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The TV thread

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Versatile, Mar 28, 2013.

  1. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    The future?

     
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  2. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

    This is exactly how Scott Evil’s life would’ve turned out in a fictional Austin Powers universe, too.
     
  3. Lt.Drebin

    Lt.Drebin Active Member

    This isn’t an Ozark spoiler at all, but I gotta say:

    The series is based on a faulty premise: that Marty’s crazy in love w/ his wife.

    She made life-threatening decisions behind his back constantly &, most importantly, he & Wendy displayed ZERO chemistry for all but 2 episodes…
     
  4. Wenders

    Wenders Well-Known Member

    The Goldbergs season finale would have made a near perfect series finale.

    Can someone please check on Judd Hirsch though? He looked pretty rough.
     
  5. Tighthead

    Tighthead Well-Known Member

  6. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    The Survivor season ended strong - with a hell of a play. Or shall I say, holding off on a play involving an idol. Nice to see the show end with strong play and strategy over sentiment and bitterness.
     
  7. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Watched the series finale of This is Us with my wife. It was...quiet. It was the same mix of sappy, sad, and funny that they managed in the better episodes of the show, but really nothing special at all. Maybe that was the point.
     
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  8. Spartan Squad

    Spartan Squad Well-Known Member

    I don’t think he’s crazy in love with her. In the first season, he literally says he’s with her for necessity rather than desire.

    He sees her as 1) something that is going to keep him alive and 2) a means to an end that at some point he can’t get rid of.
     
  9. Wenders

    Wenders Well-Known Member

    I'm inclined to believe that that was the point. I did really love the train episode. This season was handled really nicely.
    But I was still left feeling after the credits rolled on the finale, "wait...that was it?"
     
  10. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Those were my wife's exact words.
     
  11. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    Hacks Season 2 has been great.
     
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  12. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    That was my exact reaction, too. And in my book, that was bad.

    This is Us always did extol "the quiet moments." If I recall, a show executive (or maybe the executive producer) even specifically brought them up in the aftermath of the episode about Jack's sudden, seemingly inexplicable death, and viewers' somewhat negative reaction to it -- how he didn't die in the fire, but of an unseen, un-viewed heart attack after it, without his family so much as even being in the hospital room with him (because he'd been up and around, and it actually seemed he was going to OK, etc.).

    In the case of the series finale, though, I'm with outofplace. It was quiet (again) -- way too quiet. It made it so it was not just quiet or reflective. It was weak -- as if it was just peetering out. For such an acclaimed, beloved show, it wasn't much of a sendoff at all.
     
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