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Originally posted by bigblue_dl View PostYou need to watch more high quality TV [at added monthly cost]. Most of the HBO series, and the high quality AMC, or FX series have intro music and sequences. Just to name a few: Game of Thrones, The Leftovers, The Americans, Westworld, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Wire.
I did allude to The Sopranos. That is actually extremely well done from a cinematographic sense, as Tony drives past just about every important recurring venue in the whole series.
Frankly, if Comcast weren't such !#*@&!@#!!, I'd have no regular TV at all....but if you try to go internet-only with them, they'll still charge you the same amount that you pay for internet plus basic cable. No savings.Last edited by FreshFish; 12-13-2017, 12:41 PM."Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things."
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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- W. B. Yeats
"People generally are most impatient with those flaws in others about which they are most ashamed of in themselves." - folk wisdom
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Originally posted by joecct View PostCat Ballou!!A bad cause requires many words.
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Originally posted by FreshFish View PostMy favorite opening was the first season or two of the original MacGyver. The music theme was meh, but before they even started the opening sequence, MacGyver would be finishing up a mission somewhere; then the opening sequence would start after that action scene.
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Originally posted by Slap Shot View PostWas the grave episode the one in which the severed end of a telephone wire fell on top of a grave allowing the deceased to call their spouse at home? I still get creeped out at the thought.
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Ok, so I finished S3 of Mr. Robot. Spoilers below:
Episode 8 (the Magic Muslim) was a disaster like Stranger Things. Maybe this is a trend?
It's as if they have fired their best writers and are gradually replacing them with writers from dumb people shows like 24 or The Black List. Dialog is getting more cliche and character interactions are less interesting. But maybe the obscurity of the show hid the bad writing early on.
Whiterose is a tedious character and if everything does in fact center on her and her whims that will be disappointing. It may be deliberate irony to take all these sweeping philosophical themes and shadows and then resolve them into the most pedestrian and boring of explanations: the personal vindictiveness of a single all too human character. But I wanted more.
The f-ck is with Poochie there at the Epilogue?
The show has been descending albeit very slowly: S1 A+, S2 A-, S3 B+. But a further slip and it's going to have spent most of its early capital. This is not a show that will ever have a mass audience so stop trying to bend it there.
Angela's breakdown is ridiculous and another disappointment.
F-ckable FBI Agent (DiPierro) had potential which they have so far left to simmer. Irving is terrific. Price needed to be killed, so that's good.
It's still a Must Watch show, but it's trending down. I hope they recover their originality and attitude next season.
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Finally watched the concluding episode of Longmire.
The structure, pacing, and plot development was really weird: it looked like, about 2/3 of the way through the episode, that they received word that the series would not be renewed, and so they tacked on an improvised ending to wrap up all the main story lines. Very disjointed.
Here's what I liked:
- Nighthorse was not guilty of any of the crimes Walt had accused him of during the series
- Henry was in charge of the casino
- Ferg looks like he might get the girl after all
- Walt retired with a clean name
- Walt got a cell phone!
Here's what I did NOT like:
- Walt and Vickie get together? no way that fits.
- Cady is going to run for sheriff?? No way that fits either.
What I thought would have been better:
- Walt tells Vickie: "you're close to Cady's age; I've always thought of you more as a daughter than a lover"
- Vickie runs for sheriff
- Cady moves out of Durant"Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things."
"Beer is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- W. B. Yeats
"People generally are most impatient with those flaws in others about which they are most ashamed of in themselves." - folk wisdom
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Thank you all for the recommendation. Dr. Mrs. & I have finally gotten back around to watching Black Mirror, so we watched "San Junipero" first because everybody here liked it so much. I LOVED it.Cornell University
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NatGeo's Genius. If you like period dramas, then the first season about Einstein's life and times is for you. Some dramatic license was taken, of course, but very well written and binge-worthy.
It's been renewed for a second season in 2018, and the subject will be Pablo Picasso.
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Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View PostNatGeo's Genius. If you like period dramas, then the first season about Einstein's life and times is for you. Some dramatic license was taken, of course, but very well written and binge-worthy.
It's been renewed for a second season in 2018, and the subject will be Pablo Picasso.Cornell University
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Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View PostA great mind, but a serial womanizer and horrible father, if the 10-part series is to be believed.
Einstein was actually a good man, you just didn't want to be married to him. I only saw the first 2 episodes of Genius but they were brilliant.Cornell University
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Originally posted by Kepler View PostEinstein was actually a good man, you just didn't want to be married to him. I only saw the first 2 episodes of Genius but they were brilliant.
I am looking forward to the Picasso season as well.
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Re-watching Justified....
They REALLY moved Ava's character along. One minute she's kind of a sleep-around whore, so to speak, and within a few episodes she becomes a matriarch/power player. She just kind of switched. No real development. She started off this, and *poof* she's now that. A nitpick, but glaring switch on the re-watch.Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
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