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KingPut wrote: Finished Man in the High Castle. Story, Acting,writing was all good. However, I don't think I would have stuck with it if was on regular TV watching 1 episode a week. The pacing just seemed a little slow or off. Luckily, we live in Netflix generation where we can watch 10 straight episodes
Yes, I can't quite put my finger on why I didn't like it that much. It's weird because alt reality is right up my street. It was certainly slow and a bit of a contrived plot. Was wishing for an inter dimensional portal all the time to bump up the tension.
Agreed. I liked it enough to watch it through, and will continue for the next season, and occasionally loved it, but mostly it was just good and not great. Sometimes really wonderful scenes and characterizations, but sometimes really dumb and obvious, like the scene involving a walk on the ledge of a tall building.
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I've never liked McConaughy before, and yet I found myself really enjoying his grim and isolated cop character in this show. I've also never been an especially big fan of Woody Harrelson, but his extremely hypocritical character still had a certain likability. And both actors turned in the top performances of their careers. These were not necessarily deep characters, but both actors fleshed their characters out with understated yet completely credible performances. Taking into account the aging of the characters, they both effectively played three different roles, the '95, '02, and '12 versions of their characters.
As a detective story, True Detective was compelling, but not entirely fair. There were occasional leaps of logic that I felt were not entirely justified, and this certainly wasn't the kind of story that gave the viewer a chance at solving the mystery. Still, the presentation, through flashbacks alternating with present-day scenes, made for very effective story-telling.
The Carcosa element was a disappointment. I thrilled to the few scanty references to the King in Yellow and Carcosa, but there is a whole rich, evocative setting there that completely avoided aside from the name-dropping. I was hoping for at least a quote from the play. The show didn't even bother with the actual Yellow Sign, replacing it instead with a crude spiral. By the 5th episode or so, I gave up on the idea that there would be any supernatural or otherwise extraordinary elements to this show, but I was hoping for at least some hallucinations by Rust in the final episode. Surprisingly there were none, except for something that might have been a swirling dimensional portal to the real Carcosa.
Even so, I found True Detective to be a great story. Dark, disturbing, and yet somehow uplifting through the sheer quality of the story, the characters, and especially the performances of the stars. It's too bad that the reviews of season 2 are so poor, but it sounds like there will a season 3 anyway. With the anthology concept of the show, it is entirely possible that the show can recover with a strong third season.
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I don't think that anyone was expecting Hastur to emerge through a portal from Yuggoth, though ironically that's the thing that came closest to maybe kind of actually happening.
*some have said, "stolen", and were (rightly as it turned out) skeptical of season 2 pulling it off.
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Black Barney wrote: My interest in that show will only increase if they introduce Jessica Jones-like sex scenes
Just google her fappening pics.
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For those who haven't heard about itm, it's an anime Saitama, a bald, dumb-looking "superhero for fun" who is so incredibly powerful that he can defeat any enemy in just one punch, leading him to being bored. The animation is top notch and writting sincere and witty. It's just a cool show with a wide appeal.
It's also hilarious. I laugh at loud with every episode.
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