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I called Ed being God's angel in FAM ages ago. They could've gone for it this season already with Karen, but so far nothing. 2 episodes left though!
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Jan 1, 2024 07:57
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Have you tried Orville? I'm curious how that shapes the Seth opinion, for better or worse
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Jan 14, 2024 00:02
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I find it funny, if we're talking about teevee shows timing themselves, that SVU  starts out with detective Munch ( ) waiting on a fax from Jersey or some poo poo, to the cops eventually gleefully photographing crime scenes on their smart phones. Of course there's the darker side to this, what with how Liv banters about transsexuals across the seasons, and I suppose how Elliot gleefully beats on every suspect but I find this part hard to take not as a comedy.
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Jan 17, 2024 01:15
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Azhais posted:Bring back Kings 
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Jan 18, 2024 07:29
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Because gently caress you that's why TV isn't made to be watched anymore 
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Jan 25, 2024 15:09
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Fictional depictions of scientists tend to be... Well, very fictional, but honestly that is a good thing because the actual work is about as dry as you'd expect. It's nice when they get scientific stuff at least close to the ballpark, like on crime shows sometimes, and if it's just absolute technobabble that's fine too, it moves the character drama along. I don't imagine actual lawyering is like the antics on Boston Legal, and frankly if real MD's live like the people on Grey's I feel sorry for 'em  I choose to imagine that actual policemen in the US are an amalgam of Elliot Stabler and Tom Selleck's moustache, however!
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Jan 28, 2024 16:56
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Chairman Capone posted:As a history professor, I honestly can't think of a single fictional depiction of my profession at all, accurate or not. It's a movie, but The Man from Earth. Though it doesn't really put the profs in a professional setting, as it were.
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Jan 28, 2024 23:17
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Chubby Henparty posted:Also a big fan. Never dared to watch the sequel, any good? It's... Well, it's not. It changes genres and it's just a different type of story. Would not recommend
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Jan 28, 2024 23:39
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IRQ posted:Dr. Daniel Jackson had like 3 movies and a whole tv show. He also famously flamed out with "ancient alien"  theories long before reaching tenure
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Jan 29, 2024 01:17
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah, and I repeat: "HBO No." I think Oz was a great show, but was it really queer-positive?
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Feb 2, 2024 22:28
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Open Source Idiom posted:That wasn't my original argument but tbh sure, in that it was a significant show with a bi male lead. That was ground breaking in and of itself, but you also have a number of queer supporting cast members and stories that frequently acknowledged situational sexuality among men. You ended up with a show that depicted a wide ranging set of experiences among same sex attracted men. I'd say all of that was a net positive and still fundamentally progressive. Who was the male lead? Even if we discount the child-mutilation bits of Beecher's story-line, it was very much played as a wretched story of rape by Schillinger and the threat of Adebisi doing the same. And Beecher literally took a poo poo on someone, because they were violated and disturbed. Beecher also had a sordid love affair with Elliot of SVU, and that went sour fast too, since it was a nazi ploy. That show had a lot to say, for sure, but it definitely meant among other things to say that male on male sexual intercourse was bad (rape) or lead to horrible things (Beecher and Elliot).
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Feb 3, 2024 00:11
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Open Source Idiom posted:I think we're gonna have to agree to disagree. It's a good show all the same 
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Feb 3, 2024 00:30
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WAAAAALT
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Feb 3, 2024 08:52
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feedmyleg posted:Other than Perry Mason, Babylon Berlin, and True Detective Season 4, what other solid serialized detective/neo noir shows are worth checking out from the past, say, 5 years? Bosch There's a lot of it, but each season is its own story, and Harry really cares
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Feb 3, 2024 23:13
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Someone was watching the Ash show, and somehow I wound up watching From Dusk Til Dawn, and they just had a very mean scene where someone's eyeballs burst into someone's mouth It's almost as if the Raimi brothers had a thing going on
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Feb 4, 2024 00:07
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Oasx posted:I really can’t stand him half the time, but funnily enough it’s because he cares so much that he often turns into a bit of a selfish rear end in a top hat. It kind of makes sense how he is with Maddie, but he definitely suffers from Main Character Syndrome
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Feb 4, 2024 16:35
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Fellas, I think the guy who is literally named after an avatar of evil might not have the best intentions
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Feb 5, 2024 23:18
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I trust anyone who enjoys Boston Legal, but still
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Feb 5, 2024 23:22
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David Suchet is the only Poirot
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Feb 6, 2024 05:18
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thrawn527 posted:I read the book, but didn't the show go into it actually being an alternate timeline? Like, I watched the first episode, and it ended with them watching a film of the Americans winning the war. And I heard it got more into stuff like that after that. That kinda turned me off the show, for some reason. Not in a "But the book didn't do that!" way, more in a, "I'm not here for a multiverse story" way. I just wanted an alt history show. Hello, I am the person who just recently watched it and got a new appreciation for it because it leans into the "traveller" aspect so early. They clearly wanted to tell a story about that, and the trade minister visiting a world with his son, it was very moving. Gosh, it was such a fun show, with so many people in who were absolutely monsters.
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Feb 7, 2024 00:24
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Hey, if it works, it works. I would watch Hugh Laurie read the instruction manual to Mechwarrior 2.
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Feb 10, 2024 04:10
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Are we allowed to say it's good to have physical media of poo poo you care about?
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Feb 13, 2024 12:34
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Shoot, not the Mormons 
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Feb 13, 2024 12:39
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Jerusalem posted:I was bewildered reading the synopsis of the Left Behind books in this thread and reading multiple posts about the non-Christians living in a utopia where there is no hunger or war or need and then that these were the... bad guys? User nickname-post combo I grew up in a non-believing household, so I wasn't exposed to a lot of crazy Christian media as a kid, but there was that show "Touched by an Angel" or something?, and I'm sure that'd be extremely hosed up to watch now.
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Feb 13, 2024 23:53
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So what you're saying is, you'd be an above-average CEO
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Feb 17, 2024 02:29
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DogsInSpace! posted:Wow. Another fan. I still have the dvds I bought in high school in 2004 and rewatch them now and then. Really good show for the exact reasons you mentioned. Well done show that nobody remembers but maybe you and I. I have a soft spot for SyFy Dune, too. Chani asking Paul to tell her about the waters of his homeland is an intrusive thought to this day.
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Feb 24, 2024 08:11
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If we believe in Wikipedia, Childhood's End was indeed the last SyFy mini. It's also dang good, I think I watched it after someone here recommended it.
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Feb 24, 2024 16:15
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Games Radar dot com has some comments from the makers of the up-coming Fallout teevee show:Total Film posted:The Fallout TV show isn't going to be a mere adaptation of the beloved post-apocalyptic video game series. Instead, the Prime Video series - which stars Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins - is going to have its own canonical space in the nuclear wasteland, a freeing choice that has led executive producer Jonathan Nolan to say the project is "almost like we're Fallout 5".
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Mar 1, 2024 18:21
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I haven't played 3, but the main plot for 4 sucked and blew, so I'm glad they're doing something original. It could also be awful, but there's a chance it won't be? And Kyle MacLachlan is always a good time.
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Mar 1, 2024 18:34
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I tried to use the search function on this thread, but it said no one had mentioned that they're making a Netflix sequel to Beverly Hills Cop? I saw Kevin Bacon and Paul Reiser in there!
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Mar 13, 2024 16:45
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Hmm, that's a good point
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Mar 13, 2024 16:50
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Khanstant posted:I finally watched that recently for the first time, and added rich context to a line I've been repeating often in whatever context involving eyes or going places. I always thought maybe it was a kind of chill experience, top down in a car road trip on acid kind of vibe, an invitation to a weird and chill psychadelic time where you don't need to use your eyes to see interesting things. For more unchill adventures of Jurassic Park guy, check out the movie In the Mouth of Madness  For a chill movie with Jurassic Park guy, check out The Dish
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Mar 13, 2024 21:32
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How many cast members have Lego figurines made out of 'em? Jurassic Park guy does, at least. Although Lego figurines would go over the 10 buck budget already!
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Mar 13, 2024 22:00
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Hmm, I really should watch Wolf again Oh, wait, friendly 
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Mar 15, 2024 15:56
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Nichael posted:It's funny, but yes, RBW does have a similar insane energy. Bring back Raised by Wolves, for gently caress sake. Sol will deliver, friend 
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Mar 28, 2024 16:13
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The magical friend in Happy! is a unicorn, friend
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Apr 3, 2024 14:36
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Trip report: I binged Parasyte over the weekend, and it was pretty nice. I liked the main characters, and aside from the insane body horror monsters it's a workable "no one can trust anyone and drama ensues" romp. Probably won't need to watch again, but I thought it pulled off what it seemed to want to accomplish. Seriously though if you're squeamish, the monsters might be a bit much
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Apr 8, 2024 11:28
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Jerusalem posted:Accept and then watch NOTHING but 24 hour looping seasons of Raised by Wolves. If it's just a watch, maybe they could leave the watch in a room with the 24/7-loop? Does it need to feel a heartbeat to register a viewer? This all sounds very cyberpunk dystopia, not gonna lie
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Apr 13, 2024 00:50
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Mordiceius posted:Hear me out.... I wonder if TV studios still have loads of old Nazi costumes and props laying around, apparently this was partly what prompted the Nazi Star Trek episode? Although I remember reading that they burnt all the Nazi costumes and props after The Man in the High Castle wrapped, so maybe not But yeah anyway, bring B.J. Blazkowicz to teevee, with an option to produce the obligatory Commander Keen and DooM sequel series 
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Apr 15, 2024 02:56
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counterfeitsaint posted:Are you not familiar with goons? I often avoid show threads if the show is based on a book that I haven't read yet, because it's impossible for some goons to not constantly drop a bunch of super obvious nudge-nudge wink-wink spoilers regardless of any rules. You can either constantly report them and listen to them endlessly whine about how everyone's a huge baby snowflake over spoilers, or just accept that you're going to know how the entire show will end by page 5 at the latest. For what it's worth, I think the no-spoilers containment thread worked pretty well for the new dragons and incest show, although admittedly I'm not that invested in GRRM lore so I wouldn't have been irritated by accidental wink wink nudges revealing something. I liked that Fallout dropped all at once since I did have time to just sit down for 8 hours with it, but right now the thread for the show is a horrible REDACTED mess that's barely readable and I'm afraid to post there since, as you say, there is a huge amount of source material and it's impossible to know what could be a future spoiler  Conversely, I watched the first episode of Shogun when it dropped and decided to wait until it's done to binge it, since I know I would go nuts with weekly cliff-hangers in a show like that.
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Apr 17, 2024 04:06
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