Please bring back feral mongoose girl for more - so entertaining. The little 'eep' on the last hedgerow leap had me laughing so hard.
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 29 April 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
The whole since in the house with Ronny felt very Tarantino to me
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 29 April 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
Kill Bill vibes for sure
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 29 April 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
I’m caught up except for the most recent ep which isn’t out yet here and just came here to say I’m new to this idea of there being a person called bill hader who is actually dexter Michael Shannon. And apparently this is normal, everyone is just letting that go by
― milkshake chuk (wins), Monday, 29 April 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
honestly hoping the little girl never recurs, Pine Barrens-style
― Simon H., Monday, 29 April 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
lmao just read the interview and got to Hader explicitly referencing it!
― Simon H., Monday, 29 April 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link
Nice clickbait:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xZFQjeZwaw
― DJI, Friday, 3 May 2019 00:20 (five years ago) link
I love this character.
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PinkPoshBlueshark-size_restricted.gif
― earlnash, Friday, 3 May 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link
the lightswitch with him from fawning sycophant to psychopath is always so clean
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 May 2019 03:36 (five years ago) link
the scene with winkler breaking down "swim instructors" is probably the best highlight of the show since the glengarry scene.
― Hakim Bae's TMZ (s.clover), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:36 (five years ago) link
i strongly agree
― i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
"You say the title of the movie...they can't possibly cut that!"
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
i enjoyed season 1, but season 2 of this has been another level. hard to know if there's a jam band solo effect, though, where it's made better by the long slog of the preceding game of thrones.
― i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
I don't watch GoT, and Barry has been figuratively killing it these season (I was going to say literally too, but has he actually killed anyone this season? No, right?).
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
Y’know I hadn’t noticed but I guess you’re right! Set a lotta people down that road tho
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:25 (five years ago) link
Yeah there have been some dei ex machina to swoop in and do the deed.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:33 (five years ago) link
He's a good person now.
― DJI, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
Is he 6’2”?
― i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
google sez more like 6'0.5"
― Simon H., Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
was making a joke about it only mattering that he's 6'2" for swim instructors
― i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
but also, i didn't think he was much over 6 ft while watching. so thank you for confirming.
― i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
next week’s the finale already
― maura, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 00:41 (five years ago) link
good season, not sure it's appreciably better than the first on the whole just yet; still feel it's a bit too self-satisfied for my liking
― Simon H., Wednesday, 15 May 2019 00:43 (five years ago) link
SPOILERS
man that finale was brutal and I have no idea how to feel about it.
― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 06:37 (four years ago) link
back into the darkness he goes
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 06:38 (four years ago) link
We've got HBO for a couple of months and I'm catching up on things -- hooooly shit that "ronny/lily" episode.
― I am curious (george) (slight return) (WmC), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
Barry has been figuratively killing it these season (I was going to say literally too, but has he actually killed anyone this season? No, right?).
Just caught up with the finale and LOL at this comment.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
haha
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
I understand that, but "as much middle ground as possible" turns out to be too much: as a hitman he's pulling John Wick moves, and as an actor he's like an alien who came to earth having never seen movies, or TV, or very much human behavior before.
― JRN, Friday, April 13, 2018 3:59 AM bookmarkflaglink
Lol if you've never attended amateur theatre auditions, they come far, far worse than Barry circa S1.
Just finished S1. A bit aggrieved by the finale but i will continue
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
From that article linked above about the infamous S2E5:
“We might have jumped the shark,” Hader said
...sez the guy whose co-star is Henry Winkler.
― epistantophus, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
Also there is a great little piece of understated physical comedy in S1 when Fuches goes to sit backwards on a chair to give Barry some coaching and he can’t because the chair has arms so he has to turn it around.
― epistantophus, Thursday, 2 January 2020 00:32 (four years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:
ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 14:26 (four years ago) link
Is this back next week?
― kinder, Saturday, 16 April 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link
Yephttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx6AS0zzfGM
― DJI, Saturday, 16 April 2022 22:40 (two years ago) link
Back Sunday!
Assume this is on weekly? (which would give me a chance to rewatch season 2)
― groovypanda, Friday, 22 April 2022 14:10 (two years ago) link
oh my god lol this show has become so deeply unpleasant
― Stevie D(eux), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:47 (one year ago) link
just realized that outside of the acting stuff this is basically live action tv show version of gta 5
― 龜, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:23 (one year ago) link
The “you have too many dogs” scene a few weeks ago still pops into my head randomly and makes me laugh.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 12:43 (one year ago) link
Last night when Barry was explaining to Sally what he could do about the network exec who had cancelled her show had one of the most uncomfortable mixtures of horror and laughter I've ever experienced.
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
It's interesting to see the turn of completely burning any of Barry's bridges and bringing back the guy he saved to investigate but, yeah, it has become pretty unpleasant. While I understand the narrative need for it, the mom accidentally shooting her son in the stomach, thus saving Barry, felt like unnecessary punishment for those characters after everything else. I did lol very hard at the FaceTime from the parking garage scene.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
Barry has gone from awful but still likable or endearing to just like… really, really unlikable. There’s no complexity anymore or like tension between the two halves. Like he’s just capital-B Bad. It makes for a much less compelling show IMO, there’s very little fun, and what funny moments there are feel like try-hard attempts at levity
― Stevie D(eux), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link
Also I can’t tell if I’m being overly uptight but as much as I love the Hank-Cristobal pairing there’s something about the way it’s supposed to be funny that feels ever so slightly off to me
― Stevie D(eux), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 02:34 (one year ago) link
Disappointing to hear. I've gotten behind and only seen two eps. If he's going full on Scarface I'm a lot less interested
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
i'm not sure about villainous but it definitely seems like, especially in that scene with Sally about gaslighting the network exec, they have made him seem way more psychopathic and detached from reality. I get that that change in tone was a diagenic response to Hank and Cristobal's encouragement to be more honest, but even so it seemed like a different Barry being honest than the one we got to know in the first couple seasons, who was often on teh verge of tears when he "had" to kill someone. If they keep this up they will have lost a lot of anything new or unique that this show had to add to the very well-trod prestige TV antihero canon. But I think they can still pull back, will keep watching to see where it goes.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
― Stevie D(eux), Tuesday, May 24, 2022 10:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I'm not sure it's supposed to be funny on its own. I think any humor that comes from their scenes that appears to be pointed at them is more about the increased discrepancy/juxtaposition between them and their line of work.
― Evan, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
I've also not interpreted Barry as "capital-B Bad"... my understanding is that he essentially has snapped and crossed another threshold of disillusionment and depression. Note the way he thought he was "fixing" things along the way this entire season. Just has no moral compass but isn't aware of it.
― Evan, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
It's a weird show. They definitely seem to be doing a gritty "if you thought being a hitman was at all quirky or Cusack-esque, it's not, it's really fucked up" thing.
Instead of the Coen Bros world where you have either hapless civilians going down dark paths or cold-hearted killers who aren't bothered about redemption or living normal lives, you've just got Barry going further down the rabbit hole. I guess I'm curious to see where they go with it, assuming he lives to see another season.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
someone is going to get hit on-stage
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
i think it was someone here's theory upthread that the daughter from sally's show is going to figure out his deal and he's going to kill her. that felt otm though not sure now that the show's canceled, she wasn't in the most recent ep at all i don't think.
fuchs sending all these innocent civilian types after barry is certainly setting him up for some actions that may give his feeble moral compass a little jolt
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
Oh, didn't know it was canceled. Probably for the best though, it doesn't seem like the sort of show that should run much longer.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link