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3 hours ago, Enero said:
This was better than Dopesick IMO. I think because there was heavy focus on the investigation surrounding Purdue Pharma. I liked how they went back to the beginning and showed how the company got their start. They weren’t even a pharmaceutical company, to start, but a marketing firm for pharmaceutical companies. They were one of the major players in the early 20th century that revolutionized drug advertisement.
Uzo Aduba was excellent in this. I felt Edie’s passion and need to bring Purdue to justice. I felt so bad for Glen. He looked to have got clean on his own, but didn’t appear to be working a program, which would’ve helped, I think. That said, being that he lived in a rural area I don’t know if there would be any rehabs or NA programs he could join.He seemed to have good life before it all went to hell due to his addiction. Very sad.
He was definitely working a program, he had his 30 day chip from NA.
I was a little uncomfortable about the dramatic choice to have him request to stay with his wife and, the very night she stands her ground, he falls off the wagon and dies. I know it wasn't the intent, but a shallow read of it could feel like she should've let him stay. Obviously she shouldn't have, and I'm giving too much credence to a simplistic takeaway. But it still stuck in my craw a little.
I agree that this was better than Dopesick.
Uzo Aduba and Taylor Kitsch were the real standouts in this, I think -- interesting since they never shared the screen. Aduba just crushed me.
The coda at the end with Subconscious/Ghost Uncle beating the crap out of Richard and then the silly graphic of the Sackler name crumbling to dust were entirely unnecessary, but otherwise I think in particular these final 3 episodes were really strong.
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Best episode so far (#3 was a bit much with all the fast-cut montages set to loud music). But I hope the next time we all sit through a piece of storytelling about this, there's a new and slightly happier ending. It's just torture to see every moment of hope and know it all ends the same way.
Unrelated: people on TV are constantly getting rid of out-of-control people by putting them in cars to drive. "You're so high you can't even fasten your seatbelt! Here, let me help you with that so you can drive through this town where all our loved ones live and drive!"
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3 hours ago, QQQQ said:
Wondering about the production backstory as I see other forum topics were created over 3 years ago. Was it delayed because of Covid?
I wondered the same thing -- perhaps it got pandemic-delayed and then further delayed due to the glut of other releases on the same topic?
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Glen initiates sobriety, prompting Shannon to reassess her role. Armed with new evidence, Edie and her team bring Purdue to court for a stunning conclusion.
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Glen’s downward spiral reaches a nadir, Shannon joins a lively work afterparty, and Edie unearths incriminating evidence against a pharmaceutical giant.
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Edie’s efforts to expose Purdue unfold. Shannon relishes job perks but faces moral dilemmas. Glen’s control at work starts slipping under pressure.
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Glen’s addiction lands him in the ER, leading to forced detox. Edie strives to persuade her new boss, the US Attorney, to build a case against Purdue.
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A Purdue conference sees an OxyContin user attending. Edie observes the drug’s adverse effects, while Richard encounters obstacles in his pursuit of profit."
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"Seizing an opportunity, Richard bets on an opiate that relieves pain. College graduate Shannon takes a job at Purdue. Glen suffers a workplace injury."
So far this one has the edge on Dopesick, if only for the presence of Uzo Aduba and the remarkably lower rate of terrible wigs on everyone.
It feels promising.
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That little coda was silly and unnecessary. And I needed more denouement! Still, killer suspense series.
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On 7/12/2023 at 1:37 PM, Rickster said:
My current theory is that maybe the hijackers planned to use Sam all along to negotiate the deal with the government, and are planning to kidnap his wife and/or kid for leverage to get him to help them.
They didn't know who he was, though -- they demanded his passport and then sent the image to their people on the ground to get leverage on him after he proved he was going to be a problem, didn't they?
On 7/20/2023 at 1:23 AM, aghst said:It's too bad this is a one-off. Sam could be an interesting character with a different plot to use for other seasons but they couldn't keep calling it Hijack.
Maybe they could if this landed him a job specific to this!
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On 7/9/2023 at 6:36 PM, Bastet said:
I love Justina Machado, but Prime keeps showing me promos for this and it looks horrible. So I'm going to hang out here for a while and hope more people chime in; maybe some positive feedback will spur me to give it a try.
Well, I had a lot of fun! Justina Machado was fantastic and I really loved the rest of the cast too. Fantastic prosthetics. Not the greatest thing I've ever seen, but there's a dearth of good new stuff right now and it hit the spot. I may be the only one, though. Me and one critic.
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2 hours ago, iMonrey said:
I wonder if maybe they were real at one point, like Johnny and Mike, and he eventually just "adopted" them as personalities.
Could be -- it's at least highly likely they're all "inspired" by someone he at least came across once. That's how DID folks tend to absorb these details and pieces of knowledge (and accents!) that couldn't possibly come from their own background. (Not that this show seems to be very interested in real DID!)
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1 minute ago, AstridM said:
Right - now he’s finally aware that they’re just parts of him, not different people.
Yes, which is inconsistent with "he falls asleep every time they're out" since they've clearly been out at times he very much wasn't "asleep" because he was out in the world interacting with them frequently and remembering that time (while losing other time when the alters were "alone"). The show was obviously trying to take some dramatic license with how he engaged with them pre-treatment, but it just doesn't track. People with DID aren't just going out for drinks with a bunch of their alters, but if they want to create a fictional version of it where that does happen, they should be clear about how it works in-show. If they're going to fake things for creative license, they could go all out with the framing, but instead we get "well, they were all his imaginary friends for years until he was arrested, at which point he never saw them anymore except when they took over and he was asleep, even though they all claim he's always been asleep whenever another one took over despite his having been awake and present for events with these alters on a regular basis who he can now only talk to inside his psyche instead of outside of it." If they're going to be that muddled about the "rules," it should at least be fascinating to watch, yet it's somehow just inconsistent and boring.
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2 hours ago, AstridM said:
Danny has been “asleep” up until the last couple episodes. Now that he’s working with Rya in a therapeutic process, she’s made him aware of the alters and they’re trying to integrate them with Danny. That’s why we now see him interacting directly with the alters.
He's been interacting with the alters since the beginning of this series. He's just been interacting with them externally, thinking they are real people. Now he's interacting with them internally, discovering that they are not real. Those first few episodes don't make any sense if he's always "asleep" when alters are out. He had years-long friendships with these people!
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This show is a real trudge to get through. I'd been sticking with it because I thought at least we'd have the fun of getting to re-watch some of the early-episode scenes play out with only Danny there, but instead we're having these tedious scenes inside his psyche.
On 7/4/2023 at 9:37 AM, peachmangosteen said:This show is giving me One Life to Live vibes. There are a lot of similarities to Jessica's DID.
Ha! I was literally just thinking I've seen soaps do it better -- like when Victoria Lord and all her alters had the battles for her soul inside her psyche, they were all still played by her. And somehow daytime soaps got way more right about DID than this big-budget prestige project? This show can't decide whether Danny's "asleep" when the alters are out to play or they're all just friends of his he's regularly interacting with. The prior would align with most real-world cases of DID. The latter is only interesting if it's fun dramatically, and as of now if we don't even get to see what that looked like to outsiders, it's just boring.
On 7/7/2023 at 6:26 PM, peachmangosteen said:I should have read up on what this show was based on before watching so I probably wouldn't have watched it lol.
That wouldn't have helped much either since it resembles the real case in almost zero ways. Just about the only similarity is that he has DID and that one of his (alleged) alters is a queer black woman. And yes, there's the abusive stepfather, but there's always an abusive stepfather.
This should've just been a movie, everything feels so stretched out. I can't believe there are still three more hours of it.
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On 6/29/2023 at 1:38 AM, Irlandesa said:
I think the first couple of episodes were so disjointed. There was this serious detective that could go into almost any detective drama and fit right in. Then there's this brash detective who is just annoying. They're surrounded by not just comedic characters but practically slapstick characters that might easily fit in a show like Angie Tribeca. It was too much of a mish-mash.
But later episodes rounded Eddie out, toned down the slapstick, and built out the mystery. It became much easier to watch. I still think the episodes might be a little better if they were a little shorter, but it has definitely found a more cohesive groove.
Agreed completely. I wasn't really sold till the fourth episode, but I liked the cast and wanted to find out who the culprit was, so I decided to finish it. Figured I'd do it slowly, but ended up doing a final-3-episode binge very quickly because it got so good. I think it settled really really well and finally got its tone sorted out, so I hope that earns them another season.
On 6/30/2023 at 10:47 AM, festivus said:Either way something is going on in that island cemetery and she knows it. I wonder if those jars she was giving away a couple of episodes ago contain tongue meat. 🤮
I was so surprised to learn there really were deadly snakes on that island!
On 7/6/2023 at 10:58 PM, Irlandesa said:And they did nicely set up a second season. I knew as soon as she got that call about her ex-partner that it'd be the basis of a S2. I do wonder if this means everyone else in Deadloch won't return or if we'll see some of the cops again.
Great set-up, especially not showing us the wife so that they can have time to cast someone great in that central role! I don't understand the geography, but I hope there's a way to tie it back to the town of Deadloch. I want to see everyone again!
On 7/7/2023 at 7:21 AM, ofmd said:The only thing that bothers me a tad is I'd wished for Dulcie to get rid of Cath. (Also, the dog is NOT ugly, you freak!) Alas, the heart wants what the heart wants...
I got defensive on the dog's behalf too. He was cute! And what's done is done, they better love that dog. (Also who will get custody of Donkey Lou?) Maybe they can successfully make Cath less annoying in the second season, too.
On 7/7/2023 at 12:02 PM, chaifan said:Though the whole side issue with Margaret was a bit clunky. Was she so invested in Miranda out of guilt? What was with that?
I have a lot of questions about that subplot.
Really enjoyed this show. I especially liked that it wasn't just a shallow reversal (i.e., the women are all perfect heroes and the men are all idiots, victims, or monsters) and was fully of messy folks of all identities. Also, perfect and hilarious needle drop for that Tatu (sp?) song in the finale. In general, the use of pop music references in this was pretty great. (I think the "Lightning Crashes" rendition at the funeral was so tummy-grabbing funny that it's what kept me from checking out in the earlier, clunkier episodes)
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I've already blown halfway through and am loving this so far! What a great cast.
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I really loved this finale. I'm bummed it's over but I'm glad I knew that before watching the finale (I'd have found this overkill if it were just a season finale). What a great series. Will definitely have to rewatch.
Disappointing about the behind-the-scenes stuff, of course, but is it weird to find it oddly refreshing that it's just a case of "turns out this one showrunner is a total dick and the other one didn't try to squash that?" When I saw the headlines I was so afraid to read once again that someone turned out to be a racist or rapist. Oh, just an asshole? Great! Lessons to be learned, redemptions to be possible! (Granted, I haven't read about it in much detail, so my apologies if there's something horrific I'm skating past here.)
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On 6/26/2023 at 9:56 PM, aghst said:
To me the ending left it a little more ambiguous that Tommy is this monster and nothing else.
He was glad that Catherine raised Ryan in better circumstances and probably did better than he would have.
Tommy's reaction to seeing Ryan seemed genuine, like seeing him brought him some joy.
Of course it's unrealistic of him to expect that Ryan would run off with him, since Catherine has been taking care of him all his life.
But it makes you wonder if Tommy isn't right that Catherine never gave him a chance, wrote him off early and tried to keep Ryan from him.
Tommy was a serial killer and a serial rapist who also had no qualms about killing children, Catherine was proven right about him a hundred-fold. I thought any decency in Tommy's final moments was due entirely to knowing he was going to die -- decency we never would have otherwise seen had he lived to 100. His magnanimity about not burning the house down was canceled out a bit when he then lit himself on fire in said house moments later.
I do think monstrous psychopaths can like people and want those people to be happy (if it doesn't inconvenience the psychopath in question at all), especially when those people can feel like an extension of themselves (like a bio-son). I don't think wanting a good life for Ryan after his death really says very much about Tommy -- if Tommy could have freedom via somehow sacrificing Ryan's happiness, Tommy would've made that choice without batting an eye. I love that he didn't get redeemed at all, but also wasn't pure cartoon villain in the end.
On 6/27/2023 at 11:36 AM, dubbel zout said:I didn't need to see Catherine collar these guys herself either, but the season spent a LOT of time on these stories, and I thought they got a bit of a short shrift in this episode. I'd have at least liked a scene where we see the cops go into the pharmacy, or we see Faisal being led out in handcuffs, or something like that.
One thing about the Hepworth story that was interesting was when Catherine learned grandparents would likely be raising the two young daughters, and you could see all the emotions about that running across her face. Sarah Lancashire was SO GOOD.
To me it honestly felt like the "there's a granny in the picture" moment was the reason they wrote that B-plot at all, and as long as they got that, they weren't much concerned with how it played out. Definitely not as strong a season, plot-wise. But I'm still incredibly satisfied because of what it gave Lancashire and Norton the space to do. Heck, they could've made that confrontation a full episode long and I would've been on the edge of my seat.
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I'm just so confused about the narrative here, but I'm probably thinking too hard about the real-life story since I've only just delved into it out of curiosity.
SpoilerBut the stepfather's abuse was always the pointed-to origin of the split, but in the show it seems like he was already well split before that since he had a pretend brother (I assume). But maybe the show is trying to tell us there's an earlier seed or that he was just born with it, who knows. I am increasingly irritated by how they've softened the edges, though. The real life Danny (Billy) was a serial rapist and almost certainly a serial killer, too, but they seem to be reframing him as Poor Sad Guy Who Almost Does Bad Things But Doesn't. Seems like if they didn't want to deal with such a sadistic and violent character in the central role, they shouldn't have connected this to Billy Milligan at all.
Diverting that much from the real story is just bizarre.
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Cary doing all that typo-texting in the middle of sex was disturbing, and now every time someone sends me a text series with a bunch of typos and quick corrections I'm going to be wondering what they're in the middle of on the other end
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This show really has nothing to offer without the "reveal" we're all expecting because every new character is so corny, and the protagonist has no linear journey we can follow up until then. Strange way to execute it.
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On 5/25/2023 at 6:19 PM, peachmangosteen said:
I am really liking this season but Brooke and Cary are just so, so awful. I guess they always were and that's the point but it felt like it was easier to handle in the other seasons lol.
I agree. As others have mentioned, I hope the escalation leads to a revelation. No miracles or anything, but the dam does need to break. I remember interviews with the showrunners in the first season talking about it was important to them for the show to retain some heart beneath it all, which I love. It seems like every sitcom with sharp humor and heart ends up eventually going to one extreme, Full It's Always Sunny or Full Lasso (i.e., only ugly or only schmaltzy), which is always a bummer so I hope this one manages to maintain the balance.
I'm optimistic. There's no way they would've given Curtis that multi-episode arc if it was just to shrug off its stakes after the confrontation.
17 minutes ago, Sarah 103 said:I was wondering how it was possible for her to have a regular normal vacation/visit home without fans constantly coming up to her.
I was extremely confused about that -- celebrities tend to get mobbed way more outside of NYC than inside it. But I just assumed I missed a tossed-off line. But we're definitely not dealing in realism this season, so I guess we can just write it off to "Ohio is an alternate universe." Loved the reveal on that one, though. It would've been way too trite for Pat to just miss that down-to-earth life and go back to it. Love that she was realistically bored but also kind to her old friends by not letting it show.
Everything about Cary's arc this episode had me dying. I loved the running them about the Gays Who Need To Win The Reunion (okay, they gave the trope a name in the episode but I don't remember it). The song had me laughing so hard my face hurt.
And what a guest-start coup this episode was! I guess that's why it was super-sized.
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S01.E06: What's in a Name?
in Painkiller
I'm definitely not sure, I could've just been making assumptions because the scenes were back-to-back