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GodfatherPartTwo said:
Watched House of David on Prime. I was expecting a Chosen situation but it wasn't bad.
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Speaking of Chosen, what a disappointment that eventually was for me. At first I thought it was doing a good job of dramatizing many of Jesus' parables from the New Testament, but giving St. Matthew OCD became too much. I don't want some disease-of-the-week TV drama impression of him in my head always fidgeting around and acting weird.

Why in the world did they do that? I had to stop watching the show.
 
Read_Lives_of_Saints said:
Speaking of Chosen, what a disappointment that eventually was for me. At first I thought it was doing a good job of dramatizing many of Jesus' parables from the New Testament, but giving St. Matthew OCD became too much. I don't want some disease-of-the-week TV drama impression of him in my head always fidgeting around and acting weird.

Why in the world did they do that? I had to stop watching the show.
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The longer any series runs, the shittier it gets, as they eventually run out of genuine ideas. It's also partially due to Hollywood getting it's sticky hands on the success; The Simpson's, for example, was wholesome and arguably family-oriented up until the '4th season'?
 
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Joost said:
Watched the Last of Us (season 2). They turned a good series to garbage. Same "message":
- Women stronger, wiser
- Men follow women, emotional and weak

It turned to a lesbian love story.
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This is why I didn't play the game even though I liked the first one.
 
stylus said:
The longer any series runs, the shittier it gets, as they eventually run out of genuine ideas. It's also partially due to Hollywood getting it's sticky hands on the success; The Simpson's, for example, was wholesome and arguably family-oriented up until the '4th season'?
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I noticed that too with The Simpson's 4th season and then began to see the trend with other shows. It went from interesting satire with some light-hearted moral message that even doofuses like Homer were okay because they tried to be a responsible dad, to a demoralizing program in the 4th season and onward.

This was also what happened with Married...with Children although, because it wasn't animated and Peg and Kelly's sexuality were always on display, it didn't have as far to fall.
 
I have to agree with the multi-season shows most of the time. Clearly it’s just a money grab at expense of ruining what first season or so is excellent. I think the 5-10 episode miniseries with closure is probably the best entertainment format IMO.
 
I finally finished the last season of Yellowstone.

*SPOILERS*

Fantastic series. Not quite as good as 1923 but it's gone on for much longer which made it harder to keep the writing at such a high level. And IMO, the writing was still damn good up until the end.

I did have a problem with how they dealt with the death of John Dutton who they killed off-screen. Was this some kind of homage to the Coen Brothers or something? I mean, why do that? I felt cheated. In No Country For Old Men, it made the audience realize that Llywelyn was not the main character...the sheriff was. But in Yellowstone, that didn't work because it's an ensemble show with no main character more important than the next. It just felt like a complete letdown to have that happen. And BTW...doesn't the governor of Montana have security around him at all times? How could these assassins take him out like that so easily?

Another bone I have to pick is in the last episode where Jamie is killed by his own sister. The entire fight felt like a scene out of a horror flick where a character stupidly turns away from the killer because he thinks he's dead, only to regret his actions seconds later. I just felt the scene could've been done better.

Other than that, a great series which always left we wanting more. I hope there will be spinoffs of this one in the future.
 
I am two episodes away from finishing season 3 of Daredevil in order to watch the newest season. I remember really liking seasons 1 and 2... 10 years ago. I can't believe it's been so long since I've watched the show. I don't know if it's evidence of how much I have changed, but I'm finding season 3 to be slow, and not very enjoyable. I'm beginning to roll my eyes at all the times Daredevil gets beaten up and stabbed only to be perfectly fine in what can't have been very long after. I know his character is supposed to be tough, but the fast healing, without making it explicit as a power, gets old and downright insulting. A little spoiler, but I find whenever shows like this have some big bad, who is one guy with a bunch of people under his thumb, how dumb it is they don't simply conspire to kill him. Kingpin's network of stooges doesn't feel well set up. And also, is Daredevil's plan to beat Kingpin up? To beat him to death? Instead of kill him via stealth? Maybe the show was never as good as I remembered and I'm only seeing it now 10 years later with some more life perspective.
 
Started watching Pokerface (4 episodes in so far). Pretty entertaining, about a woman who moves from town to town taking odd jobs while evading a mobster hit man trying to kill her. She has an incredible ability to tell when people are lying. Every episode she somehow stumbles upon a murder and solves the mystery while confronting and calling out the guilty. So it reminds me a lot of the Bill Bixby Incredible Hulk show but a little more light hearted /fun and not as somber. Not sure if it has legs to last long but so far I’m entertained and looking forward to each new episode.
 
I recently watched Mindhunter which was a rather polarized series. The main thrust, the FBI's innovation/development of serial killer profiling via interviewing killers and applying the lessons learned, was absolutely gripping and surprisingly true to history apparently.

However 30-40% of the show was about the characters' personal lives, one of which centered on a girlboss feminist academic's lesbian relationship... that stuff was garbage and really dragged the show down. I skipped most of it and didn't feel like I missed anything. I did enjoy Fincher's direction a lot and would have liked to have seen a third season with the kinks ironed out.
 
Iakobos said:
I recently watched Mindhunter which was a rather polarized series. The main thrust, the FBI's innovation/development of serial killer profiling via interviewing killers and applying the lessons learned, was absolutely gripping and surprisingly true to history apparently.

However 30-40% of the show was about the characters' personal lives, one of which centered on a girlboss feminist academic's lesbian relationship... that stuff was garbage and really dragged the show down. I skipped most of it and didn't feel like I missed anything. I did enjoy Fincher's direction a lot and would have liked to have seen a third season with the kinks ironed out.
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Yeah that show was very well made and I enjoyed it a lot. Great acting and pretty intense. The girl lesbian boss didn’t bother me too much, she was the “lipstick lesbian” variety and easy on the eyes and also a good actress so I’ll give it a pass because the show overall was of high quality (kinda like the show Lioness in that regard). I’d recommend Mindhunter to anyone who likes serial killer/FBI movies and shows.
 
I've now finished all of the Daredevil stuff. I suppose I realized a couple of things.
1. Superhero movies and shows have been disappointing for years now; it's on me that I keep going back to this genre
2. I'm tired of the Jewish revolutionary trope; of some scrappy individuals with no power but are idealistic about the system, when in reality the villain characters, like Kingpin, is their actual position
3. I remember really liking Daredevil seasons 1 and 2. I think the one-shot fight scenes were what sold it to me. The Disney+ season had nothing in it that I enjoyed from the Netflix series, including zero one-shot fights. Even season 3 was better and I didn't care for it. I actually fast-forwarded through Daredevil: Born Again because the story was so boring
4. If they do a season 2, I'm out, I'm done with Daredevil
 
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