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The Official TV Thread

Nik the Trik said:
It doesn't really matter. They're not connected at all outside of some vague plot similarities and the general setting. I mean, I think it's a phenomenal movie that deserved all of it's awards and so you should see it but outside of maybe being confused about why a show set in Minnesota is called Fargo there's no real need.
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Ok. I thought they'd be more connected but I also didn't want to spoil anything in the show by watching the movie first. I'll definitely be watching both sometime soon.
 
Peter Dinklage deserves an emmy for his one  scene alone on the stand two shows. Man that was powerful.
 
Nik the Trik said:
I don't know if anyone's watching it but I would highly recommend the TV version of Fargo that FX is doing.
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I'm a sucker for anything with Martin Freeman in it so I gave it a shot after I saw the commercials, its very good.
 
mc said:
Peter Dinklage deserves an emmy for his one  scene alone on the stand two shows. Man that was powerful.
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I enjoyed his character a bit more at the beginning of the series - a mid evil party animal with rockstarish behavior / attitude. Another classic case of falling in love and going all soft! <plus having your life go to hell> ;]  Class actor though for sure he has stolen the show.
 
It was too short to really call it a season but I thought it was a pretty spectacular 7 episode run for Mad Men again. The final sequence of the season was, despite it's unexpectedness and unprecedented nature, really quite moving I thought.
 
Nik the Trik said:
It was too short to really call it a season but I thought it was a pretty spectacular 7 episode run for Mad Men again. The final sequence of the season was, despite it's unexpectedness and unprecedented nature, really quite moving I thought.
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It's a pretty rare feat for a show to go into its 7th season without a decline in quality. I think Mad Men has accomplished it though.
 
Why, WHY did I finally start to get caught up on Season 4 of Game of Thrones before all episodes have aired? 

I was all like "I'll just watch one every few days and the last couple episodes will have aired by the time I catch up to them!"

Yeah, so I just shotgunned seven episodes in two days and now I have to wait for the last two eps.

Thanks, self-control.  Way to drop the ball.
 
Deebo said:
It's a pretty rare feat for a show to go into its 7th season without a decline in quality. I think Mad Men has accomplished it though.
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I thought that last scene was a pretty great way to end the 'half-season.'  I had actually read up a bit on Robert Morse earlier in the season and knowing his acting history it was a nice bit of callback/send-off, as well as keeps in line with other 'visions' Don has had of people from his past who have died.
 
Stickytape said:
Why, WHY did I finally start to get caught up on Season 4 of Game of Thrones before all episodes have aired? 

I was all like "I'll just watch one every few days and the last couple episodes will have aired by the time I catch up to them!"

Yeah, so I just shotgunned seven episodes in two days and now I have to wait for the last two eps.

Thanks, self-control.  Way to drop the ball.
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I watched three seasons in about two weeks and season 4 seems to take a lifetime. This past Sunday there wasn't a show and I was looking so forward to it.
 
mc said:
I watched three seasons in about two weeks and season 4 seems to take a lifetime. This past Sunday there wasn't a show and I was looking so forward to it.
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Yeah. Not having an episode on Sunday almost ruined my weekend.
 
Anyone ever read Cormac McCarthy's The Road? There comes a point where grimness for grimness' sake is exhausting, not entertaining. As much as I like certain elements of the show, I think GoT is flirting with that this season.
 
Nik the Trik said:
Anyone ever read Cormac McCarthy's The Road? There comes a point where grimness for grimness' sake is exhausting, not entertaining. As much as I like certain elements of the show, I think GoT is flirting with that this season.
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Maybe, but I'm happy having a show where nobody is safe. Then again, House of Cards didn't have too many killings but was probably more effective.
 
Bender said:
Maybe, but I'm happy having a show where nobody is safe. Then again, House of Cards didn't have too many killings but was probably more effective.
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I kind of see it like 'The Wire' in a way - there weren't many 'happy' endings in that show, a lot of the times the 'bad' guys got away with things, or didn't feel fully the repercussions of their actions but it all added up to feel like a more realistic portrayal.  Similarly in GOT they're going for a 'realistic' portrayal in the sense of the Westerosi world George R. Martin has created where, like the Hound stated a few episodes ago, it's all about survival not about honour, dignity, etc.  I see the last scene of this episode as a continuation of that - Oberyn wanted justice or it to mean something, whereas it should have been about simply him or me.

I think there are plenty of bright spots and uplifting things occurring they're just forgotten when this sort of episode happens.
 
Bender said:
Maybe, but I'm happy having a show where nobody is safe.
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To me it's not so much a question of who's "safe" or who isn't or even whether or not the winner of the duel was the hero or the villain. It's not particularly inventive or clever to be constantly writing the worst possible outcomes and every ten-penny horror movie has gruesome deaths and impressive looking gore.

Andy Greenwald over at Grantland probably summed it up better than I could:

But even in the midst of an epic, excellent season that has provided more wit, resonance, and emotion than I had previously thought possible, I am growing slightly weary of being taught the same merciless lesson again and again. I?d like to think that Charlie Brown had some grudging respect for Lucy the first time she pulled away the football. But the fifth?...Shocking us isn?t the same thing as challenging us. A simpleton with a rock might not need to explain himself, but a writer usually does. At this point, the most radical thing Game of Thrones could do is to make the audience exhale in relief.
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http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/game-of-thrones-recap-the-rumble-in-the-red-keep/
 
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