"Under the Banner of Heaven" has been great thus far.
Didn’t realize it was out yet, thanks!
Saw it shooting in a couple of places in town last year, one just a few blocks away from me - I saw some guy with the glamorous job to add leaves to a tree in front of the house as all its leaves had fallen.
Saw it shooting in a couple of places in town last year, one just a few blocks away from me - I saw some guy with the glamorous job to add leaves to a tree in front of the house as all its leaves had fallen.
It's not officially out yet in Canada. It will be on Disney+ on June 8.
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I am not a big western fan. Yet really did enjoy the show. Lot of romance in the show I could do without but lots of violence too. Comedy as well.
The person that said it is a western but shut up and just watch it was right.
Isabel May, Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill were really good. Sam Elliot was awesome. If you don’t know who that is don’t even bother responding to this thread. You are dead to me.
I enjoyed much more than I thought I would.
I stream many shows to my senior parents. Tech is wonderful. They watch more shows off my computer than they do cable and Netflix. They don’t know how it works but they love it.
I transferred 1883 to a network drive so they could watch it. Mom is seventy three and not a western fan. She absolutely loved the show.
Dad is 75 and not a big western fan. Not a fan of chick flicks. Yet good acting and good actors with enough violence he loved it.
I have never seen them both rave about a show so much. A rare thing when husband and wife both enjoy the same show.
I was surprised how much they enjoyed it.
So again thank you.
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I'm really enjoying We Own This City. It's a must watch for fans of The Wire and many of the actors from that series are back portraying new characters in this series (Marlo, Sgt Landsman, Poot, and several others). It's another visit to the City of Baltimore with a focus on the very real corruption within the BPD.
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Cool article out as the Wire turns 20 today. Amazing thing is it is arguably more relevant now then it ever has been. Happy Birthday to the King.
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David Simon concedes that it takes a special kind of [expletive] to say, “I told you so.”
“But I can’t help it, OK?” he said recently. “Nobody enjoys the guy who says, ‘I told you so,’ but it was organic. Ed and I and then the other writers, as they came on board, we had all been watching some of the same things happen in Baltimore.”
Two decades ago, Simon, a former cops reporter at The Baltimore Sun, joined Ed Burns, a retired Baltimore homicide detective and public-school teacher, to create HBO’s “The Wire.” Fictitious but sourced from the Baltimore that Simon and Burns inhabited, “The Wire,” which premiered on June 2, 2002, introduced a legion of unforgettable characters like the gun-toting, code-abiding Omar Little (played by the late Michael K. Williams) and the gangster with higher aspirations, Stringer Bell (Idris Elba).
They were indelible pieces of a crime show with a higher purpose: to provide a damning indictment of the war on drugs and a broader dissection of institutional collapse, expanding in scope over five seasons to explore the decline of working-class opportunity and the public education system, among other American civic pillars
This was not the stuff of hit TV: In real time, the show gained only a small, devoted audience and struggled to avoid cancellation. But over the years, “The Wire” became hailed as one of television’s greatest shows, even as the systemic decay it depicted became more pronounced in the eyes of its creators.
Crave has been re-airing billions from the beginning recently. Caught a few episodes of S1. I have to say, I’m shocked at how awful it is. I used to love this show but time has not been kind to it. Every episode is just pure cheese start to finish. I’m laughing at scenes that were definitely not intended to be funny.
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Crave has been re-airing billions from the beginning recently. Caught a few episodes of S1. I have to say, I’m shocked at how awful it is. I used to love this show but time has not been kind to it. Every episode is just pure cheese start to finish. I’m laughing at scenes that were definitely not intended to be funny.
As someone who tried to watch this show recently, I have to agree. Not an ounce of depth or nuance to anything IMO.
Think covid lead to a pretty big production drought. You could even tell which shows / movies were filmed under covid restrictions a year or two ago. Lots of empty warehouses and shopping malls ��
