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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 5, 2019 9:44:00 GMT -5
I just saw this trailer for new cartoon about dinosaurs and cavemen and I'm in love:
I haven't watched anything on adult swim in years but I'll be checking this out for years.
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Post by Jesse on Sept 13, 2019 9:52:52 GMT -5
Watching The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix and am mostly enjoying it. Some of the early pacing feels uneven but for the most part it's interesting. Like the 1963 film for me it's walking the line of, are there actually ghosts, or is this mental illness, or both. The Robert Wise film very much left me wanting more and this based on the same source material brings me back there. I'm only about half way through this series but am looking forward to the rest of the first season.
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 15, 2019 13:04:39 GMT -5
PBS' long Country Music series by Ken Burns starts tonight!
I watched some early '70s Z Cars shows... police series ala Adam-12, and I was surprised to see Nicholas Smith in a couple! He is better known as Mr. Rumbold ('jug ears') in Are You Being Served...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 15, 2019 14:22:12 GMT -5
Background noise on the computer while I draw: The Walking Dead, season 9 (now on Netflix Canada). Whenever I look at the monitor I can’t see anything; it seems that many scenes are set at night or in shadowy buildings. But the script is pretty tight. I love the way they wrote out {Spoiler: Click to show}Rick Grimes in a satisfying, respectful, moving and yet hopeful way. And the character of Judith Grimes is the breakaway star of this season. She’s just great! Someone to bring back faith in humanity and prevent this show from being an unending experiment in emotional turmoil. TWD compendium volume 4 comes out next month... Looking firward to that too! |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 20, 2019 13:44:07 GMT -5
I just finished a re-watch of the entire run of The Sopranos. I loved it the first time around, but I got so much more out of it this time around. Before I watched with my wife and my middle son and it was a fairly surface viewing. This time around I spent a fair amount of time thinking about and analyzing the episodes and also looking at the historical significance of the show itself. The success of The Sopranos, both commercially and critically lead to a major change in the way television was viewed and produced. Without the show and Tony Soprano we likely never get Breaking Bad, The Wire and Mad Men, to name just a few shows. So, historically, I think it's fair to say it's arguably the most important show of the last 25 years.
Beyond that it is just a brilliantly conceived show that uses the episodic nature of television to its best effect while giving us the kind of extended narrative and the technical qualities that had been reserved for film. Having time to rewind and watch certain scenes and to contemplate the show it's a revelation how incredible most of the cast was, in particular James Gandolfini and Eddie Falco. Gandolfini could act circles around most people with his back to the camera just with the way he held himself and used his voice. I think it's a testament to the acting of Falco, and the quality of the writing and directing on the show that Carmela never fell into the trap that made Skyler White and Betty Draper such generally unlikable characters.
Just a fabulous show.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 20, 2019 18:35:56 GMT -5
I just finished a re-watch of the entire run of The Sopranos. I loved it the first time around, but I got so much more out of it this time around. Before I watched with my wife and my middle son and it was a fairly surface viewing. This time around I spent a fair amount of time thinking about and analyzing the episodes and also looking at the historical significance of the show itself. The success of The Sopranos, both commercially and critically lead to a major change in the way television was viewed and produced. Without the show and Tony Soprano we likely never get Breaking Bad, The Wire and Mad Men, to name just a few shows. So, historically, I think it's fair to say it's arguably the most important show of the last 25 years. Beyond that it is just a brilliantly conceived show that uses the episodic nature of television to its best effect while giving us the kind of extended narrative and the technical qualities that had been reserved for film. Having time to rewind and watch certain scenes and to contemplate the show it's a revelation how incredible most of the cast was, in particular James Gandolfini and Eddie Falco. Gandolfini could act circles around most people with his back to the camera just with the way he held himself and used his voice. I think it's a testament to the acting of Falco, and the quality of the writing and directing on the show that Carmela never fell into the trap that made Skyler White and Betty Draper such generally unlikable characters. Just a fabulous show. I've never watched The Sopranos, but I'm a big, big fan of Mad Men. I should check it out one of these days. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 20, 2019 20:20:49 GMT -5
I just finished a re-watch of the entire run of The Sopranos. I loved it the first time around, but I got so much more out of it this time around. Before I watched with my wife and my middle son and it was a fairly surface viewing. This time around I spent a fair amount of time thinking about and analyzing the episodes and also looking at the historical significance of the show itself. The success of The Sopranos, both commercially and critically lead to a major change in the way television was viewed and produced. Without the show and Tony Soprano we likely never get Breaking Bad, The Wire and Mad Men, to name just a few shows. So, historically, I think it's fair to say it's arguably the most important show of the last 25 years. Beyond that it is just a brilliantly conceived show that uses the episodic nature of television to its best effect while giving us the kind of extended narrative and the technical qualities that had been reserved for film. Having time to rewind and watch certain scenes and to contemplate the show it's a revelation how incredible most of the cast was, in particular James Gandolfini and Eddie Falco. Gandolfini could act circles around most people with his back to the camera just with the way he held himself and used his voice. I think it's a testament to the acting of Falco, and the quality of the writing and directing on the show that Carmela never fell into the trap that made Skyler White and Betty Draper such generally unlikable characters. Just a fabulous show. I've never watched The Sopranos, but I'm a big, big fan of Mad Men. I should check it out one of these days. You should. Really a game-changing program. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 22, 2019 9:58:19 GMT -5
I recently finished watching the first season of Penny Dreadful. While neither groundbreaking or extraordinary, it was good solid entertaining genre television. It had some solid performances by Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Josh Hartnett and others, though Reeve Carney is pretty terrible. He is a cypher as Dorian Gray, and brings nothing to the show. I haven't ever seen anything else he did except clips of him as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the Broadway Musical, but nothing in the first season makes me want to run out and see anything he is in. The show was made for cable, and well, the producers decided they needed to play up to that almost to the point of being gratuitous, especially most of the scenes revolving around Carney's Dorian Gray and his hedonistic lifestyle. They made some interesting choices in interpretations of some of the myth and folklore as well, but overall I enjoyed it enough that I am about to dive into the second season. -M I watched the first season a couple years back with my wife and while it was generally entertaining I never felt the need to continue on and I remember virtually nothing about it at this point. I guess I’d describe it as ephemeral because it left so little impression. |
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Post by Confessor on Sept 22, 2019 16:21:04 GMT -5
I recently finished watching the first season of Penny Dreadful. While neither groundbreaking or extraordinary, it was good solid entertaining genre television. It had some solid performances by Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Josh Hartnett and others, though Reeve Carney is pretty terrible. He is a cypher as Dorian Gray, and brings nothing to the show. I haven't ever seen anything else he did except clips of him as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the Broadway Musical, but nothing in the first season makes me want to run out and see anything he is in. The show was made for cable, and well, the producers decided they needed to play up to that almost to the point of being gratuitous, especially most of the scenes revolving around Carney's Dorian Gray and his hedonistic lifestyle. They made some interesting choices in interpretations of some of the myth and folklore as well, but overall I enjoyed it enough that I am about to dive into the second season. -M I watched the first season a couple years back with my wife and while it was generally entertaining I never felt the need to continue on and I remember virtually nothing about it at this point. I guess I’d describe it as ephemeral because it left so little impression. My wife and I began watching Penny Dreadful about a year or so ago. I guess we watched about six episodes and, although we found it entertaining enough while it played, it never really hooked us. By that I mean we weren't chomping at the bit to watch the next episode the way we were with something like Game of Thrones or Mad Men. In the end we just decided that it was alright, but not really great enough to invest any more of our time in. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 23, 2019 7:40:56 GMT -5
Watching The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix and am mostly enjoying it. Some of the early pacing feels uneven but for the most part it's interesting. Like the 1963 film for me it's walking the line of, are there actually ghosts, or is this mental illness, or both. The Robert Wise film very much left me wanting more and this based on the same source material brings me back there. I'm only about half way through this series but am looking forward to the rest of the first season. It definitely leaves you wondering whether its a true haunting or mental illness/ drugs right until the end. I thought it was pretty solid and was actually thinking of re-watching during the upcoming Halloween season. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 23, 2019 22:12:53 GMT -5
I just finished a re-watch of the entire run of The Sopranos. I loved it the first time around, but I got so much more out of it this time around. Before I watched with my wife and my middle son and it was a fairly surface viewing. This time around I spent a fair amount of time thinking about and analyzing the episodes and also looking at the historical significance of the show itself. The success of The Sopranos, both commercially and critically lead to a major change in the way television was viewed and produced. Without the show and Tony Soprano we likely never get Breaking Bad, The Wire and Mad Men, to name just a few shows. So, historically, I think it's fair to say it's arguably the most important show of the last 25 years. Beyond that it is just a brilliantly conceived show that uses the episodic nature of television to its best effect while giving us the kind of extended narrative and the technical qualities that had been reserved for film. Having time to rewind and watch certain scenes and to contemplate the show it's a revelation how incredible most of the cast was, in particular James Gandolfini and Eddie Falco. Gandolfini could act circles around most people with his back to the camera just with the way he held himself and used his voice. I think it's a testament to the acting of Falco, and the quality of the writing and directing on the show that Carmela never fell into the trap that made Skyler White and Betty Draper such generally unlikable characters. Just a fabulous show. Ditto. The acting was perfect, the writing was an exquisite blend of crudity and subtlety, and the characters frighteningly real. On a technical note, how Gandolfini was able to consistently breathe with that heavy nasal sound -- which IIRC became more pronounced as the show progressed -- always amazed me. In addition to lumbering rather than walking, to his sudden outbursts of violence and rage that alternated with his clownish, almost gentle moments, his distinctive, animalistic breathing was an ominous reminder that he was always linked with the bear in his dreams. I just started reading Billy Bathgate by Doctorow, a book that I've always wanted to read, and just today, read Billy's thoughts about why he is so fascinated by the word of Dutch Schultz as he looks at one of Schultz's hide-outs, this one in a coastal neighborhood in a rural neighborhood of the Bronx. For me it captures much of the reason that The Sopranos was so mesmerizing. “How I admired the life of taking pains, of living in defiance of a government that did not like you and did not want you and wanted to destroy you so that you had to build out protections for yourself with money and men, deploying armament, buying alliances, patrolling borders, as in a state of secession, by your will and wit and warrior spirit living smack in the eye of the monster, his very eye. But beyond that contriving a life from its property of danger, putting it together in the constant contemplation of death, that was what thrilled me, that was why the people on this island would never rat, his presence honored them and allowed them t love in their consciousness of him as in a kind light of life and death with them moments of superior awareness or illumination the best of them might get in church or in the first moments of romantic love.” |
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Post by berkley on Sept 24, 2019 1:38:07 GMT -5
I'm another guy who's never seen The Sopranos, for one reason or another, but you've almost got me convinced I should give it a try.
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 24, 2019 11:17:07 GMT -5
I'm another guy who's never seen The Sopranos, for one reason or another, but you've almost got me convinced I should give it a try. Please do! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2019 10:38:40 GMT -5
For lots of reasons (due to my hearing) I have a hard time enjoying the Sopranos ... please understand that. I just don't hate it nor like it ... it's just not my show to watch.
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 26, 2019 14:12:12 GMT -5
For lots of reasons (due to my hearing) I have a hard time enjoying the Sopranos ... please understand that. I just don't hate it nor like it ... it's just not my show to watch. Do closed captions help? I use them all the time when watching British series. |
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