Proud2baLaker
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It's an HBO show. So If it's Netflix it will have to be DVD.
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TV 10: Blacklisted Sons: The Musical
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It's an HBO show. So If it's Netflix it will have to be DVD.
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That it is. I have the one-disc plan as well as streaming, so I'm good.
That it is. I have the one-disc plan as well as streaming, so I'm good.
Proud2baLaker
Master of Science
I had the 2 and 3 disc options for a while when they were cheaper. It's how I got through The Wire, Deadwood, Carnivale, and most of The Sopranos. Took me a long time. Then I got access to HBOGo.
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I had the 3 + streaming before the company split the plans. Had to drop down to one because of cost. But agreed, allowed me to roll through a crapload of stuff (1100+ seen in the last 5-6 years).
I had the 3 + streaming before the company split the plans. Had to drop down to one because of cost. But agreed, allowed me to roll through a crapload of stuff (1100+ seen in the last 5-6 years).
Handyman
Hug someone you care about...
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They killed the best character and they took every good story and ****ed all over them.
They killed the best character and they took every good story and ****ed all over them.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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The casting bugs me -- they apparently looked for the most unstable and immature people they could find to provoke conflict. There were at least a half dozen times during the pilot where my wife and I looked at each other and said, "where do they find adults who behave in this way?"
The casting bugs me -- they apparently looked for the most unstable and immature people they could find to provoke conflict. There were at least a half dozen times during the pilot where my wife and I looked at each other and said, "where do they find adults who behave in this way?"
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
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Yeah, by the end I was thoroughly annoyed by the people on that show. I think part of the problem is that to be eligible, you had to be willing to go away from everything for a year. Who has a job that would allow that? Not many people. If you catch my drift.
Yeah, by the end I was thoroughly annoyed by the people on that show. I think part of the problem is that to be eligible, you had to be willing to go away from everything for a year. Who has a job that would allow that? Not many people. If you catch my drift.
bigblue_dl
Armed
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I'm guessing they wanted to emulate the real government as much as possible.
I'm guessing they wanted to emulate the real government as much as possible.
ScoobyDoo
NPC
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A lot like real life then. No wonder I didn't watch it.
A lot like real life then. No wonder I didn't watch it.
ExileOnDaytonStreet
Drunkard
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I'm halfway through the 4th season, and it's really starting to fall flat for me.
Gillian and Mueller are two characters that the show really should've just killed off several seasons ago, because I still don't know what the point of them is.
As much as I like watching Yarrow, you get the impression that they're just wasting time with him right now.
I'm halfway through the 4th season, and it's really starting to fall flat for me.
Gillian and Mueller are two characters that the show really should've just killed off several seasons ago, because I still don't know what the point of them is.
As much as I like watching Yarrow, you get the impression that they're just wasting time with him right now.
rufus
rock and roller
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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The Leftovers season finale aired. Spoilers below in white text.
1. I loved the ending. Apparently a second season has been picked up, and I am curious enough and trust the director enough to give it a shot, but if they had left it there I would have called it one of the ten best finales in TV history.
2. Rarely has any show personally involved me the way it did. TV is almost always stupid -- the characters are stupid, the writing is stupid, the show assumes the audience is stupid. This show avoided all of that, which is surprising since the original book (going by my wife's opinion here) apparently fails on all three counts. It helped that they had two excellent actors: David Wright (Kevin) and American Helen Mirren (Nora), and a not at all bad performance from Your Elementary School Lunch Lady (Patty).
3. No, seriously, how did that ever get shown on TV? Even for HBO that was not something I ever expected to get past a pitch meeting. "You're going to lose your main demo before the opening credits."
4. The second season (verified renewed) is beyond the book scope (for reasons above this is if anything good news) but probably can't help but dumb down much of the show's interesting ambiguity. Any story that proceeds by "suggest, then back off" is by definition weakened the longer it runs, since the three options are: 1) move asymptotically towards resolution and frustrate everybody (X-Files Eczema ), 2) resolve some arcs while introducing new ones for the sole purpose of keeping people hooked (Lost Lupus), or 3) apparently resolve but then misdirect, in the process risking getting balled up in your own cleverness (Galactica Gout, Twin Peaks Typhus).
The Leftovers season finale aired. Spoilers below in white text.
1. I loved the ending. Apparently a second season has been picked up, and I am curious enough and trust the director enough to give it a shot, but if they had left it there I would have called it one of the ten best finales in TV history.
2. Rarely has any show personally involved me the way it did. TV is almost always stupid -- the characters are stupid, the writing is stupid, the show assumes the audience is stupid. This show avoided all of that, which is surprising since the original book (going by my wife's opinion here) apparently fails on all three counts. It helped that they had two excellent actors: David Wright (Kevin) and American Helen Mirren (Nora), and a not at all bad performance from Your Elementary School Lunch Lady (Patty).
3. No, seriously, how did that ever get shown on TV? Even for HBO that was not something I ever expected to get past a pitch meeting. "You're going to lose your main demo before the opening credits."
4. The second season (verified renewed) is beyond the book scope (for reasons above this is if anything good news) but probably can't help but dumb down much of the show's interesting ambiguity. Any story that proceeds by "suggest, then back off" is by definition weakened the longer it runs, since the three options are: 1) move asymptotically towards resolution and frustrate everybody (X-Files Eczema ), 2) resolve some arcs while introducing new ones for the sole purpose of keeping people hooked (Lost Lupus), or 3) apparently resolve but then misdirect, in the process risking getting balled up in your own cleverness (Galactica Gout, Twin Peaks Typhus).
ExileOnDaytonStreet
Drunkard
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SOA returns tonight? SOA returns tonight.
Time to see where this finally ends up.
SOA returns tonight? SOA returns tonight.
Time to see where this finally ends up.
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
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Mostly on target except for this:
I disagree with that on two accounts. First, the central story line isn't some ridiculous cash prize at the end where they'll slit each others' throats to get it. Second, that makes it far more compelling since they don't have these stupid alliances and whatnot that made me stop watching Survivor after about 1.25 seasons.
Here's a more even-handed review than mine.
Mostly on target except for this:
I disagree with that on two accounts. First, the central story line isn't some ridiculous cash prize at the end where they'll slit each others' throats to get it. Second, that makes it far more compelling since they don't have these stupid alliances and whatnot that made me stop watching Survivor after about 1.25 seasons.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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I agree with this (although personally I like the alliance element of Survivor). It is the difference between platform games and 4X games. As somebody who has logged about 10,000 hours on the Civ series, I also prefer the latter.
It would be nice if the people were more intelligent, but you can say that about a lot of real life too.
I'll say this for them: they went all in on the mandatory herpa-derp characters. "Red" is like the living embodiment of Sarah Palin's id. (Heightening the parallel, he also appears to be a professional grifter.) I have no idea what's to become of the man-child drunken Will Ferrell parody character, but he's already come pretty close to getting a visit from the real life po-po. I loved how the group decided "if there's physical violence then we'll get 911 involved." Um, kids, that's not really how this works. Just because the network is calling this a start from scratch civilization, you can't actually become cannibals and then testify "hey, we were outside US jurisdiction."
To do that... how about "Utopia" on a raft in international waters?
I agree with this (although personally I like the alliance element of Survivor). It is the difference between platform games and 4X games. As somebody who has logged about 10,000 hours on the Civ series, I also prefer the latter.
It would be nice if the people were more intelligent, but you can say that about a lot of real life too.
I'll say this for them: they went all in on the mandatory herpa-derp characters. "Red" is like the living embodiment of Sarah Palin's id. (Heightening the parallel, he also appears to be a professional grifter.) I have no idea what's to become of the man-child drunken Will Ferrell parody character, but he's already come pretty close to getting a visit from the real life po-po. I loved how the group decided "if there's physical violence then we'll get 911 involved." Um, kids, that's not really how this works. Just because the network is calling this a start from scratch civilization, you can't actually become cannibals and then testify "hey, we were outside US jurisdiction."
To do that... how about "Utopia" on a raft in international waters?
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dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
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I mutter that at least once every day of my life
It would be nice if the people were more intelligent, but you can say that about a lot of real life too.
I mutter that at least once every day of my life
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