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05-29-2021 , 07:08 AM
Speaking of Australian shows, underbelly that is based on real Australian crime/underworld is really good: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119176/
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05-29-2021 , 07:55 AM
+1 Underbelly is great. The first few seasons anyway.
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05-29-2021 , 08:29 AM
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Wentworth was a show I enjoyed, shot through 2-3 seasons, had a break, then completely forgot about it for about 6 months until you just mentioned it.

Might have to try to work out where I got to.
iirc wentworth peeked near the middle maybe... like season 3 or so. but i did enjoy it the whole way through

just looked up the graph, and that's a pretty strong graph

https://www.ratingraph.com/tv-shows/...ratings-45834/
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05-29-2021 , 02:10 PM
the only realistic cop in the wire is the one who steals from bubbles after bubbles asks him for help. and he also steals from the little kids

and the only realistic politician is sheeeeeeit guy
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05-29-2021 , 02:20 PM
What's with these spicy hot takes vermin? Do I need to go put the toilet roll in the fridge?
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05-29-2021 , 02:24 PM
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the only realistic cop in the wire is the one who steals from bubbles after bubbles asks him for help. and he also steals from the little kids

and the only realistic politician is sheeeeeeit guy
Spend more time outside of echo chambers. I say this as a cynic of most things government myself. To act like these are universal truths benefits no one and is counter-productive to change you want to see.

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05-29-2021 , 02:36 PM
being abused by police myself, and everyone who was poor i grew up with was also abused, while everyone who was rich was not abused. it's made me aware of copaganda on tv shows and in movies.

even "the shield" is copaganda. yes, the cops in that show are corrupt and kinda scummy, but they are the heroes of the show, and we are supposed to sympathize with them.


and if your refrigerator is empty, putting toilet paper in it will save energy. full fridges are more efficient than empty ones
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05-29-2021 , 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by filthyvermin
being abused by police myself, and everyone who was poor i grew up with was also abused, while everyone who was rich was not abused. it's made me aware of copaganda on tv shows and in movies.

even "the shield" is copaganda. yes, the cops in that show are corrupt and kinda scummy, but they are the heroes of the show, and we are supposed to sympathize with them.


and if your refrigerator is empty, putting toilet paper in it will save energy. full fridges are more efficient than empty ones


Lol kinda scummy cmon. Michael Chiklis blasts another cop in the head first episode. Grenade etc.
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05-29-2021 , 07:55 PM
i bumped the shield thread, if you want to discuss it there
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05-30-2021 , 06:18 PM
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Mare of Easttown: Okay, here's my guess on who was the killer of Erin. Has to be someone not too obvious from the previous episode but someone who would have a motive. The killer is
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Lori, John's wife, since she thought John fathered the baby and didn't want Erin to reveal it or be extorted. Billy is willing to take the blame to make up for past mistakes. Ryan knows something about all this
I think you're going to win with this prediction. Before reading your post i went with John and then either having Billy come clean up scene with him, then brainwashing him into taking the blame. Or Billy watching it happen and cleaning up. But after reading yours i think you nailed it. She always seems to have this looking deep anytime she's in scene like she's reminiscing on where she went wrong. We'll find out tonight i guess.

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05-30-2021 , 06:58 PM
There’s no way she tells Mare anything if that were the case though.
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05-31-2021 , 12:22 AM
As expected Mare wrapped up as a bad show.
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05-31-2021 , 01:38 AM
I wrapped up season 1 of Mare and Banshee tonight. Banshee S1>>>>>>>>>Mare S1, but Mare has great moments and is still worth watching.

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Neither are elite, but they're fun and you should go with my recs.


Sorry for the livestream, but Banshee is awesome unfettered craziness. No ghouls or anything, just the name of the town.

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05-31-2021 , 05:27 AM
Yeah... Mare went one twist too far. Aside from that, it was good. I really hope they leave it alone and don’t try to force a 2nd season like Big Little Lies.
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05-31-2021 , 12:36 PM
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I think you're going to win with this prediction. Before reading your post i went with John and then either having Billy come clean up scene with him, then brainwashing him into taking the blame. Or Billy watching it happen and cleaning up. But after reading yours i think you nailed it. She always seems to have this looking deep anytime she's in scene like she's reminiscing on where she went wrong. We'll find out tonight i guess.
Well my prediction missed it , but I still feel like my choice would make more sense. Glad its over. Too melodramatic but worth watching.
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05-31-2021 , 01:25 PM
Caught up on Mr Inbetween. Thanks again to all who recommended it. Looking forward to seeing where the new episodes go.
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05-31-2021 , 01:26 PM
I like the way it wrapped up and I think the season was good overall. I think it needed that extra twist at the end otherwise it would have been a bit underwhelming. Also what the viewer was led to believe to have happened at the start of the last episode wasn't realistic.
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05-31-2021 , 02:10 PM
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Yeah... Mare went one twist too far. Aside from that, it was good. I really hope they leave it alone and don’t try to force a 2nd season like Big Little Lies.
I really liked the final episode, no complaints. Good acting too. I doubt they do a second, it's a one-off format almost surely.
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06-01-2021 , 01:14 PM
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I like the way it wrapped up and I think the season was good overall. I think it needed that extra twist at the end otherwise it would have been a bit underwhelming. Also what the viewer was led to believe to have happened at the start of the last episode wasn't realistic.
It was a very watchable show. My biggest complaint is was the pacing. As for the mystery:

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The reveal would've been better if there had been some innocuous reason for Mare to go in the shed and see the box with the gun in it, then put it all together. The old man calling her to say that things 'went missing, then came back' was just lazy writing.

Overall it was a decent whodunit. The Killing was a little better, I thought, but this was good. They had no shortage of suspects, that's for sure. At one point I even thought the Guy Pearce character might have done it.
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06-01-2021 , 02:00 PM
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It was a very watchable show. My biggest complaint is was the pacing. As for the mystery:

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The reveal would've been better if there had been some innocuous reason for Mare to go in the shed and see the box with the gun in it, then put it all together. The old man calling her to say that things 'went missing, then came back' was just lazy writing.

Overall it was a decent whodunit. The Killing was a little better, I thought, but this was good. They had no shortage of suspects, that's for sure. At one point I even thought the Guy Pearce character might have done it.

i agree with your spoiler
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especially as he is what i presume an ex cop himself ? maybe hes being portrayed as a little senile or something, but still the way he just randomly calls her and doesnt even think to check his own cctv ....i agree lazy writing
but overall good series good acting anyways.

edit : i also thought to myself after 1/2 ffs its guy pearce who did it , they never cast big names in roles unless they are the killer glad they didnt do that.
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06-01-2021 , 04:02 PM
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06-01-2021 , 06:05 PM
Mare (no clue what needs to be in spoilers so will put all of it in it.)

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Guy Pearce was never cast for the role. Something happened with main character cast for that rule when coronavirus started and Kate Winslet is really good friends with him and asked him to do it as a favor. I also thought he must have been involved somehow until I heard a podcast with that info.



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Also, maybe I missed something and too lazy to re-watch. Did love the show. But the senile man said he noticed the gun was missing. How? The kid took it a midnight and then they put it back that night before he ever woke up. Does he check his gun in the middle of the night? Doesn't make sense.
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06-01-2021 , 08:23 PM
Mare follows exactly the same model as Broadchurch, starting off real strong then ending up making you mad with red herrings and bullshit.


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Yeah they said he went to go check it THAT VERY NIGHT because of the prowler. Then didn't mention it for 8 months or whatever, then despite his senility remembered it exactly but not enough to check his CCTV? Extremely bad writing. It was missing bullets!



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Absolutely astounding they went with DOUBLE FALSE CONFESSIONS. Why'd the alcoholic brother confess again, under this theory? Did he know the truth?
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06-02-2021 , 01:38 AM
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Mare follows exactly the same model as Broadchurch, starting off real strong then ending up making you mad with red herrings and bullshit.
Another one that got to me

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How do they not run ballistics on John's gun?
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06-02-2021 , 10:25 AM
More on Mare:

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Yeah Fly's point about the missing bullets is even more bizarre. The gun is a revolver so the only way you'd even know the bullets are spent is if you dumped the cylinder, but why would the old man even do that? To me you'd find the gun, crack the cylinder, see all the chambers are still full and then be like 'huhh' and put it back in its box.

Meanwhile if the chambers were totally empty what's the theory then? That the kid kills the girl and then removes the spent shell casings before putting the gun back, but now with two empty chambers? Craziness.


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With the kid as the killer I think the motivation of the double false confessions makes sense, and wasn't a bad plot point. It was even in character for the two brothers.
What did NOT make sense from a character standpoint was the kid being the killer.
Nothing in his arc suggested he was capable of that, and even the whole story about taking the gun 'just to scare her' was nonsense too. Better would have for the kid to have been closer to age to the girl, and he has some unrequited feelings for her. He gets wind of the ambush the mean kids are plotting against her so he grabs the gun to 'protect' her, gets there too late, manages to meet up with her sometime later --> confesses love --> gets rejected --> emotions go hot --> murder. Something like that.
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