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It's a bummer this game requires a super invasive anti-cheat program. I'd like to play it when the server issues are resolved but I'm not installing that shit on my computer.

Eps 1 and 2 were interesting, and Jodie Foster, spooky vibes, and the setting did a lot of heavy lifting. Eps 3 and 4 were boring. Eps 5 and 6 were constantly escalating nonsense.

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The Outsider was very True Detective but it was a Stephen King adaptation.

Reading the article, I get Pizzalatte's position, it's one thing to use the True Detective brand name and another to lay your work on top of someone else's without their permission or input.

I think pulling off a firefight between the FBI and a militia was probably just beyond the scope of the show. I do agree though that the way that scene was edited was disappointing and anticlimactic.

I dug Ep 1 more than I expected. The Thing had a place of honor on the DVD shelf in the opening scene and it's influence is clearly felt.

Well that last scene was an all time lamao.

I don't think the writers of this show have ever met a rich person before, but they've got nihilists pegged pretty accurately.

The bit about Gollum actually made me sad.

Not really so long as the movie ages well.

Movies are fine. I've mostly seen the blockbuster action spy movies which, while decent in their own right, don't really scratch the Slow Horses itch.

Finishing this now. I never got too deep into spy stuff but now I have an itch to scratch. Other than The Americans, which I’ve seen and is fantastic, are there any other good spy dramas anyone would recommend? I especially enjoy that this and The Americans are more grounded and less action oriented than most spy movies.

The combat in Alan Wake I is incredibly tedious with few enemy types and repetitive arenas. Even for its time, the combat was bad and detracted from the experience. I also hated the combat in Control for basically the same reason, dull bullet sponge enemies in empty repetitive arenas. So far, the combat in Alan Wake II feels more interesting than both, and more impressively, I manage to stay completely engaged with the game for about two hours before even firing my gun. I've always felt like Remedy is a studio with very defined strengths and weaknesses, and so far, AW2 feels like the game where they finally managed to play to their strengths.

Just picked this up and started playing on my new PC. It looks incredible and about an hour and a half of the way into it I'm loving it. I still haven't reached any combat, which I've always felt to be Remedy's weakness, but I'm impressed that they seem to finally make a game centered more around the strength of their world building.

White Lotus slipped my mind but is/was fantastic. It also has one of the all time bangers of a theme song.

"Just" started watching this and now I can't stop. Finished episode 5 and I'm impressed just how much they're able to pack into each episode.

Ah, gotcha, I misread your post and was startled to find a Green Lantern defender. It's been a while since I watched it, and there's a lot of stuff going on with that movie, so I can't really give a perfect explanation for why I disliked it so much. I like weird horror, I love Colin Farrel, I liked the trailer, and I went into the movie with high expectations. What I remember really hating about the movie was the dialogue. I don't expect every movie and show to have realistic dialogue, and I often enjoy media that embraces weird dialogue, but it just felt like every line in this movie was calculated to take me out of the experience. I can suspend my disbelief all kinds of ways, but so much of the dialogue just felt like something nobody would ever say, when every other aspect of the movie was grounded magical realism. The dialogue was too weird for the rest of the movie, or the rest of the movie was too normal for the dialogue, and this led to basically every other line feeling like it was written by an alien. I get why other people might like it. The actual plot of the movie is interesting, and I generally like movies that really make you struggle to imagine how you would act in the character's shoes, but here I am, wondering what I would do in Colin Farrel's situation, while instead of acting like a person he's busy talking about jerking his dad off.

I don't want to derail the thread too much with green lantern talk, but I tend to value interesting trash over dull mediocrity. Green Lantern was the dullest most mediocre time waster of a movie I've seen, and I will forever want my two hours back.

If The Killing of a Sacred Deer is maybe my second least favorite movie of all time (behind Green Lantern 2011), is there any hope that I'd like this movie?

True Detective season 1 The Sopranos On top of everything else listed.

I’m just glad this show has given us bathtub Geralt Jon Hamm.

The movie is going to try to have it both ways, concocting something similar to current politics but not quite and setting it in current times with lots of imagery and symbols for currently divisive political issues (ala the thumbnail). The creators realize that having it be a clear continuation of real world politics would be a disaster, so they're going to make it just off kilter enough to pretend to not be fanning the flame.

Beautiful week for the NFCN. Lions exposed as frauds by none other than the Bears. Vikings manage to win the worst game in years. Packers, sleeping with the fishes.