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FreyrFreyja t1_j6iwmmd wrote
Reply to Which shows do you think needs a "warning" before watching? i.e. Bad first season, skip X, Y is bad etc by alienfreaks04
There really is an xkcd for everything.
fastrthnu t1_j6iwlhp wrote
Reply to Which shows do you think needs a "warning" before watching? i.e. Bad first season, skip X, Y is bad etc by alienfreaks04
I must watch everything in its entirety. I could never skip a season. However it is good to know that a show gets better after the first season before I commit.
stumpcity t1_j6iwi6w wrote
Reply to Swarm: Donald Glover’s Beyoncé-Inspired New Series Has Notes of Don Draper and Murder by Sisiwakanamaru
Headline makes no sense, especially when the piece itself drops two much more interesting comparison points:
Piano Teacher and King of Comedy
Glover & Nabers teaming up to basically channel the way, way, way ahead of its time satire of King of Comedy, but aimed directly at TikTok/Insta/"Stan" culture?
FUCK YES
Guessing Vanity Fair editors put that headline together because referencing "Mad Men" in any way likely perks their eyes up (and their imagined readership's eyes) more than citing the actual influences behind the show.
yodimboi t1_j6iwfb6 wrote
Reply to comment by Slithering_Cobra25 in Actors who were fired from the 1st or 2nd season of a hit show, even though they were good in it. by Lili_Danube
Weren’t his tweets some stupid frat boy shit though from almost 10 years ago? Like they weren’t exactly great things to say, but I feel like it was overkill to fire him over that. Although I might be misremembering. From what I remember it was sth along the lines of “BOOBS BOOBS BOOBS I LIKE BOOBS”
Edit: Well they were signing worse than I thought, but from what I’ve seen, this looks like your average idiot who like American Psycho a lil too much.
yazzy1233 t1_j6iwbrj wrote
Isn't season 3 already filmed
Greedy-Creme-995 t1_j6iw52e wrote
Cancel the show
HiggetyFlough t1_j6ivsji wrote
Reply to comment by HPmoni in What are some shows that were advertised to one demographic, but became successful outside of the target demographic? by blqckwidow
I don't get how you watch the sex-ed episode, which is clearly mocking the whole conservative prudishness against sex-ed, and think that it has an anti-liberal ending. Peggy is literally a substitute teacher, she is teaching sex ed while being paid by the local government,
mirror_number t1_j6ivcy4 wrote
Reply to comment by Prestigious-Ad-6808 in Swarm: Donald Glover’s Beyoncé-Inspired New Series Has Notes of Don Draper and Murder by Sisiwakanamaru
She's so good in The Deuce, was sad when I found out >!she only had a brief scene in the third season!<.
meeseeksanddestroy t1_j6ivb08 wrote
Reply to comment by BrockThrowaway in The Leftovers, season 2, episode 8, is the weirdest hour of television I have EVER watched. That is all. by TimeTraveler3056
The show told people directly for a whole season that the key to enjoyment and probably happiness for the characters, should they choose to pursue it, was just "letting the mystery be."
baltikorean t1_j6iv5p1 wrote
Altruistic_Yam1372 t1_j6iv3n4 wrote
Reply to What are some shows that were advertised to one demographic, but became successful outside of the target demographic? by blqckwidow
So a current favourite of mine - Lockwood and co - was not at all advertised in india. I mean, Netflix india instagram does not have a single post on the show. Yet it is #2 here in India
Delicious-Tachyons t1_j6iuvuq wrote
Reply to comment by grandmofftalkin in What’s actually a good/tolerable example of retconning? by unitedfan6191
> Picard and Data were best friends,
no no the show Picard said that Picard loved Data in a soulmate kinda way.
Greedy-Creme-995 t1_j6iusj8 wrote
Reply to Which shows do you think needs a "warning" before watching? i.e. Bad first season, skip X, Y is bad etc by alienfreaks04
None because all of that is made up
Delicious-Tachyons t1_j6iujxr wrote
Reply to comment by NotARandomNumber in What’s actually a good/tolerable example of retconning? by unitedfan6191
yeah the movie was basically ... the stargate went to one planet in a distant galaxy(!), that was it. The alien had been just sorta chilling out there for several thousand years for no particular raisin.
The TV show was a massive improvement even if visually it didn't have the money to out-cinematic the movie
yodimboi t1_j6iu4q1 wrote
Reply to comment by AxumitePriest in The Leftovers, season 2, episode 8, is the weirdest hour of television I have EVER watched. That is all. by TimeTraveler3056
International Assassin aired 2 years before the Twin Peaks episode, and as far as I know Lindelof isn’t a time traveller
Aldryc t1_j6iu2hf wrote
Reply to comment by Mnemosense in Should I watch Mr. Robot? I keep hearing it’s one of the best shows ever. by 1000Fatkidz
I really don't know how people were satisfied with how White Rose and The Dark Army plot resolved. After spending so much time on White Rose outmaneuvering every other major player in the show, it was insanely disappointing to have her arc and the mysteries surrounding her plan to be answered with essentially that she's just crazy.
Elliot's personal trauma and how his mental health felt like it had been planned from the start, and was a very satisfying wrap up. E-Corp, White Rose and a lot of the mysteries felt like they never had a plan behind them.
uknownada t1_j6ituq2 wrote
Why are you seeking Reddit's opinion? If you're interested, give it another chance!
[deleted] t1_j6itt2v wrote
Good. It’s funny to see the left proves Bill’s point over and over again lol
Delicious-Tachyons t1_j6its2f wrote
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine changed everything about the "Trill" species in order to make for better TV.
When introduced on Star Trek: The Next Generation, they were your standard bump-on-forehead alien (kinda very ugly look). They couldn't use the transporters or it would kill the symbiont, and the symbiont completely subsumed the host's personality, as if the host was just a shell for the symbiont to inhabit. In addition, noone outside of their people knew they were a 'joined' species as they apparently weren't part of the Federation but just some aliens.
For DS9 my guess is the makeup didn't look good on the gorgeous Terry Farrell and having no transporters would have severely limited what kinds of scenes her character could participate in. They also retconned them to have been not only in the Federation but in Starfleet.
This led to a much more interesting character and backstory for Dax.
mike10dude t1_j6isidl wrote
they should put his youtube show on cnn might have to stop getting high with the guests though
Grey_wolf_whenever t1_j6ishce wrote
Reply to comment by EsquilaxM in What are some shows that were advertised to one demographic, but became successful outside of the target demographic? by blqckwidow
that is a massive part of why that fandom is seen as weird
Fthewigg t1_j6is3vs wrote
Reply to comment by TapedeckNinja in The Leftovers, season 2, episode 8, is the weirdest hour of television I have EVER watched. That is all. by TimeTraveler3056
Cool, it’s a great standalone episode, I suppose. If I wasn’t so frustrated with the general insanity of the shows “direction,” I might appreciate it better.
Other than the characters, please tell me how it connects to season one. My point is story continuity, and the lack thereof.
You Leftovers fans are just so precious. If more people watched your show (like, give it the viewership of Sopranos or Breaking Bad), those numbers would absolutely plummet. People who like a show enough to keep watching rate it high? Who could’ve possibly guessed?
What would it be if everyone watched it?
I think Breaking Bad is spectacular and I think the rating of Ozymandias is way too high, so…
grond_master t1_j6irqqg wrote
I use TVDown.co - it's a website you can customize to add your shows, and it picks them up from TVMaze. There isn't an option to track what shows you've watched or haven't yet, but it suits the purpose I want it for: to show up which shows are coming up next, that too in my time zone's time.
The_Iceman2288 t1_j6irmm8 wrote
Reply to comment by darksyns in CNN To Show Bill Maher’s ‘Overtime’ Segments As Part Of Friday Night by ceaguila84
Not so much a centrist as he as all-in on far right culture war bullshit.
Digess t1_j6iwndj wrote
Reply to ‘Bridgerton’ Star Phoebe Dynevor Exits Netflix Series Ahead Of Season 3 by TheRealOcsiban
I mean expected cos aside from The Duke and I, which was s1, Daphne is barely in besides as a background character