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Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Fri March 01, 2024 11:37 pm
by bart
Jorge wrote: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.
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Fri March 01, 2024 11:40 pm
by 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
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Fri March 01, 2024 11:42 pm
by 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
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Sat March 02, 2024 12:50 am
by bart
It feels like they took some unused ideas for a scrubs episode and shoehorned the sopranos in there
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 5:15 pm
by 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.
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 1:13 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Believe the hype VG
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 1:15 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 1:53 am
by VinylGuy
well see. Everyone kept telling me that s1 is the weakest and then its great.
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 2:07 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
I love season 1. I’d put it over 2 and 5. 3 and 4 are God tier though
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 2:11 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 2:25 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Goodbye
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Tue May 14, 2024 1:10 am
by 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.
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Tue May 14, 2024 1:11 am
by bart
It’s funny how that was the general reaction at the time the show aired, and now it feels like a hot take
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Sun May 19, 2024 1:05 am
by 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
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Sun May 19, 2024 8:00 pm
by bart
your whole life feels like a stale take
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Sun May 19, 2024 8:33 pm
by 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
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Sun May 19, 2024 10:44 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
The Argonaut wrote: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.
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Sun May 19, 2024 10:44 pm
by wease
Since we’ve finished the West Wing, we may start The Wire
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Sun May 19, 2024 10:47 pm
by Jorge
The Argonaut wrote: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
Re: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Mad Men
Posted: Sun May 19, 2024 10:53 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
wease wrote:Since we’ve finished the West Wing, we may start The Wire
You'll hate it