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By Jupiter 's Cock! It's new Spartacus day. Any spoiler free assessments?
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Pablo Bluth posted:By Jupiter 's Cock! It's new Spartacus day. Any spoiler free assessments? It's good. It's got all the things the show was known for -- strong blocking, strong choreo, backstabbing and maneuvering, that one song, digital backdrops, divas, dicks and man tits -- except the silly blood effects are gone now. Jury's out on whether it's going to be as effective as a prison melodrama as the original (the OG had a huge debt to Prisoner: Cell Block H and Oz). But it's got several solid ideas about how to tell new stories in this setting, the casting is solid* and I'm willing to see it unfold. *one actress looks so much like Asher Keddie that I'm a little sad they've never got her on this show. She'd be perfect. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Dec 5, 2025 |
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Rain Brain posted:Seconding this! This is the first time I’m aware there was a miniseries adaptation, I need to check this out! I teach a history of science course and as extra credit assignments I have them watch The Name of the Rose, Agora, and/or The Physician and analyze them based on class readings. Name of the Rose always is the most popular choice.
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Chairman Capone posted:This is the first time I’m aware there was a miniseries adaptation, I need to check this out! It's got Michael Emerson too, in exactly the role you'd expect him to be cast.
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Dec 5, 2025 12:28
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John Turturro And Michael Emerson? I only know the Sean Connery version, but that mini-series sounds interesting.
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Dec 5, 2025 12:39
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 Evolve to become shorter like it's natual selection. I think the endpoint of this "evolution" is a handful of specialty art theaters in large cities and I don't think that it's too far to say that this could threaten the existence of the national theater chain.
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If national theater chains are relying on Warner Brothers to stay in business, I'm not sure how they are doing that currently. WB's last theatrical release was in October and there isn't another one until Feb.
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Lmfao it took me a hot minute but the gag where the St Denis nursing appreciation week episode results in every character at their absolute meanest or most self-destructive is very very funny. And they learn nothing, no moral.
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This list got me thinking about good-great shows that hold up years after their finales. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/g69632975/best-shows-to-binge-watch/ Some questionable choices on that list like Girls that are more important for the culture around when they aired and how it progressed the medium. Other stuff like Yellowstone is just cheesy soap opera of hard dudes making hard choices, no tears/emotions allowed and ages like milk. The only one on that list that I think needs way more love is Workaholics. That show was amazing, and it's peer Broad City is everything Girls thought it was but better.
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pentyne posted:This list got me thinking about good-great shows that hold up years after their finales. Boom, ER, right out of the gate.
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pentyne posted:This list got me thinking about good-great shows that hold up years after their finales. I'm gonna be honest, I think Girls is just a really good show. It's certainly more impressive than quite a lot of entries on that list, including the House Of Cards remake and Suits.
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pentyne posted:This list got me thinking about good-great shows that hold up years after their finales.  I work in education (in Norway) and I don't think Abbott Elementary's is cute and easy to watch. I think it's completely dystopian. One episode has a cold opening about how students have to wear uniforms and that they have to buy the expensive brand, the cheap brand is not allowed. This is supposed to throwaway line before the real joke and I'm like "Jesus loving Christ, that is bleak". Then there's the episode where they're making videos to essentially beg for school supplies and while they could make the point that this is hosed up, the plot is instead that the principal made a bad video. Then there's the episode about how difficult it is to organize a field trip, that it costs money and you have to reserve a time for visiting the park. And holy hell, I just take the kids with me on spontaneous excursions. I could go on, but the point is that while it's supposed to be funny but it is really loving depressing.
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Welcome to the American public school system. That all sounds like stuff I've experienced first had 40 years ago and it has not gotten better.
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Alhazred posted:
 now imagine how it is irl when there's no tidy solution to the problem of the week!
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Speaking of the sheer horror of the American School system, your hourly reminder that Season 4 of The Wire is one of the greatest seasons of television ever made!
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My Mom finished Daredevil and DD Born Again and loved them. We're both looking forward to more Born Again in March. She said "now I know why you were obsessed with the comics when you were a kid!" She asked about the movie and I told her not to bother after seeing the series. I'll never forgive Brett Ratner for that one. Now I have her watching a cool little show that shoulda gotten more time, and we're lucky we even got two seasons of it: Jericho Click here if you're Nuts! for Jericho isaboo fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Dec 6, 2025 |
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Dec 5, 2025 23:57
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I'm not sure I ever tried watching Jessica Jones. I'll check it out.
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Jerusalem posted:Speaking of the sheer horror of the American School system, your hourly reminder that Season 4 of The Wire is one of the greatest seasons of television ever made! Can't wait to watch it on NetflixHBO Go! (sorry, all the good jokes were done already) Is there any real concern of the government blocking the deal? I do wonder what this means for the future of Game of Thrones, will Netflix increase the budget to try to turn it into another lynchpin?
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isaboo posted:I'm not sure I ever tried watching Jessica Jones. I'll check it out. The second season was annoying enough that I never watched the third, but I still think that first season is absolutely incredible and well worth watching.
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Jerusalem posted:The second season was annoying enough that I never watched the third, but I still think that first season is absolutely incredible and well worth watching. I was just coming to say this. The first season was really good.
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isaboo posted:My Mom finished Daredevil and DD Born Again and loved them. We're both looking forward to more Born Again in March. She said "now I know why you were obsessed with the comics when you were a kid!" She asked about the movie and I told her not to bother after seeing the series. I'll never forgive Brett Ratner for that one. Brett Ratner is a mediocre director and a lovely human being, but he had nothing to do with the Daredevil movie. That was Mark Steven Johnson. He also directed the first Nic Cage Ghost Rider movie.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:He also directed the first Nic Cage Ghost Rider movie. I only saw that movie once, but from memory that's the one where Johnny gains full control over his Ghost Rider powers by looking in a mirror and going,"Okay... I have to have full control over my powers" and then... he has full control over his powers? Then his brilliant strategy for defeating Satan (Peter Fonda) in the climax of the movie is he tells Satan - the one who gave him the powers in the first place - that he's just going to use the powers to fight him from now on and Satan goes,"AHHHHHH YOU OUTSMARTED ME NOOOOOO!!!!" and disappears in a puff of smoke.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Brett Ratner is a mediocre director and a lovely human being, but he had nothing to do with the Daredevil movie. That was Mark Steven Johnson. He also directed the first Nic Cage Ghost Rider movie. gently caress, yeah, dunno why I thought it was ratner. I guess I just default to him when I want to hate a director
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GreenNight posted:Jessica Jones? If you do decide to be forewarned it has some dark material. And that it shares some crossover stuff with Luke Cage which you might also want to watch.
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Vegetable posted:The Pitt is uniquely cheap. A single set, minimal CGI, no-name actors, formulaic writing. Nothing else can really be like this imo. It’s a logistical achievement that Game of Thrones ever came out on a yearly cycle. They’re called sitcoms, in the old language. Some say they may return, you tedious knob.
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isaboo posted:I'm not sure I ever tried watching Jessica Jones. I'll check it out. That and Luke Cage are worth watching before the next season of Daredevil.
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Is Uncle Phil an everyman despite being a lawyer?
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trapstar posted:Is Uncle Phil an everyman despite being a lawyer? A profound question we must consider.
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trapstar posted:Is Uncle Phil an everyman despite being a lawyer? I don't know if he's an everyman, but he's definitely not to be underestimated.
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trapstar posted:Is Uncle Phil an everyman despite being a lawyer? He's a lawyer AND he leads a secret gang of ninjas against mutated reptiles
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Alhazred posted:Then there's the episode where they're making videos to essentially beg for school supplies not to do a whole D&D post in here, thanks to neoliberalism and austerity for austerity's sake (insisting on tax cuts that effectively fucks up the budgets) in several local municipalities, that's also become the reality here in Norway, too. Bærum schools has held donation-raffles just to get basic equipment like keyboards and mice for computers, books and games, etc.  other than that, yeah, I don't think I could ever stand working in an american school system. that poo poo seems stressful even before adding in [gun chat]
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