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Even though Vincent Gallo might not agree, Soderbergh has hit some unbelievable highs in his career (Ocean’s Eleven, The Girlfriend Experience, Traffic), and apart from Twin Peaks: The Return, a film director has never goated television as hard as The Knick. Performances of the life from Clive Owen and Eve Hewson and my favorite TV score of all time -- big shouts to Cliff Martinez.
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I finished all three seasons of The Deuce and I really loved it! HBO show about New York between the 70s-80s based around the porn industry and sex workers. Don’t let James Franco put you off, he’s by far the least interesting thing about it. Maggie Gyllenhaal shines, as do all the women in it tbh. It depicts sex workers with a grace and humanity that TV so rarely allows them, and shows the bad and the good that sex work brought them. Very much society = bad, not sex workers/sex work in itself.
Mar 28, 2024
goated show and perhaps one of the most slept on shows of all time
justin theroux? hot
carrie coon? hot and now a white lotus star
regina king? hot
and guess what i didn’t even name all the hot people, that is just the cherry on top
- it has some of the best episodes of television ever aired.
- the soundtrack absolutely cooks
- it will make you feel every emotion that exists
- it will change your perspective on life and love and the things that matter to you
- you’ll never know what is about to happen next, sorry!
if you haven’t seen the leftovers there is a part of you soul that is missing… go now!
Feb 27, 2025
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that's my short list, but The Wire is the clear GOAT.
Also: every HBO miniseries is *top tier*. Every one. It's ridiculous.
FX is also remarkably consistent, in general.
Feb 7, 2024
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The saving grace of my workouts, and a massage chair all in one hand. Over time this thing has actually become an incentive in of itself for me to workout because I so eagerly look forward to using it after going ham and abusing myself. It’s a good bonding device for me and my girlfriend too, a 2021 alt to the “backscratchers” of the boomer generation. For me it’s the best kind of gun.
Mar 23, 2021
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“Wealth” from Spirit of Eden was the first song that had me fall in love with Mark Hollis’ holy late period records with Talk Talk, but this highpoint from Laughing Stock may eclipse it. The world imploding as God reveals himself. Now I know where “Reckoner” was born.
Mar 23, 2021
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As perfect a movie as I’ve ever seen. Changed my life the moment I saw it from the barrel chairs of Metrograph with angel Terrence Davies there to speak. A love song to his mother, the movies, and the home in which he grew up. Loaded with a phantasmagorical sound design and mix matched only in emotional impact by the music of Burial.
Mar 23, 2021