The episode, Fishes, may be one of the most crazy, disturbing episodes of family dysfunction on film!!
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Just found a good series (2 seasons) to binge on Hulu, an older FX show called The Bridge. Not through season one yet but it is definitely captivating.
That was a good show unfortunate it didn’t continue.
I just can’t get past the self aggrandizing, virtue signaling, 12 sandwich eating bastards at that network in general (and those in the promos for this piece specifically).
Finally finished the first season of 'The Bear' on Hulu. It's operating at a very, very high technical and artistic level (when I saw Atlanta director/co-showrunner Hiro Murai was an executive producer it all made sense). First, love the zoom in on foodie culture and food in general as a plotline. Chicago as a backdrop is wonderful. I especially love the 'real world' name drops of some of the best restaurants in the world (Noma, Eleven Madison Park, etc.). I would love to see more of Carmy's backstory working in those places. The cast is excellent. Jeremy Allen White is in 90% of the scenes and he owns all of them. His nearly five minute uncut monologue toward the end of the season will certainly get him an Emmy (for which he was nominated yesterday). Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Richie) is also excellent (also nominated) and a far cry from his man-baby character in 'Girls' where I saw him first. Everyone else is great too -Ayo Edebiri's Sydney is terrific and also worthy of her Emmy nomination - it just feels very authentic; almost like watching stage actors...
And a lot of people don't care about director flexes, but the one take 18 minute tracking-shot 'episode' (S1E7) is f*cking ridiculous. That is everyone operating at an extremely high level and just exciting to watch. That was the episode that begins with a pretty positive newspaper review and ends in a stabbing
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Anyway, on to S2 - just awesome stuff here.....
And a lot of people don't care about director flexes, but the one take 18 minute tracking-shot 'episode' (S1E7) is f*cking ridiculous. That is everyone operating at an extremely high level and just exciting to watch. That was the episode that begins with a pretty positive newspaper review and ends in a stabbing
. Anyway, on to S2 - just awesome stuff here.....
Unfortunately, The Bear is under the Comedy Category, as are Barry and Wednesday! (go figure) and has to deal with the likes of Ted Lasso.Finally finished the first season of 'The Bear' on Hulu. It's operating at a very, very high technical and artistic level (when I saw Atlanta director/co-showrunner Hiro Murai was an executive producer it all made sense). First, love the zoom in on foodie culture and food in general as a plotline. Chicago as a backdrop is wonderful. I especially love the 'real world' name drops of some of the best restaurants in the world (Noma, Eleven Madison Park, etc.). I would love to see more of Carmy's backstory working in those places. The cast is excellent. Jeremy Allen White is in 90% of the scenes and he owns all of them. His nearly five minute uncut monologue toward the end of the season will certainly get him an Emmy (for which he was nominated yesterday). Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Richie) is also excellent (also nominated) and a far cry from his man-baby character in 'Girls' where I saw him first. Everyone else is great too -Ayo Edebiri's Sydney is terrific and also worthy of her Emmy nomination - it just feels very authentic; almost like watching stage actors...
And a lot of people don't care about director flexes, but the one take 18 minute tracking-shot 'episode' (S1E7) is f*cking ridiculous. That is everyone operating at an extremely high level and just exciting to watch. That was the episode that begins with a pretty positive newspaper review and ends in a stabbing
Anyway, on to S2 - just awesome stuff here.....
Barry's final season operated at a very high level (maybe one of the top seasons in its genre over the past few years) and will be tough to beat. Ted Lasso's most recent season was garbage, IMO.
Which likely means that Ted Lasso will take all of the awards from Barry and The Bear.
Not a lot of positive buzz about Lasso - which had a terrific first season. The Bear isn’t a comedy IMO but is funny; wouldn’t be mad if Hader cleaned up. One of my all time favorite SNL players…
I really enjoyed the first season of Ted Lasso. The show just got progressively worse from S1 to S3 for me.
It’s a tough concept to maintain - we started S3 and even the way overdone biscuit exchange looked painful. Good time for it to end.
Season 2 is even better.Finally finished the first season of 'The Bear' on Hulu. It's operating at a very, very high technical and artistic level (when I saw Atlanta director/co-showrunner Hiro Murai was an executive producer it all made sense). First, love the zoom in on foodie culture and food in general as a plotline. Chicago as a backdrop is wonderful. I especially love the 'real world' name drops of some of the best restaurants in the world (Noma, Eleven Madison Park, etc.). I would love to see more of Carmy's backstory working in those places. The cast is excellent. Jeremy Allen White is in 90% of the scenes and he owns all of them. His nearly five minute uncut monologue toward the end of the season will certainly get him an Emmy (for which he was nominated yesterday). Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Richie) is also excellent (also nominated) and a far cry from his man-baby character in 'Girls' where I saw him first. Everyone else is great too -Ayo Edebiri's Sydney is terrific and also worthy of her Emmy nomination - it just feels very authentic; almost like watching stage actors...
And a lot of people don't care about director flexes, but the one take 18 minute tracking-shot 'episode' (S1E7) is f*cking ridiculous. That is everyone operating at an extremely high level and just exciting to watch. That was the episode that begins with a pretty positive newspaper review and ends in a stabbing
Anyway, on to S2 - just awesome stuff here.....
Scanned through this thread and didn't see any discussion on "The Offer". I finally got around to watching and it's very entertaining. If you aren't familiar, it's a 10 part story on the making of The Godfather (drama, not a documentary). There are some really interesting characters (Al Ruddy, producer, Bob Evans, head of Paramount, etc). Crazy how many hurdles they had to clear to make the movie, including placating the mafia, who was way more involved behind the scenes than expected. Oh, and the studio brass was dead set against hiring Pacino to play Michael.
Yeah, probably not a lot that have paramount. I wouldn't either but I pirated my dad's account. Really interesting story.
Wick offshoot series, The Continental, on Peacock
https://www.peacocktv.com/blog/the-...urce=pk_pk_brz&utm_medium=own_eml_custeng_eml
https://www.peacocktv.com/blog/the-...urce=pk_pk_brz&utm_medium=own_eml_custeng_eml
Did this get past the AKB or did I miss it?
You missed it, but that’s ok, hard to remember who what where and when here and then you get put in McAndrew “jail”
LolYou missed it, but that’s ok, hard to remember who what where and when here and then you get put in McAndrew “jail”
Anyone watching the Dark Winds series on AMC?
Last nights episode was pretty good. Kind of reminded me a little of the movie Halloween.
This season has a lot of Navajo mysticism in it.
Zahn McClarnon is very good in it. Also has Longmire reunion of sorts with A Martinez as a Tribal Sheriff.
So far I like it but they have changed things up with the original Tony Hillerman characters.
Last nights episode was pretty good. Kind of reminded me a little of the movie Halloween.
This season has a lot of Navajo mysticism in it.
Zahn McClarnon is very good in it. Also has Longmire reunion of sorts with A Martinez as a Tribal Sheriff.
So far I like it but they have changed things up with the original Tony Hillerman characters.
Oh man - not sure how I feel about this. The acting all around is really, really bad (from what I've seen so far in the trailers) - especially from second lead Kali Reis (who I guess is a former boxer and has acted in a grand total of one movie before this). Sorry - but you can't cast an Oscar winner as your lead and then have pair her with a second lead who has one acting credit to her name. What made S1 so special, aside from the narrative format and layers upon layers of mystery, was MM and Woody just killing scenes with each other. Night Country seems like a return to S1 in terms of narrative structure (police interviewing Foster about something in the past), so hoping I will be proven wrong. I also know there are some other actors not featured who will certainly make the show better (Jonathan Hawkes, Fiona Shaw, Christopher Eccleston.
Looks great! Can't wait. Guess they're going with Majors (likely didn't have a choice). Happy that Tom Hiddleston is content to continue playing Loki; knows a good thing when he sees it....
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