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

first episode was pretty good; show is mostly people mumbling and then going to sleep

Caught up now. Genuinely moving episode.

Also it took place over two days. I was all 'wtf milch'.

Yeah I loved the last one, no stakes-raising, just quiet moments getting to know a bunch of the characters better. Richard Kind is killing it.

SYNTAX

you knew that claim wasn't going to work out but I'm glad they didn't kill off the horse

http://skreened.com/render-product/c/y/w/cywakgayiuaeasvfvizv/image.w174h200f3.jpg

their stable design is p sweet

was i just in a bad mood or was this the worst episode?

it was cool seeing the prisoners w/ horses farm though.

bad mood imo

They've shut down production on Season 2 because a third horse died.

well, they've suspended filming with horses

right the way I understood is not filming racing scenes but can film the actors

the latest death seems like bad luck. the horse reared, flipped, and hit its head while being led by a groom. didn't happen on set but it was a horse slated to be used on set.

I don't know much about the circumstances behind the two horses that died filming season 1.

they should retool the show, make it about racing speedboats instead.

Luck, brought to you by Elmer's

or they could make it brechtian and just have dudes wearing horse suits running around the track.

xpost LOL shit

Release from HBO:: "David Milch and Michael Mann together with HBO have decided to cease all future production on the series LUCK"

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^long face

fuuuuuuuuuck

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-cancels-luck-horse-death-peta-dustin-hoffman-300201

Woah.

Nelly.

http://cordjefferson.tumblr.com/post/19312807665/hbo-ends-luck-after-horse-deaths

http://rlv.zcache.com/vintage_horse_horseshoe_greeting_card-p137217590912012058z7suj_400.jpg

The smug reaction to this on twitter is making me so furious.

Is there any sense of how far they got into shooting season two?

Poor Milch.

the thought of ~lost episodes~ is already killing me

hbo was probably willing to stick by this no matter how bad the ratings or reviews were, but when the only publicity around your show is that you're killing horses en masse... i guess this was a sad inevitability. hope milch moves onto something new and cool

the horse racing scenes were srsly the best part of the show

PETA is gonna be so smug about this

this is why we can't have nice things.

Here is this show that actually treats animals as characters in its show, giving you a sense of the connection a person can have with an animal. The poetry of the little tasks that comprise working with them on a day to day basis. There was a strong undercurrent of advocacy for animal rights in the show's themes and presentation, I thought. But now it's gone, probably to be replaced with another show about sexy vampires or whatev.

Is there any sense of how far they got into shooting season two?

two episodes in the can is what I've heard

yeah polyphonic, that's a seeming contradiction I've been thinking about a lot since those first two forses died. everything about this situation stnks.

how many horses die at santa anita every year when they're not making a tv show?

glad I never got beyond the pilot. maybe milch should go and finish fucking deadwood now.

can't wait for this to live on in comic book form

RIP to the three heroic horses who saved us from season 2

^^^FPable offensive imo

glad I never got beyond the pilot. maybe milch should go and finish fucking deadwood now.

― akm, Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:08 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is never, ever going to happen, unfortunately.

can't wait for this to live on in comic book form

― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:25 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ pretty LOL

I really want to know what happend to Last of the Ninth.

how many horses die at santa anita every year when they're not making a tv show?

― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 15 March 2012 02:38 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf it's a jump course but 5 horses have died at cheltenham festival already this year (we're two days in)

what I'm wondering is how many (if any) horses died filming Seabiscuit, Secretariat, War Horse etc.

part of Seabiscuit was shot at Santa Anita

thought this column on Huff Post was pretty good

How incredible, and ultimately poignant, that 'Luck' made me care about the show's animals as much as it made me care about the ragged people in that downtrodden world. ... Because Milch and fellow executive producer Michael Mann were so wonderful at making these horses come alive as individuals, it's even harder now to contemplate them dying for the sake of art, as magical as that art might be.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maureen-ryan/luck-canceled_b_1346256.html?ref=tw

They should just start shooting again with exclusively CGI horses.

you gotta wonder how many horses have been killed on that hipster favourite "my little pony" cartoon, and nobody talks about that

That was CGI iirc.

don't think so

You just couldn't tell, the CGI was that good.