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Re: TV: HBO: Insecure

Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 8:27 pm
by VinylGuy
ill start season 2, but if its similar to season 1...yeah, im gone.

Re: TV: HBO: Insecure

Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 8:54 pm
by epilogue
VinylGuy wrote:ill start season 2, but if its similar to season 1...yeah, im gone.
:(

Re: TV: HBO: Insecure

Posted: Mon June 08, 2020 6:11 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: TV: HBO: Insecure

Posted: Mon June 08, 2020 6:15 pm
by The Argonaut
Nah. Lawrence decides to move to SF and it is a conundrum. I honestly don't care what happens with Molly. Issa is better off meeting a new best friend

Re: TV: HBO: Insecure

Posted: Mon June 08, 2020 6:18 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: TV: HBO: Insecure

Posted: Mon June 15, 2020 3:24 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: TV: HBO: Insecure

Posted: Thu January 13, 2022 3:18 pm
by epilogue
Finally started the final season last night. First two episodes were strong. Man, I had really missed being in this world.

Excited for more tonight.

Re: TV: HBO: Insecure

Posted: Thu January 13, 2022 3:26 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: TV: HBO: Insecure

Posted: Fri January 14, 2022 2:34 pm
by epilogue
Episode three was a gut punch. I loved it as a stand alone episode, and I get why we need to see it, but it was hard being away from the rest of the cast the entire time.

Episode four was excellent.

I like that I'm watching this in small chunks (one or two at a time) rather than fully binging. It's helping the experience for me.

Re: TV: HBO: Insecure

Posted: Sun February 13, 2022 2:45 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: TV: HBO: Insecure

Posted: Tue February 15, 2022 4:48 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: TV: HBO: Insecure

Posted: Tue February 15, 2022 4:50 pm
by The Argonaut
I still haven't watched the last season. I suppose I will, though I feel no rush

Re: TV: HBO: Insecure

Posted: Fri March 11, 2022 8:44 pm
by epilogue
Yeah, sorry trag But I can't really disagree with anything you said in your write up about the show and the final season. That was pretty much where I landed as well.
Spoiler: show
Did you watch any of the post-episode Wine Downs? I'm convinced Issa Rae didn't want Issa and Lawrence to get back together. It's pretty clear she was pressured into that and it shows.

The one thing strong take away for me with the finale and the getting back together stuff was how wonderful the final moment in the mirror was. Issa communicates so much in that quiet moment. It's clear that she has her own doubts about Lawrence. It's clear that she's still "insecure." But it's also clear that for the first time she's secure in being insecure. And that's the real arc.

That was my immediate take away from that moment and they do kind of address some of that in the post-show Wine Down. So, I'm not totally nuts. That was the intention there and I think it really came through.

But, yeah, this show was fantastic overall, despite some missteps along the way.