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The trailers looked promising and after watching Jeff Daniels on Colbert last night I checked it out. Looks damn good so far. Rural Western PA Police Chief with PTSD investigates a murder that his married girlfriend's (Maura Tierney) son may or may not be a suspect. On Showtime.

 

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Fun fact---most of that source material book was written on the Forty Acres.  

6 minutes ago, deadshank said:

Jeff Daniels seems to get better and better.

dumb and dumber GIF

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1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

dumb and dumber GIF

 

His performance in God of Carnage and To Kill A Mockingbird was shockingly good. He is an amazing actor, probably one of the most underrated of this generation. 

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8 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

His performance in God of Carnage and To Kill A Mockingbird was shockingly good.

Watch the whole Colbert interview. He's going back on Broadway with TKAM to help kickstart the theater industry. They were hit incredibly hard with the shutdown.

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

Fun fact---most of that source material book was written on the Forty Acres.  

It's a good book.  The Son is in my top 5. It looks like he has a new book coming out soon too.

Good to hear.  I loved "The Son", wife read American Rust and I've been meaning to get around to it.  I don't read much fiction but will probably cheat and watch this Jeff Daniels work instead.  Meyer's a fascinating cat.  He was living here in Austin during the AMC production and then stuck around for awhile.  Lost touch with him but if he still gives talks at UT every now and again.  Go if you can and offer him whiskey and just listen.  He has a fascinating gift for retroactive worldview even though his own life was not what you'd expect from a man who communicate painful grit the way he does.  

I wish Jeff Daniels would do another western. Godless is a top 10 Netflix production in my opinion. 

I'm on a bit of a non-fiction kick, but I love the setting and source material of The Son. I'll probably get around to reading it eventually. The AMC show is OK. B- show to kill a few hours. 

2 hours ago, Lobo said:

Fun fact---most of that source material book was written on the Forty Acres.  

So that explains the rust and dust on Sarkisian's playbook.

Yeah, the series was good but not as great as it could have been...I suppose.  

Acting was good, writing was obviously stellar.  Not sure if was the adaptation or the production palate...but something did kinda fall a tad flat.  We watched it all the way through it was released on AMC...but I don't think I'd be remotely tempted to go back and binge it again on streaming.  But the book is just the embodiment of engrossing.  

1 hour ago, RPM said:

Watch the whole Colbert interview. He's going back on Broadway with TKAM to help kickstart the theater industry. They were hit incredibly hard with the shutdown.

We ended up going to the opening show of Hadestown that reopened Broadway. We are fortunate to (in normal years) see 20-30 shows. TKAM was very well done. 

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I've never seen a Broadway show. Vegas is as close as I've come. Bucket list.

TKMB with Daniels was my first one in August 2019.  It was great.  I was expecting a theater the size of Bass but it was much more like the Paramount and I think we paid $65 for the tickets.  Highly recommend.

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So…anyone still actually watching this show?

Daniels is turning in great performances week after week, but it’s kinda feeling like a knock-off of Mare of Easttown.

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I'm still in. 

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Man, I was getting an anxiety attack watching Daniels have one when cutting up the pill. Dude is a helluva actor.

So…anyone still actually watching this show?

Daniels is turning in great performances week after week, but it’s kinda feeling like a knock-off of Mare of Easttown.

Not a knockoff of Mare. It stands on its own.

Plot has been predictable but the performances have all been really good.

I'm a fan but it's definitely been a slow burn. I also don't expect it to speed up much so hopefully that isn't anyone's expectation. 

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Great episode, season finale next week. "I know what has to be done."

Is this show worth checking out?

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It's good.

On 10/31/2021 at 10:09 PM, RPM said:

Great episode, season finale next week. "I know what has to be done."

Ominous foreshadowing...

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I predict a tragedy in 3 parts: 1) Del gives in to his blood lust and murders the drug dealer. 2) Billy is murdered by the Aryans. 3) Isaac returns to Buell to confess to killing Novick, but he is too late to prevent 1 and 2. 

 

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Excellent episode. Surprised this doesn't have more Surly followers.

We need more shows like this but this was also the type of show that never has future seasons. Slow burn and might be relatively expensive with a well known movie actor.

does anyone know if it’s been picked up for season 2?

They left a lot of loose ends. I hope there’s a season 2. Just about every character in the show made one shitty decision after another. Hard to fathom that the attractive daughter would throw away a potentially successful legal career and a nice husband to go back to her shitty hometown to take care of her grumpy father and screw her loser old boyfriend.

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So if this guy is so cautious living out in the woods to put out bear traps, then why doesn't he have a few dogs?  Who lives in the country without at least one dog?     

 

Also, why did he have to hotwire the Buick in the parking lot, but used the key outside the bar?     

And yes, a lot of loose ends.   You have the Pittsburg angle, the NYC angle, the union angle, the drug angle, the aryan angle, the abusive ex angle.  A veritable smorgasbord of things to flesh out, lol.    

I would guess the girl ran because the dad had turned from wonder dad to ogre.  So she left it all behind, but came back due to some loyalty to some of the people in her past.  

The storylines weren't perfect but at least they didn't follow the expected path. Off the top of my head, I think everyone ended Season 1 in a bad situation. Even the deputy cop, who was the closest to following a straight and narrow path, was in a bad way because he suspects what his boss just did.

One criticism that that they didn't really make me care for or like some of the major characters like Lee, Billy or Isaac.  

Loved how the deadbeat ex-husband showed the chief what a fool the chief was.

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It was a pet project for Daniels so I expect Showtime to pick it up just to keep him in the stable.

38 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

The storylines weren't perfect but at least they didn't follow the expected path. Off the top of my head, I think everyone ended Season 1 in a bad situation. Even the deputy cop, who was the closest to following a straight and narrow path, was in a bad way because he suspects what his boss just did.

One criticism that that they didn't really make me care for or like some of the major characters like Lee, Billy or Isaac.  

Loved how the deadbeat ex-husband showed the chief what a fool the chief was.

That's a good point.  It's uniquely written from that standpoint.  Hadn't really thought about it, but now I am thinking maybe that's part of the storyline.   It's not like you dislike them profusely, but each has their flaws to keep them from being embraceable.  

I would have thought by the title and the fact it's a Daniels' vehicle, there would be more focus on the decline of fly over America, but other than the union issue that's been pretty quiet.  

1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Loved how the deadbeat ex-husband showed the chief what a fool the chief was.

Indeed.  And he didn't have to piss on the rug.

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Just started this, so I have only lightly skimmed the posts other than the Jeff Daniels adoration, with which I am in full agreement.  Moira Kelly is pretty reliable, also.

I am a bit of a fool for W. Pa. as a backdrop.  The coal and steel history is fascinating, and the abandoned mills are picturesque along with the landscape.  This area reminds me a lot of the area where Out of the Furnace was filmed and I think it very close by if not some of the same.

I'm two eps in and enjoying it, but a little frustrated by the slow character revelation/development.  But I guess that's keeping me interested, as well.

Wait, so there are only 9 episodes??? The wife and I just finished the 9th episode tonight and were expecting a 10th and final one this Sunday. Fuck! There HAS to be a season 2 coming!

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25 minutes ago, Burt said:

There HAS to be a season 2 coming!

As much chatter as there is, I'm pretty sure we'll get S2.

Well, it's based on a book, does the book tie it up?

Lord knows there have been a number of book-based shows that go on past the book but  . . . .

To a certain extent, the whole show themed off of the desperation and despair of middle America, and ultimately the uncertainty.  The end of this season certainly leaves that in place.

  • 2 months later...
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Damn

I just finished up the book, after also reading The Son.  Enough differences that the book is not spoiled and neither is the show.

Given that it's book-based, and the show, for all its differences, ended approximately where the book did, I'm not surprised.  They probably would have fucked it up, anyway.

sad to hear.  the season ended strong after dipping a bit in the middle.

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