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I wanted to watch the Returned but now ILX tells me it has a cryptic ending because there was supposed to be another season. Is this going to be endlessly frustrating?

I'd like to return to the returned.

so few shows have satisfying closers, I try not to use that as a factor in watching

This is a "village" where everyone knows each other but there are multi-story apartment buildings and a bus system? France, man.

Series 2 airs this year, iirc. It's not like it was cancelled before they had a chance to resolve things.

i think they pushed back filming ssn 2 to 2015. the French and their vacations.

i started watching Lonesome Dove last night.
I love Tommy Lee Jones, fyi.

lonesome dove is incredible. kind of a pioneer (lol?) in kinda grim and violent tv as well

oh man I love lonesome dove

I thought the implication was that it was cancelled before it's time. Good to know it'll have a second season, which will no doubt end with satisfying closure.

Whatever, this show is THE CREEPSIEST.

i do like it, im saying i thought it was unsatisfying because i assumed it was the end of the series—didnt realize there was more to come

maybe. there were two episodes more than their should have been. i'm worried about the sustainability of the creepy; feel like the mystery's getting explained away and stretched too thing.

I would actually be completely satisified if the eight current episodes were the series total, but I'll watch more if they make it, that's for damn sure.

I like the Returned so much it actually kind of made me want to watch the 4400! But I shouldn't, right?

The first season or two of the 4400 isn't bad for basic cable sci-fi, then it went off the rails.

Things on my list expiring 4/1:

Nell
American Gigolo
The Dead
Mommie Dearest
Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007
Farewell to the King
The Van

I haven't seen any of these.

So The Returned is the French TV show version of the movie They Came Back?

Yes, they carry the same title in France. The TV show is meant to be much better (i haven't seen the film).

I watched the first episode last night. Thought it was pretty great.

The Punk Singer (Kathleen Hanna doc) is up

Oh nice.

All the adult women on The Returned have really small breasts and never wear bras. It's weirdly specific.

sold!
j/k

haha

I've been watching a lot of Oddities lately. US shows that last twenty minutes when the adverts are taken out are dangerously easy to keep watching back to back. It's a Science Channel programme about Obscura, a weird antiques shop in NYC.

Highlights so far include a guy from New Jersey who'd accidentally ended up buying an Nganga as part of a storage lot auction.

most/all of the situations on that show are setup/scripted but you still see some neat stuff; i deploy the fast-forward button liberally

the steve jobs movie with ashton kutcher in it is on this apparently

so there's your friday night plans

A high school friend was on Oddities (steampunk goggles). He came off like a dick (not inaccurate iirc) and I loled at his Jimmy Cagney accent - dude lived in suburban Texas for his first 19 years.

Chaki was on the San Francisco spin-off.

^season 2 (not yet on netflix)

aah. Couldn't remember which season. I find the SF one a chore, so I haven't paid particular attention.

A high school friend was on Oddities (steampunk goggles). He came off like a dick (not inaccurate iirc) and I loled at his Jimmy Cagney accent - dude lived in suburban Texas for his first 19 years.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, March 28, 2014 6:34 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ i wonder if i know this guy -- does he work in a cigar store now?

It's obviously occasional ILMer speculator. Steampunk a dead giveaway ;)

^^ i wonder if i know this guy -- does he work in a cigar store now?

He's that breed of American soccer fan who cosplays British soccer nut, down to an Arsenal tattoo on his neck.

Does Thomas die horribly? Can it please be soon?

"All the adult women on The Returned have really small breasts and never wear bras. It's weirdly specific."

they are french

Just finished watching The Returned. Thought it was really, truly great for the first six episodes but I'm not sure I'm entirely convinced by the direction of the last couple. I definitely want to know where they go from here, though. I also wish Mogwai had written a few more music cues - I really liked their score, but it got a bit repetitive by the end.

Also, I can think of at least four or five scenes where bras are in evidence!

The Punk Singer (Kathleen Hanna doc) is up

This is great.

"All the adult women on The Returned have really small breasts and never wear bras. It's weirdly specific."

they are french

'masters of sex' is like this too, you see some eventually but for a while you're like, what up 50s, underwear shortage from the war or what

just watched Crazy Love, which is classified as a "romantic movie"

what. the. fuck.

so glad i didn't know anything about this story going into it.

A twist!

a double twist, even!

I wish I could like The Returned! I found it totally boring/interminable/frustrating.

adam did you watch the end of the world movie set in the u.k. that is like an arty twilight with no vampires? i kinda liked it. not really the end of the world i guess. more like semi-wwIII or something. this is how we are now. or this is what we do now or this is something something. has some cool moments.

How We Live Now.

How I Live Now, rather.

Just watched Anatomy of a Seduction, a 1978 May-December romance starring Rita Moreno (although she was the mom of the younger man, not the woman having the affair). It was possibly better than the one starring Yvette Mimieux. Suuuuuper cheesy and enjoyable music/production values.

I thought How I Live Now was a pretty effective nightmare scenario movie with decent acting by kids. It got a bit corny trying to convey the protagonist's dreams etc, but generally well thought out and executed. A little more grounded than the Hunger Games etc.