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Borrowed these from the library.

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The Jackass movies.

I know they're nothing new and by now they've jumped the shark but....

They've been showing these a lot down in my neck of the woods.

I've never laughed so hard at anything on TV.

The "High Five" skit with the giant hand that swings really fast taking out unsuspecting friends in a doorway?

:rofl:
 
Just watched Season 5 episode 11 of The Sopranos. That's the one with the 20+ minute dream sequence.

I consider it not good.

I am never enthusiastic about the use of dream sequences as a narrative device. It's kind of like when comics or comedy shows try to insert music into their acts. Like funny songs. Like haha. It's not absolutely impossible that it will work but the batting average is very low.

Same with dream sequences. It is possible for them to be used effectively and The Sopranos tried many times. Usually they kept them brief - which was good thinking. They were not the worst at it of all time - but it was definitely never a strength IMO.

The 20+ minute sequence in that episode ---> not good.
 
No.

*Spoiler alert*

At the start of it in the real world his girlfriend has a cooking accident and catches on fire and ends up in serious condition, bald, in the hospital. Tony wants to get out of that relationship but feels it would look bad considering her condition and wonders why everything happens to him.

Tony meets with his cousin Tony B. (Steve Buscemi) who is a bit squirrely, and war is looming all around the New York situation.



Then Tony checks into a downtown hotel and they have this very long dream sequence which has a lot of people who are dead - and Annette Bening - and some really lame attempts at humor that don't make sense within a dream framework - and other bits I don't like. But it keeps being repeated that Tony has some unnamed thing he is going to have to deal with - and he feels unprepared.

Lots of heavy handed psychology and foreshadowing.



Then he wakes back up to the real world to find that the shit has really hit the fan with New York and his cousin Tony has totally stepped in it.
 
2 eps. of Ray Donovan and not a boring minute yet... hope they arent blowing their load too soon...

The Killing remains suspenseful... great ending to this weeks ep

I enjoyed Dexter, Rampling is making the show now...but forgot to start the fucker around the 1:45min mark where the intro ends... goddamn that fucking music is awful
 
I was going to comment on Ray Donovan. I just watched the pilot yesterday. I was finding it a bit iffy most of the way through. Not saying bad by any means but when asking myself the eternal question, 'Will I carry on with this?' I was doing a lot of :dunno:

After 45 minutes I was still not sure but the way it left off has had me thinking ever since. Good for them. Very intriguing and clever.

Now I have to watch. I taped episode 2 and will check it out.




I agree that Dexter seems better so far this season. It is a preposterous show by definition but at least it does not have the long string of one-preposterous-detail-after-another like last season.

There have been a lot of long humorless talky bits explaining the new premise. There are the Charlotte Rampling bits and the Debra bits. It's been more than I personally require - like, I get it - but I guess they have to do that and answer all those questions and do their set-up. Hopefully that is done now for the most part and we can get on with the story.

And they actually did come through with a few pretty good laughs later.
 
*slight oblique spoiler alert for cami*

But then immediately after The Sopranos episode, The Test Dream - which would have my vote for the worst episode in the run of the series - comes an episode which I don't know if I would call it the absolute best, but it contains the little series of scenes that is definitely the most striking and memorable of the whole thing to me.

The Adriana episode.
 
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