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Have you met Richard Harrow yet? That was my favorite character.
Im aware of him, but I havent gotten there yet. Thus far Ive enjoyed how Jimmy has become such a soldier that the only civilian job he can see himself as is a soldier for the underworld. His downfall as far as I can tell is going to be because he's a soldier who died in the trenches. From what I've seen Harrow is likely going to be a relatable character. I enjoy Nucky Thompson a lot. But I could straight up marry a girl like Margaret.
 

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Shame about PEarl. I thought she was still beautiful even with the scar, people can luck vision sometimes, but it was tragically cruel to an innocent person, vile. but she was on borrowed time with that opium and laudnum.
 

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That would be nice if "The Killer" brought back Mindhunter. The claim was that not enough people watched MH to justify the production costs, but it was a pretty great, pretty edge show that actually had some substance.
Netflix has a terrible model, where they cancel series that aren't immediate, overwhelming hits. It would be nice if they gave shows a chance to find an audience. There've been so many times I've been browsing and found what looked like a cool show, only to look it up and find out that it wasn't renewed. Then I don't bother checking it out, because I don't want to be disappointed when it ends abruptly.

It's been an especially brutal business model when it comes to animation and slow burn drama stuff like mindhunter.

I'm also still salty about how netflix did MST3K dirty. Like you know it's more of a cult thing with a niche audience, you can't expect every series to get Stranger Things level numbers of viewers.
 

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Netflix has a terrible model, where they cancel series that aren't immediate, overwhelming hits. It would be nice if they gave shows a chance to find an audience. There've been so many times I've been browsing and found what looked like a cool show, only to look it up and find out that it wasn't renewed. Then I don't bother checking it out, because I don't want to be disappointed when it ends abruptly.

Yeah, I wouldn't say this is a 100% thing, but it's often enough that you can generalize as their modus operandi. (For example, they finished all three seasons of Dark, which was a German subtitled scifi drama -- I was surprised. And another shocker that Bojack Horseman actually ended on its own terms.)

I remember when Netflix was actually a mark of quality in the beginning, and now you are taking your chances, and who knows whether your show will make it to the end of its run regardless of quality. Meanwhile, crap stays on. You can't watch all their "documentary" style stuff either because it's not trustworthy in terms of factuality, yet they have an oversized influence.

I'm also still salty about how netflix did MST3K dirty. Like you know it's more of a cult thing with a niche audience, you can't expect every series to get Stranger Things level numbers of viewers.
I don't even like Stranger Things a ton, it's okay but isn't nearly as great as its popularity. The only season I was like, "Man, they upped their game" and actually cried once or twice watching was Season 4; the rest of it was really uneven and kinda "eh." It feels like a scifi/fantasy/horror show written for people who aren't into scifi/fantasy/horror, kind of like The Big Bang Theory being a "geek" comedy for non-geeks.

However, Squid Game was worth the watch, and Alice in Borderland, and some others. You just never know when something they tout might be the real deal.

I really don't like the state of streaming much nowadays. I mean, it was all very predictable, but it's just sad.
 

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Netflix has a terrible model, where they cancel series that aren't immediate, overwhelming hits. It would be nice if they gave shows a chance to find an audience. There've been so many times I've been browsing and found what looked like a cool show, only to look it up and find out that it wasn't renewed. Then I don't bother checking it out, because I don't want to be disappointed when it ends abruptly.

It's been an especially brutal business model when it comes to animation and slow burn drama stuff like mindhunter.

I'm also still salty about how netflix did MST3K dirty. Like you know it's more of a cult thing with a niche audience, you can't expect every series to get Stranger Things level numbers of viewers.
I really liked the Kevin Smith HeMan thing. I'd like to see more of it. Weirdly one of the things I liked about it was it felt like I got to see how Kevin Smith played Heman as a kid. I wish it were possible to be able to see other people's imagination "movies" like i know I had some pretty elaborate star wars sagas. I really want a dinoriders reboot.
 
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Watching boardwalk Empire, growing up I'd hear a lot of stories from prohibition from great grandparents. so its always been a period that i enjoy in entertainment. Steve Buschemi is always a delight. Kelly MacDonald's portrayal of Margaret Shroder, really ticks all my boxes. Jane Eyre did something to me in my formative years I guess.
It was a great show. It's one of the few my husband and I agreed on. Lysol, I'm fairly sure, was touted as at least a cleaning out after menstruation product. But OMG those scenes made my vag lock shut and it just goes to show that there is always something trying to kill women.

Kelly MacDonald's Margaret stuck with me as did Carla Jean in No Country For Old Men.
 

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My favorite book Shogun is finally being tackled as a miniseries. It was done in the 80's starring Richard Chamberlain but it's more than due for a revival. I'm rereading it to make sure the story is fresh for when the show drops in February (a bit of a task considering its 1200 pages). I've been following this since it was announced a couple of years ago. Super glad that FX has thrown a brinks truck budget at it, and that they are the one's doing it considering there track record with making good stuff. It's said that George RR Martin got a lot of his political intrigue style from Shogun and I can believe it as Shogun makes ASOIAF look like a picnic.

 

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Well, it's Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. I hope it's good. I was really disappointed in how Westworld went.
 
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Well, it's Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. I hope it's good. I was really disappointed in how Westworld went.
As imperfect as season 3 was, I'm mostly annoyed that I can't seem to find the final season, which a friend told me was actually pretty good. I hate David Zaslav so much.
 
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As imperfect as season 3 was, I'm mostly annoyed that I can't seem to find the final season, which a friend told me was actually pretty good. I hate David Zaslav so much.
Personally I felt like Season 4 was overall worse, aside from a few things (like Aaron Paul's arc). Like, I was almost cheering when they put everyone out of their misery at the end because it was like "thank fucking god we don't have to watch this sink to even lower levels of piss-poor writing and loss of coherent themes and throughput with a Season 5." but YMMV.

It's so hard to believe the same people were responsible for Seasons 3-4, as Season 1 was so elegant a reverie and just seemed to be perfection. Season 2 wasn't the same pinnacle but at least had understandable plotting and throughlines.

I don't think you can see it anywhere for free. You either have to pay $25 to buy the season on Vudu or Amazon Prime, or I think the bluray and 4k releases might now be out.

Zaslav deserves some combination of the worst punishments known to humanity, and maybe at the end of it all his lower region can be crushed slowly by an elephant. Talk about bad faith and just completely ruining a brand that was loved by so many for so long. He has no respect for his audience.
 
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Personally I felt like Season 4 was overall worse, aside from a few things (like Aaron Paul's arc). Like, I was almost cheering when they put everyone out of their misery at the end because it was like "thank fucking god we don't have to watch this sink to even lower levels of piss-poor writing and loss of coherent themes and throughput with a Season 5."

I don't think you can see it anywhere for free. You either have to pay $25 to buy the season on Vudu or Amazon Prime, or I think the bluray and 4k releases might now be out.

Zaslav deserves some combination of the worst punishments known to humanity, and maybe at the end of it all his lower region can be crushed slowly by an elephant. Talk about bad faith and just completely ruining a brand that was loved by so many for so long. He has no respect for his audience.

His entire career shows that he doesn't care about quality or brand integrity or anything like that. He's one of the major forces behind the decline of cable TV, really. It's all just "content" for him.

As a side note, this is why I'm moving back to buying physical books. I don't want some publisher "deleting" them just because they saw some profit in it somehow.
 

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This is also why I'm moving back to buying physical books. I don't want some publisher "deleting" them just because they saw some profit in it somehow.
Yeah, that's now becoming a thing ago -- including physical media for films and shows. I have always been big on having physical media rather than relying on digital. Part of it is because of THIS kind of shitty move by publishers out to nickel and dime whatever profit they can. The other is because the quality of downloads still does not compare to the physical disk sound and video. I think video is closer on streaming, but they compress the shit out of the audio and you lose a lot of the depth to the sound.
 

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Well, it's Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. I hope it's good. I was really disappointed in how Westworld went.
Visually, at least, it looks like they've done a good job of capturing the Fallout universe aesthetic. Or at least the fallout 4 look, which is a bit different from the style of the previous games. But I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Some fans are complaining about the ghoul makeup on Walton Goggins, but I thought it looked OK. Apparently they had to leave room for him to emote, so it's not as "ghoulified" as what's been typically seen in the games. I really liked the look of the power armor, and the yaou guai.

The whole vibe of Fallout must be tricky to translate to TV/film, because the games are a careful balance of whimsical, social commentary and very dark humor. Sacrifice any one of those and it doesn't work. Plus, the damaged diesel punk look of the games and retro future style is integral. really hope they go hard on that.

Looks like it's set on the west coast, which is refreshing since the last time we've seen the west in that Universe was New Vegas in 2010.
 
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