The movie theatre scene in S3 of The Wire (rewatching out of boredom) is apex ACME. Hilarious.
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Couldn’t get through 3 episodes of season 1. Aziz is at his best, for me, as cilantro. It’s amazing when fresh and deployed in the right place in the right amount.
Otherwise, it’s pretty much parsley.
It's a Looney Toons trope.
I was going Coyote and Road Runner, but any number of examples.
TBH I didn't even notice your ACME reference for some reason. That's why I wrote my comment as if I was bringing up Looney Tunes myself. My bad, but great minds and all that.
So sorry, that right around the point where the show loses its shit.
Twas very good for me up until the sister shows up. Like seriously, wtf, his whole past life tragedy is predicated on a jealous sister? She's RDs a whole group of essentially freedom fighters (men, women, and children!) just because her brother is falling in love..... blah, weak premise. And then somehow she survives to become one of the uber elite of the future so that she can afford to play all these really expensive games to win her brother back? Also the mentally broken girl manages to become Neo at the right time to save the day. Like whaaat, come on, I know we are dealing with fantasy, but ease into the plot twists otherwise its campy. The show spoiled real fast for my liking.
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Agree and love the double tags.
Just watched S1E1 of Ozark last night, and want to say that I was impressed at how they did the reveal about 1/3 into the episode. I came in knowing what the premise of the show is, as I suspect most people do. They still managed to build up to that reveal in a way that was non-obvious, and Bateman's acting in the moments where it turns is magnificent.
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Just finished season 2 of Jessica Jones. Very underwhelming, i wouldnt bother with it unless you have nothing better at all to watch or u just want to keep up with the Marvel shows as i did.
Steven Bochco just died, and he's arguably the godfather of half the shows in this thread. He was active in the 80s and 90s mostly, and in broadcast network TV. He was one of a handful of writer/producer/showrunners responsible for changing the one-hour TV drama format away from completely self-contained episodes to season long arcs and more. Also, Det. Andy Sipowicz from NYPD Blue is the forerunner for every TV anti-hero since, including Tony Soprano, Walter White, Marty Byrde, Al Swearingen, Omar Little, Vic Mackey, etc. NYPD Blue isn't streaming anywhere, which is a shame. I'm watching it now on a Directv proprietary station where they're running 5 episodes a week. Bochco co-created the show with David Milch (Deadwood) and Bochco stopped being active after the first season. From that point the episodes became more self-contained because Milch's strengths are character and dialogue, not plot, but it's still great.
The show also acts as a brilliant time-capsule for 1990s NYC. If it ever does pop up on streaming somewhere, give it a shot.
The show also acts as a brilliant time-capsule for 1990s NYC. If it ever does pop up on streaming somewhere, give it a shot.
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FU for making me feel so freaking old! 90’s NYC is now nostalgic? Goddamn, when did I become a dinosaur?
When the millennials started watching old reruns of Friends.
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LA 92 (Netflix) is a very well done, thorough documentary on the Los Angeles riots. I thought I knew how sideways things went in LA during those 3 or 4 days but I had no idea.
It’s about 90 min long and I highly recommend it.
It’s about 90 min long and I highly recommend it.
Just found out that NYPD Blue is on Hulu as of March 30, just a few days before I made my post just above.
Thanks. Watched this on your recommendation, and agree with your summary. It's an awfully tough and sad watch.
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