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TV 19 - Simpsons Did It

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I didn't realize Weakest Link was still on TV, but caught it tonight.

I forgot about the glaring flaw that it's actually better not to be the strongest link, because they'll just be voted off in the final round so the two remaining contestants don't have to go head to head against them. I guess that's part of the appeal/strategy of the show, but I think it would be better if the strongest link was given immunity in each round. If you're there to win money, it doesn't make sense to be punished for completing the objective.

Also, Jane Lynch just doesn't have the same effect as Anne Robinson did.
 
Better call Saul final season premiers tomorrow, can’t remember a thing from last season.

barry season 3 is near on HBO, as is Hacks season 2.
 
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Fun fact: the exterior shots of Severance are from a retired Bell Labs facility in New Jersey which is now on the National Registry. It was built on the site where Janke's Milky Way signals in 1933 led directly to the birth of radio astronomy.

Also, the gas station in S1.E3 is the gas station where Iosef first meets John Wick! It's in Nyack, NY and most of the other locations are in the Hudson Valley.
 
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I'm rewatching season 4 and 5 of Better Call Saul so I can remember what happened. It feels like a decade since they aired!
 
Handyman said:
I'm rewatching season 4 and 5 of Better Call Saul so I can remember what happened. It feels like a decade since they aired!
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I think that I'm going to DVR the new episodes then rewatch entire series. It was a slow death getting to the end of Killing Eve by watching weekly. Not sure I can do that with Saul. The upcoming weather looks crappy so I may even rewatch all of BrBa just to set it up.
 
That Dirty Black Bag. Description from Google:

A story over eight long days describes the encounter and clash between two men: McCoy, an apparently incorruptible sheriff with a dark past, and Red Bill, a dirty, taciturn bounty killer trapped in a desire for vengeance that cannot be fulfilled.
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This is definitely not your daddy's spaghetti western, but I've enjoyed quite a bit so far through 3 Eps.
 
Slap Shot said:
That Dirty Black Bag. Description from Google:



This is definitely not your daddy's spaghetti western, but I've enjoyed quite a bit so far through 3 Eps.
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It actually sounds exactly like your daddy's spaghetti western: Once Upon a Time in the West.

Or more broadly, dark westerns: Bad Day at Black Rock. The Wild Bunch. The Hateful Eight.
 
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Was last season the Germans building out the underground lab?

You're right it feels like a decade ago.
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Last season was basically Saul trying to get out from under the thumb of Lalo Salamanca, and included Saul's trip into the desert to haul back big bags of bail money for Lalo, and ended with the attempt on Lalo's life down in Mexico.

The Kim thread had to do with the guy who wouldn't vacate his house so that Kim's bank client could move forward with its development project, and Saul was helping the guy fight the bank.
 
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It actually sounds exactly like your daddy's spaghetti western: Once Upon a Time in the West.

Or more broadly, dark westerns: Bad Day at Black Rock. The Wild Bunch. The Hateful Eight.
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Relative specifically to spaghetti westerns I'll grant you Once Upon A Time.., but the Dollars films were quirky and up-tempo as much as anything. Get through E3 of That Dirty Black Bag and my point will become more clear.
 
Well the "Flash Forwards" make less sense if you don't know Saul's situation during Breaking Bad. It might seem weird a dude who looks like Jimmy/Saul is named Gene working at a Cinnabon in Bumphuck, Nowhere ;^)
 
Regardless of BCS, I would say watch Breaking Bad anyway. AMC has had marathons running the last few Saturdays and even though I’ve seen the series a couple times over and watched other episodes multiple times it still sucked me in.

For BCS I think I’m going to do what a couple others suggested and DVR and binge later. I got through last season the last couple weekends now that they finally have it on Netflix and at this point in the story the episodes flow too well and are too connected not to binge it.
 
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Better Call Saul: do I need to watch Breaking Bad first?
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I didn't, and I have loved it.

From what I know of BB, it's not my style. Lots of hyperventilating One Strong Man posturing. Imagine an entire show about Ehrmantraut. The Sopranos: New Mexico.

Fine as seasoning, but overrich as a meal.
 
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Relative specifically to spaghetti westerns I'll grant you Once Upon A Time.., but the Dollars films were quirky and up-tempo as much as anything. Get through E3 of That Dirty Black Bag and my point will become more clear.
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I'm definitely watching it on your recommendation. Sounds great!

I would say the Dollar films are not very representative of spaghetti westerns for a few reasons:

1. They're great. Most SWs are really uneven. In fact many are pretty bad.
2. They have recognized talents who can draw on their image. Most SWs have no-name casts -- literally, they are Italians walking around Spain.
3. They're quirky like you said, they have humor. Most SWs are downbeat and kinda... nasty. They're mean and pretty gross. That's the feeling they are going for.
 
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