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Justin Kirk is slimy as gently caress, and it's great.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 03:43 |
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JohnSherman posted:How exactly did Barry afford a boarding school if he ran away from home? Grabbed a bunch of ugly gold poo poo on his way out? It's probably not too hard to stash a couple hundred k in a secret bank account when you're a dictator's teenage son. Wife seems a lot smarter this week.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 03:46 |
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the talent deficit posted:Grabbed a bunch of ugly gold poo poo on his way out? Seems weird she knew so much about other international conflicts but apparently was unaware her father-in-law's dictatorship was, in fact, a dictatorship.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 04:02 |
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Oh Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick.... "What's your problem with us being royalty?" That kid is written worse than the wife. Pry sure that I am now hate watching this show now.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 04:17 |
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Tide posted:Oh Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick.... Keep watching it. The only reason I keep watching it is because i'm hoping his entire family gets murdered and that's what causes him to become the name of the show.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 04:21 |
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JohnSherman posted:How exactly did Barry afford a boarding school if he ran away from home? His brother came over for many visits apparently, so when he said he ran away he didn't mean it literally.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 07:09 |
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JohnSherman posted:How exactly did Barry afford a boarding school if he ran away from home?
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 08:28 |
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Gonz posted:Keep watching it. The only reason I keep watching it is because i'm hoping his entire family gets murdered and that's what causes him to become the name of the show. The wife wants to watch it so...that pretty much means I'll be watching it. Until I can make enough snide comments about the characters of the show and she gets mad and turns it off.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 15:36 |
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:Seems weird she knew so much about other international conflicts but apparently was unaware her father-in-law's dictatorship was, in fact, a dictatorship. I have a feeling the director was sick or something when the her dialogue for the pilot and episode 2 was written. It's the only rational explanation I can come up with. VVVVVVVVVV: Anyone who thinks this show is bad should really take some time to catch up to season 2 of the Under the Dome. Now that's a bad show alright. MiddleOne fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Jul 16, 2014 |
# ? Jul 16, 2014 16:17 |
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I don't hate this show, I don't even dislike it (I only have room to hate watch one show at a time and right now it is sons of anarchy). Not much to it, but then again I don't demand every show be breaking bad levels of quality. This on has an entertaining concept and it isn't bumping anything from my DVR.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 16:20 |
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Tide posted:Oh Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick.... Even beyond the terrible writing for that character, the actor playing him has such a weird punchable face. Its terrible casting if we're actually supposed to like this character. Gonz posted:Keep watching it. The only reason I keep watching it is because i'm hoping his entire family gets murdered and that's what causes him to become the name of the show. Same here. Besides the killing of the family being so satisfying in itself, the revenge oppression spree Barry went on would make for a much better show
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 05:54 |
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Xoidanor posted:VVVVVVVVVV: Anyone who thinks this show is bad should really take some time to catch up to season 2 of the Under the Dome. Now that's a bad show alright. Just because other shows are worse doesn't mean this one isn't bad. I think it's a bad show for a simple reason: Nobody on it is compelling. I have no reason to want to watch what happens to them, so I don't. I basically just check in here and other places so often to see if it picks up, because it is an FX show so maybe it will show quality at some point. For now though if the show disappeared from screens right this instant, I would say nothing of value was lost.
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 06:24 |
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I feel like the daughter is probably the best written character on the show. She just perfectly embodies the insufferable Tumblrite/social justice warrior attitude, and it's fairly clever how they've done it. She clearly has no issue with living in a palace, being served breakfast by aides, and getting into a private club because of her family name. She only pipes up when she identifies problematic things in which she has no interest or control. Take her toothless ramblings about the patriarchy, her cousin's two McLarens, and an atrocity committed 20 years previously by her dead grandfather. It's as low effort as you can possibly get. More importantly, she is hilariously oblivious to the real world around her. She is living just miles away from a large protest of her uncle's government, in a country that disables internet access to its residents on a whim, and yet she thinks that her cousin's biggest concern should be the opinions of other low effort SJWs posting to Facebook from half a world away. It's laughable, and her cousin rightfully calls her out for ruining a good time with her bullshit. Honestly, none of it really matters to her, and everything she is doing is just about inflating her own ego and maintaining a false sense of moral superiority over her brother, who is understandably stoked by being so close to power. e: Alternatively, she is just a poorly written moral compass, and will just be awful going forward. Baronash fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Jul 17, 2014 |
# ? Jul 17, 2014 18:27 |
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I really wish they gave her any sort of anything to do. So far the development is like 75% Barry and Jamal's Dictatorship Adventure, 15% being gay in a conservative country, 5% oppressed masses and 5% mother & daughter vs male egos.
JUICY HAMBUGAR fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Jul 17, 2014 |
# ? Jul 17, 2014 23:29 |
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Send the family home and this show becomes 10000000000% better
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# ? Jul 18, 2014 05:12 |
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this show is so goddamn boring
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 04:37 |
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When is the uncle catching a bullet?
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 05:44 |
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Dead Snoopy posted:When is the uncle catching a bullet? i thought that was going to happen tonight after all the 'jamal must resign" comments e: oops, you meant tariq
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 06:35 |
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I can't wait for the president to start beating on barry's wife. There's no way she's not going to have her poo poo handed to her at some point.
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 06:37 |
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Dead Snoopy posted:When is the uncle catching a bullet? Edit: unless you mean General Tariq?
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 11:29 |
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No kids this episode. Also, I just love the way Jamal talks.
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 12:48 |
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Jamals wife is the hottest woman east of Israel... She a loving fox.
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 14:00 |
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The wife just reached super saiyan levels of idiocy this episode. *Complains husband is taking too big a risk for regional freedom and prosperity* *Ditches her security detail so she can meet at night, alone, the husband of the maid stealing drugs from the royal palace* People were worried this was going to have an anti-Islam vibe going on and it turns out the whities are the most annoying pieces of poo poo imaginable.
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 15:44 |
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Toplowtech posted:When his own son try to avenge his raped wife's honor and basically makes Bassam the only heir/ruler possible. yeah, I meant General Tariq. He catches a bullet and Barry's job gets easier. Though after what's been accomplished you can just see the US getting it into their head that maybe they could have the CIA take out Jamal because Barry would be the perfect leader and align w/ US interests.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 15:32 |
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the way i see it is tariq tries to kill barry, b/c jamal is a perfect puppet when barry isnt ~confusing~ him, but jamal sacrifices himself saving barry and then barry kills tariq. barry then be
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 22:47 |
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Tariq kills Jamal in a botched military coup (they even hinted at a coup this week). Tariq and Barry struggle for control of the country.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 23:06 |
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I don't like those theories because they don't include Barry's family getting viciously murdered.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 00:10 |
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savinhill posted:I don't like those theories because they don't include Barry's family getting viciously murdered. Why would you want to see that? They're not committing genocide or anything. Maybe you should go see a therapist.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 02:28 |
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Fateo McMurray posted:Why would you want to see that? They're not committing genocide or anything. Maybe you should go see a therapist. if there is anything this thread is ready to agree upon it is "hang the family"
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:10 |
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savinhill posted:I don't like those theories because they don't include Barry's family getting viciously murdered. I'm not against it, just saving it for the downfall of Barry's dictatorship in Season 7. Molly escapes to Paris to write he memoirs, pursued by media and dies like Princess Diana. Son outed as a homosexual, hung in the square. Daughter smuggled out of the US via the embassy. Goes to college dorm room to find someone photo-bombed her room w/ pictures of slaughtered fictional peoples. 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World' plays repeatedly on her iPod.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:56 |
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Dunno why, but I enjoyed last episode more than others. I enjoyed watching Jamal put a bullet in that guy like an alpha. I even found white wife not very irritating, but she hasn't bothered me much from the start.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 13:57 |
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Yeah, this episode was a lot better, especially without the kids. It would be hilarious if they just completely wrote the kids off the show, and they're never mentioned again.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 16:56 |
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Fateo McMurray posted:Why would you want to see that? They're not committing genocide or anything. Maybe you should go see a therapist. Yes, I have a bad case of I-wish-this-tv-show-was-better-and-I'm-making-jokes-syndrome, if I don't get help it could lead to me making more half-rear end snarky internet posts, maybe even creating a gimmick account at AVClub. -Blackadder- posted:Yeah, this episode was a lot better, especially without the kids. It would be hilarious if they just completely wrote the kids off the show, and they're never mentioned again. They did that on Homeland last season, the teenage character was in the middle of a story arc and one episode had a scene where she was like "Mom, I'm leaving to go move in with this friend you've never met before, bye" before disappearing from the show.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 19:04 |
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I think they're going to have Molly start enjoying her power, kinda hinted at it this last episode (when she flashes her name at the ambulance driver after calling out Barry for getting off on his political shenanigans) to match Barry becoming the ~Tyrant~
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 20:20 |
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This episode has the potential to be really good. Please don't screw it up show.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 03:09 |
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Jamal should have done that velociraptor screech he did in the mirror when the sheik mocked his quote.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 03:18 |
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I kind of just assumed they were foreshadowing that Jamal would have Bassam run for President instead but I can't say I was surprised by what happened.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 04:13 |
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I can't imagine how much more boring this show would be without Ashraf Barhom
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 04:18 |
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Maybe they did write off the kids. Yeah, I though the sheik was going to endorse Barry or something like that, but this could be interesting...
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 05:17 |
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The last 5 episodes felt like we were waiting for the other shoe to drop. They established Jamal as a psychopath then had him listening to calm reason for a long time. This was a pretty good shoe drop.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 06:45 |