General TV Discussion and Thread for Shows Without A Thread Thread
OOTV doesnt like family comedies much huh? Raising Hope and The Middle are two of the best(possibly the best outside of NBC)comedies on tv yet no threads.
Just an observation.
I'm liking Landman a lot. It has the makings of a great show with the dramatic tension and the comic relief as well as a strong lead character.
Not bad for 48
Episode 1 was a mess. But there was a reason they introduced so many characters.
The first minute of the series was goated. “When humans rose up against the thinking machines that had enslvaed them…yada yada yada”
Where’s that show? I want to see that show
I saw the first episode and gave up during the second. Totally forget the plot already.
And Dune 1/2 are probably my 2 fav movies of the last decade so I was excited but the trailer convinced me it might be dog ****.
Lacks heart. Just focus all that money on Dune 3.
They’ve gone in some interesting directions I think. After an initial onslaught of characters and exposition
I saw the first episode and gave up during the second. Totally forget the plot already.
And Dune 1/2 are probably my 2 fav movies of the last decade so I was excited but the trailer convinced me it might be dog ****.
Lacks heart. Just focus all that money on Dune 3.
I'm still in on the show.
Question: Have you read any of the prequels?
I don’t know what happened at the end of episode 4
I haven't read any of them. Have you? They sound really interesting and like something I'd want to read, having read all the originals several times over, but the reviews seem to be unanimous in saying they aren't great.
Say Nothing is great btw
And I think S2 of Bad Sisters is out, also great
Kind of a theme there across those two. Subtitles help, that Irish accent is a whopper.
can you stop talking about landman, im trying to remain calm and wait for the whole season to be released.
you're all making it very very hard
ooooo S3 of Somebody Somewhere
Say Nothing is great btw
And I think S2 of Bad Sisters is out, also great
Kind of a theme there across those two. Subtitles help, that Irish accent is a whopper.
Say Nothing is on my end of the year list. I didn’t think Bad Sisters needed a 2nd but its existence is justified. Funnily enough, I just started Derry Girls last night and it’s great as well. That’s a shitload of Irish for me recently lol
Say Nothing is #1 with a bullet
I’ve seen a couple end of the year lists and I totally forgot about Shogun. That’s the #1 for me.
links to some good end of year lists? Or post your own!
I would easily say in no particular order:
The Day of the Jackal
The Penguin
Landman
The Agency (haven't seen The Bureau, subs)
Ripley
Industry
Shrinking
Only watched first episode of Rivals, but I'm guessing it is really good.
Slow Horses latest season
Lioness
I would easily say in no particular order:
The Day of the Jackal
The Penguin
Landman
The Agency (haven't seen The Bureau, subs)
Ripley
Industry
Shrinking
Only watched first episode of Rivals, but I'm guessing it is really good.
I'm glad I've only seen 2 of those, thanks for all the options! That said, Shrinking is a show I watch with the wife, and just for my personal taste, that's a 6/10. Particularly compared to say Somebody, Somewhere (which is kind of in the same category).
I guess they are in somewhat of an order as I would say Shrinking is the lowest of the ones mentioned and the top 3 are the top 3.
Booooo...
While Thornton’s performance, and Sheridan’s writing of his character, have been praised (Thornton recently received a Golden Globe nomination for his work on the show), the actresses who play his ex-wife and daughter — Ali Larter and Michelle Randolph, respectively — have been described as “mostly empty caricatures” and the onscreen representation of “male fantasies.”
“The objectification of women onscreen has been a norm really since the inception of Hollywood,” Claire Sisco King, chair of cinema and media arts at Vanderbilt University, told Yahoo Entertainment.
She noted that in Sheridan’s case, in which his shows operate in “traditionally masculine spaces — the ranch, the prison, the oil fields,” he also employs tactics to target “a presumptively heterosexual male audience … where women are hypersexualized and really put on display.”
Take Thornton’s onscreen daughter, for instance, who is supposed to be 17 years old.
King recalls a “very conspicuous moment of the male gaze,” in which Randolph’s character Ainsley is “walking around in her underwear” while a friend and housemate of Thornton’s character watches.
“He feels uncomfortable about it, but we still see him taking her in,” King said. “So the sort of gaze is doubled. Like we're looking and we're watching men look at them.”
This is in addition to another criticism of Ainsley's portrayal, this time of the character sleeping in the same bed as her father during an episode.
“The fact that Tommy Norris’s [Thornton] 17-year-old daughter is also being sexualized in the show is leaving viewers with a bad taste in their mouth,” Dunn said.
Who cares how old she is supposed to be, she is 27. lol
The sleeping in her father's bed is pretty weird though.
