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Post by pepper on Apr 27, 2018 8:15:58 GMT -5
atlanta is such good tv and every single episode this season has topped the last, interested to see how they will wrap the season up going into atlanta you’re kinda conditioned to see earn as the hero of the show (he’s played by the creator, introduced as the protagonist and appears most frequently in ads and posters) but over the course of last and more noticeably this season, he has proven to be the opposite. even as the show pulls all of these punches (idk if i’m using that right) and exposes earn as the loser he truly is, i’m still left expecting him to bounce back. the last scene of yesterday’s episode was so brilliantly acted and the shot of the darius al and earn on the couch in the frat house was amazing too
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Apr 27, 2018 16:39:19 GMT -5
I thought Barbershop, Teddy Perkins, and the latest one, North of the Border, were the outstanding ep's this season; all straight A's ('Perkins' ep was A+). The others I found to be ok to so-so. Lookin' forward to the finale as well.
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Post by Reba on Apr 27, 2018 23:11:02 GMT -5
i've been really loving this season but the newest episode wasn't that great , what's the deal
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Apr 28, 2018 17:28:12 GMT -5
I just found the episode pretty hilarious up until the last 3rd of it, which handled the tonal shift to the serious very well (partly because it was set up by the first half). I liked that last third for the same reason pep liked it: that it showed the seemingly main character of the show as self-centered and pathetic, which other shows generally never do (anti-hero sometimes-assholes like Don Draper or Walter White are safe in their aura of untouchable badassery/smoothness; Glover's character, on the other hand, has always been the underdog).
My problem with some of the other ep's (like the first three), even though I enjoyed them, they're not coherent enough for me, in that they're just a series of vignettes that play out similarly: we're in a (for the characters) boring every-day situation, but with some "odd" thing or "vibe" thrown in, which half the time doesn't feel very organic in the story. And ep 8 felt like a half-baked Sopranos rip-off.
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Post by Hermes on May 19, 2018 9:25:41 GMT -5
The Good Place. Watched season 1. Liked it! I love this show! It has a philosopher in it! He's very realistic. (But I did get annoyed when they repeated the 'How do the characters in Friends pay for the apartment?' thing. That's explained in the first episode. it's one of those perennial things like 'Why are we never told what VFD stands for?'. I choose to read it as an example of Michael not understanding things, but I suspect that's not what the writers intended.)
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on May 20, 2018 10:32:47 GMT -5
The Good Place. Watched season 1. Liked it! I love this show! It has a philosopher in it! He's very realistic. I'm amused to hear that! I'm a little disappointed that local Netflix doesn't have the other seasons. I've been meaning for a while to look into where else I can find them.
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Post by pepper on May 21, 2018 1:32:32 GMT -5
i watched the first and second episodes of the good place last night and didn't really like it much at all
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 21, 2018 12:01:09 GMT -5
I'm very mixed in my opinions on The Good Place. I like Kristen Bell's character, and the guy who's in charge of their town (I watched it a while ago so I can't remember the names -- was he called Michael, perhaps?), but I find some of the other characters, like the chap who's introduced as a monk, incredibly annoying. It's a shame because I really like the premise. I've watched the first season and a couple of episodes of the second season, and perhaps I'll continue at some point, but some of the supporting characters really ruin it for me, sadly.
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on May 21, 2018 16:17:33 GMT -5
Jason is a little annoying, but I would watch this show through anything just to see Janet. Everything they do with her character is absolutely hilarious. That's actually a very good point -- Janet is quite brilliant.
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Post by Grace on May 24, 2018 16:22:44 GMT -5
I love that show, even if it is a bit sitcom-y. Tahani and Jason are such good satire.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Jul 1, 2018 23:25:28 GMT -5
HBO's Barry. It's so potato en good
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Post by Reba on Jul 2, 2018 0:55:29 GMT -5
lol u right. thanks for the rec bruh
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Nov 18, 2018 15:57:31 GMT -5
Watched both seasons of Search Party lately, but it wasn't very good. I guess I liked it just enough to keep watching, mostly to see how it plays out, which was kind of meh in the end.
The main thing that bothered me is that I didn't like any of the characters by the time I was in the second season. I'm aware that's part of what the story is trying to tell (that they're not "good people" in a bad situation, but more corrupt than they care to admit), but the characters just made so many goddamn stupid decisions in covering up their tracks during the 2nd season, that I started rooting for them to get caught, and wondering how they didn't get caught much sooner. Also Shawkat's performance became very one-note and tiring throughout the season. I guess the first season was OK as a stand-alone.
EDIT: SPOILERS AHEAD. I'm also bothered by the story logic debacle of Agnes extorting these guys in S1 for $5K (to reveal where Chantal hides out), when there was a legit reward for $250K out there for the taking. They could've tried somehow solving that fridge logic in S2, but instead Agnes just stays in the background, mildly annoyed by it all, and keeps mum that the main crew is telling a big fat lie about where Chantal really was.
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Post by Reba on Nov 18, 2018 18:27:00 GMT -5
SMH edit: Watched both seasons of Search Party lately, but it wasn't very good. I guess I liked it just enough to keep watching, mostly to see how it plays out, which was kind of meh in the end. The main thing that bothered me is that I didn't like any of the characters by the time I was in the second season. I'm aware that's part of what the story is trying to tell (that they're not "good people" in a bad situation, but more corrupt than they care to admit), but the characters just made so many goddamn stupid decisions in covering up their tracks during the 2nd season, that I started rooting for them to get caught, and wondering how they didn't get caught much sooner. Also Shawkat's performance became very one-note and tiring throughout the season. I guess the first season was OK as a stand-alone. EDIT: SPOILERS AHEAD. I'm also bothered by the story logic debacle of Agnes extorting these guys in S1 for $5K (to reveal where Chantal hides out), when there was a legit reward for $250K out there for the taking. They could've tried somehow solving that fridge logic in S2, but instead Agnes just stays in the background, mildly annoyed by it all, and keeps mum that the main crew is telling a big fat lie about where Chantal really was. SMH
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Nov 18, 2018 18:50:28 GMT -5
What did you particularly like about the show?
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