Robespierre
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For me, the shot of the night was Tawney's feet emerging from the worn, dirty sneakers as contrasted with the angelic white dress.
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That's the outcome to the season-long Lettie Mae/Tara plot? Really?
Every scene without Eric or Sarah Newlin in it felt utterly pointless.
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I think the people in white knew the preacher was on his way to the bank with the money and set up the whole stoning incident. They knew he would stop and help. Why did the jeep back up and throw a stone at the preacher if he is not one of the white people? I call it a total set up so they could get his church.
So why not steal his money while he's unconscious?
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I still dislike Teddy and if he honestly wanted a heart to heart talk about Daniel he should have gone to his minister instead of the sheriff, he is trying to get Daniel put back in jail.
Having lived in the Deep South, I think a Southern Baptist minister is about the last person any male victim of sexual assault would go to for counsel.
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I finished the 2nd season of Durham County and found it entertaining if not quite as creepy as Season 1. Looking forward to season 3, which @Robespierre considered the best. I have a few concerns about the quality of Canadian prisons, but maybe that's a discussion for another thread...? ;-)
Spoiler tags because I'm going in depth about season 2, for any future readers of this thread. Portia, everything in this post is safe for you.
Ray wasn't in "prison" per se, but a criminal psychiatric hospital. Those should also probably have better security than the show's, of course, but I considered it only a minor stretch that a doctor could move through one with nothing but a passcard and a uniform.
I love the water theme in S2 (if each season has a leitmotif, season 1's is dolls, season 2's is water, and season 3's is blood). I also loved how the psych ward was lit like a church, with Ray and Pen's final position evoking the Jesus and Mary paintings. In the season's first episode, Elodie Belknapp's crucifixion-esque pose is immediately mirrored in a quick cut to Maddie floating in the hotel pool, arms out, with the black line below her forming the T.
And wow, that discussion between Pen and Ray. "Better a monster than an ordinary man." I think when Ray finally took her life, both murderer and victim thought of it as a mercy kill.
If you ask me, it's Michelle Forbes's performance of a lifetime -- and one that got so deeply under her skin that she took her role on True Blood just to decompress from it and do something "lighthearted" as a murderous maenad.
Trivia: The scene where Bonnie crab-walks out of the empty pool involved no CG, merely a young Russian contortionist. It was originally written as straight-up horror, but Forbes and the girl had such chemistry that the director decided to take it in a more creepily tender direction.
And it may be slightly cheesy, but the Christopher Marlowe bit at the end never fails to give me chills.
Incidentally, to save you some confusion, season 3 takes place 6 years after season 2 (7 years after season 1). The precise timeframe is in a throwaway line of dialogue in episode 2 or 3, and is easy to miss.
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Thanks for the recommendation! I watched the first season of Durham County this week (just six episodes long) and found it not brilliant but a cut above the usual crime drama dreck. Some of the acting was subpar--honestly, I think the lead, Hugh Dillon, is the weakest link--but I'm obsessed with young Laurence Lebouef and with her character, Mike's teen daughter, Sadie. I think I'll give S2 a go once I'm done binge-watching OITNB this weekend.
Agree with you about Hugh Dillon. If it's any consolation, he gets better as the show goes on -- and the supporting cast around him (Louis Ferreira, Michelle Forbes, Michael Nardone) are pretty strong. The third season is my favourite.
And yes, we're all in love with Laurence Leboeuf.
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Thank you, SilverStormm!
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Okay, guys, I have a really stupid question about the Unsullied. (Bear in mind that I'm not the most observant watcher of this show; my wife loves it, but I only pay attention about half the time.)
So, the Unsullied are all castrati, right? (Do they ever say what age they clip them at?)
So why do they have deep voices and considerable muscles? Does Astopor have medieval Androgel?
Maybe this is a stupid question to ask about a show that features dragons, but I thought the human parts were supposed to work basically the same way as in our world.
Am I just overthinking this?
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3 is definitely my favourite, with "Middle Ground" standing out for me as the show's best episode.
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Agree on the love for Spiral and Top of the Lake, but I gotta get in a plug for the brutally dark but fascinating Canadian show Durham County.
(Incidentally, this is my first post on Previously.tv. Yet another TWoP refugee here.)
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S07.E10: Thank You
in True Blood [V]
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Plus side: 10 minutes of Eric and Pam! No lumberjacks.
Minus side: Everything else.
Bill is such an entitled asshole you can easily believe he was born in the 1850s. "Hey, Sookie, even though I know the thing you want most in the world is for me to live, I'm going to ask you not only to kill me, but to kill me in a way that means you give up the fairy powers that have been the only thing saving you from death half a dozen times in this series! AND IT'S ALL BECAUSE I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!"
What was the point of Sookie suddenly being able to hear Bill's thoughts?
What was the point of any of this?
Also, why did Bill look considerably healthier tonight than he did in the last two episodes? Characters kept commenting on how bad he looked, and the only thing I could think of was that it was in the script but the makeup artists were on strike and they decided to film it anyway.