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Post by Kino on Oct 30, 2008 20:08:36 GMT
Oh, you gotta watch The Sopranos and Six Feet Under eventually. You gave Scenes From a Marriage 4 stars so I can see you digging watching Tony and Carmela's marriage and nearly all of Six Feet Under.
I was always of the thought that SFAM was the best depiction of a relationship in the visual medium, but writing this post made me think that the Tony and Carmela story might take that distinction. The Sopranos does have the advantage of having more time to spend on the dramatization, and Gandolfini and Falco absolutely kill it in Season 4.
But yeah, I'd recommend watching Mad Men before The Sopranos only because it offers more relationships. I will say that Mad Men Season 1 > The Sopranos Season 1, though. Got to rewatch MM Season 2, but right now I say Sopranos Season 2 is better.
Shit, put all of those series at the top of your queue.
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Post by Omar on Oct 31, 2008 4:49:17 GMT
Oh Kino, you don't have to sell this to me. It's on my Netflix queue, just like "The Wire" was. (On a side note, the first disc for "The Corner" came in today) And it's funny you should mention the fourth season of "The Sopranos". I've been rewatching the show these past couple of months, and am now on Season 4. Great stuff!
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Post by Omar on Oct 31, 2008 4:51:13 GMT
On another side note, the theme song for this show is composed by RJD2, who I got to see and meet at a concert a few weeks ago.
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Post by Robert C. on Oct 31, 2008 11:45:38 GMT
I've haven't watched anything in the past month or so, but I caught a bit of Sunday's episode and it was pretty huge. It's the height of the Cuban Missle Crisis, and everyone is going home on Friday wondering if the world will still exist on Monday.
We also learned once and for all the father of Peggy's baby...
This show is going to take some crazy turns.
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Post by Kino on Oct 31, 2008 15:58:50 GMT
Robert C., the 3rd sentence of your post involving Peggy could be considered a spoiler if not because of plot but of storytelling strategy. Shade it out just to be safe. It's hard for me to see it from a non-viewer's perspective and see if it would be considered one.
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Post by Capo on Oct 31, 2008 16:06:54 GMT
On another side note, the theme song for this show is composed by RJD2, who I got to see and meet at a concert a few weeks ago. Wow, really?
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Post by RNL on Oct 31, 2008 16:13:17 GMT
That's a good album. Certainly better than the recent RJD2 solo stuff.
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Post by Capo on Oct 31, 2008 16:19:29 GMT
This show doesn't look like my cup of tea at all.
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Post by Kino on Oct 31, 2008 16:42:08 GMT
What's the reason for that, Capo?
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Post by Capo on Oct 31, 2008 17:18:31 GMT
I've been watching several scenes on YouTube, most of which feature dialogue exchanges between that redhead and the younger typist. It seems a bit too slick and polished in tone and style to be immediately attractive to me, at least at the moment.
I dunno; all of these feelings are in spite of recommendations from friends and board members.
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Post by Kino on Oct 31, 2008 17:23:46 GMT
It seems a bit too slick and polished in tone and style to be immediately attractive to me, at least at the moment. Are you describing the dialogue there?
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Post by Capo on Oct 31, 2008 18:24:34 GMT
The dialogue, the look, the period aesthetic. Sharp, polished, slick. It's just something I'm not too interested in right now, from an aesthetic point of view.
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Post by Capo on Oct 31, 2008 18:30:03 GMT
I think I'd like Deadwood a whole lot more; that's period stuff with more of an urgency to it. From what I've seen, anyway.
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Post by Kino on Nov 1, 2008 8:05:04 GMT
The dialogue, the look, the period aesthetic. Sharp, polished, slick. It's just something I'm not too interested in right now, from an aesthetic point of view. A great deal of the dialogue in the series isn't sharp, polished, slick. A lot is terse and straightforward. Joan, the redhead, has her own dialogue style especially when it comes to her scenes schooling Peggy, the young typist, who like Joan, isn't indicative of the series as well with her ultra-proper speak. Though there's a few scenes between Joan and Peggy in which Joan's dialogue can't be described by your adjectives. Sal is another exception, and at times, Pete and Paul. Lots of the production design and costume design isn't sharp, polished, or slick, either. Hopefully you get around to it because the writing for the characters is excellent. And if one of the strong suits of The Sopranos to you is the character-foregrounded writing, there are aspects of Mad Men that you'd enjoy. If there is any show that can be categorized as Sopranos-like, it's Mad Men. There are obvious similarities between them for better or worse. Weiner has openly acknowledge the influence of working on The Sopranos, and he feels that Chase saw that Weiner was doing similar things in the Mad Men pilot script which led Chase to hire Weiner.
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Post by Mike Sullivan on Nov 2, 2008 3:32:05 GMT
I must agree. The look is sleek. The period is set up in a sleek manner.
But under the veil of that style are basic questions about the American Family and society in the 1960's.
This is one of the finest shows I've ever seen; period.
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Post by Omar on Nov 2, 2008 18:07:26 GMT
On another side note, the theme song for this show is composed by RJD2, who I got to see and meet at a concert a few weeks ago. Wow, really? Yeah, he was the last to go on, so he had a booth where he was selling CDs and talking to people. Cool guy. I am entering a new period in my musical discoveries.
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Post by Capo on Aug 6, 2009 13:54:57 GMT
This is intriguing. I've watched the first two episodes. It's very laid-back, slow-burning, etc. I was taken off guard by how confident its storytelling is; the way it'll feature several consecutive scenes following one character, instead of chopping to and fro. I'm sticking with it.
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Post by Kino on Aug 6, 2009 22:18:35 GMT
Your earlier misgivings still intact, Capo?
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Post by Capo on Aug 6, 2009 22:25:48 GMT
No.
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Post by ronnierocketago on Aug 16, 2009 17:04:18 GMT
Expectations shattered!
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