The Television Streaming Thread: Part II - Hot Takes, Jags Fans, and Bert

BCS

O/U on Jimmy getting busted and going to jail? Think there’s a more than decent chance that’s the final episode.

Also, isn’t it a bit out of character that he was basically willing to murder the poor drugged dude with that statuette or whatever? Have we ever seen any violent tendencies on Jimmy’s part before?

Arc this season is he is getting progressively worse so it makes sense. Jimmy and Saul are battling it out for his soul.

  1. 95% busted or dead
  2. I think he was just trying to knock him out. Definitely not kill him.

Was really hoping the final season of BCS would entail Saul having to run for president so he could pardon himself. Lost opportunity imo.

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Mythic Quest had me thinking of this:

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Watched the woodstock documentary, pretty cool story (although if I’m honest half of the footage just made me want to be there).

As far as crazy netflix docs go, I’m sure many here will have already seen it, but watching “wild wild country” with zero knowledge of the facts was amazing. For the first few eps when things get crazier and crazier, I was seriously wondering if this was not a fake documentary.

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I didnt think the episode was bad, just very ambitious so early on. Like I said, it reminds me a lot of LCD Soundsystem from You’rr the Worst which is one of my favorite TV episodes period, it just comes a lot later in the series than this one which gave a chance to reslly understand the show and the characters before the ambition

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Not braining the guy and not hurting Carol Burnette are supposed to show that no matter how bad Jimmy is, he still hasnt stooped to the level of some of the more heinous characters in the BB/BCS universe.

Will put my strong disagreement with this in spoilers, even though it doesn’t spoil anything. This touches on the foundational problem with BCS (a show I enjoy a lot ftr), that the Saul Goodman character from BB was completely irredeemable. All of the major BB characters were heinous to some degree, but that was tempered by some level of internal conflict or character development. Goodman was the major exception – at no point was he any less than amoral and unencumbered by any positive characteristics or depth. IIRC he wasn’t even particularly intelligent or good at his job. I can’t imagine that anyone ever thought to ask for the backstory of his character, but if you are going to spend 7 years making one, you must make him a bit more complicated and sympathetic than the source material. For sure, the Saul Goodman from BB would kill someone for a few bucks – that was literally a running joke on the show!

He would never do it himself. He doesn’t have the stomach for it.

He does however have no problem doing things that he knows will kill people. He’s just not doing the strangling himself.

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Well I mean he’s been to jail in the past. So it wouldn’t be his first time.

But it is the ending I’m expecting for him. However, dead would be a more fitting ending. After all, he’s already been to jail in his life.

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The Most Hated Man on the Internet is about the quest to take down the first major revenge porn site. If Woodstock 99 provided a peek to misogyny at music festivals in the 90s, this is a door kicked open to that short time span when the internet was brand new and the pyschopaths to took advantage of it. I kind of remembered there was that bad boy don’t get a fuck phase when I was younger, Tucker Max and this guy, but Jesus it was just pure shit.

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I forgot all about Tucker Max. Looking back it’s embarsssing I thought his book was entertaining. Youth and ignorance I gusss.

Is Tucker Max like Maddox?

Tucker Max and Maddox were funny when YT and YTMNDs weren’t a thing and I was a teenager who had no real values other than wanting to laugh.

As for Maddox, dude has had a hell of a downfall since he failed to adjust to social media. Tucker Max probably got some cush job doing nothing through his dad.

What we do in the shadows season 4 episode 5 is the funniest tv I’ve ever seen.

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Colin from WWDITS is great representation for normcore cishet white dudes. Finally my people can be seen.

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Tucker max…now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

He got exposed for his stories being complete bullshit

Wait, people thought he wasn’t making most of that shit up?

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I really like Industry, having to go week to week now sucks