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    ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    the shield season 7
    twin peaks season 2
    it's always sunny in philadelphia season 9
    the real ghostbusters season 1 (syndicated)
    passions season 5 (soap opera seasons are over 200 episodes!)

    You god damn cheatin' son of a gun.

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    KetarKetar Come on upstairs we're having a partyRegistered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    the shield season 7
    twin peaks season 2
    it's always sunny in philadelphia season 9
    the real ghostbusters season 1 (syndicated)
    passions season 5 (soap opera seasons are over 200 episodes!)

    You god damn cheatin' son of a gun.

    Ask him how many episodes are in The Real Ghostbusters Season 1 (syndicated).

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    Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    your fault for not forbidding soaps

    i'll float in space and watch the adventures of the witch who sank the titanic and her friends a talking ape nurse and alcoholic pinocchio

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    TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    I'd just do simpsons season 3 through 7

    I already rewatch them enough as is.

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    Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Ketar wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    the shield season 7
    twin peaks season 2
    it's always sunny in philadelphia season 9
    the real ghostbusters season 1 (syndicated)
    passions season 5 (soap opera seasons are over 200 episodes!)

    You god damn cheatin' son of a gun.

    Ask him how many episodes are in The Real Ghostbusters Season 1 (syndicated).
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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
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    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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    ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    Ketar wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    the shield season 7
    twin peaks season 2
    it's always sunny in philadelphia season 9
    the real ghostbusters season 1 (syndicated)
    passions season 5 (soap opera seasons are over 200 episodes!)

    You god damn cheatin' son of a gun.

    Ask him how many episodes are in The Real Ghostbusters Season 1 (syndicated).

    Good God!

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    KetarKetar Come on upstairs we're having a partyRegistered User regular
    Granted, I would have no idea how shady that was if I hadn't watched through it all with my son after it hit Netflix recently.

    I also had no idea that J. Michael Straczynski had so much to do with the show until I kept seeing his name pop up for writing credits and got curious.

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    ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    If I was going to pick a soap opera, and hot damn they seem like a great option, I'd go with something bat-shit crazy like Dark Shadows or Port Charles.

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    Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    If I was going to pick a soap opera, and hot damn they seem like a great option, I'd go with something bat-shit crazy like Dark Shadows or Port Charles.

    passions is significantly crazier than both'a these

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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    If I was going to pick a soap opera, and hot damn they seem like a great option, I'd go with something bat-shit crazy like Dark Shadows or Port Charles.

    Oh so like Passions

    The one he already picked

    You fool

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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    It had fucking MERMAIDS

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    ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    Zonugal wrote: »
    If I was going to pick a soap opera, and hot damn they seem like a great option, I'd go with something bat-shit crazy like Dark Shadows or Port Charles.

    passions is significantly crazier than both'a these

    *Begins reading Passions wikipedia article*

    Oh my...

    *Continues even deeper into Passions Soap Opera Wiki page*
    In 2003, Passions submitted a trained orangutan named BamBam, who had been portraying the recurring role of Precious, for a Daytime Emmy Award. Precious was the non-speaking live-in nurse and caregiver for elderly Edna Wallace, and held an unrequited love for Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald, which was depicted in elaborate fantasy sequences. In early 2004, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which administers the awards, disallowed the entry with the following statement:
    Our ruling is based on the belief that the Academy must draw a line of distinction between animal characters that aren't capable of speaking parts and human actors whose personal interpretation in character portrayal creates nuance and audience engagement that uniquely qualifies those performers for consideration of television's highest honor.

    Oh my God...

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    ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    If I was going to pick a soap opera, and hot damn they seem like a great option, I'd go with something bat-shit crazy like Dark Shadows or Port Charles.

    Oh so like Passions

    The one he already picked

    You fool

    LISTEN, SOAP OPERAS ARE A DISTINCT VOID IN MY TV LORE.

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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    The Glow pilot was a little clunky, but I laughed so hard at the crumpled up picture of a wolf that I'll stick with it a bit

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    Devlin_DragonusDevlin_Dragonus Gorgeous Dallas, TXRegistered User regular
    @YaYa @Balefuego @Rorshach Kringle

    What would you say if i told you, that after the end of Vampire Diaries and The latest Originals, that
    The baby Mikaelson grows up to be 10, and joins Alaric and Caroline's school for supernatural children (80% Xavier School for Gifted Children / 20% Hogwarts)

    I got nothing for you now. Try again later.

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    Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    story checks out

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    watched the first two seasons of Fargo, here are my takes:
    season one is almost good but they really want Lorne Malvo to be Anton Chigurh and he isn't quite there. mostly because they keep having him fight really stupid people. Lester kind of vacillates between crime genius and total dipshit moron depending on what the show needs him to do at any given time, and the whole bit in Vegas is dumb - it makes him look like a dickhead for confronting Malvo and Malvo look like a dickhead for not finding a better way to resolve the situation than throwing away six months of work. Molly is good but kind of doesn't do anything? she solves the crime but it doesn't really lead to much. imo a better way to end the show would be with Lester killing Malvo and then Molly having to fight Lester

    season two has some good performances, especially from Kirsten Dunst and her husband Meth Damon, but it's super pretentious and doesn't really know what it's trying to do. it starts off shit, gets good in the middle and becomes shit again towards the end when the writers don't know how to end it. Hanzee is okay i guess, but i feel like he could have had more of a personality than "looks super scary" and "is mad about racism". Mike Milligan is fun but again doesn't do anything. the Solversons are largely boring. the writers need to stop working in all these bullshit abstract parables and whoever decided to use split screen should be run out of town on a rail

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    ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    I smell a Passions rewatch podcast in the works.

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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Sheila is so fucking good

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    ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    @Rorshach Kringle, recommend me a soap opera that I would love.

    Give me something that was basically designed for me.

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    Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    man i don't know how you haven't already gotten the hint that it's passions

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    BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Because of the disaster at work I took a late lunch and saw the new MacGyver
    WTF
    It's like they took MacGruber removed all the body humor and gross stuff and put in poorly written drama in it's place

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    Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    GLOW is very good

    I am very glad our entertainment media decided to stick with the 80s aesthetic revival instead of moving on to the 90s as it seems like they might do instead

    now, gimme square blocky cars again

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    Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    I mean the show and the plot and the characters are pretty good too but

    I am just enamored with how everything in GLOW looks

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    JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited June 2017
    Keith wrote: »
    I said it before when talking about Passengers, but if I was (alone) on a space cruise, I'd just drink all the alcohol and jerk off everywhere

    Gonna be a hell of a weekend at Casa del Jedoc, folks.

    Jedoc on
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    SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    GLOW is very good

    I am very glad our entertainment media decided to stick with the 80s aesthetic revival instead of moving on to the 90s as it seems like they might do instead

    now, gimme square blocky cars again
    You're watching The Americans, right?

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    Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Passions is the fucking best.

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    watching GLOW

    the accent of this supposedly british woman is clearly australian

    what's that about

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    MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    watching GLOW

    the accent of this supposedly british woman is clearly australian

    what's that about

    Stop breaking kayfabe

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    okay she's properly british now

    i still think she was australian before though

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    TubeTube Registered User admin
    Americans find it hard to tell the difference.

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    I thought kayfabe was pronounced kay-fah-bay but I guess it's just kayfabe

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    HermanoHermano Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    It took me a while to realise the British woman in Glow was Kate Nash, she looks quite different from her pop music days.

    Oh and she's 100% Londoner, she doesn't sound Australian at all!

    Hermano on

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    EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    Hermano wrote: »
    It took me a while to realise the British woman in Glow was Kate Nash, she looks quite different from her pop music days.

    Oh and she's 100% Londoner, she doesn't sound Australian at all!

    This happens almost every time someone complains about a British accent sounding fake

    It's almost kind of fascinating

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    Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I know I don't know enough about the subtlety of accents to say a damn thing about anyone's accent.

    Except for Benedict Cumberbatch in Dr. Strange. That shit was bad.

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    TubeTube Registered User admin
    I know I don't know enough about the subtlety of accents to say a damn thing about anyone's accent.

    Except for Benedict Cumberbatch in Dr. Strange. That shit was bad.

    It was fine, you're just hyper aware of how you expect him to sound.

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    Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Tube wrote: »
    I know I don't know enough about the subtlety of accents to say a damn thing about anyone's accent.

    Except for Benedict Cumberbatch in Dr. Strange. That shit was bad.

    It was fine, you're just hyper aware of how you expect him to sound.

    This is probably true.

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    TubeTube Registered User admin
    Tube wrote: »
    I know I don't know enough about the subtlety of accents to say a damn thing about anyone's accent.

    Except for Benedict Cumberbatch in Dr. Strange. That shit was bad.

    It was fine, you're just hyper aware of how you expect him to sound.

    This is probably true.

    Like to me, Hugh Laurie's much lauded American accent sounds bad, because I grew up watching countless shows that he was in (he was hugely famous in the UK for decades before House).

    It's similar to Leonardo Dicaprio in Blood Diamond. Every American (and British person) says his accent was fucking horrible, but my South African acquaintances are in agreement that it was extremely accurate. The problem is that we know what Leo is "supposed" to sound like, and a strong accent like that sounds cartoonish to us even when it's right on the money.

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    Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Fine. I'll give Mr. Cumberbatch a pass on his accent.

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