Ah, cheers
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
We be in the city. OFFICIAL TRAILER for #AtlantaFX: The Final Season. September 15 on FX. Stream on @Hulu. pic.twitter.com/LdxidH63oI— AtlantaFX (@AtlantaFX) August 2, 2022
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 7 August 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link
for the final season, they’re taking it back to where it all beganwait that’s still the title of the show, wtf
― mh, Sunday, 7 August 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
Can't wait!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 7 August 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
I was pretty up-to-date with Top 40 hip-hop in 1993, so I'm surprised I have no memory at all of Paperboy's "Ditty," which I stumbled over when I started looking into the origins of the name Paper Boi--an amalgamation, I guess, of Big Boi and Paperboy. Anyway, I started down that road because of a book I'm reading on the USFL. I wanted to know if the name was maybe a reference to an obscure corner of league history having to do with Greg Fields' nickname for a couple of teammates: "The two were heading for a meeting, and Fields looked at Kraus--who was being paid $1 million over six years--and said, 'Wellllllll, fuck--there's the big paper boy!'" Fields starting calling the two teammates "the big paper boys," and he became known as Big Paper.
Maybe the 1993 Paperboy took his name from all of that.
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 August 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
I thought paper was a straightforward reference to money? (all about that paper, boy)
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Sunday, 7 August 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
I'm looking for meaning in all the wrong places--I'm sure it's a straightforward as you say. (In which case 1993 Paperboy was at least thinking along the same lines as 1984 Greg Fields.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 August 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
great use of Cousteau in the trailer
― fpsa, Sunday, 7 August 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
in the us, the paperboy delivered your morning paper. in atlanta, paper boi gets that paper
― mh, Sunday, 7 August 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
Halfway between, Tony Soprano, standing at the end of his driveway.
https://phildellio.tripod.com/paper.jpg
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 August 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
There were/are many rappers out there named Paperboy (with various spellings, etc).
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 7 August 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
This will never not be hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1kmT_Yv3Ss
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 7 August 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
yes!
― mh, Monday, 8 August 2022 03:34 (one year ago) link
This has started up again--final season, right? I'm just finishing a rewatch of The Americans, will get started right after.
― clemenza, Saturday, 17 September 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
Yep. We’re back!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 18 September 2022 02:07 (one year ago) link
First episode was hilarious
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 08:13 (one year ago) link
last two episodes so good
― symsymsym, Saturday, 15 October 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
"8 minutes"
Haven't seen the last two episodes but Alfred's storyline in episode 3 was amazing. I've been enjoying this season more than the previous so far
― Vinnie, Saturday, 15 October 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
“Safe farm is there”
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 15 October 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
That’s a keeper.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 16 October 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
I liked that they apparently bargained shoe man from 8 minutes down to 3 seconds.
― nickn, Sunday, 16 October 2022 06:30 (one year ago) link
Hahaha this episode
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 28 October 2022 02:06 (one year ago) link
This was such a random swerve at this point in the season
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 28 October 2022 02:09 (one year ago) link
I'm four episodes in. Liked the first two (and was glad to see all the principles back), so-so on the third, thought the fourth started slow and got better and better. There was a great line about dementia. The idea of building an episode around spite reminded me of Jerry trying to return the jacket in Seinfeld.
― clemenza, Friday, 28 October 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
I guess FX being owned by Disney has had one positive outcome now
― mh, Friday, 28 October 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
amazing
― symsymsym, Saturday, 29 October 2022 05:25 (one year ago) link
googling after the episode led me to this incredible Roger Ebert three-star review of A Goofy Movie, written after the projector broke two-thirds of the way through: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-goofy-movie-1995
― symsymsym, Saturday, 29 October 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
Bravo! What an episode (again)!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 30 October 2022 09:47 (one year ago) link
Not sure what to make of E5. Pleasantly weird, but I didn't really laugh.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 02:18 (one year ago) link
Was that the Mr Chocolate episode?
Seem to remember lots of laughs in that one
― groovypanda, Thursday, 3 November 2022 10:35 (one year ago) link
Yeah it was. Liked that episode but found it more weird and amusing than laugh-out-loud funny. Now, episode 6... some of the most laughs I've had from this show
A little embarrassed how long it took me to realize the latest episode was not a real story
― Vinnie, Thursday, 3 November 2022 10:51 (one year ago) link
Ha. It was so well crafted (and acted) though
Most of the laughs in episode 5 were at how absurd it all was but the end when Mr Chocolate loses it and screams "I shall have her! She can't be not-eighteen forever!" definitely cracked me up
― groovypanda, Thursday, 3 November 2022 11:42 (one year ago) link
Ha, wait -
Did a throwaway joke from the “Crank Dat Killer” episode pay off?!?
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 4 November 2022 02:04 (one year ago) link
Thought the weirdness of S6 was funnier than S5, especially the very last scene where Darius responds to Paper Boi and Some Guy Named Doug's recording.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 November 2022 13:51 (one year ago) link
maybe thirty minoots
― mh, Friday, 11 November 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
lost it completely at that bit
― groovypanda, Friday, 11 November 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
I was never more fucked up by any scene than by the one just preceding that thirty minoots line. The only comparison I can think of is the nightmare sequence in Mulholland Drive, but this one was tied to much deeper feelings. I can't believe someone put THAT on screen. Easily the greatest show of all time, like it's not even close.
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 11 November 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
I’m definitely going to think “don’t worry, I’m still in the tank” a few times this week
― mh, Saturday, 12 November 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
What a way to go out.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 13 November 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
This is so weird so often, E7 (camping) was strange in how decidedly un-weird it was. I liked it; thought they controlled the tone really well. Thinking about E8...Deadpan-perfect, just a lot to process.
― clemenza, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
E7 felt like the quiet, rewarding end of Earn and Van's plot arc and I appreciated that
Maybe the whole series was Darius retelling the events of the last few years, while having a very tenuous grasp on what happened during tank time and what was real
― mh, Monday, 14 November 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
I haven't kept up with this thread because we hadn't seen S3 yet, let alone S4. But we just jumped back in and started S3, and we were immediately reminded, boy, is this show good (and weird). Can't wait to hit S4.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 November 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
yeah i’m way behind in early s3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 November 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
looking forward to whats in store
As I watched E7--and always anticipating the weird turn--I was thinking "Get Out...no, wait; Deliverance...no wait..."
― clemenza, Monday, 14 November 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
The tension is so thick in that one, both because of how it’s directed and what this show has trained us to anticipate.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 14 November 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
you might say the episode was a metaphorical snipe hunt
― mh, Monday, 14 November 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
🥁
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
E9: bucolic, like E7, but with the scary stuff left in. Broke one of my cardinal soundtracking rules early on with the Geto Boys--used a great song only to cut it off almost immediately (they could have had Alfred wander around aimlessly for two minutes while it played, I'd have been happy)--but made up for it with "Under Me Sleng Teng" (great! new to me) and Ray Charles.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 03:08 (one year ago) link