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40 minutes ago, Cheezwiz said:
I was really impressed with this whole series and wish it had gotten more attention. Hope it gets some Emmy love.
I think Sean Penn is a shoo-in and Julia Roberts probably too.
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On 8/18/2022 at 3:06 PM, Moxie Cat said:
I'm just catching up on these episodes, but I'm really enjoying this series. As a cat parent, though, my anxiety was through the roof during this one! So happy he found Tuffy at the end! I thought for sure he would get on the bus, and THEN the cat would show up and sadly watch him leave. Glad to be wrong!
I wonder if that part is true?
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That's a cool site!
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6 minutes ago, Anela said:
I’ve just realized that this is the same John Dean I follow on Twitter. Surreal.
I think he's the only good guy (i.e., repentant) person to come out of Watergate.
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23 minutes ago, Anela said:
Sean Penn is in this? I had no idea.
I’m going to keep watching, for now.He is John Mitchell.
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Are we to believe that all the Watergate convicts were conveniently sent to the same prison worksite so they could touch base and commiserate?
Was Martha really allowed to walk into a nursery and pick up a random newborn to cuddle, or was that supposed to be her son's baby?
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Betty Gilpin killed it in that scene where she tells John Dean to man up. Nuanced and powerful and that closing line omg. Great performance this week.
I don't get this whole John Dean characterization. I've seen videos of him and he is nothing like the goofy nerdy neurotic character portrayed in this show. Does the real John Dean (one of the only ones still alive) approve?
I have questions:
Was that supposed to be Hillary Clinton with Elijah Cummings in the Frank and Janelle bar scene?
What was in the envelope Mitchell handed to Senator Gurney on the golf course?
What is the real reason Mitchell wants Martha to have a closed hearing? He implied it was because with an audience they'd be polite and they'd only go hard on her in a closed hearing (not sure I buy that; people going in for the kill like to show off on camera), but it seems to me less about protecting Nixon and more about humiliating Martha by taking away her audience, which she craves--truly diabolical. Or is it both?
Was Lurline played by Courtney Cox? I have to say, that forehead bit kind of fell flat, as Lurline's forehead was just as big as Martha's and neither of them are that big really.
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This episode in my opinion strayed too far into farcical stupiddom. Magruder's wife gets into the FBI car and makes off with their pizza? Mitchell gets into a physical scuffle at his daughter's boarding school tour?
I've come to expect, as I'm told, that some stuff is fictionalized, but now I'm beginning to wonder if any of it is fact-based. And they totally lost me when they started playing very modern music instead of era-appropriate.
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On 6/11/2022 at 9:46 PM, Kim0820 said:
At Camp David with a remote for the TV. I was around then. I think that was a mistake. No remotes then. Get up and change the channel.
Archie Bunker had a remote.
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Can someone please tell me what is the music playing at the end of this episode? It sounds like a '70s Broadway tune. The show is really stingy with the end credits, not listing much at all.
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Also I had thought the past two episodes that John Mitchell actually loved Martha but apparently not if he is behind this goonish stuff.
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I thought this episode was hilarious. The bumbling burglars were hysterical. This episode seemed to be played for laughs. But then the last part where Martha was restrained by the body guard -> I thought they were delving into black comedy. I thought that part must be fictionalized but then I read it's possibly true. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/02/19/102749845.html?pageNumber=18
I wonder if this will be a big part of the show. It will be upsetting if they injected this element but don't address it.
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On 5/23/2022 at 1:46 PM, monakane said:
Same here. I was in my early 20s during Watergate, so I remember all of it. I loved Betty Ford, so I am enjoying that as well. I'm loving all the 70s fashions on both shows. I would like to see more about Martha. Poor John Dean. They are making him out to be a buffoon, but that is not how I remember him.
I wondered if Dean approved of or was involved in the production of this episode? He is probably the only one of the whole bunch who's still alive.
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Wow, I have a totally different reaction. I loved this first episode. I thought Sean Penn was fantastic. He was like a male Meryl Streep, a chameleon! And if I didn't know it was him I wouldn't know it was him.
I don't know much about this era, don't remember these characters much, but I am interested in learning more. The Mitchell marriage is certainly faceted, I'll give you that. I think it's interesting to see a middle-aged couple being played with such a nuanced, multi-layered effect.
This seems to be told from the perspective of John Dean. Did he approve or was he otherwise involved in this production?
P.S. I thought the character who played G. Gordon Liddy was magnificent. What a diabolical character. He tones down his psychopathic affect and acts like a regular guy to get in good with Mitchell in the early part of the episode. I don't remember hearing he was such a nut job.
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On 11/4/2019 at 12:53 PM, LoveLeigh said:
However, I am very sentimental so when I saw the scene with Noah at the graves and then dancing on the cliff I cried. I cried not so much for Noah but because that combined with the final scene of THE DEUCE really drove home hard how we do all pass into "the arms of time" and we will all age (hopefully) and one day be there where most of the people we know are gone. So we either remember them as "ghosts" as did Vincent or we visit their graves.
So I cried.
I cried too but for a different reason. I saw joy in Noah, as in that moment on the cliff, dancing that dance from decades ago, he reached a moment of self-forgiveness.
On 11/4/2019 at 12:53 PM, LoveLeigh said:-
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5 minutes ago, Milburn Stone said:
I use Point of View to be synonymous with "take," "interpretation," "angle." Which is what I understand POV to generally mean, rather than that it require actual ocular sense organs to relay information to the brain. We acquire information through all five of our senses, and maybe even a sixth one.
Okay. As a writer, I was thinking in the literal sense but I get your point.
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On 11/4/2019 at 8:06 AM, Milburn Stone said:
Re this thought, a PS that occurred to me this morning. How deliciously ironic that all this time we thought we were seeing the POVs of the various characters, when from the pilot through to the final episode we were seeing Stacey's POV on the whole story, adapted into film.
Well not really her POV because she wasn't in any of those scenes. I think it's more like she talked with each of these people (except Allison) and got their differing recollections of what happened.
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On 11/3/2019 at 2:59 PM, T Summer said:
Cole and Helen were good!
Ok, I'll stop 😄
Helen, who let her husband sit in jail for three years for a crime she committed, is not good.
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8 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:
I don't see her as afraid. She's startled - holy crap, she forgot her wallet! Then he tries to carry her bags, but she's an independent old broad and wants to do it herself until he insists. I don't think it's clunky dialogue, either - English isn't her first language.
What cracks me up is the disclaimer that not all products have the same details.
It's not a matter of English not being her first language. In fact, she speaks perfect English. However, as a writer, I am attuned to dialogue that is more "telly" than it should be, rather than realistic. For example, she says, "Well, you gotta run back to the store so you don't get cold." A more realistic line would be "You gotta run back so you don't get cold." "The store" is superfluous. He knows where he's going, but the writer is trying to sneak in exposition to make things clear, and it's not necessary and comes off as clunky, IMO.
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15 hours ago, TVMovieBuff said:
I kind of love this one. Is is awful and I am missing something?
Well, I feel it sinks into old tropes of older woman initially afraid of the young Black man and then warms to him and they become special friends. But more importantly, I think the dialogue is written very badly for the woman and she comes off as annoying rather than endearing.
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The Etsy commercial with Alec. Please discuss.
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Okay the Lumes commercial, with the Happy Baby... I cannot.
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20 minutes ago, nittany cougar said:
There's a commercial for a hearing aid in which a daughter and boyfriend are visiting her parents. She asks the boyfrined whether he brought condoms. He can't hear her, so she repeats it. When he still can't hear her, the father yells, "She wants to know if you brought the condoms."
I hate this commercial so much. Why would a couple be talking about condoms in front of the lady's parents? So fucking stupid.
Because they think they can't be heard.
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WTAF with the Charmin teddy bear commercials? So graphic and disgusting! There should be a law . . .
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S01.E01: Will
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Also Sean Penn is one who likes to stretch his acting muscles and this was likely a challenging and fulfilling role for him.