With you on The Sopranos. Have not seen it. Going through Mad Men now but I'm forcing myself to only watch it on the treadmill in order to get me on the treadmill. Guess I'll have to check out The Americans also.
My wife is pregnant and we’re both teachers and there are a LOT of shows we haven’t seen (including BB) so I think we’re planning on doing a lot of binging this summer
haha I need to watch The Wire first and foremost. I've kind of never really had any interest in seeing The Sopranos, to be honest. Don't know if I ever will.
Find interest. Trust me. I didn't watch it until a couple years ago because I felt as you do. I was wrong.
At the gym listening to the most recent episode of The Watch podcast about Sunday’s episode and both their criticisms and compliments of episode 4 pretty succinctly sum up my thoughts on the entire final season thus far.
I’m just joking about how you’ve been into a lot of things here that I’ve disliked, but now I know so much more about what shows you haven’t seen and that makes a lot more sense. Lol.
Okay, I vehemently disagreed with most people who were saying that the people behind making the show have been slipping and not giving as much of a shit recently, but the articles / interviews that came out today with director David Nutter explaining why Jon Snow didn't pet Ghost goodbye do kind of paint that picture. At first he says it is too hard to do with how the wolves are created with CGI, but then he adds that he thought keeping him off to the side like they did was more powerful. That second part honestly sounds like a giant load of shit and he kinda tipped his hand with the first thought. In the grand scheme of things I don't think this is a big deal at all, but I do think it was a little moment where the show stumbled and did not handle things in an emotionally satisfying way. You could easily do it old school and have Jon walk up to Ghost but keep it like a medium shot and have the emotion play out on Jon's face and he's just reaching down and touching a white fur blanket or something because Ghost's fur is only just barely at the bottom of the frame. Like I said, not a huge deal, but it reminds me of when Leia doesn't hug Chewie in The Force Awakens after Han dies. A little moment where they just whiffed.
Trust me, as a New Jersey Eye-talian I really should watch it, even if just for la cultura, but I've never had any motivation to lol. The Wire, on the other hand, is something I've always wanted/meant to watch and just haven't gotten around to.
It’s one of the only shows I’ve ever seen that no matter how hyped up it was it still surpassed my expectations. It’s incredible. Funnier than most comedies in some places, better character work than most shows devoted solely to that, and more surreal than most mainstream shows would ever risk being. The Wire is also beautiful and I don’t have any complaints about it, but it doesn’t hit me quite as hard on a personal level so Sopranos still tops it.
I recently just finished the Wire for the first time and it's not better than Breaking Bad or The Shield. Those shows felt like a more complete experience. My post in the Wire Thread:
And yeah, The Americans is definitely “smaller” in scale and scope than most of the big names, but except for a few tangents in S5 I would put it up there with the best of them. It has just as flawless and complicated character work as The Sopranos, and nails the period piece feel so beautifully.
It’s suuuuuper painful in some places, but that’s the only real warning I would give about it. I’m currently on a rewatch and it’s even more impressive the second time around.