TV Serieseseses
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Constellation.
Found it too messy, convoluted, slow and predictable. Jonathan Banks was outstanding though.
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The Sympathizer might be interesting
North Vietnam spy The Captain (Hoa Xuande) ends up living in a South Vietnamese refugee community in Los Angeles and finds his loyalty tested in the limited series based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel of the same name.
Robert Downey Jr is in it.
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@Victor-Meldrew yeah I didn't mind it once I realised what was happening but didn't feel it was clear enough, as you say, messy.
Banks was good and integral to what was going on.
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American Rust
I've watched both seasons so far of this tale about a rust belt town in south-western Pennsylvania, USA. It's typical Jeff Bridges TV series where nuance and complexity exist - practically no-one is without flaw or fault of some kind.
Set up well for a third season which I hope they make.
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@antipodean said in TV Serieseseses:
American Rust
I've watched both seasons so far of this tale about a rust belt town in south-western Pennsylvania, USA. It's typical Jeff Bridges TV series where nuance and complexity exist - practically no-one is without flaw or fault of some kind.
Set up well for a third season which I hope they make.
Whilst Bridges could easily have been cast in it, it's Daniels steering this ship.
Excellent two seasons.
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Very promising start
If you enjoyed
or
or read any of Gary Shteyngart's stuff
You'll love it
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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
@antipodean said in TV Serieseseses:
American Rust
I've watched both seasons so far of this tale about a rust belt town in south-western Pennsylvania, USA. It's typical Jeff Bridges TV series where nuance and complexity exist - practically no-one is without flaw or fault of some kind.
Set up well for a third season which I hope they make.
Whilst Bridges could easily have been cast in it, it's Daniels steering this ship.
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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
Very promising start
If you enjoyed
or
or read any of Gary Shteyngart's stuff
You'll love it
I'll give it a go then because I love Death of Stalin. I watch it every few months, like Sicario.
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3 eps into Fallout, which is pretty good.
Given there have been plenty of game adaptations, this one seems to be the only one I can recall where it seems they have included some NPCs as obvious as they did.
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Holy shit, strap in for a ride on the rollercoaster.
Keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times.
4 tragedies out of 5 comedies
Maybe 4.5
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Ripley
Two episodes in and pretty good so far. The guy who played the slimeball double crossing agent in Bond is well cast as the lead character. The town where it is filmed could not be more beautiful either ( even in black and white )
I never knew they/them’s were a thing in the 1960s but nice virtue signalling to cast Stings child ( thanks google ) in a lead role.
I know the whole story having seen the film but it’ll still be interesting how they do things.
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@MN5 said in TV Serieseseses:
Ripley
Two episodes in and pretty good so far. The guy who played the slimeball double crossing agent in Bond is well cast as the lead character. The town where it is filmed could not be more beautiful either ( even in black and white )
I never knew they/them’s were a thing in the 1960s but nice virtue signalling to cast Stings child ( thanks google ) in a lead role.
Them’s always been around they just didn’t get bent out of shape if you called her Sir
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Re: Fallout
- somebody needs to convince me to finish the game.
I recently started Fallout 3 - which I assume the show is based on. But I find it... a chore... to go back to, compared to other options.
Do I bother continuing, or do I just watch the TV show, and tick that piece of nerd-culture as ticked-off-via-shortcut?
- somebody needs to convince me to finish the game.
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@Kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
Re: Fallout
- somebody needs to convince me to finish the game.
I recently started Fallout 3 - which I assume the show is based on. But I find it... a chore... to go back to, compared to other options.
Do I bother continuing, or do I just watch the TV show, and tick that piece of nerd-culture as ticked-off-via-shortcut?
FO3 is 16 years old - I don't think it's possible to convince people to play games that old they haven't played before, let alone convince them to continue if it doesn't appeal.
Fallout the TV series has elements I recognise of FO3, FO4 and FO New Vegas. Even with the upcoming update to FO4, I'd just watch the series and be done with it.
- somebody needs to convince me to finish the game.