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Aardvark! posted:Did anybody here actually watch this? It feels like it's been in the top 5 of Netflix for like 3 months, but I only recall a couple comments that it sucked I had honestly thought it was cancelled during its first season.
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Gonz posted:My mother watched both Manifest AND Debris, and I cannot be convinced otherwise that those shows aren’t actually one in the same. Lost clones are BACK, baby! Anyone remember FlashForward, Alcatraz, or The Event? None of those were actually good, but those three shows soured me on starting any network "mystery" shows in the first season or two.
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Debris is the X-Files type show from the Fringe team. Fringe became good but unfortunately the first ~20 episodes or so were boring as heck. Guess they didn't learn their lesson.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:It should also be noted that Cruise doing his own stunts is “good for the production” because it means they don’t have to pay stunt doubles and it’s actually kind of lovely for Cruise to be stealing their work. Film crew member checking in: 1. They absolutely have one or more stunt doubles on the clock in full HMUW for exigent circumstances. From my personal experiences, Chris Meloni did 95% of his own stunts and fights on Happy, but there was a double there ready to go every single day in a bald cap and Happy had maybe 1% of the budget of a M:I. 2. There's absolutely a huge stunt rigging team for safety and setup of the stunts themselves 3. Those doubles, coordinators, and riggers absolutely were present for Cruise's stunt training and rehearsals, for which there were probably more prep days than would be had filming traditionally with doubles. 4. The stunt team absolutely had to be bigger because it was Cruise himself doing the stunts and the margin of safety had to be greater than if it were an anonymous, replaceable stuntie doing it. Tldr: Cruise doing his own stunts let that department buy a lot of houses.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Like I said, I think she's great -- though in two of those shows she was hampered by poor writing. Rose Leslie had to emotionally justify the main villain's motives in a single episode of Utopia, she was awesome.
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Aardvark! posted:Did anybody here actually watch this? It feels like it's been in the top 5 of Netflix for like 3 months, but I only recall a couple comments that it sucked I watched the premiere because the lead was guest star in that really good Travelers episode and don't remember anything from it. When I heard of its success I assume it's because the storyline is 'ordinary people suddenly become very important for global survival' like the average YA story but not with teenagers.
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do you think it's too late for Netflix to give The 4400 a final season?  fake edit: oh wow CW is rebooting it already
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Aardvark! posted:do you think it's too late for Netflix to give The 4400 a final season? Huh. I kept seeing "The 4400: A Brand New Show" ads on CW stuff, but I thought it was "new" like Netflix's "new to Netflix" thing.
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Aardvark! posted:Did anybody here actually watch this? It feels like it's been in the top 5 of Netflix for like 3 months, but I only recall a couple comments that it sucked Watched the pilot with family and had the worst dialogue Ive listened to in awhile
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WhiteHowler posted:Lost clones are BACK, baby! I wanted more of Alcatraz and also more of The River with Bruce Greenwood
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Oh dip, the AMC+ has Kids in the Hall.
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hey guys i'm really sorry i made fun of tom cruise where can i wash the thetans out???
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Remember his irresponsible crusade against psychiatry and all anti depressants.
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muscles like this! posted:Oh dip, the AMC+ has Kids in the Hall. Speaking of, when is Prime Video going to debut the new series? It may get me to actually use that service.
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Edward Mass posted:Speaking of, when is Prime Video going to debut the new series? It may get me to actually use that service. They're currently editing it so it's on its way.
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Aardvark! posted:Did anybody here actually watch this? It feels like it's been in the top 5 of Netflix for like 3 months, but I only recall a couple comments that it sucked I binged through all of it. I wouldn't say it's amazing that people definitely need to watch it. I watch mediocre TV while eating lunch and dinner, and it served that purpose. I'll watch whatever Netflix puts out. The story was mildly interesting, and I'm interested in seeing how it ends.
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WhiteHowler posted:Lost clones are BACK, baby! Alcatraz was bad. The Event was so bonkers and insane it seemed to be that these NBC showrunners were aware they were never going to get a second season anyway so they just end it in the most amazing "paint yourself into a corner" way possible. It's hilarious. It's also the least like LOST because it answers all its mysteries in the most nuts manner possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdKkbA5P5qI Assepoester fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Aug 29, 2021 |
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My favorite Lost clone was the one about a group of lottery winners that were secretly connected to each other and there was some massive conspiracy. Why the hell would you make that the premise for a show.
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Mu Zeta posted:My favorite Lost clone was the one about a group of lottery winners that were secretly connected to each other and there was some massive conspiracy. Why the hell would you make that the premise for a show. Wasn't that the numbers sub plot IN Lost?
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Wasnt there one about a robbery and everyone knew each other and they tried to build a season out of flashing back to like 1 hour
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Shageletic posted:Wasnt there one about a robbery and everyone knew each other and they tried to build a season out of flashing back to like 1 hour The Nine, yeah. With Chi McBride.
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Mu Zeta posted:My favorite Lost clone was the one about a group of lottery winners that were secretly connected to each other and there was some massive conspiracy. Why the hell would you make that the premise for a show. Dunno if it's that one or a separate lottery based LOST clone, but there was Windfall where a group of people all went in on the lottery together as a regular thing but then they win and it tears them all apart. Such exciting plotlines as: one of the winners being almost divorced, but then the ex wants in on the money! And: Lady's ex contacts her and is all "I saw that the numbers that won were my birthday and that you won, so you must still have a thing for me". I almost wish I had watched more than the first episode, but i could feel that cancellation coming from like five minutes in and definitely wasn't going to keep up week to week. That level of middle of the road trash really needs as few barriers to entry as possible, which I'm sure helped Manifest a lot.
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Truspeaker posted:Dunno if it's that one or a separate lottery based LOST clone, but there was Windfall where a group of people all went in on the lottery together as a regular thing but then they win and it tears them all apart. Such exciting plotlines as: one of the winners being almost divorced, but then the ex wants in on the money! And: Lady's ex contacts her and is all "I saw that the numbers that won were my birthday and that you won, so you must still have a thing for me". I think I was confusing Windfall with The Nine mentioned above. They all sound terrible.
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I liked Wayword Pines. Show got off the rails and I'm always down for that.
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It's maybe not quite a Lost clone but there was the Syfy miniseries/backdoor pilot Ascension from a few years ago, premised on the idea that JFK secretly had a generation ship launched towards Alpha Centauri, but the culture onboard remains in the 1960s, so it was very obviously "Mad Men in space". And halfway through you learn the ship isn't real, everyone onboard just thinks they've been in space for 50 years but they're actually just sitting in a bunker on Earth so that they can be observed by sociologists. And then the show ends with someone developing psychic powers and actually teleporting everyone to Alpha Centauri.
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IIRC there was also a thing where scientists outside the spaceship would steal inventions that the crew made and that's where we got all our technology for the last 50 years.
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Chairman Capone posted:It's maybe not quite a Lost clone but there was the Syfy miniseries/backdoor pilot Ascension from a few years ago, premised on the idea that JFK secretly had a generation ship launched towards Alpha Centauri, but the culture onboard remains in the 1960s, so it was very obviously "Mad Men in space". What really? I think I stopped watching very quickly past the halfway point.
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I won't say that Sophie Okenado's performance on Brittania represents the high point of her career, because I still think that's her role in The Slap, but it's certainly the most fun I've ever had watching her in a show. She's really loving good.Chairman Capone posted:It's maybe not quite a Lost clone but there was the Syfy miniseries/backdoor pilot Ascension from a few years ago, premised on the idea that JFK secretly had a generation ship launched towards Alpha Centauri, but the culture onboard remains in the 1960s, so it was very obviously "Mad Men in space". Yeah, there was a lot of pointless convolution to the plot. Though IIRC the psychic space jump was implied to be the entire point of the ridiculous setup. But let's be fair to the L O S T clones, the original was just as stupid. Just in the same way that once answers starting coming on Evil, that show will end up being just as dumb as The X-Files.
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Hey Siri how do I pause time so I can rewatch LOST with no repercussions
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A lot of my fondness for Lost directly relates to the threads here. It was some good times.
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Escobarbarian posted:Hey Siri how do I pause time so I can rewatch LOST with no repercussions You'll never got those brain cells back. I still regret watching a lot of Season 2. e.g. when they introduced Hurley's food addiction and hording sensibilities to explain why the actor hadn't lost weight. Or the Charley addiction arc -- Fire + Water is one of the worst episodes of television ever produced, and that was a whole year before Stranger In A Strange Land, the one everyone goes on about. Man, a lot of that show loving sucked.
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Lost is still a great show, especially the ending. But it's also very much a product of its time in regards to female characters, people of color etc.
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The guy playing Jack annoyingly overacts so much. DON'T PUSH THE BUTTON, JOHN!
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What I would give for some of my favorite shows to have had even 21 episodes, much less 121. It's easy to remember the terrible parts of Lost, then the really fun parts, but boy oh boy was there so much filler.
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Extremely glad the last kingdom is getting a final season, I really love it.
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My favorite thing about Lost was when a character would get some much needed development in the flashback as usual so you think you finally know what they're about but then the actor gets arrested for a DUI and then we get another flashback that undoes all that development and it turns out that no, they were actually a real poo poo and then they die.Chairman Capone posted:It's maybe not quite a Lost clone but there was the Syfy miniseries/backdoor pilot Ascension from a few years ago, premised on the idea that JFK secretly had a generation ship launched towards Alpha Centauri, but the culture onboard remains in the 1960s, so it was very obviously "Mad Men in space". Assepoester fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Aug 29, 2021 |
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isaboo posted:also more of The River with Bruce Greenwood
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