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12-12-2024 , 01:42 PM

#15201

TimTimSalabim

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I'm liking Landman a lot. It has the makings of a great show with the dramatic tension and the comic relief as well as a strong lead character.

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12-12-2024 , 01:50 PM

#15202

NhlNut

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Originally Posted by King~of~Diamonds

I like Dune:Prophecy. Three episodes in

I'm in. Just the look of the show gets me. Never read any Dune books either, just watched the movies.

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12-12-2024 , 04:18 PM

#15203

rafiki

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Originally Posted by Mark_K

Yep Billy Bob and the eye candy are over half of what makes it good.

I'm an older guy, but my goodness Ali Larter. Wow.

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12-12-2024 , 04:49 PM

#15204

brianr

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Not bad for 48

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12-12-2024 , 07:07 PM

#15205

King~of~Diamonds

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Originally Posted by Chilltown

****ing sucks imo!

Episode 1 was a mess. But there was a reason they introduced so many characters.

The first minute of the series was goated. “When humans rose up against the thinking machines that had enslvaed them…yada yada yada”
Where’s that show? I want to see that show

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12-12-2024 , 09:22 PM

#15206

ArcticKnight

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Originally Posted by Mark_K

Yep Billy Bob and the eye candy are over half of what makes it good.

Your daughter has discovered the pool: I am working with my back to the window...

Tons of great rants and one-liners... pretty entertaining.

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12-13-2024 , 02:37 AM

#15207

Chilltown

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Originally Posted by King~of~Diamonds

I saw the first episode and gave up during the second. Totally forget the plot already.

And Dune 1/2 are probably my 2 fav movies of the last decade so I was excited but the trailer convinced me it might be dog ****.

Lacks heart. Just focus all that money on Dune 3.

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12-13-2024 , 04:17 AM

#15208

King~of~Diamonds

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They’ve gone in some interesting directions I think. After an initial onslaught of characters and exposition

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12-13-2024 , 06:33 AM

#15209

Kurn, son of Mogh

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Originally Posted by Chilltown

I'm still in on the show.

Question: Have you read any of the prequels?

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12-13-2024 , 07:35 AM

#15210

King~of~Diamonds

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I don’t know what happened at the end of episode 4

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12-13-2024 , 10:41 AM

#15211

marknfw

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Originally Posted by Kurn, son of Mogh

I'm still in on the show.

Question: Have you read any of the prequels?

I haven't read any of them. Have you? They sound really interesting and like something I'd want to read, having read all the originals several times over, but the reviews seem to be unanimous in saying they aren't great.

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12-13-2024 , 10:47 AM

#15212

rafiki

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Say Nothing is great btw

And I think S2 of Bad Sisters is out, also great

Kind of a theme there across those two. Subtitles help, that Irish accent is a whopper.

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12-13-2024 , 12:29 PM

#15213

SerOuanling

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can you stop talking about landman, im trying to remain calm and wait for the whole season to be released.

you're all making it very very hard

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12-13-2024 , 02:49 PM

#15214

rafiki

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ooooo S3 of Somebody Somewhere

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12-13-2024 , 06:01 PM

#15215

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Originally Posted by rafiki

Say Nothing is great btw

And I think S2 of Bad Sisters is out, also great

Kind of a theme there across those two. Subtitles help, that Irish accent is a whopper.

Say Nothing is on my end of the year list. I didn’t think Bad Sisters needed a 2nd but its existence is justified. Funnily enough, I just started Derry Girls last night and it’s great as well. That’s a shitload of Irish for me recently lol

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12-13-2024 , 06:53 PM

#15216

King~of~Diamonds

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Say Nothing is #1 with a bullet

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12-13-2024 , 08:10 PM

#15217

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I’ve seen a couple end of the year lists and I totally forgot about Shogun. That’s the #1 for me.

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12-14-2024 , 10:12 AM

#15218

rafiki

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links to some good end of year lists? Or post your own!

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12-14-2024 , 10:34 AM

#15219

parisron

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I would easily say in no particular order:

The Day of the Jackal
The Penguin
Landman
The Agency (haven't seen The Bureau, subs)
Ripley
Industry
Shrinking

Only watched first episode of Rivals, but I'm guessing it is really good.

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12-14-2024 , 11:08 AM

#15220

brianr

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Slow Horses latest season
Lioness

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12-14-2024 , 12:30 PM

#15221

rafiki

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Originally Posted by parisron

I'm glad I've only seen 2 of those, thanks for all the options! That said, Shrinking is a show I watch with the wife, and just for my personal taste, that's a 6/10. Particularly compared to say Somebody, Somewhere (which is kind of in the same category).

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12-14-2024 , 12:48 PM

#15222

parisron

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I guess they are in somewhat of an order as I would say Shrinking is the lowest of the ones mentioned and the top 3 are the top 3.

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12-14-2024 , 05:47 PM

#15223

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Originally Posted by rafiki

links to some good end of year lists? Or post your own!

I’m needing a bunch of lists so I can make my own. I can’t remember half of what I watched this year lol Not a ton of “A+’s” this year, similar to last year. Plenty of B+’s, a few A-‘s, or at least partially.

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12-14-2024 , 10:27 PM

#15224

Mark_K

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Originally Posted by Mark_K

Yep Billy Bob and the eye candy are over half of what makes it good.

Booooo...

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...231659694.html

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While Thornton’s performance, and Sheridan’s writing of his character, have been praised (Thornton recently received a Golden Globe nomination for his work on the show), the actresses who play his ex-wife and daughter — Ali Larter and Michelle Randolph, respectively — have been described as “mostly empty caricatures” and the onscreen representation of “male fantasies.”

“The objectification of women onscreen has been a norm really since the inception of Hollywood,” Claire Sisco King, chair of cinema and media arts at Vanderbilt University, told Yahoo Entertainment.

She noted that in Sheridan’s case, in which his shows operate in “traditionally masculine spaces — the ranch, the prison, the oil fields,” he also employs tactics to target “a presumptively heterosexual male audience … where women are hypersexualized and really put on display.”

Take Thornton’s onscreen daughter, for instance, who is supposed to be 17 years old.

King recalls a “very conspicuous moment of the male gaze,” in which Randolph’s character Ainsley is “walking around in her underwear” while a friend and housemate of Thornton’s character watches.

“He feels uncomfortable about it, but we still see him taking her in,” King said. “So the sort of gaze is doubled. Like we're looking and we're watching men look at them.”

This is in addition to another criticism of Ainsley's portrayal, this time of the character sleeping in the same bed as her father during an episode.

“The fact that Tommy Norris’s [Thornton] 17-year-old daughter is also being sexualized in the show is leaving viewers with a bad taste in their mouth,” Dunn said.