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By the time Mr. Robot is said and done in four episodes I think it has a chance to surpass Breaking Bad in my canon of all-time favorites.
I watched the first season of this when I was on daddy leave a year or two ago. I really wanted to enjoy it but failed to. I assume it improved as despite the promising cast and premise I struggled to finish the season because of what I found to be poor writing and pacing.
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It's not for you, then…. the writing IMO is brilliant and things that we set up in S1 have come full circle in the seasons following--there was always a method to the madness.
The shocking thing is that USA continued to support the show and Esmail's latitude with the ratings that the show has had. The artistic payoff will be epic, but seems like all USA gets out of the deal is some artistic credibility. Perhaps they're hoping to make money on serialization or other things.
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I'll watch anything where people get shot in the face
How can you tell they've been shot in the face when their entire body disintegrates after he shoots them?
(For the record, full body disintegration is even more entertaining than head shots, imo)
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Not until you mentioned it, no.
On a different note, we started watching season 2 of Jack Ryan. Only three episodes in, but enjoying it so far, despite the unrealistic aspects, like the lack of foreign policy fallout from a sitting US senator and his security detail getting gunned down in the street…
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Gotten any further?
Season 2 definitely focused more on action. I think they went a little over the top with that. I get Jack Ryan is supposed to be a vet, but he's a little TOO well trained. He does some stuff that's a little advanced for his supposed skill set.
No Abby Cornish in Season 2 either…
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I'll watch anything where people get shot in the face
I was a able to sit through The Walking Dead, which I otherwise find to be horribly bad TV, just on the strength of the zombie head shots.
I still watch it but it really has gone downhill. I just finished S4 of Fear the Walking Dead which basically beat the proverbial dead horse. Can't believe they're making yet another Walking Dead spinoff show.
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I'll watch anything where people get shot in the face
I was a able to sit through The Walking Dead, which I otherwise find to be horribly bad TV, just on the strength of the zombie head shots.
I still watch it but it really has gone downhill. I just finished S4 of Fear the Walking Dead which basically beat the proverbial dead horse. Can't believe they're making yet another Walking Dead spinoff show.
Ever since the reboot it's been too much of the same old TWD. I didn't bother watching the most recent season.
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I’ve found that with popular tv shows 5 seasons is usually enough, provided the writing is good and there’s closure to the story. TWD is one of those shows that started out great (except season 2) and now refuses to die. I absolutely love the character arcs but the plots have now become a bit formulaic and predictable.
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I’ve found that with popular tv shows 5 seasons is usually enough
Totally agree. It's rare that a show maintains quality past that point. I wish there was more willingness by networks to plan for an end, rather than riding a show until everyone just collapses from exhaustion.
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Perfection is an incomplete first series cut short by a moronic network and a film directed by Joss Whedon.
God, I loved that show. Occasionally, I dream of loving in an alternate universe where it got renewed a few times.
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no watchmen fans?
best television and storytelling i’ve seen in a long time
won’t ruin it for anyone that has it on the back burner 2 view at a later date but anyone that says superheroes and fantasy is trash should definitely take a peek
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I found the first episode hard to watch, but would like to circle back and complete the season. What made it hard to watch was all of the racial animus and violence, not poor acting or storytelling. Having grown up in Mississippi that stuff hits close to home and always brings back unpleasant memories, especially these days, even though I'm gone, as we see these ideologies increasingly openly held.
What the heck is going on in Mr Robot?! They have two hours to wrap up next week and are in crazytown right now. It's always been firmly grounded in a reality something like ours, but all bets are off as it winds up pretty sci-fi from here. (Highlight to see possible spoiler)
Also, tried previously, but working my way through The Expanse. On Season 1. Enjoying its mix of sci-fi dystopianism, conspiracy, and hard-boiled film noir detective influences.
Finally, I'm watching The Wire, on season 3 there, which somehow is farther than I made it last time when I let the disruption of the harbor story chase me off early in Season 2 (which wound up being a great season). What an amazing series. By end of Season 5, I suspect it will have passed Breaking Bad in my favorites, which is hard to imagine.
EDIT: spoilers
