It's good, a bit overrated. I haven't read the book myself but I know some who have, any absolutely hated it, who really like the show.
This is about porn correct? So basically a TV show version of Boogie Nights?
Lost a bit of cache since the real life Whitehouse is even more absurd and hilarious now, but it's still good. Julia Luis Dreyfus(sp) was basically born to play that role. She's perfect in it.
It's a long time since I watched Boogie Nights but I remember it to be a bit goofy. The Deuce is quite gritty and serious though so far.
Funny Boogie Nights story. My (now wife) and I rented it on VHS. Prepped for a night in, popped popcorn, the hole bit. Popped the tape in a pressed play. The last person to rent it purposely left it on the last scene. My girl looked at me and said, "I fecking told you I wasn't watching porn tonight", then left the room.
Seasons 2-5 (maybe even 6) are top top TV, really brilliant. The right mix of laugh out loud comedy and sentimentalism. It tails off pretty drastically after that, but I thought it kinda reignited its spark in the second half of the last season, giving it a good send off. Even the weaker seasons are watchable though.
I thought it was alright.
Just alright? As in my time would be better spent watching something else? It's HBO, so I think my judgements are probably best reserved until I've seen the first ep.
Definitely. I mean, that is probably true in most instances. lll always give HBO shows a fair crack because they rarely let me down.
Ha, cheers man I'll try it out.
I'll second this. The Americans doesn't get nearly enough attention.
Just watched the first 3 episodes, excellent so far. Very balanced as it contains interviews with a lot of people from North Vietnam including the army and civilians who were around at the time. It starts off with some background on the French colonial days in Indochina and only really gets to the start of US troops being deployed to Vietnam in episode 3. I have seen a fair few documentaries on this subject over the years, but never one which is so objective and in-depth with contributions from people from political, military and civilian viewpoints on all sides. Already I have heard a great deal of things in this series which are totally new to me, especially in terms of the situation on South Vietnam and their government, social problems etc.both before and around the time of the war beginning. There is a lot of background information also on JFK's and Lyndon Johnson's struggles with how to approach the "South east Asia problem" it's very insightful.
Cheers for the info.
I more meant the scenes with Montague himself, alongside Paper Boi and that woman. I think I was just so invested in the story and Val for instance that the episode was sort of jarring in that it (obviously) completely took you out of it. Definitely needs watching again I reckon. Has Donald Glover said anything about the ep?Don't know if he's said anything about it. But I loved the episode because it's nothing like you'd ever get on another TV show. It was just a combination of skits they'd obviously been thinking of and decided to just dedicate a whole episode to it, and it worked imo. I watched the full season in one go, but I see where you're coming from in that it takes you away from the main story and must have been frustrating when it was first released having to wait another week to get back on track.The bit with the police
