Red Mosquito

Simple Torture wrote:Came to this really late, just finished it today, but glad I did.

epilogue wrote:A good friend of mine is working on season two, which starts filming soon. She's so excited but also really bummed that it's going to get spoiled for her.

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.

Simple Torture wrote:Doing some reading and listening about this show after finishing, and the biggest surprise of all is that the actor who plays Mr. Milchick only has SIX acting credits to his name. Wtf? The dude is electric, every scene he's in, he becomes the center of its energy and just completely changes the mood. Just awesome.

One thing I like best is that I have no idea where the show is going. I would've accepted it being just one season long, because with the way it ends, I don't see how we ever see the innies again--why wouldn't Lumon just fire all the outies? But however they decide to address this, I completely trust the writers and directors of this show.

If I had ONE quibble with the plotting, it's that I got extremely excited when it seemed for a minute that Mark was going to reveal the plot to Ricken and not his sister. As siblings, I just thought it was too easy for him to reveal it to her--obviously she'd believe him immediately. Ricken is a much tougher nut to crack, not sure if he would've 100% believed Mark, and I loved how Mark S. sees him totally differently than Mark. Just not enough time left in the season, I guess.

Early in the season, it was made clear that Irving had been working there the longest, right? Might explain why he's glitching out with his paintings, as his implant might have earlier software.

While this show obviously shares some DNA with Devs and to some extent West World (big tech and big data gone bad), I think it's worlds ahead of those other shows when it comes to crafting characters and stories that you want to follow and care about. Just great all around.

Haven't read through this thread yet, but excited to.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:The confluence of building materials in that pic is stressing me out

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:Re-watching this now, I am so into Ricken.

...it's rickening?

dad wrote:yeah, I need to rewatch since it's been so long.

dad wrote:And I found out there's a podcast covering each episode, hosted by Ben Stiller and Adam Scott.