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MUScoop => The Superbar => Topic started by: reinko on February 18, 2014, 12:23:09 PM
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Yumma humma, is that an awesome show.
HBO, Sunday nights. Some of the best TV I have ever seen.
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Well worth the time.
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Hands down my favorite show out right now. McConaughey and Harrelson are incredible in the show.
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Watching two gifted actors slowly working material this good.......enjoying it immensely.
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I watch it every week and enjoy it very much, but among the best TV ever is probably a stretch. Agree that the two leads are outstanding.
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Yumma humma, is that an awesome show.
HBO, Sunday nights. Some of the best TV I have ever seen.
My favorite episodic show. You didn't take my recommendation back in December when I saw the first episode and raved about it? Darn it Reinko!!!
It really is top notch, wait until you see the last episode...HOLY CRAP. I would be stunned if it isn't a Golden Globe winner in multiple categories.
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My favorite episodic show. You didn't take my recommendation back in December when I saw the first episode and raved about it? Darn it Reinko!!!
It really is top notch, wait until you see the last episode...HOLY CRAP. I would be stunned if it isn't a Golden Globe winner in multiple categories.
Last 2 episodes especially - as good as it gets on TV.
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Last 2 episodes especially - as good as it gets on TV.
Yes, especially after a disappointing episode 3. Last two have been sensational with both writing and acting.
With three more to go, I hope Matthew McC has been working the case for the last ten years and has the storage facility with all the evidence against someone in the ranks/government. Has to be a significant turn at the end.
After this, GOT starts up 4/6/14. HBO Sundays are awesome.
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My favorite episodic show. You didn't take my recommendation back in December when I saw the first episode and raved about it? Darn it Reinko!!!
It really is top notch, wait until you see the last episode...HOLY CRAP. I would be stunned if it isn't a Golden Globe winner in multiple categories.
Jams
I don't have HBO. Is this available on Bit Torrent? I just hate having to pay for content.
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Well no point in discussing it, as Chicos has already beat us to the ending.
I heard this is going to be a mini-series type show, with a different story, characters and actors each season, which kind of sucks, because I think the Harrelson and McConaughey are outstanding.
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Better to have a finite end with this cast than go all 'Twin Peaks'. The cinematography and choreography of that raid/action sequence at the end of the 4th (?) episode was amazing.
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Jams
I don't have HBO. Is this available on Bit Torrent? I just hate having to pay for content.
cough< Pirate Bay >cough
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The cinematography and choreography of that raid/action sequence at the end of the 4th (?) episode was amazing.
It was every bit the equal of the 'Red Wedding' episode from GOT
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Better to have a finite end with this cast than go all 'Twin Peaks'. The cinematography and choreography of that raid/action sequence at the end of the 4th (?) episode was amazing.
The sequence went viral the day after because of directing/cinematography. I guess it went on for 8 minutes and was a continual shot, no takes, no breaks, etc. It was episode #4. I'll try to find link.
Found it.
http://www.barstoolsports.com/philly/super-page/people-need-to-realize-the-final-scene-from-true-detective-last-night-was-beyond-boss/
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Jams
I don't have HBO. Is this available on Bit Torrent? I just hate having to pay for content.
Yes. Send me your IP address and I'll pass it on to your fellow gov't brethren at the DOJ. :D
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Well no point in discussing it, as Chicos has already beat us to the ending.
I heard this is going to be a mini-series type show, with a different story, characters and actors each season, which kind of sucks, because I think the Harrelson and McConaughey are outstanding.
It is an anthology series, so it will be back next year much like an American Horror Story. New story, new location, new cast.
I am not spoiling anything for the rest of you, just as I haven't at work....I'd get killed if I did...literally. They take that stuff seriously. Best series I have seen in a long time. G.O.T. coming around the corner as well. Good stuff!
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I can't find the article...
But I read somewhere that movie stars are moving to TV now more than ever because they realize how much they can really do with a character over the course of a season or two as opposed to the short stint of a movie.
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I can't find the article...
But I read somewhere that movie stars are moving to TV now more than ever because they realize how much they can really do with a character over the course of a season or two as opposed to the short stint of a movie.
It pays really well, too. THUS, why you see costs for programming going up up up up. HBO's programming budget this year is about $1 billion.
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I can't find the article...
But I read somewhere that movie stars are moving to TV now more than ever because they realize how much they can really do with a character over the course of a season or two as opposed to the short stint of a movie.
I saw the same article - and it's not just the actor's. It is a writer's medium right now.
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...because I think the Harrelson and McConaughey are outstanding.
They are, of course, but highlight performance so far was Alexandra Daddario in episode 2. Somebody had to say it.
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They are, of course, but highlight performance so far was Alexandra Daddario in episode 2. Somebody had to say it.
Yeah. Those were big.
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They are, of course, but highlight performance so far was Alexandra Daddario in episode 2. Somebody had to say it.
I would argue if I could.......
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I thought that last night was the most predictable of the episodes so far. Since it had been made clear earlier that (A) Rust had quit, (B) the two had a falling out, (C) that Reverend Tulley had committed suicide, (D) Rust had continued to work the case, this episode was like Star Wars 1-2-3, in that you finally got to see, in a straightforward, no real surprises manner how it all the stuff that had been alluded to came to be. The only real surprise to me was who Marty ended up cheating with.
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I thought that last night was the most predictable of the episodes so far. Since it had been made clear earlier that (A) Rust had quit, (B) the two had a falling out, (C) that Reverend Tulley had committed suicide, (D) Rust had continued to work the case, this episode was like Star Wars 1-2-3, in that you finally got to see, in a straightforward, no real surprises manner how it all the stuff that had been alluded to came to be. The only real surprise to me was who Marty ended up cheating with.
Agreed, you could have called the Rust indiscretion and the eventual Tuttle involvement about halfway into the first episode (my wife did). Still love the show. Given the pace of the show up until now, it is interesting/surprising that they apparently will satisfactorily wrap the whole thing up in just 2 more episodes.
As an aside, my wife and I try to see all the best picture nominees and PPV'd Dallas Buyers Club over the weekend. Not a particularly good movie, but a great performance by Matthew McConaughey and an even better one by Jared Leto.
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spoiler alerts please! (I'm only up to episode 3)
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spoiler alerts please! (I'm only up to episode 3)
Sorry, didn't think I was giving anything away.
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[mild spoilers]
I've been reading 'The King in Yellow' the last week and they really seemed to ramp up the allusion to the book this week. The scene in the mental health facility where Rust confronts Reggie LaDeux's (sp?) victim is a nice echo of 'The Mask' - the second of the two short stories in 'The King in Yellow' that references the fictional play 'The King in Yellow.'
That combined with the 'next week on' clips at the end of episode 6 make me think that the Carcosa mythology and occult aspects of the case are going to really ramp up next week.
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Hmmm. To borrow from Smokey and the Bandit.....they have a long way to go and a short time to get there.
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Hmmm. To borrow from Smokey and the Bandit.....they have a long way to go and a short time to get there.
They get there
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Some of you might enjoy this conjecture
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/03/-em-true-detective-em-reinvents-itself-again/284141/
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http://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/Matthew_McConaughey_Not_Returning_for_True_Detective_Season_2-248143231.html
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http://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/Matthew_McConaughey_Not_Returning_for_True_Detective_Season_2-248143231.html
None of them are. Different story next year, different plot, everything. It's an anthology series.
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No, I don't watch silly fiction. Is that breaking bread show over and this is the new cool thing to watch?
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No, I don't watch silly fiction. Is that breaking bread show over and this is the new cool thing to watch?
Have you ever read one of them book thingies?
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Have you ever read one of them book thingies?
Yes, but I don't read fiction.
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Yes, but I don't read fiction.
I'll go way out on a limb here, but I'm guessing you think Art and Music are a waste of time as well.
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I'll go way out on a limb here, but I'm guessing you think Art and Music are a waste of time as well.
No. I have a DEEP background in music. Art? Depends on the specifics, but generally think it's great.
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Thoughts ;)
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that's why there are 9,567 channels (or more) something for everyone. It would be a very boring world if we all liked the same thing.
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Thoughts ;)
I always thought that the story line was more about the relationship between Harrelson and McConaughy than anything else. For a show to be good, the characters have to be the story - whether it is a Walter White, or the Lannisters or whoever. And these two didn't disappoint. The final 15 minutes were the whole show in a nutshell.
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Technology fails again
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/heavy/article/True-Detective-Finale-Causes-HBO-Go-Crash-5302413.php
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I always thought that the story line was more about the relationship between Harrelson and McConaughy than anything else. For a show to be good, the characters have to be the story - whether it is a Walter White, or the Lannisters or whoever. And these two didn't disappoint. The final 15 minutes were the whole show in a nutshell.
- I agree, thats what the writers wanted, but not the public. No conspiracy, etc.
- First 15 minutes was slow, middle 30 was great, last 15 was Rust realizing he saw life/death.
- WTF was that hurricane thing coming from sky?
- BTW, now way in real life does Rust survive a six inch knife wound, with upward thrust to the abdomen, ah, television.....
- Acting by all was off the charts the whole series.
- Now it's GOT time.
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Acting was superb. The villain turned out to be smaller than all of the build up had led us to believe. The Tulley's are still loose ends. It was really exciting, tremendous middle, but somehow it left me somewhat unfulfilled.
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Acting was superb. The villain turned out to be smaller than all of the build up had led us to believe. The Tulley's are still loose ends. It was really exciting, tremendous middle, but somehow it left me somewhat unfulfilled.
Pretty much exactly my take as well.
OTOH, it could have been much worse. They could have showed the villain "making flowers."
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Pretty much exactly my take as well.
OTOH, it could have been much worse. They could have showed the villain "making flowers."
I think we did get to hear him making flowers near the end. That would have been a sight. The good thing of course, he ended up pushing flowers--daisies, that is.
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- I agree, thats what the writers wanted, but not the public. No conspiracy, etc.
- First 15 minutes was slow, middle 30 was great, last 15 was Rust realizing he saw life/death.
- WTF was that hurricane thing coming from sky?
- BTW, now way in real life does Rust survive a six inch knife wound, with upward thrust to the abdomen, ah, television.....
- Acting by all was off the charts the whole series.
- Now it's GOT time.
Sure Rust survives, he was crazy tough--and it is the movies, right?
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The ending was fine. They tied everything up. Rust got some sense of closure with his daughter.
I guess I was expecting more. But it was fine. It just wasn't Breaking Bad good.
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The ending was fine. They tied everything up. Rust got some sense of closure with his daughter.
I guess I was expecting more. But it was fine. It just wasn't Breaking Bad good.
Maybe we are just too used to big Hollywood endings where everything is tied up in the last act? Things don't happen that way in life.
That's the appeal of GOT. Good guys don't always win. Good people die and bad people die.
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Just finally getting around to watching this. Great stuff all around. Finished up episode 6 and looking forward to the home stretch.
Between this and House of Cards (which I just also caught up on), I feel like the high end TV market is just as good, if not better, than what is currently playing in theaters.
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Just finally getting around to watching this. Great stuff all around. Finished up episode 6 and looking forward to the home stretch.
Between this and House of Cards (which I just also caught up on), I feel like the high end TV market is just as good, if not better, than what is currently playing in theaters.
Totally agree with you here. I almost never watch movies anymore. Check out Bloodlines, as well, on Netflix. Kinda the same slow, southern vibe as True Detectives, albeit a much different story.
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Totally agree with you here. I almost never watch movies anymore. Check out Bloodlines, as well, on Netflix. Kinda the same slow, southern vibe as True Detectives, albeit a much different story.
Wanted to check that out. Is it similar in the mystery sense?