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  1. 1 minute ago, Smax said:

     

     

    right..

    and Trophs post here, are exactly what Dave was talking about, at least that's how I understood the point of the show. Its a shame people would rather get offended and defensive then actually listen to what people are saying and view it from their POV

    Word. 

  2. 12 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    I swear to god, this is such stupid bullshit. White comedians joke about black people all the time. Straight people joke about gays and others all the time. Have you ever watched Daniel Tosh? Norm MacDonald? Bert Kreischer? Its all about context. Many can get away with it, others can't because they are bad comedians or bad at context or are being obviously hateful and not humorous. It seems that this controversy here is whether Dave is trying to laugh with the trans community or at them, and the disagreement alone indicates that he failed to set up a proper context, or might in fact have open hostility towards trans people which comes across in the act. I'm going to watch intently this weekend and form my own opinion. I just recall his more recent specials feeling more like a lecture than a comedy special, and the trans stuff was funny for a moment, then he kept at it and it lost the humorous context in my opinion. Focusing on it in a new special tells me that there is likely some legitimacy to the criticism. Almost as though he's poking the bear solely to push buttons. I'll have more to say this weekend for sure.

    I was commenting on Troph's issues with who can and can't tell jokes about certain demographics. It's fucking comedy. Don't like it? Don't fucking watch it. Turning into an indictment on society and trying to cancel a comedian is just about the dumbest shit on Earth. Troph is talking out of both sides of her face and it's nauseating. 

    I love all those comedians you listed. Just as I love Bill Burr, Jeselnik, Louie CK (the horror), Chapelle, Pryor, Murphy, Bernie Mac, and Carlin. They all have said offensive shit from time to time. Big fucking deal. 

  3. 14 hours ago, troph said:

    No he can say whatever the fuck he wants. It’s not funny.  That’s the point. Half a dozen or more people here said the same thing but OMFG the tranny is mad. Nope. It was bad comedy. And one reason is because just like the white guy making black jokes the context wins. Dave’s an asshole and he was talking out of it on stage and a lot of folks just think it’s bad humor.

    Wait, so white men can't make jokes about blacks, but blacks can make all the white jokes they want? That doesn't seem a bit, i dunno, off?

  4. 13 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

    I just cancelled hbomax and this is half as much. AMC+ comes with Shudder which I'm loving.

    I've got a three streaming service policy. 

    Right now netflix , hulu, and this.

    I get HBOMax free with my AT&T subscription. I have the Hulu/Disney/ESPN bundle. Netflix is really the only standalone subscription that I still have. If it wasn't for my wife loving their dumbass shows like Outer Banks, I'd cancel that too. 

  5. 14 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Right. Because he was all sunshine and rainbows in the first season. Lulz. 

    That's not what I said. He was never a good guy. But he definitely sunk deeper and was darker in Season 6 than Season 1. 

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  6. 2 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Weak sauce. That’s not a slam. That’s why he’s been a successful coach at every stop in college football. (Unlike Saban.) Because he hates so badly to lose. And, assuming you’re a Longhorns fan, you desperately wanted him to be your coach. (I’ve posted recently about how people like to post that pic as if it’s some sort of putdown but it’s just not.)

    It doesn’t change the fact that The Sopranos was filled with two-dimensional characters who were never developed. At all. Just doing different stuff isn’t development.

    A good example of character development can be found in the tv series MASH. I’ve seen a lot of members of this community complain about the change from the Frank-Trapper-Henry era to the Winchester-BJ-Potter era. But the earlier era was more flat and two-dimensional. Those characters didn’t evolve at all. After the cast change we saw characters who were developed and it wasn’t restricted to those three new cast members. It included Hawkeye and Margaret and even Klinger.

    Look at where McNulty and Bubbles started and ended on The Wire. And development doesn’t have to mean an improvement of personal character. Look at Walter White in Breaking Bad. The fact is that there was practically no character development in The Sopranos.

    I'm gonna have to disagree. Tony was markedly darker and a more vile character by the end of the run from the beginning. 

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  7. 11 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    I think I’m out on the MBA and the Button Man. Pennisi just rambles on aimlessly about pointless mob life anecdotes. He’s much better in interviews with skilled journalists asking him questions. The MBA has no interest on keeping him on track or following up. 
     

    Pennisi’s story is interesting. Basically, he says he turned rat because the life wasn’t right for him. He’s pretty ho hum about it. Like he quit his job at Target. 

    I don't listen to it that often, because the production quality is terrible. The OG podcast is much better. And yeah, Pennisi is much better as a guest on The OG than being a host of his own. 

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  8. 1 minute ago, Deej said:

    Or maybe Junior stepped in as Tony's mentor after having Dickie killed. 

    Yeah, possible, but in the series it shows them playing ball and having a relationship. And they reference it many times. I doubt that all just started between Tony being 17 to late 30s. 

  9. Another disconnect between the series and the movie, for me, is the relationship between Tony and Junior. In the series, it's portrayed like Junior was a father figure to Tony and that they had a close relationship. But that is not shown whatsoever in the movie. Junior's mentorship of Tony was just suddenly substituted as Dickey. 

  10. On 10/1/2021 at 1:13 PM, Go Pokes said:

    I think, instead of comparing this season to past seasons, we are comparing this season to what could have been this season.  At least I am.  Yeah, it was better than every recent season except for Tyler's, but it was still pretty boring.  Absolutely no chance of anything happening from the time we got to jury to the final 6.  Seeing if the CO could pull it off was the only interesting part of the season.  But the CO is also the reason it was so bad.  The most impressive alliance we've ever seen basically made the season a snooze fest.   Having to boot out good players like Claire, DX, SB and Alyssa to keep two worthless sleeping lumps of flesh took a lot of the fun out of the season and 90% of the strategy.   At least I think almost everybody is happy with the way it ended and who won.  Can't even say that about a lot of recent seasons.  

    I agree. I even said early on, in this thread I believe, that X was one the players I was rooting for. But once it became so boring and worthless to watch, I bailed. I've never bailed on a season until this one. 

  11. 8 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    i mean it sucks to say, but this was the best season in, what, five years? more? i think that the show will be better moving forward because if this season. the previous 3-4+ seasons were all carbon copies and super uninteresting. this one wasn't a ton better in terms of entertainment,  it at least it would be just a copy/paste every year now. 

    Best season in five years? Bull fucking shit. 

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  12. I've always wondered how guys like Michael Franzese and John Pannisi get away with being so public after they've flipped. Does the mafia not take these guys out anymore? Or would that bring too much attention nowadays?

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  13. 12 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    And it’s not even like he made wholesale changes.  It’s just the same people, again, with a couple more big players who will never be in a sketch in a meaningful role.  

    Are we sure some of these people in the cast really still work on the show?   Like, did Melissa Villasenor actually leave 2 years ago and she still gets a credit because of some HR glitch or weird SAG union rule?  Nobody knows.

    So we fixed the glitch.

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