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godfather said:
They're all fantastic. Kid actors are the hardest to fine. They all nail it.

The problem is these roles becoming bigger than their careers. Where everyone always remembers them from these roles, and they don't get a chance to really strength their legs going forward.
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I get what you are saying. But you could say the same thing for the 2 famous actors from the Harry Potter series. The main character (Harry) has gone out and did some other things (can't name you one). But even the girl has done some bigger things, including the Disney remake of Beauty and the Beast. Watched that with the girlfriend and throughout the movie I didn't think of her as, "Oh, that wizard bitch from Harry Potter."

They are all young enough to where I think they can all find their niche after ST. Especially that lisp kid - I can see him being the new Jonah Hill/Seth Rogen type of comedy actor.

If they are good actors, they will find their path in Hollywood.
 
Fiona on Shameless is so gross. Probably one of my least favorite tv characters.
 
godfather said:
I almost forgot who Barb was. She was the nerd that no one gave a shit about.

Except Nancy, because she always felt so bad she was the nerd no one cared about....

Steve is a fucking beast. Channeling Tom Cruise from Risky Business so well.

I loved him immediately for that, and hasn't stopped since.
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She became this whole fucking thing because a bunch of people, generally losers, identify with her. They weren't popular in high school, or otherwise blah...

Thought pieces were being written by low-paid writers for pop culture websites who think they are great feminists and other sages on the human condition. In the end, it is little more than millennial navel gazing and virtue signaling. It has become my pet peeve on how younger people hold up pop culture characters as rallying cries for progressive causes while completely misreading things in the rush to appear as enlightened as possible.

Here is an example:

How the Internet Made Barb from Stranger Things Happen
Despite minimal screen time, this Stranger Things character managed to win the Internet’s heart—proving that the Netflix series is summer’s one, true TV hit.

It seems redundant to say, “Let’s talk about Barb.” After all, the Internet is already talking about Stranger Things’ biggest breakout character—and has been for more than a month. Creators Matt and Ross Duffer probably never counted on one of their characters amassing a cult following this dedicated—and if they did, they almost certainly weren’t betting on Barb. The teenager, played by small-screen newcomer Shannon Purser, only gets a handful of scenes across the mere three episodes in which she appears alive and accounted for. But fans still latched onto Barb (full name: Barbara Holland), quickly spurring a small, Barb-themed cottage industry among media writers. Even John Stamoshopped on the Barb train, sending out a Barb ’gram captioned “#ImWithBarb” mere hours ago. Considering how highly our culture prizes Stamos’s esteem, that’s a pretty big coup.

Her popularity seems to have taken the show’s major players by surprise; Purser herself has said that “Barb wasn’t supposed to be a big deal.” Yet somehow, both the character and the actress are still on the rise; among some comic fans, Purser is even the favorite (over Anna Kendrick!) to play Squirrel Girl in a currently hypothetical movie adaptation. How, exactly, did this happen?

Stranger Things premiered on Netflix more than a month ago—on July 15. The fact that social media’s love of Barb is still going strong is an impressive feat for an intentionally dowdy wallflower, which is kind of the point. As many think pieces dedicated to Barb have pointed out, in a world that loves to divide the “Nancys” from the “Barbs,” most of us go through life feeling like the latter. Perhaps Vulture’sBrian Moylan said it best:

Nancy is an archetype created through an evil conspiracy launched by Wes Craven, John Hughes, and Molly Ringwald sometime during the Reagan administration. It’s a conspiracy more dangerous than nuclear proliferation, because everyone is still trying to be Nancy and hating who they really are: Barb.

In other words, by rallying around Barb, we’re really just rallying around ourselves.

There might be plenty of female misfits on TV nowadays, but most of them still looklike Nancys: slender women with big eyes and porcelain skin. By contrast, the bespectacled, freckle-flecked Barb looks more like someone you might actually meet in real life—or could have met, if you were around in the 80s. And for that, she’s a singular presence on TV who has clearly struck a nerve. Days after Stranger Thingshit Netflix, Barb fans started to show themselves. Various tweets, from wanted posters to fan art and jokes erupted on Twitter—eventually reaching a volume great enough to merit a BuzzFeed post in honor of “Queen Barb.” The Ringer followed a day later with “Everyone Needs a Friend Like Barb,” calling her the series’s best character. Vulture’s post came next; Barb even got her own Reddit thread.

And days later, the Hairpin said what all of these post had, to their own degrees, been implying: “Barb Got Boned” on the show—killed offscreen, alone and forgotten by apparently everyone else on Stranger Things. That tragic abandonment could also be why the Internet loves her so much: given how easy it is for fans to see themselves in her, it had to hurt to see her shafted so egregiously.

When HitFix asked the Duffer brothers why Barb seemed to get the short end of the stick, both said there was no lack of love for Barb behind the scenes.

Ross Duffer: “What about Barb?” became a constant refrain. We said that almost every episode as we were writing season 1. I think what it boils down to is we’re not following Barb’s parents, or her family. So what it boils down to is Nancy cares so much about Barb. It’s not that other people don’t, but that everyone else is connected to Will in an extremely personal way. It’s not that Barb’s forgotten, but that the characters we’re following are focused on finding Will.

Matt Duffer: I’m surprised and also not surprised at the outpouring of love for Barb, because that was something everyone felt on set. The fact that people aren’t really following up on her disappearance to the same degree they are with Will makes her that much more of a tragic character.

Since then, though, their tune has changed a little bit. Rather than sealing Barb’s fate as a “tragic character,” Matt Duffer told IGN last week that in the series’s second season (which has not yet been confirmed by Netflix, but is presumed to be happening), “Barb will not be forgotten.”

“We’ll make sure there’s some justice for Barb. People get very frustrated, understandably, that the town doesn’t seem to be really dealing with Barb. That stuff is all happening. We’re just not spending any screen time on it.

“It’s not like her parents are like ‘Oh Barb left. She died!’ Season One actually takes place over the course of six or seven days—it’s a really short period of time. So part of what we want to do with hypothetical Season 2 is to explore the repercussions of everything that happened.”

Fans will presumably be pleased to see Barb’s story rounded out, but it seems Internet writers are already moving on to the next stage of the cycle: backlash. Just a few weeks after Barb praise first rolled in, Decider argued that Barb is “boring.” Even BuzzFeed now has a post written by a different staffer, who “literally [has] no idea why everyone is obsessed with Barb.”


Luckily for Barb, her appeal started with the fans, and she will likely live on through them—regardless of what a few writers think. Fan art has been made. High-school photos have been tweeted as a show of support. There’s no going back now. Barb is everyone. Barb is immortal. Maybe more than anything, the tireless examination (and re-examination) she’s prompted—despite being a footnote in the show’s narrative—proves that Stranger Things is the biggest TV hit of the summer . . . if not the only one.​
 
Star Trek Discovery has been surprisingly good for anyone who hasn't seen the latest episodes.
 
While laid up from foot surgery, I'm going to confess to having watched Supernatural, and liking it.
 
brownindian said:
STOP once u complete season 5. After that is starts going downhill.
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Heck, I'm almost caught up at this point. Season 5 probably was the high point, but I still like the interaction between the brothers, and it's actually a pretty funny show as long as you're not too politically correct.
 
Some upcoming viewing... Mudbound is a Netflix movie but damn it good looks good.




 
Anyone else wanna talk about Ozark? I just watched it, and it's pretty impressive. I really like the Ruth character. Stunning performances, and more than a couple "holy fucking shit" moments.

Similar to Breaking Bad, it can be confusing who to root for from episode to episode. So much depth to every character, good and bad.

It's not my favorite plot, but a well made show and I definitely look forward to next season.
 
Dog said:
Anyone else wanna talk about Ozark? I just watched it, and it's pretty impressive. I really like the Ruth character. Stunning performances, and more than a couple "holy fucking shit" moments.

Similar to Breaking Bad, it can be confusing who to root for from episode to episode. So much depth to every character, good and bad.

It's not my favorite plot, but a well made show and I definitely look forward to next season.
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I thought the issue with it is that there isn't really a character to root for because they're all pieces of shit. It worked in Breaking Bad because Walt didn't start out a total psychopath but gradually worked his way there over the course of the series, whereas in Ozark Jason Bateman's character is already a criminal when the show begins.
 
The Wizard of Moz said:
Fuck every single one of your assholes for not threatening me with violence until I watched rick and Morty

Put it off for forever. Binge watched the entire series over the last week. Fucking great show
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We could threaten you with violence but you already watch the Browns!! Cant punish you more can we ?
 
Dog said:
Anyone else wanna talk about Ozark? I just watched it, and it's pretty impressive. I really like the Ruth character. Stunning performances, and more than a couple "holy fucking shit" moments.

Similar to Breaking Bad, it can be confusing who to root for from episode to episode. So much depth to every character, good and bad.

It's not my favorite plot, but a well made show and I definitely look forward to next season.
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It was ok. I really liked Breaking Bad and Bloodline and Ozark has elements of both. But I liked Ozark the least.

Still solid though.
 
I'm watching every show that the director/producer/main character is a white jew, specifically the ones that are balding and are comedians.. as I feel like they are at risk for sexual assault.. I really gotta see every good show before it gets taken down.

I feel like LArry David is at risk now so I'm binging on Curb your Enthusiasm. Louie C.K was already too much, can't take two casualties.
 
Dog said:
Anyone else wanna talk about Ozark? I just watched it, and it's pretty impressive. I really like the Ruth character. Stunning performances, and more than a couple "holy fucking shit" moments.

Similar to Breaking Bad, it can be confusing who to root for from episode to episode. So much depth to every character, good and bad.

It's not my favorite plot, but a well made show and I definitely look forward to next season.
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Thought it was absolutely tremendous. Everything about it.
 
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