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I can totally see they're using alot of elements to make up their world and to progress the story that have been used before. I can also see that it's definitely not the easiest thing to come up with a completely original setting in today's television/cinema landscape (SO many resources poured into it, SO much production).
Breaking Bas is essentially a guy who makes meth and deals with his competition mixed with family issues (and the family issues rising from it) and is, when boiled down to the core, not the most original set up either. However, they made it work brilliantly with all the tools they have. GoT is essentially an epic, in a middle-age setting, Day's Of Our Lives, but it works because reasons.
Mr Robot has an excellent score, great film editing and cinematography and acting accompanied with an intriguing, albeit non completely oringinal, story. It's what makes it so good for me.
I can't really find any issues with this show to be honest, other than it might've been figured out already. But which show hasn't?
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I binged S1 when watching it for the first time and it was definitely quite the ride. Season two starts in a couple of weeks, Jul 13! Looking forward to watching it and having time to digest between episodes.
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USA network, or more specifically the mr. robot social media team has been on fire the last couple days.
Just today fsociety "hacked" their social media and pre-released the first episode of season two. Havent seen it yet, as it was only available for two hours before it got "taken down". Managed to find a download and cant wait to watch it (seems to only be episode one, so theres still episode two to watch come thursday (here in europe).
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I missed the pre-release - no worries though.
Two more days!
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Well fuck, i watched s02e01 just now (as expected - fantastic), only its clear that episode one and two are meant to be watched as a two-parter - which in turn means waiting even two (or three in my case) more days is god damn too long.
Well played USAnetwork, well played.
afk hibernating till thursday 
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I liked the new episode - but it could be a bit better. I kind of get what they are trying to do, but...0
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Man this last episode was something else, eh...
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On July 23 2016 00:09 Mattes wrote:
Man this last episode was something else, eh...
My favorite show ever 
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On July 30 2016 12:44 DCWasabi wrote:Show nested quote +On July 23 2016 00:09 Mattes wrote:
Man this last episode was something else, eh... My favorite show ever
I really don't understand why this show isn't more popular. Feel like it's going to be a late bloomer like Orphan Black.
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Maybe because after the great pilot it had a few pretty mediocre episodes until it became really good again.
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Loving the meta of the show poking fun at sitcoms, the network, and all the characters in a really messed up way.
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Renewed for a third season! Woot!
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France7248 Posts
good news
I wish it wouldn't be so slow though... I feel like this season barely started yet
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On August 17 2016 10:42 Yhamm wrote:
good news
I wish it wouldn't be so slow though... I feel like this season barely started yet
Kinda agree. Took 7 episodes to reveal the prison scenario, that i read from a reddit thread after the first two episodes. Someone guessed right, lol.
At least each episode has been well made, despite it being slowish.
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I did not expect what happened at the end of ep 7 at all
man, I want to watch previous 6 eps now... so annoying
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On August 19 2016 15:50 Grettin wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2016 10:42 Yhamm wrote:
good news
I wish it wouldn't be so slow though... I feel like this season barely started yet Kinda agree. Took 7 episodes to reveal the prison scenario, that i read from a reddit thread after the first two episodes. Someone guessed right, lol. At least each episode has been well made, despite it being slowish.
That wasn't probably the "biggest" reveal of the episode.
I do believe Leon working for WhiteRose/DarkArmy is the biggest reveal. Also the whole Elliot keeping things from "us".
:D this show is such a mind fuck, it's lovely.
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on principle I dislike twists that ask more questions then are answered but I really liked this one. The fact that the reveal was in the area were people from the outside talk to the inmates and thats where anyone from the outside has interacted with him. Plus it ties up a lot of werid things from the previous episodes that were foreshadowing.
Whats he in for though? There is no way that its for the murder and its not going to be dumb writing so he has to get out at some point soon.
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I just finished watching the first Season, and I have to say, my feelings are mixed.
After watching the first episode, I definitely had a perspective that this wouldn't be an all psychiatric TV show, I was really hoping for a more realistic hacking TV show (which I thought particularly the first episode did better than any movie I've ever seen), and dealing with the world... Instead of it all being shit in your head, with unbelievable hacking and characters on the side. So in that regard, the show really let me down.
What I'm quite surprised is that there's been no mention of Hannibal in this thread, and that's probably why. Anyone who watched all of Hannibal wouldn't go watch this, as it's essentially an analogues copy. This genre has little to no replay value, and really, once you've seen one, you've seen them all.
I remember a similar feeling with Hannibal, how initially it caught my attention and I was interested, but then it just got kind of silly and dumb, with the writers purposely leaving out crucial information however they felt like, to make these twists and wow moments be unexpected. I dunno, it feels really artificial, and I think for most people, the further they get into a show like this, the more let down they'll be, so tread with caution.
I don't know how this show compares to one like Dexter, but I don't care much to find out, as any show that's criticized by most of its following is usually not worth watching. I'm kind of looking at watching a new show, since from the ongoing ones (GoT, Vikings, Better Call Saul, Walking Dead [bleh], Bob's Burgers, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine)... After Parks & Rec, Hannibal, and Breaking Bad ending, and having watched some other historic TV shows like Rome, I could use a new one to watch.
On TL in terms of popularity, Suits is up there, but to me it just looks like another "Lost" or "Walking Dead" type of thing, and from rl friends I've heard it's very repetitive, so not something that is inciting much interest in me, then we have Fear the Walking Dead, which since it's also made by AMC, and after what Walking Dead is, never again. No need to try and get put in that situation where they try to hook you on subpar TV. Sorry fans, but come on, 90% of people watching Walking Dead now are doing it for the sake of starting it and the sunk time, we all complain after watching it. Those are mostly the two shows I'll never give a chance, and everything else but superhero stuff is fair game for me.
From TL, Sherlock on BBC looks neat, my girlfriend likes Rick and Morty, but the humor looks a little bit... I don't want to say immature, but I enjoy a silly comedy if it's a "feel good" one, for which my examples would be Bob's Burgers, Brooklyn Nine-nine, Parks and Rec, The Office... While my other category is "asshole humor", which like Family Guy or American Dad, or Southpark and I'm not sure exactly where Rick and Morty is on that spectrum. I'm not a big fan of the art style of it either, but that's an acquired taste.
Silicon Valley seems like a nice topic, but it requires perfect execution to be believable, especially since it's a topic I have a bit of an understanding in. Most TV shows are bad at making modern engineering and science look realistic, hence my skepticism there. Then I see Arrow, Banshee, Homeland that I don't know much about... also House of Cards which I've heard great things about from many people, maybe that should be my next show. True Detective, Fargo, Boardwalk Empire, among others also look great. A friend also recommended Lucifer to me, but I watched the trailer, and reminds me a bit too much of Supernatural, which is one of those shows that has a bit too much fantasy for me. Yes, GoT has fantasy too, but there's so much stuff happening there, that it's not what draws me in, it's rather the interactions, strategizing, an depth.
Anyway, choosing a right show for me is important, cause it's difficult for me to drop even shows that I'm not enjoying much, I'm not sure if I'm the only here that does that. But yeah, onto the thread topic, after episode 1 which I thought was very well done, and this is before I even knew anything about the show, what kind of category it was, or watching a trailer, I thought it was good. Then from episode 2-4, my view declined and declined, seeing as there really isn't going to be much hacking, and the scale of the show is a lot lower than I thought it'd be. Then maybe around episode 5, the drug usage stuff slowed down a bit, and I finally thought they were getting into something more normal than I expected, but it was kind of false hopes. Naturally episode 7-first half of 9, my interest went up a bit due to the climax of the season, and the father -> all hallucinations kind of thing, but I was then quickly let down that this show will have minimal to do with hacking, and it was all about holding superficial suspense. Obviously that's just my fault for not reading up before starting it. So while not awful, after reading about people saying this season is slow, and a bit of a waned interest in this thread for season 2, I'm skeptical about starting another season.
Apologies for the long rant
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