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True Dectectives on HBO. McConaughey and Harrison are such a great acting team. This show is what NBC's Hannibal should have been. They are hour long episodes for fans of the crime/occult drama that leave me wanting to binge watch. Beautifully shot, interesting characters, interesting story... brilliant.
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"The Profit" is *awesome*
http://www.cnbc.com/live-tv/the-prof...rn/42223683576
This woman / business owner *must* be a relative of SeanoftheThread ...
Also...
Two articles that review this one particular episode ...
http://previously.tv/the-profit/pop-goes-the-weasel/
http://tycoonplaybook.com/2013/08/18...lanet-popcorn/
Comments are hilarious too ... ai yi yi
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Almost Human is still a great dual threat. It's got the top level: Karl Urban and shooting and future and CGI and stuff. But almost every episode has these very disquieting subtexts. Most recently we found out that Dorian (robut) has had memories inexplicably implanted in him, and also he has had wide swathes of memory removed. This is especially striking when he himself removed wide swathes of memory from a different model Dorian who had lost his job.
What does it mean to be you? Okay. Here are the answers that nerds have come up with:
1. You have this many molecules in you, you have this many atoms of these particular elements. That's it. You are your carbon, that's it.
2. That's stupid, what if you replaced planks of the Argo one by one? Or put a human through a pastrami slicer? (Please don't try this IRL.) In addition to the physical stuff in (1), there must be some kind of mental stuff. This interacts with the physical stuff (don't ask!!!) and this mental stuff is what is really you. Bonus! This mental stuff isn't subject to the laws of physics, so it can live forever after physical death.
3. That's even more stupid, what you really are is what you remember. If I put lesions all over your brain (hey physical) and you can't remember the person you love, you treat them like a stranger. Your lover, your mother, your children, the only reason you care is memories. (Julianne Moore's The Forgotten notwithstanding.) So if you lose your memories... is there any you left, or is there a different you?
So if I can tap you on the temple and take your memories... what am I doing to you? If I take them all, I God damn ought to go down: murder. If I take them selectively, I'm the worst sociopath ever, I'm cutting you up for grins. And worse than if I cut off all your fingers, you could still do the Hawking routine because you would still be there (and you would be livid pissed). If I Bonsai what makes you you, there's no way back.
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It's an easy watch, and if you want to think about it there is plenty of stuff to think about it. A+.
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Blue Exorcist has Vash and Kirito so far (AS BROTHERS SQUEE launch a thousand fanfics), and promise of Christian iconography and graphic violence. I ask you, friends, what more could you want from a television program?
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Rake is pretty good. Greg Kinnear plays a scumbag defense attorney but he only defends good guys and he gets beat up a lot so he's sympathetic. Good dialogue, well executed, Thursdays at 9 on Fox!
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True Detective. I don't know if the other seasons will keep up but this one is great.
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Being Human has been awesome for awhile, I highly recommend watching it from the beginning. The last episode had one character accidentally go back in time and, you know, totally change the future in ostensibly helpful but possibly (probably) [definitely] harmful ways with the best of intentions. (Bonus! She specifically referenced Ashton Kutcher's magnum opus early in the episode.) It was extremely intense and interesting, so I naturally thought the next episode would be the season finale. WRONG. FIVE more episodes.
This show doesn't hold back. Neither should you. Watch every episode.
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Tonight's Community is really really meta funny. The only way I can explain it is the college develops a rating system that people can rate each other with called Meow Meow Beans. It turns the college into an Orwellian society of 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, and at the top, 5s. Any PCer should find it amusing.
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Resurrection on CBS is strong so far. Omar Epps, Red Foreman, other good people. It's a grand scale mystery show, and an interesting moment in the first episode is when a minister's girlfriend(?) tells him he doesn't have to have the answers, he just has to comfort people asking questions. Hopefully it's not an indication of what the showrunners have planned, but it's a good watch so far anyway.
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From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series by Robert Rodriguez. Anyone else watch this? Wasn't expecting much but I really enjoyed it. Pilot replays Tuesday on the El Rey Network.