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Post by Wolfgang on May 21, 2015 1:32:50 GMT -5
Falling Skies (s3)
What a sucky series.
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Post by Wolfgang on Jun 2, 2015 11:42:23 GMT -5
Nashville (s1)
I've only seen the first two episodes but it's surprisingly good. I normally don't like the actresses Connie Britton and Hayden Panatierre (sp?) but they're decent in this series.
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Post by azvb on Jun 2, 2015 12:10:31 GMT -5
Nashville is pretty good. I believe all the actors sing, not dubbed. It's really a soap opera. With music. Pretty good music. Gunnar and Scarlett are from the UK. Wonder how hard it is to go from British accent to country singer accent.
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Post by Wolfgang on Jun 2, 2015 17:10:52 GMT -5
They sing their own songs? Not bad.
What about the songs? Are they original to the series? I bet the producers just bought the rights to some unknown country songs written by unknown country singers.
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Post by azvb on Jun 2, 2015 18:04:56 GMT -5
Many, if not most, are original. This show has given employment to a lot of songwriters in Nashville. They had a "Nashville" concert on TV a few months back. All the stars, except Connie Britton (I kinda think she is dubbed) and Hayden P. (she was way pregnant) sang and they introduced the songwriters in the audience. It was good. The two sisters on the show are sisters in real life. Deacon is the funny guy from Who's Line Is It. He's pretty good!
Edit: Just looked it up. She does sing. I suspect there is a lot of auto tune going on with her and Hayden. They can lip sync their recorded vocals, but I'm guessing they aren't good enough to sing live, and this concert was live at the Grand Ole Opry. The rest of the cast is good enough to sing live. Those sisters are really good.
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Post by Wolfgang on Jun 2, 2015 20:06:29 GMT -5
What sisters? I'm not there yet. I'm only two episodes in. Spoiler alert!
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Post by azvb on Jun 2, 2015 23:26:46 GMT -5
Rayna's daughters. Sorry-thought they were on the first episode. Not a spoiler, though. They don't appear under weird circumstances.
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Post by Wolfgang on Jun 6, 2015 20:13:06 GMT -5
I think the performance of Rayna's two daughters singing "Telescope" was the highlight of the series for me. I was surprised how good they were. My wife thought they sounded immature and I said, well how about the little girl who did that rhythmic stomping and clapping?
Gunnar looks like the spitting image of a young Bruce Springsteen -- down to the soul patch.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2015 14:23:42 GMT -5
Done with True Detective. Loved the series. I admired its makers for resisting the urge to rely on familiar and predictable plots and characters. In particular, I liked the unconventional caustic relationship between the two partners -- Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. In just about every (99%) TV show and movie, cop partners get along swimmingly. Not here. Loved the soundtrack as well -- the eerie whomp whomp whomp subdued rhythmic beats. The show had a long tracking shot in episode 4. Very complicated. I'm not sure it tops the long tracking shot in Children of Men (which involved a moving car and numerous stunts), but it was impressive nonetheless. This show makes me NOT want to set foot in Louisiana. Same goes for Albuquerque, NM (due to Breaking Bad) and Miami, FL (due to Dexter). Finally got to see this. Loved the show up until the last episode. It wasn't bad, but I just don't think it delivered on the promise of the first seven, both in terms of plot resolution and in character resolution, although they did a better job with the latter. T Bone Burnett is a great person to go to for good music. Woody and Matthew were really good in this, as was the dialogue.
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Post by Wolfgang on Jun 13, 2015 21:29:56 GMT -5
Nashville, season 2
Why do all women fall for Deacon? What the hell? The guy is a drunk and sometime-jerk and unreliable and temperamental. And why does it seem like Juliette and Rayna can sleep with just about anybody they want? What the hell? And ditto for Gunnar and Will. This is a very promiscuous show.
Most of the songs suck. I only like the performances by the Stella sisters and sometimes Scarlett.
Why are all the record label heads dicks? I hate these one-dimensional characterizations.
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Post by WahineFan44 on Jun 15, 2015 4:18:48 GMT -5
Finished season 1 of The 100. AMAZING..
Without giving too many spoilers, its about a post apocalpytic world, where they now live on a space station. The show takes place around 100 teens who are juvenile deliquents, who are sent to earth to see if its habitable and they face MANY problems on said Earth.
A solid 8/10 with even the unlikable characters, (besides 1 or 2) having redeemable qualities and you hate to see any of them die.
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Post by elevationvb on Jun 15, 2015 15:19:14 GMT -5
In addition to Game of Thrones, HBO's Veep (4th season) & Silicon Valley (2nd season) ended their seasons last night.
Both had outstanding seasons. Two shows that could not be more different from each other but share excellent writing and a knack for understanding and mocking their subjects of expertise - technology (Silicon Valley) and VEEP (American Politics). Strong acting and a great supporting cast.
And Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just fantastic as President Selina Meyer in VEEP.
Highly, highly recommend both shows. Both will be back next April along with Game of Thrones.
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Post by vbbetterthanbb on Jun 16, 2015 13:20:26 GMT -5
Finally got to see this. Loved the show up until the last episode... I agreed, it seems like the writers could not come up with an ending worthy of the fantastic build-ups.
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Post by Wolfgang on Jun 16, 2015 14:23:38 GMT -5
Finally got to see this. Loved the show up until the last episode... I agreed, it seems like the writers could not come up with an ending worthy of the fantastic build-ups. "Writers" should be in parentheses because there are strong allegations of plagiarism.
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Post by vbbetterthanbb on Jun 17, 2015 19:16:50 GMT -5
Just finished BBC's "The Game" -- 6 hourly episodes of MI5 vs KGB in the early 70s, with reasonable plot but cheap production. I wondered throughout, "That's all they got at MI5?" The scary KGB enforcer is nicknamed --- Odin!
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