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Hey, so I see now that UnReal season 2 has ended. I know most goons here were of the opinion that the start of S2 was very disappointing. Did it pick back up, and would you say it's worth watching? (I loving loved S1, even with the massive flaws it had and that absolute lack of any meaningful character development)
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Holy gently caress BrainDead episode 7 was all of a sudden dark as hell and then the way they deal with the issue was absolutely hilarious I love this show
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Aug 20, 2016 15:12
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I can't see it being renewed.
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Aug 20, 2016 15:29
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I don't know what their thoughts were on having it continue but it sure feels to me like a miniseries. Hopefully this season wraps up well enough.
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Aug 20, 2016 16:04
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Is anybody else loving The Get Down the way I'm loving The Get Down?
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Aug 20, 2016 16:30
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Dead Snoopy posted:Is anybody else loving The Get Down the way I'm loving The Get Down? I've only seen the first three episodes so far, but they have been spectacular. I'm a huge fan of old-school hip hop, though, and I love the mythical quality to the storytelling. The actors playing Ezekiel and Shao are great finds, but I do wish Daveed Diggs had done his own rapping in the framing sequences. That guy is such an incredible talent.
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Aug 20, 2016 18:08
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Dead Snoopy posted:Is anybody else loving The Get Down the way I'm loving The Get Down? I've seen the first two episodes and it's great. It's crazy that there's been so much hype for Stranger Things (which is very good) but almost nothing for this show.
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Aug 20, 2016 18:35
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The Tick was pretty interesting. Not really that funny, but it didn't seem like it was trying to be. I can appreciate them doing something completely different with the concept, and turning it into a weird psychological black comedy is at least very unique. I would watch a whole season, but I also don't think it's going to catch on at all, though.
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Aug 20, 2016 22:04
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JCVD is a good movie
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Aug 20, 2016 22:34
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Snak posted:How come there are only 3 things this pilot season? There were 6 last time... I fell like The Tick is a shoe-in, but I haven't watched it yet. I can't find a source off the top of my head so I may be remembering incorrectly, but I'm almost positive I remember reading somewhere that a few of Amazon's original series (The Man in the High Castle and Mozart in the Jungle, notably) wound up being a lot more expensive than initially projected (and Man in the High Castle has its own set of issues since Frank Spotnitz quit / was let go deep into pre-production on the second season) so they decided to be a little more selective with the pilots they commissioned for this season.
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Aug 20, 2016 23:50
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Hakkesshu posted:The Tick was pretty interesting. Not really that funny, but it didn't seem like it was trying to be. I can appreciate them doing something completely different with the concept, and turning it into a weird psychological black comedy is at least very unique. I would watch a whole season, but I also don't think it's going to catch on at all, though. The Tick was 100% in-character and great, and The Terror was hilariously mean, but the serious world it was set in threw me off pretty hard. If I had more episodes to run through, I could see it working better. With just one, though, it didn't do much for me. The promise of more Serafinowicz and Haley will keep me watching if it gets picked up, though.
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Aug 21, 2016 00:09
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I never saw an official cancellation of Alpha House, but there's no way that show can compete with the comedy of this real election season.
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Aug 21, 2016 00:16
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Hakkesshu posted:The Tick was pretty interesting. Not really that funny, but it didn't seem like it was trying to be. I can appreciate them doing something completely different with the concept, and turning it into a weird psychological black comedy is at least very unique. I would watch a whole season, but I also don't think it's going to catch on at all, though. So it's Wilfred but with superheroes?
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Aug 21, 2016 00:31
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raditts posted:So it's Wilfred but with superheroes? That's a good comparison. It just didn't work as "The Tick" for me.
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Aug 21, 2016 00:46
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raditts posted:So it's Wilfred but with superheroes? Actually yeah, kind of. As was mentioned The Tick is evidently real since some thugs describe him, but the rest of the episode might as well be that.
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Aug 21, 2016 00:47
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egon_beeblebrox posted:The Tick was 100% in-character and great, and The Terror was hilariously mean, but the serious world it was set in threw me off pretty hard. If I had more episodes to run through, I could see it working better. With just one, though, it didn't do much for me. The promise of more Serafinowicz and Haley will keep me watching if it gets picked up, though. Ben Edlund has stated that yeah, he's had to mess with the setting because of how superhero stories are told now.
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Aug 21, 2016 00:59
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muscles like this? posted:Ben Edlund has stated that yeah, he's had to mess with the setting because of how superhero stories are told now. It does not fit The Tick at all. At least to me. I hope it gets picked up and I can see how this variation will work. Even if I dislike it, it's still more of that character. The world sucks, but the character is still great.
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Aug 21, 2016 01:07
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I hope The Tick is picked up because I want to see a "grim and gritty" version of The City while The Tick is mostly the same character we all know and love. I think that's how it was in the comic, but like most people growing up in the 90s I grew up on the cartoon. I had some reservations about a non-Warburton live-action Tick but Serafinowicz can definitely carry the character. The way he yelled "Neat!" was pitch perfect.
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Aug 21, 2016 01:20
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I don't know why it took me so long, but I finally got around to binge watching Fargo. Just finished season 1 today. I'm afraid to google to to avoid spoilers, but where do I get my hands on season 2? Hulu doesn't have it and FX.com wasn't showing episodes... I'm not looking for illegal streams, I just want someone to please point me to where I can buy it or watch it online.
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Aug 21, 2016 02:48
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HanabaL03 posted:I don't know why it took me so long, but I finally got around to binge watching Fargo. Just finished season 1 today. I'm afraid to google to to avoid spoilers, but where do I get my hands on season 2? Hulu doesn't have it and FX.com wasn't showing episodes...
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Aug 21, 2016 02:50
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Nowhere free yet, but it's on Amazon or iTunes for digital purchase.
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Aug 21, 2016 02:53
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRP6egIEABk
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Aug 21, 2016 03:51
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After seeing him be funny on Not Safe With Nikki Glaser (great show; hope it gets renewed), I watched a few episodes of The Eric Andre Show. Wow. I wish I liked it, because Jackass cracked me up back in the day, and I'm all for subversion of the same tired old talk show cliches, which is why I like the Comedy Bang Bang show so much. But I can't get into so much of what Eric Andre does, as far as just screwing with regular people on the street. The in-studio antics are somewhat more amusing. How much are the guests in on the joke? Do they all know what they're getting into? I got the impression Stacey Dash and Howie Mandel really didn't. Asa Akira (a porn star) seemed to roll with the weirdness and chaos the best of all the guests in the few shows I've seen.
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Aug 21, 2016 06:12
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Most of them know. There are a few exceptions like Lauren Conrad and Lou Ferrigno. The rapper ninja warrior skit is the hardest I've laughed all year. Big fan of Snail Down and Kraft Punk.
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Aug 21, 2016 06:21
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Mu Zeta posted:Most of them know. There are a few exceptions like Lauren Conrad and Lou Ferrigno. Kraft Punk was pretty funny, I gotta admit. When he dunked the basketball in the cheese sauce and those guys got pissed, that was good.
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Aug 21, 2016 06:26
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I love this loving song, but I'm not going to listen to it now because I am way too drunk to safely watch any episodes of moral orel. Because I know that's what I would do next.
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Aug 21, 2016 07:45
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I wish I liked it, because Jackass cracked me up back in the day, and I'm all for subversion of the same tired old talk show cliches, which is why I like the Comedy Bang Bang show so much. But I can't get into so much of what Eric Andre does, as far as just screwing with regular people on the street. The in-studio antics are somewhat more amusing. How much are the guests in on the joke? Do they all know what they're getting into? I got the impression Stacey Dash and Howie Mandel really didn't. Asa Akira (a porn star) seemed to roll with the weirdness and chaos the best of all the guests in the few shows I've seen. Yes and no. There's an interview on Youtube and basically there are three kinds of guests. There's: 1. Guests who know what the show is and have been given bids, they are typically very obvious. 2. Guests who know what the show is but that aren't let in on anything that is about to happen. Basically, they're just tortured until they up and walk out of the studio. Apparently this can go on for up to an hour with some guests. 3. Guests who don't know what the show is. MiddleOne fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Season 3 of Halt and Catch Fire starts on AMC this Tuesday night. Ronan the Accuser is cool as hell on that show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFHnR0Bqdvw Gonz fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Aug 21, 2016 11:02
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I still think it's a wildly uneven show, but episode 4 of SCREAM S2 was great. I wish more shows would play around with the aspect ratios sometimes. The only thing that's really hampering it this time is that the plot is kind of inert, with the main plot being something that should've run for two episodes at best (It involves a character being blackmailed, to the point that by now it would've been entirely reasonable to see the police. It's one of my most hated tropes). I'm guessing there was no thread for it?
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Aug 21, 2016 12:34
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Gonz posted:Season 3 of Halt and Catch Fire starts on AMC this Tuesday night. I had no idea it was coming back so this is great. I like that Joe McMillan straight up looks like a Steve Jobs clone now. No pretenses.
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Aug 21, 2016 12:40
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BSam posted:I love this loving song, but I'm not going to listen to it now because I am way too drunk to safely watch any episodes of moral orel. Because I know that's what I would do next. You should definitely watch Moral Orel
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I wish that SCREAM would sometimes remember it was a slasher show. At least SLASHER knew they had to kill people. I'm 6 episodes into S2 and unless there's someone I'm forgetting, so far exactly 2 people have been killed, and one of those is a character that no one knows. Another did just have their hand sawn off and the wound cauterised with an iron though, that was suitably nasty. Generally I just wish this show was better. But it suffers from having some real dull and poorly written/acted leads. It's only really the peripheral characters who work right now. Hell even the slutty character who you're sure is going to die all the time is generally better acted than the lead, who reacts to everything in more or less the same way. The worst thing is knowing that I'm going to see it through. Thus far though none of these slasher shows have reached the heights of HARPER'S ISLAND.
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DrVenkman posted:I wish that SCREAM would sometimes remember it was a slasher show. At least SLASHER knew they had to kill people. From what I've read, the creative team changed from S1 to S2 and you can really tell. S1 had someone die like every other episode at the slowest. I'm really hoping it doesn't get a third season, but will continue to watch if it does.
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Aug 21, 2016 21:37
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9r0egZH7tU
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HanabaL03 posted:Just finished season 1 today. I'm afraid to google to to avoid spoilers, but where do I get my hands on season 2? The seasons are totally unrelated in case you weren't aware.
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Aug 22, 2016 00:59
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Vanderdeath posted:It's crazy that there's been so much hype for Stranger Things (which is very good) but almost nothing for this show. Is it really surprising though? Apart from being on Netflix, what do these have in common?
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Aug 22, 2016 01:00
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xcore posted:Is it really surprising though? Apart from being on Netflix, what do these have in common? Both really well-made period pieces (early '80s vs. late '70s) featuring young, unknown, excellent casts, coming-of-age stories, and great soundtracks. Personally, I love both.
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Yeah, I wasn't trying to criticise The Get Down, I haven't seen it and will now check it out because it looks cool. But looking at it objectively: 80' nostalgia trip evoking the movie magic of the most culturally significant director of the last 50 years, featuring white people, doing white people things. The nerdy, comic book movie loving internet is giving lots of buzz to a show featuring aliens, government conspiracies and D&D. VS What appears to be a show about black people living inner city lives, their struggle and the music that this struggle inspired. I can kind of see why one might be getting a bit more of a spotlight than the other.
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Aug 22, 2016 01:28
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Also one of them has Jaden Smith
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xcore posted:Yeah, I wasn't trying to criticise The Get Down, I haven't seen it and will now check it out because it looks cool. But looking at it objectively: Yeah, I know the racial angle is probably why the show's not setting the internet ablaze. 
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