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Ravane posted:
As is the case with TV IV in general. Burned through both seasons of Hannibal waiting to really be shocked or blown over in a proportionate level to the reactions around here. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it. But that other shoe never dropped. Nothing I really saw was head and shoulders over the top to the point where I gave it much thought after the episode ended. The same happened with Orphan Black. After seeing post after post of "THIS SHOW", I was rather shocked about how tame the show actually was. Again, enjoyed it, but nothing really stood out as being horribly shocking to me.
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Because poo poo ain't as shocking when people tell you it's shocking. It's like Lost. It was a whole different experience watching it live and having no preconceptions.
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Jul 3, 2014 20:12
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I watched Lost live and was underwhelmed.
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Jul 3, 2014 20:15
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Flatscan posted:You might want to wait until you've watched it all. It ends in a properly British manner: Bad guys win. Main characters end up dead or truly hosed. Everything they did was completely futile. Sounds like The Shadow Line.
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bull3964 posted:The same happened with Orphan Black. After seeing post after post of "THIS SHOW", I was rather shocked about how tame the show actually was. Again, enjoyed it, but nothing really stood out as being horribly shocking to me. Orphan Black is mostly shocking in that an actress playing so many characters actually manages to pull it off. Otherwise it's nothing special.
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Waiting to be shocked is a terrible way to watch TV. Just look at people who liked Lost.
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IRQ posted:Orphan Black is mostly shocking in that an actress playing so many characters actually manages to pull it off. Otherwise it's nothing special. Well I'm glad more than two people are saying that, finally.
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Yeah, I've seen a few episodes of Orphan Black now and it didn't really do much for me. It's a neat trick that Tatiana Maslany is able to act against someone who isn't there, but being able to create a bunch of different characters seems like a fairly normal task for a competent actor.
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Jul 3, 2014 21:56
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I'd still recommend season 1, it's pretty fun. Season 2, not so much.
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I think season 1 was really good in almost all ways. But man they ran out of steam so fast, it's really disappointing. Season 2 felt like it had no purpose and went nowhere at all. 
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Season 2 was a step down but it still had its moments. Helena and Donnie both got really good character arcs, the main problem was that the structure just didn't come together well.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Yeah, I've seen a few episodes of Orphan Black now and it didn't really do much for me. It's a neat trick that Tatiana Maslany is able to act against someone who isn't there, but being able to create a bunch of different characters seems like a fairly normal task for a competent actor. I would imagine it's less about playing different characters as it is playing them all against each other in the same scene. Calling doing that very well a "trick" seems like it's doing kind of a disservice to acting in general, and her in particular. (Edit: Season 2 had a number of missteps, and pretty much all of them were on the writers trying to weave way too convoluted a web out of the story.) xeria fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Jul 3, 2014 |
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Holy crap, finished the first season of Reign and that was so good. I think Catherine di Medici is way more fun to watch than Cersei Lannister, because the latter barely ever gets anything done in comparison. Actually, all the ladies on Reign are fantastic in their own way.
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Jul 3, 2014 22:34
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xeria posted:I would imagine it's less about playing different characters as it is playing them all against each other in the same scene. Calling doing that very well a "trick" seems like it's doing kind of a disservice to acting in general, and her in particular. From what I've seen, they try to avoid having them on-screen at the same time too much, which reduces the difficulty of that a lot. And even if you think "trick" is too dismissive, my point is that it's not the element that I see being (over) praised whenever the show gets mentioned.
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Everyone always gives Maslany all the props but people obviously forget about the people on the crew doing all the composting, hell, even the stand-ins deserve some of the cheer for helping put most of those scenes together.
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Jul 3, 2014 22:50
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Im late but Drunk History is amazing.
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Hey everybody, Comedians in Car Getting Coffee is back for its fourth season! In the premiere Sarah Jessica Parker does more to make me like her in fifteen minutes than the last 30 years of her career combined.
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Not sure it's been mentioned, but thanks to Amazon's MOD program, finally . . . finally season 3 of the Upright Citizens Brigade has been released! Now get ready for some Pro Thunderball!
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Sober posted:Everyone always gives Maslany all the props but people obviously forget about the people on the crew doing all the composting, hell, even the stand-ins deserve some of the cheer for helping put most of those scenes together. Yes, the effects crew undoubtedly deserves credit, as does the makeup crew, but Maslany is still the core of it.
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This is going to come off as random but I just started watching Masterminds off of Youtube. It's done in the style of Unsolved Mysteries- with the best criminal "masterminds" over the last century. I stumbled upon it and this show is perfect  Episodes fly by at 22 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sttfCqnnKRk
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Cardboard Box A posted:How was Ray Donovan? I liked it. I will watch the second season if there is one. A little plodding at times though.
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xcore posted:I liked it. I will watch the second season if there is one. Better than SHOWTIME at any rate?
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Cardboard Box A posted:So maybe STARZ is alright now? Ray Donovan is a Showtime show, so I'm not quite sure what your point is??
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Irish Joe posted:Game of Thrones isn't over and Walt dies in the end. Deadwood is probably the best American example of a bad guy winning because Hearst rolls over everyone, gets everything he wants and departs town with a smirk on his face. Walt's fate has very little to do with the plot of the show, it was going to happen even if nothing else in the show ever happened. IMO the main flaw with BB's last season is that Walt pretty much got everything he wanted in the end. Deadwood is irrelevant as that wasn't supposed to be the last season.
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Cardboard Box A posted:So maybe STARZ is alright now? 99% of what Showtime has, they ruin eventually.
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This is amazing http://mic.com/articles/92759/iran-...campaign=social "The news: Iran's new comedy show Haft Sang is a shot-for-shot ripoff of American hit TV show Modern Family. The only differences in the unauthorized remake are that gay dads Mitch and Cam have been turned into heterosexual men or written out, the daughters have been changed into sons and other characters' gender changed to avoid pre-marital mixing of men and women. An Iranian fan who illegally downloaded the original show posted the comparison video below: It's a fascinating look into how Modern Family is being reinterpreted within a theocratic state's confines." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gKAF_t8wY8 Someone should re-import this to America to run on all the stations that won't run the gay Modern Family Norwegian Rudo posted:Ray Donovan is a Showtime show, so I'm not quite sure what your point is?? So Showtime still wins right? Sober posted:Starz is still mostly on a per-show basis. Assepoester fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Jul 4, 2014 |
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Norwegian Rudo posted:Ray Donovan is a Showtime show, so I'm not quite sure what your point is?? There was once a time when Showtime's biggest shows were Dexter and Weeds, so some still have some latent "Showtime is poo poo" feelings.
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Cardboard Box A posted:This is amazing Wow, that... is certainly something alright. 
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Sober posted:Holy crap, finished the first season of Reign and that was so good. I think Catherine di Medici is way more fun to watch than Cersei Lannister, because the latter barely ever gets anything done in comparison. I'm still on episode 5 and the only person I care about is Bash, despite or because of how obviously he's the "bad boy." Kenna's okay too, I guess.
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Cardboard Box A posted:
Party Down
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Haha, Cam's the woman. quote:Someone should re-import this to America to run on all the stations that won't run the gay Modern Family All zero of them?
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Irish Joe posted:
Yeah it was The New Normal that a NBC affiliate refused to air
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Fateo McMurray posted:Yeah it was The New Normal that a NBC affiliate refused to air And let's be honest, they had the right idea if for the wrong reasons.
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Taxi Brooklyn is pretty run-of-the-mill but the cab driver character is great.
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Taxi Brooklyn is almost charming in how contrived it is. Also, pixie cut.
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Sober posted:Starz is still mostly on a per-show basis. Penny Dreadful is excellent...so far.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Penny Dreadful is excellent...so far. Shameless is still good and is still going, somehow. (maybe because it's not as hot and successful)
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Utopia is really really slow so far you guys, I don't know about this.
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Was House of Lies season 3 any good?
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IRQ posted:Utopia is really really slow so far you guys, I don't know about this. No, not slow, anything but slow. How dare they.
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