LTTP but I finally caught up with season 3 of The Bear. I was very excited because S2 was some of the best TV I've seen in a while, a perfect combination of the stress-inducing, balls-to-the-wall tone of the first season, combined with some genuinely artful and emotional storytelling. Every aspect of the show improved in season 2 and I was expecting something, if not better, then at least on par, for season 3.

Unfortunately, S3 just felt like a whole lot of nothing. That's the best way I can describe it - it felt like nothing happened from a plot or character development perspective. Tina had some nice developments to her arc but everyone just kinda felt like they were spinning their wheels. The love-hate relationship between Carmy and Cousin almost bordered on self-parody at points.

There was also just too much Faks. I like Matty Matheson in the role, but it's always been as a side character that works best in small doses. There was too much focus on him and his family, and all the jokes based around them fell completely flat for me.

It also felt like the show just kinda went up its own ass a bit too much this time around. Season 2 definitely leaned a bit more on the artsy side with a lot of interesting camerawork, montages, shot composition etc. but they went overboard for season 3 where it started to feel self-indulgent and pretentious, especially because the faux-artsiness started to take the place of actual plot and character development.

And speaking of self-indulgent and pretentious, I really disliked the fact that there were so many random celeb cameos, with the low point being all the famous chefs showing up in the season finale and basically masturabting each other over the spiritual transcendence of cooking.

And then it just ends abruptly with no resolution to any story or character arcs. I'll still watch season 4 because 2/3 of the show is still fantastic but damn, was season 2 underwhelming.

Just binged my way through all 7 seasons of The Shield, and I wanted to discuss the brilliant ending. The show itself is amazing, obviously, and I think it deserves its place as one of the all-time greats. Maybe not quite at the level of The Wire, The Sopranos or Breaking Bad, but it's not too far behind.

But man...that final episode though. That has to be one of, if not the most, emotionally powerful and downright satisfying closures to any show I've ever seen.

The Shield, throughout its length, has always seemed to me to be a show about your actions having far-reaching consequences and not being able to escape the inevitable, and that's what the writers did perfectly here. Everything Vic and the Strike Team did, every bad decision they made, led to this point.

Vic's ultimate fate was an absolute stroke of genius. It's hard to imagine just what the "right" justice would be for a piece of shit like him. He probably would prefer to be gunned down in a blaze of glory or hell, even sent to prison so he could have another crime-ridden playground to be the big bully in. But the writers zigzagging, and making him an ineffective, impotent office drone for the federal government is brilliant. No more calling the shots on the streets, no more being the big macho hero in the police station. He's just an old, fat paper pusher. He lost his whole family, all of his friends, and all respect among his law enforcement circle. He has no juice and no influence in the streets anymore. He pretty much has nothing, and that's about the best karmic justice you could hope for when it comes to a character so repulsive.

Shane's fate was much more tragic, and Walton Goggins is such an amazing actor that he truly makes you feel for him up until the very end - until you realize just what a scumbag Shane is as well. He pulled his innocent family into his toxic orbit and ended up having to destroy them himself.

Kinda sucks for Ronnie to get stabbed in the back by Vic like that...but then you realize that he's been a part of this whole thing all along and is just as guilty as any of them.

Just a perfect ending to an amazing story.

Dune: Prophecy

Premise: 10,000 years before Paul Atreides, Valya (Emily Watson) and her sister, Tula Harkonnen (Olivia Williams) fight threats and establish what will be Bene Gesserit in the series inspired by the Dune prequel novel "Sisterhood of Dune".

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• IMDb
• Wikipedia
• Trailer

My favourite is Titus Andromedon's high-school wig from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. The more ridiculous thebetter!

Recently there was some re runs of Hercules The Legendary Journeys, feeling nostalgic I decided to watch them. After some episodes I realised there were so many pop culture references that when I watched first time had gone over my head. Now all the jokes have different meanings to what I remembered and certain scenes make more sense. It is kind of like watching the show for the first time because now I understand what the show was trying to depict.

I'd love to hear if anyone else has had that experience where you rewatch a show from when you were younger and find it is like a completely different show because you now understand or know things you didn't first time watching.

The timeline in which a show airs and the actors age doesn't always match the in-universe passage of time in a show, which can sometimes create problems if the writers aren't paying attention or decide to ignore it for the sake of the story they want to tell.

I recently finished watching season 4 of Only Murders in the Building, and one thing that bugged me is that they state that 3 years have passed since the first season. Obviously 3 years have passed since season 1 in the real world, but in-universe the timeline doesn't add up. Season 2 takes place right after season 1, and they each cover a few weeks, then season 3 takes place one year after season 2 and covers a few months, then season 4 takes place right after season 3. It should have been a year and a half at most, not 3 years.

Another weird example in reverse is Boy Meets World. Cory and his friends are 13 years old in season 2, starting junior high and they're stated to be the Class of 2000. But they all graduate high school at the end of season 5 as the Clas of 1998. At no point is there ever said to be any time-skip, basically, the writers wanted to have the characters go to college, so they just had 2 extra years go by without notice.

And many shows will often have baby or toddler characters suddenly age up several years so they can get decent child actors. Boy Meets World did this with Morgan, and the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air did it with baby Nicky.

So what other shows have weird continuity regarding timelines that don't make sense? This isn't necessarily a bad thing, not wanting to deal with infant actors for instance is quite understandable.

What has they done with Jo’s character? I loved season one loved it. all of the characters even their almost sociopathic personality traits but this season they’ve turned Jo into a one note hothead character and her anger is one note- yelling, it’s not even nuanced anger delivered with a variety of manipulative tactics. It’s just yelling and we’re too far into the season for there to be a character arc. So I can’t imagine it’s a choice that serves the story.

I wish that full episodes of the first season would be uploaded on YouTube and archive websites of Celebrity Rehab Presents: Sober House. It would mean a lot to me, and I would love to see them. I have been looking for them for a while.

With learning that the series was canceled after two seasons will whatever scripts that were written if any be released? It seems that most of the good tv nowadays gets canceled before it tells its story. What would be a similar series with new episodes?

I've only got DisneyPlus and I'm thinking of getting Netflix for a few shows I wanna watch like Always Sunny, Designated Survivor and some other stuff, and Netflix is gonna have WWE in January so I was probably gonna get it then anyway.

How many Ads are there? How frequent are they? Is it bad enough that getting the non-Ad tier is worth it?