Who is the mole? EVERYBODY IS THE MOLE!!!1!
i suspect watching this would make @wanderfound very angry
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The Australian left has been trying to close Pine Gap for nearly fifty years.
This is what happened when we got close to it:
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Iād certainly recommend itā¦ scary, but with a good, solid story to back it up.
Iāve heard good things about Sabrina, too.
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So, I wrapped up season 2 of Patriot, which got so much grimmer as it progressed. Only 8 episodes, so Iām assuming it reached its inevitable conclusion.
Itā's hard to describe. The best I can do is if you took a Tom Clancy novel, but the script is re-written by the Cohen Brothers, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and produced by Wes Anderson. Yet itās still uniquely itās own product.
I hope for future endeavors by the team that put it together. Stephen Conrad created it, but heās also the guy who wrote Wonder (ugh - too saccharine for me) and the remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Iām still amazed by the tapestry of it. Patriarchal society and its resulting misogyny, the difficult struggles between fathers and sons, and the absurdity of capitalism and its relationship to war, death, and depression. Itās all so intertwined, it would take a research paper to cover it all.
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I watched the first 2 eps last night, and the read the oddly hostile reviews on AV Club; I guess Im alone in being glad that the series is not trying to be a faithful adaptation on the beloved novel.
Frankly, Iām of the mind that while Jacksonās book is a great psychological horror story, it just doesnāt translate well to the medium of tv (or film, if one wants to talk about that horrid 1999 film version.)
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After Breaking Bad this is how itās done?
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No, one does not. 1963 or go home.
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Surely thereās been grim stuff before Breaking Bad or Sopranos, despite graphic material?
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Stuff where the audience is expected to cheer for the bad guy, though?
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I was thinking specifically āstarts out comedy with āwacky violence,ā ends up horrorshow with no funny at allā
I guess there are arguably ājokesā in the later seasons of BB, but by then the audience is so traumatized it doesnāt really work as comedy any more, itās just another kind of pain
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Plenty of movies, but TVās always been tamer until cable started making series, right?
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With Patriot, itās more a matter of laying bare the injustices of the world. Itās only mildly graphic, has some great inside jokes, but there are moments that are raw and honest, and this conflict is why I see it as becoming more grim.
Update: I almost forgot about the second seasonās urinal scene among the Luxenbourg male Tough Cool Guys in the police department. Pretty funny at the Tough Cool Guys expense, but yes, graphic.
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I just finished watching the latest Doctor Who (Demons of the Punjab) for the second time in two nights. Having had two badass grandmothers, I really get a kick out of seeing fictionalised ones.
And though it might sound weird for Who, I really liked how the science fiction aspect was nearly incidental for this one. The Doctor and her friends have to really think their way through what is inherently a very emotional situation for all of them.
Also, I loved how, just this once, the ādonāt alter your own historyā thing came up and everyone managed it, instead of it being a predictable plot point.
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I donāt have time, myself ATM:
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Lots of these are easily available online, having mostly fallen into the public domain.
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Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff in True Detective season 3 on January 13.
Say what you will, but I liked season 2. Looking forward to this, too.
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I donāt know, I never got the sense that the audience was meant to cheer for the bad guy with either the Sopranos or Breaking Badā¦ I know people did, even so. Iām fairly certain that Gilligan said that your not supposed to identify with WW.
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This weekās episode of The Gifted (2E07) is really good, probably the best X-Men adaptation Iāve ever seen
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i remember starting out identifying with WW, because he was in a terrible situation and he wanted to make sure his family was ok. but by the end of the series, he and his life had become a slow-motion train wreck and you just knew the outcome HAD to be awful for everyone involved ā you just couldnāt tear your eyes off it while it happened.
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