Like Fantasy Island.
i could no longer follow their dumb storylines in season 2. it was always a dumb idea to take it further than s1 finale.
You all see the British remake of Breaking Bad?
itâs just a guy telling Walter that his cancer treatment costs are covered so donât do anything crazy like sell meth
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One of the things I like about Breaking Bad was the arc of the characters. I started off batting Jessie, but I was rooting for him by the end. With Walt it was the opposite, I rooted for him early on but then hated him by the end.
Saying you are not suppose to root for Walt misunderstands the anti-hero genre. The fact that you are rooting for the bad guy is part of what makes it anti-hero.
Except for Walt it wasnât about the money, it was ego.
I dont think this is correct, or at least I wouldnât word it that way. The concept of antihero is very broad - basically any main character that is not a conventional hero is an antihero. Youâre not always meant to root for them. The placement of them as the main character invites us to sympathetize with them but if they come into conflict with âgoodâ people then the writers arenât necessary wanting you to cheer on Antiheroman.
Iâll give an example. At the end of Macbeth you should recognize his arc as a tragedy (we sympathetize) but you shouldnât hope that he wins the final battle and continues to rule Scotland.
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Anyone watch Suburra?
Iâm about 1.5 seasons in. Itâs pretty good. Entertaining enough that Iâll see it through. Iâm worried theyâre gonna run out of ideas, though.
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The Ringer has an oral history of the Pine Barrens episode of the Sopranos.
Just started it so canât vouch for it.
Paulie: The guy was an interior decorator!
Christopher: His place looked like shit.
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it doesnât look like theyâre afraid of jumping the shark dangerously
No, it most certainly does not!
Agree with everyone that the latest season of The Handmaids Tale has been disappointing.
Iâm not sure if I have the strength to leave it now and just remember it for seasons one through three. Itâs not good now and trending downward with a quickness.
Iâll take one for the team and report back.
Pui Pui Molcar 6 is orders of magnitude better than any season of Walking Dead.
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This is amazing.
On where the steak throwing scene came from.
Winter: I had been in a relationship with a woman who hit me with a piece of London Broil at the end of a fight and I kind of just made a mental noteâ this would be a good moment for something âand we resurrected it for The Sopranos .
Tonyâs reaction to Bobby dressed in his hunting gear.
Schirripa: It was an early call. All night, Iâm thinking, âWell, what can I do to make this guy laugh?â And so I go to the prop guy and I just say, âYou got something? What have you got?â And then I seen he had a whole bunch of dildos. All kinds of just shapes and sizes. And I said, âGive me one of those.â I had this big, giant 3-foot dildo like an Italian bread, and I didnât tell anyone, not even Buscemi.
Winter: He came in when he was off camera so Jim could react to it.
Schirripa: Thatâs what you see Jim laughing at when he falls down, because Iâm twirling it around. Itâs a big dildo. You could see Uncle Junior almost cracking. And so thatâs where that came from. What [the prop guy] was doing with all those dildos I have no idea.
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Honestly early on in a relationship I will try to watch The Wire with a girl and honestly if she really loves it, it means a lot to me. Usually in the first couple months you donât know the real person, but if they really like the wire the first go around their stock goes way up in my book.
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