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TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

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The Rube said:
She's also excellent in "The Americans." I know Scarlet had the honor of meeting her on the red carpet a couple years back. I was a bit jealous.

My mom is finally halfway through the last season of Justified (I lent her my season DVDs). She's also loving it.
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I met her at a nail salon when I was in LA for the Emmys. Helped her with her crossword puzzle, recommended a nail color. She was lovely.
 
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Snowpiercer S1. E1. A paper bag of gooey, trite poo.
 
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The Rube said:
I didn't see it, but figured that was going to happen.
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I hoped not cuz the Hamilton dude was in it.

But... ugh.

Basically, think of the last 30 minutes of the movie as a series.

We still don't have a great contemporary artistic metaphor for the coming revolution, but you can feel it's around the corner. It may not even come from this dead man walking country. But, tick tock, muthaf-ckas; sous les paves, la plage.
 
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Upload on Amazon Prime - starts off as a silly bit of whatever, turn into a mainstream Whodunnit. It's okay, some of the characters are worth a watch while other bits of it are just mailed-in writing.
 
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St. Clown said:
Upload on Amazon Prime - starts off as a silly bit of whatever, turn into a mainstream Whodunnit. It's okay, some of the characters are worth a watch while other bits of it are just mailed-in writing.
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I don't think so. It's uneven, that's for sure, but it's got the potential to be a biting satire of class and inequality.

I agree the writing's not up to the premise, yet, and they are definitely putting a lot of honey out there to attract the dummies, but that's as it should be. All in the Family went for easy laughs, too, but in doing so it reached a lot of people who would have been lost if it had been smarter.

Let's give it a chance. I like that it's at least an attempt at a Trojan Horse (much like Snowpiercer, so I guess I should take my own advice).
 
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Kepler said:
I don't think so. It's uneven, that's for sure, but it's got the potential to be a biting satire of class and inequality.

I agree the writing's not up to the premise, yet, and they are definitely putting a lot of honey out there to attract the dummies, but that's as it should be. All in the Family went for easy laughs, too, but in doing so it reached a lot of people who would have been lost if it had been smarter.

Let's give it a chance. I like that it's at least an attempt at a Trojan Horse (much like Snowpiercer, so I guess I should take my own advice).
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I'm not all the way through the show yet. The income inequality issue and the Chok character have only just appeared. "Chok", ha! We're at the part where they go to the dark web.
 
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St. Clown said:
I'm not all the way through the show yet. The income inequality issue and the Chok character have only just appeared. "Chok", ha! We're at the part where they go to the dark web.
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I'm only through episode 3.
 
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Kepler said:
Let's give it a chance. I like that it's at least an attempt at a Trojan Horse (much like Snowpiercer, so I guess I should take my own advice).
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Given that literally everyone left of us died in an avalanche what was the point of the movie?

I assume the TV show is a prequel of sorts.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
Given that literally everyone left of us died in an avalanche what was the point of the movie?

I assume the TV show is a prequel of sorts.
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It's a reboot.

The movie was a meh treatment of an awesome premise with an incredibly stupid ending.

Never allow the money people to interfere with the art people. Take their money and tell them come back opening night. They are money people because they are witless and amoral.
 
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