Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 3:57 pm
I think there's like a 50% chance it goes the way of other HBO miniseries (True Detective, Sharp Objects) and falls off a cliff.
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.
I'm starting to think you're right about the whodunnit.TremorJam wrote:I'm expecting the ending for Mare of Eastown to have a shocking twist.Excited for next week's finale
- Spoiler: show
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.
thats not going to happen. Why the hate? she is actually a pretty compelling character.tragabigzanda wrote:I hope her character dies in a video editing accidentVinylGuy wrote: Trag why do you hate Siobhan so much
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.
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.
Yes, exactly, it has nothing to do with her character being too self-assured and everything to do with it felt like paint by numbers, better make Mare demonstrate some emotional growth right about now!VinylGuy wrote:yeah, they could have told us earlier that she was the one who found her brother maybe? or have Mare discuss about it earlier with the shrink...maybe yes.
I also agree with this, with the understanding that actually very few of these characters are particularly well written and that the show is, as many have pointed out, driven almost entirely by mood and Winslet's acting (and to a lesser extent, Evan Peters'). There's a number of characters who I felt are significantly worse than Siobhan's (the chief, Dylan, Jess, the Ross patriarch). Which is why I worry the ending might be comic book goofy.I thought Siobhan having doubts about her partner, getting wasted and then having a crisis about everything was alright for a teenager. She seems to be in control but thats actually not true of course, kinda like Mare.
It might not be the best character of all times but its pretty compelling one.
It's hard when you're the only one in your high school listening to Phoebe Bridgers like all the other aging millennials.tragabigzanda wrote:I also hate her haircut. She thinks she’s so cool. Yeah
oh you are in love! i get it nowtragabigzanda wrote:I also hate her haircut. She thinks she’s so cool. Yeah
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.
Why would she?tragabigzanda wrote:Finale prediction: her college girlfriend does not get charged with statutory rapeMickey wrote:It's hard when you're the only one in your high school listening to Phoebe Bridgers like all the other aging millennials.tragabigzanda wrote:I also hate her haircut. She thinks she’s so cool. Yeah