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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.
I've been continuing to re-watch Game of Thrones. During my initial watch years ago, I only watched seasons 1-6 but this time I'm finally watching Season 7 & 8 for the first time. I haven't finished season 7 yet but man, it feel like such a downgrade from the previous season already. The pacing is already noticeably faster, things have shifted away from the politics that made the early seasons so good, and the characters just feel completely different. I'm going to stick with it so I can join in on the outrage against season 7 and 8, albeit 7 years late.
Just by what you've said so far yea you're gonna be as angry as the rest of us come season 8. It only gets worse. Undeniably.
The Agency had its second season drop and its perfect timing for it. It isn't the best spy series, but its pretty good, which is promoted to stellar during this very brief drought. The cast is excellent and the performances are pretty good.
As always, I would like all of the kids to be killed off or simply sent away to live on a farm up state with an aunt or whatever... logistically they just don't work for as series like this.
I started watching Twin Peaks this week, yes the one from 1990. In the last year or so I've started down the road of plugging the numerous holes in my cultural awareness, and on the spur of a video comparing the show against the cinematic œuvre of Mr. Beast I figured it's time to take a stop here and see what it's all about.
Coming into this I know roughly two things:
It's one of the defining pieces of media of the style people consider "Lynchian"
The primary antagonist of the series is named Bob, thanks to a documentary about athletes named Bob.
I don't have much to say yet, but the first few episodes have already thrown a lot at me and I'm looking forward to seeing what slithers out of this can of worms (and also learning everyone's names because there are way too many people for me to remember in one episode).
In the age of streaming services Mad Men doesn't feel nearly as slow in retrospect. I mean, there is still plenty of lengthy dialogue that doesn't move the narrative one bit. But that's just because it's pure drama. That is default for the genre. 45 minutes runtime feels right in my view. Not the 55+ minutes we see today.