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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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I mean...honestly if you can’t stand rich white people being bad, it might get on your nerves. Though I found that if you don’t get hung up on that and instead laugh at them and their awfulness, it becomes pretty enjoyable. They try to shape some characters into being marginally sympathetic, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

I caught up with it in time to watch the season two finale. It’s worth a watch, but if you get halfway through the first season and don’t enjoy it, it’s not gonna be for you.
 
So I tried watching the Looking For Alaska show on Hulu, but it's really not clicking. I knew nothing about the book, I was only curious for a fun/bad/over the top teen drama. Also it was created by the two people behind The OC, which was a guilty pleasure of mine in high school. But whereas that show drew me in with the humor and somewhat believable characters, LFA just feels...empty and too serious but also not serious enough. It's weird.
 
Teeeee said:
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.
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Bennnnn said:
I mean...honestly if you can’t stand rich white people being bad, it might get on your nerves. Though I found that if you don’t get hung up on that and instead laugh at them and their awfulness, it becomes pretty enjoyable. They try to shape some characters into being marginally sympathetic, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

I caught up with it in time to watch the season two finale. It’s worth a watch, but if you get halfway through the first season and don’t enjoy it, it’s not gonna be for you.
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Thanks, team. I'll give it a try once I finish Broadchurch (which somehow I skipped the first time around despite my wife's infatuation with David Tennant). I think a big part of my resistance to Succession is the fact that our American political reality for at least the last three years could be summed up as "rich white people behaving badly." I'm finding it less and less funny by the day. But I'll try not to hold that against the show.
 
JohnPeelIsMyCoPilot said:
Thanks, team. I'll give it a try once I finish Broadchurch (which somehow I skipped the first time around despite my wife's infatuation with David Tennant). I think a big part of my resistance to Succession is the fact that our American political reality for at least the last three years could be summed up as "rich white people behaving badly." I'm finding it less and less funny by the day. But I'll try not to hold that against the show.
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OMG. Broadchurch S1 is so effing good. Enjoy that!!!!!
 
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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It's the most important show on television and more about the ways in which the 1% control institutions and politics than it is about rich people behaving badly (although they do behave badly). The dialogue is razor sharp, it might be the best ensemble acting on tv, its laugh out loud funny and manages to juggle a very difficult tone.

I should have included it on my list of shows that could wind up in my all time top 10.
 
Woob_woob said:
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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Totally forgot about Halt and Catch Fire. That was a great one too.
 
Bennnnn said:
I mean...honestly if you can’t stand rich white people being bad, it might get on your nerves. Though I found that if you don’t get hung up on that and instead laugh at them and their awfulness, it becomes pretty enjoyable. They try to shape some characters into being marginally sympathetic, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

I caught up with it in time to watch the season two finale. It’s worth a watch, but if you get halfway through the first season and don’t enjoy it, it’s not gonna be for you.
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I think a lot of folks look at Succession as like some Dallas-esque type drama but when you start watching it I think it becomes clear pretty fast that it is more a pitch black comedy. Adam McKay (Will Farrell writing and producing partner), I believe is one of the shows creators. Plus any show were I get to watch Kieran Culkin be super Kieran Culkiny and Brian Cox shout and growl at people is a home run in my book. It’s an extremely watchable show.
 
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Woob_woob said:
Ive had a bunch of superficial reasons for not watching Succesion, but this right here is a legit reason that will keep me away. His latest movies like Vice and The Big Short are so fucking bad and I can only imagine Succesion is in the same vein as those.
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So I love The Big Short while strong disliking Vice (which was a mess).

But a) it's better than either of those. B) McKay is merely a producer. The show runner is actually the guy behind Peep Show and the cult comedies In the Loop and Four Lions.
 
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Indymisanthrope said:
The show that people keep describing sounds great, but the show I see in ads looks utterly unappealing. When trailers first showed up I thought it looked like straight B-grade HBO fare. I keep being surprised by how many people have told me they thought it looked like a great show from the very first trailer they saw.

That's a show I would watch.
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Yeah,I noticed it when I was reading woob’s reply. I would blame my phone but I am the one typing so, ya know.
 
Anyone watching the Wu-tang show on Hulu? I know it's a dramatization but I've really been enjoying it. It's kind-of fun. I think the acting is good and if you the group was important to you as a kid (or you're just interested) it might be worth your time.
 
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