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jerseydevil said:
Can't be Vampire Bill. He is the best part of the show...Little Lammy...ewwwwwwwwwwwww. If I had to guess, either the Healer or Wilken's Marshall/Friend/Right hand man.
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Show was not going much anywhere till this week. Now a lot more angles in play.

The waiting for revenge story was getting tired and played out.

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wow. You're the Worst is definitely not just sticking to formula. Last episode was almost Afterschool Special-y, but in the really f'd up style of the show. Nicely done. And I'm glad the show is evolving while still maintaining the things that made it good in the first place. Felt bad for the mouse though...
 
Wow. American Horror Story has completely embraced what it has always been with :HOTEL. It's brilliant AND tacky/wrong/over-the-top all while trying to make some social commentary while being completely retarded. Kinda like Murphy's old Nip/Tuck, which is horribly forgotten as far as setting the bar for just how much you could get away with on semi-pay cable. The Foxy Brown stuff from last week was amazing.


Fargo. Man is Bokeem Woodbine underrated. Not after this. Patrick Wilson has been terrific channeling Keith Carradine while still having a different perspective on the character. Ted Danson...sorry man, but like Timothy Dalton, you get better as you get older. Only concern...where are they going with the 'crop circlers' thread? Don't get too crazy.
 
I am really enjoying Fargo. And "Mike Milligan and the Kitchen Brothers" does sound like a Prog-Rock band, haha.

And we still are gonna get Bruce Campbell as The Gipper! :D
 
orpheus said:
Plus the last ep had Devo's "Too Much Paranoias!" :punk:

It's getting really DARK and it already was dark! :O
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Right? The tension is ridiculous. And they slowly keep turning the screws. The subplot with the wife's cancer is almost unbearable at this point...simply due to the sadness and weariness of both characters. I was watching the actual movie the other night...and the show is just so on-the-nose perfect. Oh, and the guy who plays the stricken patriarch of the Gephart family...was the father of the kidnapped wife in the original movie. That was a weird little easter egg.
 
jerseydevil said:
Right? The tension is ridiculous. And they slowly keep turning the screws. The subplot with the wife's cancer is almost unbearable at this point...simply due to the sadness and weariness of both characters. I was watching the actual movie the other night...and the show is just so on-the-nose perfect. Oh, and the guy who plays the stricken patriarch of the Gephart family...was the father of the kidnapped wife in the original movie. That was a weird little easter egg.
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That's where I remember him from! Thank you, that was driving me crazy.

And yes, that show is incredible. Every nuance is just perfect.
 
I caught up with Fargo. I liked Bruce Campbell's turn as Ronnie. He sorta looks like him and sorta sounds like him, but well, we didn't get an over the top impersonation, which is a good thing, well, 'cause it wouldn't fit with the overall tone of the show. Well, tee hee, Reagan did say well a lot. :P

And the next ep has upped the chaos. Just a few eps left. I am sorta glad this isn't premiering on Netflix since I probably would've gone through the whole thing by now. Waiting a week for the next ep just makes the suspense better! :O
 
Kurt Sutter Has Cancelled FX’s ‘The Bastard Executioner’ Himself
http://collider.com/bastard-executioner-cancelled-kurt-sutter/

In a surprise to probably no one, even the handful of people who watched the series until the end, The Bastard Executioner will not be getting a Season 2. Kurt Sutter’s latest FX series failed to ignite the interest of viewers, critics, and ultimately, even Sutter (he admits he had fallen way behind on the scripts). I wasn’t much of a fan in my review of it, but I also acknowledged it wasn’t terrible … It just wasn’t very good. We even ran recaps here on the site for a few weeks, until we realized no one cared. It was killed, basically, by a resounding “meh.”

But what’s fascinating is that it wasn’t FX who chose to end the series, but Sutter himself — that’s an extremely rare thing. He clearly saw the writing on the wall, though. As he told THR, “I don’t want to write something that nobody’s f—ing watching.”...
...Sutter himself said of the show’s low ratings and his desire to cancel it (via an ad in the Hollywood Reporter) that,

I think the mythology was a little too dense for some people. There’s a glut of period pieces on right now, and I’m sure timing has something to do it. There’s just so many f—ing variables involved in that formula. My sense is that a year from now, people will be like, “Why didn’t you make more?” (Laughs.) I mean, I get so many people telling me they’re on episode four of Sons.

But perhaps the harshest truth comes from his comment that, “And yes, some of that is ego. But some of it is just, [if no one’s watching] then I’m not necessarily doing my job.”
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Kind of a drag. While it wasn't the best thing, I was enjoying it and thought it had room to improve.
 
FX Developing ‘Cat’s Cradle’ Limited Series with ‘Fargo’ Creator Noah Hawley
http://collider.com/cats-cradle-tv-series-fx-noah-hawley/

Now here’s a ballsy move: FX and IM Global are developing a TV adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut‘s revered novel Cat’s Cradle with Fargo creator Noah Hawley at the helm. Hawley will write and executive produce the Cat’s Cradle limited series, which might either be the worst idea ever or something very special in the making. Historically, Vonnegut adaptations have failed to achieve the greatness of the source material (though admittedly that’s a pretty high bar) with the 1972 Slaughter House Five film adaptation still standing as the reigning champ.

However, if there’s anyone who can pull off adapting an idiosyncratic tone without resorting to mimicry it’s Hawley, who nailed the seemingly impossible task of adapting a Coen brothers movie to series with aplomb. Fargo has only improved with its second season, proving Hawley’s talent as a writer as he refines the strengths of the first season, giving the series even more of an individual identity without ever loosing track of its Coen roots.Likewise, if there’s a network to see a Vonnegut adaptation to its best incarnation, that network is probably FX where they’re constantly turning out some of the most compelling and daring series on television.

Cat’s Cradle is Vonnegut’s fourth novel, and along with Slaughter House Five is one of two the author himself rated as an A+ work. Released in 1963, the book follows a narrator named John whose life is intertwined with the adult children of Felix Hoenikker, a fictional founding father of the atomic bomb and the inventor of ice-nine — a military funded scientific breakthrough that freezes water at room temperature and can destroy the world with a single drop. Through John and his interactions withe the Hoenikker family, Vonnegut explores religion, science, war, technology and the folly of the human condition with his trademark irony and satire. And that’s exactly where I think Hawley might be able to deliver on a Vonnegut adaptation in a way that others have yet to achieve; he knows how to find the line of humor in the bleakest and most unexpected places. The highlight moments on Fargo are the ones that take place right between a laugh and a sob, and that bitter humor is an essential component of Vonnegut’s prose.
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