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    Season 2 - Feud: Capote vs The Swans

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    10 hours ago, Maximona said:

    I guess since the script was optioned from Leamer's book, the Swans had to be positioned as Capote's antagonists but all the posters above who note that the show would have been much more interesting as Feud:  Truman versus Vidal are absolutely correct.

    It wouldn't have had the potential to attract as large a viewing audience, though.

    Why not?  Aren't we all here for Capote?  I'd wager few people outside of NY society have ever heard of the swans before. 

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    Season 2 - Feud: Capote vs The Swans

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    4 hours ago, Atlanta said:

    The movie "Infamous" is amazing. We see Harper and Truman in Kansas.

    Capote and Infamous both cover the research and writing of In Cold Blood, with slightly different takes using different source material.  Infamous is based on the book of the same name by George Plimpton, and is the more gossipy version.  I like them both.

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    S03.E02: The Upper Hand

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    I'm really surprised that Harry didn't turn Joseph into the General.  I kept thinking that he would walk out Harry's door and Linda Hamilton would be standing there with a bunch of guys with guns and an alien-holding paddy wagon. 

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    S01.E04: What A Difference

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    47 minutes ago, Straycat80 said:

    I thought it would be about French designers

    Because that's how it was advertised.  Personally, I'm not interested in a never-ending war drama.  One episode as background, OK.  But (so far) four episodes out of ten?  Too much.  

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    S03.E01: Lone Wolf

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    17 hours ago, Accidental Martyr said:

    ’m pretty sure the movie is “Communion”

    Checked out the IMDB link.  That's not the movie, although there appear to be a lot of similarities. The one I'm thinking of is probably mid-late 2000's and stars an actress who plays a psychologist who moves to a somewhat remote community (PNW or Alaska).  Under hypnosis, a lot of her patients report seeing an owl at the window as they're sleeping.  Eventually she comes to believe they're being abducted and the large eyes of the owls are actually the large of eyes of aliens.  Undoubtedly Grays. (You know, the assholes.)

    Found it!  Who knew googling "owls aliens movie" would be so productive?  It's The Fourth Kind.   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220198/

     

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    S03.E01: Lone Wolf

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    On 2/15/2024 at 11:16 AM, bamlouie said:

    It was also interesting how they incorporated owls being a bad omen to some indigenous communities. I'd only learned about that watching Reservation Dogs, so that was my first thought when the owl showed up and I liked how they addressed that in the diner scene.

    There is a movie whose name I can't remember where people remember an owl at the window and it turns out they've been abducted by aliens.  I assumed that was what the show was referencing. 

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    Only Murders in the Building Media

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    On 1/24/2024 at 1:29 PM, Spartan Girl said:

    I know it was just to fill screen time after the strikes, but is there any chance ABC will sir seasons 2 and 3 depending on how much ratings the broadcast of season 1 got? I don’t have Hulu and this was the only way I could finally watch it. I want more, dammit!!!!

    I don't have the link, but in the last week or so I read an interview with an ABC exec (I think, could have been a Disney exec) who said they were happy with the viewing numbers for the broadcast airings as well as the number of people who later went to Hulu to watch the rest of the seasons.  So, yes. 

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    Season 2 - Feud: Capote vs The Swans

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    9 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

    I just watched the trailer. My lord, it looks really great.  It should have been a much bigger deal than it was. I'm going to stream it. You Tube has the full movie.

    Toby Jones has had some bad luck portraying famous people.  In 2005/6 his excellent turn as Capote in Infamous was overwhelmed by Phillip Seymor Hoffman's Oscar winning performance as Capote in Capote.  (Both of these movies focus on Capote's research and writing of In Cold Blood.)  Then, in 2012, he was Alfred Hitchcock in The Girl (about the making of The Birds)  In the same year Anthony Hopkins was Hitchcock in Hitchcock (about the making of Psycho).  Jones had to be thinking "What are the odds of it happening twice?"

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    Season 2 - Feud: Capote vs The Swans

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    I'm finding this series incredibly boring, something which I never thought I'd say about Truman Capote.  I like the idea of Capote vs Gore Vidal, I think that would have been a more appropriate feud, similar to Davis vs Crawford.   

    I think I'm out.

     

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    S04.E04: Part 4

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    I'm trying to figure out how the Coast Guard not only found but identified a naked body as Navarro's sister within an hour or two on Christmas Eve.  Or do they have 6th sense, too? 

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    Season 4 Discussion Thread

    in All Creatures Great And Small (2021)

    48 minutes ago, iMonrey said:

    And they should have waited until after the war to try to have kids if there was a chance he might die in the war. 

    Should I point out the obvious?

     

    51 minutes ago, iMonrey said:

    I expect doctors and vets probably weren't actually on the front lines but rather tending to the horses and such, but still. 

    James (actually Alf) served in the RAF.  No need for vets in the air force. 

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    S04.E02: Part 2

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    1 hour ago, 12catcrazy said:

    As for the "easter eggs" - sheesh, True Detective 1 was like 10 years ago - who the hell can remember that far back?   Maybe they are all a shout out for the hard core fans or just an exploitation of a sorts.   Series 4 should be able to stand alone on it's own merits without dragging up the obscure crap from Series 1, but just my opinion. 

    Agreed, but perhaps the frequent reruns of S1 lately (and S1 only, as far as I can tell) were meant to get everyone on board.  I've also read articles that the producers specifically wanted more of the supernatural vibe that was present in S1, but not S2 or S3.  I mean, when S1 first aired, people did analyze the hell out of the "Yellow King" and other references like that.  But in the end, it was just a detective story.   

    True Detective was always meant to be an examination of how horrific crimes affect the lives of the policemen and policewomen trying to solve them. 

    I think Jodie Foster is terrific in this, but they're trying to force a lot of sub-plots into a short, 6 episode season.  

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    S04.E02: Part 2

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    11 hours ago, Snazzy Daisy said:

    So, Travis is Rust’s dad but Rose isn’t his mom. Right?

    I only caught this because I had the closed captioning on and because they've been rerunning Season 1 a lot lately.  For those who don't know what we're talking about, Rose says that Travis's name is "Travis Cohle" and Matthew McConaughey's character in Season 1 (who hails from Alaska) is "Rustin (Rust) Cohle".  I think Rust's mother was dead, so it's unlikely to be Rose.  I was, however, waiting for her to make a proclamation that "time is a flat circle".  Though "Ennis is where time and space are coming apart at the seams" is pretty good, too. 

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    S13.E00 Christmas Special 2023

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    I thought it was kind of, well, "scattered" is the best word I can think of.   Too many plot threads and they weren't really coherent.  The ending was lovely, though. 

     

    On 12/24/2023 at 2:06 PM, Salacious Kitty said:

    Nope, no CTM today, either. 👎

    Sorry.  It was the PBS station in Chicago.  In the future I will add the caveat that PBS stations program individually. 

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