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Gonz posted:Happy 2024, everybody! Everybody make this their New Year's Resolution, we can brute-force reality just this one time a year!
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Jan 1, 2024 05:52
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Meghan Markle strikes again 
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Jan 1, 2024 06:42
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Moffat's run on Doctor Who was really loving good and ended strong, and it only looks better in retrospect after the bland mess that was Chris Chibnall's run that followed. That said, apart from the first two seasons of Sherlock, everything else he's touched since then has been progressively worse and got so bad that I never bothered with the one with the Hannibal Lecter rip-off (I think that was the premise?) that I believe was his last series? The final episode of Sherlock was atrociously bad but even that was nothing compared to how terrible his and Mark Gatiss's Dracula series turned out to be.
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Jan 1, 2024 12:12
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Chairman Capone posted:I remember really loving the first two seasons of Sherlock but kind of reluctant to go back and watch them now as I suspect they might not be as good as I remember. In retrospect Dracula coming out the first day of 2020 was a sign of the year to come. Yeah, every so often I think it might be fun to rewatch the first two and then get concerned that maybe all the flaws the initial newness (and Cumberbatch and Freeman's chemistry) papered over will be far too apparent. At least I'll always have my precious Jeremy Brett boxset!  socialsecurity posted:Oh no Dracula figured out our wifi password (it was Dracula) and got online with the tablet we gave him for reasons... He now has a lawyer and we a shadow government agency have no choice but to release him immediately. I was already extremely negative on the show but when they got to that part I just threw up my arms and decided to just treat the entire thing as a comedy. Just unfathomably awful.
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Jan 2, 2024 02:42
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Best news of the year. Apparently Oldman is down to do 8 seasons (there are 8 books, if I understand correctly) which is just fantastic.
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Jan 3, 2024 10:03
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People have explained FAST to me before and the distinction, but I still can't grasp how "FAST" isn't just.... regular television. It's a channel that shows TV programs with ads. That's... that's just regular television! 
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Jan 6, 2024 02:54
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GreenNight posted:Right, except you don't need an antenna or pay for cable. So the only distinction is that it's regular television but you don't need an antenna!
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Jan 6, 2024 03:08
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Oasx posted:For a second I thought something fun was going to happen on this episode of Monarch, but I was wrong. I gave up on watching the show just before Christmas and it sounds like I made the right choice 
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Jan 7, 2024 02:00
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Chairman Capone posted:I always heard Yellowstone described as being about the Bundys but how the Bundys see themselves. Had a brief but beautiful moment where I thought this was about Married with Children 
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Jan 7, 2024 03:07
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One part that always stands out to me in Casino Royale (a movie I love, yeah) is during the chase at the start of the film when they move through the construction site and the one worker there apparently figures some dude running through the site is a bad enough infraction that he's gotta swing a blowtorch at him in an effort to maim or possibly kill him 
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Jan 8, 2024 20:35
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zoux posted:Outstanding in Justified, I was disappointed she ended up on Last Man Standing Oh man, she was the young girl who ends up being taken under the wing of beloved character actor Margo Martindale? Yeah, she was awesome in Justified, I had no idea she ended up going to Tim Allen jail
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Jan 10, 2024 00:47
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Data Graham posted:Margo Martindale Think of all the extra work she could have gotten if she hadn't wasted so much time adding oil to her pasta when she was cooking.... 
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Jan 11, 2024 15:33
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I AM GRANDO posted:If I like True Detective, will I like Mare of Easttown? Very impressed with the proper Philly accents and the script/direction where multiple characters go out of their way to say “wah-dur” and show it off. I really dug Mare of Easttown, thought it was a really strong show and that Kate Winslett in particular was excellent. I wouldn't liken it to True Detective though, if anything I felt this was the American adaptation of Broadchurch that should have been made instead of Gracepoint.
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Jan 16, 2024 03:52
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I really dug the way Seinfeld episodes would always manage to tie together each of the individual character's mad little adventures so they'd end up intersecting or butting heads, no matter how far apart they might initially seem from the other. That's pretty old hat now, and obviously Larry David has further perfected it (and most of his Seinfeld humor) in Curb Your Enthusiasm, but I was used to sitcoms at the time having an A Plot and a B plot that didn't necessarily have to connect to each other before everything wrapped up in time for the final gag.
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Jan 17, 2024 05:06
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I did love that despite Jerry being a very successful comedian in the show and actually making a lot of money, every time he mentioned that characters would respond with disbelief because they'd seen his act and thought there was no way he could be making a proper living out of it. There's a whole storyline about his parents being kicked out of their condo unit in Florida because Jerry buys his dad a nice car and everybody assumes his dad must be embezzling money and using Jerry to launder it because "we've seen Jerry's act".
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Jan 17, 2024 16:10
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They (somehow, against all reason and logic) got One Piece right, and that's what really matters 
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Jan 24, 2024 05:45
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He directed the pilot to Supernatural, poor guy must have been devastated when it ended with season 5.
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Jan 25, 2024 11:52
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mystes posted:Someone should create an honorary award in memory of someone where that person gets the award every year I wonder who won the Second Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence?
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Jan 26, 2024 23:08
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I love River Cartwright so much, he's fully convinced he is the main star of a spy action movie and does just the stupidest loving poo poo all the time and seems so confused when he isn't rewarded for it 
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Jan 30, 2024 03:48
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I'll take every tenuous excuse I can find to post this every time Community and the Dean come up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ2TC8duaoE
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Feb 2, 2024 11:47
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The fact he came up with the cheap gimmick himself somehow makes it even better. One of my favorite Arrested Development scenes is the Burger King one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Y333JkwXQ The narrator's final line is 
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Feb 3, 2024 14:31
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Stegosnaurlax posted:Why can't Hercule Poirot still be the standard, he bloody earned it. Unfortunately that awful Kenneth Branagh adaptation is probably the most recent exposure people have to Poirot (I haven't seen the sequel, but it looked even worse). They should be teaching the David Suchet version in schools, dagnabbit!
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Feb 6, 2024 05:09
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muscles like this! posted:Lol, I didn't think I could like Pedro Pascal more. It's nice that they paused the documentation in their lawsuit to just spend five pages showing demonstrations of why Pedro Pascal loving rules.
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Feb 7, 2024 04:24
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There's already a third season of The Terror but for some reason they called it True Detective Season 4.
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Feb 7, 2024 04:33
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Just wait 20 years and watch it then, problem solved forever!
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Feb 7, 2024 04:41
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Chubby Henparty posted:Fatherland got its 90s tv movie with Rutger Hauer, that was like the key alt history thing of its time Oh man, yeah I really dug that film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7SWQgNaJf8
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Feb 7, 2024 07:17
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Only seen the first episode of Mr. and Mrs. Smith so far, but I love how their discussions with each other serve both as mild flirting and attempts to get info out of each other, but when seen from a distance would make them look exactly like what they're supposed to be: a couple. Also the payoff of them delivering the package and walking out of the house was
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Feb 7, 2024 11:41
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You did one better than me, I found out it was back on by reading your post!
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Feb 11, 2024 10:33
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Episode 4 of Mr. and Mrs. Smith with them meeting the other Smiths and thinking they were the coolest people on the planet before the eventual realization that they're loving awful people and they hate them was absolutely fantastic. The ending where they take such huge relief in both agreeing on that and just having a blast making fun of them was just lovely.
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Feb 13, 2024 10:40
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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?
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Feb 13, 2024 23:50
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The one Jesus dropping something into the pool but he can't get in to retrieve it because he walks on water
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Feb 14, 2024 02:32
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American Gods had a lot of fun with making very literal interpretations of the various different human perspectives of Jesus, including one that was a gun-toting, immigrant hating and very white American male Jesus. Similarly the Jesus who can't get past the water is the perspective of the meek, friendly and acommodating to a fault Jesus who loves everybody unconditionally and feels deep sorrow for any travails they might be facing. They're all at a big Easter party for the old God of Spring/Renewal, and Odin shits in the punch bowl by pointing out to her that everybody associates Easter with Jesus now and not her, because the Catholic Church co-opted the old pagan traditions for themselves. Friendly Jesus hears this and immediately apologizes to her for it 
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Feb 14, 2024 02:59
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There's an old renaissance painting I can't remember the name of, set after the second coming, and there's this wonderful little bit in the corner with some skeletons all queued up and shooting the poo poo while they wait to get their organs, muscles and skin back while Jesus is doing paperwork
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Feb 14, 2024 04:49
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Ron Perlman as the world's biggest moody tween in Mr. & Mrs Smith was amazing, haha.
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Feb 14, 2024 07:25
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Bright Bart posted:72 years old! "...I think I threw up..."
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Feb 14, 2024 07:38
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Does one of them do Star Trek? They better not gently caress with Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks If neither of them do Star Trek, well whatever company does better not gently caress with Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks!
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Feb 16, 2024 23:26
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Chairman Capone posted:Paramount's already having huge layoffs, I think the writing is on the walls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wahLIbwZTLQ&t=23s Fire a CEO instead of loving with good shows
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Feb 17, 2024 00:54
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muscles like this! posted:Uh, I don't think you understand. A CEO is a blameless creature who deserves to paid millions upon millions of dollars even if they drive the company into the ground and ruin everything about it. How else would a company be able to attract top talent? To be fair, this is the level of my financial intelligence: https://i.imgur.com/YK1yNzK.mp4
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Feb 17, 2024 01:19
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CeeJee posted:events that happens are in John Wick land, movies that know exactly what they are. I think it's the last John Wick film where they're having this gigantic loving shootout on a roundabout with multiple people dead, gunfire everywhere, cars and motorcycles flipping through the air, and the regular traffic is just tootling through like,"Yep, that's a Thursday evening for ya!  "
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Feb 17, 2024 10:23
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Medullah posted:I've been rewatching Breaking Bad for the first time in a few years and man, I still love the show but I'm starting to realize that I think Better Call Saul is a better show. It makes you an accurate person. Better Call Saul is incredible.
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Feb 18, 2024 01:22
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