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Accidental Martyr

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  1. I guess they can't rewind the video to see what happened to the camera at Plot 33 when the coffee-spiller looked away for a second? I guess they also didn't bother to send anyone to check on the camera and see what was going on there? No one was concerned that someone might go inside and find that computer that just happened to be sitting there with all the info that they have supposedly gone to great lengths to keep anyone from finding out? OK, sure.

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  2. How did Jim and Julia put a bomb in that boat? How did they do it without any of the Aktion guys seeing them? Why was that guy just wandering around by the water? What set off the bomb?

    This show is like a student film written and produced by middle school kids.

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  3. 5000 cameras? ...but they never saw those guys steal a dump truck and drive it through the fence.

    That was supposed to the entire town at the "reckoning"? It looked like there were maybe 100 people there.

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    Eddie could take his food truck around to sporting venues, sorta like Guy Fieri in his red Camaro. Eddie could check out the tailgate and sports bar scenes in these cities on game day....

    I would watch that.
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  5. But, this brings up the old "how do you go on Amazing Race not knowing how to drive stick-shift?" question. If you're even contemplating doing this show, how do you not practice your butt off in front of other people, and developing a good internal clock (under pressure) for how long 30, 60, 120 etc. seconds are?

    Timing is another thing that some people have a hard time with if they haven't done on-camera work before. You tell someone they have a minute for this piece and they say, "What? I only have 1 minute? That's not enough time!" You start rolling and they say everything they have to say in 30 seconds and you give them the 30 second cue and they start stammering and "umming" and "ahhing" trying to get to the end. Then they say, "Wow! A minute sure seems longer than I thought!"

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  6. ... who, I might add, are just barely even on the Food Network at this point. They've been on for a few episodes of a FN contest, but not their own shows, specialty spots, etc.

    And the live audience had never seen them at all or knew anything about them before that day.

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  7. There is absolutely no reason why Dom should still be on this show. (If he's for real and it's not a manufactured act, as others have suggested.) I've worked in TV and video production for over 20 years (behind the camera) and have seen many types of people attempt to do on-camera work. It's really something that pretty much has to come naturally to someone. It's tough to learn how to be natural and relaxed in front of the camera, especially not in the few weeks it takes to shoot this show. I've seen people improve their on-camera presence, but it's sometimes a pretty long process. There is no way he's going to learn this. He's awful. (Unless this is scripted and all of a sudden he turns into a super TV personality at the flip of a switch.)

    Don't the contestants have to submit an audition tape? I can't imagine Dom's performance being something that would get him cast on this show.

    Emilia's act seemed fake to me. I almost wonder if it was scripted.

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  8. Stealing the truck and driving it though the fence was so damn easy, you gotta wonder why they didn't just do that ages ago.

    Yeah, for a place with a few hundred people who are supposedly under 24 hr. surveillance, it sure was easy to steal a (2000 year-old) dump truck and drive it through the fence.

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  9. I don't think I can even hate watch this show any more.

     

    I'm getting to that point, too. The show was awful but it's been fun seeing what new thing there will be to ridicule each week. Now it's getting so far beyond awful into a whole new realm of...something. It's getting to the point where it's not really fun to make fun of anymore.
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  10. On the front/passenger seat, and I'm pretty sure it was a real (dead) bird.  Or a mask?

     

    A raven, it looked like.  

     

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    They worked quickly, building songs around phrases and imagery supplied by series creator Nic Pizzolatto. For the song that became “My Least Favorite Life,” she recalls, “I believe Nic said he was looking for a song about a lover who dies and comes back as a crow.” (That may or may not refer to an image that appears during the climax of episode 2.)

    http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/06/21/lera-lynn-on-making-music-for-the-true-detective-season-premiere/

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  11. I think the story Mrs. Fisher told about the family committing suicide was just a "boogeyman" type story to try and keep the kids from revealing "the truth". I still don't think the scenario explained by Fisher is the whole, or even the real, "truth".

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  12. I watched it a couple of weeks ago on Hulu. I'll keep watching, if for no other reason than to find out how it ends.

    Lots of weirdness, obviously, but at times it almost felt a little too weird. It looks like it has potential though, and since it's only 10 episodes it doesn't really require that much of a long term commitment.

    BTW, I think Melissa Leo is a shape-shifter. I didn't realize she was playing the nurse until the credits. The same thing happened when I watched Prisoners.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392214

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  13. I think that's not so much idiotic as ignorant; she didn't know you can have a real wedding, any more than Leonard didn't know you can have a fake one. And he may still not, so they may come back from Vegas only thinking they're married.

    The whole Las Vegas wedding storyline that gets recycled in countless TV shows is pretty ridiculous. For a Vegas wedding to be legal, just like anywhere else, you have to first obtain a marriage license from the Clark County Marriage License Bureau. If anyone has gone through the steps to get a license, obviously the marriage is legal. If you don't have a marriage license then you aren't married. That's why all of the "I didn't know our Vegas marriage was real" plot devices are stupid.

    If Penny and Leonard are going to get married in Vegas they will have to get a license before the ceremony will be a legal wedding.

    http://www.702wedding.com/las-vegas-marriage-license.asp

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  14. The fluctuating timeline bothers me more in some episodes than others, but this one was pretty glaring. The episodes that revolve around specific historic events (Charles and Diana's wedding, opening of Al Capone's vault, etc.) are the ones with the most obvious flaws. This episode appears to be set in the fall of 1984 since it obviously revolves around the 1984 election and presidential debates. Some of the biggest discrepancies:

    American Gladiators aired from 1989-1996.

    America's Funniest Home Videos didn't begin airing as a weekly series until January 1990.

    Public Enemy's first album wasn't released until 1987.

    I like the show but sometimes they include things that happened just too far apart, especially when things from the 90's start getting mixed in.

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