I'll tell you what, not only did I absolutely watch Sherlock, every episode unbroken and in its entirety, I also took part in a twitter role-play between each episode based on BBC's Sherlock (2010), in which I played the character James "Jim" Moriarty based on the character James "Jim" Moriarty from BBC's Sherlock (2010)
I'll tell you what, not only did I absolutely watch Sherlock, every episode unbroken and in its entirety, I also took part in a twitter role-play between each episode based on BBC's Sherlock (2010), in which I played the character James "Jim" Moriarty based on the character James "Jim" Moriarty from BBC's Sherlock (2010)
I'll tell you what, not only did I absolutely watch Sherlock, every episode unbroken and in its entirety, I also took part in a twitter role-play between each episode based on BBC's Sherlock (2010), in which I played the character James "Jim" Moriarty based on the character James "Jim" Moriarty from BBC's Sherlock (2010)
I don't even know you anymore
Technically, you don't know his LARP character
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I tapped out after the second episode of Sherlock
Not because I disliked it necessarily, but because it was such a large investment to sit down and watch
I'll tell you what, not only did I absolutely watch Sherlock, every episode unbroken and in its entirety, I also took part in a twitter role-play between each episode based on BBC's Sherlock (2010), in which I played the character James "Jim" Moriarty based on the character James "Jim" Moriarty from BBC's Sherlock (2010)
I don't even know you anymore
Look, if it helps, immediately after posting that, I burst into flames and withdrew to the center of the earth
Nicolas Winding Refn's Amazon show Too Old To Die Young is confirmed for 10 90 minute episodes
Miles Teller stars as a grieving cop forced to investigate LA’s criminal underworld, which includes working-class hit men, Yakuza soldiers, cartel assassins sent from Mexico, and Russian mafia captains
Cast also includes Billy Baldwin, Jena Malone, John Hawkes, Callie Hernandez, and August Aguilera
Score provided by regular Refn collaborator Cliff Martinez
I see grant the producer still isn't done torturing poor souls.
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At the very least nwr has been interesting bad which gets a watch from me
I watched one episode of Russian Doll and then whoops I watched all the episodes of Russian Doll
Honestly the vulgarity in the first episode almost put me off because it isn't really my sense of humour, but then the hooks sunk in and I had to see where it was going and it turns out it gets really good
Also when
Natasha Lyonne gets her hair cut
I was like oh!! She's ginger @tynic! Which I mean as a compliment, obviously
Finished off Patriot season 2 last night. What a weird, sad, unique show. Nothing else on TV sounds or looks like it. It's got a lot of Mamet style punctuated dialogue, without feeling like it's trying to be Mamet, lots of repeated names and phrases, but with far less arrogance. Multiple characters wind up with head injuries and there are often first person shots from them with distorted sound and/or visuals. It looks great, like a lot of movies that Wes Anderson watched, but with only like 20% of the twee and 50% more crippling depression and sadness, and, admittedly, a much more dour coloring.
It certainly doesn't hit everything it aims for but dammit, it sure tries hard and most of it works pretty well.
And season 2's theme song is Beastie Boys and that's gotta be worth something, with a cool, episode unique title card for each episode.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
10 90 minute episodes could work if each episodes was structured as a semi-standalone thing, a small movie in the world of the main character
Like, it sounds like it's going to be a noir, so each one is its own case or whatever
I don't really have faith that this is what it will be though, it will probably be a bunch of underdeveloped characters staring at interesting shadows for forty five or every ninety minutes
I don't think it's going to be the best thing in the world
But the "this whole season can be considered a movie" thing was just done with Twin Peaks The Return, and the "90 minute episodes" thing is about to be done with Game of Thrones. Obviously that stuff can be brushed away with one being from Lynch and the other being a final season/Game of Thrones/only most of a season and not all of a season, but I haven't seen either concept generally criticized before this instance
StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
A bunch of people criticized Twin Peaks for that though?
And I for one have been complaining about too long episodes of Netflix originals for as long as I can remember. And those don't even go that long, they're just going a proper hour instead of a TV hour for the most part.
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I continue to get the sense that "prestige" TV are doing these 90 minute episodes so that they can feel like movies.
Because they want the perceived respect of movies.
Nicholas Winding Refn made that movie where Ryan Gosling gets the bloody piss beaten out of him by a dumpy middle aged man, that sequence is very watchable
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I continue to get the sense that "prestige" TV are doing these 90 minute episodes so that they can feel like movies.
Because they want the perceived respect of movies.
And here I am looking at the age of the "cinematic universe" just wishing they'd move over to a TV series format because it's better suited to the stories they're trying to tell.
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I continue to get the sense that "prestige" TV are doing these 90 minute episodes so that they can feel like movies.
Because they want the perceived respect of movies.
And here I am looking at the age of the "cinematic universe" just wishing they'd move over to a TV series format because it's better suited to the stories they're trying to tell.
Yeah really this era of media is everyone chasing something another medium is better suited for. Movies want the serialization and crossover-potential of television, television wants the scale and "prestige" of cinema, and video games want both of these things while failing to ever even pursue either of them on more than a superficial level.
And this wouldn't necessarily even be a bad thing if they were respectively trying to incorporate these concepts into the structures and processes that are their natural strengths, but by and large they aren't doing that and we end up with so many "flawed but with potential" products that suffer from an identity crisis.
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Russian doll's first season is eight half-hour episodes and I'm shocked they were allowed to do this
Yeah really this era of media is everyone chasing something another medium is better suited for. Movies want the serialization and crossover-potential of television, television wants the scale and "prestige" of cinema, and video games want both of these things while failing to ever even pursue either of them on more than a superficial level.
And this wouldn't necessarily even be a bad thing if they were respectively trying to incorporate these concepts into the structures and processes that are their natural strengths, but by and large they aren't doing that and we end up with so many "flawed but with potential" products that suffer from an identity crisis.
The prestige TV thing is also partly because studios are making it harder to get those mid budget dramas greenlit these days, so a lot of those directors have turned to networks and streaming services instead and those networks want series more than movies.
Yeah really this era of media is everyone chasing something another medium is better suited for. Movies want the serialization and crossover-potential of television, television wants the scale and "prestige" of cinema, and video games want both of these things while failing to ever even pursue either of them on more than a superficial level.
And this wouldn't necessarily even be a bad thing if they were respectively trying to incorporate these concepts into the structures and processes that are their natural strengths, but by and large they aren't doing that and we end up with so many "flawed but with potential" products that suffer from an identity crisis.
The prestige TV thing is also partly because studios are making it harder to get those mid budget dramas greenlit these days, so a lot of those directors have turned to networks and streaming services instead and those networks want series more than movies.
Yeah there's some understandable reasons for some of it, but my issues with the execution remain.
I've watched three episodes and I literally do not understand what is good about it. Am I supposed to keep watching. Is there a hump. Am I nearly over it.
I've watched three episodes and I literally do not understand what is good about it. Am I supposed to keep watching. Is there a hump. Am I nearly over it.
It's a fun structure with fun dirtbags
If you do not find the dirtbags fun, the show is likely not for you. C'est la vie.
I've watched three episodes and I literally do not understand what is good about it. Am I supposed to keep watching. Is there a hump. Am I nearly over it.
I think if you're not into it after three episodes it might just not be for you. Have you had the scene in the lift yet? If so, and you don't want to keep watching, then I dunno if it's gonna pick up for you.
Personally I loved the dialogue and pacing and found pretty much every character was instantly extremely watchable (if occasionally detestable), so I honestly enjoyed pretty much every minute.
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The first three seasons of Sherlock, combined, had fewer episodes than one season of this!
And I barely made it through the second season of Sherlock!
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I don't even know you anymore
Technically, you don't know his LARP character
Not because I disliked it necessarily, but because it was such a large investment to sit down and watch
Look, if it helps, immediately after posting that, I burst into flames and withdrew to the center of the earth
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I see grant the producer still isn't done torturing poor souls.
He played Ted Buckland on Scrubs.
This is really terrible. He has a really young child.
Fuck you, cancer. Fuck you forever.
Pfft theb Mass effect universe had like a 30 hour movie get on that level film makers
Honestly the vulgarity in the first episode almost put me off because it isn't really my sense of humour, but then the hooks sunk in and I had to see where it was going and it turns out it gets really good
Also when
I was like oh!! She's ginger @tynic! Which I mean as a compliment, obviously
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Every time I’ve seen the trailer I’ve thought the same thing so I’m glad I’m not the only one.
I saw the first episode of the new season recently.
It's gotten worse.
It certainly doesn't hit everything it aims for but dammit, it sure tries hard and most of it works pretty well.
And season 2's theme song is Beastie Boys and that's gotta be worth something, with a cool, episode unique title card for each episode.
Like, it sounds like it's going to be a noir, so each one is its own case or whatever
I don't really have faith that this is what it will be though, it will probably be a bunch of underdeveloped characters staring at interesting shadows for forty five or every ninety minutes
But the "this whole season can be considered a movie" thing was just done with Twin Peaks The Return, and the "90 minute episodes" thing is about to be done with Game of Thrones. Obviously that stuff can be brushed away with one being from Lynch and the other being a final season/Game of Thrones/only most of a season and not all of a season, but I haven't seen either concept generally criticized before this instance
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And I for one have been complaining about too long episodes of Netflix originals for as long as I can remember. And those don't even go that long, they're just going a proper hour instead of a TV hour for the most part.
Because they want the perceived respect of movies.
Hmm
Hmmmmm
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And here I am looking at the age of the "cinematic universe" just wishing they'd move over to a TV series format because it's better suited to the stories they're trying to tell.
The lawn, it is more verdant, yes?
And this wouldn't necessarily even be a bad thing if they were respectively trying to incorporate these concepts into the structures and processes that are their natural strengths, but by and large they aren't doing that and we end up with so many "flawed but with potential" products that suffer from an identity crisis.
it's the best
The prestige TV thing is also partly because studios are making it harder to get those mid budget dramas greenlit these days, so a lot of those directors have turned to networks and streaming services instead and those networks want series more than movies.
Homecoming, the very good show based on a podcast what lives on Amazon Prime, is 10, 30 minute mystery drama episodes and it's so so so refreshing.
Yeah there's some understandable reasons for some of it, but my issues with the execution remain.
The zippiness of Russian Doll is a huge part of the appeal
It's so fleet and efficient, and managed to entirely bounce over that 2/3 mark slog that hits so many Netflix dramas
It's a fun structure with fun dirtbags
If you do not find the dirtbags fun, the show is likely not for you. C'est la vie.
I think if you're not into it after three episodes it might just not be for you. Have you had the scene in the lift yet? If so, and you don't want to keep watching, then I dunno if it's gonna pick up for you.
Personally I loved the dialogue and pacing and found pretty much every character was instantly extremely watchable (if occasionally detestable), so I honestly enjoyed pretty much every minute.