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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:les miserables from PBS...halfway through and it’s okay, nothing special
All I did was STEAL SOME BREAD
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Jorge wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:les miserables from PBS...halfway through and it’s okay, nothing special
All I did was STEAL SOME BREAD
let’s talk about Baskets instead
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Baskets was a good show. Louie Anderson was rightly lauded for his performance, but I think Galifinakis was also pretty great
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The Argonaut wrote:Baskets was a good show. Louie Anderson was rightly lauded for his performance, but I think Galifinakis was also pretty great
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durdencommatyler wrote:Watched the first ep of Lovecraft Country on HBO.

I'm totally gonna dig this show. :heartbeat:
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Yesterday I had a sudden flashback and remembered one of my favorite things I've ever seen on TV: when Edgar died on 24. I've never laughed so hard.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
Mickey wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Mickey wrote:Just started Dexter, with my wife's advisory not to go beyond S3.
Whichever one has Jonathan lithgow, that’s the best season and it’s all useless after then
Really? That's S4, so maybe I'll give it until then.
Season Four is amazing. It's easily the best season of the series. Definitely watch that one. And then, yeah, you can bail.
Almost done with S4 and can pretty safely say that you guys are wrong about this. S2 was the best, S4 has good moments but overall feels kind of slapdash and goofy.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Mickey wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
Mickey wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Mickey wrote:Just started Dexter, with my wife's advisory not to go beyond S3.
Whichever one has Jonathan lithgow, that’s the best season and it’s all useless after then
Really? That's S4, so maybe I'll give it until then.
Season Four is amazing. It's easily the best season of the series. Definitely watch that one. And then, yeah, you can bail.
Almost done with S4 and can pretty safely say that you guys are wrong about this. S2 was the best, S4 has good moments but overall feels kind of slapdash and goofy.
I thought it was the first season to understand and achieve the tone the show was aiming for from the start.
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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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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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Again, disagree--Lithgow is fun to watch on screen but at this point it's re-treading the same storyline as the previous three seasons (someone truly understands Dexter but they have to die) and the writing is sloppy to the point of incredulity--the entire premise, for instance, of the Tampa episode is absurd. It's still fun but it's neither as funny nor as interesting as the first two seasons.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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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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Based on Mickey's S4 take I think he'll love everything that comes after. He definitely should not stop.
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I would actually say there's the same amount of intended comedy in S4--it's not noticeably darker, it's just less successful at managing the tonal shifts so a lot of it comes off as flat. But the unbelievability is the real kicker. Dexter's not social realism but Quinn's reporter gf who maybe shot Deb is also Trinity's secret daughter? Come on.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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We're solidly hate-watching now and are going to stop at the end of the season.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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starting the last season of Mad Men.

After this, i think ill dive in into Sopranos. And Malcom In The Middle.
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Malcolm in the Middle is so great
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Finally got around to season 3 of Fargo after having it sit on our DVR for 3 years. 4 episodes in and I'm enjoying it. Plus Carrie Coon is good in everything.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:Malcolm in the Middle is so great
yeah i love it
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on cinema at the cinema
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