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too late! only one episode to go!

Yep if it was going longer I’d start a new thread - doubt it’ll have a s2. There wasn’t much chat about it on here before these last couple of episodes.

Bad Sisters - finale. This was GREAT

I am so happy to be right, fucking delighted for Grace and I love how so many little details from earlier episodes came back - her knitting, JP goading Eva for being “frigid”, burying him in his pyjamas! Nothing wasted!

Felt it was a good move to minimise Thomas’s screen time, the ending is one that works well, I don’t think Grace even minded selling that big house, it was a lovely metaphor for her leaving her isolation with JP and becoming part of the family again.

Bibi always great, I loved when her and Becka started laughing at the cabin and then Eva joined them.

People thinking Grace is a wimp - but she loves Blanaid and she loves her sisters and that’s why JP worked so hard to separate her from the latter, cos that’s the only way he would have total control over her. I knew Roger would be involved because how else was Grace going to do all that herself?

The scene at the end with the sisters at the table and the whole truth is great, I was tearing up watching them at the Forty Foot. What an amazing series.

all i want to know if if i should expect a check or not

all i want to know if if i should expect a check or not

i haven't seen it yet but yknow what they say about the journey vs the destination

as noted upthread, my sense of that show was that the journey was going to be packed with a great deal of egregious domestic sadism and intentionally overextended to make the series lengthy enough to justify budget/inflate length of watch time.
I love Horgan generally but she's fully capable of overindulgence. Bad Sisters immediately displayed all of her worst hallmarks and reeked of streaming's current chronic runtime bloviation. Plus it didn't seem half as clever as it seemed to think it was, so I'm curious if they opted for the obvious ending.

lol did you get all that from the first 15 minutes? astounding how eager some ppl are to absolutely shellack something they know little to nothing about. yeah it maybe could have been shorter... so feckin what? it's a brilliant show. someday you should watch it

I don’t really go with the shorter argument since a lot of the small seemingly meaningless details had payoff in later episodes, and also as I said upthread it was a joy to watch cos of strong casting and the believability of the bond between the sisters. I guess the time that went into that bonding and detail was too much for some people, even though there’s no way you can stick this landing without it.

lol did you get all that from the first 15 minutes?

the strong casting was obvious immediately and was a real draw, the writing's not bad either. I just can't cope with hatefulness or complete predictability and Bad Sisters had a lot of that going on from jump.

seriously though, is the ending of that show that

everyone tries to kill the husband but he dies of something semi-related/unrelated to their efforts so they're all equally culpable/non-culpable

seriously though, is the ending of that show that everyone tries to kill the husband but he dies of something semi-related/unrelated to their efforts so they're all equally culpable/non-culpable?
I'm genuinely curious if the climax was telegraphed from the start but not so curious that I want to invest ten hours.

not sure any of us are going to tell you tbh

ilx: where people who don't want to watch a show ask people who like the show whether they should waste their time on the show

I don’t care about his time, he’s deciding to waste his time shitting up this thread because idk he doesn’t get enough attention at home or something, and that’s nobody else’s problem? You didn’t like the show after 15 minutes? Ok, firstly who cares and is your fontanelle fully healed over cos you’re weirdly insistent on this? Just asking.

Honestly. People posting about things they like about the show and this creep is repeatedly posting I WATCHED FIFTEEN MINUTES AND I DIDN’T LIKE IT WAHHHHH like why indulge that for a second? Fuck off and stay there.

it’s too bad you watched all that shite instead of bad sisters tbh forks

catastrophe was good though of course

maybe if you watch dozens of shows at a time you have less patience for fat on your narrative bone but i don’t. i watch maybe a series or two per month max. i love falling into all the little details of a world, when it’s written, acted, directed and photographed well. keep in mind for decades tv was defined as “the same, only different” and that’s what each episode gives me. and trust me when i say this is head and shoulders above something like motherhood.

sisters > mothers

xp I really felt out of step with everyone I know who watched Catastrophe cos they really liked it and it just left me cold. I watched 2 series of it btw.

Gaahhh I don’t get to watch the season finale for 10 days because Jenn and I want to watch it together and I’m in Devon for that whole time. I think it’s both great and really interesting and through the course of watching nine tenths of it there’s stuff I thought after maybe 2 shows (eg isn’t JP’s evil overwritten) turns out to be totally necessary for the weird wrenching confusion of watching the thing.

That’s so good of you

I’m basically a secular saint

people who don't want to watch a show ask people who like the show whether they should waste their time on the show

tracer, I liked Motherland quite a bit; if you didn't, that may give a good signal on where our dividing point on taste/patience with teevee lies.

i'm gonna go jam the last fifteen minutes of bad sisters through my fontanelle to see if i'm right about the narrative arc here and then come back to discuss it in depth with gyac. Subscribe to our podcast everyone!

It’s ok forks, I’m blocking you now so you can annoy everyone else with your worthless posts. Sorry about your life.

cmon gyac wouldn’t you love to know forks’ thoughts on moby dick? “i can see where this is going”

I mean, if he stopped reading when your man wakes up in bed with Queequeg, that might have some entertainment value

as it happens, i've read moby dick a few times (though i tend to skip the fallacious cetacean taxonomic stuff) and acted in two separate adaptations, so i certainly have opinions!

My worthless posts and terrible life aren't bugging me that much. Bad TV is an issue though!

Appropriate to the thread and this thrilling exchange, here's a trailer for the new two-part Peacock anti-Barney documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj-7H0BVrVg

It’s ofc very cool as a survivor of dv to see a show w/coercive control as a major theme & plot point with female show runners and leads so airily dismissed based on vibes…but what did I expect posting about something I like on ilx?

(though i tend to skip the fallacious cetacean taxonomic stuff)

forks always breaking new ground in being wrong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetology_of_Moby-Dick

By the current taxonomy of Cetacea, the classification in Moby-Dick is inaccurate and incomplete as well, presenting only a fraction of the nearly ninety species of Cetaceans known today. In the case of some species, in particular the blue whale (which Ishmael calls the "sulphur-bottom whale"), very little was known at the time. The classification is thus heavily weighted toward whales hunted for oil and other uses, and presents a picture of the common knowledge of whales at the time of the novel. Since Melville presents the study within a fictional context, voiced by a fictional character in the narrative, it is arguable whether or not Melville intended the classification as a serious scientific contribution. One view is that Melville "roundly ridicules his own attempts at a scientific account of the whale" and "ridicules those who attempt to understand reality with the measuring."[4] Near the end of the chapter, Melville, alluding to Shakespeare's tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow speech, characterizes a list of whale names as "mere sounds, full of Leviathanism, but signifying nothing."

yes my point is who gives a shit, those chapters are bangers

Brad otm

"reading moby-dick to learn more facts about whales, i'm approaching the text correctly"

i assume you also liked the moment in s2 of the wire where they had a two episode digression about the history of paving stones

if such a thing existed yeah i’d be fucking down. the monumental amount of context that moby-dick constructs for itself is pretty much the fucking thing about the book that is good and innovative and makes it continually relevant to the tradition of storytelling

honestly all this nonsense would be avoided if you idiots would just just ~create a dedicated thread for this godforsaken show~

VG otm, you can use this one: whale wars

xp thanks VG, always good to know the people being trolled are the problem. It’s the last episode btw and there won’t be any more.

… although I might be back a week on Monday.

xp if you're calling Melville's rambling whale guts "the fucking thing" that makes Moby Dick evergreen to a modern audience, that's a hard disagree. the malleable metaphysical conceits, exploration of male fellowship, the contemporary clarity and vivacity of the descriptive language wins out for me over wading through 60 pages of disproven marine science. but, as noted, strength of structure and narrative is a priority to the way i consume stories so we may be measuring this thing from different starting points.

yes i'm saying that's why it's innovative and worthwhile as a modernist text. skipping it is missing the point. the gay stuff is good too, we love that

“strength of structure and narrative” is so important to the way you “consume” stories that you watch the first 15 mins and then the last episode lol

i am impressed you acted in two different adaptations of moby dick though forks, that’s quite something. trust me when i say that i promise i would not write a review of those productions having not actually seen them, and then continue talking about it for ages to people who not only saw it but enthusiastically loved it. that would just be… dickheaded?

I like turtles.

Trace, I would not only be cool with you blindly reviewing either one of of my two (2) theatrical adaptations of Moby Dick, I am actively encouraging it! But we should take this to another thread, so:
Thar She Blows! A Thread to Blindly Review Either of the Two (2) Theatrical Adaptations of Moby Dick that Forks Was In

at least this convo resulted in one new thread no one will reply to

rmde

Let’s get back to not watching tv shows

thought the bad sisters finale was pretty good!

i mean it’s not quite the cetalogy chapter of moby dick but it prob beat the hell out of “the whiteness of the whale”