Television

[DaveInSeattle]

Starting Landman next.

I watched the first episode of "Landman" yesterday. (I like having an hour long show to watch as I ride my wind trainer).

I've never watched a Taylor Sheridan show before...are they all like this?

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The scenes with Billy Bob and his 17 year old daughter? When she says "He can cum anywhere on me, but not in me"? Yikes...

And I should have guessed it was going to end badly for Michael Pena and his crew when we got all the domestic bliss shots with them bbq'ing and drinking cerveza.

Billy Bob is totally in his element. A perfect role for him. And I'm looking forward to scenes with him and Jon Hamm.

[Giff]

I’m on episode 6 of The Penguin.

Starting Landman next. Then Severance Season 2 in a couple of weeks.

That’s the one I’m on now. This is such a great show.

[Giff]

Eve’s lights looking like an umbrella can’t be a coincidence.

[Giff]

Season finale of The Penguin coming up next. Haven’t been this excited about a finale in a long time.

[Giff]

Season finale of The Penguin coming up next. Haven’t been this excited about a finale in a long time.

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Man, not Victor!!!

[Giff]

Colin Farrell wins golden globe

[A_B]

Colin Farrell wins golden globe

Third one’s the charm for Giff.

Don’t get him started on the EEEGGGOOOTTT.

[Nonlinear FC]

Starting Landman next.

I watched the first episode of "Landman" yesterday. (I like having an hour long show to watch as I ride my wind trainer).

I've never watched a Taylor Sheridan show before...are they all like this?

[+] spoiler

The scenes with Billy Bob and his 17 year old daughter? When she says "He can cum anywhere on me, but not in me"? Yikes...

And I should have guessed it was going to end badly for Michael Pena and his crew when we got all the domestic bliss shots with them bbq'ing and drinking cerveza.

Billy Bob is totally in his element. A perfect role for him. And I'm looking forward to scenes with him and Jon Hamm.

Billy Bob channeling Coach Gaines from Friday Night Lights.

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I absolutely love this show, but Sheridan has a knack for being a fucking creep. ALL of the stuff with the daughter is cringe. I don't mind Ali Larter being a ridiculous slut, but the girl being underage and half-naked for almost 2 full episodes was totally unnecessary to the advancement of the plot. (She's also featured in one of the Yellowstone prequels but is not half-naked so I almost didn't recognize her.)

[Nonlinear FC]

So, Sheridan is a topic almost for an entire thread. I have now watched/am watching:

* - Yellowstone (5+ seasons)
* - 1883
* - 1923
* - Lioness
* - Landman
* - Mayor of Kingstown (stalled)

I haven't watched Tulsa King (plan to) and Lawmen: Bass Reeves (meh). I guess there's another one called The Last Cowboy.

Dude can weave a good tale, for sure. He is on the opposite end of the spectrum from subtle. He will absolutely hammer a point home to the point that it gets fucking annoying. (Yellowstone is relentless in letting us know the days of the cowboy and ranching are numbered.) And as mentioned in the spoiler above, he's VERY gratuitous with the T 'n A. Almost like a throwback to the 80s where you're watching whatever show and out of nowhere the female lead is taking a shower or changing clothes and... huh, naked time? It's a little off-putting.

The other thing I find annoying is that he puts himself in his shows. He's particularly prominent in Yellowstone. He's not exactly a terrible actor, but he's also not very good. And when you know it's him, it takes you out of the story. He shows up in Lioness and it's like, dude, can you not?

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I like the one season standalone 1923 and 1883 miles better than whatever fuck it is the Yellowstone has become. Tulsa King doesn't do it for me, but I can see the appeal.

Oh, and it makes sense given the past couple of comments, but I've never thought he could write a female character very well.

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Monica has been done dirty over and over on Yellowstone. Beth is fine but he writes her like a man would write a woman who acts like a man. The lady who Jamie got involved with in the latest couple of seasons was nearly 0-dimensional. The best female characters were the youngish lady from 1883, the Gov/Senator in Yellowstone and Helen Mirren in 1923, but that's more through her skill than anything.

I think there's a fairly good chance Sheridan is a bit of hack. His shit is the CBS sitcoms of "edgy, man stuff". But he's made a lot of money off of it, so it works for enough people.

[EnochRoot]

Yeah I’m not much of a fan of Sheridan’s tales as they all tend to weave into the victim complex of the aggrieved, republican white male. I’m not saying he’s a hack or anything, cuz he’s smart enough to play it down the middle, but yeah, fuck that. There’s far too much engaging content out there for me to have to switch off to tolerate that.

[flame away]

[Nonlinear FC]

Yeah, I was ready for Yellowstone to be done. The shallow moralizing was really getting old. I do like how he wrapped it up, from a meta standpoint.

I don't think you're gonna get flamed for that take. I imagine most on this board would feel the same if they got around to watching his stuff, particularly Yellowstone.

[The Sybian]

Yeah, I was ready for Yellowstone to be done. The shallow moralizing was really getting old. I do like how he wrapped it up, from a meta standpoint.

I don't think you're gonna get flamed for that take. I imagine most on this board would feel the same if they got around to watching his stuff, particularly Yellowstone.

This is where I'm at. I have 3 more episodes to go, and while I was excited when the final half-season came out, it's been a huge letdown. Partially, I binged it after the first half of the final season was released, and I didn't realize their was another half season, so I never had a long forced break. I started this season not remembering where it ended last season. I'm finding I really don't care about the major story line, which it feels like I really should for obvious reasons. (Don't want to spell it out as a spoiler).

I absolutely love some aspects of the show, but others are pure dreck. The scenery and some of the daily interactions of the cowboys are great. Some of the plotlines border on Soap Opera level cheese. Beth was a cool badass, but also crazy at first, but man did she become a way over-the-top cartoon character. Just ridiculous.

The final season is just hitting you in the face with the "your job won't exist in 10 years" stuff. I get this show was his love story towards the Cowboy way of life, but man, we get it, you don't need to have several people full on say the words. And the political moralizing is a bit much at times, mostly the entirety of Piper Perabo's character. A shell of a cartoon character of how Conservatives view Liberals. She is a complete moron with seemingly no life outside of her dumb protest. Her final scene was just laughably dumb and showed her as nothing more than the outline of an idea of a person. I mean, she had nowhere to go and nobody else in her life? I feel like he tries to be apolitical, but it's not to hard to see his beliefs. Which is fine, but so fucking shallow.

Like others said, I'm just slogging through to finish. Haven't watched anything else of Sheridan's but I plan on eventually watching the prequels and Landman. The cast is unreal.

[Steve of phpBB]

We stumbled across the third season of Deadwood showing on some HBO channel so we finished that season and then watched the 2019 movie.

Otherwise we've been getting caught up on Silo, Bad Sisters, and Skeleton Crew - and about to start Black Doves.

We've also been losing ourselves in mindless fiction, like a Stargate SG-1 rewatch. I feel we'll be doing a lot of that over the next few weeks and months.

[sancarlos]

Shetland on Britbox is still awesome. Excited for season 2 of Severance later this month.

[Shirley]

I had to Google Taylor Sheridan. I've never seen any of his shows, but I loved both Sicario and Hell or High Water and he wrote both of them.

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I had to Google Taylor Sheridan. I've never seen any of his shows, but I loved both Sicario and Hell or High Water and he wrote both of them.

I think he’s better with limited narratives. Those moves are great but two hours is probably easier to put all the good stuff in and take out the odd things.

[DaveInSeattle]

Watched the second episode of "Landman" this morning.

There were so many mentions of Michelob Ultra that it felt like I was listening to a sponsored podcast. I get product placement, but this was ridiculous.

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The teenage daughter character, and they way they write her, is gross and insulting.

[rass]

Cold not get into Skeleton Crew.

The premise is fun enough, but e4 dragged a bit. Hoping it rebounds.

Ok I’m all in (and caught up through this evening’s upcoming episode), really enjoying it.

[DaveInSeattle]

Another thought from watching Landman ep. 3 this morning: There are times when Billy Bob sounds EXACTLY like Hank Hill from "King Of The Hill".

[EnochRoot]

Severance Popup in Grand Central Station.

[EnochRoot]

“The surest way to tame a prisoner is to let him believe he is free” - Kier Eagan

[wlu_lax6]

Having throwback style tv series pulling me in

The Pitt-- I mean noah wyle as a doctor in an emergency room....feels familiar. It is actually pretty compelling. Figured there would be some locations near my folks place and dad's office.

On Call-- Eriq La Salle (who is the director...but not playing an ER doc), Lori Loughlin. 2 episodes in and enjoying it

[Johnnie]

I hate reality TV, but I really like watching The Traitors.

Social deduction games, like Blood on the Clocktower which this show reminds me of, are fun as hell.

[Jerloma]

S2E1 of Severance was worth the wait. This show might need its own Spoilers thread.

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Helly is her outty spying on them, isn't she?

[EnochRoot]

S2E1 of Severance was worth the wait. This show might need its own Spoilers thread.

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Helly is her outty spying on them, isn't she?

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Well, yes. But I wouldn’t assume her heart isn’t in the right place.

Dylan shouts to Irv: Dude, what’s wrong?! You poor up there?!

[Jerloma]

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Aren't we already clear on her intentions because she's dude's daughter and only got severed as a PR move to help the company deflect the media. Like, what's changed about that?

[EnochRoot]

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Aren't we already clear on her intentions because she's dude's daughter and only got severed as a PR move to help the company deflect the media. Like, what's changed about that?

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No. We're only clear on the reason she's there. Her intent is very much up in the air.

[Giff]

Yeah my sister highly recommended it so I'm going to start soon.

Really enjoying Shrinking. Derek is so awesome.

Finished season 1 of The Diplomat this morning and

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So happy I can watch the first episode of second season after this Rockets game.

[Giff]

Finished The Diplomat and it was so great. That ending was so unexpected.

Did a big pivot and stared A.P. Bio which has potential.

[tennbengal]

S2E1 of Severance was worth the wait. This show might need its own Spoilers thread.

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Helly is her outty spying on them, isn't she?

It's so goddamn good. Finished a re-watch of season 1 over the last few weeks and then went season finale after work tonight straight into season 2 episode 1.

And, yes, maybe? Hadn't thought of that.

[rass]

Finally watched Shogun, loved it. Yabushige is the best despite boiling an dude alive, but I think my resting countenance for the next 4 years could best be described as “Blackthorne face.” Just constantly beat up, glassy eyed and vaguely stunned/confused/bemused.

[L-Jam3]

[EnochRoot]

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I think the very start of the show when the lord (emperor? I forget) felt dissed by a comment by a subordinate, so obviously the corrective course of action is to end said subordinate’s lineage. This meant a baby had to be ripped from its mother’s arms to be killed. Oh, but there were some compassionate words from a woman in leadership before it happened.

Wife gave up on the show there. So I had to watch the rest on my own. Not quite done with the season.

[DaveInSeattle]

I think the very start of the show when the lord (emperor? I forget) felt dissed by a comment by a subordinate, so obviously the corrective course of action is to end said subordinate’s lineage. This meant a baby had to be ripped from its mother’s arms to be killed. Oh, but there were some compassionate words from a woman in leadership before it happened.

Wife gave up on the show there. So I had to watch the rest on my own. Not quite done with the season.

The beheading budget for that show must have been off the charts...

[Giff]

Can we spoiler this please?

[A_B]

The beheading budget for that show must have been off the charts...

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yeah, but they had a corresponding drop in…headcount.

[The Sybian]

The beheading budget for that show must have been off the charts...

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yeah, but they had a corresponding drop in…headcount.

That was a play on words worthy of Rass. And I mean that as the highest of compliments.

[rass]

Sorry Giff.

What else?

Shogun was on my own, but in other belated Hulu news my wife and I are part way through season 2 of Only Murders in the Building and that’s a lot of fun. We also started Reacher and he is just a delight. Only misstep so far was him getting sorta self-righteous about his military service when someone questioned an “incident” in his past. Otherwise I like watching him beat up dudes and hearing my wife sharply inhale anytime he’s partially or completely unclothed.

Bored this afternoon so giving Day of the Jackal a try and there was a camera trick with a mirror in the first 10 minutes that understated and super cool. Need something to watch while on the bike now that Shogun is done.

[Giff]

I’m starting Eastbound and Down for the first time since I initially tried it when it came out originally. The first episode really turned me off back then, but after watching his other series, I figured I’d like it more now and I do. Plus all the blooper reels on social media from this show crack me up.