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Abagadro
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on: July 10, 2016, 10:06:37 PM

If you have HBO start watching this, just started tonight. The first episode was one of the most tense (and great) 90 minutes of TV I have seen in a long time.

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Reply #1 on: July 11, 2016, 08:05:51 AM

I saw an advert for it a while ago and intended to look for it and totally forgot until you mentioned it just now.  Thanks for reminding me! 

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Reply #2 on: July 18, 2016, 08:03:45 PM

I'm not sure how I feel about this yet, so I will definitely give it a few more episodes. I feel like it picked up in the second half. Also, John Turturro is awesome.
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Reply #3 on: July 25, 2016, 09:39:44 PM

Yup, good stuff.  True detective good. season 1 not 2.

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Reply #4 on: July 26, 2016, 05:40:17 AM

Kinda slow. It's ok, I'll keep watching it but I'm not super excited for Sundays now or anything.

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Reply #5 on: August 29, 2016, 02:07:33 PM

A rather lackluster end to a series that promised far more than it delivered despite some great acting and directing. In my opinion it would have been better if
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Reply #6 on: August 29, 2016, 09:03:25 PM


I liked the finale and the series overall.

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

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Reply #7 on: August 30, 2016, 01:35:42 AM

I think that the muddiness of the ending was deliberate, the writers making clear that cases rarely have neat "Law and Order" endings. It's all a process, a machine that grinds up lives and never stops.

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Reply #8 on: August 30, 2016, 01:47:00 AM

I didn't mind the muddiness, it was more or less the whole point of the ending but
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Reply #9 on: August 30, 2016, 02:02:36 AM

I didn't mind the muddiness, it was more or less the whole point of the ending but

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Reply #10 on: August 30, 2016, 02:24:58 AM

I didn't mind the muddiness, it was more or less the whole point of the ending but
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Reply #11 on: August 30, 2016, 10:41:30 PM

Really liked this show. Not usually big on police procedurals but this had a very different feel to it.

I think that the muddiness of the ending was deliberate, the writers making clear that cases rarely have neat "Law and Order" endings. It's all a process, a machine that grinds up lives and never stops.

Very much that. Plus the final line felt very much like a set up for a 2nd season.

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Reply #12 on: August 31, 2016, 05:27:18 AM

What happened to the cat?  There was a moment when I wasn't paying attention i thought I saw eczema dropping it back off at the pound

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Reply #13 on: August 31, 2016, 07:35:04 AM

What happened to the cat?  There was a moment when I wasn't paying attention i thought I saw eczema dropping it back off at the pound


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Reply #14 on: August 31, 2016, 09:51:54 PM


"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

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Reply #15 on: September 03, 2016, 08:40:43 AM

Three episodes in this show became entirely about the cat.

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Reply #16 on: September 04, 2016, 08:07:31 AM

yeah, but that was a pretty great cat.

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