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No I mean her movie career blew up, but I worded it poorly so you can read causality into what I said implying that legion was the cause. Rather, I thought that she'd broken through into Hollywood mainstream.
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I don’t think they’re as big of stars as you think they are.
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Feb 4, 2018 15:21
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Yeah Pratt's really the only one who's career exploded, and poor Asiz could have broken into comic auteurism if he wasn't a creep with the ladies.
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Feb 4, 2018 15:27
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hope and vaseline posted:Yeah Pratt's really the only one who's career exploded, and poor Asiz could have broken into comic auteurism if he wasn't a creep with the ladies. Aziz wrote a book and got a couple million for two seasons of a popular Netflix show, even with his career in the dumpster he’ll never have to work again. He is simply not funny enough to get bigger than he already is, IMO. Chris Pratt pulling the Blade 3 Ryan Reynolds “You’re funny but chicks can’t crank it to your dad bod so here’s 10 million worth of personal training and curated meals for a year and now you are a hot slab of beef” is the secret happy ending of Parks & Rec
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Feb 4, 2018 15:31
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hope and vaseline posted:Yeah Pratt's really the only one who's career exploded, and poor Asiz could have broken into comic auteurism if he wasn't a creep with the ladies. Aziz did break into comic auteurism and the creep thing was, what, a month ago? Considering how many people were defending him (and compared to some of the more extreme cases highlighted by the #MeToo movement) he’ll probably be fine. By the standards of people who mostly do standup he was a superstar after Parks and Rec.
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Feb 4, 2018 15:32
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Bust Rodd posted:Chris Pratt pulling the Blade 3 Ryan Reynolds “You’re funny but chicks can’t crank it to your dad bod so here’s 10 million worth of personal training and curated meals for a year and now you are a hot slab of beef” is the secret happy ending of Parks & Rec “I just stopped drinking beer. “How much beer were you drinking?” “...a lot.”
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Feb 4, 2018 15:33
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hope and vaseline posted:Yeah Pratt's really the only one who's career exploded Compare that to the two other popular, critically-acclaimed NBC sitcoms at the time, 30 Rock and Community, and the P&R cast did way better.
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Feb 4, 2018 15:50
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FactsAreUseless posted:Poehler was already a widely-recognized actress, Rashida Jones now mostly directs and writes - she was attached to Toy Story 4 before leaving over differences with Pixar, Nick Offerman has built a recognizable brand out of Ron Swanson, Adam Scott at least gets more TV roles than he did prior to the show, Rob Lowe was already famous and continues to get work, Aubrey Plaza went from a bit player to a well-known actress, Aziz Ansari did fine but whoops. The only main characters who didn't get a big boost from this were Retta, who deserves to be a lot more famous, and Jim O'Heir, who at least got a movie role out of it. Didn’t 30 Rock and Community have atrocious ratings? The better comparison is probably the Office, though I think the P&R cast do better than them too.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Didn’t 30 Rock and Community have atrocious ratings? The better comparison is probably the Office, though I think the P&R cast do better than them too. To be fair, Community absolutely made the careers of half its cast. Gillian Jacobs in particular, who'd spent about five years playing random bit parts in serious dramas before landing the show.
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Feb 4, 2018 16:06
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Henchman of Santa posted:Didn’t 30 Rock and Community have atrocious ratings? The better comparison is probably the Office, though I think the P&R cast do better than them too.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Poehler was already a widely-recognized actress, Rashida Jones now mostly directs and writes - she was attached to Toy Story 4 before leaving over differences with Pixar, Nick Offerman has built a recognizable brand out of Ron Swanson, Adam Scott at least gets more TV roles than he did prior to the show, Rob Lowe was already famous and continues to get work, Aubrey Plaza went from a bit player to a well-known actress, Aziz Ansari did fine but whoops. The only main characters who didn't get a big boost from this were Retta, who deserves to be a lot more famous, and Jim O'Heir, who at least got a movie role out of it. I didn't say the other cast members didn't get a boost to their careers. Pratt literally went from unremarkable sticoms prior to P&R to leading movie roles, which is why he's so noteworthy compared to the rest of them.
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They all had terrible ratings but made stupid oodles of money on DvD sales because millennials don't loving sit down and watch TV when you tell us too, MOM! That's why P&R has a full blown finale and then also a whole additional victory lap season afterwards, they were like "You're cancelled" "ok, lets give our cast the fitting emotional ending it deserves" "Wait, we made 30 million off of DvDs and millions of moms are tuning in because of Pratt's 6-pack, we need another season." "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok?"
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Feb 4, 2018 16:34
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It helps that it was a really good show.
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Retta has a leading role in a new show with Joan and Her?, so that's something at least.
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Yeah, Retta is co-starring in a network dark comedy with a huge ad campaign. I think we're about to see her career gain momentum.Open Source Idiom posted:To be fair, Community absolutely made the careers of half its cast. Gillian Jacobs in particular, who'd spent about five years playing random bit parts in serious dramas before landing the show. Donald Glover just won an Emmy. Before Community, people recognized him as the "Bro Rape" guy.
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MokBa posted:Yeah, Retta is co-starring in a network dark comedy with a huge ad campaign. I think we're about to see her career gain momentum. gently caress that! He was Kevin to me.
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Glover is one the very hardest working people in Showbizness and is even now still concerned that he’ll never elude Bro-Rape.
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I don’t even know what the Bro-Rape thing is. Is that like how Ellie Kemper will always be Blowjob Girl?
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3zvTRQr7ns8 A video he made like 10+ years ago with his comedy troupe, this was during or after he started writing for 30 Rock and I think after his first season on Community, but at least close by.
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Donald Glover is Lando. You can't loving top that.
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Bust Rodd posted:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3zvTRQr7ns8 No idea about 30 Rock, but Bro Rape was at least 3 years before Community.
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Dragonrah posted:No idea about 30 Rock, but Bro Rape was at least 3 years before Community. Yeah bro rape is ancient at this point. And Donald Glover was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Album this year and also created his own show Atlanta. Dude's career is going nowhere but up.
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Oh I agree, but growing up in a post-social media environment means that he could literally be walking on stage to accept an award when a gay rights group retweets Bro-rape #RapeGlove and then the very real chance of backlash from nothing. Also during his infamous Live twitter meltdown from a hotel room he specifically mentions his fear of never growing past bro-rape
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Pussy Quipped posted:From Aubrey Plaza’s instagram: There's a little bit of something in here for everyone.
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Bust Rodd posted:They all had terrible ratings but made stupid oodles of money on DvD sales because millennials don't loving sit down and watch TV when you tell us too, MOM! Speaking of that era of comedies though slightly unrelated, if anyone here has never watched the Office, end after the big wedding episode. Consider that the show finale and you'll be much happier. It felt like the perfect place for the show to end and everything after is assssss.
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I vaguely remember The Office improving in its very last season, but I didn't care enough on my recent re-watch. I stopped after Scott left.
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Blazing Ownager posted:Speaking of that era of comedies though slightly unrelated, if anyone here has never watched the Office, end after the big wedding episode. Literally what I did. As far as I know the show ended there.
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Bust Rodd posted:Yeah the point I was making was that Plaza has been very famous for like 10 years +, LEGION had nothing to do with it, she’s just getting a different kind of coverage now that her fan base opened up to include nerds. He's right. I've never had a nerd talk to me about parks and rec.
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Flyinglemur posted:Donald Glover is Lando. You can't loving top that. The loving Lion King
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Finished. This show is loving amazing. Being a TVIV regular, I fear I am about to reignite a debate that's been hashed out and resulted in multiple probations, so I will phrase it as best I can. Is there a consensus on the existence of Lenny as a physical person? Was the sight of her in the wall an illusion by the Shadow King, or was she a person that existed whose memories were re-purposed for the Shadow King, or can the Shadow King take corporeal form? Again, I haven't read this thread, but if I had to guess I would say 31 out 35 pages are devoted to this. Also, I amend my previous statement that this is Wes Anderson's X-Men to this is if Wes Anderson and Darren Aronofsky teamed up to direct an X-Men show.
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If I recall the general idea: Benny was real and David's friend before the asylum when they were getting high and such. Lenny was real and David's friend in the asylum. She actually died during Syd's freakout. The Shadow King took advantage of David's confusion and mental state and melded the two people into one in his memories so he would be reliant on the advice and guidance of a "long time friend". Shadow Lenny acted as a bridge between the parts of his adult life to basically consolidate his influence and control over David.
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Tortolia posted:If I recall the general idea: This is correct.
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swickles posted:Again, I haven't read this thread, but if I had to guess I would say 31 out 35 pages are devoted to this. Also, I amend my previous statement that this is Wes Anderson's X-Men to this is if Wes Anderson and Darren Aronofsky teamed up to direct an X-Men show. I view it more as an homage to Stanly Kubrick and David Lynch at times. I would be shocked if the people behind the show aren't huge fans.
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I just hope the angriest boy doesn't come back, scariest thing I ever saw on tv
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Goa Tse-tung posted:I just hope the angriest boy doesn't come back, scariest thing I ever saw on tv Farouk ganking the World's Angriest Boy in the World for his own ends really highlights the depths of how hosed up he is. Also, I like how we never find out if TWABITW was a real book or just Shadow King messing with David more.
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algebra testes posted:No I mean her movie career blew up, but I worded it poorly so you can read causality into what I said implying that legion was the cause. Rather, I thought that she'd broken through into Hollywood mainstream. I thought you were saying she got fat 
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Bust Rodd posted:Chris Pratt pulling the Blade 3 Ryan Reynolds “You’re funny but chicks can’t crank it to your dad bod so here’s 10 million worth of personal training and curated meals for a year and now you are a hot slab of beef” is the secret happy ending of Parks & Rec Uh, didn't the Marvel folks pay for that? Like they had to explain it on P&R, but NBC wasn't footing that bill.
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JawnV6 posted:Uh, didn't the Marvel folks pay for that? Like they had to explain it on P&R, but NBC wasn't footing that bill. Marvel paid for him to get buff and NBC used his new found physique and public recognition to push a new season, yes Edit: This is why Johnny Karate got so much loving screen time towards the end
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Bust Rodd posted:She was a main character on an extremely popular cable TV show that ran for 7 years and has been working steadily since it went off the air 5 years ago. She just successfully crossed over from the cutesy-twee crowd to the nerd crowd, so she will automatically be more online since Parks & Rec fans probably don’t have an online community outside of a sub-reddit whereas every nerd/comic book/gaming website talked about Legion. My favourite thing she did was smoking weed with Ali Shawkat on Getting Doug. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCRD7ZddPZo
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