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AlexBrovechkin8 said:
Peaky is phenomenal. I haven’t watch S6 yet because of life but it’s an incredible show. I may rewatch it just because. Every season they seem to add a villain who is just a perfect fit.

Peaky was my original Covid show. Got insomnia during the first few months and what got me through those long nights was a lot of different Irish whiskey recipes and binging Peaky Blinders :laugh:

I think season 2 is where Alfie Solomons is introduced. Easily my favorite character, Tom Hardy is perfect. Between Solomons and Bane from The Dark Knight Rises Hardy plays two of my all-time favorite film/TV characters.
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Taboo S1 (I believe covid might have killed the possibility of there being a second season) if you like Tom Hardy is a good watch. Pretty dark.
 
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AlexBrovechkin8 said:
Peaky is phenomenal. I haven’t watch S6 yet because of life but it’s an incredible show. I may rewatch it just because. Every season they seem to add a villain who is just a perfect fit.

Peaky was my original Covid show. Got insomnia during the first few months and what got me through those long nights was a lot of different Irish whiskey recipes and binging Peaky Blinders :laugh:

I think season 2 is where Alfie Solomons is introduced. Easily my favorite character, Tom Hardy is perfect. Between Solomons and Bane from The Dark Knight Rises Hardy plays two of my all-time favorite film/TV characters.
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Sooooo goooood!
 
There’s a meme making the rounds about Eternals and it has a good point. How tf does a gigantic celestial start to break through the core of the earth and not one other show even mentions it lol. Pretty hard to miss that event and the ending when Arishem looks down at Earth
 
hb11xchamps said:
There’s a meme making the rounds about Eternals and it has a good point. How tf does a gigantic celestial start to break through the core of the earth and not one other show even mentions it lol. Pretty hard to miss that event and the ending when Arishem looks down at Earth
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Doctor Strange made everyone forget that it wasn't always there :sarcasm:
 
hb11xchamps said:
There’s a meme making the rounds about Eternals and it has a good point. How tf does a gigantic celestial start to break through the core of the earth and not one other show even mentions it lol. Pretty hard to miss that event and the ending when Arishem looks down at Earth
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Yeah I saw something online posting about that a few weeks ago and would agree. I appreciate the references in the shows to endgame stuff or the five year blip.
 
I gave up trying to frank Marvel timelines and canon decades ago when they started really going for it with various alternate realities. I think the Cable storylines of the 90s were the precursor to all that.
 
Ovechkins Wodka said:
"House of the Dragon" Showrunners Promise the Show Doesn't Have "Gratuitous" Sex and Violence

whats the point in watching then lol
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well this was a lie

there was a fair amount but the gore...damn...on one hand it can be a bit too much but on the other it's not GoT without gore and senseless violence

I consider myself rather tolerant but today whooooo :eek3:
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I thought the HotD premiere last night was good though it will take several episodes to overcome the stink of the final season of GoT.
 
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g00n said:
I thought it was just OK...kind of anticlimactic.

No hail of bullets, no Silence of the Lambs or Shawshank Redemption type escape, no crazy schemes or twists...just confessing and going to jail.

Maybe I'm missing something. I get the "oh he finally got a fully-developed conscience and he sacrificed maybe the rest of his life out of solidarity with Kim" but it's still sort of a vanilla resolution.

Overall I was hoping for some really weird twists to justify the build up. Like maybe finding out the 2 accomplices were setting him up by working with a fake cancer patient, possibly after being contacted by either the Salamancas or even Howard's wife. I even imagined a scenario where the latter was the REAL pursuer because she'd found something out about Howard's death and hired mercs to track Saul down. And then he has to pull some crazy shit to play the hired muscle against the cartel, all with the Feds bearing down and possibly being handed the other two factions on a platter.

Shit like that.

Not just getting ratted out by an old lady and then confessing and going to jail forever.

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*cough*
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I guess I was never really expecting a twisty ending, especially after the last few episodes were all set in the “future.”

I thought it was a very satisfying character arc and a good conclusion to Saul as a character. Nothing exciting or groundbreaking in the finale, but everything just clicked for me. Saul was a good con man but it’s totally believable that he just messed up and got caught by an old lady. It also seemed believable that he’d confess to everything, if for no other reason than it’s exhausting to keep secrets forever.
 
twabby said:
I thought the HotD premiere last night was good though it will take several episodes to overcome the stink of the final season of GoT.
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I thought it was solid thought maybe might still have general GoT hangover and wasn't sure of my general disdain of prequels but. Felt there were no flat characters. Want to see a few more episodes. I don't recall seeing a big intro credit scene like the fist GoT series but I know know sometimes new series will use that time for the pilot and introduce it in eps2.
 
twabby said:
I guess I was never really expecting a twisty ending, especially after the last few episodes were all set in the “future.”

I thought it was a very satisfying character arc and a good conclusion to Saul as a character. Nothing exciting or groundbreaking in the finale, but everything just clicked for me. Saul was a good con man but it’s totally believable that he just messed up and got caught by an old lady. It also seemed believable that he’d confess to everything, if for no other reason than it’s exhausting to keep secrets forever.
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Yeah it's believable but not what I was hoping for.

Soooo much time was spent trying to stay out of prison and then you just give up. ZZZZZZZ

It's fiction. Pushing the limits of what's believable is how the best fiction is created.

Just kind of felt like writer's block to me. "We started this thing and I don't know how to end it."

Like with GoT, a lot of shit that was important about the series, and made it special, just went out the window the last few seasons.

To me the climax of BCC came when Fring and Lalo squared off. After that it was cleaning up and turning off the lights.
 
I had to chuckle at the opening blurb where it fades to 200 years before Danerys Targeryen. I guess they wanted to be certain everyone knew they weren't going to see all of the familiar characters from GoT.
 
CapitalsCupReality said:
Anyone watch Animal Kingdom on TNT? I finished the series finale last night….kinda bummed out.


great show…
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I watched into the 2nd season I believe a couple of years back and it was decent just fell off of it. Its what happens with peak tv there are decent series that I just don't finish and I have a strong completionism strain in me.
 
twabby said:
Rings of Power: so far so good! 8 thumbs up 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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I’ve got reserved time later! Can’t wait.

Also…..digging HODs…..

usiel said:
I watched into the 2nd season I believe a couple of years back and it was decent just fell off of it. Its what happens with peak tv there are decent series that I just don't finish and I have a strong completionism strain in me.
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Solid crime series and those aren’t my thing. Ellen Barkin is so good…
 
Got to see Top Gun: Maverick last night. Solid movie that does a good job of balancing out the nostalgia from the original movie with some new ideas. Obviously some plot holes with the actual combat portion but really enjoyed it and understand why it has done so well at the box office. It’s hard to believe Tom Cruise is 60 years old.
 
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Just dropped $80 a month on Hulu live plus sports package to get Redzone and NBCsports Washington. Im such a sucker for my sports. Worth It
 
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