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So is it just me or is Aimee Lee Gemstone all around just ridiculously charming? I can see why John Goodman is so pissed off all the time.
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Sep 17, 2019 12:51
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Misbehavin is a bop.
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Sep 17, 2019 23:55
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Edge & Christian posted:Skimming through the first few episodes, there's a prayer card in Baby Billy's home with the same birth date but the death date is conspicuously blocked in the shot. I think her death exacerbates things. Like Billy says, once she's gone the whole thing is going to crumble. It's pretty clear that she was barely holding the floodwaters back when she was alive, so there was no hope once she wasn't around anymore. I appreciate the flashback doing things a bit differently. It wasn't winking or making any glaring nods to stuff we already know. The characters we know are the same but slightly different. Goodman makes Eli different in a few subtle ways. And you understand why losing Aimee-Leigh was so tough for everyone.
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PostNouveau posted:The South stuff rings true. It's funny that reminded me of Tom Berringer as James Longstreet in Gettysburg. He is speaking with a British observer and says something along the lines of how southern women prefer their men a little mad and spiritual, which is why pastors seem to be so popular with the ladies.
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Edge & Christian posted:Huh, yeah. Pilot's got a death date of 2018 My money is on some sort of brain-death situation around Kelvin's death and she finally dies/they decide to pull the plug around then.
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Sep 18, 2019 12:32
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I...don't like this show? I don't get it, I loved Eastbound and Down and Vice Principals, I'm usually onboard for whatever weirdness Danny McBride comes up with. It just doesn't seem that funny, and I can't seem to make myself care about the inner workings of some weird southern church family. It has some good moments that make me keep watching and hoping for more, but I need about 3 times as much vehicular manslaughter and Edi Patterson pulling a single covered breast out of her dress, and half as much overlong song-and-dance numbers about southern kids having fun.
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Sep 18, 2019 14:04
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i appreciate a comedy about conservative southerners that plays into stereotypes in a knowing, acidic way that doesn't come off as sneering or elitist
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Phenotype posted:I...don't like this show? I don't get it, I loved Eastbound and Down and Vice Principals, I'm usually onboard for whatever weirdness Danny McBride comes up with. It just doesn't seem that funny, and I can't seem to make myself care about the inner workings of some weird southern church family. It has some good moments that make me keep watching and hoping for more, but I need about 3 times as much vehicular manslaughter and Edi Patterson pulling a single covered breast out of her dress, and half as much overlong song-and-dance numbers about southern kids having fun. Eh, nothing wrong with not liking a show. You planning on riding out the rest of the season or dropping it? My ladyfriend and I watch it together and she's starting to not care about it too.
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Sep 18, 2019 16:52
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Not gonna lie I wasn't too hot about the flashback episode, except of course Walton Goggins being given a blank check to steal the show
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Sep 18, 2019 16:53
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nothing wrong with not liking a show but if you can't get down with Misbehavin' you need to get the gently caress out
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Sep 18, 2019 17:37
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I am loving it but I can also understand why people aren't vibing with it. I view it as a progression in McBride's confidence that has progressed. Eastbound was all about him on the screen as much as possible, Vice Principals let him grow some with his trust in Goggins and now we're seeing the guy spread his wings and start working with a full deck.
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I think that I've laughed at this show less than Eastbound or Vice Principals, but I like this show more. I've found Goodman to be really affecting and I sympathize with him, even though he's probably pretty bad.
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Sep 18, 2019 18:29
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This is probably one of my top shows this year. Have never watched any of the other McBride shows so I guess I have some catching up to do. Thought it was interested watching Goodman's face and body language during Misbeahvin. Starts out angry, then happy, then ends with a look I can't decipher.
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Sep 18, 2019 21:18
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Is it just me, or does the song sound vaguely similar to "Bad Reputation" to anyone else? Obviously, it's quite different, but Somehow my mind associates those two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RAQXg0IdfI
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Sep 18, 2019 21:32
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I'm a big fan of McBride/Hill/DGG, and I somehow missed that they were involved in Halloween! I watched it very coincidentally right after I marathoned all of their shows and movies. You can definitely hear McBride's style in a couple of lines of dialogue. Echoing that I haven't laughed as much at Gemstones as their other stuff, but I think it's so drat good so far. Having seen the finale of Eastbound and Down for the first time, I felt like an rear end in a top hat for laughing so hard at Stevie being played by a man with Down Syndrome in the Kenny Powers biopic.
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Righteous Gemstones is definitely the most realist- and thus the darkest and least wild-joke-per-minute - of the three McBride shows. You can feel bad for the Gemstones in a way that you can't possibly feel bad for Kenny Powers or anyone who shares a scene with Kenny PowersEdge & Christian posted:Huh, yeah. Pilot's got a death date of 2018 Just another hint that the show actually takes place in 2035. Please follow my youtube channel for more Righteous Gemstones analysis, theories, and episode recaps Legin Noslen posted:My money is on some sort of brain-death situation around Kelvin's death and she finally dies/they decide to pull the plug around then. Wha? Civilized Fishbot fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Sep 18, 2019 |
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Sep 18, 2019 23:10
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I like the show a lot so far, but I wouldn't put it on the same level as Eastbound and Vice Principals. It's a little unfocused right now and doesn't really have an overall arc or theme, other than just following the Gemstones and friends around. The characters and cast are all great but everything feels a bit disconnected and like it hasn't really coalesced yet. There's four more episodes but I don't have a good idea of where they're going with it. Jesse unravels the blackmailing plot? Gideon and Scotty successfully steal all the money? Baby Billy kills Eli? I have no idea, it could be anything. I do appreciate the darker and more serious tone though. There's been moments like that in McBride's previous series, but it's definitely more in the forefront here. Obviously I'm still in for season two.
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https://twitter.com/GMPaiella/status/1174392433465090048 danny and edi are gods
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Imagine the horrors you must have heard growing up to write such a perfect and natural sing like Misbehavin’
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Imagine my surprise when the song made me want to look up Jennifer Nettles' other work and it was all bland pop-country trash.
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Phenotype posted:I...don't like this show? I don't get it You best get that pickle out of your mouth and get right with the lord
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a new study bible! posted:Imagine my surprise when the song made me want to look up Jennifer Nettles' other work and it was all bland pop-country trash. Same. The pickle in my mouth line was actually added in by the shows composer of the show after the song was already written by Mcbride and Patterson lol.
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Been watching this show since the first episode, because my wife loves Danny McBride. I couldn't stand him but I am loving everything about this show, including him. We both loved Workaholics and The Shield is one of my all-time favourite shows, so I'm all in. Couple thoughts: I love how it doesn't feel scripted, or at least the scenes between the grown kids don't. It really feels like they're just riffing on each other and it works amazingly well. They really do act like they're older kids. I laughed out loud at Jessie scolding Kelvin about 'wanting to be Double Dragon'. Again, it just seemed like the perfect line delivery, made in such a childish way. I had only seen the goth raver dance thing in Letterkenny years ago and at the time, thought it was super dumb. And I mean not in a 'goths are dumb' way, but 'this show is losing me right now' way. I have a retroactive appreciation for those scenes after seeing Keefe's old crew do that, and I asked my wife, shocked 'wait.... This is ACTUALLY A THING?!' which she confirmed. So kudos to Letterkenny; I should've trusted them to begin with, because as far as I could tell, they nailed small town Canada with everything else.  The mannequin/statue baby arm thing was great. 'Car pranks'. That's such an excellent and bullshit line. Also, I must've missed the 'bird twitch' line, because I was surprised when I read it here 
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I started half of S1 of Eastbound and Down and never finished it out of laziness, but once I finish Succession (which I’m....ehhh with so far) that’s right back up at el numero uno. Or, should I go for Vice Principals since good LORD Edi Patterson knocks it out as Judy? I almost wish I never started this show so I can fully binge like the glutton I am. I do get why it doesn’t mesh for some.
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This track closed out episode 1, didn't it? This should be the gat-dang (sorry, blasphemy  ) theme song, every episode.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9UV58U9DyU
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wizardofloneliness posted:I like the show a lot so far, but I wouldn't put it on the same level as Eastbound and Vice Principals. It's a little unfocused right now and doesn't really have an overall arc or theme, other than just following the Gemstones and friends around. The characters and cast are all great but everything feels a bit disconnected and like it hasn't really coalesced yet. There's four more episodes but I don't have a good idea of where they're going with it. Jesse unravels the blackmailing plot? Gideon and Scotty successfully steal all the money? Baby Billy kills Eli? I have no idea, it could be anything. I do appreciate the darker and more serious tone though. There's been moments like that in McBride's previous series, but it's definitely more in the forefront here. Obviously I'm still in for season two. I think this is the issue I've had so far. I wanted a stronger focus on the blackmail plot. From the first couple episodes, I thought that's where the series was going -- Danny McBride dealing with the blackmailers and getting involved in criminal hijinks with the backdrop of his weird southern mega-church family, and oh no, his son's one of the blackmailers! But almost every episode they've been pulling the curtain back further and further and revealing even more of his family to the point that we got a 30-minute flashback episode last week. I think I'd have appreciated it a lot more if we'd run through the blackmail story a little longer and gotten more familiar with Danny McBride and his friends and family before getting so much backstory about a lot of characters that haven't really DONE anything yet. I will probably stick with it too, just because I've enjoyed all his other work so far. I remember Vice Principals being such a slow burn that I was getting discouraged with it after the first couple episodes, but I thought it was fantastic by the time I'd finished the first season.
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Phenotype posted:I think this is the issue I've had so far. I wanted a stronger focus on the blackmail plot. From the first couple episodes, I thought that's where the series was going -- Danny McBride dealing with the blackmailers and getting involved in criminal hijinks with the backdrop of his weird southern mega-church family, and oh no, his son's one of the blackmailers! But almost every episode they've been pulling the curtain back further and further and revealing even more of his family to the point that we got a 30-minute flashback episode last week. I think I'd have appreciated it a lot more if we'd run through the blackmail story a little longer and gotten more familiar with Danny McBride and his friends and family before getting so much backstory about a lot of characters that haven't really DONE anything yet. But isn't the 'car pranks' lie and the fallout of that situation a continuation of the blackmail plot? Like I'm sure his son is going to get found out, and that Jessie's situation WILL get found out by his wife. I don't think they'd play up his wife's denial, to then see the shot of her face at the end of the episode before the last one, where she looks like she's starting to question him, without it snowballing from there. I'm just hoping that they don't string it along until the last scene of the last episode of season 1, like a Hank-finding-Heisenberg scene. I loved it in Breaking Bad, but I don't think I want that kind of cliffhanger here.
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Phenotype posted:I think this is the issue I've had so far. I wanted a stronger focus on the blackmail plot. From the first couple episodes, I thought that's where the series was going -- Danny McBride dealing with the blackmailers and getting involved in criminal hijinks with the backdrop of his weird southern mega-church family, and oh no, his son's one of the blackmailers! But almost every episode they've been pulling the curtain back further and further and revealing even more of his family to the point that we got a 30-minute flashback episode last week. I think I'd have appreciated it a lot more if we'd run through the blackmail story a little longer and gotten more familiar with Danny McBride and his friends and family before getting so much backstory about a lot of characters that haven't really DONE anything yet. the blackmail plot is the main plot thread dude
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:But isn't the 'car pranks' lie and the fallout of that situation a continuation of the blackmail plot? Well, yeah, but like I said, there's a lot of backstory and worldbuilding between here and there, and I would have liked a tighter focus. I just don't feel like I have any reason to care about these people yet. And the southern megachurch thing does nothing for me -- I'm a non-religious Jew from Michigan, so I've basically never seen this culture besides parodies on the Simpsons or whatever.
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Phenotype posted:Well, yeah, but like I said, there's a lot of backstory and worldbuilding between here and there, and I would have liked a tighter focus. I just don't feel like I have any reason to care about these people yet. And the southern megachurch thing does nothing for me -- I'm a non-religious Jew from Michigan, so I've basically never seen this culture besides parodies on the Simpsons or whatever. Did someone say that the flashback episode was kind of last minute, or at least placed there at the last minute? Even still, I'm guessing that there's going to be some sort of narrative payback to have gotten that backstory at that point.
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Aside from the flashback episode, the last thing to happen in this show was the blackmail plot.
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romanowski posted:the blackmail plot is the main plot thread dude When the blackmail plot isn't on screen everyone should be asking "what's going on with the blackmail plot?"
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teen witch posted:I started half of S1 of Eastbound and Down and never finished it out of laziness, but once I finish Succession (which I’m....ehhh with so far) that’s right back up at el numero uno. Or, should I go for Vice Principals since good LORD Edi Patterson knocks it out as Judy? If you like her as Judy you’ll LOVE her as Jen Abbott. Plus it’s got the single best Walton Goggins role ever. Boys Crowder ain’t poo poo compared to Lee Russell.
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teen witch posted:I started half of S1 of Eastbound and Down and never finished it out of laziness, but once I finish Succession (which I’m....ehhh with so far) that’s right back up at el numero uno. Or, should I go for Vice Principals since good LORD Edi Patterson knocks it out as Judy? (Succession is has a slow first half but definitely picks up and pays off halfway through IMO then it's a rocket ship of hilarious drama through S1 and into S2.) I would suggest Vice Principals first - as someone else mentioned, it's a slower paced but much richer and developed (and maybe use the word "mature") than EB&D. Although I loved both shows, they're funny for pretty different reasons - EB&D was more anarchic both in style and structure with Kenny Powers consuming all the oxygen all the time and not much clear direction in terms of plot, as opposed to Vice Principals allowing characters to be more developed (and hilarious) alongside McBride and the confidence of knowing they had 2 full seasons to let it develop.
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Troy Queef posted:Boys Crowder ain’t poo poo compared to Lee Russell. 
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sticksy posted:(Succession is has a slow first half but definitely picks up and pays off halfway through IMO then it's a rocket ship of hilarious drama through S1 and into S2.) I’m like S2E03 now and Jesus Christ the rich are literally another species. It’s totally worth the hype but good god these ghouls (and Kieran Culkin). Once I’m caught up it’s onto Vice Principals.
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I trust succession is good but I can't bring myself to watch shows about complete douchebags. (unless it's insanely funny and tongue in cheek like this) Is it watchable if I absolutely despise other douchey HBO poo poo like Ballers and Entourage?
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veni veni veni posted:I trust succession is good but I can't bring myself to watch shows about complete douchebags. (unless it's insanely funny and tongue in cheek like this) Yes, this show isn’t douchey in the slightest.
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