I've been trying to rewatch the whole thing, before the premiere on Sunday....but have fallen short....about 2/3rds way through Season 5.
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I've been trying to rewatch the whole thing, before the premiere on Sunday....but have fallen short....about 2/3rds way through Season 5.
Wife is a fanatic. Has watched and rewatched and reads up on the cast and on and on. Me, I've watched it all with her, but got kinda weary of it. Just way too much going on. I just hope they tie everything together in a manner that I can understand.
That said, she comes home from rehab after knee replacement on Saturday and will be pretty immobile, so she'll be ready when it hits Netflix, presumably on Monday. And yes, I'll watch it with her, as I'm expected to do.
Not really a genre I'm interested in....but got totally hooked on it. Didn't start watching it until 3 years ago. Casually watched a few episodes when it started.....you can't casually watch it and have any clue what's going on.
It is a huge week, Killing Eve just came back. GoT starts Sunday, then next Thursday Bosch returns. It is giid this is happening, I am suddenly finding it difficult to find NCAA basketball.
College basketball no longer hold the allure for me that it once did. Of course IU being bad doesn't help, but the game itself has changed and is no longer played the way it was when I learned to love it. And while I'm at it, you kids can get off my lawn.
I watched only IU games during the season, a far cry from a few years ago. But I still love the tourney.
Randomly started watching some classical comics and have really gotten into Don Rickles. I wish late night shows were as seamless and funny as this :
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Fascinating insight into what it was like on the floor of Congress in the country's infancy. Dudes didn't f*ck around. Especially the Southern reps. They had an intimidation thing going on for quite a while. Northern reps were legit worried they'd get their asses beat, maybe even there on the floor of the House, for opposing Southern-supported bills.
Fascinating insight into what it was like on the floor of Congress in the country's infancy. Dudes didn't f*ck around. Especially the Southern reps. They had an intimidation thing going on for quite a while. Northern reps were legit worried they'd get their asses beat, maybe even there on the floor of the House, for opposing Southern-supported bills.
There is a lot going on. I read a good recap when I’m done because I always miss things.
You're on the right track. Get prepared for winter by Sunday if you can, but record the new stuff and finish the old stuff first. It keeps getting bigger and bigger, but it has to be seen in order.
This year, I did an abbreviated rewatch. I watched all of season 1, and then picked a few key episodes in the middle, then hit the season 6 finale, and went from there. I have three episodes left before Sunday.
Bosch rocks. It took me a bit to get onto it, Season 1, felt a little slow. But then I settled in. If you like cop shows, this is a great one. Looking forward to another season.
GoT is a history of television kind of show. This doesn't mean everyone (or even anyone) has to like it, but it's huge. And there's good reason for that.
A few seasons ago there was a particular scene that was so extraordinary that it almost broke the internet. You probably know what scene I'm talking about, but you may not know that at the time there were was a profusion of crazy popular YouTube videos that consisted of people who knew what had happened filming the stunned and emotional reactions of people watching it happen. People who'd had the reaction enjoyed watching other people having it. It was just that good.
I know that personally, because my son had to catch up after he finally took my advice to watch the show at all. He became an instant fanatic, and I told him that there would come an episode where he'd have to come talk to me, and when that happened I'd really want to share with him. This baffled him, of course. "How can I know when to come see you," he wondered, "when I don't have any idea what events you may be talking about in a crazy show like this?"
He knew what episode I meant when it came to that -- and he came to see me in shock -- but the show has exploded since then. There is so much going on.
The scene you are talking about is the reason D&D made the show in the first place. I actually remember when I first read that scene. I finished the chapter in a sort of daze, like I had to have misread it, said, "WTF?" to myself, then flipped back and reread the chapter to make sure I wasn't crazy.
The show is true to the books, in a good way.
Still, I'm the sort of divorced acerbic older white guy who loves his adult children and gets along with his ex-wife and drives around with Real Jazz on the satellite radio who really digs watching a divorced acerbic older white detective who loves his teenaged daughter and solves crimes while listening to real jazz on his turntable in the Hollywood Hills.
No one's watched McMafia? I just re-watched it last weekend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMafia
Based on a non-fiction book: McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld(2008) by Misha Glenny
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMafia
Based on a non-fiction book: McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld(2008) by Misha Glenny
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I love watching his sidekick too. ( can’t recall name). He plays such a different character than his Wire Marlo. It’s nice to see him smile occasionally.
Killing Eve is back too. Little 5 week and can’t keep up with tv! Good thing it’s such a dead period for movies in theaters.
Did anyone else watch the Netflix movie, "The Highwaymen", about the Texas Rangers who hunted down and shot Bonnie and Clyde? It was kind of slow, but the interaction between Costner and Harrelson was entertaining.
Yeah there have been many scenes like those, starting in the 1st season....but I know what you are referring to.
It's quite a show, unlike anything I've ever seen. That said....I watch it by myself, my wife can't stomach it.
I still enjoy watching the old Dick Cavett shows, many of which are on YouTube but for a more organized grouping of them you can watch are at:
http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/videos?utf8=✓&commit=submit&q=Dick+cavett
The episodes with Orson Welles (the best conversationalist I ever heard) and Richard Burton ( a shockingly intelligent man) are really worth watching. I know this in not current television but it’s one of the great virtues of the internet making old shows available that haven’t been seen in decades.
http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/videos?utf8=✓&commit=submit&q=Dick+cavett
The episodes with Orson Welles (the best conversationalist I ever heard) and Richard Burton ( a shockingly intelligent man) are really worth watching. I know this in not current television but it’s one of the great virtues of the internet making old shows available that haven’t been seen in decades.
Walking Dead is it for me. The 5th season of Better Call Saul is delayed til 2020, but they are still making the Breaking Bad movie.
I was so mad when I finished that chapter, I threw the book across the room and left it where it landed. Didn't read it again for months.
Just wanted to make sure we weren't talking about Stannis' parenting, or Ramsey's honeymoon.
BTW, there is a db over on the basketball board named PranksterMary...what a tribute that is to your ability to get under someone's skin.
Currently reading Bloody Bill Anderson, the short, savage life of a civil war guerrilla by Albert Castel and Thomas Goodrich.
Stopped watching anything else on tv until the Masters is over.
Stopped watching anything else on tv until the Masters is over.
Last season wasn't as good, but not bad. I still thought seasons one and two were the best.
I’ve never watched a single episode of GofT but I knew exactly what everyone was talking about (RW). No idea what that episode is about other than (I assume) lots of people dying.
We're having a discussion about a particular episode of television, and everyone knows which episode we're talking about, but even while talking about the episode everyone carefully avoids spoilers. Because those who haven't seen it might yet see it, and it'd be great if they did, because they'd really like it. So we look out for them.
This is a beautifully realized social impulse. All over the internet people have accommodated their conversations to the variably time-shifted experiences of all the people they may be communicating with all around the world. That required a really complicated adjustment to the way that people thought about how they should communicate with one another. And in short order everyone agreed that if you surprise people with spoilers, then you're the asshole.
Social norms are really important.
Other than The Office which I think we did better, what tv does America do better than Britain?
The Wire.
Its tough to judge TV quality in the States -- it has to reach out to a wider audience ie lower common denominator. Therefore more likely to be formulated and lots of self-censorships. You just cant get away with a lot of stuff on American TV.
Case in point: just compare the subject matter, conversational flow etc on Graham Norton (who is on BBC1) versus late night TV in the States.
The streaming option does open up a wider range of products. One of my favourite shows, Life on Mars was completed fecked up when the Americans decided to do their own version of it.
TV in the UK doesn't have the time pressures to churn out as much as in the States. Plus, its narrower (or parochial/regionalised or specialised audience) and can be perceived as quaint by audiences outside the UK. But I guess The Wire can be perceived that way from that prism too.
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How many shows are comparable? I don't follow British TV. though always liked Absolutely Famous for some reason.
The Wire, Breaking Bad, Justified, GoT are all good, but I wouldn't know if they were "better or worse" than British options b/c they aren't the same.
GoT is really more British than American in its production quality, storyline etc or at least highly, highly influenced by the Brits.
Given almost all the actors are Brits, I think that it is hard to think of it as American. Much like Harry Potter. The studio may have been American, but it is a British series.
I never got into The Wire or Breaking Bad. Don't know why. Justified I loved. I do think Americans love cop shows more than the Brits. Though I do think the Brits made a great cop (loosely) one in The Bodyguard. I would recommend that series highly. But I think it is comedy where they crush us. QI is a comedy "game show" that is great. UK Top Gear (now Grand Tour) has been tremendously funny. Mitchell and Webb Look and Peep Show were outstanding. I wasted plenty of time watching The IT Crowd and enjoying it.
However, to be fair, there is probably selection bias here. I imagine the Brits make a lot of bad shows that never jump the pond so I can't really compare.
