The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men

[epilogue]

Some other top shows; Band Of Brothers, True Detective, Babylon 5, Rome, Six Feet Under, Game Of Thrones.

Six Feet Under is a good call. I need to rewatch it.

[Malloy]

Some other top shows; Band Of Brothers, True Detective, Babylon 5, Rome, Six Feet Under, Game Of Thrones.

Six Feet Under is a good call. I need to rewatch it.

yeah, it's very good

[Mickey]

Some of your brains don't work right

[Ello Sailor]

Some of your brains don't work right

[Malloy]

milch has written a memoir that will be published this november. it's a literary form for which i have little but contempt, but im an acolyte, and any way i can hear from him, I'll take.

[The Argonaut]

milch has written a memoir that will be published this november. it's a literary form for which i have little but contempt, but im an acolyte, and any way i can hear from him, I'll take.

It sounds good to me

I feel like I'm on a boat sailing to some island where I don't know anybody. I'm on a boat someone is operating and we aren't in touch.

So begins David Milch's urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch's life seems destined to echo that of his father, a successful if drug-addicted surgeon. Almost every achievement is accompanied by an act of self-immolation, but the deepest sadnesses also contain moments of grace.

Betting on race horses and stealing booze at eight years old, mentored by Robert Penn Warren and excoriated by Richard Yates at twenty-one, Milch never did anything by half. He got into Yale Law only to be expelled for shooting out streetlights with a shotgun. He paused his studies at the Iowa Writers' Workshop to manufacture acid in Cuernavaca. He created and wrote some of the most lauded television series of all time, made a family and pursued sobriety, and then lost his fortune betting horses just as his father had taught him.

Like Milch's best screenwriting, Life's Work explores how chance encounters, self-deception, and luck shape the people we become, and wrestles with what it means to have felt and caused pain, even and especially with those we love, and how you keep living. It is both a masterclass on Milch's unique creative process, and a distinctive, revelatory memoir from one of the great American writers, in what may be his final dispatch to us all.

[Malloy]

for all my milch-heads:

[Jorge]

I'm passively rewatching The Sopranos again (meaning I have it on in the background while I do other things, AKA the Anders Moviewatching Method)

I think the season 4 finale Whitecaps is a fantastic episode, but there is one thing I always butt up against. It's one line of dialogue from Tony's former goomar Irina, when she calls Carmela. She says: "I'm a piece of shit which the world, every morning, strains and pushes out of its butt. If you can, imagine where you are on the pecking order."

It's a thoroughly overwritten line for any character, let alone someone who can barely speak English. There are a few Irina moments that always jump out at me.

[Ello Sailor]

You should passively watch The Wire, ya big dork.

[Jorge]

Wouldn't you want me to actually pay close attention to it?

[The Argonaut]

That line is a bit of a stretch, but you can't deny the absolute magnificence of the line "Is this Mrs. Sopranos?"



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[Ello Sailor]

Wouldn't you want me to actually pay close attention to it?

[Jorge]

Today I learned that James Gandolfini was only 35 years old when the first episode of The Sopranos was filmed

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Thought he was 34.

[spike]

Looks 28

[Jorge]

Re: Sopranos S1E10 "A Hit is a Hit"

Why were Massive Genius and his posse hanging out at a burger place while he had a party going on at his house

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[Jorge]

They even make it a point to state that there's food at the party

[VinylGuy]

Starting S5 of Sopranos.

[Anders]

Some other top shows; Band Of Brothers, True Detective, Babylon 5, Rome, Six Feet Under, Game Of Thrones.

Six Feet Under is a good call. I need to rewatch it.

I've thought about doing so as well.