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fantastic film!

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schlanky wrote:I was doing some chores last night and wife put on old episode of NCIS while I finished up. She was far enough into it when I got done and sat down that I told her to just finish it out. Episode wrapped with "Heavy & Hanging."
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chuckrh wrote:fantastic film!

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Obviously eagerly looking forward to this but it's surprisingly hard to find a 3.5 hour window that works for both my wife and I and which falls at a time that we're both likely to make it through w/out at least one of us falling asleep. First world old people problems.

I hadn't realized that Joe Pesci had been out of movies for so long. I'm really surprised by that and in retrospect, that's too bad. He's always a treat.
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oilpiers wrote:
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:anyone else watching Succession? Jumped aboard the train for season 2 after Jen bugged me to join her, and now I'm hooked. Such awful people but such a good show.

And Shiv is a total eye-magnet. I am indeed saying that she is most lovely but she also has a powerful charisma or presence or whatever you want to call it in any scene in which she appears. She commands attention

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Succession is on the first tier of HBO shows, alongside, The Sopranos, The Wire, and GOT. Immensely enjoyable. Mashup of Murdochs and Trumps. Can't agree about Shiv. She commands attention, but lovely is not the word for me.
Just finished season one last night. Outstanding.
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Clams wrote:
oilpiers wrote:
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:anyone else watching Succession? Jumped aboard the train for season 2 after Jen bugged me to join her, and now I'm hooked. Such awful people but such a good show.

And Shiv is a total eye-magnet. I am indeed saying that she is most lovely but she also has a powerful charisma or presence or whatever you want to call it in any scene in which she appears. She commands attention

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Succession is on the first tier of HBO shows, alongside, The Sopranos, The Wire, and GOT. Immensely enjoyable. Mashup of Murdochs and Trumps. Can't agree about Shiv. She commands attention, but lovely is not the word for me.
Just finished season one last night. Outstanding.
Astonishingly, season two is even better.

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chuckrh wrote:fantastic film!

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Watched it the other day and loved it. Saw it with my oldest son and the fact that someone of his generation with an attention span of maximum 20 seconds sat through the whole 3.5 hours says a lot. I suspected there would be some controversy given the topic of Hoffa and I made sure not to google any of that before watching it, but even after having read some of the articles and options on the book/manuscript I find it doesn't take anything away from the experience imho. I love the genre, and Scorsese is truly the master.
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This series is much much better than I thought it would be.

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Flea wrote:This series is much much better than I thought it would be.

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yeah, it's tremendous
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Zip City wrote:
Flea wrote:This series is much much better than I thought it would be.

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yeah, it's tremendous
what y'all said!
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A buddy just texted me about a CBS show called “Unicorn,” because one of the characters discussed going to a DBT show. I looked up this show and understood completely when I saw Walton Goggins stared in it!

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Beaverdam wrote:A buddy just texted me about a CBS show called “Unicorn,” because one of the characters discussed going to a DBT show. I looked up this show and understood completely when I saw Walton Goggins stared in it!
My wife was watching it last night and yelled for me to come in the room. She says, "Watch this" and Walton's character talks about going out to see his date's favorite band, the Drive By-Truckers. It was pretty cool.

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I’m crushing hard on Kathryn Hahn.
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bovine knievel wrote:Image

I’m crushing hard on Kathryn Hahn.
What the heck is this show? I'm getting a bunch of presumably targeted ads for it and it's either very intriguing or subversive clickbait.
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beantownbubba wrote:
bovine knievel wrote:Image

I’m crushing hard on Kathryn Hahn.
What the heck is this show? I'm getting a bunch of presumably targeted ads for it and it's either very intriguing or subversive clickbait.
it's the sexual liberation series of the decade!

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tinnitus photography wrote:it's the sexual liberation series of the decade!
So I guess those advertisers know their market after all.
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beantownbubba wrote:
tinnitus photography wrote:it's the sexual liberation series of the decade!
So I guess those advertisers know their market after all.
They should come up with a different term for "artificial" intelligence. Seems pretty fucking real to me.

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tinnitus photography wrote: it's the sexual liberation series of the decade!

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Color me intrigued - care to elaborate?
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The Sopranos is probably my favorite all time show. I saw this as while watching local news.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ5aKGa2DjY

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By the end of January of this year, I had not watched a single episode of Homeland. As of last night I am completely caught up to the middle of the 8th and last season. So you can say I've been kind of bingeing it and I certainly have devoted an inordinate amount of time to it. Yet I have this strange love/hate relationship w/ the show and don't even know if I would recommend it to anyone else. The show regularly, bu which I mean multiple times per season, jumps the shark yet always seems to find a way to keep the (or at least this) viewer hooked, intrigued and coming back for more. I have never yelled at the screen so much about a show I've continued to watch. Perhaps one of these days I'll figure out how they do that. In the meantime I'm truly losing patience w/ the "sharkiness" and am very ready for the series to end. I will, however stick it out 'til the end considering how much time and energy I've devoted to it.




POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT RE MINOR, TANGENTIAL PLOT POINTS:

Early in season 8, does Aleksandr (her guard) have sex w/ Carrie in her cell?
Has anybody else noticed that Janet (season 7) and Jenna (season 8) are basically the same person? Somebody seems to have a "type," lol.
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Finished season one of fargo last night. big fan of the movie but the show never really interested me even though i knew it was entirely new. glad i finally checked it out though because i absolutely loved it. billy bob thornton was a phenomenal lead but there were really a bunch of great performances and a well paced story that never got predictable. Was skeptical early on by how much happened in episode one, and at a few points later when it seemed like it was wrapping up with so many eps left, but it kept finding new directions that never felt like filler. Only real issue I had was I thought key and Peeles characters didn't really fit the overall vibe of the show. The show was frequently hilarious but those two seemed like pure comic relief without the dry humor used elsewhere, and it was a bit over the top compared to the rest of the humor. idk, really stuck out for me

I'd still say I generally don't get the whole prestige tv thing, more often than not I'd rather just have a movie than 10 or so connected eps I'd never watch on their own, but this was probably a more convincing argument for the format than anything else I've seen. i watched it in 2/3 ep chunks and it all felt self contained enough on its own not to feel like each episode had an obligatory cliffhanger

Not sure I'll jump right into the next seasons but I'm excited to see them eventually

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My son turned me on to the Real Bros of Simi Valley which is incredibly stupid but also incredibly brilliant and fucking hilarious. It uses the Real Housewives reality format and follows a group of stoner/skateboarder dudes in the valley who are 25 years old and still live with their parents. Season 1 is on Youtube, seasons 2 and 3 are on Facebook Watch (which is a streaming platform that I didn't even know existed).

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bovine knievel wrote:Image

I’m crushing hard on Kathryn Hahn.
Finished this last night, and my feelings totally align with yours.
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Shakespeare wrote:Finished season one of fargo last night. big fan of the movie but the show never really interested me even though i knew it was entirely new. glad i finally checked it out though because i absolutely loved it. billy bob thornton was a phenomenal lead but there were really a bunch of great performances and a well paced story that never got predictable. Was skeptical early on by how much happened in episode one, and at a few points later when it seemed like it was wrapping up with so many eps left, but it kept finding new directions that never felt like filler. Only real issue I had was I thought key and Peeles characters didn't really fit the overall vibe of the show. The show was frequently hilarious but those two seemed like pure comic relief without the dry humor used elsewhere, and it was a bit over the top compared to the rest of the humor. idk, really stuck out for me

I'd still say I generally don't get the whole prestige tv thing, more often than not I'd rather just have a movie than 10 or so connected eps I'd never watch on their own, but this was probably a more convincing argument for the format than anything else I've seen. i watched it in 2/3 ep chunks and it all felt self contained enough on its own not to feel like each episode had an obligatory cliffhanger

Not sure I'll jump right into the next seasons but I'm excited to see them eventually
Fargo season 2 blows season 1 out of the water, IMO. Haven’t been able to get into season 3
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Zip City wrote:
Shakespeare wrote:Finished season one of fargo last night. big fan of the movie but the show never really interested me even though i knew it was entirely new. glad i finally checked it out though because i absolutely loved it. billy bob thornton was a phenomenal lead but there were really a bunch of great performances and a well paced story that never got predictable. Was skeptical early on by how much happened in episode one, and at a few points later when it seemed like it was wrapping up with so many eps left, but it kept finding new directions that never felt like filler. Only real issue I had was I thought key and Peeles characters didn't really fit the overall vibe of the show. The show was frequently hilarious but those two seemed like pure comic relief without the dry humor used elsewhere, and it was a bit over the top compared to the rest of the humor. idk, really stuck out for me

I'd still say I generally don't get the whole prestige tv thing, more often than not I'd rather just have a movie than 10 or so connected eps I'd never watch on their own, but this was probably a more convincing argument for the format than anything else I've seen. i watched it in 2/3 ep chunks and it all felt self contained enough on its own not to feel like each episode had an obligatory cliffhanger

Not sure I'll jump right into the next seasons but I'm excited to see them eventually
Fargo season 2 blows season 1 out of the water, IMO. Haven’t been able to get into season 3
I like them all but would probably rate them in order 1, 2 then 3. Just saw that season 4 has been delayed because of the virus. It was supposed to have premiered in April.
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I thought Season 2’s time period was perfect for the genre. No cell phones, no computers, no way to quickly warn people that trouble is on its way.

And the music was fucking incredible.
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Just finished this. :shock:
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Flea wrote:
bovine knievel wrote:Image

I’m crushing hard on Kathryn Hahn.
Finished this last night, and my feelings totally align with yours.
She’s sexy AF 8-)
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Spent the past several days of this quarantine introducing my 10 year old son to the Dukes of Hazzard. It was my favorite show growing up, and he loves it so far too. After a few episodes though, it sounds like I might have a miniature Boss Hogg on my hands after hearing this exchange with his sister:

Ansley: "Share that blanket with me, John David"

JD: "Ok, but I get 90% and you get 10%"

Ansley: "No, we have to share it 50/50"

JD: "70/30, and that's my final offer"

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cortez the killer wrote:
Just finished this. :shock:
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What a great distraction during Covid19 lockdown. Merica!
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Just finished watching Season 1
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