What TV Show Did You Last Watch

[Bball]

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Not saying I don't like it, but I still think TWD is moving awfully fast this season. Fast to get out of Georgia. Fast to start having questions of why they were still alive and if they even wanted to be. Fast to get to Alexandria. Fast to assimilate into the community. Fast to become suspicious to the community. Fast for the community to be suspicious of them if they weren't going to be all along to begin with.

I could've seen the community being skeptical of them all along instead of all open arms... but they played it as all open arms. Even quickly assigning jobs. Important jobs even. So with that in mind I would have liked to have seen tiny fractures developing that led to questions that finally boiled over. Not a quick 180. Maybe actually see a little more indepth her reaction to Gabriel's comments. Or what about Maggie overhearing the comments? Was that just forgotten? You'd think she'd either try and set the community straight or go to her own group with that and discuss what to do.

For a show with I assume no endgame in sight, I'd think they'd want to milk things as much as possible without it being blatant filler in order not to just use up all the potential twists and plot lines because they rushed through things getting from point A to B. No need in going straight from "We're a group... We're a family" in one episode to "Why are we even still alive? I don't want to go on" in the next. They could've played that transition out over a course of episodes, and thus days and weeks and months in character/story life, to get them to a breaking point a bit more realistically. IOW...just GETTING to the Alexandria gates could've been the cliffhanger for the season next weekend IMHO.

[ECKrueger]

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Not saying I don't like it, but I still think TWD is moving awfully fast this season. Fast to get out of Georgia. Fast to start having questions of why they were still alive and if they even wanted to be. Fast to get to Alexandria. Fast to assimilate into the community. Fast to become suspicious to the community. Fast for the community to be suspicious of them if they weren't going to be all along to begin with.

I fely like everything leding up to Alexandria was drawn out and slow, and then the opposite once they arrived.

[Bball]

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I fely like everything leding up to Alexandria was drawn out and slow, and then the opposite once they arrived.

I thought it was pretty slow getting from the church to the Atlanta hospital and what happened there. And then BOOM... "We're in Virginia". BOOM "Man are we depressed and can't go on!" BOOM "Hello, I'm Eric and I want you to come live with us in a real safe zone with hot water and electricity and steel walls". BOOM "We're in Alexandria and they are welcoming us with open arms and a party and it really seems wonderful here!" BOOM "We don't trust them..." Boom "... and they don't trust us now!!"

[TinManJoshua]

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Started watching Broad City. Kinda funny, seems to have a great cameo every week(Amy Poehler, Seth Morris, Amy Sedaris, Bob Balaban, Fred Armisen) and I think Hannibal Buress is the funniest dude right now.

[Dr. Hibbert]

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I agree with some of the TWD criticisms, even if I think it's the best this series has been for a while (of course, it's been pretty bad for a while, so not sure that's saying much...)

I love the Alexandria plot. I just wish it had been both halves of this season, and not that completely wasted hospital storyline that has now been proven utterly pointless after Noah, y'know...

My main problem right now is using the Rick/Pete/what's her name triangle to accelerate this particular plot. It says everything that Rick is supposed to have an obsessive love interest and she is so singularly defined by just being a tool of Rick or Pete that I can't even remember her name. I'd buy that if they spent a season building up that relationship. As it stands? I don't even know her name. And this is supposed to be the reason everything finally spills over...

THAT SAID, I still think this show is hitting a lot of high notes since entering Alexandria. I like what they're doing with Rick, even if I don't necessarily like how they're doing it. More series need to let their protagonists turn into gray areas, or even antagonists. Until now, there's always been a safety button on Rick. His actions were always qualified or justified in some capacity. Now, there are legitimate question marks. And even if we identify with him and he's probably right, we're not so sure the other party is necessarily "wrong" or "bad" or wise to bow down to Rick. I like that. Rick as the do-no-wrong protagonist was getting kinda old, and any previous divergence from that (i.e. going nuts in the prison) just felt off.

[Bball]

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I agree with all of that.

I think I'd like to see them get somewhere, meet someone, something.... that brings a new level of understanding to the situation. Kind of how the initial trip to the CDC brought an added layer of understanding and complexity (

). I'd just like to see another piece of the puzzle doled out.

[ECKrueger]

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I'd just like to see another piece of the puzzle doled out.

That's a good point actually. There hasn't been really any kind of 'big picture' development since then unless you count the 'get to DC' thing.

[Shade]

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Wow...of all the shows to be revived recently, I never imagined that Coach would be one of them:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/craig-t-nelson-star-coach-784791

[Dr. Hibbert]

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If you can handle slow burns, I highly recommend Bloodline, Netflix's latest original series. I thought it was excellent. Not sure how many people on here watch/have watched Rectify, but best comparison I'd say is a faster-moving noir version of Rectify.

[AesopRockOn]

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If you can handle slow burns, I highly recommend Bloodline, Netflix's latest original series. I thought it was excellent. Not sure how many people on here watch/have watched Rectify, but best comparison I'd say is a faster-moving noir version of Rectify.

Rectify is one of my favorites, but I've heard you have to stick with Bloodline because it takes till the end to get good? I'm behind on my Netflix originals, still got House of Cards and Kimmy Schmidt in the queue.

[Bball]

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I thought the TWD season finale was pretty good. If I had to level a complaint I thought it was a really good episode but a ho hum season finale. I'm not just dying (pardon the pun) to see the season premier next season and left in wonderment at what might happen next.

In other news... AMC teased the new TWD spinoff. It looks like it's going to give us a little more of a view of the world, or at least another corner of it, as things just started to unfold.

It would be nice if, as TWD goes into hiatus for the summer, the spinoff soon appears to fill the void. But alas, it's not going to work that way. If anything the spinoff will ramp up late in the summer as a lead in to next season of TWD.

[Mourning]

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Rectify is one of my favorites, but I've heard you have to stick with Bloodline because it takes till the end to get good? I'm behind on my Netflix originals, still got House of Cards and Kimmy Schmidt in the queue.

Yeah, I'm a fan of Rectify aswell. Loved the time the series is taking to tell it's story. Bloodline is definitely on my list of series I'm interested to see.

[Dr. Hibbert]

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Rectify is one of my favorites, but I've heard you have to stick with Bloodline because it takes till the end to get good? I'm behind on my Netflix originals, still got House of Cards and Kimmy Schmidt in the queue.

The last 2-3 episodes of Bloodline are all super suspenseful. The very, very end, though, is a bit odd. Like, without spoiling anything, it clearly tries to set itself up for a second season, but imagining that season is an odd exercise unto itself.

Good on you for supporting Rectify. Wish more people did. It's the simplest series to summarize to a stranger, but the hardest to actually explain.

[Dr. Hibbert]

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I thought the TWD season finale was pretty good. If I had to level a complaint I thought it was a really good episode but a ho hum season finale. I'm not just dying (pardon the pun) to see the season premier next season and left in wonderment at what might happen next.

In other news... AMC teased the new TWD spinoff. It looks like it's going to give us a little more of a view of the world, or at least another corner of it, as things just started to unfold.

It would be nice if, as TWD goes into hiatus for the summer, the spinoff soon appears to fill the void. But alas, it's not going to work that way. If anything the spinoff will ramp up late in the summer as a lead in to next season of TWD.

I didn't hate the episode, but if I judged it as purely a finale, it was a pretty poor finale.

Just some random thoughts...

[Some spoilers below. Be warned.]

1. I'm not advocating for the idea that killing off main cast is always a smart move. I think Game of Thrones made it the "cool" thing to do, but there is definitely a balancing act. That said, this finale just reinforce to me that this series is just way too afraid to part ways with its main characters. The cast is too big. Characters who should matter don't, and I struggle with names because they're poorly fleshed out as a result.

2. That town hall meeting was incredibly stupid. What plays out with Pete afterward was even dumber. Really, this whole Pete arc has been incredibly sloppy. I would have bought the Rick-what's her name infatuation if it played out over a full season, but it basically played out over a quarter of season, which is neither enough to consistently remember her name (seriously, I still can't right now) or really feel one way or the other about Pete other than "generic bad guy". That story was nothing more than a chess piece-mover.

3. I do like the idea of the Wolves. Outside of the Terminus disaster, there really haven't been any pure evil baddies. Merle had a good side, the series spent way too long trying to give the Governor a moral ambiguity he didn't really have, Terminus was entirely forgettable and even those villains were humanized in the end. The Wolves are entirely tribal/feral and I love the outcast angle. I love the idea that these guys can eff stuff up in a major way and probably WILL end up killing some main characters, because I don't even know if Rick's group is ready for that extreme. But of course the point is: Rick's group is the only chance Alexandria has to be ready for the wolves.

4. The most annoying character in this series, by far, is Father Gabriel. Nothing about his story has ever worked. Every time he is on screen, I am annoyed.

[Hoop]

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The most annoying character in this series, by far, is Father Gabriel. Nothing about his story has ever worked. Every time he is on screen, I am annoyed.

Man I really hate that character, what a complete tool.