you guys are aware that don johnson has done lots of other acting since miami vice and nash bridges, no?
― akm, Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
also I guess this is a spoiler but he's not around for very long if his presence is a big issue for you
― akm, Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
i'm not weirded about by don johnson acting, it's the notion that one of the more forgettable filler series of the '90s should have the artistic legacy it does. it's like finding out that timothy van patten, star of "the master", is an acclaimed prestige director.
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
Nash Bridges might've been forgettable but Miami Vice was all-time
― umsworth (emsworth), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
most TV writing/directing lifers start out in crappy series' writers rooms. Or at least that used to be the trajectory.
― Simon H., Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
yeah I'm confused. what's weird about either a) lindelof having written for nash bridges early in his career or b) the star of nash bridges having a relatively small part in this tv show?
― xmas respecter (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
nothing
― akm, Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
except for people who don't understand how hollywood works
it's like finding out that timothy van patten, star of "the master", is an acclaimed prestige director.
omg how did I never make this connection before
thread delivers
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
i understand how hollywood works, i just don't work the same way
i get stirling silliphant, or if not him (he did think he wrote dozens of better scripts for "route 66") hollywood, would probably prefer to be remembered for "in the heat of the night" than for "the swarm" but it's still kind of fucked up that those scripts both came from the same pen.
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
Don Johnson was funny in Sick Note
― Bublé in the changer, I wish I was dead (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
Also who is "you guys"
― Bublé in the changer, I wish I was dead (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
I guess crockett retired and moved to this other universe where he’s still a cop but everything else is fucking weird?
― calstars, Thursday, 19 December 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
What happened here
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 20 December 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
As much as I loved Miami Vice, I always felt like he was such a non-presence as Crockett. Like, anybody could have filled that role. I think he was really good in this, and I also loved his short role in Eastbound & Down.
― beard papa, Friday, 20 December 2019 02:29 (four years ago) link
he was fun in knives out
― 525,600 gecs (voodoo chili), Friday, 20 December 2019 02:50 (four years ago) link
Don Johnson was iconic as Crockett!
― Nobody uses the phone anymore (morrisp), Friday, 20 December 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
Lol imagining Crockett ending up in fucking Tulsa
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 20 December 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
there's a miami in oklahoma! wouldn't even need to change the name of the show!
― i chop up the orange and chomp on the inside of it (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 December 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
the logical move now is for s2 of Watchmen to be set in Miami
― Simon H., Friday, 20 December 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
don johnson's imperial-phase cokey self-confidence has aged into a slightly worn charm that he's become pretty adept at using to play charismatic bastards at either end of the charisma / bastard spectrum, i'm always happy to see him tbh
― i chop up the orange and chomp on the inside of it (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 December 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
nash bridges is better than alan moore's watchmen
― mark s, Friday, 20 December 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
https://wiki.tarantino.info/images/thumb/CMpic.jpg/250px-CMpic.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 20 December 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
Looking Glass pulls his speeding car over to ask his ex-wife if she ever really loved him
― Bublé in the changer, I wish I was dead (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 December 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
The first half of the series was considerably better than the second half, the more I think about it.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 20 December 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
since ep 6 was in the second half I'd disagree, but first 2/3rds was better is true.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 20 December 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
6 + 8 were my overall favorites even if I think the Manhattan plot overall distracted from the more intriguing stuff in the first half
― Simon H., Friday, 20 December 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
Agree. Show lost me when it became an exposition fest. Tho the penultimate episode was good
― Bublé in the changer, I wish I was dead (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 December 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
I'm still hung up on it not being 12 eps, so imo #6 still feels like the halfway point to me. Maybe it's because they were still taking their time up to that point, with easily 5 eps of material cut down into 3 for the final act. Anyway, this was overall far better than it had any right to be. It was overall a pleasant discovery.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 20 December 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
I want a Dr Manhattan toilet
― Bublé in the changer, I wish I was dead (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 December 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
Show was very compelling throughout, a lot better than the mediocre film obv.
The playing around with time was very clever, obv the hooded justice episode employed it well in a more direct way but the Manhattan reveal episode did it remarkably well.
Don Johnson’s presence was key I think because he sauntered through the episode like a born leader, very charismatic, a beloved figure, we’re invited to like him, and the twist of course is he’s one who slowly turns into this malignant presence after his death. Johnson is a very good actor and always has been, his skills have been employed in some pap but he’s got the goods. The cyclops leadership getting cooked at the end was of course very satisfying.
It was a show to get immersed in and might bear rescreening though it was difficult to watch at times; it doesn’t shy away from the particularly specific American strain of ugliness that is built into the country’s dna.
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 02:17 (four years ago) link
seeing rumblings that HBO doesn't want to do a s2 without Lindelof which if true is ohhhhhhh the irony lmao
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 January 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
HBO won't pursue second season of 'Watchmen' after creator bows out
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/01/16/watchmen-second-hbo-season-wont-happen-after-creator-bails/4491269002/
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Thursday, 16 January 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link
Creator
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 January 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
they forgot the scare quotes
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 January 2020 23:18 (four years ago) link
hbo should bring in someone else to do season 2 against lindelof’s wishes
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 16 January 2020 23:36 (four years ago) link
you mean like Alan Moore?
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 January 2020 23:38 (four years ago) link
don't think Moore would be interested
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 16 January 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
Xpost man you love spoiling joeks don't u
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 January 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
Lindelof has already "given" his "blessing" to do future seasons without him, so AT&T are being perfectly consistent in cancelling it
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Thursday, 16 January 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
this is a major bummer. show was so good. but maybe this prevents it from inevitable decline.
― akm, Friday, 17 January 2020 02:26 (four years ago) link
enh I still think he'll do it a couple years down the line
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 17 January 2020 02:43 (four years ago) link
Still think the finale was very disappointing, but not in a series-destroying way.
Really the worst lapse taste was that rawk cover of I am the walrus at the very end. A truly horrible decision
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 17 January 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
that was spooky tooth!
― akm, Friday, 17 January 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
i was repeatedly surprised by this and liked it quite a bit up thru and culminating w the hooded justice ep, but as a corny dr. manhattan bro who loves a dr. manhattan performance was also waiting excitedly the whole time for dr. manhattan to appear. loved the reveal of dr. manhattan and texted tolerant friends screenshots all thru the dr. manhattan episode. then the show plummeted straight off a cliff as a direct result of the presence of dr. manhattan, like he was an anvil it had been tied to. if alan moore did curse the show that was the curse.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 17 January 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
i don't blame the actor who played him here but Manhattan was pretty boring.
i guess that one mystery character they showed one, slippery pete or whatever he was called, the guy in the outfit going down the sewer drain...we'll never have any idea who that guy was.
― omar little, Friday, 17 January 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
maybe my irony detector is broken, but the ancillary materials made clear/explicit it was the agent
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 17 January 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
yes, petey is lubeman, this is canon
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 17 January 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it was canonically confirmed via the Peteypedia entry after the last episode.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 17 January 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
slippery pete was a coincidental joke name that i now see was eerily accurate
― omar little, Friday, 17 January 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link