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Just finished watching Paradise. The penultimate episode was a banger. The finale was kind of disappointing, IMO.
 
Ru1977 said:
That is really funny. I may try rewatching after I finish OS, see if I'm the.same way.
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You should. My watch speed has drastically dropped going into season 6 though, which is indictive of the decline of the series. It wasn't as noticeable to me when I was watching it live as it aired but binging it is very obvious.
 
Yeah I bet! And binging gives a much more wide perspective on the series as a whole rather than taking it episode by episode ever week.
 
I just started watching Cyberpunk Edgerunners (because I picked up the action figures based on Robo's review, of all things) and man, I used to call myself an aging cyberpunk because I grew up reading Gibson and his peers and live in a state of perpetual disillusion, but I really still am an aging cyberpunk. It's got the loud, flashy, overwhelming anime thing happening but it's a very angry story about haves and have-nots and I'm here for it.
 
I'm loving Apple TV's The Studio. It stars Seth Rogen as the head of a movie studio. If you're half the movie nerd I am, you'll love it. It's a delight.
 
Reacher. Honestly, it's right up my alley. This show makes me wish TV was like 30 years ago when a season was 25 episodes not 7 and you only waited a few months for the next season and not a few years.
 
Finally got around to watching Ren Faire on HBO. Meh. Interesting enough for a while but IMO the ending was a bit sudden and anticlimactic.
 
Almost done with a re-watch of Workaholics. I'm realizing that there are a few episodes that I must have missed during the original run. Such an incredible variety of guest appearances. I'm a sucker for shows about wacky hijinks.
 
Rewatching Twin Peaks now that it's on MUBI and it's still so, so good. Amazing how Lynch and Frost were capable of turning a soap opera into a crime show (or is it the other way around?) so seamlessly.
 
Finished Squid Games season 3 yesterday. Bit of a dud, I'm afraid.

Ignoring the lame season break at the end of "Season 2," I was frustrated how no actual story lines got resolved and how Gi-hun spent most of the season nearly comatose, only to come back in time to make some truly stupid decisions.

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I don't know if it was supposed to show some greater humanity, but not killing all the people in their sleep who have been specifically saying they're going to kill the baby in the morning was just bonkers.

it still does a good job of building the "how is he going to survive this time?" tension, but suffers a bit from the gap from Season 2 where a lot of the sympathy I'd built up for the other players has faded.

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The lunchbox dude saying "eff you guys" and jumping was awesome. And knowing the last button hadn't been pushed yet really elevated that last throw down. You're just yelling at the screen "noooo! Not yet!"
 
Eh, I thought it ended the best way it could. I get why the writers etc made the decisions they did.

Fletch said:
I don't know if it was supposed to show some greater humanity, but not killing all the people in their sleep who have been specifically saying they're going to kill the baby in the morning was just bonkers.
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I found it fascinating that a show with SOOOOOO much blood and death and carnage still took the time to really show that killing is NOT easy. Shows like Walking Dead and such make it extremely easy for the audience to claim "Ah, I'd just kill those guys!" But actually going through with it, and living with it after.... I dunno.

And it was actually a pretty good argument for... should he murder those people who are definitely going to murder him, showing he's just as bad as all of them as well as proving the Headman right? Or just do what he can to maintain his moral stance as best he can for as long as he can? Ultimately, it worked out because everyone else was such scum that they turned on each other and he didn't really have to do much until the very end anyway.

But yeah, the button thing on the last game was a clever trick. And it was a bit of a bummer to see the dad was as big a piece of shit as the mom believed.
 
Ru1977 said:
And it was actually a pretty good argument for... should he murder those people who are definitely going to murder him, showing he's just as bad as all of them as well as proving the Headman right?
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I agree. That would've been a great character victory for him if it were just him. But multiple people kept repeating how they must do everything to protect 222, and he does almost everything he can to fail at that.

I honestly like the idea that Season 2 has him failing at what he thought his goal was, taking down the organization, only to find there's another, more personal reason he's there. Maybe it's because I was so invested in his new purpose that I got so disappointed when he wasn't taking every step he should to succeed.
 
Ru1977 said:
I found it fascinating that a show with SOOOOOO much blood and death and carnage still took the time to really show that killing is NOT easy.
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Oh, I wanted to agree with this is too. The show is really good at showing both that AND how easy it is for people once they start on a slope. I'll also say that adding the vote after every round was great both in its tragedy and in how it never felt forced. The guy who had that idea should get a raise.
 
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I'm two episodes from finishing AppleTV's "Bad Monkey" and really enjoying it. Anyone else watch this? It has such a firm and delightful sense of tone and personality. Terrible title.

Also, anyone watching The Sandman? This series is fascinating and meticulously crafted - aside from some very wonky beauty fixes on the actors faces throughout. We're almost at the end but these stories and concepts are so interesting. I have not read much from the creator who shall not be named - I think I got through half of American Gods the novel? - but this show is done so well and like Dream, is never rushed.
 
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