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VANFLAMESFAN · 09-01-2009, 01:15 PM

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Also, Andy Bellefleur is a terrible character and the actor playing him is also terrible.

Chris Bauer is awesome. He was amazing in The Wire and once again, just because an actor is acting like an stupid idiot, doesn't make him a bad actor. His character is undoubtedly a stupid person, but Chris Bauer can act, there is zero doubt about that.

Pastiche · 09-01-2009, 01:21 PM

I have seen him as Sobotka in the Wire and he was great.

That doesn't change the fact that he's awful as Andy Bellefleur, the most single-dimensioned character and acting I have ever seen on HBO.

jeremywilhelm · 09-01-2009, 01:27 PM

Belleflour/Jason little tandem is beyond annoying at this point. Jason used to be stupid/funny he is now stupid/lame. And Andy's drunkeness is so weakly acted Im wondering where Chris Bauers' skills went.

DuffMan · 09-01-2009, 01:40 PM

I can't wait to watch this latest epsiode I have pvr'd still, after all the rave reviews it has been getting.

Boblobla · 09-01-2009, 01:55 PM

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I can't wait to watch this latest epsiode I have pvr'd still, after all the rave reviews it has been getting.

Don't listen to these bandwagon jumpers. I enjoyed the episode. I love this show.

chid · 09-01-2009, 02:11 PM

If you think there are so many terrible things about it, why are you still watching? I for one, love the show!

jeremywilhelm · 09-01-2009, 03:25 PM

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If you think there are so many terrible things about it, why are you still watching? I for one, love the show!

Because it was so fantastic before the last 3 shows that my hatred has not overwhelmed my dislike. Unlike for shows like 6 feet under.

VANFLAMESFAN · 09-01-2009, 03:34 PM

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Because it was so fantastic before the last 3 shows that my hatred has not overwhelmed my dislike. Unlike for shows like 6 feet under.

Are you insinuating Six Feet under got so bad as it went on that you stopped watching?? Are you kidding me?? Six Feet Under was amazing from Season 1 right thru to the finale which was maybe the finest finale in tv history.

I'm just curious, why did you stop watching?? SFU is my all time fav show.

GreenTeaFrapp · 09-01-2009, 03:50 PM

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Are you insinuating Six Feet under got so bad as it went on that you stopped watching?? Are you kidding me?? Six Feet Under was amazing from Season 1 right thru to the finale which was maybe the finest finale in tv history.

There were some lulls in SFU, no doubt. So many characters doing so many stupid things in the later seasons that it wasn't believable.

VANFLAMESFAN · 09-01-2009, 03:55 PM

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There were some lulls in SFU, no doubt. So many characters doing so many stupid things in the later seasons that it wasn't believable.

I can only really agree with the secret behind Lisa's disappearance as being being relatively unbelievable. To me, it seemed kind of forced and I was totally fine not knowing the whole truth about what happened to her. I don't need everything wrapped in a fine bow. I found Nate coping with that mystery and raising his daughter a lot more interesting.

jeremywilhelm · 09-01-2009, 04:01 PM

Nate became such a whining ######bag that I couldnt stand seeing him onscreen anymore. The whole show was so insanely pretentious that I would get annoyed watching it.

Pastiche · 09-01-2009, 04:14 PM

Six Feet Under was only good (not only good but downright amazing) in season 1. It crashed hard in season 2 and onward.

It went from a highly interesting character driven narrative to an evening soap overnight that was almost unwatchably bad when you accounted for how good season 1 was.

jeremywilhelm · 09-01-2009, 05:53 PM

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Six Feet Under was only good (not only good but downright amazing) in season 1. It crashed hard in season 2 and onward.

It went from a highly interesting character driven narrative to an evening soap overnight that was almost unwatchably bad when you accounted for how good season 1 was.

The show was great in the first season, beginnings of melodrama in the second and then third on was soooooo intensely horrible that I could barely struggle through an episode. I'll never understand how this show got 5 seasons and Dead like me was cancelled after 2 seasons.

Machiavelli · 09-02-2009, 02:01 PM

Dexter is my all-time favorite show. Blows True Blood out of the water.

VANFLAMESFAN · 09-02-2009, 02:15 PM

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Dexter is my all-time favorite show. Blows True Blood out of the water.

I'm going to go in the Dexter thread and say the exact opposite.

I love Dexter as well. Can be a bit campy at times, but it's pretty damn solid and Michael C Hall is amazing.

GreenTeaFrapp · 09-02-2009, 02:20 PM

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Dexter is my all-time favorite show. Blows True Blood out of the water.

Dexter is up there with my favourite shows but I really miss Doakes.

Machiavelli · 09-02-2009, 02:26 PM

By the way, I meant current favorite show. There's too many older ones that I absolutely loved to claim Dexter as my all-time fave.

Doakes was an interesting character; think they killed him off too early.

I'm not really a fan of the recent developments between Laguerta and Batista. But anyways, wrong thread really.

VANFLAMESFAN · 09-02-2009, 02:26 PM

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Dexter is up there with my favourite shows but I really miss Doakes.

I loved how he said the F-Word....he put so much mmmmphh into it.

GreenTeaFrapp · 09-02-2009, 02:32 PM

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Doakes was an interesting character; think they killed him off too early.

The problem was that they put themselves into a corner with him. How could he have lived if he knew Dexter's secret? Either he'd put Dexter in jail or he'd have to condone it which would eliminate the conflict he had with Dexter which is what made his character so great. But his storyline in season two was what made the season great.

chid · 09-02-2009, 02:46 PM

I think I'm a tie between True Blood and Dexter