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We are halfway into season two of Ozark. Enjoyable, but holy cow are the plot holes annoying.
 
this may have been posted here already, but in case not, HBO is streaming a bunch of stuff free during April, no login or subscription required, so anyone who hasn't seen The Wire should go watch it. Also Arthur 2: on the rocks.
 
yabba said:
this may have been posted here already, but in case not, HBO is streaming a bunch of stuff free during April, no login or subscription required, so anyone who hasn't seen The Wire should go watch it. Also Arthur 2: on the rocks.
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I live outside of DC and we go to Baltimore for shows all the time. I remember going to one where one of my buddies said he was at Camden Yard when the last riots broke out and he said he couldn't understand why people riot. I asked him if he had watched the Wire and he said no. I told him to go watch it and then see if could understand, he watched it and then understood. I know the show is fiction, but it was written by a former Baltimore police reporter and many of the characters were based on or were combinations of real people. Some former Baltimore drug dealers were on the show too. The first few seasons of that show were some of the best TV I have ever watched.
 
GomezAddams said:
We are halfway into season two of Ozark. Enjoyable, but holy cow are the plot holes annoying.
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Even the little things like Wyatt, whose entire family has nothing, sits there in the living room strumming a multi-thousand dollar Gibson guitar...in one scene...not like that his character plays guitar once in a while or whatever.
 
smorgdonkey said:
Even the little things like Wyatt, whose entire family has nothing, sits there in the living room strumming a multi-thousand dollar Gibson guitar...in one scene...not like that his character plays guitar once in a while or whatever.
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To be fair on that his family is a bunch of thieves and his Dad may have wanted to keep a nice guit fiddle since he played.
 
Chad said:
I live outside of DC and we go to Baltimore for shows all the time. I remember going to one where one of my buddies said he was at Camden Yard when the last riots broke out and he said he couldn't understand why people riot. I asked him if he had watched the Wire and he said no. I told him to go watch it and then see if could understand, he watched it and then understood.
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I feel the same way about Arthur 2: On the Rocks.
 
rickenvox said:
I watched it all, I will withhold my opinion as you're still in it. What were the plot holes you noticed?
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Well, to start out, the very premise of the show.

The old money launderer for one of the largest drug cartels in Mexico was an informant and undoubtedly told the FBI about Byrd. The the informant goes missing. Byrd's partner and partner's girlfriend go missing. At the same time, Byrd dissolves his company and withdraws his entire savings of $8 million from the bank. Also at the same time, Wendy's boyfriend falls from an 80th floor window. We know that boyfriend's son told police about Wendy, so they have the Byrd connection. The Byrds skip town.

So, you have all these events happening at the same time with the Byrds squarely in the middle of them all. We are expected to believe that this would only get the attention of one half-crazy FBI agent? No fucking way. Law enforcement lets him go on his merry way? I don't think so.

Byrd has a choice: go to the FBI and join witness protection where he stands a decent chance of surviving, or run with the made up on the spot scheme of laundering tons of money at a resort town knowing that failure (which is likely) will mean his and his family's death. Yet he goes with the laundering.
 
Binged the third season of Fauda over the last few days. Absolutely edge-of-the-seat, riveting, stuff
 
dmn23 said:
Westworld is losing me this season.
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I didn't even know it was back :facepalm:

TBH, it kinda lost me last season. Netflix and streaming, in a way, have ruined tv. I've gotten used to watching the entire run of a show at once, so when I watch a season, wait a a year or more for the next season, I completely forgot what happened before and I find it hard to get back into.
 
dmn23 said:
Westworld is losing me this season.
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Started losing me last season. This season has been sheer drudgery. Plus, I have to turn the volume way up because no one speaks above a fucking whisper.
Last episode was pretty good, though.
 
GomezAddams said:
Well, to start out, the very premise of the show.

The old money launderer for one of the largest drug cartels in Mexico was an informant and undoubtedly told the FBI about Byrd. The the informant goes missing. Byrd's partner and partner's girlfriend go missing. At the same time, Byrd dissolves his company and withdraws his entire savings of $8 million from the bank. Also at the same time, Wendy's boyfriend falls from an 80th floor window. We know that boyfriend's son told police about Wendy, so they have the Byrd connection. The Byrds skip town.

So, you have all these events happening at the same time with the Byrds squarely in the middle of them all. We are expected to believe that this would only get the attention of one half-crazy FBI agent? No fucking way. Law enforcement lets him go on his merry way? I don't think so.

Byrd has a choice: go to the FBI and join witness protection where he stands a decent chance of surviving, or run with the made up on the spot scheme of laundering tons of money at a resort town knowing that failure (which is likely) will mean his and his family's death. Yet he goes with the laundering.
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Ohhhhh . . . you're just getting started. I just finished season 3. Yeah I guess I just suspended disbelief to get this whole plot started.
 
dmn23 said:
Yeah, this has been a bit of a slog. It's really the only thing tying me to my HBO subscription, I might have to bail.
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I enjoyed watching the first season. The characters were compelling, the mystery was intriguing. But at point during the second season I came to the realization that I wasn't actually enjoying it, and I wasn't looking forward to watching it every week. It was an obligation rather than a pleasure.

Maybe my attention span is decreasing.
 
I'm watching a film at the moment called The Devil's Candy. It's really good so far, but pretty creepy.

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I know that it used to be available to watch on US Netflix, but not sure if it's currently in the lineup.

 
Motorik said:
I enjoyed watching the first season. The characters were compelling, the mystery was intriguing. But at point during the second season I came to the realization that I wasn't actually enjoying it, and I wasn't looking forward to watching it every week. It was an obligation rather than a pleasure.
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That's exactly where I am with it. It's unfortunate.
 
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