Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!

Anya ,'Showtime'


Premium Cable: The Cursing Costs Extra

[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 - May 07, 2007 10:22:31 am PDT #876 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!

Yeah, they were awesome. Of course poor Robin died painfully so I won't see him in disc two, which is a bummer. Like with Bill Hickock.


IAmNotReallyASpring - May 07, 2007 10:39:03 am PDT #877 of 7329
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel

From the way back article on Deadwood:

Milch also addressed the anger that rose up among “Deadwood” fans when word leaked out last year that the show’s third season might be its last, in part due to Milch’s commitments to “John from Cincinnati,” a series about a surfing family’s encounter with a possible alien.

An alien? Like Mork?


erikaj - May 07, 2007 11:00:13 am PDT #878 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!

OMG, y'all. Milch is using again. "This is an intervention, you coke-sniffing cocksucker." Okay..."interesting" premise, there.


-t - May 14, 2007 7:02:56 am PDT #879 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I like the ads for John from Cincinnati. The premise doesn't grab me the way Deadwood did, but I am intrigued.

Of all the upsetting things happening on the Sopranos, it's the sound of duck calls while the guy dumps the asbestos that is haunting me.


Hayden - May 14, 2007 7:05:10 am PDT #880 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I just caught up from ep 3 through last week's Sopranos. And damn, I don't know what when down last night, but last week's Sopranos was about the most tightly constructed episode I can recall.


-t - May 14, 2007 7:25:30 am PDT #881 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I watched last week's and last night's one after the other, so let me take a moment to separate the two in my head.


Right. Yes. That was sharp and compelling. And the end completely took me by surprise but seemed almost inevitable once it had happened.


DavidS - May 16, 2007 6:34:49 am PDT #882 of 7329
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

And damn, I don't know what when down last night, but last week's Sopranos was about the most tightly constructed episode I can recall.

That was some dark shit. Did anybody else expect Homer's coyote spirit guide with the voice of Johnny Cash to appear for Tony?

I'm trying to think of the Maximum Pain Exit Strategy at this point. Maybe Meadow dying in Tony's arms on the opera house steps while the camera cranes back. Tony throwing a knife through Carm's throat? Antony ambushed at a toll plaza? Piano wire around Paulie's throat from behind in the car?


Frankenbuddha - May 16, 2007 6:37:18 am PDT #883 of 7329
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I'm trying to think of the Maximum Pain Exit Strategy at this point.

Tony gets nibbled to death by ducks. Poetic closure that would be.


-t - May 16, 2007 6:51:02 am PDT #884 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Did anybody else expect Homer's coyote spirit guide with the voice of Johnny Cash to appear for Tony?

Totally.


Hayden - May 16, 2007 9:06:19 pm PDT #885 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Caught up on the Sopranos. Whoa.