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Winning Time is still adding fire. This ep we get Adrian Brody as an excellent Pat Reilly and Gillian Jacobs as his wife. You know it’s compelling television when you what’s going to happen but you still can’t wait to see it.
 
also very happy Atlanta is back. It’s been my favorite show both times it was on. Recently rewatched the whole thing to get ready. And so far it’s my favorite show of the year with just two episodes. There’s just nothing like this on.
 
okay, so I haven't watched it yet, but for Pachinko on Apple TV... They spent all this money to make a big original foreign language drama and then have the default set to dubbed English? What is the point of that?

From what I understand, if I set it to Korean, it will include all the actors speaking in their original languages (Korean, Japanese, English) with multi-colored subtitles. Is this right? I want to make sure I'm watching it as intended, not with bad dubbed English audio.
 
Anyone check out the first episode of Halo on Paramount+? I have some complaints, but my continuous desire for more space age sci-fi has me focusing on what was good and looking forward to more episodes.
 
Hemotep said:
Anyone check out the first episode of Halo on Paramount+? I have some complaints, but my continuous desire for more space age sci-fi has me focusing on what was good and looking forward to more episodes.
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Watched it. Left a bit on the fence. The Expanse has set the bar very high now and I think everything will be lacking. As long as the story gets better then I will overlook the fx and look of the show. Just don't me started on how on a resource mining planet, the last thing you want to wear is a big long hippie coat that can get caught in gears and kill you.

I should add I still have high hopes for it. Pablo Shriever is a good actor and I think he can bring nuance to the Master character which is needed
 
jamieanderson1968 said:
Watched it. Left a bit on the fence. The Expanse has set the bar very high now and I think everything will be lacking. As long as the story gets better then I will overlook the fx and look of the show. Just don't me started on how on a resource mining planet, the last thing you want to wear is a big long hippie coat that can get caught in gears and kill you.

I should add I still have high hopes for it. Pablo Shriever is a good actor and I think he can bring nuance to the Master character which is needed
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You captured my thoughts exactly.
 
Finally caught up on the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, season 4 after not watching since February. I know some are not big fans of this season but I absolutely love the performance of Luke Kirby who plays Lenny Bruce. He eats up any scene he's in and they give you just a small taste each time. I'd love a show or special that's just a Lenny Bruce story with Luke Kirby reprising his role.

My favorite scene with him in the series is the perfect recreation of Lenny Bruce on the Steve Allen Show.

 
Watched episode one of Pachinko and am already very impressed with what it’s doing. Visually it’s one of the most beautiful and ambitious looking tv shows. But I think from a story perspective the same could be said. I just need to keep watching it. I do wonder if it’ll take hold with a wide audience.
 
So I've got to hash out some thoughts on Severance because as much as I have enjoyed the ride so far, I am also pretty frustrated.

Before this point in the season (the finale is next week), there should have been small reveals slowly unfolding, but we haven't gotten any of that. Instead, each episode gives us like a big what the fuck moment and then doesn't follow up with what it was. I think there is now so much riding on this finale to truly deliver, at least for me. The show has grown on me a lot since the premiere though. I think the tone has gotten pretty evened out with really funny stuff and incredible dark stuff. It works well. But the central mystery is not really closer to being solved just yet. And the various other random crazy things they've thrown at us still haven't been resolved.

I didn't really go into this show thinking it would be a multi-season show, so maybe that's my mistake as I'm understanding a second season is happening? But when it moves kinda slowly and doesn't get further into you understanding what is going on, I think that's kind of an issue. The finale either will upend everything and give you so much more to think about before a second season, or it'll peter out small reveals and leave tons of questions just hung in the air. It makes me wonder how long it can sustain its own mysteries. Look, I'd love to be proven wrong. This is a well made show with great moments, great acting, and a great central conceit. But with the penultimate episode revealing nothing other than what really happens at a waffle party, which what the fuck was that, I am left a bit disappointed.

That said...here's what I want:

I think Helly is involved in the company in a much more significant way, which would explain why her outie is so adamant on remaining at the job. I think this was further hinted at when we got one single shot of her during the tense montage at the end of the newest episode where she's clearly dressed up drinking champagne. She's likely at that big gala event. So I think this will be answered.

But with now some slightly more clarity on Mark's wife and that whole situation, I think it really needs to deliver on everything that happened there.

There is also something obviously connected to birthing center, right? So I want to know what that connection is.

But the biggest mystery: what the fuck is this job? Do the numbers actually mean anything? Is it all just about control? What's the history of this company? I need these answers.

The goats? Well, I doubt that'll be answered, but I think it should be.
 
@Bennnnn
Below is one tiny theory I have, because with so much going on I can't even pretend to have all that much figured out.
I am not at the frustration point you are, and it might be because I'm still mostly jaw dropped as I watch, then try to absorb. But I didn't realize there was only one more for the season until I read your post, so that does make me realize how much won't likely be answered next week.

Anyway....
Ms Casey has always seemed less than human to me. Now that we learned that she is Mark's wife, but Mark took on the severance surgery because she died, I think Ms Casey is a spawn of some sort. She mentioned only being 107 hours old in the most recent episode, and I was already thinking along those lines anyway. And I think the goats have something to do with it. Maybe some of her DNA was taken by Lumon to try their experiment which, as we saw, was ostensibly about whether innies recognize each other if their outties know each other.
 
Re: Severance- I think that the sci-fi trappings make us expect explanations, but the heart of the show is much more David Lynch than Philip K Dick.
 
ranbalam said:
@Bennnnn
Below is one tiny theory I have, because with so much going on I can't even pretend to have all that much figured out.
I am not at the frustration point you are, and it might be because I'm still mostly jaw dropped as I watch, then try to absorb. But I didn't realize there was only one more for the season until I read your post, so that does make me realize how much won't likely be answered next week.

Anyway....
Ms Casey has always seemed less than human to me. Now that we learned that she is Mark's wife, but Mark took on the severance surgery because she died, I think Ms Casey is a spawn of some sort. She mentioned only being 107 hours old in the most recent episode, and I was already thinking along those lines anyway. And I think the goats have something to do with it. Maybe some of her DNA was taken by Lumon to try their experiment which, as we saw, was ostensibly about whether innies recognize each other if their outties know each other.
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Yeah I got the feeling she was...off before the newest episode. But yeah, i was thinking along similar lines to you. They started to sort of hint that something "worked" with her, so yes she's not all human or something. But I wonder what the specific purpose of that is in the grander scheme of things.
LeSamourai said:
Re: Severance- I think that the sci-fi trappings make us expect explanations, but the heart of the show is much more David Lynch than Philip K Dick.
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I have thought this too as I wrestled with my thoughts on it. Maybe just accept the oddness and move forward. But there are often so many things that have come up in later episodes that connect to specific imagery in earlier episodes. It hints at a much tighter mystery going on. Then again, maybe not?
 
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