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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jan 10, 2018 3:27:05 GMT
Up to Episode 3 and this is pretty great so far. It's The Verdict meets Damages. Absolutely wonderful so far.
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Post by Viced on Jan 11, 2018 5:36:13 GMT
Up to Episode 3 and this is pretty great so far. It's The Verdict meets Damages. Absolutely wonderful so far. Everything with Billy Bob and Nina Arianda was awesome.... but the William Hurt stuff got boring for me. I think it'll improve in season 2. |
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jan 13, 2018 2:46:03 GMT
I finished it last night and I really loved it overall. Yeah, it definitely had it flaws but I think Billy Bob elevates the material around him enough to greatly outweigh them. And that ending on the beach. Damn. I got some serious Michael Clayton speechlessness going on there. Amazing. |
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Post by Viced on Aug 12, 2018 15:35:01 GMT
Two episodes into season 2... pretty meh so far. Not enough Billy Bob or Nina Arianda, too much other crap going on, badly miscast Mark Duplass, iffy writing... Amazon reviewers (who are usually pretty generous) average the rating out at 2.5 stars.  These next six episodes might be rough... David E. Kelley is definitely missed. |
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Aug 12, 2018 17:13:14 GMT
Two episodes into season 2... pretty meh so far. Not enough Billy Bob or Nina Arianda, too much other crap going on, badly miscast Mark Duplass, iffy writing... Amazon reviewers (who are usually pretty generous) average the rating out at 2.5 stars. These next six episodes might be rough... David E. Kelley is definitely missed. Ah crap. Was definitely looking forward to powering through this once i was done with The Americans. |
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Post by Viced on Aug 12, 2018 17:19:43 GMT
Two episodes into season 2... pretty meh so far. Not enough Billy Bob or Nina Arianda, too much other crap going on, badly miscast Mark Duplass, iffy writing... Amazon reviewers (who are usually pretty generous) average the rating out at 2.5 stars. These next six episodes might be rough... David E. Kelley is definitely missed. Ah crap. Was definitely looking forward to powering through this once i was done with The Americans. I know.... pretty disappointing but it could get better. I'll give you an update once I finish it. It's only 8 episodes too... |
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Post by quetee on Aug 12, 2018 18:26:05 GMT
Two episodes into season 2... pretty meh so far. Not enough Billy Bob or Nina Arianda, too much other crap going on, badly miscast Mark Duplass, iffy writing... Amazon reviewers (who are usually pretty generous) average the rating out at 2.5 stars. These next six episodes might be rough... David E. Kelley is definitely missed. No David E. Kelley? Okay, season 2 at the bottom of the binge list. |
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Post by Mattsby on Aug 9, 2020 21:18:33 GMT
S1 - Very good sort of stretched version of The Verdict. The creators have of course mentioned its influence (one reveal is obvious if you've seen the movie); not mentioned is how it pulls and waters the revalued faith in Lumet's movie to its whole titular metaphor. "We have no choice," Billy Bob says. William Hurt's villain is clearly semi-inspired by Dragon in The Eiger Sanction I'm surprised zero critics picked up on it. Maybe the sides are too easily defined: we root for Billy Bob and his ragtag underdogs while Hurt, Olivia Thirlby, Molly Parker are thoroughly loathsome (at least Parker is amusing). But.....there are two great perfs here, Nina Arianda who gives miraculous humorous life to every single moment and every single scene she's in, and Billy Bob especially in E3 where he's upset and moving in the opening scene, bothered and concealed and fed up later, slightly intimidating, smoothly intelligent.
S2 - Ridiculous and much less believable to a cartoonish degree, but no less fun. E7 was kinda amazing - reminded me a little of Black Friday by Goodis and a little of James Bond, it's a strangely funny, strangely violent bottle-episode, with John Savage and Paul Ben-Victor (who I've always confused with Victor Argo).
Giving up on S3 after two episodes - it looks/feels like such a different show. Why change the aspect ratio/coloring so much? And the drug element seems beyond moronic...
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 28, 2021 19:45:24 GMT
S4 coming to Prime September 24th
I didn't realize they got back to filming this... I stopped watching S3 but I'll jump back for S4 which promises to return to what the show used to be.
New cast additions: Bruce Dern, JK Simmons, Robert Patrick, Jena Malone
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 24, 2021 19:14:43 GMT
 S4 is out. It's back near the level of S1 and follows a similar trajectory, altho the season is hiccuped by persistently lame dream sequences and a bit too much moral sermoning. I like the locations - a very, very smoky San Fran, the floating cable cars, the neon Chinatown, and nods to Rear Window. What a cast this season around (the steady) Billy Bob and (the spiky) Nina Arianda. Jena Malone has never been better- a perf of writhing, self-loathing desperation. JK Simmons, in his 20th project this decade (what the hell) is the ripely arrogant villain ("Are you afraid of eyes on you?")......Lenora Crichlow is also very good...... and there's Bruce Dern, surprisingly given one of the biggest roles and acts up a storm; his perf is watchful, unkempt, hilarious, heartbreaking... he's worked a lot since Nebraska, been in some very good movies (Hateful Eight, Chappaquiddick etc) and here's one of his very best perfs this century. Not many roles this peppery for an 85y/o. "You turned me into a ghost." |
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These next six episodes might be rough... 
