OT: Capitals Cinema Club: TV and Movies

[AtNightWeFly]

Wife and I are watching The Wire for the first time. We are finally on Season 5 and about 4 or 5 episodes in and I gotta say wtf were they thinking with the writing for the final season. They completely destroyed McNulty’s character. The homeless serial killer storyline is a slog. Plus the whole running into political games everywhere you go storyline absolutely sucks. Season 4 was well done story wise, I guess I just wish for the final season they got the band back together and hunted Marlo as the major crimes unit for old times sake.

Favorite small thing about the show is when anyone goes SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTT. Prop Joe and Clay Davis are the best at it.

Have you and the wife watched Six Feet Under? That's another fantastic HBO show from back in the days.

 

[hb12xchamps]

Have you and the wife watched Six Feet Under? That's another fantastic HBO show from back in the days.

Not yet, so many HBO shows we want to get into. Sopranos, Succession, Westworld, etc.

 

[tenken00]

Wife and I are watching The Wire for the first time. We are finally on Season 5 and about 4 or 5 episodes in and I gotta say wtf were they thinking with the writing for the final season. They completely destroyed McNulty’s character. The homeless serial killer storyline is a slog. Plus the whole running into political games everywhere you go storyline absolutely sucks. Season 4 was well done story wise, I guess I just wish for the final season they got the band back together and hunted Marlo as the major crimes unit for old times sake.

Favorite small thing about the show is when anyone goes SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTT. Prop Joe and Clay Davis are the best at it.

RIP Michael K Williams aka Omar Little

 

[hb12xchamps]

RIP Michael K Williams aka Omar Little

So easy to root for in the series.

Michael’s mother lives in Harrisburg (very close to Hershey) and he was around the area a lot. His funeral and burial both took place in Harrisburg and Snoop was one of the pallbearers.

Funeral for ‘The Wire’ actor held in Harrisburg, where he was remembered for giving back

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

RIP Michael K Williams aka Omar Little

was one of my favorites….RIP Chalky White!

 

[Silky mitts]

Tony Leung being cool

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Super Crooks…..Netflix Anime…..pretty solid multitasking material….

 

[Hivemind]

Wife and I are watching The Wire for the first time. We are finally on Season 5 and about 4 or 5 episodes in and I gotta say wtf were they thinking with the writing for the final season. They completely destroyed McNulty’s character. The homeless serial killer storyline is a slog. Plus the whole running into political games everywhere you go storyline absolutely sucks. Season 4 was well done story wise, I guess I just wish for the final season they got the band back together and hunted Marlo as the major crimes unit for old times sake.

Favorite small thing about the show is when anyone goes SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTT. Prop Joe and Clay Davis are the best at it.

Season 5 is pretty widely regarded as the worst. Even still, it's better TV than most out there. The Bubbles plot in season 5 is terrific. And I personally enjoy the glimpse into how politics shapes every level of city public service (it's why they say all the decisions that matter are made locally). While McNulty is taken to the point of hyperbole in season 5, I don't think it's entirely out of character. It's just really over the top, and done to service the Baltimore Sun storyline. Simon wanted to create parallels from the Sun storyline to Jayson Blair, a NYT reporter who had made up quotes and details while reporting on the DC sniper case, and they wanted a story as equally sizzling to be fabricated in the Sun plotline. McNulty is allowed to go cartoonish to make that happen.

Not yet, so many HBO shows we want to get into. Sopranos, Succession, Westworld, etc.

Westworld season 1 is fantastic. Season 2 and season 3 are.... less than good. It's one of the hardest drop off in show qualities after a season 1 since like Heroes way back in the writer strike days. I guess True Detective had a similar drop off after season 1, and that's an HBO show you should definitely watch.

Succession is a guilty pleasure of mine. I really don't know why I still watch it. All the characters are pretty irredeemable, and the writing is always trying to juggle far too many things. And without spoiling things, it's basically forgotten about one of the very core elements that defined the initial premise of the show.

 

[usiel]

Super Crooks…..Netflix Anime…..pretty solid multitasking material….

My brother was recommending that.

Lost in Space S3 dropped and is pretty good already half way through it. A year time jump was probably necessitated by the kid actor who played Will Robinson grew a couple of feet, heh.

 

[Hivemind]

The new cowboy bebop on Netflix it’s pretty cool if you like the old anime

I watched the first episode, and I'm not sure if I'm going to continue.

It's definitely made to the "bingeable" Netflix formula, with 10 1-hour episodes. And I fully understand some of the changes they made to support it being more of one, continuous arc with cliffhangers and intrigue in the name of fitting that formula. Introducing Faye and Spike's past in the first episode makes sense in that format. I'm just not sure that format is ideal for Cowboy Bebop.

I'm also not a purist by any means, and can definitely tolerate changes from the original. But when both episode 1's are essentially the same main plot, some of the changes they made actually significantly altered the tone and messaging. The change in how Spike searches for the couple change how Spike is characterized and portrayed (Jet was the one stumbling around looking for clues in the original). Katerina not being the one to shoot Asimov completely changes the ending. And several favorite moments get left behind (Spike and Asimov's bathroom encounter, for instance), despite the new episode having double the runtime of the old.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

My brother was recommending that.

Lost in Space S3 dropped and is pretty good already half way through it. A year time jump was probably necessitated by the kid actor who played Will Robinson grew a couple of feet, heh.

cannot wait to burn through LIS season 3!

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

My brother was recommending that.

Lost in Space S3 dropped and is pretty good already half way through it. A year time jump was probably necessitated by the kid actor who played Will Robinson grew a couple of feet, heh.

holy hell you weren’t lying….Will Robinson seemingly doubled in height!

 

[usiel]

Good ending for LoS series and not one that got cancelled without being able to do so.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Good ending for LoS series and not one that got cancelled without being able to do so.

just finished…..loved it. Can’t wait to do a full rewatch….someday.

 

[usiel]

just finished…..loved it. Can’t wait to do a full rewatch….someday.

One thing I appreciate they put the first two season on bluray so having the HD audio and the really good bluray to 4k upscaling these days they are great to have for a rewatch. Overall the series had great FX I mean probably better than The Expanse, imho. Definitely has to go down as one of the better reboots of an old scifi series. We had altered carbon for a couple of seasons and this one. Just hope there is more scifi down the road. There is plenty of great IP out there that shouldn't cost that much that would be some great story telling.

Smith got really irritating in S2 but was way better in S3 story arc wise.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

One thing I appreciate they put the first two season on bluray so having the HD audio and the really good bluray to 4k upscaling these days they are great to have for a rewatch. Overall the series had great FX I mean probably better than The Expanse, imho. Definitely has to go down as one of the better reboots of an old scifi series. We had altered carbon for a couple of seasons and this one. Just hope there is more scifi down the road. There is plenty of great IP out there that shouldn't cost that much that would be some great story telling.

Smith got really irritating in S2 but was way better in S3 story arc wise.

they blew it out of the water with the special effects…..I couldn’t believe how good they were.

after disliking Smith’s character early, they did a really great job with her arc the last season.

couple of great music added scenes….”black Betty” rover scene was awesome.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

WOT episode 5… they have done justice to the Aes Sedai/Warder bond….

 

[usiel]

WOT episode 5… they have done justice to the Aes Sedai/Warder bond….

Agreed it was noticeable how much story times they dedicated to it.

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

True Story on Netflix is solid. Half way through and pretty hooked on the storyline.

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

True Story on Netflix is solid. Half way through and pretty hooked on the storyline.

I got that one out-of-the-way in one sitting

 

[hb12xchamps]

Finished up The Wire. The ending was a great way of spinning everyone’s story in a “positive” light. The pub scene was great.

David Simon has another HBO series coming out in 2022 about Baltimore police and it features a bunch of actors from The Wire.

We Own This City

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

Finished up The Wire. The ending was a great way of spinning everyone’s story in a “positive” light. The pub scene was great.

David Simon has another HBO series coming out in 2022 about Baltimore police and it features a bunch of actors from The Wire.

We Own This City

We Own This City
Filmed in Baltimore they just finished shooting last month. I got to work a good amount on it. That was something lol

 

[tycoonheart]

Finished up The Wire. The ending was a great way of spinning everyone’s story in a “positive” light. The pub scene was great.

David Simon has another HBO series coming out in 2022 about Baltimore police and it features a bunch of actors from The Wire.

We Own This City

The Wire is one of my favorite shows of all time. Season 3 is hands down one of the best things I've ever watched.

 

[tycoonheart]

Have you and the wife watched Six Feet Under? That's another fantastic HBO show from back in the days.

And Oz. I think Oz is what made me get into different HBO shows.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

WOT episode 6……

Liked the “relationship twist”………in the White Tower….