TV: Taboo (FX)
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TV: Taboo (FX)
Oh my god, why isn't everyone talking about this?
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Re: TV: Taboo (FX)
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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Re: TV: Taboo (FX)
I do need to watch Peaky Blinders. But I will say about 90% of my interest in this is based on Tom Hardy.
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Re: TV: Taboo (FX)
I'll give it a try.
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Re: TV: Taboo (FX)
bada wrote:I'll give it a try.
bada wrote:Cause the two girls on the board voted for the rapey song.
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Re: TV: Taboo (FX)
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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Re: TV: Taboo (FX)
First ep was pretty good.
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Re: TV: Taboo (FX)
Not sure how I feel about this one.
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Re: TV: Taboo (FX)
Yeah I'm on the fence about the first two episodesbada wrote:Not sure how I feel about this one.
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Re: TV: Taboo (FX)
I prefer historical dramas with Hollywood sanitized dentition. Definitely an area were I pass on realism. All I can think about is bad breath.
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I find the dialogue muddled at times. I'm sticking with it though.
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Very much this.Stickman wrote:I find the dialogue muddled at times. I'm sticking with it though.
bada wrote:Cause the two girls on the board voted for the rapey song.
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There's only one actor I can't understand. The one with the map on his head. I rewound one scene twice and gave up.
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Re: TV: Taboo (FX)
I dropped this. I was struggling though the last episode and realized I don't care if he gets to keep his land and screw his sister.
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Re: TV: Taboo (FX)
It's beautiful to watch but man the plot is a boring mess.
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Re: TV: Taboo (FX)
I'm still diggin it, with the Royals, EITC and now the Americans into it. Still havin a hard time with dialogue sometimes. The accents are fine but just the audio needs cleanin up.
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Re: TV: Taboo (FX)
Tom Hardy is fucking fantastic in this. The problem is, he is so much better than the other actors on this show that it makes them all seem so shitty.
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Re: TV: Taboo (FX)
Well, that was one way to wrap up a storyline; just kill everyone.
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