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Finished Amazon’s Utopia
Posted on 10/16/20 at 9:25 pm
Posted on 10/16/20 at 9:25 pm
While it looked interesting at first, it went pretty dark in a hurry. Then started to go all Lost, GoT, big teases but with little to no pay off.
Finale had some super cringe moments that didn’t make a lick of sense.
Well acted but also curiously timed. I have to ask, if Hollywood was closed down for the last eight months, when did they actually shoot this series?
It’s almost as if they had foreknowledge of a world pandemic, and a rush for a vaccine…
Finale had some super cringe moments that didn’t make a lick of sense.
Well acted but also curiously timed. I have to ask, if Hollywood was closed down for the last eight months, when did they actually shoot this series?
It’s almost as if they had foreknowledge of a world pandemic, and a rush for a vaccine…
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Posted on 10/17/20 at 5:12 am to AURaptor
Spoiler:
There is a torture scene that just turned me off - I felt it was kinda overdone for the tone of the show up to that point. I watched a bit more but haven’t been back to it. Not sure if I will.
There is a torture scene that just turned me off - I felt it was kinda overdone for the tone of the show up to that point. I watched a bit more but haven’t been back to it. Not sure if I will.
Posted on 10/17/20 at 7:17 am to AURaptor
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Well acted but also curiously timed. I have to ask, if Hollywood was closed down for the last eight months, when did they actually shoot this series?
It’s almost as if they had foreknowledge of a world pandemic, and a rush for a vaccine…
You... fail to win the kewpie doll. A quick google shows the series was filmed last fall. It is a remake of a UK TV show that ran from 2013 to 2014. It just happens to be one of those pieces of pop culture with hilariously bad timing.
It might be a while before we see another pandemic movie/tv show thriller. Before 2020 they were scary things that happened somewhere other than the US or Europe. Good luck trying to sell a media executive on the entertainment value of a pandemic movie now.
With, of course, the exception of the inevitable historical dramas we are going to get in a year or two about this outbreak.
Posted on 10/17/20 at 7:48 am to Arksulli
I’m halfway through and was kind of pissed off who they killed off in the 2nd episode which was why I was interested in watching this in the first place. I guess that’s who got axed in the original, but still.
Posted on 10/17/20 at 7:55 am to AURaptor
Finished it a couple days ago. Loved it.
Posted on 10/17/20 at 8:25 am to Arksulli
The Stand is literally airing in like a month
Posted on 10/17/20 at 8:28 am to AURaptor
Watched the first two episodes last night. We were shocked at the abrupt death mentioned above.
Non-spoiler: that chick who killed the character I referenced is fricking ugly as hell.
Non-spoiler: that chick who killed the character I referenced is fricking ugly as hell.
Posted on 10/17/20 at 8:43 am to TideSaint
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Non-spoiler: that chick who killed the character I referenced is fricking ugly as hell.
She definitely looks like a meth head. Distractingly so.
Posted on 10/17/20 at 10:11 am to td01241
The Stand is a remake from a 90's series and of course, the book. I get it.
But this, and the distrust with a vaccine, a lab created virus, is just curiously timed.
And there's also some closely related Thanos like motivations going on as well.
As I said, 'dystopia' seems to be a trend in Hollywood these days. Wonder why.
But this, and the distrust with a vaccine, a lab created virus, is just curiously timed.
And there's also some closely related Thanos like motivations going on as well.
As I said, 'dystopia' seems to be a trend in Hollywood these days. Wonder why.
Posted on 10/17/20 at 10:18 am to Athos
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was kind of pissed off who they killed off in the 2nd episode which was why I was interested in watching this in the first place.
That and some other stuff also plays into my GoT type reference, some Red Wedding level violence that is supposed to shock the viewer and such. Fine, I get it, but after that, there's other needlessly violent scenes I felt are just gratuitous. Edges on Tarantino level , but not quite.
* I almost bailed , but it wasn't terrible, and frankly, I'm not finding much else on that I care to watch, so I stuck with it. For the most part, I still feel it was acted well and had its moments.
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You... fail to win the kewpie doll. A quick google shows the series was filmed last fall. It is a remake of a UK TV show that ran from 2013 to 2014. It just happens to be one of those pieces of pop culture with hilariously bad timing.
Well, had I liked it more, maybe I'd have looked it up.
Still, damn curious as to the timing ,with what's in the show. And it's about clues to future ins show events, so yeah, finished filming last fall kinda makes it all the more curious.
This post was edited on 10/17/20 at 10:32 am
Posted on 10/17/20 at 11:21 am to td01241
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The Stand is literally airing in like a month
When was it filmed and planned to air though?
Folks tend to think, well its being released now they must have filmed it a month or so ago. They wrapped filming in March just before everything shut down.
They can either sit on the finished product for a few years (throw that money in the fire!) or release it now and take their lumps in the hopes that the ratings are decent enough.
Again, hilariously badly timed pop culture.
Posted on 10/17/20 at 11:35 am to AURaptor
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Still, damn curious as to the timing ,with what's in the show.
The issue of Superman (or maybe Action Comics) that came out in November of '63 featured a cameo appearance by JFK. Whoopsy!
What you are thinking of is Apophenia. The tendency to draw connections between unrelated events.
Let us say, hypothetically speaking, we are producing a CSI type show and we are going to do a school shooting episode. Hype. Topical. Yada yada.
Its been in the pipeline for about 6 months probably. We film it. We wrap it. We do post production. She's good to go and the day before it airs... there is a major school shooting in the US.
Or, maybe, for our political thriller TV show, we have an episode where radicals kidnap the main character. Great story. We've got it in the can and ready to go in two weeks... and crazed dingbats get arrested by the FBI for planning to kidnap the Governor of Michigan.
We had no special insight going into those events. We were just massively unlucky. It happens. Hence the Stand being released in a couple of weeks. I'm sure they would dearly love to hold that sucker back but the longer a TV series or movie sits in the vault the longer it is until you get back your investment.
Posted on 10/17/20 at 12:10 pm to AURaptor
Now watch the UK version
Posted on 10/17/20 at 2:05 pm to Arksulli
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It might be a while before we see another pandemic movie/tv show thriller. Before 2020 they were scary things that happened somewhere other than the US or Europe. Good luck trying to sell a media executive on the entertainment value of a pandemic movie now.
Pretty sure those are gonna be the next big wave of movies lmao. There’s going to be so much pandemic shite when tv comes back.... how could it not? You think they’ll just avoid it?
Posted on 10/18/20 at 11:41 am to AMS
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You think they’ll just avoid it?
There's a large segment of folks who really wish they would. Many are so utterly over this crap, the last thing they want is to see it plastered on their TV.
Of course, there's a group of folks who love that stuff too. I'm not one of them.
Posted on 10/18/20 at 6:50 pm to AURaptor
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I have to ask, if Hollywood was closed down for the last eight months, when did they actually shoot this series?
It’s almost as if they had foreknowledge of a world pandemic, and a rush for a vaccine…
Many studios had exemptions weeks after the restrictions were placed.
Posted on 10/18/20 at 9:32 pm to AURaptor
Motherfrickin Bundt Cake!
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