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Early Nip/Tuck was really different and great for its time. That first season blew me away. Don't remember when I bowed out, but I do remember the serial killer siblings. Later stuff on that show was definitely a red flag about flaws Ryan Murphy has. And I'm always bummed that Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon didn't go on to do better stuff. McMahon got to be a mediocre Dr.Doom twice, but that's about it  feedmyleg posted:...I had a massive crush on Mary-Louise Parker. Me too my friend. Me too. Especially West Wing Parker. But that still has never been enough for me to want to watch Weeds despite many women recommending it. Rhyno posted:In for Marc Maron. Same. Shageletic posted:Why was his show so mediocre? I liked it when Pete Holmes was on, if anyone could direct me to those eps it would be appreciated. I think he was trying to ape his friend Louis too much, and in doing so it never got to be it's own thing in his own voice. And it tried to be like the basic parts of Louis, not the avant garde parts.
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raditts posted:Hahaha, what? Everything I read about Weeds makes me glad I quit watching it after the third season, where it should have ended. The one thing I'll say in Weeds favor post S3 is that they gradually stop justifying her behavior and instead make it a whole point of the show that her family basically hates her for constantly loving up their lives and everyone who meets her recognizes she's a toxic force of nature. They just start establishing that no one can walk away because Mary Louise Parker is so drat hot they can't resist her. Including her youngest son who has a plotline where he jerks off to her. Not surprisingly hes also the one who goes killer, although I probably overdid it by calling him a serial killer because I think he only killed one person and then his family kept stopping him from killing more. Edit:. Middle son. I forgot she had a baby with the Cartel guy. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Apr 6, 2017 |
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I can't stand Mary Louise Parker. I find her horribly obnoxious. I've only seen her in Weeds and RED/RED2 and consider her easily the worst part of all 3 things. Maybe she's good in other stuff. I have no idea.
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Longbaugh01 posted:Me too my friend. Me too. Especially West Wing Parker. But that still has never been enough for me to want to watch Weeds despite many women recommending it.
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Counterpoint: The first 3 seasons are not any good. Every character is a moron, and not in a funny way. In a way ranging from "how did they possibly get this far in life" to "wow, they are a genuinely terrible person with no redeeming qualities". And the the plot is just like, a flimsy chain of events subject to whims of these characters being idiots. Like, every problem that happens in the show is because one or more people did the stupidest possible thing. So you would think it would be some kind of great comedy of errors, but the story keeps being framed as though we're supposed to be sympathetic to their plight. Like, here's an actual plot that happened: My girlfriend is going to go away to college and leave me. I will poke a hole in a condom and get her pregnant so that she will stay with me! She got pregnant and freaked out. I will text her with like a 100 suggestions for baby names. Oh no, her parents are helping her get an abortion and they all hate me! what the gently caress!? Wacky fun times.
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Snak posted:I feel like an almost decent season of Sherlock could be made by taking the best episode from each season. If you did this with most shows, you'd end up with a disproportionately short season, but in this case, you'd actually get a longer season than any real season. I've thought about trying to see if you could make one good season of The Simpsons by just taking the good episodes from season 14-today, but every time I start to look I just get depressed and stop.
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I mean, to each their own but I think the first three seasons of Weeds is a mostly funny story of a woman grieving her husband who wrestles with the gradual realization that the risks she takes to support her family are really selfish thrill seeking. Or I guess you could just watch Orange is the New Black since typing that out it occurs to me it's the same show. But comedy is highly subjective so if you don't like it you don't like it.
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Except that Wentworth on Netflix is the better womens prison show by far. (Prisoner: Cell Block H 'remake')
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I mean, she lives in a giant house worth probably a million dollars and instead of getting a job she decides to sell like an ounce of weed to 5 people to "support her lifestyle". But she doesn't even know there are different kinds of weed.
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Like I said, I think the entire point of her story is that she justifies selling weed by saying it's about supporting her family but eventually it becomes pretty clear that not only did she never really try another way but she's doing it to feed her thrill seeking/libido/grief. The first three seasons keep her sympathetic enough in that regard with the grief and seeming concern for her kids that it works for me, where after that she's just a selfish rear end in a top hat. She's basically a sexy Walter White in terms of lying to herself about why she's doing it.
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feedmyleg posted:Got good? That's a very strange perspective. The general consensus for those who like it is that Season 1 and 2 were great, and in season 3 it kinda hit a wall by the end. Then it was all garbage after. Snak posted:I also found Californication to be unwatchable despite loving Duchovny from X-Files. Add Dexter to that list and I've sworn off Showtime shows made after 2000. Admittedly, I've never seen the first two seasons and probably should go back and watch them, but Californication was fun until about Season 5 (hey, there's another show Natalie Zea bailed on Justified for!) or 6, at which point it turned into "This is a show about lovely people, their lovely families, lovely friends, lovely lives, and lovely jobs. Oh, and gently caress you, Becca". Then Season 7 came and it was "Why is this even on anymore?".
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Escobarbarian posted:RE the WGA strike, this is the tweet I saw a while back: Found a link to this trailer through that article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_ZRadM06zo Probably the worst I've seen in a while. Just so badly thought out. edit: produced by Jim Carrey, premiering in a couple of weeks in France of all places, gonna be showing on Showtime.
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MiddleOne posted:It's the second one. "Good" in this case being a relative term just because it's nowhere near the utter-poo poo level of the other two episodes. GreenNight posted:Finally, my dream has come true. Well this is one reboot I would have never expected. I remember watching the original GLOW when I was a kid and not being able to tell whether it was supposed to be comedic or played straight. STAC Goat posted:The first three seasons are legit good. And the third season finale is a very satisfying series finale. It's just that they then undid any good to keep making seasons as an excuse to put Parker in sex scenes. There was nothing good about the U-Turn arc. raditts fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Apr 6, 2017 |
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Shageletic posted:Found a link to this trailer through that article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_ZRadM06zo Fuuuuuuuuck. I already know I'm going to watch this because I'm a comedy nerd, but I bet it'll suffer Studio 60 Syndrome. As in the in-universe comedy performances won't be as funny as they're portrayed to be. I saw Dylan Baker as a Johnny Carson stand-in though, so that's cool. Edit: Also, I'd like a moratorium on things using Blinded By The Light please. Thank you. X-O posted:Don Rickles passed away Appropriate after the above, but drat it. He was quite the legend. raditts posted:Well this is one reboot I would have never expected. I remember watching the original GLOW when I was a kid and not being able to tell whether it was supposed to be comedic or played straight. Wow. I had no idea that it was a reboot. I don't even remember the original at all. Longbaugh01 fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Apr 6, 2017 |
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Longbaugh01 posted:Wow. I had no idea that it was a reboot. I don't even remember the original at all. This appears to be a fictional (or biographical with a lot of exaggerated elements) show about the castng and making of the original GLOW, which stood for Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgeous_Ladies_of_Wrestling
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Longbaugh01 posted:Wow. I had no idea that it was a reboot. I don't even remember the original at all. Yep. It used to come on one of the local UHF stations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgeous_Ladies_of_Wrestling According to that article it seems like it was "real" (as far as pro-wrestling goes) but also had comedy sketches, so I guess that explains my confusion.
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X-O posted:Don Rickles passed away RIP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyxjEuFfxV0
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Longbaugh01 posted:Fuuuuuuuuck. I already know I'm going to watch this because I'm a comedy nerd, but I bet it'll suffer Studio 60 Syndrome. As in the in-universe comedy performances won't be as funny as they're portrayed to be. I saw Dylan Baker as a Johnny Carson stand-in though, so that's cool. Yeah, a comedy series should really be as serious, dour, and full of itself, showing the real suffering of ARTISTS talking about farts
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Shageletic posted:Yeah, a comedy series should really be as serious, dour, and full of itself, showing the real suffering of ARTISTS talking about farts I'm trying to understand how that's a reply to what Longbaugh01 said but I'm failing.
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Lurdiak posted:I'm trying to understand how that's a reply to what Longbaugh01 said but I'm failing. Yeah I don't get it either. That's not what I was saying at all. Maybe they're not familiar with the Studio 60 thing.
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So Pierce Brosnan has a new show that's airing on AMC this Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBwJLfJcOfA Looks like it could be interesting but AMC has blow the potential of good leads before (Low Winter Sun.)
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muscles like this! posted:So Pierce Brosnan has a new show that's airing on AMC this Saturday. Sepinwall said it suuuuuuucked. And he had actually read the book it's based on and loved it. He also said Brosnan's attempts at a Texan accent are the worst he's ever heard iirc.
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Lurdiak posted:I'm trying to understand how that's a reply to what Longbaugh01 said but I'm failing. I'm agreeing with him? That's exactly what happened with Studio 60?
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Longbaugh01 posted:Sepinwall said it suuuuuuucked. And he had actually read the book it's based on and loved it. That's usually how it goes when you've read the books first.
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Shageletic posted:I'm agreeing with him? That's exactly what happened with Studio 60? Oh ok. I mean I got the sarcasm but maybe the phrasing made it sound like a dig.
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IRQ posted:That's usually how it goes when you've read the books first. Yeah, but reading Sepinwall over the years I don't think he'd be the type to let that affect his review. I just mentioned it because he was familiar with the source material and enjoyed the characters, setting, and plot, but did not enjoy the show at all, and in my eyes that must mean it's pretty bad.
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For anyone who enjoyed the original, the Prisonbreak miniseries or whatever it's meant to be started out awesome. e: while I'm generally off topic, Top Gear is good again this season, really good even. If you dropped it while that shitlord Chris Evans was hosting give this season a shot, they stopped trying to have 12 hosts and cut it down to 3, who actually seem to have some genuine chemistry.
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Yeah I enjoyed it a lot too. It got shitted on in reviews, but did those people even watch Prison Break? It's pretty much season 1.
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GreenNight posted:Yeah I enjoyed it a lot too. It got shitted on in reviews, but did those people even watch Prison Break? It's pretty much season 1. I like how practically one of the first lines of it was acknowledging how ridiculous the situation was.
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I can't take Pierce Brosnan seriously with his beard. He looks too much like Gerry Adams.
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The way Sepinwall has been writing about iZombie's improvement this season (of an already good show) makes me really eager to get on it.Longbaugh01 posted:Oh ok. I mean I got the sarcasm but maybe the phrasing made it sound like a dig. I'm that kid in Simpsons who's so sarcastic that he doesn't even know if they're being ironic anymore, so no worries on that front.
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IRQ posted:If you dropped it while that shitlord Chris Evans was hosting give this season a shot, they stopped trying to have 12 hosts and cut it down to 3, who actually seem to have some genuine chemistry. This certainly can't be the Chris Evans I'm thinking of. I didn't know there was another one.
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Longbaugh01 posted:This certainly can't be the Chris Evans I'm thinking of. I didn't know there was another one. Yeah, there is some British Chris Evans, which makes any news about Top Gear really confusing if you don't know that. Also, Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell is back and this week's episode had a really great fake meta bit where actors refused to wear the demon make up.
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Babylon 5 is now on that go90 app on Verizon phones. So I guess I'll be watching the entirety of it on my phone now.
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http://uproxx.com/sepinwall/better-call-saul-review-season-three-gus-fring-breaking-bad-recap/2/ Sepinwall has seen the first 2 episodes of Better Call Saul S3 and says it's great and Gus Fring (I assume we all know this but spoilering just in case.) fits in just fine. GreenNight posted:Babylon 5 is now on that go90 app on Verizon phones. So I guess I'll be watching the entirety of it on my phone now. ....welp I guess it's at least streaming on something. It always makes me sad that there's less of a chance of people discovering it or rediscovering it because of that.
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STAC Goat posted:On a similar topic, I was binging Shameless recently which was a really dumb idea. I hit some wall in Season 6 where I had to just stop because it was too much. I've spent a couple of weeks now looking at it on my Netflix "Continue Watching" and passing it over for something else lighter. Some shows just aren't meant for binging or multiple re-watches. Is it at least worth a watch? I thought I heard about it from others which is why I started watching the first episode but..haven't really gone back to it or had any enthusiasm to go back to it. It's just there in the queue.
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TV Zombie posted:Is it at least worth a watch? I thought I heard about it from others which is why I started watching the first episode but..haven't really gone back to it or had any enthusiasm to go back to it. It's just there in the queue. How much do you like people in lovely situations continually loving up and making their lives a million times worse?
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muscles like this! posted:Yeah, there is some British Chris Evans, which makes any news about Top Gear really confusing if you don't know that. Yeah, sorry, not Captain America, the british one who sucks.
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