What is Your Fave Shows on Premium Cable?
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Oh so many my friends!
Newlywed Game is my all time favorite show!
Survivor
Dukes of Hazzard
Dallas
Dynasty
Just to name a few
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Season 1-3 of game.of.thrones is on demand I believe. Might as well start at one or you'll have no.idea what the Hell is going on.
shits crazy. kill off a whole family and try and focus on other characters.
true detective was a solid contender for major awards and i would say harrelson and mcconaghey's performances were emmy award winning............
the Walking Dead still does the shivers for me.
shit is off the hook.
shits crazy. kill off a whole family and try and focus on other characters.
Ah...but that is a canard. The whole family is far from killed off. Only a couple are killed off.....here is a clue for you at least as far as Cately is concerned: Remember what Thoros of Myr did for Beric Dondarrion. And the boys thought killed were the Millers sons, not the Stark boys.
true detective was a solid contender for major awards and i would say harrelson and mcconaghey's performances were emmy award winning............
the Walking Dead still does the shivers for me.
shit is off the hook.
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Game of Thrones is meh. Too much fantasy BS. True Detective is great. I like VICE which is documentaries about the fucked up world we currently live in. Boardwalk Empire is good also. The Americans on FX is fantastic. Walking Dead isn't even scary. Just a bunch of over made up dufus walking around.
"You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970. -
Game of Thrones is meh. Too much fantasy BS. True Detective is great. I like VICE which is documentaries about the fucked up world we currently live in. Boardwalk Empire is good also. The Americans on FX is fantastic. Walking Dead isn't even scary. Just a bunch of over made up dufus walking around.
Game of Thrones is meh. Too much fantasy BS.
Uh, yea. That is sort of the idea. (though there is less "fantasy" about it than you think)
True Detective is great.
I like VICE which is documentaries about the fucked up world we currently live in.
So, you don't like to be entertained? You want reality? Walk out your front door.
Boardwalk Empire is good also. The Americans on FX is fantastic. Walking Dead isn't even scary. Just a bunch of over made up dufus walking around.
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Game of Thrones is meh. Too much fantasy BS.
Uh, yea. That is sort of the idea. (though there is less "fantasy" about it than you think)
True Detective is great.
I like VICE which is documentaries about the fucked up world we currently live in.
So, you don't like to be entertained? You want reality? Walk out your front door.
Boardwalk Empire is good also. The Americans on FX is fantastic. Walking Dead isn't even scary. Just a bunch of over made up dufus walking around.
Game of Thrones is meh. Too much fantasy BS.
Uh, yea. That is sort of the idea. (though there is less "fantasy" about it than you think)
True Detective is great.
I like VICE which is documentaries about the fucked up world we currently live in.
So, you don't like to be entertained? You want reality? Walk out your front door.
Boardwalk Empire is good also. The Americans on FX is fantastic. Walking Dead isn't even scary. Just a bunch of over made up dufus walking around.
Your a critical old bastard aren't you?
"You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970. -
Game of Thrones is meh. Too much fantasy BS. True Detective is great. I like VICE which is documentaries about the fucked up world we currently live in. Boardwalk Empire is good also. The Americans on FX is fantastic. Walking Dead isn't even scary. Just a bunch of over made up dufus walking around.
Game of Thrones is meh. Too much fantasy BS. True Detective is great. I like VICE which is documentaries about the fucked up world we currently live in. Boardwalk Empire is good also. The Americans on FX is fantastic. Walking Dead isn't even scary. Just a bunch of over made up dufus walking around.
A lot of people misunderstand what Walking Dead is about. It isn't about being scary or the zombie apocalypse, it is about what people do to each other so they can survive in the zombie apocalypse. That's why the plot isn't about wiping out zombies, its about finding a refuge in one season, and then holding on to that refuge in another season, and about holding on to relationships, and about people who become far worse monsters than the zombies, and about people who were worse than zombies before the apocalypse but have become heroes after it. This is where the show shines. The zombies are just backdrop.
And the reason there is so much gore in this show is not to scare or shock, but to desensitize the audience in exactly the same way the characters in the show are desensitized to the zombies. That's why half the time when they kill a zombie, they do it with all the emotion of a gardener pulling weeds from a flower bed.
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Game of Thrones is meh. Too much fantasy BS. True Detective is great. I like VICE which is documentaries about the fucked up world we currently live in. Boardwalk Empire is good also. The Americans on FX is fantastic. Walking Dead isn't even scary. Just a bunch of over made up dufus walking around.
A lot of people misunderstand what Walking Dead is about. It isn't about being scary or the zombie apocalypse, it is about what people do to each other so they can survive in the zombie apocalypse. That's why the plot isn't about wiping out zombies, its about finding a refuge in one season, and then holding on to that refuge in another season, and about holding on to relationships, and about people who become far worse monsters than the zombies, and about people who were worse than zombies before the apocalypse but have become heroes after it. This is where the show shines. The zombies are just backdrop.
And the reason there is so much gore in this show is not to scare or shock, but to desensitize the audience in exactly the same way the characters in the show are desensitized to the zombies. That's why half the time when they kill a zombie, they do it with all the emotion of a gardener pulling weeds from a flower bed.
A lot of people misunderstand what Walking Dead is about. It isn't about being scary or the zombie apocalypse, it is about what people do to each other so they can survive in the zombie apocalypse. That's why the plot isn't about wiping out zombies, its about finding a refuge in one season, and then holding on to that refuge in another season, and about holding on to relationships, and about people who become far worse monsters than the zombies, and about people who were worse than zombies before the apocalypse but have become heroes after it. This is where the show shines. The zombies are just backdrop.
And the reason there is so much gore in this show is not to scare or shock, but to desensitize the audience in exactly the same way the characters in the show are desensitized to the zombies. That's why half the time when they kill a zombie, they do it with all the emotion of a gardener pulling weeds from a flower bed.
Disagree. The show is a horror show, it caters to kids. Of course it is there to shock, why else show zombies ripping peoples flesh? And do you have to make a show about zombies who's lesson is about holding onto relationships? Kind of a strange logic Osiris. Lets show dead people killing people to show how to hold onto relationships. Okay........
"You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970. -
Game of Thrones is meh. Too much fantasy BS.
Uh, yea. That is sort of the idea. (though there is less "fantasy" about it than you think)
True Detective is great.
I like VICE which is documentaries about the fucked up world we currently live in.
So, you don't like to be entertained? You want reality? Walk out your front door.
Boardwalk Empire is good also. The Americans on FX is fantastic. Walking Dead isn't even scary. Just a bunch of over made up dufus walking around.
Your a critical old bastard aren't you?
Your a critical old bastard aren't you?
Quite the contrary. You are the one saying "I don't like this, and I don't like that". You don't want "fantasy entertainment"?
Go down to East Woodland at night and take a Walk on the Wild Side.
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A lot of people misunderstand what Walking Dead is about. It isn't about being scary or the zombie apocalypse, it is about what people do to each other so they can survive in the zombie apocalypse. That's why the plot isn't about wiping out zombies, its about finding a refuge in one season, and then holding on to that refuge in another season, and about holding on to relationships, and about people who become far worse monsters than the zombies, and about people who were worse than zombies before the apocalypse but have become heroes after it. This is where the show shines. The zombies are just backdrop.
And the reason there is so much gore in this show is not to scare or shock, but to desensitize the audience in exactly the same way the characters in the show are desensitized to the zombies. That's why half the time when they kill a zombie, they do it with all the emotion of a gardener pulling weeds from a flower bed.
Disagree. The show is a horror show, it caters to kids. Of course it is there to shock, why else show zombies ripping peoples flesh? And do you have to make a show about zombies who's lesson is about holding onto relationships? Kind of a strange logic Osiris. Lets show dead people killing people to show how to hold onto relationships. Okay........
Disagree. The show is a horror show, it caters to kids. Of course it is there to shock, why else show zombies ripping peoples flesh? And do you have to make a show about zombies who's lesson is about holding onto relationships? Kind of a strange logic Osiris. Lets show dead people killing people to show how to hold onto relationships. Okay........
It is about both, really. It is there to shock and awe...but also to tell the human story that exists in the midst of the horror.
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Thanks pompous ass.
"You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970. -
A lot of people misunderstand what Walking Dead is about. It isn't about being scary or the zombie apocalypse, it is about what people do to each other so they can survive in the zombie apocalypse. That's why the plot isn't about wiping out zombies, its about finding a refuge in one season, and then holding on to that refuge in another season, and about holding on to relationships, and about people who become far worse monsters than the zombies, and about people who were worse than zombies before the apocalypse but have become heroes after it. This is where the show shines. The zombies are just backdrop.
And the reason there is so much gore in this show is not to scare or shock, but to desensitize the audience in exactly the same way the characters in the show are desensitized to the zombies. That's why half the time when they kill a zombie, they do it with all the emotion of a gardener pulling weeds from a flower bed.
Disagree. The show is a horror show, it caters to kids. Of course it is there to shock, why else show zombies ripping peoples flesh? And do you have to make a show about zombies who's lesson is about holding onto relationships? Kind of a strange logic Osiris. Lets show dead people killing people to show how to hold onto relationships. Okay........
Disagree. The show is a horror show, it caters to kids. Of course it is there to shock, why else show zombies ripping peoples flesh? And do you have to make a show about zombies who's lesson is about holding onto relationships? Kind of a strange logic Osiris. Lets show dead people killing people to show how to hold onto relationships. Okay........
Art is subjective, so that's what I see from the show. This show falls under the speculative fiction genre, and this genre has tons of stories that explore society an behavior in weird circumstances. Mad Max, Hunger Games, Blade Runner, etc. exploring this with zombies is interesting because it forces the characters to decide how they see the zombies, and different characters see them differently, and their are consequences based on that. I think it's the deepest take on zombies that has seen the screen.
And yes, flesh ripping is shocking, but after four seasons of it some of that shock is lost, and it happens to the characters too. And I didn't say the shows lesson was holding on to relationships, that's ONE of the themes.
But hey, if it isn't your thing, it isn't your thing. If all you see is dead people killing people when you watch it, then you either haven't watched more than one episode or you aren't paying attention.
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Thanks pompous ass.
Thanks pompous ass.
Any fault here is with you. You go to a movie, or see a TV show for purposes of entertainment. Yet you turn and say you don't want to be entertained, you want to be exposed to the nitty gritty reality of real life. I say go out on the streets to get that, if that is what you want. Then you call me pompous. Yet, you are the one with the avatar showing a pointed gun.
I guess if I am pompous then you are disingenuous and craven.
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walking dead is basically a soap opera. you tune in to see what the characters are going to run into, away from and to where. this season was alright but it was essential to show how a group that was basically depending on each other, got separated by war and by the end have found each other, albeit in another bad place.
what's interesting to me (since i've never read the comics) is who lives and who dies. walking dead is never afraid of just wiping a major character off the storyboard.
now i've got no walking dead, no true detective (will there be another season?) no fucking football. i guess if i were into spy shit i'd watch the americans but just never got into it, like bates motel or american horror story.
the best shows they ever had are gone: deadwood and the wire........."omar comin!"
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Finally caught True Detective season one. The timeline of the plot was a good catch for me. The passage of time (17 years) and how it molded the main characters, especially MM, was well done. MM went a bit overboard with his philosophical rants but he made up for that with his "moves" during the drug house heist and pursuant escape. he is somebody I would want to be with in a foxhole.
Anybody know if a season II is in the works?
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Finally caught True Detective season one. The timeline of the plot was a good catch for me. The passage of time (17 years) and how it molded the main characters, especially MM, was well done. MM went a bit overboard with his philosophical rants but he made up for that with his "moves" during the drug house heist and pursuant escape. he is somebody I would want to be with in a foxhole.
Anybody know if a season II is in the works?
Finally caught True Detective season one. The timeline of the plot was a good catch for me. The passage of time (17 years) and how it molded the main characters, especially "Hurt", was well done. Hurt went a bit overboard with his philosophical rants but he made up for that with his "moves" during the drug house heist and pursuant escape.
Anybody know if a season II is in the works?
it's all about mcconaughey and harrelson at this point. 2 seasoned silver screen movie stars producing and acting in an HBO series is/was a pretty big deal (also did you see the correlation between mcconaughey's character in dallas buyer's club and this.....i'm thinking true detective was filmed after seeing as he gained weight in the series after seeing that movie?).
i've got friends saying they won't do it again as there isn't the same strong story line and might pass it off to a couple of other people. either that or it dies likes AMCs 'the killing' which i liked as well.
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I can't recall having two heavyweights on a TV/premium series as badass as MM and WH.
anything after the seasonal plot would be anticlimactic they both crushed it
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It was a great series this year. It is supposed to be on next year also, with different actors. HBO has a bad habit sometimes of just canceling a series without warning.
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I can't recall having two heavyweights on a TV/premium series as badass as MM and WH.
anything after the seasonal plot would be anticlimactic they both crushed it
I can't recall having two heavyweights on a TV/premium series as badass as MM and WH.
anything after the seasonal plot would be a letdown. they both crushed it
of course Woody Harrelson is on the downside of his career and Matthew McConaughey was on his way to oblivion when he was resurrected in part by Dallas buyers club and mud.
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