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Mu Zeta posted:Also one of them has Jaden Smith Whenever I see that name all I can think about is  Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIpqGD-ogzk
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Jaden Smith is why I was avoiding it actually.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Jaden Smith is why I was avoiding it actually. The first episode alone (maybe more?) is directed by Baz Luhrmann, and Giancarlo Esposito is in it amongst others. I'd say good enough reason to try it more than someone halfway down the cast list. I hadn't heard of it until now, so I'm glad it came up. Adding to watch list.
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Dead Snoopy posted:Is anybody else loving The Get Down the way I'm loving The Get Down? I'm loving the hell out of it. You should start a thread. I'm super impressed with the kid playing Ezekiel. Humbug Scoolbus posted:Jaden Smith is why I was avoiding it actually. He's not bad in it. I didn't even realize it was him at first. He's more of a side character so he doesn't have a chance to be annoying.
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I actually wasn't feeling the first episode of The Get Down, though I admire Luhrmann -- and, by extension, the show -- for having the kind of chutzpah it does to be a coming-of-age musical, a period drama, a blaxploitation crime thriller, and a chopsocky flick all rolled into one. I just got spun around by all of it and couldn't really follow its thread.
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Vanderdeath posted:Yeah, I know the racial angle is probably why the show's not setting the internet ablaze. I hear there is a show called Empire which is quite successful though.
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Escobarbarian posted: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. I believe season 2 would have had a whole new setting and new cast. FetusSlapper posted: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. They said during the TCAs that Alpha House was "not an active show". DivisionPost posted:I actually wasn't feeling the first episode of The Get Down, though I admire Luhrmann -- and, by extension, the show -- for having the kind of chutzpah it does to be a coming-of-age musical, a period drama, a blaxploitation crime thriller, and a chopsocky flick all rolled into one. I just got spun around by all of it and couldn't really follow its thread. Haven't watched it myself, but critics seemed to loathe the Luhrman directed pilot.
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Norwegian Rudo posted:They said during the TCAs that Alpha House was "not an active show". Trump killed Alpha House.
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Wandle Cax posted:I hear there is a show called Empire which is quite successful though. Empire is basically a soap opera though so it's easy to understand why it's popular among a lot of varying demographics: you have Taraji Henson chewing the scenery and Terrence Howard playing a villainous dad and also some music supervised by Timbaland.
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Vanderdeath posted:Empire is basically a soap opera though so it's easy to understand why it's popular among a lot of varying demographics: you have Taraji Henson chewing the scenery and Terrence Howard playing a villainous dad and also some music supervised by Timbaland. The Get Down should be popular too given the current enormous Hamilton hype.
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Personally I just haven't watched Get Down yet because the reviews have all been fairly mediocre. I'll probably give it a chance eventually just for the visuals.
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Escobarbarian posted:Personally I just haven't watched Get Down yet because the reviews have all been fairly mediocre. I'll probably give it a chance eventually just for the visuals. I liked the setting, visual style, music, clothes, actors and Regina (  ), but everything else was kind of meh, didn't really work for me.
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Vanderdeath posted:Yeah, I know the racial angle is probably why the show's not setting the internet ablaze. ding ding ding
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Coffeehitler posted: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. Yeah I think that MTV weren't happy with them so they got rid of them completely. I can't say I blame them, neither season has been all successful. Saying that, unless I'm completely forgetting I think the back half of S1 is light on kills. You get the best kill in the show, with the dude getting split in two, and then you have one more in like the final episode, but there's a lot of running around and investigating during the downtime. S2 has nastier and more graphic kills, but they're so slow to happen because there's such a narrow focus this season. I've not read spoilers, but there is one way S2 could end and be totally worth it, but there's no way they have the guts to do it.
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cheerfullydrab posted:ding ding ding Nah, that's not it. Empire is the second-highest watched drama on television.
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less laughter posted:Nah, that's not it. Empire is the second-highest watched drama on television. That no one in TV IV watches. 
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Vanderdeath posted:Empire is basically a soap opera though so it's easy to understand why it's popular among a lot of varying demographics: you have Taraji Henson chewing the scenery and Terrence Howard playing a villainous dad and also some music supervised by Timbaland. As I understand it, Empire is basically Dallas with black people and better music.
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Empire isn't good, it's okay that nobody here watches it.
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less laughter posted:Nah, that's not it. Empire is the second-highest watched drama on television. Sorry it's obviously not as good as NCIS.
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GreenNight posted:Sorry it's obviously not as good as NCIS. Terence Howard is no Mark Harmon.
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Aphrodite posted:Empire isn't good, it's okay that nobody here watches it. I'd take an average soap opera with cool pop songs over yet another loving procedural every day.
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Speaking of things a lot of people don't watch, but is actually good, Animal Kingdom had their season finale recently. Its a show I highly recommend, its not blow your mind greatness or anything, but it is good crime TV that doesn't seek to whitewash its characters at all. coughSoAcough
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less laughter posted:Nah, that's not it. Empire is the second-highest watched drama on television. White people like to view black people through various stereotypes: criminals, musicians, wise working-class folks, etc. The people on Empire are real fleshed-out characters with actual nuanced lives but they're still more often than not stereotypes/archetypes that the majority of the tv-viewing public can easily digest. The Get Down is more about black people who just act like normal people. Do you at all see the difference? It's not about just quantifying people of color, saying this show has this many black characters, this other show has this many black characters, and this show has these ratings, and this show has these other ratings, it's about the actual treatment of the people in the show.
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DrVenkman posted:Yeah I think that MTV weren't happy with them so they got rid of them completely. I can't say I blame them, neither season has been all successful. Saying that, unless I'm completely forgetting I think the back half of S1 is light on kills. You get the best kill in the show, with the dude getting split in two, and then you have one more in like the final episode, but there's a lot of running around and investigating during the downtime. They mostly just ran out of expendable characters. I remember questioning in the early episodes how long they could sustain their at-least-one-death-per-episode average, and the answer was pretty much to keep it going until they were down to the essentials. Season 2 wasn't bad, but while the killer in the first season was extremely predictable (the Audrey element less so, but still not out of nowhere), the second season reveal is just kind of dumb and feels like a carbon-copy of the movie's ending, complete with out-of-nowhere backstory and sudden maniacal villainy.
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The marketing for Empire is the biggest reason I have no interest in the show. It seemed like it was literally advertising how big of a stereotype the characters were as a selling point of the show. So if the show's not like that, great.
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DivisionPost posted:I actually wasn't feeling the first episode of The Get Down, though I admire Luhrmann -- and, by extension, the show -- for having the kind of chutzpah it does to be a coming-of-age musical, a period drama, a blaxploitation crime thriller, and a chopsocky flick all rolled into one. I just got spun around by all of it and couldn't really follow its thread. A lot of critics hate the first episode and a couple gave up on the show due to it. It clocks in at 96 minutes which is a bit long for a pilot.
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I haven't been in the thread for a while, but this is interesting news http://thestudioexec.com/stranger-things-season-2-will-written-stephen-king/
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BSam posted:I haven't been in the thread for a while, but this is interesting news Noooooooooo The number of worthwhile adaptations of Stephen King writings can be counted on a single hand of an accident prone factory worker. Hopefully since it isn't his property and there will be competent show runners, it will be OK, but this unsettles me.
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bull3964 posted:Noooooooooo The best Stephen King adaption was Alan Wake, which was basically a Stephen King-like character dumped into a mysterious New England town and uncovering the mysterious ancient/old evil that lives in the town.
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Just FYI thestudioexec.com is a troll site. If this was real and Stephen King was going to be actually, creatively involved with the second season of Stranger Things, there'd have to be an official renewal on the books so that money could be allocated to hire Stephen King. It isn't yet; a better troll might look like "Stephen King expresses interest in writing for the second season of Stranger Things." Now, if you want something real, here's what King actually said about the show a month back, in case you missed it: https://twitter.com/stephenking/status/754865415587758080 And here's how one of the Duffer Brothers reacted to it: quote:"The first thing that really messed me up was the, uh -- Stephen King tweeted about it," said one of the Duffers (Matt? Ross? It isn't clear) when asked by NPR host Ari Shapiro what their "oh my god what have we done here moment" was. "And I was like, 'what?' That to me was -- cause no one else had tweeted really at that point and he obviously is one of our idols and was such a big inspiration for us and an influence on the show. That sort of messed me up. You just don't think about it reaching those people. It was insane." It was sourced through HitFix, but that site has managed to get even worse, so here's the NPR interview where they talked about it. Honestly, watching this show blow the gently caress up like it has is one of the few great joys this lovely year has offered.
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bull3964 posted:The number of worthwhile adaptations of Stephen King writings can be counted on a single hand of an accident prone factory worker.
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COME ON DOWN TO WHALE WORLD
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DivisionPost posted:Just FYI thestudioexec.com is a troll site. If this was real and Stephen King was going to be actually, creatively involved with the second season of Stranger Things, there'd have to be an official renewal on the books so that money could be allocated to hire Stephen King. It isn't yet; a better troll might look like "Stephen King expresses interest in writing for the second season of Stranger Things."
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DivisionPost posted:Honestly, watching this show blow the gently caress up like it has is one of the few great joys this lovely year has offered. Seriously. Imagine being Shannon Purser for a second. You're a geeky, somewhat heavy actress in an industry that prefers bottle blondes on vegan diets, and you booked your very first on-screen acting gig on a low-key genre show's inaugural season, a small part that'll write you off in three episodes. Your manager is telling you "Hey, it gets your name out there." Then a week or so after the show drops, you phone blows the gently caress up, with all your friends asking if you've seen THIS: https://twitter.com/NetflixANZ/status/756033316332064768 And that's just the start of it. Now when you acknowledge your sudden, unexpected thrust into the limelight by half-jokingly musing about wanting to play Squirrel Girl, a legion of genre nerds get your back, and the comic's artists and writers extend an open invitation for you to come shoot the poo poo with them. And that's just one side of it. There's The Duffer Brothers garnering massive acclaim with a Stephen King-like story after fighting for and failing to land the job to write and direct the It adaptation, there's Winona Ryder kickstarting the second act of her career after getting caught up in her own bullshit, there's David Harbour getting his shine after 14+ years as a "that guy," and of course there are the kids, and it's all happening as an original property -- albeit one that leans heavily on the same kind of nostalgia that established properties do -- in a world that can't seem to find room for them anymore. This show really is the feel-good story of the year.
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DivisionPost posted:Then a week or so after the show drops, you phone blows the gently caress up, with all your friends asking if you've seen THIS: That doesn't look real at all... maybe just the angle, but it looks like photoshoppery.
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I just watched the first episode of Stranger Things cause it was finally time I got round to it. It was all very weird and Winona Ryder was (understandably) very screechy and I've got no clue what's going on but I expect it involves aliens but I do like how well it captures the 80s especially the social attitudes. That was a Rarity Hot Take.
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