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I am incredibly interested in anything written by Ed Brubaker; please keep us posted!

mrlogical wrote:

my general perception that Refn has not made any good movies other than Drive

Bronson is pretty good, but I haven't seen any of his other films.

Bronson is real good and Valhalla Rising is also good.
Neon Demon and Only God Forgives were not as good.

mrlogical wrote:

I was interested to read this review of Nicolas Winding Refn's 'Too Old to Die Young', especially the part about how Amazon is apparently burying it on Prime Video--they released it last Friday but have done no advertising for it, you can't browse for it, you have to search for it.

Things this show has going for it: Co-written by comics writer Ed Brubaker, whose work I love; I thought Drive was a cool looking movie; the article describes it as similarly bizarre, idiosyncratic, Extremely This Director work as Twin Peaks: The Return was, which even if I ultimately found that show pretty disappointing (a debate for another thread, I'm sure) I found totally fascinating to watch.

Things this show has against it: its "glacial" pace and long (looks like ~70-80 minutes on average) run times; my general perception that Refn has not made any good movies other than Drive; the impression that Refn is way up his own butt here, including his declaration that you can watch the episodes in any order and his raising the extremely tired "It's not a TV show, it's an XX hour movie" line; the fact that it sounds like this show needs all kinds of content warnings for different types of unpleasant content.

Weighing both, this sounds like a thing I will hate, and yet it also sounds like something I will be really interested to see. I'm in for at least one episode.

Watched the first episode last night. The pacing is awful, to the point where I've lost interest.

Good Omens 3rd episode was really good.

And it had 29 minutes of "intro" before the opening credits.

Just started The Tick and I love it very much.

Yeah, such a shame about The Tick being gone. Apparently it just passed the date it could be reasonably saved by (contracts renewal option ended, if I understood it correctly).

It had a good ending, at least.

Oh. Dang. Thanks?

Good omens is really good btw. Starts a touch slow, but it's overall pitch perfect. May be one of my favorite things I've seen in a long time.

This is so delicious I don't need to read the article to taste it.

Amoebic wrote:

This is so delicious I don't need to read the article to taste it.

#NottheOnion

Benefits of following @neilhimself

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That's basically the epitome of our modern problems in a nutshell: Thousands of people angry enough about something to sign a petition and demand it no longer exist, but who also can't be bothered to spend a single second researching before coming to this opinion.

The is all who recommended Patriot. What a quirky, funny, sad show. I can’t watch more than an episode a day or so, and sometimes I need a week off: it’s made me literally laugh out loud (I have a dark sense of humor), but it’s damned stressful!

EDIT: Also, the show is beautifully shot.

Finished Good Omens and boy that was fun.

Also just noticed season 3 of Mr Robot was on Prime. Not sure how long that's been there, but need to catch up.

I'm up through ep 2 of Good Omens. Really well done so far.

There's a trailer for The Boys out, with the show coming 27 July. This is based (from the trailer, maybe kind of loosely) on the Garth Ennis / Darick Robertson comic series from 2006-2012 about a team of people who fight out-of-control supers. Karl Urban plays the team leader, and Simon Pegg does *not* play Wee Hughie which I suppose was inevitable. (The comic character was based - without permission but with later approval - on Simon Pegg before he got big but he's too old to play it now)

I really liked the series so I'm intrigued enough that I'll probably watch it. I think they'll have to leave a lot of the books out of the show, but probably none of it's critical.

I believe Pegg is in the show playing a different role, FWIW. Really looking forward to it.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

I believe Pegg is in the show playing a different role, FWIW. Really looking forward to it.

I bet he plays the Stan Lee character.

He’s playing the father of the character that’s based on him in the comic.

Has Fleabag been mentioned here? I haven't seen it, but I'm new to the thread.

Terrific show. Funny, but like the best comedy also deeply, deeply sad. Can't wait to start Season 2.

Hangdog wrote:

Has Fleabag been mentioned here? I haven't seen it, but I'm new to the thread.

Terrific show. Funny, but like the best comedy also deeply, deeply sad. Can't wait to start Season 2.

I think it comes up from time to time.

My wife and I were also late to that party. I think she watched the first episode or something back when it was new and then got distracted by something else. Anyway, we finally got around to watching both seasons over the last week or so, and "terrific" doesn't even begin to describe it. It's just so devastatingly smart and funny and sad, and overflowing with performances that somehow make the already stellar writing even better.

Between this and Killing Eve, Phoebe Waller-Bridge has jumped to the top of my list of the best creators working in TV right now, and I'll be watching for every new thing she creates with great anticipation. It's kind of unfair that she can both write and produce such amazing work, and also be able to deliver a performance this full of gut wrenching humor and genuine, heartbreaking humanity. Truly something special.

A question for folks who have finished the show, featuring heavy spoilers for season 2:

Spoiler:

I'm really interested to hear what other people thought about what she did with the concept of her fourth wall breaking in the second season. The first time the preacher noticed her asides to the audience I thought they were just doing a clever one-off joke acknowledging the tropey artifice of the thing, and maybe being somewhat self deprecating in the face of what I'm sure was some backlash to how heavily used it was in the first season. And, sure, I suppose to some degree it was (and remained) that, but I found myself really moved and impressed by the way it was turned into pivotal piece of character development for both characters and their relationship with each other.

EDIT: And a quick Wikipedia visit reveals that she has another show called Crashing, which aired on Channel 4 in the UK but seems to be available on Netflix here in the US. Guess I know what we're watching next!

Hangdog wrote:

Has Fleabag been mentioned here? I haven't seen it, but I'm new to the thread.

Terrific show. Funny, but like the best comedy also deeply, deeply sad. Can't wait to start Season 2.

Season 2 even exceeds season 1 in quality. You've got great watching to come.

So sad that people can't just take this for what it is. SCIENCE FICTION! I'm a devote Christian, even a Deacon in my Church, and I have no issues with the show.

I'm sad that there are not current plans for another season.

"Gaiman told Digital Spy: "If people love this enough, and if the time and the will is there, we could absolutely go back and do a lot more. ... But we're not building it to do more, we are building this to be itself. At the end of six episodes, it's done.""

zeroKFE wrote:

Between this and Killing Eve, Phoebe Waller-Bridge has jumped to the top of my list of the best creators working in TV right now, and I'll be watching for every new thing she creates with great anticipation. It's kind of unfair that she can both write and produced such amazing work, and also be able to deliver a performance this full of gut wrenching humor and genuine, heartbreaking humanity. Truly something special.

I've been binging both Killing Eve and Fleabag with my wife (while our son is out of town with his grandparents...not-kid-friendly TV on the big screen!)

I knew they had the same creator, but I didn't realize she's also the star of Fleabag. Man, those facial expressions kill me! She's so good.

I loved Fleabag....especially season 2.
May have to check out Killing Eve then.

Thoughts on spoilered s2 question.

Spoiler:

I thought the fact that the priest noticed the asides and then even participated in them showed how right they are for each other on a soul level.

I loved the fox at the end. “He went that way.”

And the wave goodbye she does as she walks away from us is wonderful. I’d love more, but it ended well.

Reading the spoilers from zeroKFE and MathGoddess have made me want to check the show out. That sounds pretty neat!

MathGoddess wrote:

I loved Fleabag....especially season 2.
May have to check out Killing Eve then.

Thoughts on spoilered s2 question.

Spoiler:

I thought the fact that the priest noticed the asides and then even participated in them showed how right they are for each other on a soul level.

I loved the fox at the end. “He went that way.”

And the wave goodbye she does as she walks away from us is wonderful. I’d love more, but it ended well.

Spoiler:

I took it as her fourth wall discussions were akin to a prayer for her. Instead of talking to God, she talked to the audience. So he recognized her talking to a higher power.

And the fox represented his celibacy?

At least that was my take.

Mannishboy wrote:
Mathgoddess wrote:
Spoiler:

I thought the fact that the priest noticed the asides and then even participated in them showed how right they are for each other on a soul level.

I loved the fox at the end. “He went that way.”

And the wave goodbye she does as she walks away from us is wonderful. I’d love more, but it ended well.

Spoiler:

I took it as her fourth wall discussions were akin to a prayer for her. Instead of talking to God, she talked to the audience. So he recognized her talking to a higher power.

And the fox represented his celibacy?

At least that was my take.

Really enjoyed the show too, watched the bulk of it in 2 nights.

Spoiler:

What I was thinking over the last handful of episodes, around the time that The Father noticed the asides, was that we are either Boo or her Mother. She's lost both in the last year and is either actually seeing and communicating with one or both of them or sort of comforts herself by pretending they're still sharing in her life. I'd like to re-watch it and see if one or the other is the more likely 'ghost'

It was also interesting the way very few characters have actual names. I'd have to rewatch it again to be sure but you see it a lot in Amazon's cast listings as people get credited as 'Hot Misogynist' and the like, including the main character as 'Fleabag' and her father as 'Dad'. They even call a little attention to it near the end when one character can't remember 'Dad's name.

Claire, her husband, her stepson, and a handful of extras like Klare might legitimately be the only ones.
Did I miss a bunch of real names? I'd say its possible, I do that in real life too Could be a commentary on people like me.

Fleabag and Killing Eve has made me more excited for a Bond movie than any other time in my entire life.