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TV, or not TV, that is the question

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Kepler said:
Mixed feelings. Will he keep tarnishing the legacy of the first season or redeem it? I guess in keeping with the show it will be a messy mixture of both. (At least I hope so. A pat ending tying up all the loose ends and I'm going to hunt him down.)
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I have four or five episodes left this season (the wife has just shown up in Miracle), but I've mostly liked it so far. They took all of the same concepts as the first season and moved it to a location that had such a vastly different experience during the event. It's a microcosm of things we're seeing today, allegorical to what people are saying in trying to keep out the immigrants here, but they're doing it in a way that doesn't feel preachy.
 
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I made it through all of Man in the High Castle on Amazon.

It's a really uneven show, almost like two completely opposite shows. The stuff with the Nazi and Japanese command(especially the Nazi) approaches really good television at times. Everything with the three main characters involved in the resistance is an insufferable waste. I'm not sure it's bad writing or terrible acting, likely a combination of the two, but all three characters are such ciphers you end up rooting for the bad guys to kill them.

It's watchable enough. If I was going in fresh, I'd just watch the pilot then read synopses until the sixth episode. Also, it's similar to Boardwalk Empire in that 90% of the CGI visual budget gets blown in the pilot. And about 9% gets used on two shots in the finale. There is some interesting cinematography, but it's not spectacular in that regard.
 
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Just finished up season 2 of Broadchurch on Netflix, it's basically a very well done 2 season long episode of Law and Order.
 
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Amazon Prime's show Alpha House, it's a John Goodman comedy vehicle where he's a Republican senator from SC who lives in a house with three other senators, and all of them do some sort of political bungling throughout their days. It's average to above average, depending upon whether or not you can laugh at political leaders or if you take them as serious as the Pope is Catholic. Yes, it's typical in that Hollywood actors and writers spend the time goring their Republican oxen for twenty episodes, but some of them are just well deserved.

The series is just two seasons long, and in it there are two episodes that stood out above the rest. In the first season, it's when the various Senators get together for an unofficial prayer meeting. In the second season, it's when they go on the GOP Senatorial retreat. Honorable mention goes to the Capitol Building lock down episode.

A little Easter egg in one episode is when Bradley Whitford makes a guest starring appearance as a senator on a panel with Janel Maloney playing her recurring character at the other end of the table. For those who don't know, they starred together on The West Wing as Josh Lymon and Donna Moss, respectively. The give and take between the characters was clearly modeled after some of the banter from their old show.
 
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St. Clown said:
Amazon Prime's show Alpha House, it's a John Goodman comedy vehicle where he's a Republican senator from SC who lives in a house with three other senators, and all of them do some sort of political bungling throughout their days. It's average to above average, depending upon whether or not you can laugh at political leaders or if you take them as serious as the Pope is Catholic. Yes, it's typical in that Hollywood actors and writers spend the time goring their Republican oxen for twenty episodes, but some of them are just well deserved.

The series is just two seasons long, and in it there are two episodes that stood out above the rest. In the first season, it's when the various Senators get together for an unofficial prayer meeting. In the second season, it's when they go on the GOP Senatorial retreat. Honorable mention goes to the Capitol Building lock down episode.

A little Easter egg in one episode is when Bradley Whitford makes a guest starring appearance as a senator on a panel with Janel Maloney playing her recurring character at the other end of the table. For those who don't know, they starred together on The West Wing as Josh Lymon and Donna Moss, respectively. The give and take between the characters was clearly modeled after some of the banter from their old show.
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Sort of related: that's why I like House Of Cards. They skewer EVERYBODY. :)
 
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Slap Shot said:
There was a season 2? Is it Fargo/AHS/True Detective season 2 or a continuation?
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It's a continuation with the trial related to season 1, and gets into the case that D.I. Hardy was previously working. Just was released a few weeks ago.
 
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I think I'll rematch S1 which was one of the most fascinating, intriguing and haunting series I've ever seen.
 
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St. Clown said:
Amazon Prime's show Alpha House, it's a John Goodman comedy vehicle where he's a Republican senator from SC who lives in a house with three other senators, and all of them do some sort of political bungling throughout their days. It's average to above average, depending upon whether or not you can laugh at political leaders or if you take them as serious as the Pope is Catholic. Yes, it's typical in that Hollywood actors and writers spend the time goring their Republican oxen for twenty episodes, but some of them are just well deserved.

The series is just two seasons long, and in it there are two episodes that stood out above the rest. In the first season, it's when the various Senators get together for an unofficial prayer meeting. In the second season, it's when they go on the GOP Senatorial retreat. Honorable mention goes to the Capitol Building lock down episode.

A little Easter egg in one episode is when Bradley Whitford makes a guest starring appearance as a senator on a panel with Janel Maloney playing her recurring character at the other end of the table. For those who don't know, they starred together on The West Wing as Josh Lymon and Donna Moss, respectively. The give and take between the characters was clearly modeled after some of the banter from their old show.
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It's also why we haven't had new Doonesbury's in the last 2 years.
 
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French Rage said:
It's also why we haven't had new Doonesbury's in the last 2 years.
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Isn't the show done now? Goodman has moved on to other TV shows, but they could be on different production schedules, for all I know.
 
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Watched the 30 For 30 Four Falls Of Buffalo. There might have been some tears. I feel no shame in admitting that. Man, it still hurts.
 
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I started watching Covert Affairs season 1. It's been okay so far, nothing great but not horrible either. In the second or third episode, Peter Gallagher has a meeting with his Finnish counterparts. Th Finns are introduced as Teppo Numminen and a second NHL name that I forget now. It's a funny little tidbit for the board, I thought.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Watched the 30 For 30 Four Falls Of Buffalo. There might have been some tears. I feel no shame in admitting that. Man, it still hurts.
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Two things that struck me about that 30 For 30.

First, I wanted to see Thurman Thomas acknowledge his role in those failures. A great player, but there were times when you just wondered what the guy was thinking, and a couple of those Super Bowls are included in those times. When he and Bruce Smith were filmed watching those games, it was a perfect opportunity for Thurman to be forced to own up to his failures, whether it was the lost helmet or the fumbles, and not try to just push it off on someone else like the pre-game activities guys.

Second, that movie was another reminder of what we, as fans of football, are missing as a result of Bill Belichick insisting on playing the role of d i c k h e a d of the NFL. He has such a terrific football mind. The game would simply be better, at all levels, if he was at least human and would give more interviews. His plan for defeating the Bills uptempo, run and shoot style offense was both counter-intuitive and simple. Rather than try to slow it down, which is pretty much what everyone else on the planet would try to do, see if you can get it to go faster, then give them a few different looks. Force the offense to make decisions at extremely high speed, which will then result in mistakes, when all the Bills really would have had to have done is just slow the game down themselves.
 
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SJHovey said:
Two things that struck me about that 30 For 30.

First, I wanted to see Thurman Thomas acknowledge his role in those failures. A great player, but there were times when you just wondered what the guy was thinking, and a couple of those Super Bowls are included in those times. When he and Bruce Smith were filmed watching those games, it was a perfect opportunity for Thurman to be forced to own up to his failures, whether it was the lost helmet or the fumbles, and not try to just push it off on someone else like the pre-game activities guys.

Second, that movie was another reminder of what we, as fans of football, are missing as a result of Bill Belichick insisting on playing the role of d i c k h e a d of the NFL. He has such a terrific football mind. The game would simply be better, at all levels, if he was at least human and would give more interviews. His plan for defeating the Bills uptempo, run and shoot style offense was both counter-intuitive and simple. Rather than try to slow it down, which is pretty much what everyone else on the planet would try to do, see if you can get it to go faster, then give them a few different looks. Force the offense to make decisions at extremely high speed, which will then result in mistakes, when all the Bills really would have had to have done is just slow the game down themselves.
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I had forgotten that Bill B was with the Giants. He has a TREMENDOUS football mind; he's just an arse. I respect him for the former, and obviously not the latter.

Besides all the SB losses, the off-the-field stuff with Kelly and Talley hurt, too. And Norwood...man. Also, Don Beebe. I remember as a young adult writing him a fan letter and of course asking for an autograph. I have long lost the non-standard-form-response, but he answered all his fan mail and sent two different cards then I sent in (he returned the ones I sent in, too) with auto's. Total stand up guy.
 
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Finished Bloodline. I would boil it down to Dallas meets Breaking Bad with a little whiff of Twin Peaks, set in the Florida Keys. The family is in the resort business, but the lead brother played by Ben Mendelsohn (who is essentially Gary Ewing come home to roost and be a giant eff up, instead of spun-off), is also involved with drugs, while dealing with his own drug addiction that is related to the family's dark history. The middle brother is the local sheriff and is investigating an odd murder case that is hammered in early on, and ends up tying in (duh). Chloe Sevigny plays a perfect trailer park woman. :D Sissy Spacek is a solid matriarch.

Very good show from Netflix. Given the events of S1, not entirely sure how they are going to continue this one, and I hate to say it, but I suspect it's going to be a disappointment.
 
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