"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
04/02/2020 at 20:51 • Filed to: coronavirus
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"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
04/02/2020 at 20:51 • Filed to: coronavirus | 2
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Notably absent from the list of TV shows everyone in the U.S. will be able to watch for free this month: Game of Thrones.
Addendum : what we seem to have here is an agreement to disagree. (Don’t ask me I’ve never seen it).
Tripper
> Just Jeepin'
04/02/2020 at 21:00 |
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Hot take: The Sopranos is unwatchable. Maybe I just saw it 20 years too late, but my wife and I were both like “WTF is this?”
Good intel, thanks!
jeepoftheseus
> Just Jeepin'
04/02/2020 at 21:00 |
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Yeah, but who wouldn’t want to watch through the Sopranos again? I for one, “ don’t stop believing” that it’s the best TV ever made.
That said Game of Thrones was legit up until they rushed it.
Thisismydisplayname
> Just Jeepin'
04/02/2020 at 21:03 |
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Sopranos is a good watch, but no westworld...bummer
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> Just Jeepin'
04/02/2020 at 21:21 |
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I’ll go the other way with the extreme opinion: I would watch all of Sopranos again before finishing a single episode of Game of Thrones.
ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> Just Jeepin'
04/02/2020 at 21:26 |
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As great as the Sopranos is, for folks that don't know the best show ever made this is their opportunity to watch The Wire for the first time.
Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> jeepoftheseus
04/02/2020 at 21:27 |
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I think I’d put t he Wire ahead of the Sopranos. Best cop series ever made, IMHO.
GoT fell over once the TV series got ahead of the books - just goes to show that writing epic fan tasy ain’t easy.
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Just Jeepin'
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
04/02/2020 at 21:34 |
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At my last job everyone was huge fans of the show, but I’ve never had HBO so I’m unfamiliar with it. Maybe I’ll give it a shot.
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jeepoftheseus
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
04/02/2020 at 21:37 |
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The Wire was great and I agree that it is the best cop series. Their ability to change to focus of the plot each season but still maintain the core characters was key to its success. The Sopranos is the best mob series.
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> Just Jeepin'
04/02/2020 at 21:39 |
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Yes! I used to be in the camp of the Sopranos being the greatest show ever made, and then I watched The Wire. It has many of the same strengths of The Sopranos, but it is grittier. In part because the plot weaves in a number of things based on events that actually happened.
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Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> jeepoftheseus
04/02/2020 at 22:17 |
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They’d also both be contenders for best theme music ever. The Wire gets extra credit by offering up a new version of the s ong each season to match the tenor of the season, while the Sopranos gets props for the fact that the song’s actually about a woman who kills her partner. I spent most of the show wondering whether it was a Chekhov’s Gun: they could have easily turned Tony and Carmela’s story in that direction. .
Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
04/02/2020 at 22:39 |
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I’ve never seen The Wire, but it might be hard to top The Shield as best cop show. That series was fantastic.
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Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
04/02/2020 at 22:57 |
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Watch it. The Shield is pretty darn good, yes, but The Wire is better. Mainly because both the good guys and the bad guys are portrayed as fully fleshed characters with strengths and flaws and lives outside the game. They basically focus on one criminal group per series, so they have plenty of time to build characters and tell stories on both sides. F or example there’s a whole subplot in one series about no gang warfare h appening on Sunday mornings because the gang stas’ grandmas are out and about going to church.
MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
04/02/2020 at 23:35 |
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Yeah I will not shut up about the fact David Simon was embedded with the Baltimore PD, and apparently lots of cops say The Wire is one of the most true to life cop shows (which is a little scary).
I remember reading that Omar is based on a real dude, and the balcony jump was a real life thing, but irl he did it from higher but they had to lower it for the show because it wasn’t going to be believable.
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MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
> Just Jeepin'
04/02/2020 at 23:37 |
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It is my absolute favourite TV show, I think it’s best described as visual novel (it’s still gritty and fun don’t worry), you get to see how the events of the plot impact all different kinds of people in the city. It has what I like about Shakespeare, where there aren’t really good or bad people. Super quotable too.
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
04/02/2020 at 23:52 |
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Being based loosely on reality is what makes it so much better, and so much darker than the Sopranos.
Along those lines, some of the actors played true to life characters. Steve Earle as a rehab leader...
“Snoop” was played by someone who had a been a real life banger in Baltimore and was originally hired as a consultant for what folks would say and do on the street. They ended up putting her in front of the camera despite not previously being an actor.
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MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
04/03/2020 at 00:36 |
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Yeah I thought that made her character really interesting, that she was really a gangster.
DipodomysDeserti
> Just Jeepin'
04/03/2020 at 01:05 |
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I’m Italian and my wife is not. We’ve been together since we were in high school (early ‘00). She once asked me if my family were like the Sopranos. I always told her, “no, we have callouses on our hands, we work for a living.” That’s the line my nonni always told all of us ( just talked to her, she’s doing alright and is in high spirits considering the circumstances ).
First time I bring her back East one of my guido uncles starts talking about how he wants to blow the CEO of his company’s head off, but apologizes for his use of profanities.
My wife looks over at me realizing we’re all scumbags.