HBO's Cavalcade of Misery Presents: Sharp Objects

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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I've found every episode fascinating in its own way. The murder mystery is a distant second (or third) to its examination of trauma and the way it's been giving us morsels of Camille's story. I couldn't care less who the killer is at this point. I just want to know more about that fucked-up family.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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theplatypus wrote:Yes I do. I'm the supervising sound editor
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2649356/fu ... cl_sm#cast

He's either a van driver or did some camera work for 1 episode!
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I'm two eps in, and I'm leaning towards deciding that this show is not good. I'm pretty uninterested. Also, serious lol at the article Amy Adams was writing to send to her boss. She is a great writer, and she is going to win awards for this story? That was the laziest, most boring, detail-less POS article ever. Like, wtf? They can't take twenty minutes and actually write something mildly passable?
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Wife, dinner party, thanks so much
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I'm OUT. Didn't finish EP3. But I'm told by you people EP3 got better.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I didn't think ep3 was especially better
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tragabigzanda wrote:what you mean "you people"???
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well, things are about to get more interesting
keep on watching guys
Sometimes I wanna drive around and find you
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The ending of episode four is
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so cheap. Lame.
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I saw the first ep yesterday...i though it was trying too much to be a ¨quality¨ series or something. It was trying so so hard when actually the book is a pretty straightforward pulpy thing. From Adams performance to the Photography or even the music, everything was a reminder of both True Detective or Big Little Lies.
I did like the montage tough.
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I'm watching ep5 now. Every further minute that I watch just further confirms my judgment.
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tragabigzanda wrote:omg that coffee shop scene was some of the worst amateur hour bs i've ever seen on HBO. Loud restaurant walla (chatter) when literally NOBODY in the background was having a conversation. The lead guy's dialogue and mumbling were brutal, and his awful performance brought this poorly produced scene even lower.

There's some great stuff in this show; i especially liked the shot of the sister roller skating on her deck. But when it's bad it is really awful.
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I’m glad I don’t have as keen an eye for this kind of thing because I think if I watched all my TV like this, I wouldn’t enjoy any of it.
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But most shows don't exhibit quite so much disregard for what end up being annoying and distracting details
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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