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the very under utilized julia ormond is in it breh
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Originally Posted by lol wow
so they hyper advanced time traveling aliens were somehow so bad at understanding our language (despite being able to time travel and just hang the fuck out in space studying us literally for eternity) that they fat finger the difference between tool and weapon?
stop enabling them. just stop.
Why don't you guys go fuck off & fag up a different thread?
Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
- lol wow
Honest to god you had me looking up Poker Bustouts. Completely forgot I saw this documentary until I saw The Cowboy in the description. Gritty counter punch in 2005 to the media hype and fan fury over the poker boom. So that's kinda my take - I forgot.
Both The Hustler & Rounders are art and story telling set amidst a back drop that was new and revealing to the audience. The happy endings are stock in trade. Thats art for the masses and sometimes it works. Losers overcoming adversity gives me hope.
Poetic license isn't a sin.
Poker is a simple story. Simpler material for the writer. Koppelman took a big bite with Billions. Far more complex. Two worlds to explore and collide. 12 plus episodes was suitable real estate to tell the story but your asking a lot.
Lol at thinking a thread about billions isn't already terrible
sanlmar:Quote:
Originally Posted by lol wow
I don't think there's a forum poster alive who writes better posts than I saw you write the other night. You got talent.
lol wow:
So I got talent? So what beat me?
sanlmar:
Character
Is that dialogue from the awful show billions
If you don't have encyclopedic recall of The Hustler script then off to the Trump thread you go with the rabble.Quote:
Originally Posted by lol wow
In before Hustler mag recall
Rofl saaaaaallllyyyy
Reality check:
Rounders is about a gambling addict who gives in to his addiction and throws away any chance at a normal future.
What did your dad say to you about your love of dark black Jamaicans that you claimed did music
This show is so fucking bad, even great actors on it seem like sloppy hacks.
Eric Begosian looks like he's in a high school play.
OH DEAR FUCKING CHRIST THIS SHOW IS AWFUL
Tine please just stop. Homeland is a mess but Billions is legit top 3 writing.
I should know, I played cards with a writer from the show.
Edit havent seen episode 3 yet
3 is good.
I enjoyed it any ways.
Starting to more than Homeland.
I just found out Kate from the DA's office is Ahmad Rashad's daughter. Where's yur burkha bitch?
I remember being so naive as a kid watching NBA INSIDE STUFF and not even realizing what horribly dispicable piece of Sharia Law Cuh-Ran reading Muzzie trash he was. And he wasn't even born into it. He chose to be filth.
ohhhhhhhhhh so this is basically Entourage.
The show is good but the psychiatrist is tilting . Her importance is so unrealistic it takes away from the show imo.
Was I dreaming or was that poker episode a real thing? Maybe the worst poker related content ever on TV. I don't think I can ever look at any of those characters the same again. I actually liked the he/she but now that's ruined for me.
I haven't seen ep3 or 4. Not sure where you guys are at nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Brittney Griner's Clit
I couldn't see a reason for a season 2. Then Taylor, Dake (and Dr Gus) emerge and I'm thinking we have something new to work with.
If there was some gratuitous poker scene then this thing may have jumped the shark. Too bad.
I will have to watch to see if this somehow rips off the true story of Solomon Bros Chairman John Gutfreund playing Liars Poker for a million dollars no tears. If there is any hint the show is dead to me.
So let me get this right his/her read was about as basic poker as you could have, oh you had a draw because you don't have a king and didn't have a Queen or youd be afraid I had a King, baam call!
So poker prodigy would be primo easy to take down with a simple bluff.
That BS aside I liked the episode.
mark cuban has the worst plastic surgery on cable tv.
arliss + entourage / finance = billions.
i love how according to this show, all the people who got the shit kicked out of them in high school by 'jocks' are in fact magical hyperlogical rainmen unicorns.
the deposition scene was god tho.
hey so quick reminder we are 4 hours into the new season and still have no idea why a photographer photographed chuck going into a s&m club or what the consequences of it were.
this show's opening sequence was dude getting pissed on by his wife if i recall.
remember that?
also i still have zero point zero reasons not to root for chuck at this point. i think they wrote out the sex stuff because it made it impossible not to root for him when this is supposed to be some showdown between immovable yet flawed egos.
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Originally Posted by sonatine
I feel like the S&M shit was just pilot-episode-fodder. Also, these shows are all about trying to give people a behind-the-scenes look at how these extremely boring people are actually incredibly complex and interesting.
The real Bobby Axelrod would be spending all day on conference calls with attorneys and other VC groups, while continually checking in on the markets.
It would make for an extremely boring show if they depicted the actual sex life of a US attorney.
this was maybe the first episode of the entire series that i thought was more or less great.
id like them to reveal that axel's wife is blackmailing chuck next week instead of making us wait for it like its some m night smahalahlaha plot twist.
this show has gotten better this season.
but its still garbage.
i like it more than homeland tho.
this show needs to stop trying so fucking hard to be a maxim magazine top 10 list. at its best, its like michael crichton writing about economic warfare. but the other 92% of the time, it's just dumb.
and every time they end a scene with axe doing his 'oh.. one more question.. ' schtick on his way out the door, i get less impressed by the 8% that keeps me coming back.
I paused ep. 9 to do something more interesting like empty dishwasher
Haven't returned and ep. 10 is sitting on DVR.
8% just isn't enough.
I know there is variance as there is a carousel of directors but I'll wait for a recommendation. Season 1 was enough frankly.
also on a broader level, and im just saying... why shouldnt we root for chuck again exactly?
axel has become an exponentially worse person in more or less perfect proportion to chuck evolving into a moral and upright crusader for justice and good.
yeah chucks a shitty dad for using his kid in a publicity photo. welcome to fucking earth, population: shitty dads.
there is literally one end game here that any working writer could pursue; axel doing an anti-heel turn and dragging chuck from the flames of ruin as a selfless gesture to wendy.
and heres the thing i dont care.
also if someone can fact check me.. wasnt there a deal offered where eric begosian took no jail time, that chuck refused but then agreed to accept? so why is eric begosian in jail?
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Originally Posted by sonatine
I can't identify with a single character. Whateverthefuck the literary trick is to get the audience to empathize with the characters has been sanitized from show.
Was thinking I was way more vested in Bubbles, Snoop and all the other crackheads & cops in The Wire.
just don't care ... not even 8%
Thinking about the viewing choices I've made other than Billions.
Saw a 90 minute biography of JK Rowling on offer. Remembered reading the first book to my kids. Nobody cared. I mean I have never watched a single movie either. I completely don't give a shit about Harry Potter.
Nevertheless, this biography was 100x more compelling than Billions. That indictment stands large.
Joanne Rowling is stone broke and depressed. She's sitting on a train looking out onto the landscape and came up with the idea of a boy wizard who doesn't know he is a wizard and goes to wizard school.
She had no pencil and paper but worked the story. The whole story arc - all 7 volumes - was completed in her head.
She claims when she got back to her flea infested apartment she wrote the final epilogue. She knew.
Genius. In the next 20 years she never fucked it up. The literary rights, the movies, the fame.
Great
It is a hot mess now officially, getting silly.
Mind you it was that or two broke girls, toss up.
Completely agree. Started off with promise, got LOL bad imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
For those that hate the show, Paul Giamatti is worth the hour.
Here is my imitation of this show:
<character 1> hey youve been doing great and growing a lot. we should celebrate, here's an absolutely terrible, childish, irresponsible idea. cool?
<character 2> fuck yeah, lets roll.
im at a bit of a loss... on the one hand i was all set to come here today and say last nights episode was an all-series low point, but then i remembered the poker episode so now im just kind of stumped honestly.
i actually do think last night might have been worse tho; on 3 separate occasions i checked to see if the episode was almost over, the first time being 28 minutes into it.
the poker episode was embarrassing and awkward, but what last night lacked in Entourage caliber superficiality, it more than made up for in laughably forced pop culture references and shitty people being shitty.
oh and huuuuuge shout out to the billionaires wife who removed the lockscreen on her iphone.