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SILICON VALLEY Season 2 Review: Pied Piper’s Rise Presents New Challenges
http://collider.com/silicon-valley-season-2-review-mike-judge-tj-miller/

Gonna have to get caught up on this.

VEEP Season 4 Review: HBO’s Sharp, Perceptive Satire Gets Presidential
http://collider.com/veep-season-4-review-julia-louis-dreyfus-hbo/

Pass.


GAME OF THRONES Season 5 Review: HBO’s Series Soars to New Heights
http://collider.com/game-of-thrones-season-5-review-hbo/

Rweview of the first four getting huge raves BECAUSE of the deviations from the books.
 
THE LEFTOVERS Season 2 Moving to Texas with Reworked Cast
http://collider.com/the-leftovers-season-2-moving-to-texas-reworked-cast-damon-lindelof/

Changes are afoot for The Leftovers Season 2. The first season of the HBO series was an odd, uneven, and sometimes brilliant stretch of episodes about the aftermath of “The Departure” (ie. The Rapture). Creator Damon Lindelof and executive producer Tom Perotta (who wrote the source material) put together a wonderfully different kind of drama series with standout turns from stars Justin Theroux and Carrie Coon, and while it didn’t necessarily light up the ratings or set the world on fire, I was happy to see the series swing for the fences, and I’m eager to see where things might go in the second season.

We caught wind in December that some major changes were in store for The Leftovers Season 2, including dropping half its cast and possibly changing locations. Now TV Line confirms that the second season will move production to Austin, Texas, shifting the onscreen setting from the fictional Mapleton, NY to an unspecified Texas city.

The report also confirms that nearly half the cast won’t be returning, though Theroux, Coon, Amy Brenneman, Chris Zylka, Margaret Qualley, and Christopher Eccleston are expected to reprise their series regular roles. The show will also introduce a new African-American family to expand the ensemble.
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jerseydevil said:
GAME OF THRONES Season 5 Review: HBO’s Series Soars to New Heights
http://collider.com/game-of-thrones-season-5-review-hbo/

Rweview of the first four getting huge raves BECAUSE of the deviations from the books.
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Obviously. You aren't getting huge raves if you stick to the fourth and fifth books, and that review even heavily suggests they kept Tyrion's snoozefest boat ride and Dany's even more sleep inducing sitting around. Hopefully they at least managed to excise Jon doing inventory and Dany having the craps.
 
If anyone is into shows like Forensic Files, HBO GO has several episodes of Autopsy available in their documentary section. It was a show they did once a year in the 90's. Impossible to find most of these anywhere (even DVD) and by far the best show of its kind.
 
Dr Michael Baden rocks!!!!!!

The Jinx reminded me so much of just the overall quality of those Autopsy episodes.
 
jerseydevil said:
Dr Michael Baden rocks!!!!!!
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He really did at first, but later on he was just too impressed with himself for me to watch. Guy know his stuff, but he just couldn't "testify" normally. He had to show everybody that he was the smartest ever. Or at least in his mind
 
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Man i havent laughed so much watching a sitcom as i did watching the last episode of Silicon Valley. Such a great show!
 
So Silicon Valley 'Tip to Tip' Ep was the funniest thing on TV last year. And now they have what happened earlier tonight. LOL
 
THE LEFTOVERS Season 2: Damon Lindelof Teases New Direction, THE WIRE’s Influence
http://collider.com/the-leftovers-season-2-damon-lindelof-teases-new-direction-the-wire-influence/

Although some people think the second season for The Wire is its least successful, I was just completely and totally captivated by the audacity and boldness of just shifting the storytelling down to the docks, and taking the characters who I had become deeply enamored of and sidelining them in favor of entirely new characters. In my mind, it paid off huge because it set up the paradigm for what the third season and the fourth season of The Wire could be, not to mention the fifth season. So, I’ve always felt that the next logical season of The Leftovers would just be the continuing adventures of these people in this place. Let’s not do that. Let’s try something different.



So, it would seem that Lindelof is just as interested in exploring the world he’s created outside of the main characters he set up in the first season of The Leftovers as he is in building the interpersonal connections amongst them. And though he avoided giving any salient details about the story in The Leftovers Season 2, Lindelof pointed towards Perrotta’s continuing influence on the series and input on the writing process:

We’ve exhausted all the story from Tom Perrotta’s book. It was a novel, it wasn’t meant to be a continuing series. Tom remains very involved in the storytelling moving forward but what could we do that would shake things up a bit and pitch a bit of curve ball but at the same time, not reinvent the wheel. We’re still making a show about the same exact thing thematically, we still want it to feel the same way that the first season felt, but I do feel like the catalyst for coming back was “let’s try something bold!” And if it doesn’t work, well, it will be a spectacular failure as opposed to a humdrum one.
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Sooooo looking forward to this.
 
Oh wow. Been rewatching True Detective...just to see. And NO. Not a fluke or mass hypnosis. If anything it's even better than the first time. Woody Harrelson does some HUGE heavy lifting being the anchor to Melancholy Molly. Funny to watch it NOT just drawn in to McConaughey.

Anyway, the 'lady' that the spaghetti monster 'made flowers on' is /was the leader of the smokers on Leftovers...wow. That's good acting.
 
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