This forum is for talking about non-music-related stuff that the DBT fanbase might be interested in. This is not the place for inside jokes and BS. Take that crap to some other board.
tinnitus photography wrote:there's *seven* seasons of The League? never heard of it before today.
fairly acclaimed show, at least critically, imagine the ratings were just so-so. What I find interesting is how many friends I have who are way into fantasy football yet they never watched even one episode
Son, this ain't a dream no more, it's the real thing
My buddy told me this ranks in his Top 3 along with Breaking Bad and The Sopranos. I'm on Season 1 Episode 4. Not bad. Not blown away. I'm sure it will get good.
Erdlivz wrote:My buddy told me this ranks in his Top 3 along with Breaking Bad and The Sopranos. I'm on Season 1 Episode 4. Not bad. Not blown away. I'm sure it will get good.
It will. I kind of remember it being a slow build as well, but it's my favorite of all time.
I'm jealous of anyone who gets to start it fresh.
Enjoy.
The villain is awesome but Kristen Ritter has to be the worst actor working today. Liked her character in Breaking Bad but this is just abysmal.
About half done with the season. I'll finish it just to see how the bad guy develops.
As a Marvel fanboy and non-TV watcher, I'm curious about other folks' responses to this. Many of my friends elsewhere think it's pretty much the show of the year.
The sooner we put those assholes in the grave&piss on the dirt above it, the better off we'll be
The villain is awesome but Kristen Ritter has to be the worst actor working today. Liked her character in Breaking Bad but this is just abysmal.
About half done with the season. I'll finish it just to see how the bad guy develops.
As a Marvel fanboy and non-TV watcher, I'm curious about other folks' responses to this. Many of my friends elsewhere think it's pretty much the show of the year.
To be clear, I think the show is OK. Requires a little more suspension of disbelief than I'm up for, but in the context of what it is, it's pretty OK.
Kristen Ritter (Jessica) is the terrible part. One dimensional, angsty, shadow of a character. Same sigh and head cock and fake bad girl sneer on repeat throughout every single scene. Again, I recall really liking the way she played her character on Breaking Bad. Seems like this is just not her kind of role.
Erdlivz wrote:My buddy told me this ranks in his Top 3 along with Breaking Bad and The Sopranos. I'm on Season 1 Episode 4. Not bad. Not blown away. I'm sure it will get good.
It will. I kind of remember it being a slow build as well, but it's my favorite of all time.
I'm jealous of anyone who gets to start it fresh.
Enjoy.
Erdlivz wrote:My buddy told me this ranks in his Top 3 along with Breaking Bad and The Sopranos. I'm on Season 1 Episode 4. Not bad. Not blown away. I'm sure it will get good.
It will. I kind of remember it being a slow build as well, but it's my favorite of all time.
I'm jealous of anyone who gets to start it fresh.
Enjoy.
This is the reason I startet watching TV again.
Seen the entire series 4 times. Each time it is like watching it for the first time. They have sociology classes at Harvard and Stanford that examine this show. Best TV show ever in my opinion.
Hot damn. I'm getting more excited about this show by the minute. I've heard a lot of people throw The Wire well ahead of Breaking Bad. I'm all in. Starting back up tomorrow tonight. My wife is catching up on a couple episodes. Excited to see the series unfold.
Erdlivz wrote:I've heard a lot of people throw The Wire well ahead of Breaking Bad.
Count me as one of those people
After an extended stay at home on the couch recovering from wrist surgery, I re-watched Breaking Bad. Hard to imagine there is a better show but I am up for the challenge of watching The Wire
We got messed up minds for these messed up times...
We've had a few rounds of discussions on the Wire on this thread over the past 5 years and I am one of the many, self proclaimed, Wire nerds who has chimed in. Anyway, the link below is to an article David Simon (Wire Producer) wrote for the Baltimore Sun many years ago on Little Melvin Williams the Drug Kingpin of Baltimore from the 60's, 70's, 80's, who the character of Avon Barksdale in the Wire partially based. It was Ed Burns, one of the Wire's other Producers, who took down Little Melvin Williams when he was a Baltimore cop using the wire. Little Melvin passed away fairly recently, but, ironically, he played the Deacon in Season 3 and 4 or the Wire. A fairly substantial part for a non-actor ex-drug kingpin and was quite good as a man of the cloth. Sorry, maybe a little too much inside baseball.
brett27295 wrote:Nothing touches The Wire...nothing.
Recently binged Game of Thrones. For completely different reasons, it is arguable which is greater. It certainly is the greatest display of television cinematography and B cups ever.
40% of the way through Fargo Season 2. Digging it a lot. The accents are a little over the top (but pretty damn close) and I can guarantee there were no black dudes in Luverne in the 70's, but it's a damn well written show.
Iowan wrote:40% of the way through Fargo Season 2. Digging it a lot. The accents are a little over the top (but pretty damn close) and I can guarantee there were no black dudes in Luverne in the 70's, but it's a damn well written show.
We recorded the season finale and will watch it tonight. Can't wait. It's been the first thing I've really looked forward to week to week since Justified.
We call him Scooby Do, but Scooby doesn’t do. Scooby, is not involved
Iowan wrote:40% of the way through Fargo Season 2. Digging it a lot. The accents are a little over the top (but pretty damn close) and I can guarantee there were no black dudes in Luverne in the 70's, but it's a damn well written show.
We recorded the season finale and will watch it tonight. Can't wait. It's been the first thing I've really looked forward to week to week since Justified.
I'll finish this today for sure. Glued to it.
One last minor quibble: why is matching locations and filming so hard? Luverne appears to be in the north woods, but in reality it's out on the prairie, about 15 miles from Iowa and 20 from South Dakota. It's kind of like how in the movie, they show the Brainerd area as open prairie farm country, but it's actually deep in the woods. For all the incredible detail they put into these stories and writing, it just seems like low-hanging fruit.
