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I’m very fond of the TV show, Evil. A main protagonist is the mother of four daughters, and the way all four talk at the same time with such energy is the most realistic portrayal of kids yet to be presented.
 
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I watched the premiere episode of Bear. It is an anxiety attack, and I found myself hoping for an unfortunate end to the cousin…
 
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Tuned into Croatia vs Italy just in time to see Croatia score. Sounds like half of Croatia are in the stadium.
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
Yeah, I root for Italy.
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I worked with a few Croatians with NATO, but a lot of Italians. Italy and Spain have a passion for futbol that seems unrivaled. England, Germany, and France were passionate, but Spaniards and Italians were next level.

Our team had control over the limited cable channels distributed over the server and I had a 3 star Italian blessing me out in '16 because the Italy WC match wasn't on. It took me ten minutes to explain to him it wasn't on because it had been delayed not because I wasn't showing it. Then he apologized and catered a lunch to our whole team the next day.
 
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volfanbill said:
I worked with a few Croatians with NATO, but a lot of Italians. Italy and Spain have a passion for futbol that seems unrivaled. England, Germany, and France were passionate, but Spaniards and Italians were next level.

Our team had control over the limited cable channels distributed over the server and I had a 3 star Italian blessing me out in '16 because the Italy WC match wasn't on. It took me ten minutes to explain to him it wasn't on because it had been delayed not because I wasn't showing it. Then he apologized and catered a lunch to our whole team the next day.
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We had a fantastic neighborhood Italian restaurant 2 blocks from our apartment in San Francisco. They would call us when a table was ready, or walk across the street to the lounge to get us.

We had our regular server, Italian, great guy and a passionate fan of Italy. The night of the 2006 WC finals some friends came by our place and we were walking down the street for dinner.

We walked by the restaurant, and I said hold on, gotta go congratulate Antonio. Went in and gave him a big congratulatory hug.
 
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I haven't watched much lately but In my opinion, the fall guy was terrible. Hit Man was terrible, I didn't finish either of those.

Fallout is a joke I only watched 1 full episode and stopped about 3/4 through the second.

Presumed innocent is excellent. House of the dragon is getting better.

The bear season 3 drops tomorrow. I look forward to that.
 
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GordonC said:
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don't see The Name of the Rose available on streaming very often...on Prime now...will probably give it a watch later
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One of my favorite books of all time, and while their never as good as the books, I thought it was one of Connery‘s besht roleeeeeeeeeesssss. I highly recommend Ecos other masterpiece “Foucault’s Pendulum” way ahead of its time. the book I mean.
 
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Behr said:
I haven't watched much lately but In my opinion, the fall guy was terrible. Hit Man was terrible, I didn't finish either of those.

Fallout is a joke I only watched 1 full episode and stopped about 3/4 through the second.
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yet Fallout’s viewership is epic and has overwhelming positive reviews from just about everyone under the age of Methusela. I’m glad you can fish at least. Maybe you won’t go hungry as a critic. Goggins char alone makes the series worth it.
 
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Sgt_Nick_Fury said:
yet Fallout’s viewership is epic and has overwhelming positive reviews from just about everyone under the age of Methusela. I’m glad you can fish at least. Maybe you won’t go hungry as a critic. Goggins char alone makes the series worth it.
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To each his own but that chick can't act. I was embarrassed for her and she's a big part of the story from what I could tell. Goggins ain't good enough to make up for it.

It ain't for me, but I hope you enjoy err minute of it.
 
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Sgt_Nick_Fury said:
yet Fallout’s viewership is epic and has overwhelming positive reviews from just about everyone under the age of Methusela. I’m glad you can fish at least. Maybe you won’t go hungry as a critic. Goggins char alone makes the series worth it.
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Methuselah had pimples. Whippersnapper.
 
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Behr said:
To each his own but that chick can't act. I was embarrassed for her and she's a big part of the story from what I could tell. Goggins ain't good enough to make up for it.

It ain't for me, but I hope you enjoy err minute of it.
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Well I like the game ALOT, so that helps. I have played every incarnation of it. I also love old sci fi, retro movie serials stuff from long before I was born....my dad grew up going to watch them as a kid in the theater on Saturdays, and we always had a collection of the rereleases at home on video. And stuff like Rocky Horror that made fun of them. It really reminds me of that. I like dark humor in anything, and it has megatons of it.

As for Lucy, I think the actress is pretty hawt, (short brunettes rule absolutely MY type) and as for her acting she plays her character very well actually. She is supposed to be naive, and clueless, that's sort of her character.....it totally makes sense for naive "vault culture" that she represents. Vault culture of course just representation of the naive innocences of 40-60s American culture. She has a high IQ but absolutely is ignorant of everything on the surface or how the real world works outside of her ultimate gated community. It's refreshing to see such a character to me, because in most new shows the female protagonist always has to be the smartest in the room, and as wise as 80 yr old sages. She kinda perfectly represents the over educated and under experienced college grad.

Goggins also makes up for any negatives.....he absolutely is the best western character since the original Clint Eastwood s'getti westerns. This character will be iconic. He's dark, sharp, individualist, bad ass looking, and a great character of all teh old western film stars.

I think the mistake is taking a show seriously though that is based on a franchise that has always made fun of itself, and in general makes fun of old sci fi tropes from the 50's. And makes fun of the darker side of DC politics, and history, and American culture. It's very much in the vein of Firefly, Brisco County Junior or other tongue and cheek shows that go for humor over realism..... I also love the Maximus character, because I get why he is the way he is, it's lost on non fallout playing people though, he took the "idiot savant" perk. All the main character's are based on character traits in the game....and the actor literally brilliantly plays the Idiot Savant play through...where you choose like 1 IQ point, and yet dumb luck seems to follow you. Its why he's so bad at verbalizing himself and gets himself in trouble because of poor choice of words, yuet always comes out on top anyway. But I think anyone who enjoys old sci fi would also enjoy it.

As the seasons progressess it becomes pretty clear the writers are pretty heavily commenting on the insanity of the past few years as well, and has very thinly veiled comentary.... their deffinately in the know, about more then a few things.

I dunno I would encourage you to give it another go and at least get 4 shows in. I think it has a great story, memorable characters and is alot of fun. It's currently 93% with the critics on the tomatometer, and 90% with audiances.... that should say something. Jonathan Nolan doesn't make crap, West World was great, The Prestige, and Memento likewise were great films.....he creates onions with layers.
 
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