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Post by itrainmonkeys on Feb 3, 2022 22:32:41 GMT -5
I will definitely be rewatching this series this year. It's been a while and I still haven't seen the prequel movie but want to go through this series again.
Post by Dave Maynar on Feb 28, 2022 10:32:03 GMT -5
Started Season 6 last night after taking a break to watch Reacher and Peacemaker. I have a couple thoughts right now.
1) I have felt a couple times that some character's actions are forced around whatever arc they need for the season rather than really feeling like it is something the character would do. Tony B is a good example. He's quiet and hardworking then he's a rage monster who hates Tony then he's remorseful and just wants to make things up with Tony. 2) I don't know that I currently really like any character on the show. Like I get that Tony is an anti-hero, but I am kind of cheering for Johnny Sack and Phil Leotardo. 3) On The Leftovers, I always got a laugh out of people saying Justin Theroux was a tremendous eyebrow actor. James Gandolfini was apparently the king of nasal breathing acting. It's so loud and so frequent.
I just finished this series. We never had HBO, so my only experience with the show was from when my hotel had HBO ... and I had no idea who the characters were. I had actually seen the last episode, but had no idea who Phil Leotardo was ... or really anyone else, for that matter.
Generally, this show captures what has really made our best shows in recent years great: characters who straddle the line between Good and Evil and really try your allegiances. Even the FBI are susceptible. Two thumbs up.
Post by Ambassador Of Fun on Feb 22, 2024 9:31:50 GMT -5
I had never gotten around to watching The Sopranos, so it’s been my treadmill viewing for the last year or so. I just finished last week, and I loved it - even the finale. I’m on Beef now, which I’ll obviously get through pretty quickly. What should be my next treadmill show?
I had never gotten around to watching The Sopranos, so it’s been my treadmill viewing for the last year or so. I just finished last week, and I loved it - even the finale. I’m on Beef now, which I’ll obviously get through pretty quickly. What should be my next treadmill show?
I had never gotten around to watching The Sopranos, so it’s been my treadmill viewing for the last year or so. I just finished last week, and I loved it - even the finale. I’m on Beef now, which I’ll obviously get through pretty quickly. What should be my next treadmill show?
Are you walking or running?
Both. I just use the C25K app and repeat the first two weeks over and over. I have no intentions of working up to a 5K or even running outside. I’m just getting some exercise while catching up on my shows.
Between doing this three times a week and just being more thoughtful about my eating and drinking, I’ve lost about 20 pounds in the past year or so.
Both. I just use the C25K app and repeat the first two weeks over and over. I have no intentions of working up to a 5K or even running outside. I’m just getting some exercise while catching up on my shows.
Between doing this three times a week and just being more thoughtful about my eating and drinking, I’ve lost about 20 pounds in the past year or so.
I assume you've seen "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" (if you haven't those are great ones). "Oz" is great for the sheer "look who it is" factor. "Friday Night Lights" is great even though the 2nd season is a mess (blame the writer's strike).
Both. I just use the C25K app and repeat the first two weeks over and over. I have no intentions of working up to a 5K or even running outside. I’m just getting some exercise while catching up on my shows.
Between doing this three times a week and just being more thoughtful about my eating and drinking, I’ve lost about 20 pounds in the past year or so.
I assume you've seen "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" (if you haven't those are great ones). "Oz" is great for the sheer "look who it is" factor. "Friday Night Lights" is great even though the 2nd season is a mess (blame the writer's strike).
I loved BB, BCS, and FNL (even with the steaming turd that was season 2). I watched the first season of Oz years ago, and while it was certainly well done and it was cool to see all the future stars who showed up, every episode made me feel worse than the one before. It is such a joyless show, so I didn’t continue. I’m leaning toward picking up Fargo next, per my brother-in-law’s recommendation. I’m loving Beef, and I’m sad it will be over soon.
I assume you've seen "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" (if you haven't those are great ones). "Oz" is great for the sheer "look who it is" factor. "Friday Night Lights" is great even though the 2nd season is a mess (blame the writer's strike).
I loved BB, BCS, and FNL (even with the steaming turd that was season 2). I watched the first season of Oz years ago, and while it was certainly well done and it was cool to see all the future stars who showed up, every episode made me feel worse than the one before. It is such a joyless show, so I didn’t continue. I’m leaning toward picking up Fargo next, per my brother-in-law’s recommendation. I’m loving Beef, and I’m sad it will be over soon.
Have you seen Deadwood? A little more fun than Oz. Also don’t shut out Big Little Lies (great first season). First 4 seasons of West Wing. Gravity Falls. Pose. Any of the Mike Flanagan series.
I loved BB, BCS, and FNL (even with the steaming turd that was season 2). I watched the first season of Oz years ago, and while it was certainly well done and it was cool to see all the future stars who showed up, every episode made me feel worse than the one before. It is such a joyless show, so I didn’t continue. I’m leaning toward picking up Fargo next, per my brother-in-law’s recommendation. I’m loving Beef, and I’m sad it will be over soon.
Have you seen Deadwood? A little more fun than Oz. Also don’t shut out Big Little Lies (great first season). First 4 seasons of West Wing. Gravity Falls. Pose. Any of the Mike Flanagan series.
I watched the first season of Deadwood years ago and liked it. It's definitely one I need to rewatch/finish. I loved Big Little Lies. I've never watched West Wing, but I thought The Newsroom was good (if inconsistent). I'm not at all familiar with the others; I'll look into those.
I decided to go with The Americans, which I also started years ago and was too busy to get into at the time.
Alright so I wish I made note of when I started or if there was a way for me to look this up, but about two weeks ago I finally finished my first watch of The Sopranos. I also wish I would have written this down the moment it ended, but I was too preoccupied in those 10 minutes being frankly flabbergasted after jumping up off the bed, eyes-wide-open saying, as I imagine millions of others did, “Wait, that’s how it ends?!” So, here are my off-the-dome, free associating thoughts I have about this show.
First of all, I’m proud of myself for making it through the whole thing, even if it took me like 6 months. Now, sure, is watching an entire show that admirable of a goal? Perhaps not, but having not watched a single moment of something so legendary 32 years into life and then making a concerted effort to watch the entirety of said thing feels like an accomplishment to me, since I’m intrapersonally notorious for giving up on shit, even if others feel differently.
Second of all, a thought I kept having was to constantly contextualize the time this was made and that it was essentially revolutionizing tv as it was coming out. There were many moments that I wondered how I would feel about it if I were watching it for the first time in real time, not for the first time some 20 years later in a completely different sociopolitical, cultural, and creative-storytelling landscape. Because of this, I had two conflicting thoughts. I was seeing the cinematography, the way stories were being played out, the way characters were being treated from the narrative perspective, etc, and how I’ve seen those similar structures in other highly lauded shows that succeeded Sopranos. The conflicting thought to that was simple at first: Well, sure, but is this show actually good? And then that thought got more confusing: Because, sure, I concede that it did all of these aforementioned things on the other side of these conflicting thoughts, but I’m watching this show here, now. I can’t separate myself from the things I’ve seen. Is this show good at this point because it’s important and influential? I truly don’t know. The main thing I valued from the show was how it was clearly trying to do something. It was unabashedly itself. It wasn’t hiding from itself. It took itself on the face. As an easy example, our anti-hero and his men are obviously racist and homophobic, and even when the show acknowledges that fact by having his daughter say what we’re all thinking and giving the other perspective, we still leave those episodes rooting for him. That said, within this example, these were moments when the show was really fucking hard to watch. The blatant homophobia and racism towards almost anyone who they perceived to be capital ‘o’ Other than them that often ended in flippant murder so often, was really hard to watch. And then this is when the circular logic of, oh well that’s just the show perpetuating what these characters would actually do in this situation! Its the tricky pseudo catch-22 of viewing where you think, “OK, so this is obviously wrong, but it’s also what the characters would do so the show is being true to itself, but then is that really necessary for a show to do, well sure we need to see stories about the bad people who do bad things because then what the fuck does good even mean,” etc, etc. OK, I’m rambling.
Third of all, this show is way funnier than I thought it would be. Anyone who tries to convince me it’s not funny is only focusing on all the shit I just wrote above and needs to relax about shit in general. Anyone who thinks it isn’t funny thinks It’s Always Sunny is a documentary. Sometimes it was funny in a “Man, this was a fucking wild time for an scene cut,” kinda way. Or in a, “Fucken hell, these people and saying, “gabagool,’ all the time,” kinda way. Or in a Tarantino-esque, “Oh man, I shot Marvin in the face,” kinda way.
Fourth of all, I fucking hate how Christopher dies. That shit sucked. What a deeply unsatisfying way for that character to die.
Fifth and finally, I actually kind of love that the show ended how it did, now that I’ve had some time to think about it. That scene about death sneaking up on you and then it’s just quiet, honestly makes it kind of perfect.
tl;dr: I watched the entire show in like 6 months and I have no idea if it’s actually good or not, but it’s definitely funny, even though it’s super not, and it’s groundbreaking even though I probably can’t appreciate it for that reason in 2024. Do I feel conflicted about The Sopranos? Sure. Am I gonna watch The Wire for the first time next? You’re goddamn right.
Vaguely unrelated note as I just started watching episode 2 of The Wire, I simply cannot hear the HBO tv turn on sting and not immediately and without hesitation start bobbing my head, grumbling, "Woke up this morning."
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