Duchene2MacKinnon
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I really enjoyed it until the last episode. I dont wanna give anything away but it made zero sense to me.
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Halfway through Mad Men and I am choosing to believe the show's title refers to the seemingly endless queue of men lining up to fall in love with Elizabeth Moss.
Started Silo on Apple TV, enjoying it so far. I like how they jumped right in, but there's still a lot of mystery around what the actual plot line is going to be.
UncleRisto
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UncleRisto
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Interesting. Because this appears to be a reference to Mad Men, but at the same time this is also what you would say if you Googled it and found out that's spot on, because that's exactly when they founded it.
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Whoops. For some reason (yes I think about Scientology a lot) I would have thought it started in the 70s. I have failed all those Louis Therouxs I've watched.
SirLoinOfCloth
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I suppose the sixties were more the early stages, and then they got going by the 70s.
I find it amusing that apparently throughout the 50s, Hubbard was offering up his drivel as science to the Psychological Association and like some medical journals. I wonder why it didn't take.
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expatriatedtexan
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So Mad Men. I'll admit, I never gave it a fair shake. I watched the first episode and simply wrote it off. I thought it was going to involve characters that should know better doing stupid stuff, just for the sake of story and a bunch of needless drama.
That was kind of my turnoff towards Suits by the end, intelligent characters doing something completely out of character for the sake of drama.
Was I wrong and should I give it an honest effort, or were my assumptions kinda right? I'm looking for something a little longer format to watch with my wife. Shows we've enjoyed binging in the past were the Expanse, Lost, White Collar, In Plain Sight, Psych, Suits and to a lesser extent Sons of Anarchy.
That was kind of my turnoff towards Suits by the end, intelligent characters doing something completely out of character for the sake of drama.
Was I wrong and should I give it an honest effort, or were my assumptions kinda right? I'm looking for something a little longer format to watch with my wife. Shows we've enjoyed binging in the past were the Expanse, Lost, White Collar, In Plain Sight, Psych, Suits and to a lesser extent Sons of Anarchy.
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This sounds about right to me. Although it's much lighter on plot than you described.
Suits should have ended when Mike got found out.
I'm gonna start on that once I get done with The Big Door Prize, which has been intriguing but hasn't quite gotten me yet.
Apple TV has come out with some stellar stuff BTW. IMO Severance and Bad Sisters were both really, really good.
The cast of Silo is simply too good to pass up. I'm definitely going to give it a whirl.
Still haven't finished The Peripheral (Amazon). I really liked the book, the TV show has been enjoyable but it too just hasn't quite snagged me.
Personally I loved Mad Men. There was a lot of subtlety there in the performances and characterizations. Despite the dreamy 60s aesthetic it was really quite dark.
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For those of y'all with Apple TV, has anyone caught the Foundation series? I loved the books by Asimov when I was a kid and always thought they would make fascinating (but hard to pull off) series. Hard only because the cast will completely change from time to time as the story progresses through a thousand-year time period between the fall of the galactic empire and the rebirth of a new one.
henchman21
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I tried with Foundation three time, but I could just never get going past the 3rd episode. I just don't think it works sadly.
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Unfortunate, but as many times as people have tried to convert an Asimov novel to movie, not once has someone done justice. I, Robot only had the name in common with the book.
Agreed 100%, I had watched Severance season 1 and Ted Lasso in the past on a trial, now I finally caved on got Apple TV through Apple's 'package', since I was paying for cloud, Arcade, and wanted to watch Silo, so for like a $4 difference I get Music, too, which is pleasantly surprisingly good. I'm a radio in the car guy, I don't like to 'choose' what's next, I like the spontaneity of radio... anyway, the 'infinite' setting has been good to me so far.
I'll have to check both of those out, they look really good. I need something new.
I'll check this out too, it looks intriguing for sure! But I can see how it might not work, like @henchman21 said... is it just like, too spaced out? Like those movies that try to tell the same story from like multiple perspectives, so it's always bouncing around... those are hard for me
EDIT: Yeah Apple TV is crushing it right now. Just saw an ad for a show with Idris Elba, not even my kind of show but it looks really good.
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Yeah I watched Foundation. EXTREMELY ambitious series, and pretty slow-moving. I liked it and will definitely watch season two whenever the hell it happens but it requires some patience. The best character was probably Lee Pace as one of three cloned Emperors, interesting stuff.
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Had you read the series previously? I'm not looking for a word for word version of the books, I'm just hoping that they get the spirit of the thing right.
Altered Carbon I think suffered from a similar fate. It's the same character, but different actors in the two different seasons (the plot is that you can download your mind into another body). I think people found that change off-putting. I just didn't care for season 2 as much as season 1, but I highly recommend the first season to anyone who hasn't seen it. Warning...male body parts are shown flopping around ungracefully in a at least one fighting sequence I remember. The show actually had a lot of nudity, but it was made for Netflix.
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UncleRisto
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So I ended up interviewing with 2 MLB teams in the past 2 months, but they pay significatly less than the rest of the software engineering industry so I was a little sad about that. If I didn't have kids I probably would have sacrificed a little bit to take the haircut for a few years just for the experience, but I just couldn't do it now 
Had fun doing the interviews though
Had fun doing the interviews though
So I've been listening to quite a bit of rap lately and I gotta rescind my half-of-a-decade-old comment about Eminem. The bloke knows how to rap, sure he has some really corny songs, but more good than bad. Actually, for the rap lot here, his first-ever song is pretty revolutionary. However, I still don't really see how Kanye is a good rapper though.
Did they call you back?So I ended up interviewing with 2 MLB teams in the past 2 months, but they pay significatly less than the rest of the software engineering industry so I was a little sad about that. If I didn't have kids I probably would have sacrificed a little bit to take the haircut for a few years just for the experience, but I just couldn't do it now
Had fun doing the interviews though
