as for Mad Men, I agree they have not given minority characters a lot of time (outside of Ginsberg), but they have made a point (repeatedly) of showing how exclusionary the world of the main characters is - whether it's Roger in blackface, Dawn/Shirley's interactions and experiences, or the Drapers' shitty treatment of Carla
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link
The way they ended S01 makes me think of the whole damn enterprise as a fluke. Will check S02 out tho, obv.
― dandy don's weiner (rip van wanko), Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
there was the old civil rights/union organizer in Sopranos too (and his son, iirc?) that was a good couple of episodes
xxp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
and Lord Jamaar and Treach in the hospital
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
sorry we can take this discussion to another thread but now the more I think about it the more I think slothroprhymes dismissal of Sopranos is totally wrong
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:44 (nine years ago) link
I love shake's cap'n save-a-soprano act
― 龜, Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
Strangely intrigued as to what Vince Vaughn will do with this. Otherwise... yea ok
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
r there going to be more eps this time
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
not a lot of eps last time around
i like the sopranos just fine, shakey, but it has race-related probs that are common among many prestige shows, which obviously is the main prob. never thought of hesh as a minority character but having grown up mostly in north jersey i can confirm that a significant number of the dudes that show portrays would think that. ginsberg for his era & in the WASPy wite advertising world would be as well.
anyway, for all of true d's (many!) problems, race is not one of them re ially. the two most prominent black characters (michael potts and tory kittles) receive top billing alongside mcconaughey, harrelson and monaghan) are A. cops & not particularly stereotypical ones and B. markedly more well-adjusted than the brooding wite leads!
the ideal world would give those two characters their own show, & hopefully the success of stuff like empire and how to get away with murder points toward the right direction for that to happen.
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
xp i believe it'll be 8 once again
xp to self: *really.
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
this looks as good as an equiv wordless trailer of the first seas would have looked at the time. still pumped.
― flopson, Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
I don't think anyone was saying the show had a problem with race in season one. When I pointed out the lack of people of color in the teaser i should have included "and it is set in contemporary Los Angeles." That's not what LA looks like. (Tho perhaps it does in the world of ~detectives~)
― Clay, Thursday, 9 April 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, April 9, 2015 3:51 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark
The public wants more detection
― 龜, Thursday, 9 April 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
los blancoles more like
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 April 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
i thought shakey was being a bit reductive w/ the "set stuff in finland" joke, clay your initial statement re: the trailer was p accurate
tbrr as a result of nic pizz's issues w/ writing women or honestly anyone who isn't a brooding wite who has secrets i now feel kind of awful for having defended him on any point, like he devises intriguing noir plots & his lines can sing when they dont clunk (it's basically a tossup as to which will happen) but seems like a not good person otherwise
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 9 April 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link
remember when he m/l plagiarized a shit ton of lines too man I forgot how much I h8 this guy
― Clay, Thursday, 9 April 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
this seems like a good place to drop in a PSA for people to watch banshee, btw
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 9 April 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
I love Farrell, he's so wounded I want to take care of him
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
ya i like him too en bruges is my fav movie
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
Cosign
― dandy don's weiner (rip van wanko), Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
I'm a New World apologist too but I get why ppl wouldn't like it
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 April 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Also I'm a fiend for mojitos
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 April 2015 00:16 (nine years ago) link
Nice digital camerawork, too.― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Thursday, April 9, 2015 6:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Season 1 was shot on 35mm, which was nice
― Walter Galt, Friday, 10 April 2015 00:18 (nine years ago) link
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, April 9, 2015 4:15 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
iirc max is responsible for your opinion/the meme that pizz is a Bad Person http://morningafter.gawker.com/nic-pizzolatto-is-a-schmuck-and-true-detective-will-suc-1617847916 seems like it was just 'slow day at the office' or something
― flopson, Friday, 10 April 2015 00:26 (nine years ago) link
like he seems like a totally normal dude
― flopson, Friday, 10 April 2015 00:27 (nine years ago) link
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:16 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
same
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 April 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
xxp I actually don't think he's a plagiarist, that wasn't what I was referring to. more the way he comes off in certain interviews (the infamous "branzino lunch" one and bitching about his critics in a lame way in another
it does not surprise me tho that max read wrote a pisstake article out of boredom/quotas if that is indeed the case, I mean denton has v specific goals for pageview totals it must be stressful sometimes
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 10 April 2015 00:37 (nine years ago) link
"not a good person" may have been a strong description
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 10 April 2015 00:39 (nine years ago) link
he just seems like a self-serious dbag
― call all destroyer, Friday, 10 April 2015 00:42 (nine years ago) link
is being mad at the guy as a guy part of the social justice analyst package or can u get it a la carte
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 April 2015 00:44 (nine years ago) link
lol
― flopson, Friday, 10 April 2015 00:46 (nine years ago) link
it should be a la carte but if you write for the internets it is prob required for optimal thinkpiece production
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 10 April 2015 00:50 (nine years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:42 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
does he though? the one interview i read he just seemed like a normal guy stoked to be making a tv show
― flopson, Friday, 10 April 2015 01:00 (nine years ago) link
i dunno about "dbag" but can you realistically make popular (or even unpopular) entertainment in mass media without having extended periods of being tremendously self-serious? your ideas are being realized at the cost of millions of dollars and thousands of man hours, that's pretty serious.
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 April 2015 01:44 (nine years ago) link
lol i'm not invested in this one way or another but the stuff i've read w/him has not made me think "cool guy" is all i'm saying.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 10 April 2015 02:05 (nine years ago) link
His name sounds like a giant pizza haha =]
― 龜, Friday, 10 April 2015 02:10 (nine years ago) link
i love pizza
― Clay, Friday, 10 April 2015 02:17 (nine years ago) link
i love pizzajitos
― rip van wanko, Friday, 10 April 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link
his statements about his upbringing in Louisiana makes it seem like he comes by his self-seriousness pretty honestly. in any case, he just strikes me as a bit clumsy in managing his media persona. probably didn't occur to him that citing Faulkner etc as an influence is to invite mockery.
― ryan, Friday, 10 April 2015 02:27 (nine years ago) link
part of why I was charmed by TD is that its "pretentiousness" (if you want to call it that) seemed so unguarded and earnest in some ways (though he's always careful to ground things in Marty's hilarious reactions to Rust). i guess in that sense it's the opposite of pretentious--these are ideas and feelings he was really invested in!
― ryan, Friday, 10 April 2015 02:30 (nine years ago) link
I will always have time for earnest nihilists
― 龜, Friday, 10 April 2015 02:34 (nine years ago) link
and I think that's what people are getting at with the "dorm room philosophy" jibes--as if they're made uncomfortable by that earnestness. too bad for them, I guess.
― ryan, Friday, 10 April 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link
xpost: me too!
― ryan, Friday, 10 April 2015 02:36 (nine years ago) link
some boobs always helps seal the deal
― j., Friday, 10 April 2015 02:37 (nine years ago) link
i know its dumb but i hate it when my illusion of ilx as a sort of sophisticated place is shattered. there is no 'blog quota' and b/c i am an editor i only write things when i want to. 'slow news day'! sheesh. pizzolatto comes across like a schmuck in that thr article and i stand by every word in my post. max out.
― max, Friday, 10 April 2015 11:47 (nine years ago) link
Doug Bonar @BonarDoug 9m9 minutes ago@Gawker gawker
― 龜, Friday, 10 April 2015 12:34 (nine years ago) link
well i guess max has fulfilled his lying to ilx quota for the day smh
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 April 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link
maybe he should set his stuff in idk Finland or something then― Οὖτις, Thursday, April 9, 2015 1:38 PM (Yesterday)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, April 9, 2015 1:38 PM (Yesterday)
would be cool if it was set in like 1970's Helsinki or something
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, March 18, 2014 2:28 PM (1 year ago)
― gr8080, Friday, 10 April 2015 14:22 (nine years ago) link