If that's actually the premise of the third movie, it's gonna be pretty different from the book.
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The All-New TT: Television Time Mini Reviews
- Thread starter Rascally Badger
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The thing is, Dune was written back when its familiar plot points hadn't been quite so deeply cut into the earth. If you adapt something that has heavily influenced a genre for 60 years, there will be a relative lack of surprises.
That's two season finales where Dylan physically holds back Milchick so Mark can accomplish a task
So, The Pitt (1st season currently streaming on Max) is easily the best medical drama I’ve ever seen. It does the “24” thing of having each episode cover a single hour of time, so that the whole season follows a group of doctors and nurses through one long shift in a Pittsburgh emergency room. The show does an amazingly sensitive, incisive job of looking at issues in U.S. culture today through a medical lens. It’s got its share of interpersonal drama among the hospital employees, but all of the characters are thoroughly professional, and they never put their own issues ahead of taking care of patients. I give it my highest recommendation, although I’d almost advise you to wait a few weeks until all of the episodes have dropped before you start watching. The direction and the performances create a powerful sense of urgency, and you are not going to want to wait a week between one episode of this show and the next.
Huh!
I started watching the original Addams Family, which, inexplicably, showed up under “Horror TV” on Prime
It holds up astonishingly well, especially for a sitcom of that vintage. Due largely, but not entirely, to John Aston’s performance as Gomez. Dude absolutely sells *absolutely everything* in every scene.
It holds up astonishingly well, especially for a sitcom of that vintage. Due largely, but not entirely, to John Aston’s performance as Gomez. Dude absolutely sells *absolutely everything* in every scene.
R.R. Bigman
Coolest Guy
Season 2 of Pokerface has been noticeably worse, in my opinion. The first was wildy uneven, yet had some really good episodes that evened out the lesser ones. S2 has been reliably mediocre.
A core problem with Pokerface is that episodes don’t have time to cook an entire story. It has the Columbo formula of showing you the setup to the crime, but in addition, it then shows Charlie’s part in the plot. After the dual setup, it usually ends up with Charlie talking to the killer maybe twice and solving the actual case in less than twenty minutes with her magic lie detector power and sloppy writing. Columbo often had feature length episodes, so we had plenty of time for every step of the story to get the room to breathe. Pokerface is around the same length as a network show, with an extra act shoved in.
A core problem with Pokerface is that episodes don’t have time to cook an entire story. It has the Columbo formula of showing you the setup to the crime, but in addition, it then shows Charlie’s part in the plot. After the dual setup, it usually ends up with Charlie talking to the killer maybe twice and solving the actual case in less than twenty minutes with her magic lie detector power and sloppy writing. Columbo often had feature length episodes, so we had plenty of time for every step of the story to get the room to breathe. Pokerface is around the same length as a network show, with an extra act shoved in.
I've been watching a Columbo episode every Sunday this year (I call it Columbo Sundays) and also watching Poker Face. With Columbo you know what you're getting, in almost every episode an upper class jerk in LA murders someone for financial reasons and Columbo doggedly investigates them until he gets a confession. Poker Face has a lot more diversity in its potential location, the nature of the crime, and the structure of the story which makes it more exciting to watch. You get an occasional dud like the Florida episode, but I think I slightly prefer the riskier approach to Columbo's reliability. As far as pacing, sometimes Poker Face does short change the actual investigative parts in favor of the other things it's doing with the story, but I don't think that's a bad thing. They're similar shows, but Columbo is a pure detective story that revels in the small details while Poker Face is broader.
R.R. Bigman
Coolest Guy
Yeah, the school episode was really good.
How is it we never got a Columbo/Scooby-Doo crossover? Taking out rich/greedy jerks should bring them into each other's orbit so easily.