JohnRogers Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 It's not quite The Sopranos good, it needs some more script polishing but I'm still only early in. Seeing Malcolm X and Adam Clayton Powell in their heyday makes it interesting viewing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 Lots of bobs burgers. Music docs. Recently watched Bob Dylan, miles Davis, quincy Jones, zz top and lynyrd skynyrd Gonna watch Clark on Netflix. Seems interesting and the music is done by Mikael akerfeldt of opeth. Hope I did not butcher his name too badly. And the old batman series 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 On 5/8/2022 at 12:44 AM, BastillePark said: So far it's been pretty funny. To me, Jeremy Irons' intros were the funniest part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnRogers Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 Charming fun, great cast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Carmina Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 Can I say I hated the ending of Ozark, and the more I think about it, the more it pisses me off? I'm glad it's over, just out of spite. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Nova Carmina said: Can I say I hated the ending of Ozark, and the more I think about it, the more it pisses me off? I'm glad it's over, just out of spite. Ranks up there with Dexter when it comes to the worst show finales ever. Is it really that hard to do? How do you f**k up your ending that bad? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnRogers Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 2 hours ago, Nova Carmina said: Can I say I hated the ending of Ozark, and the more I think about it, the more it pisses me off? I'm glad it's over, just out of spite. 58 minutes ago, J2112YYZ said: Ranks up there with Dexter when it comes to the worst show finales ever. Is it really that hard to do? How do you f**k up your ending that bad? Can't say I'm thrilled by it either. Spoiler Just seems why too much beyond Jonah's evolution to suddenly become what he despised for family. The season finale of Outer Range has me questioning if I'll come around for season two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 12 minutes ago, JohnRogers said: Can't say I'm thrilled by it either. Reveal hidden contents Just seems why too much beyond Jonah's evolution to suddenly become what he despised for family. The season finale of Outer Range has me questioning if I'll come around for season two. I'm not talking about a season finale though. A show can always do something to redeem itself if they have another season. But to end a series poorly when those in charge know the end is happening, is inexcusable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnRogers Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 6 minutes ago, J2112YYZ said: I'm not talking about a season finale though. A show can always do something to redeem itself if they have another season. But to end a series poorly when those in charge know the end is happening, is inexcusable. My reactions was, Spoiler "lazy Sopranos ending" . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Carmina Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 54 minutes ago, JohnRogers said: My reactions was, Hide contents "lazy Sopranos ending" . Yeah, that's what I thought! But with a gratuitous sound effect. Awful. Everything about that finale felt telegraphed or ham-handed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueschica Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 We enjoyed Bosch (detective show) on A. Prime a lot and have started watching the spin off, Bosch:Legacy, on some streaming thing called Freevee. (used to be IMDB tv). It's been good so far! I don't care about the channel as long as it is Bosch! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Reacher on Amazon kicks ass! Ended up watching season 1 twice. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnRogers Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 On 5/12/2022 at 7:13 PM, blueschica said: We enjoyed Bosch (detective show) on A. Prime a lot and have started watching the spin off, Bosch:Legacy, on some streaming thing called Freevee. (used to be IMDB tv). It's been good so far! I don't care about the channel as long as it is Bosch! What's the commercial interruption situation? I stream so I don't have to be interrupted by commercials, like the little people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueschica Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, JohnRogers said: What's the commercial interruption situation? I stream so I don't have to be interrupted by commercials, like the little people. Freevee is a free thing so there are a few ads, but so few I had to stop to remember. Maybe 6 or 7 minutes broken up 3 times over a whole show, maybe a little less. Not nearly as bad as on Pluto or Tubi or something like that. We tried to watch a movie once on Pluto and I almost went insane. Edited May 16, 2022 by blueschica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
condemned2bfree Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 On 4/7/2022 at 7:22 AM, treeduck said: What do you think of it. Will you move on to yes Prime Minister? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 1 hour ago, condemned2bfree said: What do you think of it. Will you move on to yes Prime Minister? Well if you look a bit further in the thread you'll see that already have. And yes it's a really good show, funny and informative. It was made in the 80's but it's totally relevant now too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
condemned2bfree Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 3 hours ago, treeduck said: Well if you look a bit further in the thread you'll see that already have. And yes it's a really good show, funny and informative. It was made in the 80's but it's totally relevant now too. What's better? Minister or Prime Minister? Prefer the start, but I think Edington was getting really ill by the end so that may contribute. Love them. Hawthorne apparently had a fight with Stallone, on Demolition man. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 1 minute ago, condemned2bfree said: What's better? Minister or Prime Minister? Prefer the start, but I think Edington was getting really ill by the end so that may contribute. Love them. Hawthorne apparently had a fight with Stallone, on Demolition man. I think I like the beginning best too, but I think they really had the scripts down slick by the follow-up show and so it's very close. An actual fist fight?? I wouldn't have expected that, who won?? Coincidentally in between the two shows I watched the 1980 version of A Tale of Two Cities, with Peter Cushing and Chris Sarandon. It also stars Nigel Hawthorne as a lawyer who's chasing after this young tart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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condemned2bfree Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 On 5/18/2022 at 10:07 PM, treeduck said: I think I like the beginning best too, but I think they really had the scripts down slick by the follow-up show and so it's very close. An actual fist fight?? I wouldn't have expected that, who won?? Coincidentally in between the two shows I watched the 1980 version of A Tale of Two Cities, with Peter Cushing and Chris Sarandon. It also stars Nigel Hawthorne as a lawyer who's chasing after this young tart. More of a war of words I think. Don't know what fuffled Stallone feathers. Hawthorne probably threatened his acting 🤔. On that Hawthorne won. 😅Ironic he's chasing a tart,😁 sublime actor, one of the best I've seen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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goose Posted June 8, 2022 Author Share Posted June 8, 2022 On 5/12/2022 at 3:10 PM, Nova Carmina said: Yeah, that's what I thought! But with a gratuitous sound effect. Awful. Everything about that finale felt telegraphed or ham-handed. I finally finished season 4. I am curious, how would you have ended it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Carmina Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 13 hours ago, goose said: I finally finished season 4. I am curious, how would you have ended it? *** SPOILERS AHEAD **** I'm not sure how to do the "hide discussion" part, so I'll just warn the still-to-watch crowd. Had a chance to skip over it? Okay. Can I slightly cop out and say if I were charged with the ending, I might have to go back and change lots of things to get to where I would have liked it to be, but if we just look at those last couple of episodes, I have three specific problems. One, it was obvious that the sister was setting Marty up by lying about one of the henchmen in order to get said henchman out of the way. That she would have such specific information about that guy, just when Marty found something else, seemed awfully convenient, and if Marty has survived this long, his BS detector should have been pinging. Telegraphed. Two, Ruth clearing land to build a big house had cop-movie "I only have three days until retirement" vibes all over it. I knew she was doomed as soon as she started having hopes and dreams, and that's disappointing writing from a show that used to surprise (Helen's death, anyone?). Telegraphed. Plus, at a moral level, Ruth was the least awful, given that the man she killed really, really deserved it. And for her to be shot by the sister (whose whole character felt like a tacked-on afterthought as a plot loophole, character-ex-machina), felt dismissive and weak. Three, if the implication is that Jonah shot the Chicago PI (can't remember that character actor's name, but he's been good in lots of things), then that's a whole new step forward for somebody who was eager to get out of the family just days (hours? I lost track) before. And now he's committing homicide? Maybe he shot his parents -- which would have been more just, but we don't know because of the knockoff Sopranos fade-to-black ending. I will admit that part of my problem with the last season is my moral sense of generally preferring it when the good guys win and bad guys get what's coming to them. Obviously, I know that's not how the world works, but part of the draw of fiction is that it isn't the real world, where the wicked prosper. I also get that it's possible to root for an anti-hero (I'm a huge Godfather fan, and I loved Breaking Bad!), but I don't think the Byrds were anti-heroes; they were grasping, control-freak assholes, and I wanted Ruth shoveling dirt into their shallow graves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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