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OldWHEEL said:
I’m late to the party, but in the middle of the second season of Euphoria. At first I thought I’d hate this show (there’s a lot to choose from in the early 1st season). I’ve raised two daughters (now in their 30s) and I am amazed at how strongly this resonates. Superb writing and directing and big kudos to Zendaya—she’s quite the actor.
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It’s incredibly high-quality prestige TV. Anyone dismissing it as a sexed up teenager show is missing out.

I’m planning to rewatch the whole series before I start season 3, which is the final season.
 
I know I am late to the ballgame, but I am on season 3 of Homeland. Am I the only one that gets annoyed with the Carrie character? I know she is supposed to be bipolar, but some of her decisions and actions have gotten on my nerves.
 
CarolinaFever said:
I know I am late to the ballgame, but I am on season 3 of Homeland. Am I the only one that gets annoyed with the Carrie character? I know she is supposed to be bipolar, but some of her decisions and actions have gotten on my nerves.
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You are not. She is very annoying. It’s amazing that I actually enjoyed the show throughout its entirety (it’s not a great show, but an entertaining one), yet I could stand her character or Claire Danes’s acting.

One fun thing for me about the first few seasons was that nearly all the scenes were filmed in locations I’m very familiar with in Charlotte. Both Carrie’s family and Saul were neighbors of mine. That is, their houses were houses in the neighborhood I lived in at the time. And someone I know played a senator at one one of the hearings in maybe the 3rd or 4th season (can’t remember what happened in which seasons now), sitting in silence with a look on his face I’m familiar with (he’s a federal magistrate judge in Charlotte).
 
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CarolinaFever said:
I know I am late to the ballgame, but I am on season 3 of Homeland. Am I the only one that gets annoyed with the Carrie character? I know she is supposed to be bipolar, but some of her decisions and actions have gotten on my nerves.
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Not to mention her condition combined with wreckless actions would have gotten her shelved in the real world…if she could have even gotten through the initial psych screening to begin with.

Started The Testaments last night…set a few years after Handmaids Tale. It’s pretty good…focuses on June’s daughter in Gilead. First 3 episodes dropped and it has potential. Have a feeling a few of the main characters aren’t what they appear.
 
RockyMtnHoo said:
Started The Testaments last night…set a few years after Handmaids Tale. It’s pretty good…focuses on June’s daughter in Gilead. First 3 episodes dropped and it has potential. Have a feeling a few of the main characters aren’t what they appear.
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Sounds as if you might not be aware that the star/daughter is Chase Infiniti, just off a GG nomination for her role as Leo’s daughter in One Battle After Another. She is legitimately Hollywood’s next big superstar.

I never read nor watched Handmaid but have been tempted.
 
Icky Mettle said:
You are not. She is very annoying. It’s amazing that I actually enjoyed the show throughout its entirety (it’s not a great show, but an entertaining one), yet I could stand her character or Claire Danes’s acting.

One fun thing for me about the first few seasons was that nearly all the scenes were filmed in locations I’m very familiar with in Charlotte. Both Carrie’s family and Saul were neighbors of mine. That is, their houses were houses in the neighborhood I lived in at the time. And someone I know played a senator at one one of the hearings in maybe the 3rd or 4th season (can’t remember what happened in which seasons now), sitting in silence with a look on his face I’m familiar with (he’s a federal magistrate judge in Charlotte).
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I’d call Homeland a great show, without a doubt. It maybe got a bit long and meandered, but it was very high level stuff. A lot of it did depend on tolerating Carrie’s ups and downs. But her acting and everyone’s, especially Mandy Patinkin… just outstanding.

One thing that was so uncanny that will be lost for anyone not watching it as it aired — Claire and the creator used to meet with White House officials before working on each season to get high-level intel on how global and domestic events would be shaping up, coinciding with the time episodes would be airing. Unprecedented access. So there were many times while watching you’d be left wondering how they were able reflect the headlines before they were even headlines.
 
OldWHEEL said:
Everything I hear about season 3 Euphoria is …not good
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There’s a lot of drama between Levinson and the cast. I wonder if that’s not getting conflated in reviews. But either way I’m staying away from reviews. I’m partway through season 1 on my rewatch.

Which by the way, if you went straight to season 2 without watching the two special episodes sandwiched between the seasons, you missed out IMO. They were shot during the pandemic, so it’s a very limited cast and crew. But the episode with Rue and her sponsor Ali (Colman Domingo) in the diner is maybe my favorite episode of the series.
 
duluoz said:
I’d call Homeland a great show, without a doubt. It maybe got a bit long and meandered, but it was very high level stuff. A lot of it did depend on tolerating Carrie’s ups and downs. But her acting and everyone’s, especially Mandy Patinkin… just outstanding.

One thing that was so uncanny that will be lost for anyone not watching it as it aired — Claire and the creator used to meet with White House officials before working on each season to get high-level intel on how global and domestic events would be shaping up, coinciding with the time episodes would be airing. Unprecedented access. So there were many times while watching you’d be left wondering how they were able reflect the headlines before they were even headlines.
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I thought Patankin was great. I thought Danes’ acting was pretty one-note. Her character was one of my least favorite parts, but I really liked almost everything else about it. The one thing I absolutely did hate was Brody’s daughter’s storyline in (I think) season 3. I found that incredibly annoying.
 
Icky Mettle said:
I thought Patankin was great. I thought Danes’ acting was pretty one-note. Her character was one of my least favorite parts, but I really liked almost everything else about it. The one thing I absolutely did hate was Brody’s daughter’s storyline in (I think) season 3. I found that incredibly annoying.
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Interesting yeah, for me the craft came in how she went in and out of the mania and how it was fueled at times and coincided with the job demands. Her grappling with and coming to terms with who she was and wasn’t wired to be, I thought that was rich. But obviously the manic phases dominate everyone’s memory of the show.

If by Brody’s daughter you mean Franny, yeah that got annoying as hell. But they didn’t have an easy way out of that once they introduced it, they had to dedicate time to it or it would’ve seemed too pat and facile to just move on from it.

Incidentally the woman who plays Carrie’s sister is a regular at a bar I go to. She’s cool but the one time I tried chatting with her about the show, she wasn’t too keen to talk about it ha.
 
duluoz said:
Interesting yeah, for me the craft came in how she went in and out of the mania and how it was fueled at times and coincided with the job demands. Her grappling with and coming to terms with who she was and wasn’t wired to be, I thought that was rich. But obviously the manic phases dominate everyone’s memory of the show.

If by Brody’s daughter you mean Franny, yeah that got annoying as hell. But they didn’t have an easy way out of that once they introduced it, they had to dedicate time to it or it would’ve seemed too pat and facile to just move on from it.

Incidentally the woman who plays Carrie’s sister is a regular at a bar I go to. She’s cool but the one time I tried chatting with her about the show, she wasn’t too keen to talk about it ha.
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Speaking of encounters with the main cast, my dad, along with a few other folks, was supposed to play golf with Damian Lewis while he was in Charlotte filming the show. While they were waiting on him to arrive, they got a call and were told that he had had a big night the night before was too hungover to play.

My wife’s aunt also became friendly with Patankin. He would work out at the Charlotte Jewish Community Center where she worked out, and she got to know him a little.
 
UNCatTech said:
Always impressed with everyone here's vocabulary. Thanks for penultimate.

The Pitt is great, but I hate where they left of this season.
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Guess I was wrong, I'm not sure why I thought the Pitt was over when there are two more episodes.
 
Icky Mettle said:
I thought Patankin was great. I thought Danes’ acting was pretty one-note. Her character was one of my least favorite parts, but I really liked almost everything else about it. The one thing I absolutely did hate was Brody’s daughter’s storyline in (I think) season 3. I found that incredibly annoying.
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At the time, I seem to recall people complaining endlessly about Brody’s wife?
 
1moretimeagain said:
At the time, I seem to recall people complaining endlessly about Brody’s wife?
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I can’t imagine anyone complaining about Morena Baccarin, Juilliard trained and one of the hottest women ever.

But I think people tended to get annoyed with anything in their domestic lives that pulled attention from the main spy type action, including Brody’s wife and Carrie’s Franny custody situation.
 
duluoz said:
I can’t imagine anyone complaining about Morena Baccarin, Juilliard trained and one of the hottest women ever.

But I think people tended to get annoyed with anything in their domestic lives that pulled attention from the main spy type action, including Brody’s wife and Carrie’s Franny custody situation.
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It’s been a long time, I may be misremembering. Fully agree with your latter comment.
 
The wife and I are about five episodes into the first season of Paradise. It’s flawed but entertaining enough to hold our interest thus far.

It has an interesting premise but suffers from below average writing and some average acting that is perhaps negatively impacted by the writing. The dialogue seems more like a series of monologues. The characters rarely engage in back-and-forth conversation, and instead pretty much give speeches to one another. While the characters are supposed to be smart, they make very stupid decisions. The writers seem to assume that the show’s audience isn’t very bright. They put a lot of unnecessary explanations of what is happening into the dialogue. They don’t seem to trust that the viewer will be able to draw the appropriate conclusions or pick up on things.
 
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