Is there really someone out there who wants to see a third season of a show about Batman's fucking butler
HBO revive the Spawn cartoon if you got money to waste
HBO revive the Spawn cartoon if you got money to waste
By data Go To Postdamn@pedja
The Duffer brothers need a bladerunner / cyberpunk type of show to work with, think they'd kill it just off using synths.
By Daz Go To PostHow many Sandman eps are there?10
still blown away that harley is actually good
how does DC do the animated shit so effortlessly but fuck up every live action attempt
how does DC do the animated shit so effortlessly but fuck up every live action attempt
By diehard Go To Post"It was cool to own my own bar that HBO paid for"Imagine if he spent all that money AND didn't trend every week
this man isn't getting a second season
I think they're cool with it
Fell of Harley Quinn halfway through season 1. Quality just tanked as they added to the main cast.
Really enjoyed the first 2 or 3 episodes tho
Really enjoyed the first 2 or 3 episodes tho
Up to Ep 4 of Sandman. It's a decent adaptation of the comics. I do think it lacks a bit of the whimsy of the source material though. Felt a bit robbed by not having Constantine singing.
Big nerd point coming up.
Also, in the comics, never got the impression that Lucifer was a more powerful being than Morpheus or The Endless. The latter are an anthropomorphic representation of universal forces who existed upon the creation of the universe. But the show says Lucifer could destroy Morpheus so 🤷♂️
Big nerd point coming up.
Also, in the comics, never got the impression that Lucifer was a more powerful being than Morpheus or The Endless. The latter are an anthropomorphic representation of universal forces who existed upon the creation of the universe. But the show says Lucifer could destroy Morpheus so 🤷♂️
Ep 5 and 6 are really good.
Sandman doesn't start too great, but it gets better - I am not too familiar with the source material
Sandman doesn't start too great, but it gets better - I am not too familiar with the source material
they were gr8, but honestly preferred Ep6 - great philosophical quandary. Elegantly done as well.
EP5 was ...a lot.
EP5 was ...a lot.
By Yurtlicious Go To PostNeil Gaiman is at his best when he's telling short stories in his stories lolThat's what was so good about The Sandman as a series. It departed from the main story to give you vignettes about minor characters which touched on major themes of the overall story.
The Hunt is a particularly good one.
tuca and bertie has sadly just gotten worse and worse, all of the main characters have become huge assholes except Speckle who barely has any screen time beyond being the butt of a joke
Been watching The Shield on Amazon Freevee. So far its been decent but it ain't in the same tier as The Wire.
I have found that Freevee is pretty good as it only plays a few short adds each episode, I imagine that it is probably going to get worse over time
I have found that Freevee is pretty good as it only plays a few short adds each episode, I imagine that it is probably going to get worse over time
By Lupercal Go To PostThe South Park 25th anniversary concert is on Paramount+ or the usual high sea channels.
Fuck yeah.
Warner Bros. Discovery plans to launch its streaming service that combines the assets of HBO Max and Discovery+ next summer in the U.S., the company said during its quarterly earnings call Thursday. With a target date set, there is a lot to figure out in the coming months, including what the consolidated platform will be called.
The WBD executives today revealed minimal current subscriber overlap between HBO Max and Discovery+, which underscores the different constituencies the two platforms cater to: the coastal/metropolitan appeal of HBO Max and the Middle America pull of Discovery+. That would likely explain why WBD brass have not gone straight to the HBO Max brand as a moniker of the combined platform the way the company took the Warner Bros. logo to represent the merged Warner Bros. Discovery company.We determined that people who watch Discovery shows don't watch HBO. This will change when we don't call it HBO
Still, “the HBO brand, no matter what, as David says, being encroachable, will live on,” CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels was quick to point out. “There’s a difference between what the service may eventually be called or not versus what HBO is. HBO will always be the beacon and the ultimate brand that stands for the best of television quality. That remains unchanged in any scenario in our minds.”
Saul man
Maybe I'll post more in depth tomorrow when I have time to process it, but right now I'm still processing how it's all gone, what a finale to go out on
Maybe I'll post more in depth tomorrow when I have time to process it, but right now I'm still processing how it's all gone, what a finale to go out on
Hopefully I can go through the next two days unscathed and watch the finale on my day off in santa pace.
Wasn't expecting to see Chrissy Moltisanti in This Fool
Also BCS: another stuck landing. they can't keep getting away with it
Also BCS: another stuck landing. they can't keep getting away with it
By inky Go To PostBCS what a journey
show never took a day off
So many incredible little character moments.
loved how true to themselves the walt/mike interactions were. And those last five minutes… bliss.
Odenkirk’s crowning glory, this season. He has been incredible.
10/10 finale for a 10/10 show. There's a lot to be sad about. I'm sad that universe is done, sad about the journeys and fates of so many characters.
But I'm thrilled that they nailed it as well as they did, BB had an 8/10 finale for me but this was near perfection.
I'm sad.
But I'm thrilled that they nailed it as well as they did, BB had an 8/10 finale for me but this was near perfection.
I'm sad.
I think what I love most about the success of this show is that it wasn't big and exciting and showy for the most part.
Just rewatching BB now (at the end of S2), and I think I was surprised how big it was when it was at its peak because for the most part, those early seasons are a lot of minutiae and detail. Three episodes pass between Walt killing Krazy-8 and even getting back into the game in Season 1. Season 2 focuses a lot on Walt doing shit like ripping out rotted wood or Skyler's flirtation with Beneke (and fucking Marie's shoplifting). Now, the reason this works is because it's so well-acted, the craft (especially from S2 onwards) is impeccable, the writing is wonderful, etc., but it isn't the rollercoaster ride that a lot of S4 and S5 ended up being, and it's ultimately those two seasons that people remember when they think of Breaking Bad: the crazy hijinks, the dead Nazis, the fireworks, so to speak.
But save for maybe one or two episodes of super sustained high tension (maybe some of the early stuff with Tuco, Bagman in S5 and Point and Shoot/the latter half of Waterworks in S6), Better Call Saul was always more measured, always more glacial. It reminded me a lot of Deadwood in that regard, where there was such severe detail in the set-up of things, where what mattered most was always, always character. And that's what is so exciting about how much everyone is in love with the ending of it, and how it's had its real moment in the sun - it is not the typical kind of show that does that.
Breaking Bad's peak of popularity came when it was train heists and shootouts (and well deserved, because the final season is fantastic and I'm a big fan of the finale, even if I do think it's perhaps a little too neat). Game of Thrones got bigger and bigger the more it leaned into dragons and ice zombies (although it was easily at its best back in S1/2). But Better Call Saul didn't get bigger. It just got better. It honed in more and more on the characters, it improved - unbelievably so, given how good it was at the end of BB - on a craft level, Odenkirk and Seehorn continued to bring their A-game every episode, and it became a huge success because it was just stunningly, undeniably brilliant.
And with a perfect ending, to boot. Not a foot wrong. In regards to the mission statement of the show, its themes, and most importantly its characters, it absolutely nailed the landing.
Just rewatching BB now (at the end of S2), and I think I was surprised how big it was when it was at its peak because for the most part, those early seasons are a lot of minutiae and detail. Three episodes pass between Walt killing Krazy-8 and even getting back into the game in Season 1. Season 2 focuses a lot on Walt doing shit like ripping out rotted wood or Skyler's flirtation with Beneke (and fucking Marie's shoplifting). Now, the reason this works is because it's so well-acted, the craft (especially from S2 onwards) is impeccable, the writing is wonderful, etc., but it isn't the rollercoaster ride that a lot of S4 and S5 ended up being, and it's ultimately those two seasons that people remember when they think of Breaking Bad: the crazy hijinks, the dead Nazis, the fireworks, so to speak.
But save for maybe one or two episodes of super sustained high tension (maybe some of the early stuff with Tuco, Bagman in S5 and Point and Shoot/the latter half of Waterworks in S6), Better Call Saul was always more measured, always more glacial. It reminded me a lot of Deadwood in that regard, where there was such severe detail in the set-up of things, where what mattered most was always, always character. And that's what is so exciting about how much everyone is in love with the ending of it, and how it's had its real moment in the sun - it is not the typical kind of show that does that.
Breaking Bad's peak of popularity came when it was train heists and shootouts (and well deserved, because the final season is fantastic and I'm a big fan of the finale, even if I do think it's perhaps a little too neat). Game of Thrones got bigger and bigger the more it leaned into dragons and ice zombies (although it was easily at its best back in S1/2). But Better Call Saul didn't get bigger. It just got better. It honed in more and more on the characters, it improved - unbelievably so, given how good it was at the end of BB - on a craft level, Odenkirk and Seehorn continued to bring their A-game every episode, and it became a huge success because it was just stunningly, undeniably brilliant.
And with a perfect ending, to boot. Not a foot wrong. In regards to the mission statement of the show, its themes, and most importantly its characters, it absolutely nailed the landing.
breaking bad was weird because it was a pretty small show during most of its run and then suddenly became fucking huge during the last season.
By DiPro Go To Postbreaking bad was weird because it was a pretty small show during most of its run and then suddenly became fucking huge during the last season.
That again is an example of people just cottoning onto the quality of it. The most notable example of that not happening is I guess something like The Wire, but the sheer range of characters, the fact it was on HBO, the fact it was predominantly Black actors, the denseness of it meant that was always battling the odds.
Breaking Bad had quality in spades and then captured that lightning in a bottle moment by being big and grandiose just as Game of Thrones was doing the same stuff. There was probably loads of people captured by GoT and then reading reddit or twitter or whatever, and people saying 'you think this is good? Watch Breaking Bad'.