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christine
07-06-14, 01:22 PM
I believe this new HBO series started last week in the US. Did anyone watch it? Look promising?
Austruck
07-06-14, 01:38 PM
I watched it. Not quite what I expected, but in some ways more interesting than my original concept.
I read a short review of the series written by someone who's also read the book who said that he thinks the series is going to be better because it's doing a good job of communicating the emotional tension, something the reviewer said was almost flat in the novel.
christine
07-07-14, 02:01 PM
Hi Aus, it did sound like my kind of thing. Think I'll give it a go. I need another series after Fargo :)
John McClane
09-12-14, 03:55 PM
This show is dope, and that season finale. Woah. Probably the best hour of television this year.
I haven't caught up all the way yet. It's pretty good so far, though I'll admit I'm afraid it might get too hokey and spiritual if they try and take it too far. Love the tone though, really melancholy.
Been catching up on this over the past week or so. Interesting stuff. It's more of Lindeloff's cryptic business, so hopefully he doesn't crash and burn as the series finishes up in season 3. Some good performances all around here, which make this a nice watch. I loved the opening minutes of season 2, also.
ScarletLion
01-30-17, 11:58 AM
Been catching up on this over the past week or so. Interesting stuff. It's more of Lindeloff's cryptic business, so hopefully he doesn't crash and burn as the series finishes up in season 3. Some good performances all around here, which make this a nice watch. I loved the opening minutes of season 2, also.
Is season 2 any good overall?
I am just 4 episodes into season 2, and so far I like it a whole lot.
christine
05-23-17, 03:33 AM
I'm 4 into series 3 and am officially Lost
Redwell
05-23-17, 03:37 AM
I tried watching this show. Thought it was pretty cool until that episode in the first season with the priest where it makes it clear it's going to be one of those "what is happening" shows with a million fan theories. :rolleyes:
Nothing is explained...everything is explained. :)
christine
06-08-17, 06:33 PM
Nothing is explained...everything is explained. :)
A proper ending.
was Nora telling the truth or fibbing? Some thinking the ending too simplistic but I liked it
Seemed to me she was at the point of no return. I understand why people wouldn't want to take things at face value, though.
Regardless of wether or not she was lying, I think the message was clear: let go.
It's not beyond Nora's character to concoct a narrative to help herself to some closure, nor to pass it on to others. It works because it's a story to rally behind (which, depending on your view of the subject, ties finely with the Jesus storyline).
Does it matter how the birds came back, if they came back at all when you doubted their return?
https://s10.postimg.org/kpnk7q8gp/IMG_9438.jpg
christine
06-08-17, 08:17 PM
Agree Saunch.
I thought series 3 got convoluted, but at the end I was happy about how the whole thing finished
Dove into this recently. Sadly, it was impossible not to know/see some things about the finale before doing so, but I'm hoping in the end what I know won't prove to sully it too much.
I'm about seven episodes into the first season and I'm pretty fully hypnotized, though. I expect to average a couple a day (and probably more on weekends) from now until it's done.
Oh, and THAT PIANO RIFF. Burrowed into my consciousness already. Running in my head throughout the day. Insta-poignancy when it fades in during any emotional climax (of which there are, like, two every episode). Gah.
It makes everything sadder.
https://youtu.be/hN74bOubUug
That's great. :up:
I think that's the string version, though. The one that sticks more for me is the piano version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsvda1AP6wo
I'm a sucker for piano notes that just hang and reverberate in the air. I noticed a number of years back that an inordinate number of songs I liked, even like rock songs, featured the piano prominently.
Kevin Jr. coming back to Mapleton during the finale:
http://i.imgur.com/6MnmLUg.gif
Austruck
07-13-17, 11:48 AM
I felt the series ending was satisfying enough, for what it was. Somehow they managed to make me forget (or no longer care) *why* the whole departure happened in the first place. To me, that was a tall order because that question stuck in the back of my head the whole three seasons the show aired. Also, at first it seemed quite an ensemble cast, but as the show went on, the importance of other characters dropped off one by one, and the importance of Kevin and Nora continued to rise above everyone else. It was done smoothly enough -- and they managed to tie up the biggest loose ends with everyone else -- that it never had that same "WTF?" feeling that the last season of LOST had, for instance. Of course, they really WERE flying by the seat of their pants. :D
I've just started the book (mostly out of curiosity to see how different the storyline is), and the feeling and undertones are completely different, right from the start. We'll see if that difference continues throughout the book.
Fabulous
07-14-17, 03:30 PM
That's great. :up:
I think that's the string version, though. The one that sticks more for me is the piano version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsvda1AP6wo
I'm a sucker for piano notes that just hang and reverberate in the air. I noticed a number of years back that an inordinate number of songs I liked, even like rock songs, featured the piano prominently.
Examples of the rock songs you're talking about?
Examples of the rock songs you're talking about?
Lotta Spoon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp15kxAE3ig
And The Natural History (this is probably one of my all-time favorite songs):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu65YlYBb60
Also, Robbers on High Street, which sound a lot like Spoon (I prefer "Dig the Lightning" but that's not on YouTube):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XI-woSNbRY
Well, finished season two last night. Think both seasons together ended up taking like 8 days. Gonna start the last season tonight, probably be done with it on Thursday or Friday at the latest.
Apparently critics liked season two a lot more than season one, but I think I'm the other way. Still really good, though, and going in some interesting (if odd!) places.
All done. Took me something like 10-12 days to watch all 28 episodes.
Very good finale. I supposed I wanted a little bit more, but it nearly struck that sweet spot between explaining things without making the end about the explanations, or denying people a little healthy narrative ambiguity. Either that or I'm just less conditioned to expect things to wrap-up neatly after watching both Lost and Battlestar Galactica. But I think a lot of it has to do with tone: the show never felt like it was about the big questions, unlike those other two, and so I wasn't as focused on them as I would have been otherwise.
But man, was that third season nuts. All three seasons feel different. The first and second still feel like the same show, at least, though the second is already wilder and a little more lighthearted, at least compared to the emotionally exhausting, deathly serious first season. But the third is downright goofy at times. From what I've read, it was very much in doubt whether they'd even get that final season, so when they did I think they just decided to do whatever they wanted no matter how insane, and as much of it works as doesn't.
I've seen some weird TV shows/episodes/seasons, but I can't remember the last time something this well made basically floated off into crazy town like this.
A part of me kinda wishes the show had stayed with that deathly, almost oppressively somber first season tone the whole way. Would've been a bit of a chore at times, but I think some of the big moments at the end would've landed more. The most affecting parts for me were all in that first season, which is surprising (you'd think the finale is when that stuff would hit hardest), but it makes sense given the tonal shift.
dadgumblah
07-21-17, 03:11 AM
Well, I only watched the last season and the theme was the main reason, but then I learned Carrie Coon was in it and there was no way I wasn't gonna watch her...uh, it. Since I know how it ends I probably won't bother with the first two seasons but I enjoyed the season reasonably enough. I had to laugh at some things, especially the guy on the ferry pretending to be God, then being found out and getting eaten by the lion. And Christopher Eccleston saying something like, "That's the guy I was talking about." :D
Well, I only watched the last season and the theme was the main reason, but then I learned Carrie Coon was in it and there was no way I wasn't gonna watch her...uh, it.
I like the synchronicity between both her character's endings.
Two different people who've been tested several times over, sitting across another (potentially) less confident, facing down the unknown, confident in their resolve.
Also, both of them have repeated, conspicuous trouble using machines.
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