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Teeeee said:
Ha! The accents are all over the place on that show.

Monday night's episode was BRUTAL! Radiation poisoning looks like one of the more horrific ways to die.
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I just came here to talk about that last episode. Those makeup guys better win all the Emmy's. I don't think I've ever been so disgusted and horrified. I felt ill just looking at Vasily.
 
Skacel said:
The only thing that’s throwing me off with Chernobyl is that they all talk in British accents.
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I actually preferred the accents being British. I think a bunch of people mumbling through sterotypical Russian accents would have cheapened some of the authentic terror of what I was seeing.
 
folsom_lives said:
I just came here to talk about that last episode. Those makeup guys better win all the Emmy's. I don't think I've ever been so disgusted and horrified. I felt ill just looking at Vasily.
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Yes, it was horrific! And his description of what happens to the body during radiation poisoning? Oof.

Maybe because he is such a well known person in history, I just can't get over that it isn't Gorbachev.
 
Started Dead To Me last night. Only watched one episode but I’m interested to see where it goes. How can it sustain as a long-running show if that is its intention? I have no idea. I can’t help but think about the future of a show when I start one. It’s my fault. But anyway, solid pilot. Watching more tonight.
 
Bennnnn said:
Started Dead To Me last night. Only watched one episode but I’m interested to see where it goes. How can it sustain as a long-running show if that is its intention? I have no idea. I can’t help but think about the future of a show when I start one. It’s my fault. But anyway, solid pilot. Watching more tonight.
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you could have said the same thing about The Good Place too ;)

I actually haven't watched Dead to Me, but I have heard good things about it
 
Barry was so good this year.
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I just ned a higher quality version of this one for my signature forever:
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Also I missed most of the last season of Veep, but came around for the finale and loved it.
 
Oh, and since I've been hearing my beloved's name dragged through the dirt all week in the wake of the GoT finale, I want to make one fact perfectly clear:

The finale of Lost was good and saying it was bad is an incredibly basic take that is really not as bold as people act when saying it, and it comes from people who seem to have been watching a completely different show than I was.

Now if you wanna get cranky about the season leading up to the Lost finale, let's get nuts.
 
Bull Shannon said:
Barry was so good this year.
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I just ned a higher quality version of this one for my signature forever:
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Also I missed most of the last season of Veep, but came around for the finale and loved it.
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Barry is the best show of the year so far IMO. People aren't talking about it enough. Like, that one episode with
the cheating wife's new karate guy and his insane animal kid
is like one of the best episodes I've seen on TV since Breaking Bad.
 
Bull Shannon said:
Oh, and since I've been hearing my beloved's name dragged through the dirt all week in the wake of the GoT finale, I want to make one fact perfectly clear:

The finale of Lost was good and saying it was bad is an incredibly basic take that is really not as bold as people act when saying it, and it comes from people who seem to have been watching a completely different show than I was.

Now if you wanna get cranky about the season leading up to the Lost finale, let's get nuts.
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I still see people missing the point on the Lost finale, summing up that "they were in purgatory the whole time," which is like...did you even watch the finale?

That said, I don't love the finale, but as a whole the experience of watching Lost week to week and year to year was great. I don't think I've experienced anything like that before or since. My main issue with the finale is that the reveal of the final season's flash-forward/side-flash things was lame. Other than that, I don't have a problem with it.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
DID WALT HAVE F*CKING POWERS, OR NOT

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WHO WAS LOOKING THROUGH THE F*CKING HOLE IN THE WALL AT HURLEY IN JACOB’S CABIN

WHO THE F*CK WAS SHOOTING AT THE PEOPLE IN THE BOATS WHEN TIME STARTED GOING ALL WONKY

This is the reason I prefer The Leftovers, which had just as many “is this real or magic or what?” questions. In The Leftovers, those questions actually told you about the world the characters lived in and the emotional crises they were dealing with. The writers didn’t know the answers to the questions they were asking, but that’s okay, because the questions were only important insofar as they illuminated the lives of the characters. In Lost, they were posed as critical plot points and cliffhangers to keep you coming back next week, only to be told that in the end I was paying attention to the wrong thing all along. Part of that is on ABC for needing something to drive ratings, so they focused on the mysteries in the ads. But Cuse & Lindelof knew very well that that Lost wasn’t a water cooler show because people really cared about Jin & Sun’s marriage or Sawyer’s abandonment issues or whatever. They waited until after the show ended to tell people that’s what was important all along, when they could have been giving interviews well before then to encourage people to focus less on the plot and more on the people (I mean, hell, they even had President Obama asking about who the Adam & Eve skeletons were. They eventually answered that one within the show, but guess what? It didn’t matter.).
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You're not wrong at all; a lot of your remaining questions are valid and I'd chalk them up to a writer's room that was barely a step ahead of itself (especially in seasons 2-4 or so). But that gives lie to my entire point: Lost is a dumb and frustrating show. The finale didn't betray that one bit. A lot of it doesn't make sense, plot-wise, and if you weren't there for how bonkers it was, you had to be there for the characters.

I guess I didn't really engage with the online community or consume any interviews/behind the scenes stuff while Lost was on, because I just sort of took it all at face value. It just baffles me that anyone who watched Lost through its entire run would think that finale was the problem.

I still need to see The Leftovers tho. Watched the pilot and never got further (I do that a lot with shows and it's never the show's fault).

Bennnnn said:
I still see people missing the point on the Lost finale, summing up that "they were in purgatory the whole time," which is like...did you even watch the finale?

That said, I don't love the finale, but as a whole the experience of watching Lost week to week and year to year was great. I don't think I've experienced anything like that before or since. My main issue with the finale is that the reveal of the final season's flash-forward/side-flash things was lame. Other than that, I don't have a problem with it.
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Yeah that purgatory stuff was a little annoying. I know they said the island wasn't purgatory, but to end in a purgatory was a little embittering.
 
botherly said:
Barry is the best show of the year so far IMO. People aren't talking about it enough. Like, that one episode with
the cheating wife's new karate guy and his insane animal kid
is like one of the best episodes I've seen on TV since Breaking Bad.
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That episode was pretty brilliant. I actually had to watch it 2x. The first time, I was so taken out of my comfort zone and kept saying, "What the eff is happening?" The 2nd time I was able to settle myself and appreciate the humor in it.
 
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