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Which TV Series Are You Binging On?
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Archer is great.
They seem to get the balance just right in that show between the various characters. I love the way they deliberately play with the time period: ie. the characters all have cellphones - but the cars are all 1960s vintage (with an '80s vintage Screamin' Chicken Trans-Am and a broken-down Magnum-era Ferrari showing up later.) Mallory got her start as a WWII spy - but she appears to be in her late 50s. And Woodhouse claimed to be a WWI veteran.
Strangely enough, I find all the female characters on that show really - and uniquely appealing.
Can't wait but not sure many can grab me like the OJ case.
I couldn't watch the espn documentary fast enough
I'm on season 4 of "Louie," and it's wonderful. It's sort of an impressionistic anti-sitcom. There are plenty standup comedians who get cast as fathers in upbeat family/friend comedies, but this one turns the whole formula inside out with an awkward divorced protagonist interacting with caricatures of average people. The dialogue is just verbalized subtext (instead of a mean glare, a stranger will say, "I don't know enough for an informed decision, but I think you're a terrible father") and the whole thing works as a narrative-ized standup act without ever seeming like Seinfeld.
It's like somebody took a hypothetical situation from a comedy routine and turned it into a show.
Just finished a quick six episode series on Netflix called "Frontier". Not to bad, not the greatest but it had some pretty good scenes in it and here is hoping they bring on season two!
Have you ever seen any of nerdwriter1's videos on YouTube? Incredible. I didn't know much about the Sherlock Holmes show until I saw this video:
Is that good? I tried to watch one and I struggled. I'm concerned Steven Van Zandt can't carry a show on his own. He was a good side player in Sopranos but he rarely carried much of the plot.
It was decent. It took a while for me to warm up to it. About him being a good side player, that is basically what this show is about. A "side player" becoming a main player in a foreign land.
It is interesting to see a mobster deal with the unfamiliar culture and bureaucratic politics of Norway.
That's an interesting assessment, and yeah, the show is pretty fantastic (Louis CK is probably my favorite comic [of all time, er, up till right ... now]).
If you want a total change up to Louie, but that still stars (and written/produced) by LCK, you might want to check out Horace and Pete - I'll preface this by saying it's a very different show from Louie or most other TV shows. It's shot like a play, the dialog is very "written", it's dark, sometimes funny, often very sad, there's episodes with 40 minute, single shot soliloquies, there are some major stars, characters come and go, life is presenting with realistic ups and sudden downs ...
It's a web download from his site, I think the single EPs are like $3, so that's the risk investment to check one out.
Such an interesting series. What did you think of the ending (feel free to wrap in spoiler tags)?
Wow, what a great recommendation. I just watched the pilot and am a fan. Oddly enough, it didn't feel entirely dissimilar to "Louie" aside from the more somber tone and single shot soliloquies—man, some single takes lasted forever. LCK seems to be very… fair when creating characters, hardly creating straw men.
Oh I agree, I think the "tone" is very much LCK (and Louie, especially as the series progressed), the delivery mechanism is different, many of the messages are the same.
What an incredible cast too, right?
Yeah, that's it. There was a scene in the first episode of "Horace and Pete" that paralleled Louie's aggressive conversation with his more conservative friend.
Hell, they even have the same actor playing both characters. I'll admit, I was initially let down by the unceremonious ending "Louie" had, but it actually seems pretty inline with the rest of the show.
Aside from Buscemi, I wasn't familiar with most of the cast. But, man, they all work really well together.
Ahh, yeah, that was in the context of the entire run of the show, I'll leave them as surprises
