looks like - max, i think? - was right:
Deadwood had sympathetic characters who threw the word "nigger" around, on the theory that we'd understand that people in that time and place might have done it without intending an insult. Everyone who uses that word on Hell On Wheels does intend an insult, which is fine, except that the show goes out of its way to lump Bohannon in with the insulted. It insists on the superior dignity of those on the bottom of society, then works extra hard to shoehorn its quick-drawing hero in there, on the theory that there's nobody more long-suffering and sinned against than a good-looking white Southern man who can kick the ass of anybody who looks at him cross-eyed. It's not bad enough that American politics have been rendered infantile and idiotic by the trend among the privileged and well-off to feel unaccountably sorry for themselves; now even our Westerns can't keep their hands off the crying towels. This goddamn show should be called H-E-Double-Hockey Sticks On Wheels.
― Mordy, Monday, 2 January 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
i was just thinking about that old ilx how i met your mother thread and how i may have said some mean things about it and now it's probably my favorite show on tv.
― NZA, Monday, 2 January 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
also tv related, i really hate how this season they have turned walking dead on amc into lost...missing characters appearing in visions, people not divulging key plot points to each other, sweeping camera pans w meaningful musical score that take up 4 minutes of what should be tense zombie apocalypse, really obvious "twists" that take way too long in the revealing, etc
― NZA, Monday, 2 January 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
― NZA, Monday, 2 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
oops!
i feel bad for nathan fillion, i just love him but it seems outside of joss whedon ventures he can't catch a break.
― NZA, Monday, 2 January 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
i am not much of a TV guy, but SEVERANCE is honestly pretty grebt imo
― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 April 2022 05:50 (two years ago) link
it’s so good. I think about it at least once a week even though it’s been over for a few weeks.
― toadstool might (tehresa), Sunday, 1 May 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link