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6 furlongs of good TV[HBO:LUCK]

zeenyzeeny Registered User regular
edited February 2012 in Debate and/or Discourse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck_(TV_series) wrote:
Luck is an American dramatic television series created by David Milch and starring Dustin Hoffman. The pilot episode was directed by Michael Mann. The series premiered on January 29, 2012. HBO aired the first episode on December 11, 2011 as a preview.[1] It was immediately renewed for a second season of 10 episodes to begin airing in January of 2013.[2]

Dustin Hoffman
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Nick Nolte
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Richard Kind
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...and other great actors...It's shot great, it has decent writing and it's acted well. Go watch it, even if you think you won't care about horse racing.

Personally, I'm not sure yet if the show will have an overall plot outside the characters, but I wouldn't say that one is necessary!

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  • MyiagrosMyiagros Registered User regular
    I've watched the first three episodes and am enjoying it.

    iRevert wrote: »
    Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
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  • Captain TragedyCaptain Tragedy Registered User regular
    I really like this show, despite the fact that I can barely understand what the hell some of dialogue/plot is (especially Nick Nolte, who's hard enough to understand as it is without the Milch-ian dialogue). It's getting clearer as it goes on, but I'm still confused by certain things. I sorta just let it float by on the characters and the general drama without getting to wrapped up in the more specific horseracing talk.

  • MyiagrosMyiagros Registered User regular
    Luckily my fiancee is a horse trainer so she knows a bunch of the stuff that I didn't. Like the whole deal with the guy putting $8000 down for a chance to win the horse during one of the races.

    iRevert wrote: »
    Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
    Steam: MyiagrosX27
  • YougottawannaYougottawanna Registered User regular
    I wanna know what Dustin Hoffman's plan is.

    I like the way the show is put together. I guess every episode is one day - I thought that would be an annoying gimmick at first, but now I like it. It makes for a cool effect as things get darker when the episode moves into the second half. It kind of reminds of how they paced the first part of Half-Life 2, so that you get to Black Mesa at dusk and then Ravenholm at night.

    I used to go to the track a lot myself so the horseracing stuff doesn't bother me, and it seems like they've done a decent job of explaining it. They have that one new guy with the mustache (the one who originally wanted to claim the horse), and he doesn't know how the track works so they kind of use him as an audience surrogate, and have people explain to him what's going on.

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    Is the first episode representative of the program as a whole? I watched it last night and was pretty bored.

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  • musanmanmusanman Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Is the first episode representative of the program as a whole? I watched it last night and was pretty bored.

    the series is definitely slow moving, but it does start to pick up a bit around the 3rd episode

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  • zeenyzeeny Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Is the first episode representative of the program as a whole? I watched it last night and was pretty bored.

    The first episode plays a lot on expectations of what should be going around horses instead of what's going on, but it's still close to the overall tone of the show.
    It's about slow and quality. I absolutely love it.

  • Captain TragedyCaptain Tragedy Registered User regular
    Canceled after third horse death on 2nd episode of Season 2's production.

  • Linespider5Linespider5 ALL HAIL KING KILLMONGER Registered User regular
    Wait, what?

    What?

    The hell.

  • Captain TragedyCaptain Tragedy Registered User regular
    I think this is the first time in television history that a show has been canceled due to "excessive horse death".

  • Linespider5Linespider5 ALL HAIL KING KILLMONGER Registered User regular
    Thank you, um. Thank you, Captain Tragedy.

  • JuliusJulius Captain of Serenity on my shipRegistered User regular
    Captain Tragedy wrote: »
    I think this is the first time in television history that a show has been canceled due to "excessive horse death".

    no the first was According To Jim.


  • Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    What's going on with the horse thing? Were they doing shady shit with the horses?

  • Captain TragedyCaptain Tragedy Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    I don't know what the hell they were doing that led to 3 horses dying over the course of 11 episodes of a TV show. That is pretty ridiculous.

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  • MyiagrosMyiagros Registered User regular
    According to the article it sounds like the horses they were using were old race horses. Thoroughbreds normally only race until they are 6-7 years old at most to begin with, if they were using a 15 year old horse then it greatly increases the chances of injury. Even young horses will race so hard that their hearts explode. I wouldn't be surprised if they were using all old horses well past their racing days that just weren't in good enough shape for hard galloping for an hour of shooting a day.

    iRevert wrote: »
    Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
    Steam: MyiagrosX27
  • tinwhiskerstinwhiskers Registered User regular
    The other thing is thoroughbreds might as well be made of glass. Once they break you'll never get them healed up. A leg injury like a broken ankle is a death sentence.

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  • Linespider5Linespider5 ALL HAIL KING KILLMONGER Registered User regular
    I'm still waiting for Ben Stiller to kill another horse.

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    HBO was quick to point out that on average they killed less horses than the horse racing industry, and used higher standards of safety.

    Not that it makes a difference, I just thought it was interesting that they went that route with their defense, even after cancelling it.

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  • zeenyzeeny Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Too bad about the show. I really liked it.

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