Luck: HBO series: David Milch, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Mann

original idea was to include the historical flood and fire that each destroyed the town and other wild shit - iirc hbo canceled it then changed their mind but milch was already working on that piece john from cinini so he was gonna do two movie length eps then that never happened neither - agreed it couldve been more compelling if he didnt worry abt historical feality

Yeah, I could've dealt with season 3 ending the way it did if I knew there was more coming, but for that to just be IT - eugh

can we go easy on the deadwood details? planning to watch it at xmas.

guys caek still hasnt seen star wars so just chill

yeah i mean you can talk about star wars vs. beverly hills buntz in generalities but please no details

SPOLIER bullock and swerengen get gay married final ep is their honeymoon in CINCINNATI

Dan VS The Captain was one of the most intense things i've ever seen in a drama. Kinda feel like rewatching deadwood again now!

the season 1 veronica mars shit was the coldest shit i've ever seen

the movie length pieces never ever ever happening + john in cinci being difficult to justify really soured me on deadwood in retrospect.

kind of surprised major #teamolyphant bro s1ocki has not seen s2-3

i dont like frowny deadwood/diehard olyphant

i accidentally wrote that in caps, shoulda left it like that

sardonic justified olyphant is better though i always liked the fact that in deadwood his character was pretty much insane

ya i like olyphant with a lil twinkle in his eye

he was really good in 'the crazies' too imo though that movie was kinda bullshit

the season 1 veronica mars shit was the coldest shit i've ever seen

― omar little, Saturday, October 30, 2010 2:18 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

I had to think about this for a minutebefore I realized it wasn't a non sequitur! I think that was the first time I ever noticed Kristen Bell, and yeah that episode was amazing IMO.

That ep is vital, too, because it marks a real shift in the show. I've told lots of folks on the fence about Deadwood after one or two eps to make it to the Kristen Bell ep, which really emphasizes the show's theme of degrees of evil. Like there;s evil, then there's evil so evil it makes the first evil only seem modestly evil.

ha totally, at 1st yr all this swerengn fellow is quite awful, by the end hes a saint in comparison

i always liked the fact that in deadwood his character was pretty much insane

― omar little, Saturday, October 30, 2010 2:29 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its a more realistic view of a moralist than usual 4 sure

Yeah when he's introduced you're just like oh here's our squarejawed noble hero, but eventually it just turns out that he's a bully and a dickhead?

and awesome

Deadwood is def my fave show ever. Please do not compare it to Boardwalk Empire.

Joan Allen has joined for an arc.

The challenges of filming at Santa Anita.

Despite some logistical challenges and ensuing "mental stress," HBO is "thrilled beyond belief" to be filming the high-profile drama at Santa Anita, said Henry Bronchtein, the co-executive producer of "Luck."

looking forward to this getting cancelled in the middle of the story

Milch on Zenyatta and the Breeders' Cup Classic
http://www.drf.com/news/final-and-deepest-gift-zenyatta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4cgvV9m6mE

Michael Gambon on board as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8yOQJ288GQ&feature=player_embedded

yeah that looks frickin sweet

it'll be nice to see hoffman doing something substantial again

Wow--nice.

this looks awesome

"i cast tom waits as nick nolte as a kentucky trainer with a lot of mileage in his past"

horse riding sequence looked surprisingly exciting. also I think I spotted a very Mann-ish chair-kicking shot.

sorta feel like this and treme's second season might force my hand to get hbo finally

lol you watch treme

not lol. no lols. stern serious lectures you watch treme.

this board's derision for treme mystifies me but hey ymmv

I don't think it was just this board

yeah i guess there was the boston herald too
http://www.metacritic.com/tv/treme/season-1/critic-reviews

yes a lot of critics gave treme As when it came out

If they still liked it when the season ended I dunno, but few pro critics were like "I shit on this show about New Orleans from the Wire guy" when it came out

Treme is great.

I didn't actually mean critics though. I don't know anyone irl who liked it and a lot of people who strongly disliked it.

i don't really talk to anybody irl about television tbh

Unfortunately 90% of my conversations are pop-culture based

i'm not saying that with any pride btw, it's just that most of my friends watch different tv than i like
and i can't see chatting up the work folks with "that modern family is a SCREAM, rite?"

My father-in-law liked it but he's a professional musician who has probably skipped out of many cab fares in his day so I think he's biased

Treme is great. suckers walked into it expecting The Wire set in New Orleans and got mad that it was a different show.