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 WHAT HAPPENED LAST SEASON: Bashar al-rear end-er, Barry Al-Fayeed, a totally normal American dude, takes a vacation to the old country to visit his family. Along the way he learns to love and laugh, experiences hope and despair, and eventually winds up in the dungeons after he attempts to overthrow his brother the rapist dictator. The show is ok except for the shoe-horned in family drama. CHARACTERS  Bassam "Barry" al-Fayeed, dentist  Molly al-Fayeed, Skyler  Jamal Al-Fayeed, rapist, dictator, cool dude  Leila Al-Fayeed, Jamal's loving wife  Tariq al-Fayeed, should just throw a coup d'etat already  Ihab Rashid, probably affiliated with al-Qaeda or ISIS theres also some family people and a journalist but who cares ---- Anyone watch last night's season 2 premiere? I thought it was pretty good, a lot better than the first season. Seems like they're reducing the dumb family drama for more political intrigue. Sheng-Ji Yang fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Jun 17, 2015 |
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Worst thread in ages, do better. I watched it, it was great.
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Jun 17, 2015 17:10
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Rocksicles posted:Worst thread in ages, do better. is that ok
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Jun 17, 2015 17:32
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Bellissimo!
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Jun 17, 2015 17:42
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Holy poo poo this got renewed and they didn't write out Molly? Is this real life?
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Jun 17, 2015 22:10
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Woa I thought that this show got horrible ratings? Cool to see a second season, The end of s2ep1 that Jamal scene is stone cold.
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Jun 17, 2015 22:36
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:Holy poo poo this got renewed and they didn't write out Molly? Is this real life? Well, she just flew out of the country and I didn't see her in the preview for next episode so hopefully the family is being sidelined.
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Jun 18, 2015 00:55
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I genuinely thought that preview was a joke or something, it looked ridiculously soap opera-ish.
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Jun 18, 2015 02:12
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Show needs to kill off Bassam's family. Preferably via something tyrannical. Because, y'know, "Tyrant".
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Jun 18, 2015 02:31
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Tyrant never disappoints when it comes to disappointing. Man, I had hopes they actually killed Barry and decided to reboot the show and make it about Jamal. Nope.
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Jun 18, 2015 03:32
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Man, I had hopes they actually killed Barry and decided to reboot the show and make it about Jamal.
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Jun 18, 2015 23:20
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Tyrant never disappoints when it comes to disappointing. Should be the thread title.
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Jun 19, 2015 02:01
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I remember this show!! It was laughably terrible. I don't think I exaggerate when I say that it getting renewed is the worst decision ever made by an American re: the middle east, and that includes both wars on Iraq. I dropped it right after the thing with the baby terrorists at early season 1. Does it warrant continued watching or is it just bad in an unremarkable way? (btw if you want less-awful middle east dictator drama you can always just watch House of Saddam)
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Jun 19, 2015 02:11
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This show had the perfect chance to write the kids out of the show, yet from the preview for the next one it seems they're doubling down on the son's importance.
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Jun 21, 2015 06:49
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Also, in order for this thread to be relevant, I think we need to work a spoiler from another show into the title.
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Jun 21, 2015 08:51
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TequilaJesus posted:Also, in order for this thread to be relevant, I think we need to work a spoiler from another show into the title. Tyrant: Tommy Westphall's snowglobe the whole time.
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Jun 21, 2015 09:32
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Wow, they actually renewed this lovely show? It was a great premise, but then you had terrible characters, a white British dude with blue eyes playing an Arab, and just terrible plots that went nowhere. It was even too boring to hate watch. The wife was way worse than both the kids combined. She was so, so horrendously dumb that it kinda became hilarious.
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Jun 23, 2015 01:39
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The wife was the worst written character I have ever seen in a show that actually made it to broadcast. And the actress did it no favors. Just terrible garbage all the way down.
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Jun 23, 2015 02:57
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I'm not sure if this was mentioned in the season one thread, but FX outbid HBO for this show. Imagine how improved it could be if this was on HBO instead of FX.
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Jun 24, 2015 00:36
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Still amazed we're getting Season 2 of Tyrant & NO season 3 of The Bridge.
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Jun 24, 2015 05:24
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MaC_DaDDy posted:I'm not sure if this was mentioned in the season one thread, but FX outbid HBO for this show. Imagine how improved it could be if this was on HBO instead of FX. If it kept the same casting then probably not much at all.
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Jun 24, 2015 05:28
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Dead Snoopy posted:Still amazed we're getting Season 2 of Tyrant & NO season 3 of The Bridge. What the gently caress? THE BRIDGE GOT CANCELLED?!?
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Jun 24, 2015 06:18
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Solice Kirsk posted:If it kept the same casting then probably not much at all. Wasn't that when Ang Lee was attached to the pilot? He later bailed.
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Jun 24, 2015 08:54
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:Holy poo poo this got renewed and they didn't write out Molly? Is this real life?
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Jun 24, 2015 11:13
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Dead Snoopy posted:Still amazed we're getting Season 2 of Tyrant & NO season 3 of The Bridge. Is The Bridge worth watching?
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Jun 24, 2015 11:16
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CODChimera posted:Is The Bridge worth watching?
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Jun 24, 2015 11:22
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Toplowtech posted:I am even more surprised that show got renewed than i was with Halt and Catch Fire. Also Molly al-Fayeed is litterally the most stupid character ever, the only thing that would make her really stupid advices to Barry make any sense would be that she is an intelligence officer charged by Barry's mother to 1) give her grand-children and 2) railroad her stupid son back to the country when it's needed, but her whole "oh they are badly treating our servants" arc confirmed it: nope, she is just stupid. Isn't she supposed to be a doctor too? She's the worst actor, but it's not like she's got much to work with. Barry is like "I come from a massively unstable Middle Eastern country and my father is a crazed dictator who literally has people hanged in the street." and she's like "He's your father! We must visit and take our gay son!" I was hoping her story arc would be that she'd go mad with power and start abusing servants and going on insane shopping sprees. Or get any sort of interesting storyline.
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Jun 24, 2015 14:47
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I knew a girl a few years back who was dating a guy from Syria and planning to visit (for the first time, of course), and one day she just went on this rant about how its a wonderful place and all the bad stuff you hear about it is US government propaganda and lies meant to smear this perfect utopian wonderland she had already decided to move to and raise a family. America is the real oppressive dump, etc. I think it was something like 3 weeks later when the whole place fell into chaos. But still, Molly is a whole new level of dumb. Anyway I really hope this show starts to work, because the premise is amazing and its utterly shameful how they wasted it. I still think Jamal is a pretty decent character, even if the rest of them don't make much sense.
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Jun 24, 2015 17:48
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Simple solution to fix the current mess: The wife and children secretly support some anti-Jamal dudes, Jamal finds out, puts a bullet in each ones head while his doctor brother is forced to watch, Barry becomes enraged and tries to kill Jamal, but fails. Jamal kills Barry. Boom, done, everything is fixed. Let's go back to watching Jamal be a Ball(er).
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Jun 24, 2015 18:30
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*Pointless flashback*
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Still an incredible lack of Tyranny.
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obvious producer notes of the season - Jamal doesn't seem DICTATOR enough. Can we have him walk around in a military uniform w/ lots of comical medals to really drive home the point, please?
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Jun 25, 2015 15:40
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Gonz posted:Still an incredible lack of Tyranny. The deployment of chemical weapons seen at the end of the show would indicate that the amount of Tyranny in the show is about to explode.
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Jun 25, 2015 15:55
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obvious producer's notes - yeah, so adding the sister-in-law, regardless of how hot, really brought nothing to the table that is Barry's cruddy family. We thought she was going to be the sex-bomb free spirit who hosed w/ Arab traditions or maybe even teased being sold into white slavery but the coup came along faster than we expected and introduced her too late. Now she's kinda like this show's 'Poochie'. So if we could make no mention of her in season 2 and pretend that didn't happen, that would be great.
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Jun 25, 2015 16:12
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Kill Dozed posted:The deployment of chemical weapons seen at the end of the show would indicate that the amount of Tyranny in the show is about to explode. Unless Jamal draws and quarters his insane uncle on live TV in a soccer stadium next week, there will continue to be a lack of tyranny on Tyrant.
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Jun 25, 2015 16:15
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Gonz posted:Unless Jamal draws and quarters his insane uncle on live TV in a soccer stadium next week, there will continue to be a lack of tyranny on Tyrant. Jamal's going to tie Barry's gay son up with ropes, each limb attached to a different elephant, and make them tear him apart. He will then stand up and proclaim "Mash'Allah" to the tens of thousands of cheering citizens. Tyrant-y enough?
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Jun 25, 2015 18:01
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Also, I can't wait for episode 7 where Jamal suppresses an Uber taxi strike in his capital e: that's what the chemical gas is really for
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Jun 25, 2015 18:03
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:Also, I can't wait for episode 7 where Jamal suppresses an Uber taxi strike in his capital He routs a surge pricing coup in the capital
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Jun 25, 2015 20:39
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Why couldn't they just kill Bassam. Who the gently caress watches the show to see him do....anything? It should be the "Jamal Slowly Goes Crazy With Power" hour. Not the "Barry Hangs in the Desert and His Wife is Gonna Fall in Love With Some Dude and Never Change Her Facial Expression" hour.
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:Jamal's going to tie Barry's gay son up with ropes, each limb attached to a different elephant, and make them tear him apart. He will then stand up and proclaim "Mash'Allah" to the tens of thousands of cheering citizens. That would certainly fit the bill. Right now, they might as well call the show "Laser Clowns", because no laser clowns will ever show up, either.
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