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The Leftovers! Where Liv Tyler is as terrible at chopping down a tree as you would imagine her to be!
To be fair, I looked at that tree, and immediately realized, "she's never gonna chop that down. I would give up after 10 minutes." We use saws for a reason.
I honestly think this show is terrible thus far. I don't mind that it's weird. I generally like that. I think that I just don't believe that the cults would happen the way that they do. I suppose there is still some mystical power at work that plays into it, but while I believe that cults like that can operate and happen, i'm not sure they are effectively believable as written. I'll give this show another shot. It's something for me to watch when I get home at midnight on Sunday nights.
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Absaroka County must have a murder rate of 50 per year in a population of a few thousand. National media should be out there for it being the murder capital of the northwest.
Is it the mountain air? Grinding poverty.... what? Have they never heard of just insulting each other or filing for divorces?
I know, I know... it's a murder mystery show, but still...
Oh I know! But, even better yet, not only does Absaroka County have this insane murder rate, but every one of those murders gets solved. Every single one. The only unresolved murder on the show happened in Denver. It's absurd but in a way that I just find kind of fantastic. I mean, why would anyone in that county commit murder at this point? Nobody gets away with it.
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So, I enjoyed the episode until the dogs at the end. Not because they were rabid but because I felt that their lives were instantly devalued. If people are traumatized, people make an effort to reform them or at least provide therapy. If dogs are traumatized, no such attempt is made. Writers write stupid things like "they are not our dogs anymore" and then have them murdered. That left a bad taste in my mouth.
So I'm not sure what to think. I'm not one that expects shows to expose their mysteries, but I disliked that they presented the chief's wife as someone who probably disappeared and it turned out she was fine but a bit swallowed up by a cult. It just felt silly, rather than insightful or interesting as a mystery gimmick.
I will say this about that cult, for what it is worth, but I'm immediately suspicious about an organization whose premise is that the members cannot talk. It stinks of bad evil cult. If people talk they ask questions. I automatically suspect that the "management" of the cult don't want members asking questions.
And so, yeah, I really get that a bunch of people disappeared at once. And I also liked the character perspective of it with the tormented chief. I even get and like the story around his troubled (but not in a Haven way) daughter. I'm withholding judgement on his son until I understand more about cult 2.0. Btw, just exactly how many cults did the people in this town join?
And with that, i'll give it a shot next week, but i'm not as excited about this pilot as I thought i'd be. Probably the dog thing really suppressed my enthusiasm.
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That was a great episode. It really broke my heart that they killed Amy, though it seemed like it may not be permanent. She really is the best character on this show. Hopefully there is a season 3. Clearly the other undead who were at the bar at the end are going to be a threat to Kieran. And of course the living.
Gary came off like a monster. Drugging Kieran so he would go rapid and then calling Jem to make sure she kills her own brother was a sick thing to do and tremendously selfish. He wanted Kieran dead and knew that would hurt Jem so he arranged it so she or someone else would be Kieran's killer leaving him to look blameless in her eyes. I'm disgusted that something more horrible than Jem dumping him didn't happen.
I completely agree with all of this. What a jerk. I was glad she at least broke up with him but it was such a mild punishment for what he did.
Best part of the episode for me was when Maxine went on her crazy spiel and started marching off to kill the PSD sufferers. I forget his name but that one dude just tazes her. The way he says "She's tapped" is just hilarious.
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Renewed for a second season!
http://m.eonline.com/news/552064/exclusive-fargo-s-jaw-dropping-finale-find-out-what-comes-next
That article says it hasn't been picked up for a second season yet. Am I missing something?
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This show is so great! I loved that episode. I thought it was the season finale. And I guess that would have left a few threads untied but i'm ok with that. I think that in reality, loose ends never all get tied up at the same time (or at least rarely) and i love when shows imitate those anarchistic tendencies of reality. And so while I was totally confused during and after the season premier, i kind of loved all of it.
And i'm still somewhat confused. I really dig that we are almost as in the dark as Keira and company. Actually, we're totally that in the dark about the future. We have no idea what it is except for what Brad said. But we do know that it appears that everything they have done has completely obliterated the future that they knew. What I wonder is, what is the end game for the show? Do the show runners know? Do they get back to their prior future? I hope not. I would think part of the show runners' goal is, in fact, to end up somewhere better than that totalitarian future they all knew.
I'm sure there is more to say but i just loved this episode and am really loving this season. It's the best thus far in my mind.
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The whole thing where he went rabid so quickly confused me. Why do you need blue if all you have to do is intentionally miss a shot? That seemed too easy and felt inconsistent with what we knew to this point.
I think that this show is really well done, and I just love it conceptually. I'm a big fan of the zombie shows, but I like how this takes a totally fresh look on it.
But, i'm really confused now because that seemed too quick and easy to become all zombie. Does that medicine leave the system so quickly? I guess that get's lumped in with the general issue of how they have energy without food.
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Ugh - Gracepoint (US version) trailer released. O. M. G. It's word for word exactly the same. Why why why did they feel the need to remake it? And David Tennant with an American accent? Very jarring. Do not like.
What struck me was how so much of the new cast looks exactly like the old cast. So not only were the scenes and dialogue set up the same way, but the characters are very similarly cast.
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1. Did she testify out of jealous? Fuck. I hate that theory.
2. Was she paid off by Tywin? This seems doubtful. Tywin was the head Judge. He didn't need Shae to have Tyrion found guilty. Also, the case was Tyrion accused by Cersei. She was the crown's (Cersei's) witness. We know Cersei likes the overkill and isn't very smart.
3. I'd like it better if Shae cut a deal with Cersei to save Tyrion's life by testifying against him and Cersei promising to save Tyrion and send him away with Shae. Only Shae would be stupid to believe her. It's not like the girl's got brains to spare.
I'm pretty sure it's 1 and either 2 or 3. I don't think it's mutually exclusive that she did it out of jealousy vs out of striking a deal with either Tywin or Cersei. It makes the most sense to me as something she did out of jealousy and also out of practicality. Show Shae clearly displays signs of jealousy. But I think she is also a good survivalist and therefore worked out a deal with someone in order to preserve herself. Both of these things provide motivation for her together, rather than in opposition.
Show Shae has been portrayed in a way that jealousy or greed don't make much sense as motivation.
I disagree with this. I think show Shae has been set up to show jealousy more than book Shae. Specifically, Tyrion has shunned her sexually for weeks (while we get brief updates on this this would be something that would affect a lover intensely) and then chased her out of town against her will and rather coldly (even if the coldness was necessary). I think that the main issue here might just be that there wasn't enough screen time to demonstrate all of this effectively/convincingly.
This, btw, is I think the most difficult challenge for the television adaptation. There are so many story lines that sometimes characters transitions, which are a strength of the books and even of the show when they give them enough time, seem to happen pretty fast at times and a lot of that development is left off screen. It's somewhat necessary I think though. Or at least, it's hard to say that it isn't working well when the show is so damn popular. My unsullied girlfriend is completely engulfed in the story the show is telling. Anecdotal, but backs up the ridiculous ratings.
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I don't like the way the spinny-map thing goes to Braavos; it makes it really hard to gauge direction and distance. It makes Braavos look way further from Westeros than it is based on the maps I've seen.
I agree on that point but I love how it goes from Braavos to Mereen. It really helped provide the geographical context there. I wonder if it was a choice between the two. It's been spinning differently from the wall all season to get to slaver's bay. The addition of Braavos, even if for a made up meeting, seems to have been the impetus for the shift in how the intro spins away from the wall.
I thought that this was a fantastic episode. I'm unsure how I feel about the Bolton/Greyjoy changes until I see where they lead. I was pretty much ok with it, but I didn't like how Yara leaving struck a chord of tucking her tail between her legs. I found it disheartening because I think she's tougher than that (though I recognize the difficulty of her situation).
But alas, Dinklage was amazing during the trial. And really the whole trial felt very true to the books at it's heart. I knew they would do the walk out with Shae and it was as dramatic as I expected. Really really impressed with that. For what it's worth, my non-book reading girlfriend was so upset that it ended when it did. She was sooooo into the trial.
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I guess I'm in no mood to try to remember all the history in this show. Guess I just wanted this a new clean plot.
I worried about this too. I recognized some people but couldn't remember anything about them. It's been 5 years so a little more exposition there would have been nice.
Re: Chloe and makeup. I'm sure I was the only one, but I couldn't help but think that she must have smelled something horrendous. Given the method of torture and being strapped down like that I envisioned someone who moved their bowels. And I felt people should be backing away from her and insisting on a shower. Which is weird that I can suspend disbelief just about everywhere (including torture methods that we know don't work working) but I just can't look past the expected odor issue.
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I also really liked how they handled her breaking through the wall. First, it would have been absurd for her to just on instinct break through the wall and it would have crossed the point of where I can suspend disbelief and enjoy the moment. Having the wall clearly weakened by water damage helped provide a level of belief which I appreciated. I also just appreciated that it helps to demonstrate Sarah's street smarts and perhaps as others suggest some extra strength? The extra strength may not be necessary. We can do crazy things when our adrenaline is rushing. And perhaps that's all it was. It would of course make me super sore to fight through a wall though. I wonder if Sarah's potential healing abilities/muscular strength (or whatever it is) helps her recover quickly from that kind of muscle trauma.
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I've heard of the PO being in a store in little bitty towns, but I didn't think Duluth was that small. And that place looked more like a gym than a store.
I agree. It might have fit the story, but it didn't fit to reality. Duluth is a city, not a small town.
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A nitpick: that sure didn't look like an US Post Office branch I'd ever seen. The guy wasn't even in uniform.
Well, in my old small town the post office was at the general store and the postal clerk was the store clerk. But Duluth isn't nearly as small as that small Pennsylvania town and would most definitely have a more traditional post office. So that felt off in every way imaginable to me. Duluth has over 80,000 people (compared to the 250 registered voting in the small PA town). Edited to spell "compared" correctly.
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Well, Sarah doesn't seem to have the lung disease problem of Cosima and Katja. Maybe it's not that simple. Maybe Sarah was just able to pass on the healing thing to Kira but doesn't have it herself.
The main thing about Sarah is that she's not sterile, unlike Dolly the lamb or clones in general. So, for purposes of plot, I suppose any one of the clones could pretend to be Sarah and threaten to off herself to manipulate DYAD.
I don't know that we've seen Sarah's healing abilities yet per se. But the fact that Helena and Kira have them does suggest that Sarah does as well. Or could have them anyhow. It's possible that some special traits (healing, ability to birth, etc...) could be carried by one twin but not the other. I think we just have to wait and see what's true.
S01.E02: Penguin One, Us Zero
in The Leftovers [V]
They are both hideous acts. And I thought a number of people have commented negatively on both. I think people blinked is what I'm saying.
It's interesting to read that the dog and teen shooting are not really in the books. Those were two things that really bothered me. I'm just not sure i'm going to enjoy this show. I feel that the adaptation thus far is wanting if those are the kinds of changes they decided to make. I mean, i'm sure they are going for shock value but it should at least make some sense to the plot and the reality within which this is all happening.