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Carl

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It's a rarity, where a show gets better. Season 3 is the best so far. Nuanced and very enjoyable. I am through 10 episodes.
 
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It's a rarity, where a show gets better. Season 3 is the best so far. Nuanced and very enjoyable. I am through 10 episodes.
I assume you're referring to The Americans. Haven't watched season 3 yet as I'm just catching up on a lot of other stuff I had already started. Looking forward to it
 

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4 episodes into season 2 of Daredevil.

Jon Bernthal has knocked The Punisher out of the park.
 

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Peter Serafinowicz is your new The Tick
By William Hughes
Mar 22, 2016 7:15 PM


Deadline is reporting that British actor Peter Serafinowicz has been cast in Amazon’s revival of The Tick, replacing Patrick Warburton, who played the big blue bug of justice on Fox’s mid-2000s version of the cult superhero show. The deep-voiced, 6’5” actor joins a cast that already includes Griffin Newman and Valerie Curry, who’ll play The Tick’s moth-suited sidekick Arthur and his sister Dot, respectively.

If Serafinowicz sounds familiar, it’s because he’s been in—to use a technical term—a shitload of things, from Shaun Of The Dead to South Park to Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, where he provided the voice for the taciturn Darth Maul. If nothing else, comic book fans probably remember him from Guardians Of The Galaxy, where he played a dour member of the futilely heroic Nova Corps. (Comedy dorks, meanwhile, know him as one of the minds behind the surreal genius of the BBC’s faux-educational “science” series, Look Around You.)

Tick fans worried that a Brit is taking over the character—originally created by Ben Edlund, who’s executive producing the Amazon pilot—might want to check out the clip below, where Serafinowicz seamlessly cycles through 50 impressions of fake celebrities for the U.K.’s version of Funny Or Die. We’re pretty sure the stalwart Rik Keanureeves (or maybe The Murderist star Jip Jones) would sound perfect shouting “Spoon,” and punching evil in its big, stupid face.
 

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I like Serafinowicz a lot, but it will be hard to replace Warburton
 

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Vince Gilligan Finally Reveals Why Walter White Left Gray Matter

By WatchTopMovies Staff -- March 17, 2016


It’s been about three years since the show ended, but somehow we just got a huge bit of “Breaking” news.

Yeah, your life has to be pretty messed up to make you throw pizza on the roof of your house. (That’s just wasteful, bro.) Now we finally know more about how Walter White got to that point in “Breaking Bad.” Namely, show creator Vince Gilligan and co-showrunner Peter Gould filled us in on why he left his old company, Gray Matter.

In the series, we learn White co-founded Gray Matter Technologies along with his friend Elliott Schwartz. White is dating his lab assistant, Gretchen, but he suddenly leaves her while spending 4th of July weekend with her family. He sells his shares of Gray Matter to his partner for $5,000. The company is later worth billions, Elliott and Gretchen get married and White goes on to, you know, die in a meth lab. (And they all lived happily ever after.)

The real reason White left Gray Matter, which serves as part of the motivation for the character’s dark turn, has remained a mystery, but while chatting with The Huffington Post about “Yo Soy Saul,” an original song created for “Better Call Saul,” Gilligan and Gould also finally opened up about one of the biggest unanswered questions from the series:

Here’s why Walter White left Gray Matter.


“Breaking Bad” actress Jessica Hecht, who plays Gretchen, mentioned in an AMC Q&A that Walt left the company and their relationship because he felt inferior. Gilligan confirmed this was true to HuffPost, saying, “She’s correct, and that’s what I explained to her and to [Bryan Cranston] before they shot that big scene between the two of them where they were at the restaurant.”

The scene Gilligan is referring to takes place in the Season 2 episode “Peekaboo.”

“It ends with him being so nasty to her saying, ‘Fuck you,’ and then she leaves tearfully,” said Gilligan. “In my mind, the interesting thing here — and I always kind of hate to nail it down so explicitly — but let’s put it this way, most viewers of ‘Breaking Bad’ assume Gretchen and Elliott are the bad guys, and they assume that Walt got ripped off by them, got ill used by them, and I never actually saw it that way.”

Gilligan explained that the truth is more nuanced. It all stemmed from White’s feeling of inferiority while spending time with Gretchen’s family.

“I think it was kind of situation where he didn’t realize the girl he was about to marry was so very wealthy and came from such a prominent family, and it kind of blew his mind and made him feel inferior and he overreacted. He just kind of checked out. I think there is that whole other side to the story, and it can be gleaned. This isn’t really the CliffsNotes version so much. These facts can be gleaned if you watch some of these scenes really closely enough, and you watch them without too much of an overriding bias toward Walt and against Gretchen and Elliott,” said Gilligan.

Gould added, “I think the interesting thing is not exactly what happened but the fact that Walt hasn’t let it go over all these years. He has no perspective on himself. He gets to the point where all he can really do is try to justify everything that he’s done.”

Gould believes Walt did finally change at the very end. “He was there for one thing: to take care of his family,” he said.

“The short answer here is that I think people tend to think of Gretchen and Elliott as the villains because they’re a couple of rich happy people, and they seemed to be arrayed against our hero, ‘Walter White,’ but the truth may be not so quite on the nose,” said Gilligan.

Admitting that is the first part of the healing process. The second part is not throwing your pizza.

 

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I'm though Ep 6 of Daredevil and you guys are right, they did great casting the Punisher. I know it's older stuff, but Sherlock is a really good watch too. 3 seasons so far of 3 episodes each season. Cumberbatch was great in that.
 

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Gotta give credit to TWD producers. They know how to take a story that could be done on two episodes last six.
 

boozeman

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I'm though Ep 6 of Daredevil and you guys are right, they did great casting the Punisher. I know it's older stuff, but Sherlock is a really good watch too. 3 seasons so far of 3 episodes each season. Cumberbatch was great in that.
The Punisher deserves his own show. Period.
 

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Gotta give credit to TWD producers. They know how to take a story that could be done on two episodes last six.
Yea they just strect and stretch this show because of the ratings. This show should not go on more than another 2, maybe 3 seasons but God knows this shit will probably go on until about 2022.
 

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Gotta give credit to TWD producers. They know how to take a story that could be done on two episodes last six.
I think every episode this second half has been very good. We usually get some slow stuff that doesn't make much sense, but I haven't seen that this time around.
 

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I think every episode this second half has been very good. We usually get some slow stuff that doesn't make much sense, but I haven't seen that this time around.
Agreed. But the pace has been at a crawl.
 

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Agreed. But the pace has been at a crawl.
Yeah, but I can understand why. Building up the anticipation for the arrival of Negan. This guy is going to make the Governor look like a teddy bear.
 

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Looking forward to next weeks finale but scared at the same time.
 

NoDak

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Looking forward to next weeks finale but scared at the same time.
Same here.

I initially thought that Darryl was going to be the one that met Lucille, but I'm not so sure now that he's been shot. I don't think he's dead, but I doubt they'd brain him shortly after shooting him. I was thinking it was either going to be him or Carol that got it, but now I have no idea. Who knows? Maybe Abraham? But I hope not. I'm starting to really like his one liners.
 
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