Red Mosquito

Simple Torture wrote:P.S.:

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durdencommatyler wrote:Shit Town was pretty great. I have my issues with it, for sure. But overall, I really enjoyed it.

numbers wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Shit Town was pretty great. I have my issues with it, for sure. But overall, I really enjoyed it.

Yeah, I enjoyed it overall, but after Chapter IV I thought it was incredible and it kind of petered out a little.

Simple Torture wrote:Unrelated to any specific podcast: the latest update to iTunes has changed the order of the options when you right-click on a podcast feed, and it's fucking maddening. So where it would usually say "Mark All As Played," it now says, "Download." So today I accidentally downloaded every episode of every podcast on my feed...twice.

BurtReynolds wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:very cool very cool

Simple Torture wrote:I think I share most people's sentiments about the course of S-Town: episode 4 was where it reached its high point after chugging along at a breakneck pace, then 5-6 were not as jam-packed with great material. Episode 7 served as a nice little epilogue, almost, since there wasn't much new happening in the "now" of the story. Still a great little limited series.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:I think I share most people's sentiments about the course of S-Town: episode 4 was where it reached its high point after chugging along at a breakneck pace, then 5-6 were not as jam-packed with great material. Episode 7 served as a nice little epilogue, almost, since there wasn't much new happening in the "now" of the story. Still a great little limited series.

Totally agree.

Chapter I: B+ (nice intro, very different, never formulaic)
Chapter II: A+ (holy shit!)
Chapter III: B (some wheel spinning but great characters)
Chapter IV: A+ (holy goddamn shit! pinnacle of the series)
Chapter V: B (oh, interesting step back... where is this going, what are we building to)
Chapter VI: B- (great background but a little unnecessary)
Chapter VII: B+ (good finale, but too many things were left on the table, it was ultimately strange --- and maybe unfocused?)

Simple Torture wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:I think I share most people's sentiments about the course of S-Town: episode 4 was where it reached its high point after chugging along at a breakneck pace, then 5-6 were not as jam-packed with great material. Episode 7 served as a nice little epilogue, almost, since there wasn't much new happening in the "now" of the story. Still a great little limited series.

Totally agree.

Chapter I: B+ (nice intro, very different, never formulaic)
Chapter II: A+ (holy shit!)
Chapter III: B (some wheel spinning but great characters)
Chapter IV: A+ (holy goddamn shit! pinnacle of the series)
Chapter V: B (oh, interesting step back... where is this going, what are we building to)
Chapter VI: B- (great background but a little unnecessary)
Chapter VII: B+ (good finale, but too many things were left on the table, it was ultimately strange --- and maybe unfocused?)

Those phone calls that he had to make in episode four were just crushing. P.S. I want a hypeman who has a bullet in his brain who just says, "Yup! Yup!" to every statement I make.

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.