The Young Pope? Is that a Mel Brooks production?

The young pope looks similar to the bourges.

Could be good!

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Is that similar to Borgia?

I'm interested in hearing whether Tom Hardy's cockney accent slips into Bane like it did in Peaky Blinders.

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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Ha! Thats what i meant.

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So I watched the premier episode of The Young Pope last night. What a shit show that was. A stylistically incoherent disaster with no redeeming or engaging qualities. The Pope is such an over the top cartoonish villain that it obliterated any chance of a plausible narrative. Nothing at all like I expected from the previews. I always give a show two episodes, but I can't see it going anywhere beyond that.

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W

I plan to get into Taboo soon, but another really good one right now is Shooter with Ryan Phillippe. It's on USA, all episodes so far are on demand. Really good show.

You're looking for plausible narrative?

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"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

We just started Sneaky Pete on Amazon. Good so far. I think there's only one season to watch for now.

We're halfway through the second season of Shameless on Netflix. That's entertaining as well, in a different sort of way.

Those are my Tuesday morning suggestions.

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The Pope is such an over the top cartoonish villain that it obliterated any chance of a plausible narrative.

I watched it based on your interest, and couldn't figure out what to make of the show. I didn't mind the pope's anti-hero/villain turn as much as the over the top caricatures of all the other prelates around him. At least I was trying to figure out what I was supposed to make of the pope. But the other characters- talk about cartoonish. Not interesting at all.

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

That sucks. I planned on checking it out this weekend, perhaps you saved me some time!

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who's smarter than you're? i'm!

I was done after the "don't laugh too much....you should laugh now" scene. WTF was that? And his mother's monologue; I didn't know if that was supposed to be an actual dramatic moment or some sort of ironic meta-treatment. The entire episode just left me baffled and disinterested.

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W

I was done after the "don't laugh too much....you should laugh now" scene. WTF was that?

Exactly. The manipulative, scheming cardinal . . . the sniveling toady . . . then there was the terminally naive confessor to the entire Curia . . . just badly drawn cartoons.

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

Much to my surprise I really like Good Behavior on TNT. The just finished season one and got renewed for season two. It's weird to hear Michele Dockery's NC accent when I know she is British. Interesting characters.