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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
Three fairly popular shows I highly recommend and can't stop thinking about:
(No spoilers here, but I'm in if anyone wants to talk specifics)
Barry (HBO) - Well worth the wait. This season has been fairly dark, even by Barry standards, but it's as funny as ever. Bill Hader's acting continues to surprise/impress me and the supporting characters like NoHo Hank, Crystal Ball, and Gene bring so much to their scenes. My only complaint is that it's a half-hour. How many more hit shows does "Mr. Alec Beeeerg" need to be involved in before he becomes a household name?
The Staircase (HBO) - The dramatization of the famous docuseries could have been a disaster but Colin Firth and Toni Collette bring the heat. The casting is pretty wild when you compare the actors to their real-life counterparts. Also, this story is absolutely insane. I can't believe it's real.
Better Call Saul (AMC) - It doesn't make sense to me that this show isn't as popular as Breaking Bad. It reminds me of the early days of Breaking Bad where the only person I knew who watched it was my step-dad's father. What the hell? Why can't I find more people to talk about this with? Sure, it's more of a slow burn, but it is just as good and HOLY SHIT HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT LAST EPISODE WAS INSANE.
Speaking of Barry and NoHo Hank, since you're also a fan you may find this recent article interesting:
Barry's Anthony Carrigan Was Told to Quit Acting, 'You're Not Attractive Anymore' Because of Alopecia
Made for Love Season 2 finished up and... it was quite disappointing. Between this and Russian Doll Season 2, it feels like high concept tv shows can’t sustain quality in their sophomore seasons.
Made for Love and Russian Doll have the same problem where the conflicts in the second season aren’t very interesting. They felt like shows that only needed one season, and the second season feels forced and like the writers don’t really have a plan as to where the show is going.
Speaking of disappointments, Marvelous Mrs Maisel. I don’t think I actually talked about Maisel on here before but the fourth season dropped a while back. Maybe like March/April. I was a big fan of the show when it first premiered. I saw the pilot when Amazon was still doing the pilot program where you can vote as to what show you wanted to watch. I only voted for Maisel and the first season was fantastic. I even loved the second season, which a lot of people seem to hate. The third season is when things felt like they were going off the rails, but I still quite enjoyed it. I stopped watching this season about half way through. It’s booooooring. This is a show that didn’t need more than 2 or 3 seasons at most but they kept going. The plot moves so slowly, and I just don’t care anymore. What once felt new and fresh feels tired and overdone. They could have told a neat little story and wrapped it up back in 2019 but they kept going and going overstaying their welcome.
I was pleasantly surprised by season 2 of Russian Doll, and I don't really understand the hate it's getting. Though I do agree, it would have probably been better off as a single-season show.
I didn’t think the second season added much. I thought it was retreading a lot of similar thematic ground, and it didn’t give us more depth to the characters. I didn’t find it as funny or as inventive as the first season, and I didn’t like that they pushed one of the main characters aside.
I didn’t mind this that much, though it did bother me a little bit, the cliffhanger from the first season is never addressed. And that’s disappointing to a lot of people since we assumed that would be addressed since it was kind of open ended. I don’t think anything they came up with would have done a good job at addressing that so that’s probably why they decided to just ignore it. Still, Season 2 felt really pointless.
Spoiler Russian Doll season 1
Do you mean that they might be stuck in alternate timelines? I always interpreted it as the two timelines merging at the end, when they converged at the parade.Yeah. I mean it was still ambiguous enough to generate articles trying to dissect what happened.