Lesley-Ann Brandt. The first (and best by about 1000000x ) Naevia from the Spartacus series.
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B Maverick
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I've caught a few episodes and enjoyed them, never in order so I wasn't even sure what season or version I was in.Lesley-Ann Brandt. The first (and best by about 1000000x ) Naevia from the Spartacus series.
zoonation
Footballguy
I'm so bummed they cancelled this show. I absolutely love it. John C. Riley is so amazing in it.
Eephus
Footballguy
The best post-mortem comment I saw on Twitter was a suggestion for a spin-off with Dr. Buss as an amateur sleuth solving crimes in 70s-80s LA.
There seemed to be less of him and more on-court stuff in season 2 to its detriment.
Eephus
Footballguy
we tapped out after a couple more episodes
El Floppo
Footballguy
I've watched a couple more (BBQ pit, and is this Chloe Sevigne?). it IS columbo. there's something there, but I think it's better without Lyonne's part of the story, tbh. but yeah... probably done.
The General
Footballguy
Winning Time finished with probably the best episode of the series. I think that is it for the show.
I know they had to tell all these side stories but the parts where they were just focused on the games was so damn good.
Whoever was responsible for the look, feel, sound track for that show needs to do more work. Was fantastic looking and so well shot.
I know they had to tell all these side stories but the parts where they were just focused on the games was so damn good.
Whoever was responsible for the look, feel, sound track for that show needs to do more work. Was fantastic looking and so well shot.
The General
Footballguy
Canceled? Didn’t realize that. I thought this was one of the better shows of past couple years. Could have gone on for at least another year or so.
CGRdrJoe
Footballguy
I watched both seasons and enjoyed it
I knew it was a homage to Columbo going in so I guess I was more prepared for the standard format of the show.
McBokonon
Footballguy
There’s the occasional lull but generally it stays very funny for a long time. The 3-8 seasons are probably their peak, so you have several great seasons to go. Maybe a bit of a dropoff after that.
HBO is blaming the writers strike and ratings but they’ve been killing things left and right for a while now. Supposedly they had them film an alternate ending all the way back in January because HBO was already thinking about cancelling it back then.
that sucks for sure. I really enjoyed the whole feel and story. Plus they nailed Magic in the casting. That guy was great and a perfect match. Kareem was good too and Bird's basketball shots were a perfect match as well. Just tremendous.
The General
Footballguy
Yep. I struggle to think of a show or movie based on games we watched and players we all know that did it better.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
The casting was superb. Even Adrian Brody, as Riley, which I questioned at first turned out to be perfect. I’m so surprised this show isn’t continuing.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
I was intrigued by it, but did not make it beyond Episode 1. Actors and story were fine, but the editing was some of the most unnecessarily and distractingly excessive that I’ve seen since Bohemian Rhapsody (or maybe Elvis, which similarly hated the editing on).
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
This must be a new style. I’ve heard other people criticize other recent shows saying the same thing. Personally I don’t notice it, to the point of not being distracted by it at least.
Obviously it would depend on each viewer to decide on that.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Definitely up to personal preference. I’ve seen people online saying that the editing was one of their favorite parts of the show. I’m just more of a long take kind of guy.
El Floppo
Footballguy
didn't we already see this on Dope Sick?
The General
Footballguy
Both he and the guy that played Jerry West were very good.
Penguin
Footballguy
It's a different take, basically Richard Sackler knew what he was doing was illegal and forged ahead destroying hundreds of thousands of lives. Who knew Ferris Bueller was so diabolic.
Psychopav
Help us, Joebi-Wan Brynobi, you're our only ho
Couldn't get past episode one. The writing is embarrassing imo. I believed about a third of the dialogue. Maybe less.
JB Breakfast Club
Footballguy
Flew through Wrestlers (Netflix documentary) this week. Really well done profile of OVW and independent wrestling.
BlackCrowes
Footballguy
Not sure how I found it, but Secret State from 2012 with Gabriel Byrne was pretty good.
belljr
Footballguy
oh crap - i forgot they release these weekly im 3 behind lol THANKS!!!
El Floppo
Footballguy
northern exposure
Footballguy
How is that a different take than Dope Sick? They definitely laid out that Sackler knew he was bending and breaking laws and didn't care because nothing was going to stop him from getting what he wanted.
Eephus
Footballguy
Warners/Max got all that crappy but semi-popular Discovery+ reality content via the merger.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Watched BS High today. Trying to conjure up a more dislikeable figure than their "coach". What a slime bucket.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Started watching Foundation on Apple+.
It's been a while since I read the books, and they haven't really stayed with me, so I'm not looking at this from a purist perspective in terms of honoring the source material.
The first 3 or so episodes are pretty good. But since then, now that the plot armor has been established, it's a lot less interesting, particularly since they spend an inordinate amount of time in lengthy scenes of individual "drama" that really have no payoff or point. I do remember that the overall story, though it does have recurring characters, it isn't really about individual character development, it's a galactic historical fantasy. So far this production is reducing things to a small, individual scale all too often, with tepid results.
Maybe that improves over the remainder of the first season and subsequent seasons.
There's also a lot of unartfully executed exposition. Also, tons of t.v. "science" mumbo-jumbo that's eyerollingly bad. I'm not talking about the psychohistory premise from Asimov (which is problematic itsef), but scenes devoted (for example) to reminding us of how much of a genius a character is by having them engage in a sciency/mathy exercise born from some writer's fevered reimagining of what they learned in junior high geometry. With the character then saying to themselves, out loud, at the completion of this farce - "I'm smarter than any computer." And this was created before the writers strike.
It's been a while since I read the books, and they haven't really stayed with me, so I'm not looking at this from a purist perspective in terms of honoring the source material.
The first 3 or so episodes are pretty good. But since then, now that the plot armor has been established, it's a lot less interesting, particularly since they spend an inordinate amount of time in lengthy scenes of individual "drama" that really have no payoff or point. I do remember that the overall story, though it does have recurring characters, it isn't really about individual character development, it's a galactic historical fantasy. So far this production is reducing things to a small, individual scale all too often, with tepid results.
Maybe that improves over the remainder of the first season and subsequent seasons.
There's also a lot of unartfully executed exposition. Also, tons of t.v. "science" mumbo-jumbo that's eyerollingly bad. I'm not talking about the psychohistory premise from Asimov (which is problematic itsef), but scenes devoted (for example) to reminding us of how much of a genius a character is by having them engage in a sciency/mathy exercise born from some writer's fevered reimagining of what they learned in junior high geometry. With the character then saying to themselves, out loud, at the completion of this farce - "I'm smarter than any computer." And this was created before the writers strike.
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ericttspikes
Footballguy
The Jewel Thief doc on Hulu is pretty cool. Never heard of the story before. Was weird that the guy was video documenting his life since the 80’s, but that made it really interesting.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I'll say it it for you - the production value is high but the story is nigh unwatchable.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
6 episodes in and it's definitely starting to feel that way.
At this point, there are too many shows, not enough writers - strike or not. We've got t.v. inflation, and while quantity probably results in more quality from a sheer numbers standpoint, I don't know that quality has increased proportionally with the increase in shows.
ericttspikes
Footballguy
Full Metal Jousting is streaming on Amazon Prime/Freevee. I remember watching this 10 years ago when it was on the History Channel and now rewatching with my family. This is what I wanted Medieval Times to be; full contact jousting. Kind of repetitive, but I stay for the dehorsings.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
@Andy Dufresne o.k. I've gone though the end of season 1, and it got worse with every subsequent episode. If I continued on it'd be a hate watch at this point.
Pure dreck. I imagine writers rooms for all these shows are self congratulatory circle jerk echo chambers in which a multitude of clowns gush over moronic dialog, characterization, theme and plot choices with each other. It's sad that all these opportunities are being squandered.
General Malaise
Footballguy
I tried to watch Bama Rush on MAX and it broke my brain 30 minutes into it. Are these people for real? What a waste of my time.
Osaurus
Footballguy
Scary, isn’t it?
Runkle
Footballguy
Wish they made more of these. Guess it went south after the dude punched his horse.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Very late to the party here, but I blew through Mad Men in about three months, and boy was that worth it. I had watched about the first two seasons (maybe) quite a while ago, but I gave up because the show just wasn't what I was expecting. In particular, I just didn't "get" Don's backstory and found that a distraction from the show I thought I was going to be watching, which I guess I thought was going to be a bunch of personal backstabbing in an ad agency in the early 1960s. Obviously the personal backstabbing is there, but with the passage of time I was able to re-set my expectations and jump back in, and it really paid off.
Having binged both Succession and Mad Men nearly back-to-back, I think there's a lot of value to binging these sorts of shows instead of dragging them out over years. These shows have a lot of character development and very subtle callbacks that would be easy to overlook if you're supposed to be remembering an episode that aired three years ago, but that are much easier to follow if you just watched that episode two weeks back. Breezy, uncomplicated shows that don't demand too much of the viewer (e.g. Game of Thrones) work just great on a weekly basis. This one was better to plow through all at once.
I had expected the finale to be more of a happy ending. Because I live in our culture and am online from time to time, I knew that the finale featured Don coming up with a particular famous ad, so I had psychologically coded that as "happy ending," when the ending was actually sort of pitch black. Big fan of that. In fact, I liked how they wrapped up every character's story line and thought everyone got a good send-off. I have no idea how this was received at the time, but I thought it was one of the better endings to a long-running show that I've seen in a while.
Having binged both Succession and Mad Men nearly back-to-back, I think there's a lot of value to binging these sorts of shows instead of dragging them out over years. These shows have a lot of character development and very subtle callbacks that would be easy to overlook if you're supposed to be remembering an episode that aired three years ago, but that are much easier to follow if you just watched that episode two weeks back. Breezy, uncomplicated shows that don't demand too much of the viewer (e.g. Game of Thrones) work just great on a weekly basis. This one was better to plow through all at once.
I had expected the finale to be more of a happy ending. Because I live in our culture and am online from time to time, I knew that the finale featured Don coming up with a particular famous ad, so I had psychologically coded that as "happy ending," when the ending was actually sort of pitch black. Big fan of that. In fact, I liked how they wrapped up every character's story line and thought everyone got a good send-off. I have no idea how this was received at the time, but I thought it was one of the better endings to a long-running show that I've seen in a while.
Finally finished my binge thru all 6 seasons of Justified. Timothy Olyphant is one of my favorites but I tried watching Justified years ago and gave up during season 1 because it was a typical cookie cutter, episodic show (ie catch this week's bad guy). Glad I tried again and stuck it out because it gets so much better season 2 and onward.
Zow
Footballguy
Agree with all of your points. The second half of season one isn't great and I almost bailed myself. Season two though is much better and I'm glad I stuck with it. I'd encourage you sticking with it a bit longer if you can.
ETA: I generally watched episodes just before bed after an edible so take that for what it's worth.
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