BLOODLINE: new netflix florida noir drama starring kyle chandler, sissy spacek and ben mendelsohn (2015)

butz is just a broadway baby thus a big ham...

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Even though the Danny character is compelling and Mendelsohn so clearly owns whatever scene he's in, I kept wondering if he got the wrong notes or something...like he was playing on-the-nose snakeshark instead of the pro sociopath who successfully manipulates people precisely because he doesn't SEEM snakesharky. Like has no member of the Rayburn family ever been exposed to sarcasm before? He sits down at dinner and he's like, "Yeah, this should be A LOT OF FUN, I really LOVE you guys," and they're all "Oh, that's nice, welcome home."

I chugged this show down and feel like it got better +/- with each episode, but I think they really dropped the ball not making Danny harder to read.

you could make an argument that all that reflects a kind of wishful thinking on the family's part--avoidance of fate, wrongs forgiven, and all that.

oh for sure

xxp think Danny plays it pretty well on the edge the whole time before the tape pushes him over

I was pretty shocked by the check scene. I think that scene was designed to be shocking, and it wouldn't work if you think Danny is full snakeshark by that point.

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otm

xxp yeah i agree with that he doesn't like, have all his plans in place then even if he prob would be fine with selling some dope to pay off his debts. the check & the tape are what seals the deal w/him to not only take care of his biz but also do so while potentially fucking his family over by making them accessories after the fact

i liked the last two episodes of this and part of me kinda wishes they would just take the mini-series approach sometimes and let something be one and done.

season 2

hearing decent things about it, and while i'm sure the mechanisms involved in bringing flashbacks to the show will be deus ex machina as all hell i can't really complain about more ben mendelsohn, will check some of it out soon

this show makes me wanna go fishing

It's exhausting. Same pacing as the first season. Watch the first two episodes and the last two episodes and you'll be good.

but then you miss out on chloe sevigny

will watch after i finish easy living. and lady dynamite.

lol @ frosty and rollins band

God this show is glum. Not even "dark"—just completely bereft of humor. In real life, even (especially?) in grim times, people do and say funny things. A little comic relief would go a long away.

That said w/ the Danny stuff resolved I didn't expect to get into this season, but they've put together a tight plot and the acting is excellent across the board. Leguizamo is a pleasant surprise and I'm digging the Cape Fear vibe

Low point of every episode remains the titles with that godawful song, specifically when the words Norbert Leo Butz appear over time-lapse thunderstorm

getting a real bass player from van halen vibe off kevin in this series

otm

But needs to smile more to really pull it off. Why were those guys always laughing w/ their instruments?, weird dudes

they were really stoned. and drunk.

either way i would not trust them to run a marina

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"on tonight's episode, a dangerous visitor from the past..."

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nudge from the judge

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I enjoyed the second season but then again I am a sucker for slow burning noirish crime dramas

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?

he just panicked

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

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!!) ?

cancelled, from what I read....did season 2 end on a cliffhanger?

It's been cancelled after season 3.

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.

First half of the last series was quite good but those final episodes were a complete crock

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.