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Ainsley McTree posted:Bodie is in an episode of the sopranos. I think it’s in season one, he fucks up stealing a truck. There's crossovers? Please show me on the chart how many steps removed Munch is from all this.
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The Sopranos improves and gets darker in the later seasons. The creator David Chase was sickened by and became disillusioned with the audience loving and rooting for Tony. If I may oversimplify it, the show grows more and more explicit with stating These People Are Monsters And You Should Not Be Cheering For Them. I shift on my #1, but in my TV opinion, it's The Wire and The Sopranos at the top and everything else is a way distant 3rd.
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Dec 23, 2018 12:37
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Breaking Bad #3 Homicide #2 Darkwing Duck #1
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Dec 23, 2018 12:41
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The shield is decent and while it does get very actiony I don’t think it’s any more unrealistic than wire season 5 got. Though it’s weird as the show can’t decide whether the protagonist’s brutality is good or not. CharlestheHammer fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Dec 23, 2018 |
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Dec 23, 2018 15:34
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I adore The Shield for how much of a piece of poo poo Vic Mackey is. The fall of the strike team is like the best thing put to screen. The Shield Sopranos The Wire
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Dec 23, 2018 19:48
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Ainsley McTree posted:Bodie is in an episode of the sopranos. I think it’s in season one, he fucks up stealing a truck. Pretty sure it is the very first episode. I rewatched the Sopranos recently and there were a bunch of Wire cast members here and there. I posted a list. I'll find it using that "?" button in SALR. Edit: Here it is... deoju posted:I rewatched the Sopranos recently, Wire alums pop up in bit parts here and there. deoju fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Dec 24, 2018 |
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Dec 24, 2018 04:06
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Who has the most depressing arc in the series? For me it’s Dukie
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Dec 24, 2018 16:13
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Who has the most depressing arc in the series? For me it’s Dukie Hard to top dukie but randy comes close
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Dec 24, 2018 17:56
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Yeah I forgot about Randy’s that’s really lovely
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Dec 24, 2018 23:25
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Randy and Dukie are heartbreaking in different ways. You think Randy has so much potential, and then the system chews him up, but Dukie never had a chance. And then there's Namond, who you are sure is gonna be gobbled up by the corner, but Bunny takes an interest in him, and he gets a chance. Donut's kinda the foil to all of them. He starts off being interested in nothing but stealing cars. He continues being interested in nothing but cars, and the last thing you see that season is him blowing through a stop sign in a stolen car... His path didn't change at all while the others' did. Edit: Donut's my dude. I love that kid. deoju fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Dec 24, 2018 |
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Dec 24, 2018 23:48
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Donut is hilarious. I love that scene with Bodie on his corner where there’s just a quick shot of Donut rolling past with the window down and music blasting.
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Dec 25, 2018 02:02
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Kevyn posted:Donut is hilarious. I love that scene with Bodie on his corner where there’s just a quick shot of Donut rolling past with the window down and music blasting. I’d watch a pulpy spinoff series that’s about a grown-up donut as a high-stakes car thief
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Dec 25, 2018 02:13
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Ainsley McTree posted:I'd watch a pulpy spinoff series that's about a grown-up donut as a high-stakes car thief Go watch "The 12 O'Clock Boys" instead.
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Dec 25, 2018 02:59
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banned from Starbucks posted:I adore The Shield for how much of a piece of poo poo Vic Mackey is. The fall of the strike team is like the best thing put to screen. Absolutely. The Shield may be a lot more cartoonish than something like The Wire, but god drat is it absolutely gripping. I also don't know if I've ever had a show finish where I felt quite as satisfied with the end as I did with The Shield. Also, not a drama like most mentioned here but one of my all time favourite shows with some incredible writing where not a line of dialogue is wasted to me is The Thick Of It. To me its as perfect a show as I've seen and have to hold it up there with company like The Wire, The Shield, Breaking Bad etc.
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Dec 25, 2018 16:49
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Yeah, the writing in The Thick of It (and In The Loop) is really exquisite. I know that Veep is basically the American version of the show, and I admire the hell out of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but Peter Capaldi's diatribes are up there with Al in Deadwood or Batiatus in Spartacus. Just marvelous.
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One thing that’s helpful to know about the thick of it is that one of the lead characters mysteriously disappears after season one because the actor got in trouble for (I think, and I hope I’m not defaming him) child pornography, so if his departure seems abrupt, it is. Doesn’t impact the quality of the show, it’s just puzzling if you don’t know what happened. And yeah Malcolm tucker is just a force of nature.
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Ainsley McTree posted:One thing that’s helpful to know about the thick of it is that one of the lead characters mysteriously disappears after season one because the actor got in trouble for (I think, and I hope I’m not defaming him) child pornography, so if his departure seems abrupt, it is. No defaming you’re spot on. It makes it a bit difficult sometimes, but he is also brilliant in the show so the conflict is real. The way they got rid of him still made sense on the context of the show with how brutal politics can be. One minute you’re a somebody (kinda) next you’re gone. There’s really no weak characters and the only one who maybe is, is basically constantly getting the piss taken out of them for being a weak character. Otherwise the writing is just magnificent - even having swearing consultants come in to make the insults and nicknames as creative and perfect as possible. There was just always something about the show that made me feel the same care went into it to make it great as did something like The Wire. Tucker is a force of nature - as they say - would you rather him rumbling slowly towards you like stomach cancer or appearing suddenly like a stroke? But all the characters are so rich and just through their interactions with each other you get such a great insight into what sort of people they are. thepokey fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Dec 25, 2018 |
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Dec 25, 2018 22:50
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deoju posted:I rewatched the Sopranos recently, Wire alums pop up in bit parts here and there. There's one you missed: Michael B. Jordan! During a rewatch a few years ago, I was watching the credits and I saw his name. I rewound the episode, and he's there. I'm searching now, and its on his IMDB page as his first actor credit. It's the S1 episode Down Neck. In Tony's flashback, he's following his dad around town. At one point, young Tony starts being followed and called names by a couple of kids. MBJ is one of them. A very bit part, but cool nonetheless. Always interesting how HBO reuses their actors. edit- Another fun note, Lady Gaga is among AJ's friends one episode, I believe when they break into the school and throw stuff in the pool. But no, as far as I know, there's no Gaga on The Wire.
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Dec 26, 2018 19:04
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Also Dominic West is trolling everyone pretty effectively at the moment. "The gently caress did I do?"
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Dec 26, 2018 21:08
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Thanks to the above post I learned that Cary Fukunaga is directing the next Bond film 
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Dec 26, 2018 22:06
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exmachina posted:Also Dominic West is trolling everyone pretty effectively at the moment. What did he do
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Ornithology posted:What did he do I assume this: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dominic-west-says-next-james-bond-transgender-104627069.html quote:Dominic West believes next 007 should be transgender.
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Dec 26, 2018 23:42
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McNutty spotted in new Tomb Raider.
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Dec 27, 2018 17:04
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Avon Barksdale was in 2049
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Dec 27, 2018 17:08
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You haven't seen 100% pure uncut Dominic West until you've seen his absolutely ridiculous performance in Punisher: Warzone. Holy poo poo that one is really something. He's supposed to be doing like a stereotypical New York/Jersey accent but half the time it comes out as a Cockney accent. Not only that but he has that weirdo Doug Hutchinson to play off of and it's just insane.
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Dec 27, 2018 17:51
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To me his greatest performance will always be as a paparazzo in the timeless classic Spice World.
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Addamere posted:Avon Barksdale was in 2049 Also in Dredd
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Dec 27, 2018 18:25
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There were vague quotes(I think from Villenueve himself?) about an actor being brought in for a part in 2049 and just not being able to hit the mark that Villenueve was going for with the character and so his part was almost completely cut from the movie. By process of elimination people landed on Wood Harris but I don't think there's ever been definitive proof that it was him.
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also i was just watching the patrick stewart christmas carol and dominic west is scrooge's nephew lmao. he's also supposed to valjean in a bbc adaptation of les mis (the book not the musical)
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Dec 27, 2018 20:21
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Dominic West plays Jean Valjean in the new version of Les Miserables airing on BBC this Sunday
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Dec 27, 2018 23:16
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I was planning on rewatching The Wire, as I've done from time to time, but learning more about Simon's current politics soured me on the whole show. That dude should have stayed off Twitter.
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Dec 30, 2018 10:32
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What's wrong with his politics? I mainly see him dunking on Trump on twitter when people retweet, but that's not really anything special.
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Dec 30, 2018 11:43
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Not sure about his politics since my eyes glaze over at him constantly throwing down with every troll and contrarian he encounters, bizarrely proud of the one or two signature insults he has artisanally crafted by mashing together two words with all the wit of a plank.
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Dec 30, 2018 12:42
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He was getting in the whole Beto O'Rourke thing by attacking some Guardian Journalist on Twitter the whole thing was super weird.
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Dec 30, 2018 14:40
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I’ll never understand why folks get mad at others who spend their time online dunking on assholes. You might find it a waste of time and dumb and useless but so are like 90% of hobbies out there. If you don’t want to read it fine, but being willing to openly call out assholes makes him a pretty decent human being.
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Dec 30, 2018 14:52
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MrBling posted:What's wrong with his politics? Mainly that he's far too centrist for 2018. He's the guy who's telling you today Carcetti is the only realistic option.
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Dec 30, 2018 19:09
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Kemper Boyd posted:Mainly that he's far too centrist for 2018. He's the guy who's telling you today Carcetti is the only realistic option. For a man whose best known work is literally about how the system is fundamentally, irredeemably broken, that is extremely disappointing to hear.
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Dec 30, 2018 19:19
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I'd vote for Carcetti over Trump so loving hard. Edit: My point is this: the candidate put forth by the Democrats will be flawed, but Trump is a loving fascist. Don't lose sight of that.
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Dec 30, 2018 20:35
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deoju posted:I'd vote for Carcetti over Trump so loving hard. I mean Carcettis whole character is he would adapt to the situation if it fit his ambition so he would go fash incredibly quickly if need be.
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Oh god, must there be real world politics even here in this thread? 
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