Finding New Shit on TV

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I'm watching Lasso tonight.
I read that this was the series finale...but has since read that maybe that's not the case?



Spoilers:
I disliked Keely's arc in season 3. Not because she had a relationship with a woman but that the relationship with that woman was so quickly forced and useless to the story. Maybe they wrap it up tonight but I strongly doubt it. Either have her get back with Roy, or if Jamie's story of bettering himself had been amped up, him, or be fine ( and successful ) being an independent single woman.

[NewtonHawk11]

I'm watching Lasso tonight.
I read that this was the series finale...but has since read that maybe that's not the case?



Spoilers:
I disliked Keely's arc in season 3. Not because she had a relationship with a woman but that the relationship with that woman was so quickly forced and useless to the story. Maybe they wrap it up tonight but I strongly doubt it. Either have her get back with Roy, or if Jamie's story of bettering himself had been amped up, him, or be fine ( and successful ) being an independent single woman.

There's a pretty good few minutes spent on that. It's a fitting scene too.

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My guess is Keely just learns to be independent and that she doesn't need someone in her life.
Roy respects that. They do their own thing. That's fine.
Just introducing Jack this season, who had no character at all, felt beyond forced to me.

[NewtonHawk11]

My guess is Keely just learns to be independent and that she doesn't need someone in her life.
Roy respects that. They do their own thing. That's fine.
Just introducing Jack this season, who had no character at all, felt beyond forced to me.

Agreed. That was the part of the season that I couldn't stand.

[jhawks99]

Am I the only one watching FDR on the History Channel?

Pretty good stuff so far. Last episode is tonight. I won't give spoilers.

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Spoiler alert.
FDR dies while in office.

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Succession talk.



Do we think Roman is more happy or more sad than he was at the beginning of season 1 than in his final scene at the end of season 4?

[KUTradition]

Disgraced (2017), on Showtime

dave bliss is still a pos

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Somebody, Somewhere on HBO has some depth to it and a bit of humor.
And...it's set in manhattan Kansas!

( the main character spent 10 years in Lawrence and sports a KU shirt and a Johnny West tshirt amongst a sea of purple - and, even better, she is absolutely miserable in the shittiness that is manhattan )

[KUTradition]

if anyone else has Showtime, Your Honor (w/ Brian Cranston) is fantastic

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Avatar 2 of course is gorgeous to look at and you go in knowing it’s gonna be your basic formula which it is

Here’s the thing that I was thinking wut?
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So they abandon the forest peeps and are hiding out at sea for what, a few months? Movie ends and Jake says we are leaving now and thinks for a second and goes this is our home now.

You grew up in the forest, got all those skills, fought to save it, made friends, became their leader, then are totally cool in never going back?

Anyways, here comes Avatar 3.

[KUTradition]

i couldn’t make it more than 15 minutes before loosing interest

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Yea. Gotta be honest I was half on my phone the entire time.

[Shirley]

Yea. Gotta be honest I was half on my phone the entire time.

[Mjl]

Once Upon a Time is by far my least favorite of Tarantino’s

Just watched this and completely agree. It has the things I like about Tarantino movies, which I usually love... but there wasn't a story. Like, it seemed like he was developing one in the first half, but then it just switched to something different, but not really that intriguing. Like From Dusk Til Dawn, but the two different stories in the latter are probably better, and that's a major insult to the former.

[Shirley]

Once Upon a Time is by far my least favorite of Tarantino’s

Just watched this and completely agree. It has the things I like about Tarantino movies, which I usually love... but there wasn't a story. Like, it seemed like he was developing one in the first half, but then it just switched to something different, but not really that intriguing. Like From Dusk Til Dawn, but the two different stories in the latter are probably better, and that's a major insult to the former.

I thought "Once Upon a Time" was very meh for Tarantino, too.

[KUTradition]

just started Muscles & Mayhem on Netflix…the story of American Gladiators

nostalgic awesomeness

[Mjl]

Once Upon a Time is by far my least favorite of Tarantino’s

Just watched this and completely agree. It has the things I like about Tarantino movies, which I usually love... but there wasn't a story. Like, it seemed like he was developing one in the first half, but then it just switched to something different, but not really that intriguing. Like From Dusk Til Dawn, but the two different stories in the latter are probably better, and that's a major insult to the former.

I thought "Once Upon a Time" was very meh for Tarantino, too.

Reading now about Sharon Tate and the Manson family; I didn't know anything about that. It's a pre-req for the movie, it makes no sense without that context.

[KUTradition]

Just watched this and completely agree. It has the things I like about Tarantino movies, which I usually love... but there wasn't a story. Like, it seemed like he was developing one in the first half, but then it just switched to something different, but not really that intriguing. Like From Dusk Til Dawn, but the two different stories in the latter are probably better, and that's a major insult to the former.

I thought "Once Upon a Time" was very meh for Tarantino, too.

Reading now about Sharon Tate and the Manson family; I didn't know anything about that. It's a pre-req for the movie, it makes no sense without that context.

^^^^
i didn’t realize the connection before watching, and had this “aha” epiphany mid-movie

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Pawn Sacrifice was on HBO.
Underrated movie.

Bobby Fischer was a genius ( also a crazy ).
I went to read more about him after he vanished from the public and I guess he stayed at a chess grandmasters house ten years after the Spassky match and they played 17 times and the guy never won. He said there was no point to play Bobby. He was that good.