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< Television ~ It's Not TV -- It's HBO! |
| lulu |
 Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:17 pm |
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Anyone notice that the papers are giving away the ending of the first episode, including an editorial in the Times? Does anyone not realize that some people watch at later airdates, especially since many people have HBO on demand? I watched it but I was annoyed that the papers are doing this. Have they never heard of SPOILER ALERTS?
Sorry, Shannon, I should have a thicker skin. I'm really stressed out at work and it doesn't take much. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:22 pm |
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| Salon.com is good about providing spoiliers even after the initial airdate. I don't have HBO so I never come in here, but wanted to say hi to you Lulu. |
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| McBain |
| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:09 pm |
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Sopranos analysis.
Contains spoilers from the first two episodes. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:01 pm |
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I don't know after watching the second episode of Big Love I'm just not loving it - I can't put my finger on..However I'll probably give it another episode - the characters (some of them ..) are just crepyish in not an entirely enjoyable kind of way - I mean there were plenty of weird, creepy characters in Carnivale - but I just loved it
I don't know if its Paxton's self satisfied viagra popping character which bugs - I have trouble sympathizing with him in any way - perhaps that's on purpose |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:49 pm |
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Now that my motel-hopping life is over.........no more HBO. 
I thought the first Big Love was very enticing............not because it's Mormon or not ( missed the compound women working and B. Paxton's penis.........really?) Just liked the premise that these three women each have their own house nestled close to the others.......and have to spend complicated time scheduling The Husband. Will there ever be rebellion about this or just more passive agressive behavior?
In northern AZ, Colorado City is known as the most primitive/fundamentalist colony of polygamists..........Documentaries have been made about it. Escapees have been on Oprah.
Watched most of Mrs. Harris. I remember reading Shana Alexander's book. Annette Bening just knows how to be a character...........brilliant, subtle acting. And Ben Kingsley, I adore. (Just saw him as Fagin in Oliver Twist.) My memory of the story had Harris as a complete victim. This portrayal shows her making her way into her own prison. My goodness, making $12,000 a year as a headmisstress of an upity girl's school. I hate to see women as underdogs. |
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| lulu |
| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:58 pm |
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I lost my Greenwillow cd and I think I lent it to someone who won't return it (and other cds). Now I have to get another one.
Shakespeare was right: neither a borrower nor lender be.
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:12 pm |
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Quote: I realize I stand alone here and stayed away for so long. tolerance seems in short supply here.
lulu, you do this everytime you visit. Its as if you're looking for problems. Relax. |
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| daffy |
| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:48 pm |
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Sopranos trivia:
There's a nice little piece about Steve Buscemi in the NYTimes today, which includes this little tidbit:
Quote: Mr. Buscemi's direction of the "Pine Barrens" episode of "The Sopranos" in 2001 is the stuff of television legend — an Emmy-nominated walk in the woods that goes very much awry — but he suggests that it was merely a lucky grab.
"We didn't plan on the snow, and then there it was," he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/movies/23busc.html
That is so bizarre. I just can't imagine that episode without the snow. What an incredible stroke of luck. |
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| lulu |
| Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:30 am |
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Sorry. I should let my stress get to me. Having to live with Bush, et al. ain't easy. [g]
Re: Sopranos
SPOILER ALERT
I just remembered to watch the second episode of this season and was caught offguard. I knew Tony had been shot but when it opened it took me awhile (a very long while) to realize that it was a dream. I kept thinking 'what the fuck' and then kept watching to see that he was in the hospital bed. (boy, Gandolfini really gained weight). I fell asleep before it was over so I have to rewatch where I dozed off at (nice thing about On Demand; you can pick up where you left off should you be so tired as to dream away. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:56 pm |
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The third episode of this season's Spranos was, I thought, the best. The internecine rivalries and questions of who would succeed Tony if he dies make for good drama. The double life during coma was fascinating, even if controversial.
Big Love continues to hold my interest. The human drama has resonance, superceding the central situation which is alien to most of us. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:58 pm |
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Big Love's just alright with me. If it weren't for the cast, I'd have probably given up on it.
OMG, does anyone else watch The L Word? Eric Roberts was on last night's episode playing Shane's Dad and he looks better now than he ever has (and he was quite a looker in his day). Anywho, all in all it was a pretty good season and the finale left a lot of things up in the air. |
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| Kate |
| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:43 pm |
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| I am liking Big Love very much. Dean Stanton is some great villian, so creepy and gross. |
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| shannon |
| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:40 pm |
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Last night's Big Love was the first that I've actually found entertaining.
The Sopranos has yet to slip. I laughed so hard last night at Paulie's dream world incarnation. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:58 am |
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| Very happy about this past Sunday's Sopranos. I was really getting worried. |
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| daffy |
| Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:58 am |
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| They repeated it last night. The pitch meeting cracked me up, as did Paulie's "positive" talking in the hospital room. |
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