton of money on this so I'm sure they want it to not be money wasted. Isn't this the exact opposite of the rumour that came out when they first split? IiRC the creators wanted something more authentic and Netflix wanted something more algorithm driven. Given this happened back in 2020, so before Cowboy Bebop came out in 2021, I don't think this lines up. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Jan 24, 2024 |
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