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Solice Kirsk posted:Well its not a very good show. No, but it's like a car crash. Can't look away. How many more episodes are there? Can't have too much more to suffer through.
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It's not a great show but it isn't offensively bad. But still, at this point I'm only watching for the bloodbath that's going to happen aaaaany week now.
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Aug 13, 2014 07:22
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The actress that plays Molly is just awful. The character is very poorly written, but she just can't bring anything to it at all. She has the same wide eyed look on her face no matter what is going on. Can't wait for her and the family to disappear from the show.
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Aug 13, 2014 18:29
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Strabo4 posted:It's not a great show but it isn't offensively bad. But still, at this point I'm only watching for the bloodbath that's going to happen aaaaany week now. I guess I shouldn't have said "worst show I've ever seen" and instead gone with "the least fun show I have ever seen"
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Aug 13, 2014 20:55
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Solice Kirsk posted:The actress that plays Molly is just awful. The character is very poorly written, but she just can't bring anything to it at all. She has the same wide eyed look on her face no matter what is going on. Can't wait for her and the family to disappear from the show. Opened a bunch of tabs at once and thought this was the Star Trek thread :3
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Aug 13, 2014 22:28
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Wow, that last episode could have been interesting, but instead was just melodramatic trash. The real problem with this show is that the only character I like -- not just care about, but actually like -- is Jamal. Why the gently caress do I like Jamal? I should hate him, or at least be more disturbed by him. But compared to everyone else, he's the only real person we're looking at. Everyone else is a cardboard cutout, and their motivations are so obscure and/or ridiculous that they come off as just vile, repugnant people. Ashraf Barhom is way too good for this show, so good that its actually helping make the show worse. By giving his character depth and personality, when no other actor is doing the same (or can't, because of the writing), he comes off as the sympathetic character here surrounded by lovely, empty people. I actually felt bad for him in the last scene. Jake Armitage fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Aug 13, 2014 |
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Aug 13, 2014 22:41
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I realize they need to get Barry in charge soon, but the writers didn't do a credible job of getting him from "Get me out of here! I told you we shouldn't have come!" to "I think I'm gonna run this place."
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Aug 13, 2014 22:50
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Jake Armitage posted:Wow, that last episode could have been interesting, but instead was just melodramatic trash. Count me in as well. #TeamJamal
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Aug 14, 2014 01:22
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Dead Snoopy posted:Count me in as well. #TeamJamal I liked him before but I love him now after his David Lee Roth speech
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Aug 14, 2014 01:55
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I'm hoping for this takes a dark comic turn where there is constantly a failed coup attempt against Jamal but things gently caress up and Barry's family keeps getting hurt as a result, w/ Clouseau-esque accidents. #TeamJamal
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Aug 14, 2014 02:17
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TheAngryDrunk posted:I realize they need to get Barry in charge soon, but the writers didn't do a credible job of getting him from "Get me out of here! I told you we shouldn't have come!" to "I think I'm gonna run this place." The writers want to have all their super shocking, dramatic moments without actually earning any of them. Even putting aside all the terrible characters, writing, and acting, the entire premise doesn't really work without a ton of build-up and development. Having Barry and his family stuck into the government after one episode was an insane decision and everything since has just piled it on. This show is really bad. I don't know why I keep watching it.
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Aug 14, 2014 10:33
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Molly started working for the hospital after one scene and nobody even mentioned it. She didn't even catch a little bit of heat from the inner circle for helping a criminal.
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Aug 14, 2014 15:37
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I thought about that this last episode, brought it up to my roommates, and we all decided that the writers (like us) just didn't give a poo poo.
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Aug 14, 2014 15:41
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Jamal is definitely being portrayed by the best actor on the show. He's done some nasty poo poo, but you feel sorry for the guy because his father broke him and all he wants to do is go back to distant, happy memories of his childhood just fishing and playing soccer or spending days relaxing on beaches. I did like "With whose money?" near the end of the episode, though. gently caress that stupid character. Bassam's American family needs to be sent over to Chester's Mill. EDIT: I kind of missed it, but early on in the episode did Jamal tell Bassam that he was going to try and become a better person so that Bassam would never have to bail him out like he did with the Sheikh again? We're going to get a storyline where the coup starts happening while Jamal is trying to redeem himself, ending in tragedy. Some Pinko Commie fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Aug 14, 2014 |
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Aug 14, 2014 16:16
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I need to see a montage of the awful jogging scenes.
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Aug 18, 2014 02:59
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mcmagic posted:I need to see a montage of the awful jogging scenes. Sync them up to the awful jogging scenes in The Leftovers and House of Cards. It's a goddamn trend. It's like "hey we need 5 more minutes of material. Send the man actor and a cameraman jogging, SCENE"
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Aug 18, 2014 07:09
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Anyone still watching this?
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Aug 20, 2014 04:31
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Anyone still watching this? i watch but i'm a couple episodes behind because i watch it with my father after we have dinner on sundays. it's ok but i wouldn't miss it if it gets cancelled
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Aug 20, 2014 04:38
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Anyone still watching this? yes, only because the premise was soo good. It should have been a breaking bad slow burn where very very slowly Bashar Al-Assad (or rather bassam al fayeed) turns into the badguy. Instead we have a show with no subtlety and horrible characterizations. It still watch for the premise.
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Aug 20, 2014 05:22
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My roommates and I not quite hate watch it, but sort of dislike watch it. Every week we crack each other up by trying to guess the emotion the actress who plays Molly is trying to portray in each scene. I won this time with "heartbreaking realization."
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Aug 20, 2014 05:26
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If the show gets a second season, I hope his wife keeps her promise and never returns to the country with their awful kids and her awful sister. Just write their characters off the show entirely. Her naive idiocy about thinking she could just go back to her job in the States and live in her own home after the coup happened (regardless of whether it succeeded or not) was just the final straw. There is no excuse for writing her character to be quite that stupid. A potential second season needs to be all about President Bassam going full Scarface after he betrays his own family and learns how ruthless a person has to be to maintain a dictatorship, and wrestling with being forcibly turned into a total shitbag.
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Aug 20, 2014 05:31
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Yeah, the dumbass wife is just the worst character. She's the one that kept arguing with Bassam to stay and interfere with the country's politics, then gets upset when he actually does it?
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Aug 20, 2014 12:26
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Her whole character is simply written to be contradictory. She has no agency of her own. edit: Oh, and Jamal totally knows what Bassam is up to right? Thats why he keeps laying it on real thick talking about loyalty and family and doesn't mention Tarric's name when he says they have enemies in the palace. Would also explain why dude he shot was all nervous at the meeting. Solice Kirsk fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Aug 20, 2014 |
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Aug 20, 2014 13:58
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Jamal isn't a long con sort of guy. I doubt he could keep his poker face long enough to catch Barry
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Aug 21, 2014 00:17
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The actor for Jamal and the actress playing his wife are killing it, imo. It's such a contrast with Barry and Molly. I almost wish they weren't in the show and we could watch more of a political thriller than the whitewashed drama.
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Aug 21, 2014 01:07
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Anyone still watching this? i got about 5 minutes into last nights episode and then quit
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Aug 21, 2014 07:27
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If they had an at all good actor for Bassam the show would probably be ok, but the actor is just so boring. Jamal has the same writing but still manages to be interesting because his actor is pretty good.
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Aug 23, 2014 06:29
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:If they had an at all good actor for Bassam the show would probably be ok, but the actor is just so boring. Jamal has the same writing but still manages to be interesting because his actor is pretty good. I don't mind the actor, they've just been waiting way too long for his Michael Corleone turn.
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Aug 23, 2014 06:33
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:If they had an at all good actor for Bassam the show would probably be ok, but the actor is just so boring. Jamal has the same writing but still manages to be interesting because his actor is pretty good. As the coup is going down, I keep thinking that they cast Bassam based on what he was in America and not what they'd need him to be. Like, I'd believe this guy was a pediatrician. Over throwing his brother and becoming a dictator, not so much.
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Aug 23, 2014 17:00
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egoslicer posted:The actor for Jamal and the actress playing his wife are killing it I disagree. I think the actor playing Jamal has managed to hide a fairly wooden performance behind an accent, not to mention that playing a full-blown psychopath naturally means that his character displays a greater range of emotions than the rest of the cast.
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Aug 23, 2014 18:56
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Athenry posted:As the coup is going down, I keep thinking that they cast Bassam based on what he was in America and not what they'd need him to be. Like, I'd believe this guy was a pediatrician. Over throwing his brother and becoming a dictator, not so much. But he shot that man when he was a kid and he's brown so he's got dictatorship in him
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JohnSherman posted:I disagree. I think the actor playing Jamal has managed to hide a fairly wooden performance behind an accent, not to mention that playing a full-blown psychopath naturally means that his character displays a greater range of emotions than the rest of the cast.
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Aug 23, 2014 20:27
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Also Bassam needs to get over the fact that people are dying. Did he think he could have a bloodless coup? What a moron. Not as dumb as the wife though. "MORE LIES!!" drat girl I just thought of it
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Aug 23, 2014 20:45
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Fateo McMurray posted:Also Bassam needs to get over the fact that people are dying. Did he think he could have a bloodless coup? What a moron. Not as dumb as the wife though. "MORE LIES!!" drat girl I just thought of it I thought John Tucker explained that quite well.
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Fateo McMurray posted:Also Bassam needs to get over the fact that people are dying. Did he think he could have a bloodless coup? What a moron. Not as dumb as the wife though. "MORE LIES!!" drat girl I just thought of it Her screaming about Bassams coup inside of the palace so that anyone who had happened to be within 50m probably would have heard was just 
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Aug 25, 2014 10:00
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Xoidanor posted:Her screaming about Bassams coup inside of the palace so that fixed
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Aug 25, 2014 21:29
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Fateo McMurray posted:fixed Yeah that was hilarious, there's no way that their dad didn't have every single room bugged. Even Jamal was smart enough to at least go onto a balcony and whisper.
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Aug 26, 2014 00:43
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When he was originally telling her on the beach after the 500th running scene they really seemed to like showing her iphone sticking out of her pocket mic side up. Could just be product placement, but my first thought was someone is listening via hacked mic or whatever and that whole thing is recorded. First rule of a coup: don't tell anyone about the coup unless they're directly helping you pull it off
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Fateo McMurray posted:When he was originally telling her on the beach after the 500th running scene they really seemed to like showing her iphone sticking out of her pocket mic side up. Could just be product placement, but my first thought was someone is listening via hacked mic or whatever and that whole thing is recorded. "More lies!" [stares blank faced with half smile despite being sad/angry/betrayed]
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