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JohnPeelIsMyCoPilot said:
Anyone want to convince me Succession is worth my time? I know how good the reviews have been, but after two seasons of Big Little Lies I think I'm done with rich white people behaving badly.
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Super get this. It is why I didn't want to watch it.

This is a dark comedy, almost satire, of rich people. It does not celebrate them or in any way try to make you feel sorry for them or like them. You hate them and kinda have fun in your hate of them. It's like a more grown up Arrested Development. The men are horrible people and pretty darn incompetent at everything.

I have also found that I am liking it more because I'm not binging it. I'm watching an episode every week. So, it isn't thrown in my face so much so that it inundates my thoughts. I can let one episode at a time sink in and then take a little bit of a break before diving into the next.
 
JohnPeelIsMyCoPilot said:
Anyone want to convince me Succession is worth my time? I know how good the reviews have been, but after two seasons of Big Little Lies I think I'm done with rich white people behaving badly.
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Its on my watchlist, but more to the point I LOVE your profile name!!

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So I finally got to the end of Sons of Anarchy..worth persevering with , some good twists and turns and lots of incredibly violent bits , with the odd great tune thrown in. Final episodes rounded the story of too , it’s not the wire or GoT but a passable series
 
Gavaxeman said:
So I finally got to the end of Sons of Anarchy..worth persevering with , some good twists and turns and lots of incredibly violent bits , with the odd great tune thrown in. Final episodes rounded the story of too , it’s not the wire or GoT but a passable series
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I loved Sons Of Anarchy, like you said theres lots of twists. The scene set in the prison when Jax is looking through the glass is heartbreaking.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Firm disagree. That series was a massive waste of potential. FX indulged all of Kurt Sutter's worst inclinations, especially in those bloated later seasons where episodes kept getting long and longer. I created a Disqus account just so I could complain about that finale in the old AV Club comments section.
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I agree that the quality dropped in the later shows but I think as a whole, and particularly the first season, it was a really gripping show. The whole storyline around Jax's love for the club and step-father clashing against the views his father wrote in the memoirs really made it interesting for me.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Oh yeah, "Hamlet on a Motorcycle" was what the show absolutely should have been. The end of the first season held a lot of promise for setting up a narrative arc for that. But the show kept getting distracted by gang wars and last-minute deals that end with the twist of someone getting shot in the head. And it was peppered with WAY too much graphic content that served no purpose other than shock value, and even that had rapidly diminishing returns. By the last couple of years, it was essentially a hate-watch for me, just because I wanted to see if it would ever make good on the conceit it had introduced in the beginning
it didn't.
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I thought it got better as it went along ...
 
Teeeee said:
I really don't know why I watched every episode of SOA. It was definitely hate watching. I did not like that show at all. Charlie Hunnam is very pretty. But he can not act. And his faux swagger was just laughable.
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Did ya ever watch the Apatow Freaks & Geeks follow up Undeclared? I really enjoyed that show but Hunnam played the Thespian majoring ladies man on that show and I thought he played that off well but when SOA started it took me forever to realize that it was the same actor. Also reminded me of Dan Stevens roles in Downton Abbey and Legion respectively It took me episodes to figure out that David was Matthew Crawley.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Did ya ever watch the Apatow Freaks & Geeks follow up Undeclared? I really enjoyed that show but Hunnam played the Thespian majoring ladies man on that show and I thought he played that off well but when SOA started it took me forever to realize that it was the same actor. Also reminded me of Dan Stevens roles in Downton Abbey and Legion respectively It took me episodes to figure out that David was Matthew Crawley.
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OH YEAH! I did watch Freaks & Geeks and forgot he was in that. You're right, he was so much better in that.

I think SOA has kinda pigeon holed him. Unless I'm mistaken, he hasn't had a huge amount of roles since then.
 
Teeeee said:
OH YEAH! I did watch Freaks & Geeks and forgot he was in that. You're right, he was so much better in that.

I think SOA has kinda pigeon holed him. Unless I'm mistaken, he hasn't had a huge amount of roles since then.
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I would definitely agree regarding the pigeon holing. The only things that jump out to me as far as memorable roles go where Undeclared, SOA, Then a couple movies that I thought he was alright. he did a Dickensian period piece Nicholas Nickleby and more recently The Lost History of Z. I felt he was almost a poor man's Heath Ledger.
 
Just started Watching series 10 now.. and I realised I had hardly any recall of series 9 , kinda shows you how far it’s slipped as a must watch ...I really hope theirs an end game now the comics have stopped
 
Gavaxeman said:
Just started Watching series 10 now.. and I realised I had hardly any recall of series 9 , kinda shows you how far it’s slipped as a must watch ...I really hope theirs an end game now the comics have stopped
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Considering they are going to make a third Walking Dead show I dont see them slowing down anytime soon. I'm pretty sure Walking and Fear are AMCs two most watched shows still.
 
Woob_woob said:
Considering they are going to make a third Walking Dead show I dont see them slowing down anytime soon. I'm pretty sure Walking and Fear are AMCs two most watched shows still.
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AMC had that obviously great run of critically acclaimed and/or popular run Mad Men, Breaking Bad , & Then The Walking Dead but I think unfortunately most of their recent originals haven't been as successful (Personally I really enjoyed Better Call Saul, The first season of The Terror, and Lodge 49 but none of those show have near the cultural cache of the aforementioned shows.) Right now I think they will be riding that Walking Dead horse for as long as they can muster. I wish AMC would give Kirkman's Thief of Thieves a go as a series I think it would work well for a few seasons at least if done right.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
AMC had that obviously great run of critically acclaimed and/or popular run Mad Men, Breaking Bad , & Then The Walking Dead but I think unfortunately most of their recent originals haven't been as successful (Personally I really enjoyed Better Call Saul, The first season of The Terror, and Lodge 49 but none of those show have near the cultural cache of the aforementioned shows.) Right now I think they will be riding that Walking Dead horse for as long as they can muster. I wish AMC would give Kirkman's Thief of Thieves a go as a series I think it would work well for a few seasons at least if done right.
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I've enjoyed a decent amount of AMC shows over the years even if they arent on the Mad Men, Breaking Bad/BCS level. Halt and Catch Fire, Hell on Wheels, Preacher, Lodge 49, The Terror, and Humans are all enjoyable shows imo.

Totally agreed that Thief of Thieves would be a good show. Kirkman's writing style is very in line with TV. I cant wait for the Invincible show coming to Prime next year.
 
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