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Rhyno posted:There's a scene in the Fringe finale between Walter and Peter and it's so drat wonderful, I rewatched it the other day and I still get a little teary eyed. Like the last season isn't great as a season, but boy howdy does it still bring some thunder in it's interpersonal moments. It's why I can't really back the people who said it should have ended at 4. That last Peter/Walter moment is gold.
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A Youtube show called Stars in the House had a little conference call reunion of the Crazy Ex Girlfriend cast, and since Rachel Bloom is a huge Frasier fan they had Peri Gilpin and David Hyde Pierce also pop in. She was crying a little, it was adorable.
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Jul 18, 2020 07:45
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Chairman Capone posted:Probably the most unintentionally funny example of that is when Jim accidentally causes Pam's parents to get divorced because Pam's dad realizes he will never be able to love her mom as much as Jim loves Pam. What an absolutely ridiculous thing to do. That was the dumbest poo poo. My god
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Jul 18, 2020 08:49
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Medullah posted:They really should have just ended it after Season 4. I disagree, season 5 was very good, just not quite as good as the other.
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Jul 18, 2020 12:09
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Oasx posted:I disagree, season 5 was very good, just not quite as good as the other. It has moments for sure, but man I really don't like the direction they went with the Observers. I originally HATED the future episode of season 4 and they decided to make it a full season
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Jul 18, 2020 12:59
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Fringe was all over the loving place in every way possible. Ultimately it nailed the emotional beats while the specifics of the plots got swapped in and out as needed. I can see loving or hating any particular season, especially since season 5 was such a break, but it also had some great moments. https://youtu.be/cGcHVXyLxcE I’m mid-season 2 of Person of Interest, but I may need to rewatch Fringe.
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Jul 18, 2020 14:28
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What they did with the Observers was certainly disappointing and a lot less cool than everything they implied about them and how downright weird they were in previous seasons. However once you accept that disappointment and roll with it there's still plenty of great stuff in season five.
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Jul 18, 2020 15:18
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Big Mean Jerk posted:IIRC Ken Jennings did some guest hosting earlier this year and he’s been the main guy rumored to take over when Alex retires or passes. I’d be okay with that. The guy’s a little bland but he seems like an okay dude. I don't think Ken has ever guest-hosted. In any event, Trebek is on record that he wants a woman of color to take over for him.
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Jul 18, 2020 15:21
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Laterite posted:https://twitter.com/vulture/status/1284160217014575106 This kind of destroys me as my mom was just diagnosed with the same thing last week and I've been frantically looking for examples of people who beat this loving thing for the sake of my anxiety and sanity. She doesn't want to undergo chemotherapy as a friend recently passed away, seeming to lose the will to go on after just three sessions but after talking and thinking it over last weekend she's decided to give it a try. Reading what Alex is saying there just makes me feel like there's no hope if the 'treatment' is so bad he'd just rather not.
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Jul 18, 2020 15:31
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God, at least three episodes of Preacher has now been about Cass escaping his cell and then being caught again. Meanwhile it's perfectly okay to show a disembodied anus pooping out a glass vial but they're only allowed to say "gently caress" once per season.
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Jul 18, 2020 15:43
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Alhazred posted:Meanwhile it's perfectly okay to show a disembodied anus pooping out a glass vial Wait what? Did I miss something important in the last season
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Jul 18, 2020 16:33
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Sentinel Red posted:This kind of destroys me as my mom was just diagnosed with the same thing last week and I've been frantically looking for examples of people who beat this loving thing for the sake of my anxiety and sanity. She doesn't want to undergo chemotherapy as a friend recently passed away, seeming to lose the will to go on after just three sessions but after talking and thinking it over last weekend she's decided to give it a try. Reading what Alex is saying there just makes me feel like there's no hope if the 'treatment' is so bad he'd just rather not. I'm sorry for your mom. I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but pancreatic cancer is an almost-certain death sentence. Depending on the type, there are treatment options (aggressive chemo, a Whipple procedure if appropriate) but the five-year survival rate is under ten percent. 
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Milo and POTUS posted:Wait what? Did I miss something important in the last season In the third season the allfather hides the glass vial with a part of Jesse's soul up his rear end. He then blows up and his anus then poops out the glass vial
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Jul 18, 2020 18:05
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah I just finished Cursed. It's really really good. It's dramatic and clever, and has a lot of really, really good casting. I wish I was as into it as you. I think it gets pretty decent eventually, but the like first 3 or so episodes are pretty loving bad, in my opinion. It looks incredibly cheap, and the world building feels equally as cheap (the history of this show is absolute loving nonsense), the character relationships are dull and clichéd as gently caress. Like I said, I do think it gets decent, though it never quite gets beyond feeling like someone's LARP campaign. The main actress is also blindingly terrible and I have no idea how she landed a role in anything that wasn't amateur theatre, everyone else walks in circles around her, even the kids. But it's fun and trashy enough for a binge session.
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Jul 19, 2020 01:09
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Fringechat got me to rewatch some of the emotional doozies it mentioned... and then YouTube dropped the scene where broyles trips balls and I forgot how funny that show could be.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Fringechat got me to rewatch some of the emotional doozies it mentioned... and then YouTube dropped the scene where broyles trips balls and I forgot how funny that show could be. Yeah I didn't really enjoy the animated style of that episode but that was hilarious. It's also jarring rewatching the pilot because Broyles is such an enormous dick to Olivia for no reason. Glad that was dropped instantly. It's also funny rewatching and seeing just how many times Walter pees or talks about peeing.
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Jul 19, 2020 04:48
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I saw the pilot again because of the discussion and it's kind of annoying how obviously Michael Giacchino just reused his music from Lost.
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Jul 19, 2020 05:22
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Mu Zeta posted:I saw the pilot again because of the discussion and it's kind of annoying how obviously Michael Giacchino just reused his music from Lost. Giacchino is weird in that he always either knocks it out of the park or completely phones it in. There’s no middle ground and the only outlier is Rogue One, where he only had ~2 months to compose and record the whole thing. The Fringe theme still slaps though. I haven’t watched the show since it ended but I can still recall the theme tune like it was yesterday.
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Jul 19, 2020 05:32
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Giacchino is weird in that he always either knocks it out of the park or completely phones it in. There’s no middle ground and the only outlier is Rogue One, where he only had ~2 months to compose and record the whole thing. I always remember that honey-nut cheerios ad that ripped it off.
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Jul 19, 2020 05:33
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I'm rewatching Community, and it's really noticeable how it goes from pretty good to some of the best TV comedy about halfway through the second season.
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Jul 19, 2020 07:55
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Medullah posted:Yeah I didn't really enjoy the animated style of that episode but that was hilarious. Broyles is a dick because she prosecuted his friend, the bald guy working for ZTF who blows up later in the first season, during her time as a military prosecutor. It takes him half a season to really trust her and that’s when the friend shows up to start messing with Olivia.
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Jul 19, 2020 10:15
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Looten Plunder posted:Have you finished it yet? The Zoom episode was awesome and hit me in the feels as well. I normally can't watch any of these webcam content/episodes coming out right now but Mythic Quest set the bar really high. Pleasantly surprised at how good it is. Despite the whole episode looking like a zoom meeting the pacing of the jokes and editing still feels like the show and also the Poppy actress is really good.
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Fister Roboto posted:I'm rewatching Community, and it's really noticeable how it goes from pretty good to some of the best TV comedy about halfway through the second season. I’ve always felt Community is the rare comedy where season 1 was the best one.
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Jul 19, 2020 15:16
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I just watched the pilot of Breaking Bad. The show is so hyped that I was worried I'd be poisoned to it, but I enjoyed it. That said, I've seen all of BoJack Horseman and it's so loving weird hearing Todd's voice come out of this dude's face. I feel like it's influencing my read on the character, ha. My goal is to get through this, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, The Wire, and The Sopranos in the next two years; those seem like the big shows of the last 20 years that I missed during their run, mostly due to lack of HBO.
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Jul 19, 2020 15:55
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Add Barry if you’re on an HBO kick.
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Jul 19, 2020 15:56
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GreenNight posted:Add Barry if you’re on an HBO kick. And Deadwood.
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Rome yo Carnivale too
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I understand that Disney doesn’t release Disney plus in a bunch of international markets because other streaming services probably still have rights for a lot of their content and they’re waiting for that to expire, but you’d think they would fast track it since it’s just money they’re leaving on the table with this pandemic
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Shageletic posted:Rome yo Yes Shageletic posted:Carnivale too gently caress yes
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Jul 19, 2020 19:06
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Tyler Whitney posted:Broyles is a dick because she prosecuted his friend, the bald guy working for ZTF who blows up later in the first season, during her time as a military prosecutor. It takes him half a season to really trust her and that’s when the friend shows up to start messing with Olivia. Yeah but he was REALLY bad in the pilot. It was antagonistic rather than low key being a dick
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Jul 19, 2020 19:09
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The pilot was mostly really good aside from some growing pains like Broyles, but the fact that JJ Abrams thought he could do the opening titles himself again like with Lost was hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aki5f0mztXs
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Jul 19, 2020 19:20
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I kind of like the retro element with the misaligned projector, as the whole show was kind of a stealth 80s nostalgia piece.
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Jul 19, 2020 19:22
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Does anyone know what happened with those vinyl albums the show made and sold to used record stores? I’ve been looking for one for what feel like a decade now. I know they’re probably just cheap garbage anyway. Maybe they lied when they said there were hundreds of them and the two or three that turned up were all there ever were?
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Jul 19, 2020 19:24
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More shows need bullets that make corpses float.
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Jul 19, 2020 19:25
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I kind of like the retro element with the misaligned projector, as the whole show was kind of a stealth 80s nostalgia piece. Me too, and I liked that the tech in the placards changed when it was a flashback episode or alternate universe episode.
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Jul 19, 2020 19:34
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Between Warrior Nun and Cursed, I’m digging this Netflix move toward female led series.
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Jul 19, 2020 20:03
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Hopefully they make a good one one day.
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Jul 19, 2020 20:17
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Ariza posted:Hopefully they make a good one one day.
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Josh Lyman posted:I just watched the pilot of Cursed and yeah, this script is pretty embarrassing. Above average production value though, like all Netflix originals. The production values are what turned me off the most. It was like watching a VR/simulation of a fantasy world within an episode of Black Mirror. I had to shut it off after 10 minutes.
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Numberwang!!! posted:The production values are what turned me off the most. It was like watching a VR/simulation of a fantasy world within an episode of Black Mirror. I had to shut it off after 10 minutes. If you thought it was bad that early you should skip to the last ~2 minutes of the episode to see some absolutely terrible cgi animals and an incredibly cheesy transition to credits. I'm actually still watching but suffice to say I don't think production values or the acting of the lead are strengths.
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