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Because they're undercooked!

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worry, on 26 June 2017 - 09:16 PM, said:

Because they're undercooked!

I would like to pretend that I intentionally set myself up for that one.

Briar King, on 26 June 2017 - 09:22 PM, said:

Steve Buchemi is a nice addition to the S5 cast. I think this role is probably the reason he got on Boardwalk Empire. That's another you should watch for sure. Maybe watch Rome 1st then that.

I am excited to see what his character brings. There's a bunch of new lobsters that just got out of jail.

Only thing is that the show has a predictable formula of introducing a new mobster each season that has a prominent role and then gets off'ed at the end of the season. It's like clock work.

This post has been edited by Seduce Goose: 26 June 2017 - 09:39 PM

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Briar King, on 27 June 2017 - 01:51 AM, said:

Oh I never answered QTs question. My favorite panelists is the older guy easily especially when he and Yu do their improv bits with each other. That can get damn funny! Glasses is funny but he can do to much where it loses its humor completely like the thing with Sato's hat last batch of 8... I loved how in the 1st episode of this batch he made it a point to say this hat was made by Arissa from last season and Glasses didn't touch it one bit...almost like Sato may have asked him not to off camera or something idk but I was so happy he didn't try it.

Ah, that's a good point. Did you notice that after Arman visited the Aloha house that everyone is wearing his Aloha t-shirt brand? Awesome subtle advertising for his brand (like he did on his season). Same goes for not only Avian's mom's shop (everyone wearing 88 Tees stuff), but her burgeoning bikini line.

And oh man, do ALL the peanut gallery women HATE Taishi...especially Reina. They find him intensely fake and dislikable.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 27 June 2017 - 01:01 PM

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Briar King, on 27 June 2017 - 05:02 PM, said:

That bikini model was so hot.

I thought the same. Was watching and piped up and said "Who is THAT smokeshow?" LOL

But yeah, Avian totally has talent, and drive. I hope she succeeds!

[QuickTidal]

Wife has me watching THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, and it's a damned fun show actually!

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Apt is this where you live?

Yup. Are they on a tourist round trip or something?

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Mr. Robot is so good

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Finished the last season of The Sopranos.

I did not like that last season at all. Maybe it's a symptom of a series being wrapped up and writers trying to give certain storylines and characters the endings that were intended. Maybe they had some kind of change in their writing staff. What ever it is both season 5 and 6 bothered me. They started to do all kinds of dream shit, that coma stuff was 80s TV levels of lazy writing, and generally there were un-organic changes in the character's behavior.

I actually came to hate Tony Soprano by the end. Not because of his crimes and betrayals but because of how shitty a parent and husband he became all of a sudden. Watching the implosion of their son AJ and seeing how completely clueless about proper parenting they were was excruciating. They drop in a random episode of Tony suddenly becoming a degenerate gambler and then drop it. They show Christopher wrestling with alcohol and drugs but they write in such a way that the time jumps just makes him look like a complete flake. Tony gets into fights with his entire crew over the season for no apparent reason, he breaks it off with the therapist for what seems a very arbitrary reason, etc.

Before I started season 6 I read that they intended to tell a story of each one of the characters being faced with the consequences of their lives and having a chance to change. Watching the season I could see how that theme runs through the thing but it never struck me as natural events but rather settings that the writers put the characters in. When they then show the characters failing these trials, I came to resent the writers a bit. Because it felt like the characters were participating in a rigged contest.

All that aside I actually liked that ending a lot. The tension they built up in those last 5 minutes was masterful. I couldn't help but laugh when the screen went to black.

All in all I think this was a great show. Made even more so by being allowed to wrap itself up, instead of being cancelled before it was ready. That show had a hell of a lot of memorable characters that I have never seen in shows after it. Looking up the show on IMDB I see that Sylvio's actor got another mafia show about a mobster that moves to Norway. I believe Paulie's actor also shows up there. I think I have to look it up on Netflix.

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Seduce Goose, on 01 July 2017 - 06:41 PM, said:

All in all I think this was a great show. Made even more so by being allowed to wrap itself up, instead of being cancelled before it was ready. That show had a hell of a lot of memorable characters that I have never seen in shows after it. Looking up the show on IMDB I see that Sylvio's actor got another mafia show about a mobster that moves to Norway. I believe Paulie's actor also shows up there. I think I have to look it up on Netflix.

Lilyhammer?

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Yes!

[Malankazooie]

Watched episode 2 of Season 2 of The IT Crowd. Holy shit, that went dark and I was not expecting that!

Spoiler

The boss man, Denholm Reynholm, kills himself by jumping out the window during a staff meeting.

[Morgoth]

Season 2 of Mr. Robot was amazing, and October can't come around quick enough.

I love that show.

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Strangely, thinking back, I can barely remember anything that happened in season 2 of Mr. Robot. It felt like a large portion of the season was sort of an in between period between what happened in season 1 and what ever will happen in season 3.

In other news, I am binge watching Rizzoli and Isles. I'd seen commercials for the show when I visited my parents. It's a show that runs on some kind of weird cable channel in the US I think, something like TNT or AMC or something. Always thought it looked funny. I decided to check it out after learning that "sort of hot therapist lady", Lorraine Bracco from Sopranos moved on to Rizzoli and Isles.

It's a terrible show and yet I kind of love it. It's beyond generic in terms of the set-up and the writing is horrendous, yet, I love the characters. Rizzoli and Isles have a true bro-mance (sis-mance?) going on. The chemistry between the two actors, Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander (From NCIS!) is amazing. They just seem to have a ton of fun on camera. And the surrounding character's like-wise form this comforting camaraderie that makes it easy to watch and surprisingly easy to care about what goes on in their lives.

Still, what makes the show seem so strange is how weird the tone is in the show. Everything is handled incredibly light-hearted and yet the background of the show is a homicide detective and a coroner solving crimes while looking great. Every episode is somebody dying horribly, the characters being very upset by this one minute and the next they're going for a happy fun jog or joking around in the office, etc. I imagine it's an artifact of the books the show is based on maybe.

Anyway, Rizzoli and Isles makes for a very digestible, low calorie show.

On a side note, in the first season Chaz Palminteri show up every now and then as Rizzoli's father. What the hell happened to Palminteri's career? I remember him being in lots of big films in the 80-90s and now he's a barely noticeable third act in a mediocre TV-show?

This post has been edited by Seduce Goose: 06 July 2017 - 07:07 PM

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It's a TNT show in (US cable network), and those tend to combine the breeziness of USA Network shows with the grim murder content of CBS procedurals. It's something of a formula.

With Chazz, he's doing Broadway stuff lately I think. He wrote the recent A Bronx Tale musical that De Niro is directing for instance.

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Dang, Nelsan Ellis -- the dude who played Lafayette on True Blood -- died of heart failure at age 39. Even as TB got worse and worse, Lafayette remained one of the best characters on the show and a reason to still watch.
http://www.hollywood...s-at-39-1019540

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Um, this looks really good.

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Certainly looks better than Emerald City.

[worry]

Yah Emerald City was awful. Lost in Oz looks cute (and that 100 elements thing is pretty convenient in terms of keeping the show going).

Speaking of amazon, I finally started Catastrophe -- super good, blew through the first two seasons already. Constantly lol funny. Carrie Fisher has a recurring role and is great in her brief moments on screen.

[worry]

Tour De Pharmacy on HBO -- produced by the Lonely Island guys, but not written by them, 40 minute mockumentary on a drug fueled Tour De France in the 1980s. Huge, excellent cast for such a goofy project. I liked but didn't love Pop Star, and this is kinda in the same vein, but it doesn't wear out its welcome and is funny throughout.

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I took up a friends suggestion and started watching Wayward Pines. Any of you guys watched it? Does it get better?

I just started watching episode 4 and I think I hate this show. It's an interesting premise. Secret Service Agent wakes up in a weird "pod people" like city, where everybody acts normal while something is clearly very wrong. As you continue to watch weird shit unfolds and lots of ominous things become clear.

The only problem is that it's written "wrong". I don't know how else to put it. The story is off. It has the traits of a well produced suspense/sci-fi show but the pacing is strange. The actors stumble around acting out a story that has no logic. The dialogue that is meant to be mysterious and suspenseful is frustrating and annoying. The mystery is so downplayed that it's uninteresting. The revelations or "bread crumbs" they drop in every episode are predictable and lack cleverness. There's clearly something big going on but they're failing to make me give a shit.