and watching the trailer thing makes me sad cuz freaks and geeks looks so sad! yeah, can they redo this show where freaks and geeks, coach taylor, sissy, and sam have a cool show.
― scott seward, Monday, 23 March 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
i don't think i know who the british bad boy brother is. was he in lock stock and smoking barrels?
― scott seward, Monday, 23 March 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
notable Ben Mendelsohn roles:-bad person and criminal in The Place Beyond the Pines-horrible person and criminal in Killing Them Softly-absolutely despicable person and criminal in Animal Kingdom
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 23 March 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
all brilliant roles imo, esp. animal kingdom. he is one of my absolute favorite character actors.
also jessa's dad on girls!
― slothroprhymes, Monday, 23 March 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah, he's great
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 23 March 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
scott, you should def see Animal Kingdom
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 23 March 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
i'll check it out.
― scott seward, Monday, 23 March 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
one of the best $3 used dvd purchases i ever made!
― slothroprhymes, Monday, 23 March 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
ya ben mendelsohn is good stuff
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 March 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
yeah he pretty much single-handedly makes this show addictive, and I like Coach and Lindsay Weir
― Brio2, Monday, 23 March 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
and Carrie and Chuck Yeager!
― Brio2, Monday, 23 March 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
really liking the back half of the season for its increased charles willeford/late 80s elmore leonard feel
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 04:43 (nine years ago) link
(lot more serious/straightfaced than those guys though, to its partial detriment)
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 04:44 (nine years ago) link
ya feel like they approached some leonard vibes and almost reached out and touched faith but ultimately dealing wit leonards plot mechanisms is too terrifying for every filmmaker, having the story turn on that tape of the childhood interrogation is nearly leonardian tho i will admit
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 04:46 (nine years ago) link
a little more elmore would have gone a looooong way for this show
― Brio2, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:45 (nine years ago) link
notable Ben Mendelsohn roles:-bad person and criminal in /The Place Beyond the Pines/ --Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton)
I recall him being semi-likable in this one but okay. He's amazing in Animal Kingdom.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
He is pretty good in the quite ridiculous but enjoyable Starred Up as well, also looking forwards to seeing Slow West with him + Fassbender .
― xelab, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
some good pictures of him in a nice jacket http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/only-the-very-best-screenshots-of-ben-mendelsohn-wearing-the-worlds-most-majestic-fur-coat-in-the-new-western-slow-west/
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
just finished this. pretty enjoyable throughout despite its occasional hiccups and cliches. mendelsohn should get an emmy nom, for real
still not quite sure who the creators wanted the audience to sympathize with tbh, if only because I can't really see how, in the end, any character is more worthy of empathy than danny despite the bad shit he ends up doing. like I I bought all of his motivations, everyone else comes off entitled in some type of way or another
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 28 March 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
you know what is a cool better show than this with similar vibes: the affair, recommended
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 March 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
entitled isn't exactly the right word for the other siblings, but idk I liked danny and chelsea and not really anyone else
other major deficiency is the women characters, well acted all around but p underwritten, even sevigny, which is odd bc these creators made damages and for all that show's numerous flaws the women on it were very well drawn imo
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 28 March 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
xp really? heard a lot of strong hatred for that show but then again am going solely off reviews and one friend who watched it
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 28 March 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link
i loved it, p much the height of prestige trash with some legit subtly and humor in there and cool characterization
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 March 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
hm, I'll try a few episodes of that at some point. I'm a huge fan of both mcnulty and ruth wilson (alice morgan on Luther = 💯), although the idea of mcnulty as ennui-stricken author is kinda strange
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 28 March 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
i dont want to spoil anything but mcnultys character is so perfect
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 March 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
The Affair has some good stuff but was pretty underwhelming as a whole imo
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Saturday, 28 March 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
I thought The Affair was terrible and have always found West a really terrible + appallingly wooden actor, he seems the opposite of Mendelsohn to me, who has the presence + talent to elevate cack like Bloodline to above average television. West has the opposite effect for me, he makes watching trash even more unbearable and drags it down even further with his anodyne shiteness.
― xelab, Saturday, 28 March 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
ur anodyne shiteness
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 March 2015 22:17 (nine years ago) link
I don't get paid for my anodyne shiteness :p Would you consider West a fine actor? I wouldn't trust your judgement on fuck all else if you did.
― xelab, Saturday, 28 March 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
sure hes fine
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 March 2015 22:40 (nine years ago) link
He is amongst some of the worst British ex-Eton actors ever, he represents mostly what I hate about the class system in my country. But at least you can enthuse about what you like about him rather than giving non-committed monosyllabic smart arse replies. At least I hate the talentless cunt and really feel the hatred.
― xelab, Saturday, 28 March 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link
i appreciate and salute your passion for the topic of dominic west but at the same time i dont actually owe you any sort of explination, i will say tho that the same things that makes him perfect as mcnulty makes him even more perfect for this role i really enjoyed the performance
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 March 2015 23:13 (nine years ago) link
Mcnulty is just a tedious stock macho Irish/American character and the writer he plays in The Affair is even sketchier and more badly written than that, only saying this because you fucking started it and now I am making pithy little comments on your fucking worthless opinions:p
― xelab, Saturday, 28 March 2015 23:29 (nine years ago) link
my opinons are very worthwhile, clearly
― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 March 2015 23:34 (nine years ago) link
BLOODBORNE: new PS4 souls noir drama starring kyle chandler, sissy spacek and ben mendelsohn (2015)
― hot doug stamper (||||||||), Sunday, 29 March 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
same
― lag∞n, Sunday, 29 March 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
would watch
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 29 March 2015 01:25 (nine years ago) link
finally watching the finale tonight. Thought this developed very nicely. It's easy to forget what Danny's gasoline runs contributed to. A credit to the performance. When you remember, it's impossible to side with Danny. But you still want to side with Danny.
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 29 March 2015 04:22 (nine years ago) link
Guess you can also credit the fact that you have no backstory for his innocent victims.
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 29 March 2015 04:23 (nine years ago) link
he didnt know
― lag∞n, Sunday, 29 March 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
Until he did. And then his response was "ok, this guy is a big timer. I'd better move drugs for him."
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 29 March 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
Guess that's unfair. But he was still trying to get the drugs moved after he knew.
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
at that point he's gone too far down the road of his ultimate goal (making his family pay for what they did to him) to turn back from his dealings with lowery. but I definitely think it shakes him up, which is a testament to both how complex they made danny as a character - at the expense of other characters - and how well mendelsohn plays him
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
to be fair I could be projecting bc of how much I like the character, who could've easily been just another antihero to add to prestige TV's list of antiheroes but is ultimately too complicated to fit in that box. the other rayburns, especially the pig brother, are more typical antihero than danny
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
pretty good show. agree that danny definitely elevates it. not too enthused about a second season with danny 2.0.
― ryan, Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link
i think, more than anything else, i just enjoyed this for its slow pace and setting. the acting was usually decent, if the characterizations weren't always. this was ideal for netflix, as it was probably too slow to sustain week to week interest.
― ryan, Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link
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shd just have mendelsohn play him too
― lag∞n, Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
or actually i bet what they do is have tons of flashbacks filling in the story as to how he got so desperate
― lag∞n, Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
a godfather 2 type scenario if u will
― lag∞n, Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
hmm. i like it.
― ryan, Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
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― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
"on tonight's episode, a dangerous visitor from the past..."
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― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 14:24 (eight years ago) link
nudge from the judge
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― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 14:28 (eight years ago) link
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― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
I enjoyed the second season but then again I am a sucker for slow burning noirish crime dramas
― paolo, Friday, 22 July 2016 08:36 (eight years ago) link
I did think the bit at the end with Kevin killing Marco was a bit much though. Did he think that this would save John and Meg or did he just panic?
― paolo, Friday, 22 July 2016 08:38 (eight years ago) link
he just panicked
― sarahell, Friday, 22 July 2016 15:47 (eight years ago) link
I thought that was the case but it seemed very out of character as Kevin hasn't been violent before if I remember right. Great show overall though, very atmospheric
― paolo, Saturday, 23 July 2016 10:24 (eight years ago) link
Can someone clarify something for me, having just finished season 1? the first few episodes lean pretty heavily on a flash-forward scene of John dragging Danny through the swamp in striped seersucker suits. At about episode 8-9 you see that the suits are for Meg's wedding but Danny dies and Meg doesn't actually get married. Did I miss something major (like a whole episode!!) ?
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 6 November 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
cancelled, from what I read....did season 2 end on a cliffhanger?
― akm, Sunday, 6 November 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
It's been cancelled after season 3.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 6 November 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
We chained eight episodes of season three yesterday - the bent coroner is straight into the pantheon of great minor characters.
I hope the cancellation doesn't mean they haven't brought the whole thing to a satisfying conclusion.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 16:56 (seven years ago) link
First half of the last series was quite good but those final episodes were a complete crock
― paolo, Monday, 16 October 2017 08:47 (six years ago) link
I enjoyed the bleakness of the conclusion well enough but the second series had clearly set a number of plates in motion that they weren't able to resolve in time. I got the distinct impression that a number of plotlines had been very hastily rewritten once the series was cancelled - characters just suddenly keeling over and dying or shooting themselves in the head etc.
― Matt DC, Monday, 16 October 2017 09:12 (six years ago) link