Amazing episode and superb acting from John Turturro. I audibly gasped a couple times, easily the best new TV I have seen in a while.
Amazing episode and superb acting from John Turturro. I audibly gasped a couple times, easily the best new TV I have seen in a while.
It was absolutely beautiful, no question. The acting is incredible as always, too.
But I do not like the pacing this season. Season one was very steady and purposeful, building slowly to the climax in the last couple episodes. This season started even more frantic than the finale, and has been all over the place since. The events of this episode feel rushed. They feel like inevitable outcomes to what’s been set up, but without the escalation in-between.
Still loving this season, but I think I liked S1 more so far.
I love the pacing exactly because we’ve already had the slow build up. If you just keep slowly slowly ever so slowly escalating things, never answering, never resolving, then thats just boring and kind of exhausting. You escalate tensions to reach a satisfactory climax
Lol that basically perfectly describes why I stopped watching Silicon Valley
Season 1 was one of the strongest seasons of television I have seen in the last ten years. I think the pacing of season 2 isn’t that bad but I do see what your saying for sure. Regardless, I’m genuinely pleased with this show, it’s refreshing to know that sci-fi shows don’t need to have robots or space ships to really play to the strengths of the genre.
I’d recommend Dark if you want another sci-fi show that’s different. It’s a little closer to the usual sci-fi with time stuff, god particles, and other similar tropes but it plays a lot more with philosophical themes, the process of history, identity, and other fun things.
yesss dark is so good! i just really like how the show takes itself seriously and doesn’t feel like it can be commercialized like stranger things. the storytelling is really well done and it doesn’t overexplain itself which i find really refreshing.
I honestly had trouble wrapping my head around some of Dark, very cerebral
Dark is another all-timer for me! People sleep on it, but it’s one of the few “Streaming Era” shows I think genuinely needs to be analyzed and stolen from by writers. It’s just plain good storytelling. It had such a rich cast of characters, motivations, inter-personal narratives, and a lot of subtle emotional beats.
Did you see the creators’ other show, 1899? It was cancelled but the first season was pretty interesting.
I watched the first episode, but never returned to it. Not of lack of interest, just one of those “I’ll get around to it” but just haven’t yet.
What I liked most about it was it knew why we were watching this particular instance and knew why it was ending.
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The reason were seeing this iteration of the time loop is because it’s the iteration that has deviated from the previous hundreds or thousands time loops. That’s where the series starts. It knows why we want to see this loop, but not the other loops or even the first loop. The show ends because the loop finally gets closed. They could have easily dragged it on for more seasons, but the writers knew they had reached a perfect ending.
Really shows what having some conviction in your own storytelling can do. Too many shows don’t have confidence in what they’re doing and end up spiraling into nonsense.
Have you watched Devs or Mr Robot?
EDIT: Also Pantheon
Devs is on my watchlist, I have heard good things about it but I haven’t given it a go.
MrRobot I think showed promise but they fumbled it after the second season for me.
If you haven’t watched past the second season of Mr Robot, you are seriously missing out. The 3rd and 4th seasons are some of the best seasons in all of TV.
I’ll give it a shot, but if doesn’t live up to this hype I will write you a strongly worded letter. One with too many run on sentences.
I accept this deal :P
I loved how they managed to keep having major plot twists that didn’t seem contrived or were deus ex machinas. The later plot twists, including the final twist in the last scene of the show, were all there from the beginning of season 1.
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The only thing I didn’t like (apart from the liberalism) was White Rose’s project. It was this major plot point throughout the series, then it turned into nothing? Just like some weird, Large Hadron Collider? Okay and? They hinted at some parts, especially with Angela, that White Rose had discovered something like time travel or a doomsday device or some other whacky shit.
Edit: forgot spoiler
Edit 2: got damn mobile app has a different spoiler than desktop.
Maybe spoiler tag for those who haven’t watched it?
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My main problem is Elliot didn’t completely abolish capitalism.
Yeah that was the liberalism creeping into the show. Can’t have an actual revolution because the audience might start getting ideas.
Yeah, I love that they’re exploring themes you don’t often see on TV. The importance of regulation and transparency, how religion manipulates people, and even antinatalism.