Posted on 05/18/2021 3:38:07 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
I watched a few seasons of GOT and decided it wasn’t worth the time. Short review: Contrived, gratuitous, sleazy shock fest with some entertaining characters and appealing actors/actresses.
Network tv ended for me in 2016. Never was a big fan of the premium services. Movies ended for me in 2018. Since then I went to one movie a friend forced me to go see. My only return so to speak until I started watching the Chosen. It’s more a crowd funded thing outside the Hollywood system. I do watch stuff on youtube but it’s not traditional entertainment.
HBO can be great. But they also annoy me. They have a lot of TV shows about gay people for some reason. Which I don’t mind that they do there are stories to tell but most of them seem to be in your face about gayness rather than telling a good story with characters who happen to be gay.
Rome was great, only 2 seasons, produced with the BBC.
Deadwood is one of my favorite shows, but not for those who can’t tolerate profanity. They didn’t really curse much in those days, they actually blasphemed more. But to make it relevant to contemporary audiences they altered the language to use a lot of profanity. Cancelled after Season 3.
HBO did a show called Luck. It was really good, with Dustin Hoffman, Nick Nolte and Dennis Farina. Cancelled after 1 season. John from Cincinnati was also interesting. Cancelled after 1 season. Deadwood, Luck and John from Cincinnati were all produced by David Milch whom I think is one of the most gifted and talented people in the TV business, and gets shafted by HBO time after time.
I watched the first season of downton abbey at the request of a friend who sent it. It is a show about nothing. There is no character development, no inspiration, no theme not
It was a colossal waste of the menu hours of season one.
G0T why?
Can’t people turn off their TVs and get out to the local precinct or to the school board and start running this country we’ve been entrustedsted with.
Porn. Pshaw.
Good comment.
I’m not at all sure that George RR Martin sees it that way (I think he has issues) but I think this is what our Middle Ages would have looked like if there was not any Christian influence. No morality, no fear of judgment, not respect for mercy. Honor is not entirely absent, but almost entirely so. Without Christ, the world would be even darker than it is.
Another sleeper that was so engrossing was the series Ozark. Like Breaking Bad, the characters develop. I rate it high on the entertainment scale.
So he “finally” watched high-budget porn and wants to write about it.
Well isn’t that special...
My wife and I are the same way. We don’t have, and have never had cable, so we rent them from the library a few years out.
We enjoyed Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad as well as Boardwalk Empire and my favorite...Turn.
Deferred pleasure is sometimes fun...:)
I only watched the sex and dragon scenes.
Both are EXCELLENT !!!’
Barry Lyndon was gorgeous.
The only problem was Ryan O’Neal, who was about as believable as the 18th century Irish hero as Kelly McGillis was a rocket scientist in Top Gun.
Turn was great!
I CLAUDIUS was brilliant!
Hollywierd hated Elia Kazan because he was an ex commie who rolled on his fellow travelers. That is why I went and started watching all his stuff. Well worth the effort.
For me both Game of Thrones and Downtown Abbey sort of grew on me in watching them, sort of like a friendly fungus. Or a bag of potato chips where one can’t stop after the first couple of chips.
‘Better Call Saul’ , the prequel to Breaking Bad is just as good. Its final 6th season is next year.
I think I got two episodes in to season one. The incest and throwing the kids out the window were enough. Meh.
I still haven’t watched it, and if I do, I won’t be spending my own money to do it.
To me, when something becomes imme sely popular, that means that I should probably avoid it. The majority of people are stupid, so if that same majority loves something enough for it to go mainstream, it’s not something I’ll enjoy.
For instance, the Twilight series was recommended to me well before the movies, but I was reading other things at the moment; they went on the back burner. When it exploded in popularity thanks to the movies, I was instantly turned off. In that case, I was right to be. God; sparkly vampires? WTF?
I very well may like GoT, but I’m not paying a red cent for it.
Japan during the ‘Country at War’ period.
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