TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[BottenFieldofDreams]

The mystery never really felt like the point in The Leftovers the way it always did until the end when it oddly didn’t in Lost. That’s why certain ambiguities didn’t bother me much.

Interesting that lindeloff’s Watchmen was so tight. Lost, and even as a great show, The Leftovers, certainly were quite loosely drawn stories.

I really enjoyed the narrative structure of Lost. Ensemble, flashbacks, mysteries. Also living in Hawaii during the first two years of the show helped. I’d love a spiritual kind of sequel/remake. Someone could do some clever stuff with all the dangling threads they left. Or just leave them alone altogether and employ that kind of storytelling, which is what I’d really want.

[ghostrunner]

The mystery never really felt like the point in The Leftovers the way it always did until the end when it oddly didn’t in Lost.

Hence the theme song chosen for Season 2. One of my favorite title sequences ever.

[SHOW]

[vinsanity]

Oh meant to ask, anyone catch Only Murders in the Building?

[SHOW]

I think it's been fun; love Short and Martin. Generally pretty clever, great cast. I thought it was nice to give them a year off but I do worry the premise is going to wear thin quickly and hope they kind of wrap up with the last season.

Which means it's renewed for two or three more already?

[BottenFieldofDreams]

The Manti Te'o doc on Netflix is good. It does a really great job of humanizing everyone.

In the face of all the humanity, the Deadspin guys are claiming their story was about how major outlets don't fact check. I have doubts. That was an element I'm sure. Maybe I might revisit their big story and then the subsequent coverage. I'm sure they took their shots at Te'o. Deadspin was a place for nerds to jerk off at how stupid athletes and ESPN were. I'm sure Magary got his shots in, at least, with semen and diarrhea in his mailbag bit.

Even if you aren't interested, you should watch the last few minutes of the second episode. The pain it caused Te'o is palpable. Great doc. But I felt a disconnect wrt Deadspin. In that era especially, they were all for rubbing people's noses in [expletive].

[vinsanity]

The Patient on FX was really intriguing to me.

[ghostrunner]

[Jocephus]

thats good

[BottenFieldofDreams]

LOTR is promising. The quality is there.

[cardinalkarp]

Just finished watching the documentary series Meltdown : Three Mile Island on Netflix. Very interesting series and shows just how close to an absolute disaster (even more so) the US actually was.

I do have to say, it’s getting really old witnessing how inept and corrupt the government/corporations are when it comes to the lives of people.

[ghostrunner]

LOTR is promising. The quality is there.

They do take a few liberties and there’s one that bugs me more than the rest, but it’s fine. The books are still the books, and they’re also constrained by limited rights. I enjoyed both episodes so far, though the second one was better after all the setup in the first.