The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men

[bart]

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

It’s an after party, and in any case I imagine he constantly has people (homies, if you will) hanging around his house at all hours.

[Jorge]

But he called it a party. His associate said there's a party happening at his place

After party or no, why are you getting food at a burger place if you have a party at your house where there is also (presumably better) food

Seems a little weird

[Jorge]

After my most recent rewatch I decided that A Hit Is a Hit is my second least favorite episode, after The Fleshy Part of the Thigh.

Fleshy Part is just a really annoying, weirdly written episode whose only redeeming moment is Paulie yelling at Father Intintola about the nuns

[bart]

It feels like they took some unused ideas for a scrubs episode and shoehorned the sopranos in there

[VinylGuy]

Started The Wire yesterday. Saw the first ep, which i already saw it like 12 years ago. I enjoyed it more this time and the HBO remaster is really good.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Believe the hype VG

[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.

[VinylGuy]

well see. Everyone kept telling me that s1 is the weakest and then its great.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I love season 1. I’d put it over 2 and 5. 3 and 4 are God tier though

[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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Goodbye

[bart]

I agree with trag. 5 may have worked as a new series but as the final season of The Wire it was an abrupt and unwelcome shift in tone.

[bart]

It’s funny how that was the general reaction at the time the show aired, and now it feels like a hot take

[The Argonaut]

feels like a stale take to me. five does some cool stuff. it has issues, but it's a fine season of The Wire

[bart]

your whole life feels like a stale take

[The Argonaut]

I just don't know how you get to the place where you think the exact thing that people have been saying for the last fifteen years is a hot take. "season 5 is the worst season" is basically a reflex at this point. It's a stale take, bart

[lennytheweedwhacker]

feels like a stale take to me. five does some cool stuff. it has issues, but it's a fine season of The Wire

I did not dislike it. It's the only season I haven't re-watched, so curious what I will think on another go.

[wease]

Since we’ve finished the West Wing, we may start The Wire

[Jorge]

I just don't know how you get to the place where you think the exact thing that people have been saying for the last fifteen years is a hot take. "season 5 is the worst season" is basically a reflex at this point. It's a stale take, bart

I thought what Bart was saying was that while "season 5 sucks" was the wide consensus at one time, over the years there have been many season 5 apologists and revisionism, making the original consensus now feel like a hot take

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Since we’ve finished the West Wing, we may start The Wire

You'll hate it