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05-14-2021 , 09:12 AM

#11676

housenuts

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Two shows I'm curious about

Underground Railroad - Amazon

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Follow young Cora’s journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.

Mosquito Coast - AppleTV+

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A gripping adventure and layered character drama following the dangerous journey of a radical idealist and brilliant inventor, Allie Fox, who uproots his family for Mexico when they suddenly find themselves on the run from the US government.

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05-14-2021 , 12:14 PM

#11677

txdome

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How does someone pitch that as a serious drama with a straight face? I'm guessing Amazon just wanted some black actors on their platform, which is fine but this dumb **** better be worth my time.

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based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead

I'll change it to hack who wrote it, but I haven't read it or watched so I may be wrong.

Last edited by txdome; 05-14-2021 at 12:19 PM.

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05-14-2021 , 12:31 PM

#11678

brianr

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Agreed it’s a crazy premise. Turned out to be an exceptional book.

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05-14-2021 , 06:18 PM

#11679

The Apex

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Finished blinded by the lights. It really had so much promise and they just didn’t wrap it up well. Pretty tilting that everyone in the show didn’t carry pistol with one in the chamber.

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05-14-2021 , 09:25 PM

#11680

filthyvermin

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seems like a historical underground railroad show would be great! way better than a fantasy about an actual subway in the 1800s

but if it won a pulitzer, maybe it's great

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05-14-2021 , 11:52 PM

#11681

bazooka87

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I really enjoyed the book, and Barry Jenkins has a good track record

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05-15-2021 , 08:27 AM

#11682

filthyvermin

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i like the 20 minute episodes of mr in-between. i mean i love the show, so i want more, and would like longer episodes too. but the short and sweet format is great

australia has made some really excellent tv with this show, rake, and wentworth

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05-15-2021 , 08:04 PM

#11683

razorbacker

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Originally Posted by filthyvermin

New and final season starts May 25th

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05-17-2021 , 12:45 AM

#11684

parisron

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Finally some action on Mare of Easttown tonight. LMAO at the lightning quick 1 finger texting.

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05-17-2021 , 06:01 AM

#11685

Sven_2349

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Originally Posted by filthyvermin

australia has made some really excellent tv with this show, rake, and wentworth

Summer heights high is the GOAT Australian show, imo. It's on HBO.

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05-19-2021 , 02:24 PM

#11686

housenuts

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Originally Posted by ntanygd760

While I think For all Mankind struggled a bit this season the finale was really solid.

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Just finished it. It did struggle a bit, but I still enjoy space stuff and imagining what our world could've been if we continued as a space-faring nation throughout the last quarter of the 20th century and beyond.

I really wish humanity dedicated more efforts towards space exploration.

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I look forward to s3.

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05-19-2021 , 03:38 PM

#11687

txdome

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Originally Posted by parisron

Finally some action on Mare of Easttown tonight. LMAO at the lightning quick 1 finger texting.

I'm leaning towards the show just finishing as being okay, but I like that something good happened.

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05-19-2021 , 03:57 PM

#11688

rafiki

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Originally Posted by txdome

I'm leaning towards the show just finishing as being okay, but I like that something good happened.

I'm still surprised at the pessimism towards the show. E1 was the weakest and the imdb scores reflect that. Since then it's been a decent improvement and I find it compares favourably to the kind of painful human interest stuff from the Leftovers. Certainly well above average TV.

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05-19-2021 , 04:53 PM

#11689

txdome

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I just rewatched the end of the latest episode, it's actually great suspense and tension. Kind of shocked they found the guy with 2 episodes left to go. Now we have to go back to her family stuff?

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05-19-2021 , 05:16 PM

#11690

rafiki

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Originally Posted by txdome

I just rewatched the end of the latest episode, it's actually great suspense and tension. Kind of shocked **********

come on, spoiler that man. You know better

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05-19-2021 , 06:48 PM

#11691

txdome

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My bad, didn't even think about the spoiler, but it's 3 days after and nobody here gives a **** about the show.

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05-19-2021 , 10:29 PM

#11692

txdome

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After hating the early episodes, I'll change Mare of Eastown to great, not Sopranos or Deadwood or even Big Little Lies level, but the end of that episode was really good.

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05-20-2021 , 07:40 AM

#11693

DC11GTR

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I’ve enjoyed every ep so far. I have no complaints at all.

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05-20-2021 , 08:19 AM

#11694

brianr

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Me too. First show in a long time that I know when the new episodes come on and eagerly await Sunday night.

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05-23-2021 , 10:41 AM

#11695

filthyvermin

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i was just reading about barry, maybe the best show to come out in a long time.

it's unclear if they started shooting season 3, but they wrote season 4 during quarantine so that's great news

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05-23-2021 , 11:02 AM

#11696

rafiki

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Originally Posted by filthyvermin

i was just reading about barry, maybe the best show to come out in a long time.

it's unclear if they started shooting season 3, but they wrote season 4 during quarantine so that's great news

The episode with that little ninja girl was one of the greatest things I've seen on TV in a while.

Also glad y'all are changing your tune on Mare. Really curious about wrapping it up in 2 episodes, but I can take a few guesses.

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05-23-2021 , 12:38 PM

#11697

txdome

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Barry is definitely the best show in a while, and could hit all time great status. I don't think as highly as some about the girl ninja episode.

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05-23-2021 , 01:51 PM

#11698

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Originally Posted by txdome

After hating the early episodes, I'll change Mare of Eastown to great, not Sopranos or Deadwood or even Big Little Lies level, but the end of that episode was really good.

You might like the British Happy Valley tv series (2014-2016) which is the same genre (tough lady policewoman with many family issues solving a murder case in a small English town) and probably was the basis of the Mare series. Its highly rated but might need English subtitles to understand the British accent and slang.