I've read most of the Reacher books and enjoyed them. I could never convince myself to watch the movies with Tom Cruise. I don't know how they could have made look nearly big enough for Reacher.

Wife and I started the first season a few days ago and it seems to be following the first book quite well and the actor actually looks the part! It is getting a little slow but I know it will pick up at the end but they probably could have shortened the season by an episode or two without losing the storyline.
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AMC has set the premiere date for the sixth and final season of Emmy-nominated drama series Better Call Saul. The final chapter, from Sony Pictures Television, will premiere with two back-to-back-episodes starting at 9 p.m. Monday, April 18, on AMC and AMC+.
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I'm going to have to re-watch like the final 3 episodes to remember what was happening...but love this show.
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They will likely play the entire series leading up to it.
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Now this song is stuck in my head too. They just keep finding perfect songs on this show.


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I fervently hope it's totally purposeful, but whether it is or isn't it is genius to connect the story of the Gemstones to the peace and love hippy spiritual movement.

It's such a delicious twist on the likeable villain trope of our recent televised drama experience. The Gemstones are largely flagrantly unlikeable, but instead of balancing charisma against horrible acts, they are balancing petty and doofy and stupid against intrinsically benign impulses in there somewhere buried deep.

I encourage people to think about the story they AREN'T telling when watching this show. It's not 24/7 scheming to outright defraud and steal and accumulate power. They seek power, but they have lines they won't cross, they curse and fuck around and are entitled, but they don't despise their supporters. Aimee-Lee is a spectre of Christian example hovering over them, lovable and beloved and always vigilant for the proper Christian thing to do, whether it comes to charitability, forgiveness, manners, openness, etc., and you constantly see glimpses of people trying [though often failing spectacularly] to live up to her example.

And what you DON'T see is followers suffering from their association, aside from occasional cake throwing and bad fashion choices. People flock to them for that feel-good redemption story and largely they receive it.

This isn't so much a story about how awful televangelists are, as it is how easy it is for the best of intentions to be worn down by life and human nature.

At its heart the Gemstone story is the story of the entire Boomer evolution, the long slow slog from free-love generosity and positivity to entitlement and materialism.
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Not a series, but I caught TinderSwindler last night. That was something else.
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Man, that took a HARD left turn, hope it's just a one-off detour.
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Cal is cracking me up on euphoria. All I have to say is “You wanna wrestle?”
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Halfway through "The Shield" season 2. This show is otherworldly with the performances from its leads. So gritty and visceral does the action feel. It's like watching a morally ambiguous scripted version of COPS, and getting to see everything that happens in between. How is this show not thrown around with the GOATS? My understanding is the breakneck pace never let's up.
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Peacockin' around like Hoda Kotb or some shit . . .
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Off topic but I just switched to Prime Video. What an abomination that service is.
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What’s so bad about it? Watched Reacher on it a couple weeks ago and it’s fine. It has some truly shit content on there but so does Netflix.
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The user interface on Amazon when browsing for new things to watch is pretty rough.
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My favorite series ever.
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