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I usually take celebrity deaths in stride but Bill Paxton passing is super bumming me out.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2017 17:24 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 12:49 |
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Badger's Star Trek fanfiction is the realest poo poo imaginable.
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 23:57 |
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People seemed down in general on the finales for both Fargo seasons, and while they are not the highs of each respective seasons I loved both seasons overall (especially S2) dearly. Fargo S2 is probably the closest I've felt to how drawn into a TV show I was during Breaking Bad's final few episodes.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2017 14:32 |
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While there are certainly some elements that are enjoyable I felt the drop from Twin Peaks S1 to S2 was quite precipitous. Yeah I know the background as to why that's all the case but it still bums me out.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2017 16:30 |
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The characterization in Mr. Robot S2 was all over the place though, and some (Angela) were actively detrimental in my opinion.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2017 17:42 |
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Angela in the room with the kid and the computer might be the most I've hated television in years.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2017 17:48 |
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Fargo S2 is almost perfect television, IMO. Also I literally can not believe Twin Peaks 2017. What the gently caress did I just watch, David Lynch? That was some drat good coffee.
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# ¿ May 23, 2017 02:38 |
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I agree that at least thus far, Fargo S3 has had more stretches of being kind of dull than previous seasons. It's not so drastic a fall that I'd characterize it as a meaningful drop in quality but I'm not glued to the set as much as I was for S1 and S2. I'm also not sure I'm feeling the villains in it as much, other than I really want to see them go down. Like you'd almost be entranced by Billy Bob Thorton and a part of you wanted to see him succeed (as long as it meant no harm to Gus and Molly), and for how monstrous the Gerhardts were they still felt very human. Varga is as menacing and alien as Malvo but with none of the charisma. Best character by far is Nikki.
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# ¿ May 23, 2017 14:11 |
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Not even close. I sometimes forget Fargo S3 even has a cop character B plot.
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# ¿ May 23, 2017 16:05 |
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Having watched Twin Peaks for the first time last year I absolutely think it holds up enough in just the right places to merit watching now in 2017. The heads up on season 2's bizarre circumstances/format is helpful to know but it's otherwise a very compelling work.
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 02:46 |
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While my enthusiasm for BSG has cooled significantly over the years, I still can't think of a show that had the impact for season starting episodes/midseason episodes/finales. Even Lost at its best I feel only really had one (the season 3 finale) that was on the same level.
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 13:10 |
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Dale Cooper is one of the best Television characters of all time.
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# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 12:55 |
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Fargo S3 has definitely been a clear step down from the first two seasons, which I mostly attribute to the villains being really lame and the standard competent cop character being boring and irrelevant to the point of not even needing to be in the show. Nikki has been the lone bright spot, I like that character a lot.
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 23:29 |
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That's standard operating procedure for any Competent Fargo Cop, really. Anyway you'll never hear me disparage Carrie Coon, it's more that Gloria has thus far been a very ineffectual presence due to a variety of reasons.
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2017 02:16 |
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Escobarbarian posted:The main thing really is Varga for me. He's such a lovely character in every way. If there was any attempt to give him depth or anything, I'd probably be able to view the show in a more positive light. But he just slinks around being creepy and making people drink piss and it's no fun at all for me, even with Thewlis in the role. Ostensibly we are meant to look at Varga in the same way as a Malvo but he's the exact opposite in terms of charisma; you're just disgusted by him and more than menacing he just comes off as annoying. It was fascinating see Malvo work, the most we've seen of Varga is him googling people and somehow magically hacking everything offscreen.
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2017 13:25 |
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The only one of those I've seen is Better Call Saul, but it's probably enjoying its best season thus far so I have no reservations recommending it anyway.
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2017 14:58 |
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I am neutral on all aspects of Fargo S3. I don't think I liked or disliked it all that strongly, whether we're talking about the finale or the season as a whole. There are definitely some good parts of course but I will all but assuredly completely forget about it given enough time.
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2017 13:14 |
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Several Goblins posted:So Couch Chat, I'm some sort of weird crazy person who has watched almost nothing but movies for my entire life. I've only seen a small handful of TV shows to completion, and a few episodes or first seasons here and there. And most of what I've watched have been recent. My girlfriend and co-workers have been telling me to catch up on stuff for forever now and I'm just now getting around to doing it. I've seen the following shows in their entirety:
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# ¿ Jul 12, 2017 13:19 |
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Scrubs goes through a real rough patch, starting with season 5 (though that still has a smattering of great episodes) up to the end of season 7, but it is otherwise remains one of the best comedies I feel I've ever seen; at the very least season 8 was a great way to send it off and recover from said rough patch. Of course then we got the med school follow up but it feels so far removed from the main show that I at least have no trouble just ignoring it a la Parks & Rec season 1.
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# ¿ Jul 27, 2017 12:47 |
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I've rewatched Scrubs S1-S4 enough times that I feel it's worth revisiting, they hold up pretty well, especially the first two seasons.
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# ¿ Jul 27, 2017 14:21 |
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I liked Firefly at the time, I remember it along with Arrested Development being the shows to convince me that I should start paying more attention to TV instead of movies, but it did not take long at all for it to lose its sheen and I've never really understood why there was such an effort to get it revived. Surely that zeitgeist has past us by now, right? Right?
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# ¿ Aug 22, 2017 15:24 |
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Shageletic posted:Twin Peaks is the best show of the year. Goddamn. GODDAMN
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# ¿ Aug 25, 2017 14:46 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:The only Ken Burns documentary I've watched was Jazz which I did not like because he relied almost entirely on one set of experts (Albert Murray, Stanley Crouch, Wynton Marsalis) who have a very narrow, very conservative idea of what jazz music is and push that agenda throughout the series.
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# ¿ Sep 18, 2017 13:38 |
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I usually don't bother with HitB but Best of the Worst has been the best feature on RLM for a long while. I've never really liked the idea of intentionally watching bad movies in their entirety, like rifftrax or MST3K, so having a cliffnotes back-and-forth take like that has been nice and a feature I look forward to having every now and then. Plinket reviews kickstarted a bad trend of youtuber reviews but I appreciated, at least at the time, being able to articulate the reasons those movies were so bad besides just nebulous accusations of it ruining my childhood. Probably no way in hell I could go back to them at this point.
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# ¿ Sep 21, 2017 13:17 |
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precision posted:Eating fried chicken slathered in corn syrup is peak America
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# ¿ Oct 8, 2017 00:26 |
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Mu Zeta posted:Burger King chicken fries are the worst because they are terrible at being chicken tenders/nuggets and they are terrible at being french fries. Who asked for chicken fries?
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# ¿ Oct 8, 2017 01:39 |
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Argus Zant posted:i'm going to go out on a limb and say that Cameron returning to Terminator will go over about as well as Scott returning to Alien went.
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2017 16:54 |
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Chalk me as someone who felt the show lost me with season 2. It seemed to me that it got way, way too cute with its silly grand conspiracies and focused on a plethora of characters I categorically did not give a poo poo about. The nadir being the episode with Angela and that kid at the computer. It would take a pretty strong hype zeitgeist to get me back on board for a third season.
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2017 13:22 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 12:49 |
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:What do you do when you've tried to get into Bob's Burgers multiple times but never once found it funny in the slightest but you're on all the dating apps and most girls list that as their favorite show and you feel like a weird outsider who's missing something?
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2017 13:50 |