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Nate RFB posted:Fargo S3 has definitely been a clear step down from the first two seasons, which I mostly attribute to the villains being really lame and the standard competent cop character being boring and irrelevant to the point of not even needing to be in the show. Nikki has been the lone bright spot, I like that character a lot. It was pretty funny how after one encounter with Varga's henchmen she was able to completely figure out everything that was happening with Emmit.
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That's standard operating procedure for any Competent Fargo Cop, really. Anyway you'll never hear me disparage Carrie Coon, it's more that Gloria has thus far been a very ineffectual presence due to a variety of reasons.
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Thanks for the mystery reocmmendations guys, there's a ton of these I haven't seen. I also liked Luther and Fargo. Though the first seaosn of Fargo is still my favorite, I liked how it was a bit more grounded than the second season (though it did get pretty cutesy with how severely Minnesotan everything seemed to need to be.) Like others I am lukewarm on the third season but still enjoying watching it. Also I am one of those people who likes anime but didn't like Cowboy Bebop much. Aside from being a pretty good show it was the first anime to air on Adult Swim, so I think it has a special place in people's hearts because of its popularity there and gets brought up a lot more often than it otherwise would because of that. Actually, speaking of crime dramas and anime, Monster is a really good one. I don't want to give away any of the plot because I think it is pretty cool to watch unfold but if you like the idea of an intelligent, character-focused crime thriller with a lot of noir elements set in Germany that just so happens to be animated, check it out.
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Snak posted:Longmire is fuckin awesome. Anybody know if a season 6 is ever coming? I was pleasantly surprised how interesting Longmire was, especially with how it treated relations with the Native American reservation relations and how characters/plot threads would pop up throughout seasons. Plus, I have a soft spot for any show that makes a cheap Buffalo Bills Super Bowl joke.
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LadyPictureShow posted:Anybody know if a season 6 is ever coming? Probably this September.
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Is Longmire serial or episodic with over-arching plots?
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-Blackadder- posted:Is Longmire serial or episodic with over-arching plots? The latter. Like Person of Interest and Justified and such.
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-Blackadder- posted:Is Longmire serial or episodic with over-arching plots? The first season has some week case of the week poo poo, but it does some over-arching by the end of the season. It gets progressively more serialized as it goes on, and seasons 4 and 5 are entirely serialized. Which is, go figure, when it made the move to netflix. But my memory of season 3 is that it was pretty heavily serialized as well.
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I vaguely recall a quote, and it's from one of the major animated shows (Futurama, American Dad, whatever else). It was someone talking about whatever prescription meds, and something like "Well, I am feeling pretty enthused, though that may be because of all the Enthusasil I'm on..." Any ideas?
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sbaldrick posted:How did I not know this existed It's flown under the radar a bit but I think it's very good.
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-Blackadder- posted:Luther is really good. I'm also planning on watching The Fall since I've heard good things about it. The first two seasons of The Fall are brilliant. The third season is awful do not watch it.
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New Ducktales cast members were announced. You've got Jim Rash playing Gyro Gearloose, Paul F. Tompkins as Gladstone Glander, and Allison Janney as "Glittering" Goldie O'Gilt. Boy, Ducktales sure loved their "G" names. Oh, and Character Actress Margo Martindale is playing Ma Beagle because OF COURSE.
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Catching up with Fargo, and a character appears to be using Tinder. On a Blackberry. In a series set in 2010.
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Jun 9, 2017 16:45
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Escobarbarian posted:Catching up with Fargo, and a character appears to be using Tinder. On a Blackberry. In a series set in 2010. Yeah it was a joke
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Jun 9, 2017 16:46
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.....which bit is the joke there? That seems like a stretch.
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Jun 9, 2017 16:49
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It was deliberately absurd. It's funny.
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Escobarbarian posted:.....which bit is the joke there? That seems like a stretch. I think its like the "What year is it anyway?" joke that has been used a couple of times on Archer.
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Jun 9, 2017 17:11
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There were hot or not apps before tinder, okcupid i know had one for a while.
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Jun 9, 2017 17:16
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Myspace was practically a dating site.
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Given that every other technology or social media-based moment in the season has been lovely I'm pretty set on believing it's just another example of that tbh
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Jun 9, 2017 17:22
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lol people are getting pretty desperate to hate on fargo at this point
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That's right, MrA. You got me. It's not at all like I'm not enjoying the season, that it's a huge step down with maybe one decent character and one so terrible and depthless I tune out every time he appears on screen (Varga), and that Hawley's bag of tricks is clearly running out. I'm just desperate to look for reasons to hate it, because......well, I'm not sure what your assertion is exactly. Other than 'dumb' obv
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There's a lot of rape and sexual abuse in the new season of Orange is the New Black. 
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Jun 9, 2017 18:34
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Regy Rusty posted:Yeah it was a joke Was tinder not a thing in 2010? Blackberries still were. IDGI. MiddleOne posted:There's a lot of rape and sexual abuse in the new season of Orange is the New Black. Worse than the mouse? Is the show just trying to be shocking now? I was really fatigued with it by the end of last season and haven't bothered with this one.
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Jun 9, 2017 18:39
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IRQ posted:Worse than the mouse? Is the show just trying to be shocking now? I was really fatigued with it by the end of last season and haven't bothered with this one. Not sure. It's played for laughs at the beginning of the season and then drama towards the end. It feels more random than anything. It's worth saying that this season has a really novel premise if you're on the edge about watching though.
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Rhyno posted:Myspace was practically a dating site. This was true for me. Girls swooned over my CSS.
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precision posted:The first two seasons of The Fall are brilliant. The third season is awful do not watch it. The third season is weird. The story basically ends with S2, and S3 is a long, slow epilogue.
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IRQ posted:Worse than the mouse? Is the show just trying to be shocking now? I was really fatigued with it by the end of last season and haven't bothered with this one. No, not worse. There's some pretty sad and terrible stuff that happens this season, but it's nowhere as near as upsetting as last season. For which I'm glad -- I don't think I could do another season as bleak as the fourth, not for a long time at least. The fourth is still probably my favourite season though -- I think this season's pretty average for the show (so high quality stuff). (The mental illness stuff continues to be stomach churning.) MiddleOne posted:Not sure. It's played for laughs at the beginning of the season and then drama towards the end. It feels more random than anything. (full season spoilers) You mean the guards? If so, I don't really see it the same way.
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Arist posted:lol people are getting pretty desperate to hate on fargo at this point I was actually very interested in liking Fargo this year (the first two seasons are great), but unfortunately the plot and characters this season made that impossible!
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Hot take: This season of Fargo is easily the best one and S2 is the worst by a country mile.
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OldSenileGuy posted:Hot take: This season of Fargo is easily the best one and S2 is the worst by a country mile. I'd be genuinely curious to hear your reasoning. I ranked S1 higher than True Detective that year, and while S2 was a step down it was still engaging and fun. This season was so aggressively dull that I turned off an episode midway through and never felt tempted to go back.
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OldSenileGuy posted:Hot take: This season of Fargo is easily the best one and S2 is the worst by a country mile. I'll go for the hat trick and say season 2 is the best but this is way better than season 1 For my reasoning it comes down to that I really disliked watching Lorne Malvo. He didn't do it for me at all. Lester started off entertaining but I got sick of him as the season went on. Between the two of them I found the season so unpleasant to watch that I almost bailed before the ending. But I stayed with it and the final episode was so great that it went a long way towards redeeming the rest of the season. It's still my least favorite though because most of the time I just didn't enjoy watching it that much. Regy Rusty fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Jun 10, 2017 |
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I've been binge watching The Leftovers for the past few weeks and just finished it. Hot drat, what a great show and an amazing finale.
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Regy Rusty posted:I'll go for the hat trick and say season 2 is the best but this is way better than season 1 The monologues in season 2 were boring as hell and I hated the mute murder injun.
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Season Three is one big ending to Fargo as a series and as Noah has proven consistently, he just can't write a good ending.
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I think this season of Fargo is just as entertaining as ever, but it pulls way too widely from disparate sources and kind of makes almost no sense with only 2 episodes left.
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The main thing really is Varga for me. He's such a lovely character in every way. If there was any attempt to give him depth or anything, I'd probably be able to view the show in a more positive light. But he just slinks around being creepy and making people drink piss and it's no fun at all for me, even with Thewlis in the role.
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Jun 10, 2017 09:09
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I thought this week's episode was pretty good, what with God making an appearance and all.
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Escobarbarian posted:The main thing really is Varga for me. He's such a lovely character in every way. If there was any attempt to give him depth or anything, I'd probably be able to view the show in a more positive light. But he just slinks around being creepy and making people drink piss and it's no fun at all for me, even with Thewlis in the role. Ostensibly we are meant to look at Varga in the same way as a Malvo but he's the exact opposite in terms of charisma; you're just disgusted by him and more than menacing he just comes off as annoying. It was fascinating see Malvo work, the most we've seen of Varga is him googling people and somehow magically hacking everything offscreen.
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PriorMarcus posted:Season Three is one big ending to Fargo as a series and as Noah has proven consistently, he just can't write a good ending. This is still nonsense no matter how much you try to assert it
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