there are NINE seasons, and these are oldschool 20+ episode seasons so lotsi’ve been watching t0rrentzed eps up til now and am two seasons in. thank god theyre on prime now, much better quality. it’s fun nostalgia but def prepare yourself for a lotta corny, HEAVY jesus messaging. especially the Landon-directed eps: pure christian cheesei forgot how bad it was. me, i’m in for the long haul bcz i am dying to see my childhood faves1) When Mary goes blind2) Albert morphine addiction 2 parter
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 March 2019 04:12 (five years ago) link
there’s one episode I recall called I believeTHE LEGACY or something which begins with a flash forward to the present day with a woman buying an old piece of furniture and wondering about who made it and then we flash back and at the end of the episode we realize Pa Ingalls made it and then we flash back again to the woman loading up the furniture to take it home. Like that was the only legacy he’d left behind other than his family or something, this one thing he’d made that was around over one hundred years later.
― omar little, Saturday, 9 March 2019 04:29 (five years ago) link
lol that sounds very true to LHOTPone thing is very clear to me already: Pa Ingalls SUCKS as a farmer
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 March 2019 04:31 (five years ago) link
I went to LA and up to Thousand Oaks before Christmas and seeing the landscape kept making me think “it’s walnut grove, Minnesota!” and “it’s Hazzard County!” and “it’s South Korea!”.
― joygoat, Saturday, 9 March 2019 14:00 (five years ago) link
haha
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 March 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
I just watched the first episode of Hannibal based on recommendations in this thread from people I trust. Mads is luscious but I can't imagine being able to watch much more of Hugh Jackman Dancy as ripped Det. Goren, does he get killed off pretty soon I hope?
― mick signals, Saturday, 9 March 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
lol that’s a no
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 March 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
would like to see Hettienne Park in more things, after Hannibal she's only appeared in a few shows, mostly in guest roles.
― omar little, Saturday, 9 March 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
i can more or less assure you that Dancy warms on you over time
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
idk i find dancy great in hannibal from the jump
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
same
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 March 2019 21:18 (five years ago) link
i like him too. He is a great american pedant because of his inherent britishness. I kept thinking he left a pregnant mary louise parker for claire danes and then realized i confused him with crudup.
― Yerac, Sunday, 10 March 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link
I have one episode left in season 2 of Hannibal. I started calling it Wine Face because of the opening credits.
― Yerac, Monday, 11 March 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link
I have the opening credits music stuck in my head now
waaaahhooooooooaaaaawwww
― mh, Monday, 11 March 2019 14:24 (five years ago) link
I envy any of you watching Hannibal for the first time.
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 03:26 (five years ago) link
I started reading the Hannibal thread up to the end of season 2 (finished it last night) and I don't know how I didn't know about this show when it was on, I somehow blocked it out. In the thread people reference Dexter and The Office still being on and I am like, where was I ??? I dunno. I didn't ever have cable or regular tv but I still streamed a lot. I have never watched any of those ncis csi police law and order types of shows so maybe I just lumped it in there.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:17 (five years ago) link
that's why it got cancelled
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:36 (five years ago) link
Crudup left Mary Louise Parker for Claire Danes. Danes is now married to Dancy.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
the ongoing career of billy crudup is one of those unfathomable mysteries, not least because of his personal-life shitheadery
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
Apparently Dancy is as much an asshole as Billy is.
― nathom, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
Finally finished russian doll. This series was written for me. Husband got uncomfortable when I started yapping away ab how fantastic it is. Lol
― nathom, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
The network more or less threw Hannibal away after the first season and pretty seriously threw it away for the last season... i think they aired it at like 10pmEST?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
well you can't show stuff like that earlier in the night
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
I think it always aired at that time? 8pm central isn't really a Hannibal time slot
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
iirc CSI was (nearly?) always a 10 eastern/9 central show and it only approached Hannibal levels of gore on occasion
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
yeah but it was on a saturday slot! nobody is watching this at 10 on a saturday!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
i guess if this was on today it would be on Starz and would be equally inaccessible. it's niche stuff!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
if the violence in Hannibal was in a film it would be a hard R, i was pretty surprised the first time i saw it.
― omar little, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
yeah pretty much everything that happens to mason verger would rank among the most grotesque violence in any tv show, not just network tv
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
it's all conveniently shown barely offscreen
our broadcast standards are pretty messed up in that you can do nearly anything as long as it's not directly shown
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
did hannibal come out around the same time that GoT started really owning television? I think NBC was willing to take a risk with standards and practices to try to compete with pay cable with this and it didn't really pan out so we get This Is Us instead.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
it ran 2013 - 2015 and apparently GoT started in 2011, so.. maybe?
objectively this makes sense, but having just started watching GoT a couple months ago, I'm having trouble mentally reconciling it
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
Supporting evidence:https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/game-of-thrones-hannibal-do-we-need-so-much-shock-and-gore-on-tv-30287064.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
I am constantly surprised at how popular GoT is. I read all the books before the series came out (they were ok) but half of the episodes put me into 20 minute nap mode where I wake up just in time for the ending.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
I kinda think Hannibal is just one of those deeply weird things that happens from time to time. Serial killers were in, known properties were in, NBC was in crisis and nobody watched anything anyway, and a tv-show was able to survive if it had a niche audience and a good co-production deal. And all of a sudden you get three seasons of Hannibal. I really think tv is the medium with the biggest amount of crap, and the largest space for weird art to pop up all of a sudden.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
I'm kind of tempted. It's 12 quid for the whole thing on Amazon, a pound per disc.
― koogs, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
itt i learned about hannibal the series
guess i'll check it out
― gbx, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
would highly recommend that, if you have a television or viewing device that's modern era, making sure you watch it in high definition
I have no idea if it was just the imagery of the series that made me pay attention to detail or if more detail was taken in filming (suspecting both) but it looked absolutely amazing in high definition
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 19:52 (five years ago) link
guessing that someone with a giganic home screen could chime in and complain/praise the 4k transfer if such a thing exists
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
I kinda think Hannibal is just one of those deeply weird things that happens from time to time. Serial killers were in, known properties were in, NBC was in crisis and nobody watched anything anyway
That reminds me that during the '07-'08 writers strike, CBS (IIRC) was reduced to airing sanitized Dexter reruns as filler programming.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
Hannibal, eh? Maybe it's time. I taught Psychology to a girl last year who said that Hannibal was what got her into it. Like others I kind of assumed it was a regular crime thriller show, but I didn't expect to see you all going so crazy about it.
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Friday, 15 March 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
The third season is getting so silly. Delicatessen. Even the snails.
― Yerac, Friday, 15 March 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
yeah, that first episode is amazing. third season is much more out of control but it pays off.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 March 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
Just finished Dirty John
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 15 March 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
i liked the podcast but was kinda lukewarm on the show & didnt finish it. did you like it?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 March 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
Has anyone who is lamenting the cancellation of One Day At A Time actually watched the last two seasons? Rita Moreno continues to be hilarious, but everyone else is just so cringeworthy, and the relentless, clumsy shoehorning of wokeness (are hoarders really a protected class now?) into every episode got pretty old.
― DJI, Friday, 15 March 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link
Xp
Never got round to the podcast. I thought the show was ... well, I really enjoyed it. It was pretty low rent and over dramatic, and I think it would have been better to do a more realist take on it, but: the whole story was so fucked up I really liked it anyway and clapped when the younger daughter has her moment of glory at the end.
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 16 March 2019 00:54 (five years ago) link
It was also a vastly better depiction of the stalker trope than 'You', a show which made me feel a bit sick
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 16 March 2019 00:55 (five years ago) link
Any love for After Life? Love Gervais and he’s great in this
― calstars, Saturday, 16 March 2019 02:49 (five years ago) link
I saw a Roy Chubby Brown tweet praising it and that confirmed me in my descion to avoid it like the plague.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 16 March 2019 02:51 (five years ago) link