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Simone Magus posted:Harsh but fair. No, not really.
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Mulva posted:Also the reality is that while they are often incompetent, exploitative, downright moronic and evil....executives are in fact people too. Sometimes they just like someone or their work, and they use their position of power to get something made or keep something going that logically shouldn't. It's rare, but not that rare. It happened all the time during the heyday of cable.
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Hughmoris posted:Just finished The Last Man on Earth. Bummer that they ended on a cliffhanger and didn't let them end on a final note. I wouldn't feel too bad. Will Forte explained what was planned for the cliffhanger, and it's just a reset into the status quo like always. “[These people] went down [into the bunker] when the virus had first started,” Forte revealed on Vulture‘s Good Ones podcast. “They had some kind of medical expert or scientist who knew, ‘At this certain point, the virus will be dormant. You’ll be safe to get back out,’ and they had reached that point. Then they see a bunch of stragglers — us — and we represent a real threat to them, because they thought [everyone] was dead, so they quarantine us. “We eventually communicate with them a little bit [and] they get comfortable with us,” he continued. “They look scary but they end up being nice people.” As was tradition for the show, among the bunker people probably would have been one or two famous guest stars, à la Jon Hamm, “and eventually we’d all get comfortable with each other,” before they freed at least one of the survivors from quarantine. That, in turn, would have proven to be a fatal mistake. “We are immune to the virus, but we’re carriers. And so we would infect them and they’d die like wildfire,” Forte revealed, “and then we’re back to just our little group, and maybe one famous [guest star] we could talk into staying around.” All told, that arc would have lasted “four or five episodes.”
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Hughmoris posted:Has anyone watched Mary Kills People? I vaguely remember a trailer for the series but never heard anything about the show. Any good? It's... OK? It really suffers from the Weeds problem of needing the main character to consistently make the dumbest possible choices to keep the drama going.
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xerxus posted:I wouldn't feel too bad. So almost exactly what happened half a dozen times already on the show. I’m really glad I never bothered watching past season 3.
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Apr 19, 2021 14:01
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Notice Iron Fist was trending on twitter and wondered why, turns out the people like the Shang Chi trailer so much it's retroactively making them madder about the show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giWIr7U1deA
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They are making another Downton Abbey movie, but this time with Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye and Dominic West. Release date of December 22.
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Sirotan posted:They are making another Downton Abbey movie, but this time with Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye and Dominic West. Release date of December 22. The first movie was expected to be a niche film and make maybe $50-60 million. It almost cracked $200 million for what was not much more then a very expensive and glitzed up version of the original show. If this one does anything close to the same it'll probably get a 3rd movie.
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zoux posted:Notice Iron Fist was trending on twitter and wondered why, turns out the people like the Shang Chi trailer so much it's retroactively making them madder about the show I should be more excited about this since I'm asian but man that Mortal Kombat trailer earlier this year looked more interesting and probably with a fraction of the budget. Why do they keep trying to make The Mandarin a thing. Anyway it's cool to see the Kim's Convenience people getting paid
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zoux posted:Notice Iron Fist was trending on twitter and wondered why, turns out the people like the Shang Chi trailer so much it's retroactively making them madder about the show The madder people are correct. Sirotan posted:They are making another Downton Abbey movie, but this time with Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye and Dominic West. Release date of December 22. I like Hugh Dancy but his name sounds like the punchline or setup to a joke I don’t quite get. What do you call a big guy at the ballet? *stifling laughter* “Is Hugh Dancy there?”
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And he’s married to...shutup shutup...an eclair...no seriously shutup Does anyone want a danish for breakfast?
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Sirotan posted:They are making another Downton Abbey movie, but this time with Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye and Dominic West. Release date of December 22. Hyped As F. I unconditionally love this stupid show and I don't care Also I'm not quite settled on the tone of Shang Chi but it looks cool
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Apr 19, 2021 18:11
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Arist posted:No, not really. Yeah, at least Dexter had a couple of good seasons.
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pentyne posted:The first movie was expected to be a niche film and make maybe $50-60 million. It almost cracked $200 million for what was not much more then a very expensive and glitzed up version of the original show. It made so much money (like $100 million of its $200 million gross came from the US) because, despite us fighting two goddamn wars to be free of their influence, Americans are bizarrely and inexplicably obsessed with the Royal Family in specific and British aristocracy in general. Stuff like Downton Abbey and The Crown is like loving catnip to a certain subset of the population and it boggles my brain.
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Timby posted:It made so much money (like $100 million of its $200 million gross came from the US) because, despite us fighting two goddamn wars to be free of their influence, Americans are bizarrely and inexplicably obsessed with the Royal Family in specific and British aristocracy in general. Stuff like Downton Abbey and The Crown is like loving catnip to a certain subset of the population and it boggles my brain. This is true and I hate every single person who gives a gently caress about brit "royals."
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Apr 19, 2021 18:13
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Bunch of people who also want to gently caress and marry their cousin.
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Apr 19, 2021 18:14
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GreenNight posted:Bunch of people who also want to gently caress and marry their cousin. We're talking about the BRI-ISH, not people from kentucky.
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Rhyno posted:We're talking about the BRI-ISH, not people from kentucky. where do you think they came from?
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Apr 19, 2021 18:24
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Apr 19, 2021 18:25
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I couldn't have even named a single royal except "The Queen" and "Charlies and Diana" but I love watching poo poo like The Crown & Downton Abbey
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Apr 19, 2021 18:27
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I quit DownTOWN Abbey when they killed a main cast in a random car accident and another with the spanish flu out of nowhere. It looks like some high brow drama for intellectuals but it's just pretty costumes and sets with bullshit shock value soap opera crap.
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Mu Zeta posted:I quit DownTOWN Abbey when they killed a main cast in a random car accident and another with the spanish flu out of nowhere. It looks like some high brow drama for intellectuals but it's just pretty costumes and sets with bullshit shock value soap opera crap. Some people think it's elegant.
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Apr 19, 2021 18:38
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I think a lot of people just grew up with their parents watching Masterpiece Theatre and like the vibe.
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I remember Downton Abbey s1 being pretty good and 2 being ok and then it went to poo poo as soon as Stevens decided to leave
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I watched S1 but always wished the staff was heading upstairs with rifles. 
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Escobarbarian posted:I remember Downton Abbey s1 being pretty good and 2 being ok and then it went to poo poo as soon as Stevens decided to leave As a kid who grew up watching Masterpiece Theatre with his British mother, I liked season 1 a lot. Then season 2 started and it was all just misery porn for the head footman or whatever and I decided that I really didn't need it in my life.
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My favorite stupid part of Downton Abbey was when the one daughter finally is about to get married, and her fiance is like, "My love, we can finally get married soon... I just need to make a quick trip to Munich." And then he gets into a fight with Young Hitler and gets killed.
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Downton leaned way more into the soapy stuff than it had any right to, but basically:feedmyleg posted:I think a lot of people just grew up with their parents watching Masterpiece Theatre and like the vibe. Durrells in Corfu is better anyway - it's got more puppies
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Apr 19, 2021 19:09
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quote:Poking fun at subjects is one thing. Other shows like SNL still do a great job at finding ways to inspire great satire. I love this
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The Simpsons and Morrissey, a collision of things that I wish weren't relevant in 2021.
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EL BROMANCE posted:The Simpsons and Morrissey, a collision of things that I wish weren't relevant in 2021. At least one of them isn't
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the 2021 Kung Fu show is playing in this room and I feel like I’m losing my mind. there’s half a season of plot and two seasons of racial stereotypes in the first ten minutes. is this normal? am I looking at some avante-garde promo commercial?
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Apr 19, 2021 22:08
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Oxxidation posted:the 2021 Kung Fu show is playing in this room and I feel like I’m losing my mind. there’s half a season of plot and two seasons of racial stereotypes in the first ten minutes. is this normal? am I looking at some avante-garde promo commercial? It removed everything good about the original and kept everything bad?
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EL BROMANCE posted:The Simpsons and Morrissey, a collision of things that I wish weren't relevant in 2021. It's hard for me to know who to root for in that matchup.
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