Glenn Close But Yet So Far: Spooky Legal Thriller "Damages" (Rose Byrne Also Dwelleth Here)

god that was a long post, my apologies

I don't mean to slag the show by being all, "it's dumber than the Wire" or anything... I just meant that maybe that's one reason why this show hasn't tapped into that 'don't watch anything but intelligent cable dramas' crowd that seem to support shows like Breaking Bad.

No, it was a good post - not too long at all! I don't have time to respond to all of it, but I'll try to get on later. I agree with most of your points anyway, though. It's sad to hear that this show is probably dying.

http://www.talkingtoyourselfbook.com/uploads/1/7/0/2/1702575/7361888.jpg

Apparently DirecTV might try to pick up the show and share half the costs with FX, the way they did with Friday Night Lights. I hope they do, as I really do not want this to be the last season.

I don't know a single person who has kept up with Friday Night Lights since they did that, but at least it is still on the air, I guess.

Just realized that the Antiguan crook is Brother Mouzone from The Wire. Mind blown.

1/2 of the cast are wire alums

Turns out Lily Tomlin is one cold-blooded character, huh? That scene w/her and Campbell Scott was great.

i had a feeling they had something good cooking for her, since she was pretty important in the first few episodes and then disappeared for a while

Also, I literally LOLed when they were doing the table read for the Frobisher movie and the dude started doing the Zeljko Ivanek drawl. That was amazing.

I'm so behind on this season.

gotta say i don't think it's as good as the last two...

too serious somehow, and a bit slow

but i liked the second season, possibly even more than the first

then again i watched both of the earlier ones on dvd over a weekend, which might be a better way to do it

hope it does get rescued as is rumoured

everything's so close - so psyched for the finale!

btw, i love how completely fucked Jill is (the mother of Patty's future grandchild) and how she really has NO CLUE the kind of revenge she's in for

also campbell scott perfectly getting crazier and more evil with every appearance, even as his scenes get briefer

everybody knows that this show is over everybody knows the finale was trash

trash? no way. it was more or less the same kind of finale we get every year, which was great

on top of that it's a nice series finale if it doesn't come back

meh it failed to resolve the timeline & the plot resolutions were rushed and nonsensical. final scene was dope tho

Timeline seemed pretty resolved to me. In particular, Tom's actual murder and the bridge suicide red herring were pretty unexpected and well handled. Also, for once, the angle with Patty's son wasn't a complete misdirection!

The only part I was waiting for that wasn't quite explained totally or left out was when Ellen went to Tom's wife and asked her "Who else knew about me and Tom?" when it was still being implied that they were either having an affair or were going to open a practice together, I don't quite get that one. My only guess is that it had something to do with the final evidence that Ellen eventually retrieved from the awesome hobo.

I wish they'd gotten a full two hours instead of 90 minutes - it was a little rushed - but the pieces still came together.

my biggest eyeroll.gif was michael knowing by magic exactly where his momz was at so he could hit her with the car he stole i mean

re: timeline idk i couldnt really get a grip on what was happening relative to anything else - when was ellen @ the station when did tom die (b4 or after mama tobin? i guess it doesnt matter) how did tom get home w/ those stab wounds & why was joe @ is apt in the 1st place? idk feels like none of it really held 2gether imo. & usually theres more of a coda that resolves shit? also didnt really understand cowboy cop wanting to get revenge against frobz like the scene with the dead doc was really good couldve left it @ that.

Michael didn't know by magic, he knew Ellen was supposed to meet Patty back at her own apartment because Ellen just told him a few minutes earlier. Alternatively, he figured she was coming back from the police station after talking with Jill.

Ellen was at the police station after Tom died, she got called in when they found her ID in the bloody purse (from the dumpster with Tom's body). Tom died presumably while Ellen was stranded after Michael stole her car.

Tom crawling home with the stab wounds was purely for dramatic effect, when he could have simply called 911 instead - but he had just been kicked out of his home a few days ago and was desperate to see his wife and kids again. (Also, the stab wounds were bad, but they were also from a pen knife - not necessarily fatal, and I'm don't think Zedek's goon really was trying to kill him, just torture him for information.)

Joe was at Tom's apartment because he was drunk and believed that Lenny had just made a deal for testimony with him, and wanted revenge - really liked that all of those "Joe makes really bad decisions when he's drunk" storylines lead up to this.

i will miss u, rose byrne

is this show cancelled then?

yeah, it's off fx and nobody else has picked it up

I finally got around to checking out the final two episodes, and I have to say that it was probably time for this show to die. Each season got a little bit worse imo.

my biggest eyeroll.gif was michael knowing by magic exactly where his momz was at so he could hit her with the car he stole i mean

I think I said, "Oh brother!" aloud when this was revealed - even though I kind of knew it was coming, but hoping it wouldn't. :-/

the finale was p bad

i didn't think the season was a total bust by any means

but i think they erred taking ellen too far away from patty, and there were other problems

rose byrne is doing a paul feig movie w. kirsten wiig... that's kind of irrelevant, i just like rose byrne is all

she makes me swoon

she's also got a prominent role in the sure-to-be-awful Get Him to the Greek

im an apatow stan so im hoping to like it. idea of byrne doing comedy kinda incongruous after three seasons of "damages".

rose bryne is crazy pretty. hard 2 img her doing comedy cuz she nvr really appears to be human but well see

she is sickeningly thin. hope she's ok.

sorry, "sickening" was mean

I've finally got around to watching s3 and watched it over the space of about 1 week. It was fantastic! I love how it was scaled down compared to s2 but still so intense. Plus, a lot of s2 hinged on you thinking Ellen shot Patty in the flashforwards when that was just a big trick, and I hate when they pull that shit, but they only did it a few times here (like Alex's "conjugal visit", the implication that Ellen & Tom get together). They took it too far in s2, so it was like in 24, if you don't see someone actually die then you can assume they're still around somewhere - in Damages if you don't see something explicitly said or done, you can assume what they're implying is leading you up the garden path.

I even got over the weirdness of Martin "Shoot me, Dragon!" Short being a serious character - he was so good in this. I hope the slightly rushed Ted Danson comeuppance doesn't mean this is over for good?

probably. no news on the DirectTV talks lately, so it's likely dead... at least they were nice enough to give us a legit series ending (that doesn't preclude killing a possible fourth season)

I can finally open this thread without fear of spoilers now the final episode has been shown in Britain. I thought it was great and I can't believe it had low and falling ratings in the USA. They should definitely call it a day though rather than try to find someone to take on a fourth series.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/fxs-damages-saved-by-directtv-deal-drama-going-to-satcaster-for-seasons-45/

well now

yes!

shoulda saved Party Down instead. certainly way cheaper to produce, plus they might not have marketed it so crappily.

just watched the first two seasons of this in about... 5 days. one of the best things i've seen on tv, ever.

the scene in s1, close sitting on the beach chair at her summer house after she gets off the phone with uncle pete, and she starts crying - did anyone else find that incredibly unsettling/disturbing?? it was one of the repetitive flash scenes, and after the first couple of times i found myself looking away bc it was so unbearable. amazing acting.

yeah, i loved that bit - they keep you guessing about the context all season and it's still a rattling image

watching season 2 now. 1 episode left. all in all a good season, although it starts slow and only picks the pace up at episode 6 or 7. one thing i don't like is the casting. why did they use such comical/cliched bad guys? also, the 2 FBI guys look too dumb to be FBI guys.

just started watching this (season 1) off netflix last night, it is awesome and kind of addictive popcorn tv (by which I mean, you run through four or five episodes, one bad of popcorn, realize it is 1am and stumble off to bed)

new series in a few days

? not til July I thought

this says weds: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914387/episodes#season-4

that might be based on a confusing wikipedia article which basically said this:
http://www.poptower.com/news-22685/damages-season-4-directtv-premiere.htm

Can't find owt in the TV listings either :(

directtv is running this from the beginning and acting like it's a new series, which was confusing.

i can't read this thread because i'm still watching s1 but goddamn this show is good

the scene where ted danson goes to his ghostwriter's apartment, gets in an argument with him, punches him in the nose, and in the next scene is typing "MY LIFE" on a computer, it's like he's crossing over to his character from Bored to Death

still can't read this thread

watched all of s1 over the weekend. i think we watched five episodes in a row on friday night. so good. also so many character actors that you recognize from other things.

Yeah, Season 1 of this show is perfect - definitely one of my favorite TV shows. Seasons 2 & 3 aren't quiet as good, but they're still excellent - any news on Season 4? When is that supposed to start?

is season 4 a real thing? omg i will lose my shit!!!