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Some pretty pictures and a "spring" release date! I still bet on April.
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23 hours ago, Nicmar said:
I like that they have half-bies, never seen that before.
Yes, that what I meant. Viruses mutate, yet it's not something you tend to see in zombie stories. Except maybe Resident Evil, but there you get the sense that it's umbrella doing it, not it happening naturally. So it was like such an obvious development for a zombie show that at the same time no one had ever thought about before.
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This was a good zombie show, but I think it was better suited for 8 episodes instead of 12. You want to see zombie action but at some point there was SO much zombie action that I was a bit fatigued, lol. But they were good with cliffhangers so you wanted to keep going episode after episode. I also liked what they did with the virus lore, and I kind of thought that it's a really obvious thing that most zombie shows/movies tend to ignore, when you think about it.
Good show.
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2 hours ago, MYOS said:
Any idea why they deleted the post?
That's an awesome picture :), with Miss Lister's off-white silk (?) waistcoat and the bright (rather than pastel) colors on Miss Walker.
I think that HBO actually started broadcasting the show earlier than the BBC back in 2019, so hopefully in the Spring.
I don't know why they deleted the post, but the information is still on the website.
I think shows nowadays usually release trailers about a month before they premiere, so I'm crossing my fingers that the show comes back on April. Back in 2019 it premiered on April as well, and Anne's birthday is in April.
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On 1/11/2022 at 7:11 PM, Scarlett45 said:
Thanks for sharing. I thought this series might be a casualty of the pandemic and not get picked up again, but it was so good I am glad we are getting a second season.
The show was renewed right after it premiered, I think. Like, two episodes in or something. It did really well in the UK. But the pandemic did bring a bunch of delays. It should've come out last year, it was pushed back a whole year. When it premiered I thought a two year wait was crazy, and in the end it will be three!! Anyway, I'm really looking forward to it.
The British Film Institute is apparently going to have a talk with Suranne, Sally and Sophie in March, and they will premiere the trailer there:
QuoteFurther highlights of the events programme in March will include a TV preview of series 2 of Gentleman Jack (BBC/HBO/Lookout Point, 2022) on 9 March, followed by a Q&A with writer Sally Wainwright and actors Suranne Jones and Sophie Rundle. Series 2 of the popular drama will again draw from the real-life diaries of Anne Lister, with every part of Lister’s story based in historical fact and the five million words she wrote in her journals.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/announcing-march-2022-programme-bfi-southbank
They first posted about it on instagram, but then deleted the post. The now deleted instagram post included this photo:
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So, I'm one episode away from finishing this show, and I gotta say I've found this season very... annoying. Now let's see, the CRM are literally military with everything that implies. They have the money, the equipment, the training, the numbers and they are ruthless. Yet this group of children and geeky scientists are supposed to take them on and I'm supposed to be cheering for that? I spend episode after episode wondering why everyone is so stupid! Now, I get that the military killed at bunch of people and the CRM must be taken down and stopped and whatever. Fine. But at least speak of the whole thing truthfully: it's an almost impossible situation, it's a suicide mission, they're trying because they MUST, but they're not sure if they will win, etc. At least show THAT. But no. I've spent the whole season rooting for Iris to die because she's so obviously an idiot teenager thinking they will take down the CRM, but instead of laughing at her face the grown ups actually listen to her! I don't even care if they win or not, if they were to win it should've been seen as a miracle.
Of course, there is also the fact that the CRM does have a point, which I at least appreciate because it makes the story more interesting, and I wish the idiots would've been more torn about leaving/destroying the facility.... which is that they are doing important work that might save the world, and at the research center they had everything they could dream of. The chances of finding some other laboratory with all the equipment they had there and all the comforts from there are, or should be, slim.
So anyway, it's not about them winning in the end or something, like it always happens in every show, but about at least being more realistic about what the CRM's threat really is. The way it was presented, the whole thing sounds as ridiculous to me as some random group of teenagers from my town deciding they are going to take on the army or something.
Finally, I've spent the season quite disturbed by how attractive I've been finding evil Jadis.
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Lol at the adults listening to the dumb teenagers all the time.
I had to check imdb to figure out who the new mysterious military woman was because she looked SO familiar and I couldn't place her. lol.
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The Reapers are so tedious.
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On 12/1/2021 at 9:54 PM, Dababy said:
Nobody else on the island gets sick like he does. I suppose it could just take a long time for the vampire blood to kill him and then bring him back, it just seems weird that it would make him healthy and young and then slowly kill him over time. And the fashion in which he dies is super similar to the way the dog dies earlier, but obviously Bev wouldn’t poison him. Am I the only one who is super confused about this?? This is one of the best shows I’ve seen in ages but I wish there was a better explanation for this.
I think it's a vampire blood overdose. The others were getting a sip of blood that was diluted in wine, and it was enough to cause huge changes in them. He drank a bunch of blood when the vampire attacked him and then kept drinking it every day at Mass. It's like Sarah says, that your body can even filter out poison if it hasn't overwhelmed your system, but if you take too much your body can't filter it out and you die. I assume that's what happened to him, too much vampire blood that he couldn't filter out.
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So, I liked this show more than I expected, though it frustrates me because it could have been much better than it was. I really liked most of the characters and found the themes they were trying to explore interesting. Big existential questions about religion, what happens when we die, how religion can be a double edged sword with good things and bad things, etc. And overall I liked how it didn't really answer those questions, because really they are unanswerable in any definitive way. I thought, and liked, how the vampire/vampirism kind of represented religion. On the one hand, the vampire blood healed you. It made you young and healthy. The colors of the world became beautiful and bright, the universe became more beautiful and there is no illness or death anymore... but on the other hand, the bloodlust is destructive. One can argue that religion tends to be like that. Some parts are good and some are bad. It can bring comfort and bring out the best of you like it did for Erin, or it can bring out the worst of you, like it did with Bev.
I always appreciate when shows have themes and they explore those themes, and I thought they did that here and they did it better than I expected. I feel like it's been forever since a show makes me think about existential things, lol. So many shows nowadays are just shallow and about nothing (boring).
Having said, I had big problems with it in general and with the finale specifically.
First of all, it was too slow. Not enough stuff happened. There was a monologue here and there that might have been compelling, like Erin's and Riley's original monologues about death, but the others were just... augh. PAINFUL. It was almost embarrassing to see the characters go on and on and on while the person in front of them got a shot here and there to show them nodding. uff. Sometimes the Bible quoting got too much, too.
Another thing that I found irksome was the way in which they treated the whole "angel" business. I guess they wanted to show what fanaticism can do, but they acted as if demons and the devil aren't part of catholic belief, therefore Pruitt could see this fugly ass, evil looking creature and could only think "angel!". It was ridiculous that he didn't have doubts at least.
Speaking of Pruitt, and this takes us to the finale itself, I hated how they tried to redeem him in the end. The guy was bonkers. He was delusional about the angel and the miracles and the whole thing. He was delusional from the very beginning. When he killed Joe, he used religion to rationalize away his guilt. Why wouldn't he do the same when things went sideways during the mass? If anything, in a situation like that, that would be the logical step. He would then want to avoid his guilt about this huge massacre by rationalizing things in the same way he had before. After all, if they are warriors for God, there are abound to be casualties. If being a vampire is a good thing, then people eating each other and turning into vampires would be a good thing. If the show wanted him to eventually see the error of his ways they had to work at that more, and better, and start establishing that since an earlier episode, not just flip a switch like that just because they didn't want him to end the series as the bad guy. His explanation about Sara and her mother being his motivation wasn't enough either.
I was pissed off about Erin's death. She was like the only character I was rooting for. Her love for her baby made her very endearing to me, and I wanted her to make it and get another chance at it. Everyone else seemed to just be there, existing, she was the only one for whom I could see a future, and I wanted her to make it. Sarah, too, bus specially Erin. Instead, the ones who make it are those two no1curr teens whose names I'm not even sure of. Gah! I also didn't like Erin's death. When she has that scene with Riley, both describe what they think death will be like, and we're not supposed to know who is right or wrong. By showing Erin's death that way, it's like they made Riley right. I would've preferred the ambiguity, and to imagine that she made it "home" to the daughter she adored so much. I don't find comfort in thinking that we're all drops of water who return to the ocean. If anything, that makes it all meaningless. The way she described death just means that like... what's the point? She's reabsorbed into the universe and it's like she never existed, so what is the point of everything? Why even try to save the world from the vampires if in the end it's all the same and we're all just matter either way or whatever? So no, I wasn't a fan of that (plus it was yet another loooooong monologue). I did like the throwback to her story about how her mother used to say that we all get out wings clipped sometime.
I was... skeptical at this idea that there was absolutely nowhere the vampires could hide from the sun, and that they didn't even try to put out some fire or two to save a building or two. They don't even need the whole house, just some shade here and there. Pr maybe even the basement. The vampires did all they did, and then just threw their hands in the air in the end. I guess we're supposed to believe that after the hunger subsided they came to their senses and felt guilty, but meh. Having said that, I loved them signing the hymn and how it just abruptly stopped when the sun went up.
I wish there had been some attempt to explain what the deal was with the vampire. Was it really some ancient vampire trapped in one of the buildings in the sand? Why did it follow Pruitt around? Why did he seem on board with what Pruitt was doing, so much so that he attacked Sarah's mother when she shot Pruitt, and basically didn't go on a feeding spree from the first day it was there? What was the connection Pruitt claimed to have with it? It was weird. Either it was almost like an animal, which is why it didn't speak, or it was like a person, in which case why didn't it speak and why did he do what Pruitt wanted?
I hope Mike's next project can combine a good theme and good characters with a better paced plot. Also, hope there are lesbians.
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I want to like this show because I do like the characters, specially Erin, and there are some good ideas there, but I find it so slow so far. Also, I imagine there's a reason for it, but there has never been a single time when a younger actor has looked convincing as an old person. Not a single time when it hasn't looked cringy/horrible/ridiculous, and this show is no exception.
Sidenote: I appreciate how the guy behind this show seems to always throw a lesbian in there. 😂 Keep it up, Mike.
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On 3/22/2021 at 11:24 AM, icemiser69 said:
The funny thing is that this episode actually made me care about Princess. Before this episode I didn't care at all about the character.
Same here. I was specially touched by her deep concern over Yumiko and her feeling so bad about getting her hurt. She seems like a really good person.
On 3/22/2021 at 1:20 PM, Lamima said:See I actually liked this one better than that absurd Darryl romance.
Me too.
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On 4/24/2021 at 5:43 PM, AngelaHunter said:
I just watched a little more of this, since I can only handle it in 5-minute increments. Negan is even more of an idiotic, juvenile asshole than I knew. A man his age, with a job at a school, gets into a friggin' bar fight?? He gets into this bar fight because he put 50 cents into the jukebox so he can play his wife's favorite song and everyone in the bar didn't shut up so his beloved Lucille (who he was cheating on probably with a number of women and I just hope he didn't bring any loathesome STDs home to her) could hear it properly? Of course the fool loses his job - who would keep a middle-aged man who is supposed to be a good influence on kids when he has zero common sense or self-control? Is this supposed to make us admire him? I just bet this is little Bobby K's idea of a real man but of course, how would he know such things?
If my husband behaved this way I would die of mortification and dump his ass pronto.
I think the point was supposed to be that Negan was always terrible, but his wife and society kept him in check. He's an asshole and he has rage issues, but in his own way he loves his wife, which is why the fight is, specifically, about Lucille not being able to listen to "their" song, instead of being about some other random thing. With Lucille dead and society gone, there was nothing else to keep the monster in check.
For me, I guess the problem is that I don' see how this helps to make the case for Negan NOW. If he was trash before the zombie apocalypse, not a good person turned bad by circumstances, why exactly are we supposed to believe that he's better now? I don't see how being locked away in a cage for years somehow fixed him. What issue of his did the isolation and the endless thinking supposedly fix? I don't even know what his "issue" is. We got some new information about his past, but we didn't get his real origin story, which makes it seem like he was an asshole by nature... and therefore is still an asshole now.
I liked Lucille, though. I liked the actress.
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I've been so frustrated with this show. I LOVED season one. Loved it! Some of the best zombie stuff I've ever seen. So many twists and turns, right up until the last twist of the season that left us with that awesome cliffhanger. I actually still remember what happened in season one. But season two killed the excitement I felt over it. I can't even say exactly why because I don't even remember what happened in season two anymore, but I found it underwhelming.
And the same thing happened with that movie/special episode that just premiered on netflix. I spent most of it lost because of all those exposition dumps, confused about who is who and where the hell we are most of the time, and overall just bored because it took forever for the story to get going. The way it was presented was confusing and I didn't care about anyone, not even the protagonist on her quest for revenge. I also don't care that she gave the doctor the plant that started the other outbreak, like who cares. Not at bad idea, but not well executed at all imo, and my enthusiasm for future seasons (if there are any) remains dead.
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18 hours ago, Black Knight said:
That was a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. My only real complaint is Ziggy not getting to actually confront Nick, but I suppose it wouldn't have mattered anyway, given what he said to Deena later. He was in way too deep to feel any actual shame or guilt. I was rolling my eyes at the part where he had the nerve to talk about what the Goodes had sacrificed. STFU, Nick. Other than Ziggy not wanting to interact with you anymore because she thought you didn't believe her, what did you ever lose?
Using Deena's blood as both a way to get Nick attacked by the various killers and to get the killers to attack each other was brilliant. The mall was a great set piece for the finale.
And now we know why Ziggy wasn't turned into a killer and Sam was, because Nick controlled who became killers. He was willing to make an exception for Ziggy but he didn't want Sam running around alive to potentially figure things out and break the curse. The irony is that if he had just left Sam alone, everything would have worked out fine for him. She didn't have enough information. I guess it took Sarah's full body to get the full story, just interacting with her hand or her body wasn't enough.
And now that we know that Nick controlled who became killers and when, wow, it really takes a special level of sociopathic assholery to activate one of these killers at a summer camp where so many children are running around.
Why not just... murder Sam the old fashioned way tho? He was a serial killer anyway.
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1666 was great! Super entertaining and satisfying, even though it had its flaws (like everything does).
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1 hour ago, Brn2bwild said:
I think so. If I recall, he slipped it through her door. But maybe I'm misremembering.
He did. He was going to knock on the door, but decided to write the note instead.
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3 hours ago, Black Knight said:
I think you mean Tommy, not Nick. But Cindy had already killed Tommy when Alice showed up with the hand. So if there is a "only one killer at a time" quota (which makes sense given it's a possession), the slot was available again by the time Ziggy's blood got on the bone, as well as after she was killed and brought back to life. So I don't think that's the reason why Sarah is not possessing Ziggy. The possession ends when the possessed human first dies - Sarah is able to generate them again out of that goo, but it's not quite the same thing at that point. In the first movie we saw Ryan be her possessed killer, but he also was killed in the opening segment, and Sarah was able to take Sam later on.
I think Sam got possessed because she has some other connection to Sarah. Didn't Sarah Fier say "it's you" to her a couple of times when Sam saw her? Maybe she's the reincarnation of
Spoilerher girlfriend from 1666? I'm putting this in spoilers just in case, but it's obvious from the trailers that Sarah had a female lover and that's probably why they went after her. It has "oh the crops are failing! It's because you're an evil witch that does perverted things and you must burn to save the town!" vibes all over it.
Either way, Ziggy told Deena over the phone that Sarah makes the rules. So she can do whatever she wants.
When Sam's name appeared on the rock there WAS someone there though, I think... and the rhyme says that Sarah made a deal to be immortal.. right? so I wonder if she's hanging out somewhere in the town or something, even if those are her bones or whatever. I suspect, though, that they will come up with some explanation that none of us can guess because we're lacking information. And this applies to pretty much everything.
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1 hour ago, scarynikki12 said:
A little since we know Deena had contacted C Berman but the dog's name being Major Tom was the hint that it was really Ziggy telling the story. That said, Cindy could have just named her dog to honor her dead sister so it wasn't that much of a hint. I think they did well with the ambiguity and I went back and forth until the blood landed on Ziggy's hand. No idea why that convinced me, since it made her the target for the witch soldiers and could have gone the opposite way of the first movie, but it did.
SpoilerThe fact that they never called Ziggy her real name, nor did they call C. Berman her full name, both things for no reason, was reason enough for me to know that C. Berman was Ziggy. Confirmation inside the plot before it was really confirmed at the end? That Alice saw that vision of Cindy dead, along with the other dead people in the cave.
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1 hour ago, Brn2bwild said:
Yes. Just like we were supposed to think that Sam was a guy until "surprise! It's a girl!" The trailers played a big role, but neither trick worked on me. At all.
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I really, really liked this movie. A lot of fun with great characters. I was never bored and I can't wait to see the other two, I hope they don't disappoint. I'm really looking forward to seeing the answers to my questions, too. I might even watch it again before I see part two.
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1 hour ago, JayDub1987 said:
I hated this entire season. I found the last handful of episodes pretty difficult to get through. I felt like the Cal stuff at the end with "dead" Grace (cause really, who knows?) was just more weirdness. In a show with so many questions, they don't seem remotely interested in providing a glimpse of an answer to any of them.
And I'm still completely let down that it got cancelled because my Jack Shepherd disease makes me wanna see how they can possibly tie up so many loose ends into something that makes some amount of sense. So I'm hoping it lands on Netflix because I'd like to suffer through a few more seasons.
They probably don't know them yet.
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1 hour ago, shapeshifter said:
But I see that Zoo (Athena Karkanis‘ other Sharknado-like series) only had 3 seasons. So perhaps this is the end of the line for 828 as well.
Random comment, but whenever I see her name I can't help but think that Athena is such an awesome name.
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1 hour ago, jabRI said:
This! I believe except for the Star Trek NG & followers (and Picard!) I think writers don't know how to really write science fiction, and so they fall back on the easy tropes of religion. Again, I'm not anti-religion, I just don't like how it's so integrated when convenient on this show. Like Angelina and Adrian thinking they are messengers of God. Work the science, guys.
I don't mind religion and would (and have) watch shows with religious themes and tropes and angels and mythology and all that's stuff. What bothers me (deeply!) is when I start to watch a show and they change the show I'm watching halfway through and without warning.
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Yes, It Has Been Mentioned: The Media Thread
in Gentleman Jack
First teaser, but still no date!