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charlest wrote: Godless, a Netflix Western miniseries, has my attention after the first two episodes. The abundance of female characters adds an interesting slant and I enjoy that social issues are highlighted while weaving through the slightly typical revenge narrative. Acting, writing, and cinematography are all top notch and it has a very large cinematic feel to it. I also appreciate that it doesn't appear to waste your time with fluff.
I enjoyed the show right up until the finale which felt like it was directed by someone else, or by committee, or by budget pressure. It wasn’t a terrible episode, but in the context of the rest of the mini-series it was kind of pedestrian and predictable, with several character threads just kind of fizzling out or ending unceremoniously... probably because they wrote arcs that needed a couple more episodes to really pay off but didn’t have that luxury.
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I hope they make more.
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It did get better, I have to say, but absurd time travel paradoxes tended to spoil it a bit, I think. Like the sexuality jokes throughout. Like how that is slowly being normalised into US entertainment culture.
Now on Arrow Season 3 which is not bad. Love the Arabic speaking League of Assassins. I guess if you are going to pick something from Arabic culture that is basically non religious, then assassins is the way to go.
That guy in red, Armoury or Assault or something, is a dick and so is the police captain.
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Frohike wrote:
charlest wrote: Godless, a Netflix Western miniseries, has my attention after the first two episodes. The abundance of female characters adds an interesting slant and I enjoy that social issues are highlighted while weaving through the slightly typical revenge narrative. Acting, writing, and cinematography are all top notch and it has a very large cinematic feel to it. I also appreciate that it doesn't appear to waste your time with fluff.
I enjoyed the show right up until the finale which felt like it was directed by someone else, or by committee, or by budget pressure. It wasn’t a terrible episode, but in the context of the rest of the mini-series it was kind of pedestrian and predictable, with several character threads just kind of fizzling out or ending unceremoniously... probably because they wrote arcs that needed a couple more episodes to really pay off but didn’t have that luxury.
We still have a couple of episodes left of Godless and it definitely has some issues. All of my problems stem from the fact that it is several show ideas jammed into one mini-series. It feels like the original intent was for a longer season or multiple series or both. Some of the storylines logically mesh, but others feel tacked on from a different show. They are not of any lower quality, they just do not belong with the others. It should have been separated into two different shows: Griffin/Goode/Fletcher/McNue in one and La Belle/Blackton/Quicksilver in the other.
Based on Frohike's comment, I doubt they will manage to tie it all together in the final two episodes and it will end up as a good series not a great one.
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ThirstyMan wrote: Now on Arrow Season 3 which is not bad. Love the Arabic speaking League of Assassins. I guess if you are going to pick something from Arabic culture that is basically non religious, then assassins is the way to go.
That guy in red, Armoury or Assault or something, is a dick and so is the police captain.
Arrow season three was as far as I got in that series. The League of Assassins is the same group that appears in Batman Begins. Arsenal is the guy in red, and he isn't a strong enough actor to play a heterosexual character who is supposed to have chemistry with Ollie's sister. I lost interest for contradictory reasons: too much soap opera and most of the supporting cast becoming superheroes. Oh, and the ridiculous number of archers in Star City, and the technobabble of Felicity Smoak. Too much drama following a standard formula: character has a secret, complications, secret revealed, more complications. All that said, Arrow was the best Batman tv show that I've seen.
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Sagrilarus wrote: Good Behavior is back for season 2. Anyone watching?
I'll tell you what, anybody who hasn't taken a look at Good Behavior on TNT is missing the boat. Season 2 in particular is showing very creative script writing, beautiful character development and some superb acting. Michelle Dockery is stunningly good playing a role as different from her Downton Abbey gig as is conceivable. Her interactions with her costar Juan Diego Botar are pitch-perfect. This is intellectual television.
I don't know of anything I'd compare it to at the moment. The last couple of episodes have had some exceptionally artistic camera work as well, directly relating to the state of the characters. You really should be giving this one a shot. As far as I'm concerned it's the best show on TV at the moment. Stranger Things was good, this is better by a fair margin.
Fair warning, sexual content, violence and a lot of drug use. This is a gritty show.
TNT is getting very experimental, and some of its efforts are quite impressive. My wife and I look forward to every episode of this one.
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Stranger Things 2 was disappointing at best. It started off alright but gradually nosedived into that punk gang filler episode. That was pure trash, not in a good way either. From that point on I just wanted it to be over. I don't feel the series was very well thought out or executed. The good moments (and there are several) didn't make up for the rest. 2 stars.
True Detective 2 fared a lot better. I knew what NOT to expect and was cool with that going in. I thought Vince Vaughn was going to make me choke hard but dammit he won me over somehow. Pretty gripping cop/gangster show overall. 4 stars.
Daredevil (Season1) is pretty much like all the other Marvel Netflix stuff. Low B grade material at it's best and downright corny or cheesy at other times. The scene with Froggy and Matt crying it out made me cringe it was so painfully awkward. Froggy is the most embarrassing character evar. What casting sludge hole did this guy spawn from?FFS! Kingpin is alright, I guess. My friend is a big Elektra fan and he says they fucked that up, so we'll see. I'll stick it out.
Mad Men and Downton were both really top notch. Yeah, I'm behind with shit.
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I watched the first couple episodes of Sneaky Pete the other day. Not great. Not horrible. The first episode was a bit too formulaic (Cousin's a bail bondsman and needs to save the business! Pete, with his street smarts, will guide her through kinda funny, kinda menacing hijinks to save the day!) The second episode was better, though. They're taking their sweet time introducing the cast and laying the groundwork for the past events that mean everything to the current day. They've had more than one person on screen that Pete is speaking to familiarly but who hasn't been named directly or at all. I'm fine with that, since it lets the story grow on its own, rather than shoveling it to the audience. I'm not quite ready to accept Bryan Cranston as Super Tough Bad Guy, but he did OK. I wish Ribisi (Pete) was a little more canny and a little less weaselly sometimes, but I'm willing to ride along and see where it goes. No one else on the cast has sold me yet, though.
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hotseatgames wrote: Just finished The Punisher. I really liked this show. Other than Daredevil, it's the only Marvel Netflix show I've made it all the way through. The first half probably could have been 2 episodes shorter... they took a while getting up to speed. But the last half was fantastic!
I hope they make more.
I just finished this last night. It's ... fine. The cast was solid, but I'm kind of done with shadowy military cabals and government conspiracies. As with all these Netflix Marvel shows, they cram about 10 episodes of plot into 13 episodes, so everything is stretched thin and slowly-paced.
Also, I realized that I like the more out-there, sci-fi / fantasy genre elements of superhero fiction, and this show had none of that. It was a straight-up, sorta bland, action drama about a vigilante. It had nothing to do with the wider, crazier Marvel Cinematic Universe, and I found myself wishing for more of that genre stuff.
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I LOVED that show and if you've never seen it you really should
Well, I came across a show streaming on Amazon called How We Got to Now hosted by Stephen Johnson. This is in the same vein as Connections as Johnson explores the ripple effect of certain ideas and/or inventions and how they make the modern world possible.
I haven't seen the whole series but what I have seen is fascinating. I won't spoil the whole show but the first episode is about how modern cities became clean compared to the cesspits they were 150 years ago. Did you know that the entire city of Chicago was raised up several feet on locomotive jacks to allow for the installation of the country's first sewer system? I style myself a "font of worthless knowledge" but even I didn't know that.
I highly recommend it based on what I've seen so far.
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