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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #720 on: July 16, 2015, 11:15:34 AM »
8 eps into season 3 of Game Of Thrones and this is, by far, the best season so far. You're finally starting to see why people would follow Daneyrs. That one chick fought a bear. Jaime lost a hand.

I just got done with the marriage of Tyrion & Sansa. Peter Dinklage is a damn champ actor, and doing better work on this show than most actors on most anything. His sad eyes through the entire plotline just destroy me, which is amazing considering some of the horrible stuff he was doing earlier in the season.
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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #721 on: July 16, 2015, 11:20:07 AM »
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« Reply #722 on: July 18, 2015, 02:25:19 PM »
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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #723 on: July 18, 2015, 02:39:04 PM »
SeinfeldGood News, Bad News (#1.1)
By my count, the pilot episode of "The Seinfeld Chronicles" contains three amusing moments. First, George says to Claire (the waitress), "You're a woman, right?" and Claire drones back, "What gave it away?" It's a line that feels very indebted to Roseanne and thus maybe a little out of place on Seinfeld. It's fascinating to imagine what the series would had looked like had Lee Garlington remained the fourth lead, rather than giving way to Julia Louis-Dreyfuss. I think, tonally, I might have preferred it; but who knows. Anyway, humorous moment two: George, flummoxed that Jerry has brought in a guest bed for the woman coming to stay with him, asks, "Why not bring in another guy, too?" Or something to that effect. And then, third and best is when Jerry's visitor greets him at the airport in a fashion that's not in the greeting manual. If the pilot shows any promise of the series to come, it's in that moment. Most everything else is pretty disposable. The chemistry isn't there yet between the castmembers, and the standup routines just interrupt both the narrative and the comedic momentum (with no value added). I wonder if, as the show continues, I'll ever feel like Jerry the character (in the sitcom scenes) and Seinfeld the standup (in the nightclub act) are the same person. I suspect I won't.
Grade: C

Curb Your EnthusiasmThe Pants Tent (#1.1)
Finally getting around to giving this show a chance. It gets off to a decent start, with some solid comedy of the awkward situation. I had thought Larry David's was going to be a pure curmudgeon, so it was something of a relief to see that the character has a silly, joyous side. His mocking of Richard Lewis' "sundown" deadline was definitely a highlight, especially with Lewis acknowledging his character break in that moment. The technical aspects of the production leave a lot to be desired, however, and a good ten minutes of the half hour running time was more enervating than entertaining.
Grade: B-

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #724 on: July 18, 2015, 03:17:53 PM »
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It's almost always this but I am actually on board with the deviations from the books.
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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #725 on: July 20, 2015, 01:15:04 AM »
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It's almost always this but I am actually on board with the deviations from the books.

Me too mostly, but sometimes they change something about  character and I am «Huh...why ?» like how they made Circei so much less crueler or how they made Littlefinger's ability with coin to be nothing more than money borrowing.
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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #726 on: July 20, 2015, 03:13:20 PM »
Game of ThronesWinter is Coming (#1.1)
Not the most riveting start to a series, but it lays a lot of groundwork and succeeds in showing potential for the future. I wasn't expecting a supernatural element (the white walkers), so that's intriguing, but overall the show just made me want to return to my abandoned marathon of Robin of Sherwood.
Grade: C+

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #727 on: July 20, 2015, 03:16:12 PM »
It's not until the fifth episode that things start to get really great.
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« Reply #728 on: July 20, 2015, 03:16:50 PM »
Ha, someone else told me it wasn't until the ninth.

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Re: Review the Last TV Episode/Season/Series You Watched
« Reply #729 on: July 20, 2015, 03:31:47 PM »
Well, it depends I guess. Make it to at least the fifth and then we'll talk.
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