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Re: The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Tue September 28, 2021 12:19 am
by Norah
Chris is already the annoying one.

Re: The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Tue September 28, 2021 12:35 am
by wease
Just you wait.

Re: The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Tue September 28, 2021 12:41 am
by JuanHamm
In the 6th season he gets really into CrossFit

Re: The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Tue September 28, 2021 4:26 pm
by B
B wrote:Image
Huh. Fat fingers missed the thread for this, and on one slaughtered me for it?

This place is really going downhill.

Re: The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 9:15 pm
by Jorge
Interesting piece

Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’ Right Now?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/maga ... ranos.html?

Re: The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 9:23 pm
by JuanHamm
Jorge wrote:Interesting piece

Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’ Right Now?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/maga ... ranos.html?
Paywalled, so I guess I'll never know the answer

Re: The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 9:49 pm
by BurtReynolds
These are strange shows to lump together, and not just because of the quality.

Re: The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 10:02 pm
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 Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 10:03 pm
by Norah
Yeah the West Wing is the odd man out here. People routinely lump the other three together.

Re: The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 10:13 pm
by Jorge
JuanHamm wrote:
Jorge wrote:Interesting piece

Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’ Right Now?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/maga ... ranos.html?
Paywalled, so I guess I'll never know the answer
Not technically paywalled because you can read it with a free account

Not saying you should do that just advocating for the proper use of the term "paywall"

Re: The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 10:15 pm
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 Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 10:16 pm
by Jorge
Yeah

Re: The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 10:20 pm
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 Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 10:22 pm
by Ello Sailor
I've never seen West Wing. Is it really that good?

Re: The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 10:26 pm
by Jorge
Nah

Re: The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 10:27 pm
by Jorge
tragabigzanda wrote:I don’t believe that’s true, at least here in America. Visitors are limited to a certain number of free articles, but they don’t have to register an account
I see

I was able to read the article with a free account but it may be a regional thing

Re: The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 10:30 pm
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 Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 10:31 pm
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 Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 10:31 pm
by Jorge
Do it, I am lost

Re: The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranos and West Wing

Posted: Thu September 30, 2021 10:31 pm
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.