I saw Summer of Sam last weekend, and didn't realize that it was the bridge between GoodFellas and Sopranos.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 19:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
i guess the wire is the one hbo show marty hasn't cameo'd in
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, June 10, 2009 7:48 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i loved his arc on dream on
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 19:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
Sepinwall Set Visit
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 15:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hah Dabney Coleman was awesome in Deadwood
― mayor jingleberries, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 19:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
???
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 November 2009 02:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Number None, Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
New Trailer
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 19:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
holla @ kelly macdonald
― max, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 19:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
oooh kinda wish I had HBO
― Get the Flaps Out (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 19:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
oooh kinda wish my system currently met the minimum requirements for viewing HBO.com
― marc loi-y jagger (history mayne), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 19:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
i just don't know about michael pitt. i guess it's nice for scorcese that he can squint and pretend he's directing dicaprio?
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 23:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
fuckin a between this and Luck I really need to figure out how I'm gonna watch HBO again. other than payin for it
― dmr, Thursday, 18 March 2010 06:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
is it wrong that i instantly thought for a second, man is he using Gimme Shelter AGAIN
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 March 2010 06:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
Premiere date Sept. 19
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 July 2010 19:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
new trailerhttp://www.televisionaryblog.com/2010/07/trailer-park-hbo-releases-new-promo-for.html
― cozen, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 18:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/4948984946_10b50e73d1_o.jpg
indeed
― goole, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 17:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
nyt not really feelin it - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/arts/television/17boardwalk.html?src=me&ref=arts
― just sayin, Friday, 17 September 2010 14:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
like every 21st-century non-documentary Marty project ever
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 September 2010 15:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
but Morbs, they've finally addressed that complaint you've been making for years:
MARTIN SCORSESE’S PILOT episode for the TV series Boardwalk Empire finally gives HBO what the cable network has been faking for years: a sense of cinema. Scorsese gives it filmic qualities that have been degraded by most television production practices; qualities that are almost infinitesimal but real—as in the je ne sais quoi of a weirdly sumptuous New Year’s Eve celebration where cascading black balloons convey an impending social disaster as a culture celebrates its self-destruction.
Almost Criminal
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 17 September 2010 15:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'll check this out but man it looks pretty fucking self-important
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 September 2010 16:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm not terribly excited. A big gangster soap opera is fine and all, but some depth would be good. I've not read much about it, but what I've seen hasn't really mentioned anything about that. Then again, I don't think anyone really noticed it about Deadwood at the start either.
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 17 September 2010 16:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
more excited about Sporanos peeps + the cast than Scorcese's involvement, which I assume will decrease past the pilot.
― Simon H., Friday, 17 September 2010 16:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
long tracking shots and slow, exalted pans from ceiling to floor. ... in one scene, a man lies dead in a pool of blood as a Caruso record plays on a blood-splattered gramophone.
i mean... i feel i have seen enough of this shit to last five lifetimes.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 September 2010 16:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
stephen graham plays al capone now after playing was it babyface nelson in public enemies?
― conrad, Friday, 17 September 2010 16:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
but some depth would be good
...
this show sounds effing awesome. there's no reason to believe some nyt hack who has binged on screeners. im gonna give it a go at any rate. who knows what depth it will or won't have.
― sexy mfa (history mayne), Friday, 17 September 2010 16:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
This take from TIME is heartening:
Having helped build up the expectations for the show, I should put one slight caveat on them: I actually didn't love the show after the first episode, the epic, Martin Scorsese-directed pilot. It's really good: but it was really good in pretty much exactly ways that I expected it to be good—it wasn't an out-of-left-field surprise, a rethinking of a genre like The Sopranos was. By three or four episodes in, though, I could see the show developing its own vision and voice, one I hope (and expect) will be with us on TV for quite a while.
― Jouster, Friday, 17 September 2010 17:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Was always way more excited for this than Treme.
― SourPatchCorpse, Sunday, 19 September 2010 22:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
when does it start?
― caek, Sunday, 19 September 2010 22:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
Tonight.
― Melissa W, Sunday, 19 September 2010 23:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
9 eastern, but it's on three times in a row, so if you miss it another chance will roll around in an hour and fifteen minutes.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Sunday, 19 September 2010 23:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
Sooooo...?
― Excluding Skits and Such (Eazy), Monday, 20 September 2010 03:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
A lot of plot. A few off moments but some really enjoyable stuff as well. Over all I thought it was very good for a pilot.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Monday, 20 September 2010 04:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
This was fucking awesome. Ok, not the most illuminating review there, but shit. Sunday nights are shaping up! Next week, This, Mad Men, and Eastbound and Down?!?!?!!?! Treats.
― SourPatchCorpse, Monday, 20 September 2010 08:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
I enjoyed this! Aside from the cliche "one mobster gets a shave while another gets blown away as opera plays" climax, I found it pretty enjoyable. Lotta good actors and Michael Pitt makes a pretty good Leo surrogate.
― da croupier, Monday, 20 September 2010 12:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Could see it successfully sating the Deadwood and Sopranos audiences, if not necessarily the entire Wire one
― da croupier, Monday, 20 September 2010 12:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
opening credit sequence is soooooo generic HBO though, can't they craft these things to mesh with the shows rather than other credit sequences?
― da croupier, Monday, 20 September 2010 13:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
If the Wire was still around I wonder if there's would be McNulty floating slowly over Baltimore set to the Dream Syndicate
― da croupier, Monday, 20 September 2010 13:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
Buscemi is an odd choice for a series lead.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Looks gorgeous but cliched. I'm assuming it'll grow into its own at some point, right now it's a more cuddly Untouchables. I guess they couldn't really do something radical with a massive budget, they're playing it safe, they wanted another Sopranos and they're sort of getting it (Sopranos was much more imaginative coming out of the gate though). That said the cast is awesome.
The Ford book seemed so disjointed coming in the middle of what should have been a gripping conversation about how to deal with betrayal. Why they decided to derail that with a weird historical detail is bizarre!
Please hire somebody who knows typefaces for the historical signage ... was going nuts noticing all the historical inaccuracies. When it counted (closeups) they usually got it right though.
― Brakhage, Monday, 20 September 2010 16:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I enjoyed it a lot - like people say, not the most original thing ever but very watchable and funny, and I really like that period. The Al Capone reveal was well done.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Monday, 20 September 2010 17:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
Loving the dude who is playing Capone too
― Brakhage, Monday, 20 September 2010 17:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Totally didn't clock that Rothstein was Shuberg from A Serious Man
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Monday, 20 September 2010 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Michael Stuhlbarg is in this, eh
xp
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 September 2010 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Whole lotta Michaels in this thing. I can already tell i'm going to enjoy this a lot more than Treme even if it is slightly generic.
― Number None, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm willing to bet it'll become less generic. Also, Scorsese's sort of allowed to be generic, he's Scorsese and he does it very well.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
renewed! after better than expected ratings.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 16:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
hmmm, that's pretty dicey after one episode.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 17:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
They were huge ratings. Even with the standard drop off it'll be sustainable. And the press has been huge; it already did its job for the network.
― She Got the Shakes, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
They renewed Treme after one episode iirc, and that seems a lot dicier.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 17:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Generic" or not, this blows Treme away.
― SourPatchCorpse, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 20:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
guess gus wont have 2 pay that annuity
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 00:57 (6 months ago) Permalink
Big explosion pretty ridiculous tbh but RIP Billie <3
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 01:08 (6 months ago) Permalink
Whole show pretty ridiculous tbh
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 12:27 (6 months ago) Permalink
I want an action figure of Gyp Rossetti in revolutionary general's hat.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 12 November 2012 13:31 (6 months ago) Permalink
this was a pretty fucking good episode.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:12 (6 months ago) Permalink
yea last 2 eps have really brought it
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 13:50 (6 months ago) Permalink
Don't think there's been a weak one this season.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 13:54 (6 months ago) Permalink
I didn't like the Easter one, sorry everyone
― kinder, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:13 (6 months ago) Permalink
trying to figure out how Nucky can win this one? whose forces can he marshal?
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 02:47 (6 months ago) Permalink
Presumably he can just take out Gyp and that'll be that.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 02:57 (6 months ago) Permalink
Mobilise Chalky White and that crazy fucking enforcer of his. They've not been in it enough recently. Hoping for more of them and Stephen Root's character if poss
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 17:52 (6 months ago) Permalink
I suspect the Northern Irish dude that's banging his wife is gonna eat lead but I could be wrong.
― aonghus, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 21:00 (6 months ago) Permalink
Only recently clocked that he's the guy from Stardust.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 23:36 (6 months ago) Permalink
ohhhhhhhhhh shit
yes
thank you
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 23:42 (6 months ago) Permalink
oh owen
― Gukbe, Monday, 19 November 2012 06:00 (5 months ago) Permalink
0_o
― slam dunk, Monday, 19 November 2012 08:43 (5 months ago) Permalink
This season is such a bloodbath.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 19 November 2012 13:53 (5 months ago) Permalink
finally caught up again
"oh dear" and "fuuuuuuck" are all I've got rn
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 02:18 (5 months ago) Permalink
want 2 believe mike shannon is so immersive that he really took that fork 2 the face
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 02:21 (5 months ago) Permalink
i was hoping he'd have a fork-holes wound
god that freakout in the prev ep was great. and how chill is his wife? whatta gal.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 02:30 (5 months ago) Permalink
i thought his eyeball was gonna pop clean out of his head at first!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 02:59 (5 months ago) Permalink
i am stoked for the finale. this episode was quality as hell.
― Gukbe, Monday, 26 November 2012 07:07 (5 months ago) Permalink
yeah it always is tedious at about episode 3/4/5, dunno why, then becomes brilliant again at the end of each season. they really need to focus on that next time around. each season i've stopped caring for weeks then watched a big bunch of the middle episodes when i've nothing else to watch, then by the end it's excellent again.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Monday, 26 November 2012 11:39 (5 months ago) Permalink
HARROW"S
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 26 November 2012 14:58 (5 months ago) Permalink
GONNA DO SOMETHING CRAZY!!
Sorry but Sunday's episode OWNED
― calstars, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 22:41 (5 months ago) Permalink
Surprised Van Alden was not in the episode. I think next week he and Harrow will face off.
― calstars, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 22:45 (5 months ago) Permalink
pun intended?
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 29 November 2012 05:11 (5 months ago) Permalink
Finale was meh except for Harrow going scarface
― calstars, Monday, 3 December 2012 03:35 (5 months ago) Permalink
I disagree. It was really good. Harrow always a joy though.
― Gukbe, Monday, 3 December 2012 05:32 (5 months ago) Permalink
It wasn't bad, but not quiet what I was hoping for.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 3 December 2012 13:30 (5 months ago) Permalink
Perfectly satisfying, though perhaps not as mindblowing as the build-up promised. I really didn't get all the ins and outs of the heroin sting.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 3 December 2012 14:26 (5 months ago) Permalink
Ya, me either. Does this mean Lucky is dead??
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 3 December 2012 14:47 (5 months ago) Permalink
did i miss van alden or was this ep van alden free?
lotta loose ends for next season.
also no idea why AC would help out nucky to turn on AR.
― s.clover, Monday, 3 December 2012 22:03 (5 months ago) Permalink
No Van Alden. Guessing he'll play a much bigger part in S4.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 3 December 2012 23:43 (5 months ago) Permalink
4 episodes in, totally sold on this
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 25 January 2013 19:10 (3 months ago) Permalink
midway through season 2 - agree there's some thematic depth lacking here (what this show is really "about" is not entirely clear to me) but it makes up for it with great characters and tight plotting. find all the central characters compelling in one way or another. and of course it looks great. all the historical figures and refs are handled in a kind of obvious DO YOU SEE way but they are also fun so whatevs.
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 18:41 (3 months ago) Permalink
In hindsight I think the third season of this show was the TV I enjoyed most last year.
― Windsor Davies, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 20:09 (3 months ago) Permalink
Third season took it to an unexpected new level, certainly.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 06:28 (3 months ago) Permalink