My Random TV Thread
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Well, you're in season 3. You seem to be progressing nicely, so it still has you attention?
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It does. It’s a slow burn. If the writing is good I can enjoy it. I was telling my wife yesterday that he was weird catching myself cheering for the “bad guys“ when the FBI starts to get close.
Reminds me of a CIA related movie with Robert De Niro and Matt Damon called the good Shepherd. Some people don’t like it because they say it’s too slow, I think the writing is brilliant and love every second of it.
Two of my favorite scenes from that movie…
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The Good Shepherd is a great movie, for a bunch of reasons.
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That’s a very underrated movie.
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You mean the reboot of ER?
The show where evidently white people are drug addicts and criminals? Meh.
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You mean the reboot of ER?
I have not seen The Pitt but ER was the thing when I was a paramedic, and was often very realistic until it jumped the shark in later seasons.
Fun fact: a couple Duke docs were contributing writers for the show, which is why one of the characters (the British surgeon) left Chicago to work for Duke in one of the episodes.
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If you've seen ER, you've seen The Pitt. Prettty much the same show - even has one if the the same guys, except it doesn't follow the staff home at the end of their shift. If you didn’t know better, you'd think it's still ER 20 years later.
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Yeah, Noah Wyle lol. I heard he's still "Carter", just a better version.
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Apparently the creators of ER agree with you.
‘The Pitt’s Not “Derivative Of ‘ER’,” Warner Bros TV Claims In Appeal To Toss Out Crichton Estate Suit
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Brilliant.
The Beauty on Hulu. Another Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story among many others) show with his signature style of story telling. And camera work. And writing. And lighting. And...
The story is about a genetically engineered virus that allows people to become beautiful. Physically attractive, shaves years off your life, cures your cancer, heart disease, etc. It starts out being used in the lab, but quickly gets a bit out of control.
This show is horrible. The casting is solid enough, the writing predictable, most everything is predictable, and episodes are little 30-40 minute bangers, so the total of 11 isn't eye watering.
The problem is the ending. I won't spoil it except to say there is a spoiler but they filmed this without a commitment to a second season. You could well finish the "season" and that's it, that's all folks. The end isn't tied up, there are a billion unresolved questions, Murphy wrote it with the expectation of a second season.
1 out of 5 bottles of water. It was a solid 3 until the last two episodes.
The story is about a genetically engineered virus that allows people to become beautiful. Physically attractive, shaves years off your life, cures your cancer, heart disease, etc. It starts out being used in the lab, but quickly gets a bit out of control.
This show is horrible. The casting is solid enough, the writing predictable, most everything is predictable, and episodes are little 30-40 minute bangers, so the total of 11 isn't eye watering.
The problem is the ending. I won't spoil it except to say there is a spoiler but they filmed this without a commitment to a second season. You could well finish the "season" and that's it, that's all folks. The end isn't tied up, there are a billion unresolved questions, Murphy wrote it with the expectation of a second season.
1 out of 5 bottles of water. It was a solid 3 until the last two episodes.
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If anyone wants to watch an oval ball, an organization that promotes professional oval ball, has two games on tomorrow on ESPN+. 4PMET and 8PMET.
Catching some true crime series in a break from some series...
A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read on Max (HBO). This 5-parter covers the death of Boston PD officer Sean O'Keefe and the trial of the Commonwealth's suspect, Karen Read. I know this was a hugely controversial topic so I was interested in the documentary. It does a good job of covering both sides but I think it leaves some unanswered questions. It seems more slanted to her but does include many family and friends of the deceased. Pretty good series, 3.5 out of 5 broken tail lights.
I'll Be Gone in the Dark also on Max (HBO), a 6-parter I think about the hunt for a serial rapist turned killer in California. This one's pretty wild as it covers the crimes, investigation (often botched), and the author herself. She's a major part of the story because of her husband and how the how case came together. Her husband being Oswald Patton, actor/ comic, and her obsession with the case. That obsession led to her "finding" the killer and writing (mostly) a book about the case. I sy "finding" and "mostly" because she died while writing the book and before the case was solved.
The series covers her death and doesn't shy away from it, but it never addresses the "how" behind it all. Heart failure from a drug overdose when she took some of that George Floyd Special. It whitewashes what people knew and their role (or lack) in her massive dependence on pills and alcohol, leading to her buying Xanax, Ambien, etc. off the street. Some of that was of course cut with fent because why not? Her family and friends really got a pass on this one, "we didn't know it was so bad" except they knew it was bad or are just plain stupid.
Watching Season 2 of Friends and Neighbors and Imperfect Women, both on Apple. These are really, really good and heading to 8 out of 10.
A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read on Max (HBO). This 5-parter covers the death of Boston PD officer Sean O'Keefe and the trial of the Commonwealth's suspect, Karen Read. I know this was a hugely controversial topic so I was interested in the documentary. It does a good job of covering both sides but I think it leaves some unanswered questions. It seems more slanted to her but does include many family and friends of the deceased. Pretty good series, 3.5 out of 5 broken tail lights.
I'll Be Gone in the Dark also on Max (HBO), a 6-parter I think about the hunt for a serial rapist turned killer in California. This one's pretty wild as it covers the crimes, investigation (often botched), and the author herself. She's a major part of the story because of her husband and how the how case came together. Her husband being Oswald Patton, actor/ comic, and her obsession with the case. That obsession led to her "finding" the killer and writing (mostly) a book about the case. I sy "finding" and "mostly" because she died while writing the book and before the case was solved.
The series covers her death and doesn't shy away from it, but it never addresses the "how" behind it all. Heart failure from a drug overdose when she took some of that George Floyd Special. It whitewashes what people knew and their role (or lack) in her massive dependence on pills and alcohol, leading to her buying Xanax, Ambien, etc. off the street. Some of that was of course cut with fent because why not? Her family and friends really got a pass on this one, "we didn't know it was so bad" except they knew it was bad or are just plain stupid.
Watching Season 2 of Friends and Neighbors and Imperfect Women, both on Apple. These are really, really good and heading to 8 out of 10.