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Take It Sleazy
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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halt and catch fire is almost a parody of the modern "prestige drama"
like it may just be a case of pilot-itis but right now there is zero subtext and everyone is just saying the themes out loud
Also Toby Huss is on this show literally doing his Cotton Hill voice which is absurd
looks real nice though
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Ni Go Zero Ichi
Joined: 10 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 7:36 am |
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This week on Game of Thrones: bad things happen to good people, good things happen to bad people, and people who were previously not bad become so because that is how you get good things to happen to you in the GRR Martinverse, by being bad.
I like the show and everything, but seriously, all the grimdark edgy shit is really starting to feel forced. From what I hear the books are even worse.
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Take It Sleazy
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 2:57 pm |
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| The Silicon Valley finale had a virtuoso level dick joke that was a Prime Mike Judge Moment |
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Ni Go Zero Ichi
Joined: 10 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 3:54 pm |
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Silicon Valley has been pretty good but my techie friend refuses to watch it because he thinks it's offensive to techies.
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gary oldman dwarfism
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| I only saw the first and last episodes, but after the finale I think I'll probably go back and watch the rest. Twelve minutes of dick joke! ! ! Also I just liked seeing the bizarre little ecosystem they sketched out in the pilot. |
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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Kabbage
Joined: 19 Jan 2009
Location: Boston, MA
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 10:13 pm |
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Defiance is actually getting pretty dang good. Thought the first ep was god-awful, but it's very steadily become something fun and interesting.
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evnvnv
hapax legomenon
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: the los angeles
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2014 2:01 am |
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Just f everybody's i, lots of older hbo shows are now on Amazon Prime streaming
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evnvnv
hapax legomenon
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: the los angeles
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 8:19 pm |
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| evnvnv wrote: |
| Just f everybody's i, lots of older hbo shows are now on Amazon Prime streaming |
Update: Pretty sure Eastbound & Down is my Breaking Bad. This show is incredible in so many ways. I'm almost through with Season 2 and I'm pretty much convinced it's the best television show that has ever been made. It is just good in so many ways--it's hilariously written and every episode is full of so many great jokes that half of them just sort of slide right by, but it's also a really serious and depressing character study of a person who seems to be incapable of making a good decision. I've known a handful of people who, if not exactly like Kenny Powers, are exactly the sort of tragic assholes Kenny Powers is a caricature of. Sometimes this makes it difficult to watch, but I'm actually impressed someone has been able to characterize such a specific personality type so well. I haven't actually read A Confederacy of Dunces, but I feel like someone who had could make a pretty good comparison between the two. It's also impressive on a technical level, with good to excellent acting from everyone involved, amazing music, and cinematography / editing that seems to float between TV and film styles without being too flashy.
In particular, the scene in Season 2 where Kenny drunkenly stumbles onto the baseball field, gives birth to a soccer ball, and then pulls out a handgun and shoots it is eerily similar to situations I've been in with the "kenny powerses" of my life. By that I mean cases where someone is doing something that is seriously threatening and seriously not cool, yet they assure you that they are doing it as a joke and don't intend to hurt anyone (of course you don't believe them). Then the situation is somehow diffused and you are left not knowing if it was all planned this way from the beginning or if luck just happened to prevent anyone from getting seriously injured. Some how this leaves you both hating and in awe of the person responsible. It's the sort of tense situation I've never really seen depicted before and it was somehow really validating to see the same experiences filtered through someone else's eyes.
I guess the reason I'm so surprised by it is that I typically don't go for shows that are all about making you sympathize with horrible people. And I guess it also falls in this category of things that are probably pretty horrible for people who are only watching them at face value--hahaha Kenny Powers is a bad ass!!!! But to me the absurdity and the realistic elements are just so well executed and blended together that at times it even seems like it's meant to be read as a parody of the current "prestige drama" formula: The idea that in spite of everything he is still a kind of sympathetic character is actually part of why he will never fix his tragic situation, since the second he gets any kind of positive recognition he just completely implodes. It really is an amazing character.
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Take It Sleazy
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| Making 24 a 12 episode series was actually a great idea and like a decade and a half after this thing started this is somehow from a pure entertainment standpoint maybe the best overall season |
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Ronk
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Joined: 29 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 4:18 pm |
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i finally got around to watching Attack on Titan and man is that theme song ever stuck in my head.
i'm up to episode 13 and this is some gut-busting laugh out loud hilarious grim-dark melodrama with almost no subtext whatsoever, but i'm hooked.
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Ebrey
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:42 pm |
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| Take It Sleazy wrote: |
| Making 24 a 12 episode series was actually a great idea and like a decade and a half after this thing started this is somehow from a pure entertainment standpoint maybe the best overall season |
That's good to hear! I've been reading that Tyrant, the new show by the writers of 24and Homeland, is terrible, and also casts a white British dude to play the main Middle Eastern character. It's a serious bummer as I was really looking forward to that show. |
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Take It Sleazy
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| If you are going to watch one of those reality shows where rich people pretend to do a random series of activities you might as well watch the one with The Goodie Mob |
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evnvnv
hapax legomenon
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 3:03 pm |
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is Defiance good? i watched the first episode and the premise seems cool but on the fence about the characters and execution of the whole thing. does it get better?
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parker
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 4:20 am |
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24 was pretty good. they didn't go boneheaded plot twist or kill crazy and everyone actually acted fairly reasonably, even the weasely political guy wasn't really even unlikable. Really glad they didn't kill Jack's new serb murder friend. That character was the best part. Him, the new female jack bauer and cia agent chris partlow were all new characters that were actually likable. Would of been better if they were busting chloe out at the beginning cause they're outlaw pals though not just cause he needed her for his bullshit.
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Take It Sleazy
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 3:26 am |
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| Aaron macgruders new show black Jesus is made with mike clattenburg of trailer park boys and it is has everything this terrible season of boondocks didn't and more.its great |
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evnvnv
hapax legomenon
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 6:00 am |
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It turns out practically everything I liked about Enterprise was done better in Deep Space Nine. I'm about a quarter through the fourth season and it's really starting to grow on me.
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Brooks
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 10:26 am |
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| Take It Sleazy wrote: |
| Aaron macgruders new show black Jesus is made with mike clattenburg of trailer park boys and it is has everything this terrible season of boondocks didn't and more.its great |
I just saw a clip of this and now I will try to see more |
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Ronk
saucy Scott Pilgrim fanfic
Joined: 29 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 7:53 pm |
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| Brooks wrote: |
| Take It Sleazy wrote: |
| Aaron macgruders new show black Jesus is made with mike clattenburg of trailer park boys and it is has everything this terrible season of boondocks didn't and more.its great |
I just saw a clip of this and now I will try to see more |
i watched this and got some really strong TPB vibes from it. plus great use of charlie murphy. really good so far!
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Mr. Mechanical
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 8:01 pm |
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I saw Black Jesus this morning. Liked it a lot. There was a bit on the local news last night about some Christian fundamentalist group that was upset about it but because this is America and not Iran nobody cared.
Definitely going to watch more.
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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| It's too early for me to make a verdict on The Knick after one episode, but I will say that it cares about visual composition more than any other recent cable series and the Carpenter-esque synth score (unusual for a 1900 period piece) is phenomenal. |
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Ronnoc
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 3:41 am |
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| I thought Black Jesus was pretty cool and I am too much of a baby to handle The Knick's surgery scenes. I did like what I heard of the soundtrack. |
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parker
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 7:23 am |
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It's cliff martinez
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Ni Go Zero Ichi
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Ronnoc
Joined: 26 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 8:34 pm |
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Nah, it actually owns.
Though, if you think it's dumb wait until you hit that ending :3 |
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Ni Go Zero Ichi
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Vikram Ray
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 1:59 am |
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| Yeah, it was way overhyped and pretty dumb. Pizzolatto is a hack writer. |
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Ronnoc
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 2:51 am |
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I agree with this but also it still owns |
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Ni Go Zero Ichi
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 10:27 pm |
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I guess if you like it for the music and cinematography and production design we can still be friends
Absolutely agreed that Pizzolatto is a hack. The Ken Levine of television (Ken Levine being the Christopher Nolan of video games)
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Ni Go Zero Ichi
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 10:33 pm |
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In other news I finally started Deadwood last week and holy whoa that dialogue is some cocksuckin' motherfuckin' fine-ass dialogue
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Vikram Ray
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| oh yeah. my favorite show of all time. seen it multiple times. David Milch is a bonafide genius and that show is his masterpiece. don't expect an ending though. |
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notbov
Joined: 14 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 11:41 pm |
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oh neat, FXX is doing that full marathon of all The Simpsons and
wait, why did they crop it to 16:9
how do you take the trouble of taking early episodes and clearly sourcing film materials for the HD versions (which look nice, good god, you can see where the layers meet in the opening and cels floating on backgrounds) and then go "Let's obviously crop this instead of just pillarboxing this show that people will scrutinize like crazy, like sane people"
even watching casually, you can see that centering the image is destroying shots
bonus: the SD feed is a 4:3 version of the 16:9 HD broadcast, so it's pillar and letter boxed
good thing the show is still good
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Dark Age Iron Savior
king of finders
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 2:07 am |
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| evnvnv wrote: |
| is Defiance good? i watched the first episode and the premise seems cool but on the fence about the characters and execution of the whole thing. does it get better? |
it's not good by SB standards, but I find it pretty fun and it's certainly better than many other shows from the channel. It has some highlights and is a pretty decent take on alien/human mashups, way less uptight and dramatic than Babylon 5 but still with some interesting insight into how cultures adapt to each other. It has high points and low points and some cute touches that you won't get in other shows that try to be really serious about making a quality program. If you like it, you'll probably want more of this or that, but not feel dissatisfied when the show wanders off in some other direction.
It does one thing that nothing else has ever done for me, which is to have an Infinity Engine game* based on the franchise. There's just so much potentially rich world-building and fun stuff to write that you easily make a game where you wander around for hours just talking to characters and doing quests for them and seeing factions grind against each other. But I guess they made a (now free-to-play) shooter MMO instead. I haven't tried it (I've kind of sworn off all secondary media for TV shows).
I wouldn't say any given episode really "represents" the series as a whole, so maybe give it a couple chances to entertain you? Feel free to tell me if you feel otherwise.
*okay, more SB-reputable things like Fallout and Arcanum are kind of the same mold as I'm thinking, but I don't have the patience for choice and consequence any more |
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allensmithee
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:27 am |
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i just finished season 5 of the shield
its a long time since ive been so emotionally invested and thereby devastated by a show
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evnvnv
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 3:23 pm |
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Thanks DAIS! i decided to get through DS9 before starting another sci fi series, but after that I'll give it a shot
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Ni Go Zero Ichi
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 6:25 pm |
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Am I the only one here watching the Simpsons mega-marathon? I hadn't realized how many golden-age episodes I never saw as a kid
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This Machine Kills Fascis
Unfinite Indiscovery
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 10:41 pm |
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I don't have cable TV :(
And my only close friend who does is in California right now.
There was some discussion of trying to stream it at work, but on the only day the boss was out we were way too busy.
This is one of those times that I really wish I could just jaunt home and hang out with my brother for a week or something.
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misadventurous
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| Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 12:36 am |
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im not but i started to watch the series from the beginning (via torrent) like a week ago, which is weird timing!
by the time i was old enough to appreciate the simpsons it wasnt good anymore. i vaguely remember quite a few of the classic episodes but for all intents and purposes im seeing them for the first time.
its brilliant and i love it, of course.
i really dig the more down-to-earth, subdued tone of the early episodes even if they arent as funny as they got later. |
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parker
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| allensmithee wrote: |
i just finished season 5 of the shield
its a long time since ive been so emotionally invested and thereby devastated by a show |
I felt like seasons 4-7 could of been condensed down into like two and half seasons of material. But then it ends up doing the point of no return part of a crime noir thing way better than Breaking Bad did, so you win some you lose some.
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Hojulas
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| misadventurous wrote: |
| i really dig the more down-to-earth, subdued tone of the early episodes even if they arent as funny as they got later. |
That's one of the best things about the early seasons to me. Especially in retrospect given how ridiculous current day Simpsons has gotten, and especially since some things would be unheard of now, like an episode that involves the rest of the family embarrassing Homer would be kind of bizarre in today.
It also does a better job I think of just letting the kids be kids than they get to be now. |
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The King
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 9:02 am |
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An Idiot Abroad
Watched the first episode. The presenter's delivery of everyman jokes is really good. Meanwhile the subject selection and camera work does a great job of actually showing memorable aspects of the country. The show seems like it has a good production team.
Watched a season 3 episode;
Oh, this show fell apart. The first season is a cute travel show, but by the third season it's just trashy reality tv. They've given up both capturing the country and the humor, and replaced it with bickering over the setups.
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