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Mu Zeta posted:Great another grimdark cop show. After Low Winter Sun I never want to see another prestige crime show again. Tin Star owns tho
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# ? Jan 3, 2018 22:23 |
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https://twitter.com/emilyrauhala/status/948499438141628416 precision posted:Tin Star owns tho Nah, it's a huge embarrassment for everyone involved.
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# ? Jan 3, 2018 22:30 |
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precision posted:Tin Star owns tho Tin Star was the worst show I watched last year and I felt bad for Tim Roth.
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# ? Jan 3, 2018 22:31 |
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Tin Star put out a pretty wicked CD like 20 years ago. Edit: Ha, nevermind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD52wDTEPc0
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# ? Jan 3, 2018 22:38 |
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Yeah, I watched the first episode of Tin Star and hated it, as much as I liked that it had the guts to kill off the kid, removing that awful child actor from the show
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# ? Jan 3, 2018 22:39 |
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AngryBooch posted:Tin Star was the worst show I watched last year and I felt bad for Tim Roth. less laughter posted:Nah, it's a huge embarrassment for everyone involved. really? explain? i thought it was great
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# ? Jan 3, 2018 22:46 |
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precision posted:really? explain? i thought it was great I actually thought the first episode had some promise but it went astray starting with the reveal about who the real badguys are, and how loving incompetent they are. Often, the characters do things that are neither in line with their character or make logical sense. At one point, three people decide they need to cover up a murder... of a man who had illegally broken and entered a house while armed with a silenced pistol to murder them all. At one point, a character gets stockholm syndrome in literally 2 hours. Hendrick's character, who we're ostensibly supposed to root for later in the series, wants to blackmail the company she works for to improve her position and threatens a witness's life to do it. She's literally the same as the corporate bad guy.
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# ? Jan 3, 2018 23:33 |
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AngryBooch posted:I actually thought the first episode had some promise but it went astray starting with the reveal about who the real badguys are, and how loving incompetent they are. To be fair she's a traumatised teenage girl with a hunky kidnapper.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 00:33 |
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I quit watching after the show had the daughter ask Tim Roth a question out of nowhere for the sole purpose of having him lie to her about it so it could come back on him later. I'm so done with conflict centered around families lying to each other.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 00:48 |
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What has Stephen Dorff even been doing? Last I saw him was a few years ago selling e-cigs.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 01:40 |
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bentacos posted:What has Stephen Dorff even been doing? Last I saw him was a few years ago selling e-cigs. You just answered your own question
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 01:41 |
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bentacos posted:What has Stephen Dorff even been doing? Last I saw him was a few years ago selling e-cigs. Last I saw him in was a flick called American Hero last year about a loser who gets telekinetic powers. He was a ton of fun in it.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 01:53 |
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Looking up something unrelated on IMDB and I just learned that there's going to be a new British TV adaptation of the Moomin stories with a hell of a cast. Taron Egerton - Moomintroll Kate Winslet - Mrs. Fillyjonk Rosamund Pik - Moominmamma Richard Ayoade - The Ghost Matt Berry - Moominpappa
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 02:15 |
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Okay, serious question inspired by another thread. What is the popular opinion on Ed Pisker? I mean, Hip Hop Family Tree is excellent but he kind of looks like the biggest tool in the box.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 02:29 |
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Wot if Anthony Fontano but hip hop
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 02:37 |
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precision posted:Tin Star owns tho We're the only two that think that. Most people seem to think it's just a bad tryhard grimdark immitation of a bunch of other shows. I've never seen another show that forces the viewer into the perspective of various characters so well. Like the show is literally about judging characters based on how their actions seem from your limited perspective. So it's a story that's constantly showing characters do things for reasons that aren't explained to us. As we get more an more information about each character, things start to come together. It's really well done and pretty damning of general grimdark badassery.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 02:42 |
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precision posted:Wot if Anthony Fontano but hip hop
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 02:43 |
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I'm rewatching some peak 30 Rock and holy crap how did I forget how great this show was
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 03:09 |
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precision posted:I'm rewatching some peak 30 Rock and holy crap how did I forget how great this show was There's a reason Bob Greenblatt keeps begging Tina Fey to bring it back.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 03:12 |
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"Put down your meth, slip on your whites, come on America it's tennis night"
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 03:28 |
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"Canada? Why not just go to Iraq?"
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 03:53 |
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Travelers s2 was pretty good. Def chexk it out if you liked the first season. If you didn't like the first season, it's not going to change your mind. It doesn't really shore up any of the flaws, but it keeps doing what it's doing in an great way.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 06:26 |
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Snak posted:Travelers s2 was pretty good. I think it does fix a lot of the flaws. It's miles easier to follow and the story flows a lot better. Especially toward the second half of the season when all the pieces start to fit together. There are some stellar episodes in season 2.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 06:28 |
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Episode 7 is insanely cool
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 06:33 |
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I think the biggest flaw in travellees is that there just isn't enough character development. It's like they toy with the idea, but thats like 5% of the show. Tmshe show is like 60% rote plot jargon and 35% really cool time travel ideas. The story isn't really enough to carry the show without investment in the characters. The characters aren't developed enough to lend real stakes to the plot. So you're left with some good ideas that are hardly ever explored. You do get some peeks at the characters, but a lot of that is cyclical. I feel like most of the characters individual stories were the same in both seasons. Season 3 is going to have to really dig into the characters to work, and the show hasn't really demonstrated that it's capable of doing that.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 06:37 |
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Regy Rusty posted:Episode 7 is insanely cool Amanda Tapping directed that episode, and 8-9 as well as 4.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 06:41 |
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Rhyno posted:Okay, serious question inspired by another thread. Maybe the single best storyteller working in comics at the moment. He has an incredible grasp of cartooning, he takes on these ambitious projects, and he makes them work. Long before he was any kind of name, I had Harvey Pekar's The Beats: A Graphic History, which Piskor drew most of. I have all four Hip Hop Family Tree volumes, which are gorgeous books, after falling in love with the 2014 Free Comic Book Day issue. I can't wait for the matching oversized volumes of X-Men: Grand Design, but to support him, I even went out and bought the #1 issue, and I almost never buy single issues anymore and NEVER double-dip when I know collected editions are coming. Mike Allred remains my favorite artist working in comics, but Ed Piskor and Tom Scioli have really risen up my list of top talents. There's an interesting podcast where both of them are interviewed at the same time. They're both Pittsburgh pals and even share a studio: https://boingboing.net/2014/08/23/tmsidk30.html Piskor seems very cocky and brash in this interview and another more recent one (Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men), with none of the typical self-deprecation most pros at least attempt. But he has earned the right to be cocky.
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Lord help me, I think the final season of The Good Wife is about the 2016 election.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 08:05 |
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Maybe the single best storyteller working in comics at the moment. He has an incredible grasp of cartooning, he takes on these ambitious projects, and he makes them work. Long before he was any kind of name, I had Harvey Pekar's The Beats: A Graphic History, which Piskor drew most of. I have all four Hip Hop Family Tree volumes, which are gorgeous books, after falling in love with the 2014 Free Comic Book Day issue. I can't wait for the matching oversized volumes of X-Men: Grand Design, but to support him, I even went out and bought the #1 issue, and I almost never buy single issues anymore and NEVER double-dip when I know collected editions are coming. This went in the wrong thread. All the January 2018 threads have too similar titles drat it! Thanks for answering though.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 08:08 |
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precision posted:I'm rewatching some peak 30 Rock and holy crap how did I forget how great this show was
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 14:21 |
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I found The Wire Season 1 at Walmart for $10 so it became a late Christmas present and, even though it's been a slow buildup to this point, I'm enjoying it. Think I just finished episode 4, the one with the topless, lesbian makeout session at the end.Rhyno posted:I don't want to live in a world where Frisky Dingo ever becomes less funny. I got bored with the second season's campaign and gave up on it during its first run. I didn't actually finish that season until [as] was streaming it sometime last year and wished I'd have stuck with it, because the last 5-6 episodes are as fun as the first season.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 15:52 |
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CBJSprague24 posted:I found The Wire Season 1 at Walmart for $10 so it became a late Christmas present and, even though it's been a slow buildup to this point, I'm enjoying it. Think I just finished episode 4, the one with the topless, lesbian makeout session at the end. The world building is slow but amazing, so when things get a kick up the butt you’re insanely invested as you know the ins and outs of both sides. I love season 1 so much.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 17:06 |
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Surprising no one, Megan Ganz had it out with Dan Harmon on Twitter.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 18:47 |
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Man, I've pretty much had enough of Dan Harmon for the rest of my life.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 19:08 |
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https://twitter.com/EW/status/948982476222935040 I feel like there was something else he was supposed to be working on
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 19:24 |
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zoux posted:I feel like there was something else he was supposed to be working on Fantasy Football is over for the season.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 19:47 |
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AFAIK, he's not really involved with that series to a significant degree. Someone else was writing it I think.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 20:06 |
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bull3964 posted:AFAIK, he's not really involved with that series to a significant degree. Someone else was writing it I think. Yeah, Jeff Buhler wrote the TV movie that served as the pilot and they put together a writers room a while back to assemble scripts. Martin has an executive producer credit because he wrote the short story but he isn't really part of it. Rhyno posted:Man, I've pretty much had enough of Dan Harmon for the rest of my life. Yeah, his pseudo-apologies are really starting to wear thin, especially in that exchange with Ganz--he can't actually own up to what he did, he's saying she has to publicly accuse him and say what he did to her before he'll cop to it, which is 31 flavors of manipulative bullshit.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 20:10 |
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Dan Harmon is definitely a piece of poo poo.
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# ? Jan 4, 2018 20:26 |
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Timby posted:Surprising no one, Megan Ganz had it out with Dan Harmon on Twitter. Wait I'm allowed to get pissed that my boss is a dumb piece of poo poo who treats me like garbage? Or did I miss Harmon doing something else?
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