Patriot on Amazon Prime: Let me Walk You Through Our Donnely Nut Spacing

would you believe they're STILL making that podcast?
https://www.lgclaret.com/podcast/episode/37e0a001/episode-six-the-caracas-blackouts

hahahaha awesome

Started watching the show this week, inspired by the revive (I'd never heard of it) - thank you ILE!

Four episodes in and loving this. Michael Dorman may have the most amazing face since yesterday’s birthday boy Buster Keaton.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4OK83DW4AYVEie.jpg

Think about 'Afternoon Spray' a lot. I really should rewatch this.

Still need to tell my story about the other guy there.

Getting towards the end of S1. The ladies just shared a rental car from the airport. It’s kind of amazing to me how despite the quirkiness it’s really well plotted and paced so that I am pretty much constantly on the edge of my seat. Now Leslie is making his speech about the sun and the planets.

Man, Leslie is as misanthropic as a Jim Thompson sheriff.

It also has one of the more indelibly brilliant, if unknowable female leads on television.
Rochambeau?

I know how you feel. You’re just human. “Hello, club member.”

TS glass blower vs. puppeteer

On to Season Two.

And now on the far side of The Vantasner Danger Meridian.

Re the beef with greg12: the original lyrics of "Pancho and Lefty" say "only let him hang around" in the first chorus and later on it's "go so wrong" instead of "go so long" is that it? It's not just Willie and Merle though, also Emmylou Harris which is maybe who they heard it from iirc.

Not sure what I can watch next that can measure up to this.

amazing
https://www.newtechniquesinmodernpracticalclosecombat.com/

pretty good show

Double good imo

I'm three episodes into this show and enjoying it a lot. It has a weird admixture of vibes - my friend described it to me as "Wes Anderson does James Bond" which put me off it for a while. It has higher stakes for me than any Wes Anderson movie, though I can see where he gets that vibe. The opening in S1 E3 detailing Leslie's backstory is such a punch. I feel like things are converging toward an epic fuckup.

Epic fuck ups incoming. Such a great show. One by one we’ll get everyone to see it.

your friend isn't wrong necessarily but i would sidestep wes anderson in favor of maybe like The Daniels

(and yes, "epic fuckup" is actually underselling what's coming)

There's a lot about this show that I love and am impressed by but, as time goes by, I think I'm most impressed by how much it coasts on pure chutzpah. Like they give zero fucks about how anything (CIA operations, industrial piping, international criminal investigations, etc.) actually works in real life. They whipped up total nonsense that sounded good and committed to it 100%. It's all just window dressing for the real themes of the show anyway so why not.

The conference talk might be my favorite scene from any show ever

omghfs Kurtwood Smith in this

(just finished S01E03)

He only gets better.

We’re ready to start S2. Great show.

Here is my promised story about the co-composer of “Afternoon Spray.”

Once evening I got text from a friend saying: “James Redd, do you know who Syd Straw is?”

Which of course is like asking a question about a bear or a pope.

My friend proceeded to tell me that he had recently met her at a dinner party and that she had told a story about her significant other, Boone, who played a tough guy on a television show (Sons of Anarchy?) and kind of had that look when he was out and about in real life so people were constantly challenging him to fights.

Which I knew about first hand since one day I had a meeting with Paul Lukas of Uni Watch about something at the Grandaisy Bakery near the Holland Tunnel. I noticed that Syd Straw was sitting there with some guy in a bowling shirt who seemed to be scowling at me. I told her I recognized her and said hello and she introduced me to her friend Boone.

So I really appreciated his teddy bear quality in this.

Finally finished Season 2 of Patriot and honestly thought it was a bit of a slog. Not nearly up to the

Complaints included:

-The need to bring back every S1 minor character for brief and inconsequential cameos.
-John turning even more into The Terminator, ignoring multiple major wounds, etc. This was carried over from S1, but was just over the top in S2.
-Continued pulled football where you think John/Tom are going to have a moment where they realize what all this is doing to John, but nothing ever comes of it. Nothing.
-Why are we supposed to care about John in the end? Because he sings bad twee songs? He is a terrible person, especially terrible to his wife (like actually emotionally abusive).

Is the show just an allegory about American interventionism?

Second sentence should read: Not nearly up to the level of S1 (or at least S1 exhausted everything the show had).

Also, Leslie way more interesting character than John. I want the Leslie Claret show.

These are all fair points.