Just caught up on this season the past week. The space race episodes were pretty strong and it got weaker when they got to Mars. The subplots were hit and miss - everything involving Jimmy totally terrible - and more leaning towards dramatic storylines you'd find on any show. Liked Ellen's story though. Dunno if anyone mentioned it but Kelly's rescue was also extremely similar to the movie The Martian, which... I imagine the writers must have realized, right? Weird they'd copy it so closely. Still a good season overall for me, ready for S4
― Vinnie, Sunday, 21 August 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
It’s strange how little China figures into this show. Does the survival of the Soviet Union mean that China is somehow kept from rising?
― blatherskite, Monday, 22 August 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
well, in our timeline the chinese space program didn’t really hit their stride until after the most recent season of the show and I could see them waiting for their own independently-developed technology instead of buying last season’s soviet gear
― mh, Monday, 22 August 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
In the beginning montage of season 3, episode 1 there's a newspaper headline with a clear "China set to open first moon base next month" headline dated 1987.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 22 August 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/for-all-mankind/images/0/0b/FAM_301_PressReview_20_China_Moon_Base.png
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 22 August 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
lol that's some attention to detail!
― that's not my post, Monday, 22 August 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
pvmic lol
Was this to me? lol I swear I'm not trying to be contrarian.
― we talkin bout praxis (Leee), Monday, 22 August 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link
no we just often end up at opposite ends of the spectrum in tv viewing etc, i like it!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 00:10 (one year ago) link
I know VG doesn’t like for me to mention other shows on this thread but I just came to say that I am currently getting a Gordo fix by watching Patriot for the first time.
― Misirlou Sunset (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 22:24 (one year ago) link
i need to do that
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
It’s so good, some absolutely astonishing sequences, and he is great in it.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:55 (one year ago) link
To muddy the waters further, his brother is played by the same actor who plays Ricken on Severance.
― Misirlou Sunset (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
talented family!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
Indeed. Syd Straw’s significant other is in it too.
― Misirlou Sunset (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:17 (one year ago) link
When you’re ready, there is a Patriot thread since awesome shows should have a thread
Patriot on Amazon Prime: Let me Walk You Through Our Donnely Nut Spacing
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:19 (one year ago) link
Was wondering, thanks!
― Misirlou Sunset (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:24 (one year ago) link
Ricken also is an Imam(?) on Ramy.
― Kim Wipers - Youth in America (Leee), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 03:53 (one year ago) link
wait a fucking minute hereGordo, like, Michael Dorman, is from fuckin NEW ZEALAND? 🤯well his accent is on point bc i bought him as from Texas even back when i started & dnf Patriothat’s off
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 October 2022 01:43 (one year ago) link
which reminds me i need to try that Joe Pickett show he’s starred in recently
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 October 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link
Gordo, like, Michael Dorman, is from fuckin NEW ZEALAND? 🤯
He's in a great movie called "Triangle" where the entire rest of the cast is Australian, and they are all playing Americans. Weird to have an all Antipodean cast that's playing Americans.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 October 2022 01:50 (one year ago) link
talk of Gordo's new show reminded that (can't remember when reading thread ages if noted)
was amused by the fact that the biopic made about Gordo and Tracy starring Dennis Quaid & Meg Ryan means that regardless of the erasure of the film The Right Stuff in that timeline, Dennis Quaid still got to play an astronaut called Gordo cosmic balance and all that
― H in Addis, Thursday, 6 October 2022 03:07 (one year ago) link
Starting to watch Triangle now, thanks. Seems to be a worthy addition to the thriller on a (sail)boat genre.
― Rated “Blecchs” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 October 2022 03:21 (one year ago) link
And good call about DQ.
I HAVE JUST REALISED GORDO WAS CHRISTIAN IN THE SECRET LIFE OF US WTF
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
lol this guy is full of surprises!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
Right now I would watch this dude in anything.
― Rated “Blecchs” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 October 2022 23:41 (one year ago) link
= how i am feeling plus he’s kinda hot? esp in patriot
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 October 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
I recently watched the whole of excellent/ridiculous crime show BANSHEE starring Anthony Starr, now on The Boys, and he's another NZer whose accent work is astonishing.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 7 October 2022 01:35 (one year ago) link
We are three episodes into For All Mankind and loving it.
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Friday, 7 October 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
Enjoy! First season especially is the most pleasantly surprised I've been with a show in years.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 October 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
This show is so good. It's like Mad Men had it's DNA replaced by GLOW.
There are some things I roll my eyes at once in a while, but its relentlessly positive vibe has just won me over. Who wants to nitpick when we are exploring space?
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Thursday, 13 October 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
Exactly
― Askeladd v. BMI (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
for real
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 13 October 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
Absolutely.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 October 2022 07:10 (one year ago) link
Man, Patriot is like watching a whole series based on “Hi Bob”/dinner club circuit Gordo.
― We Have Never Been Secondary Modern (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 October 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
haha that’s very true!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 October 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
S1 E7-8. Holy shit, just devastating. What a show.
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
Haven't been giving episode by episode reaction here, but I'll just say this is one of my favorite shows I've ever seen. The ending of S1 was pretty amazing.
The S2 build up capped by the one-two punch of E9-10 was possibly even better. The end of episode 9 with the scene of the cosmonaut team climbing through the windows of Jamestown with AK-47s was just pure menace. And E10 was a masterclass in sustained tension even though I pretty much guessed the ending.
I like that the show does an excellent job of zigging when you think they are going to zag. I have noticed they like to really tease you by making you think a worse outcome is going to happen before pulling back, but they are so assured it works.
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 02:53 (one year ago) link
Also, did not realize how much soap opera there was going to be or how much I wouldn't actually mind. Like some sort of space . . . opera.
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 03:08 (one year ago) link
S3 E1 was the worst episode of the series by far. More ridiculous sentimental action in that one episode than in the previous two seasons. Felt like a later Game of Thrones episode. Hope the whole season isn't like this.
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Sunday, 13 November 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
Makes me feel better that your reaction is very similar to the reaction many of us had to S3.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 November 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
You couldn’t pay me to watch S3
― calstars, Sunday, 13 November 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
It's not *that* bad. I'd watch it again if someone paid me.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 November 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
Ha, yes, exactly.
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 November 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
I wish the show had done another season set in the early ’70s before time jumping. Aside from being more fond of that era than the 80s, I liked the show best when its alternate history wasn’t so fantastic. Also, when had more relation to its advertising as a show about women astronauts. I don’t find the new cast as compelling as the original, so not looking forward to them taking over as the timeline gets further from the first season.
― blatherskite, Monday, 14 November 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
^OTM 100%
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
My wife referred to S3 E1 as The Towering Inferno.
Molly in S3 E2 : Pacino in Scent of a Woman.
The show is bad now, but in kind of a fun way.
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 03:01 (one year ago) link
Oh yeah, Danny Baldwin has all of the gravitas of James Hurly in Twin Peaks.
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 03:12 (one year ago) link
Thought pretty much the same thing about S3 E2. Keep ‘em coming!
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 03:15 (one year ago) link
lol good comparison. maybe Danny will give us some singing next season
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 04:42 (one year ago) link