Just going back to that Americans talk real quick. I know a lot of people online watching in real time complained about season 5. That it was kinda just filler because they knew the ending was the following season and they were already where they wanted to be for that but had to do something. I didn’t feel like that though and it is definitely one of my fave shows. Probably top 4 for me. I haven’t seen the wire or sopranos
Ok look, I told everyone to be sensitive while I recovered from the shock of today and that is the OPPOSITE of what is happening. This is madness! Madness I say!
Do you remember the one-off plotline when Chris becomes friends with a rapper and Adriana tries to use that to become a producer and make a demo with her ex's shitty post grunge band and Chris beats the shit out of him oh and also the rapper just so happens to have a personal vendetta against Hesh? Because I remember
Hey, they’ve grown a lot since changing their name! A hit is a hit! (Also remember when Pete raped someone and nothing happened and everyone decided he was a cool dude?)
The best modern television show that I have watched all the way through is Mad Men*. *Disclaimer: I have never seen The Sopranos, The Wire, The Americans, Breaking Bad, new Twin Peaks, LOST, Deadwood, Justified, Dexter, United States of Tara....... Greatest television show of all time: CHiPs.
You mean a bougie white guy in the 60s got away with sexually assaulting an immigrant? That just doesn’t sound realistic at all. Also Pete was consistently the most hated character even within the world of the show lol (tho Harry in the later seasons probably tops him)
Did The Sopranos have the objectively best episode previews of any show ever? No, because Mad Men did
When I was younger and had all the free time to watch a lot of stuff it was kinda before this new golden age of TV back when TV was looked at as "lesser than" movies, which I know is dumb. I watched a lot of movies back then. Come to think of it, the only TV shows I have watched all the way through are Sex and the City, American The Office, Parks and Rec, and Mad Men.
It’s literally the same thing as Jaime and Cersei, down to the crew claiming it wasn’t meant to be taken that way and tons of fans sweeping it under the rug. It was bad. Matthew Weiner being a creep in real life certainly doesn’t help any of their massive failures in those respects either.
I definitely want to go back and watch The Wire, The Americans, Justified, new Twin Peaks. I never had any desire to watch Breaking Bad even though everyone told me it was fantastic and I love Bryan Cranston. I don't foresee myself ever watching all of The Sopranos, but I have seen a bunch of episodes and it is good. I've been saying every vacation I take for like my last 5 jobs that I am going to go back and watch GoT from the 2nd season on and catch up but it just doesn't happen.
I will fight you on an open field if you rewatch GOT before trying any of those. Lol. I can’t go on like this!
I don't remember a lot of this stuff about Mad Men so I am questioning whether I actually did watch the whole thing now... I think I actually tried to pretend to my older brother that I had watched / was watching The Wire back in the day, but then one time he said something about the show and I didn't respond properly and his face dropped and he got all serious and called me out on my dishonorable lie.
Yeah, when I said nothing happened I didn’t just mean he like didn’t go to prison or something, so I’m not surprised.
I also had to remind myself what exactly happened — s3ep8 — Alison Brie leaves for the weekend or however long and Pete attempts to seduce the neighbor’s au pair: he does a favor for her, he uses that as a chance to make a move, she turns him down, he gets drunk and literally wakes her up and does the whole “I did such a nice thing for you, therefore you owe me sex” shit before kissing her, she submits to it, end scene (edit: i don’t mean to imply that this whole b-plot was literally one scene lol)
And the only time it’s mentioned explicitly after that is when the guy she works for comes over and complains that she’s been “going through boxes of Kleenex” and it’s annoying him.
The first three seasons blend together a good deal, not helped by the fact that the design and style is still stuck in the monotone 50s through all of it. By season 4 JFK dies and what we think of as “the 60s” really kicks into gear, and the overall quality really jumps imo