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[NAFDA] A thread for the discussion of all original programming on HBO, Showtime, Starz and other premium channels.

This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.


erikaj - Oct 16, 2006 1:07:38 pm PDT #334 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!

I love that Bodie said "insight" yesterday. Given that most dealers in most shows and movies are presented as know-nothing perps and skels.


Glamcookie - Oct 18, 2006 9:13:34 am PDT #335 of 7329
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

GF and I watched the first ep of Big Love on DVD last night. She is uninterested, but I want to keep watching. Any BL lovers? Haters? My main reason for wanting to watch is bizarre experiences that I had when visiting our Utah offices (shiver). I read Under the Banner of Heaven (a book about fundamentalist Mormons) for the same reason and found it disturbing and fascinating.


lisah - Oct 18, 2006 9:24:25 am PDT #336 of 7329
Punishingly Intricate

Any BL lovers? Haters?

I have friends (who I generally share the same taste in tv with) who are super into it. I couldn't get past the premise when it originally aired but, if I ever have any free time again, I think I'll give it a shot.


Hayden - Oct 18, 2006 9:25:55 am PDT #337 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

It's on our Netflix queue, but I have no opinion at this time.*

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Glamcookie - Oct 18, 2006 9:30:06 am PDT #338 of 7329
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I'm gonna keep going with it, so I'll let you guys know how it progresses. I already think I'm going to love to hate Chloe Sevigny's character.


Sean K - Oct 18, 2006 9:43:21 am PDT #339 of 7329
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

In that last two days, S and I have watched Deadwood S1 Eps 10&11 -- Mr. Wu, and Jewel's Boots Were Made for Walking. Both of which were very good. Ricky Jay wrote Jewel's Boots, which pleased me to no end.

Deadwood continues to have to most bizarre, amusing and uncomfortable conversations. The one between Al and the magistrate's bagman, about which dope head he should give to Mr. Wu to feed the pigs, and the broader situation in the camp, is a perfect example.

Also, the more I watch this show, the more I enjoy Ian McShane's performances.


erikaj - Oct 18, 2006 12:18:07 pm PDT #340 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!

wrod, Sean. Corwood, stop talking like Carcetti. Big Love: If the acting wasn't so good, I think I'd give it a total pass, because the writing is better than network, but not as good as The Daves and the subject matter often gives me a squick. But CS, JT, and, well, really the whole cast, just act their butts off. I'd give it three out of five, personally.


JohnSweden - Oct 18, 2006 12:26:01 pm PDT #341 of 7329
I can't even.

I'm liking Dexter a lot. I'm plenty weirded out by Michael C. Hall's talk about how liberating it is to play Dexter compared to the repressed David on 6FU, but that's just part of the fun, I guess.

The latest show I'm watching is Brotherhood. It seems a bit derivative in structure (hello, we get that politics and organized crime aren't that different), but what they are doing with it is very interesting so far, and hey, like I needed more Annabeth Gish issues, but oh yeah.


esse - Oct 18, 2006 1:44:52 pm PDT #342 of 7329
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

I'm plenty weirded out by Michael C. Hall's talk about how liberating it is to play Dexter compared to the repressed David on 6FU, but that's just part of the fun, I guess.

I kind of get it! I mean, look at all that emotional restraint in david, compared with no emotions and no restraint in dexter! I think it's kind of intriguingly, disturbingly liberating just watching.


IAmNotReallyASpring - Oct 19, 2006 5:45:56 am PDT #343 of 7329
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel

In that last two days, S and I have watched Deadwood S1 Eps 10&11 -- Mr. Wu, and Jewel's Boots Were Made for Walking.

Huh. I watched Jewel's Boots Are Made for Walking last night. I think the most moving moment of the first season is the wide shot of Jewel picking herself up after falling and checking her hair to see if it's mussed.