Everything about this show is spot on. Acting check, music score check, direction check, production check and, of course, the writing is stellar.
Tony Manero : Al Pacino! Attica! Attica! Attica!
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Afraid I'm having a difficult time imagining that yours is not a sarcastic review.
shareIt is not. I know that often in today's discourse people use hyperbole and saying the opposite of what they mean as a form of sarcasm. I understand your skepticism. But, have you seen the show? It is brilliant. I hope there will be another season. To me, looks like there will be. There is still a lot of story and character development to be had. IE The Prime Minister and perhaps, the real power behind the throne.
“Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.”
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SPOILER ALERTS in this article!! https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1141850/Years-and-years-season-2-will-there-be-another-series-bbc-russell-t-davies
I just came across this article. I hope there is another season.
Dorothy Gale: Why, what is that?
Coach Driver: That, my dear, is a 'horse of a different color'.
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It started in Australia last night and I watched the first two episodes. Fascinating premise and I agree, great writing. I can see many people taking issue with it, Trump supporters in particular, the suggestion that he eventually pushes the big red nuke button is bound to irritate the faithful.
A welcome return from Russell T. Davies for me.
You're going to love it! I hope there will another season. There is a lot of story lines to be mined. Enjoy the show. Also, post again when you have seen the whole series.
“The left was the left, the right was the right. America was America.”
“Where I’m going there’s no life or death, there’s only data.”
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I though the first two episodes were the best, the last was the weakest. What I disliked about the last is that one one hand they tried to tie up all the loose ends, but also they seems to have chosen to make it a bit open ended so the story could potentially continue. It was also veering into being a bit preachy and heavy handed towards the end.
I personally hate endless tv serials. I know they are popular, but to me it just becomes an endless repeat of the same old, same old. So I had wanted a definite conclusion (this was promoted as a mini-series) without the unlikely "heroism" of the last episode. It just became evil vs good in a stereotypical way in that episode, and there were just way to many tropes and cliches going on. It also came across to me as quite naive and not very dramatic.
Some of the stuff was interesting and food for thought, but some of the other, towards the end, was not thought through and cliche, in my opinion.
I know how you feel. I generally prefer limited series; that have a beginning, a middle and an end. Series can oft times become popular and the powers that be want them to continue. Continue whether it is logical or not. Eventually the writers run out of ideas and a script will come along that totally "Jumps the shark." The last season of "The Affair" comes to mind. But this show deserves one more season. But alas, I do not think it will. C'est la vie, or is it c'est la guerre?
“When I went to university, they said accountancy was a job for life. But now – thanks to your lot – artificial intelligence can do my job in one second flat.”
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Do you really callyourself .... Edge?
shareWell, it is my Nom de Plume. Or in this setting, my Nom de MovieChat. Actually, it is my wife's nickname. Her first name is Erendschan. She is of Mongolian extraction. Her father used to call her "Edgey." Then I called her Edge. Others heard me using that name and it stuck. I like it. I know that David Howell Evans of U2 uses it. But, he does not own it. Besides, my father-in-law used it for his daughter long before David Howell Evans used it.
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
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PS "Stay Gold" is from the author S.E. Hinton
I’m hoping to have the chance to see this soon, having heard nothing but raves.
Shockingly, it is not nominated in a single category at this year’s BAFTAs - I was sure it was a shoo-in given its reception.
Not sure if the best but it's REALLY GOOD.
shareIt is truly amazing.
Not just in story, but in conception, direction and acting.
One of the best things I have seen in a very long time, and actually has a point that is not insulting to the viewer's intelligence. I totally agree 10/10.
I agree with you fellow Tarantino fan. I found it to be very intelligent.
Mr. White: [laughs] Shit … You shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.
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Disgusting gay porn in every episode. That's why he's died, God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.
shareWhat? Are we talking about the same show? Years and years..... No gay porn depicted at all. .....Poopsey...ur loosing it.
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Poopsey1, I am thinking your name is quite apt.
“Do not expect to be fully accepted
if, firstly,
you do not truly accept yourself,
and, secondly,
you are not truly accepting of others.
Every rejection you've ever faced
has been mirroring your own.”
― Petra Poje - Keeper of The Eye
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I just started watching it again ... because it went by so fast the first time.
It is brilliantly topical and relevant.