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I hope you're just a troll and not actually this ignorant. Either way, go back under your rock.
Excuse me, sir, but your white, racist penis is showing.
Thank you for this. I swear, man, some people. It has nothing to do with the "amount of maturity." As you pointed out, it's about one group oppressing and devaluing an entire race for hundreds of years.
"The Jerry Springer Show" is ridiculous, and comparing the half-wit morons that enjoy that show to the arguably much more intelligent viewers of "Black Books" is like comparing rocks and functioning brain cells.
TJSS isn't just a show with a live audience; the audience and their reaction <i>is</i> half the show.
Someone coming out with cue cards for when to do something <I>other than</i> laugh at a joke is different from just organically laughing at the joke while in the company of other people laughing.
TJSS <i>requires</i> audience participation, hence telling you when and how to emote properly. Shows like "Black Books", on the other hand, are simply there for our entertainment, and the live audience just get to enjoy the show and laugh at the jokes that they find funny (which happen to be almost all of them).
No one's trying to tell you when to laugh and when not to. Laugh if you want to, or don't, your call. But if you don't understand the jokes or don't find them funny for some other reason, then maybe your best bet is to stick with things like "The Jerry Springer Show."
I'm pretty sure that Black Books was filmed in front of a live studio audience, so the laughs are genuine, not a laugh-track. It's most noticeable in the times where the actors have to kind of stretch the time before their new line in order to be heard over the laughter.
I'm not sure if a laugh track or audience laughter has ever really bothered me with a show before, though. Maybe if it's after every single line, none of which were funny, then yeah, it might annoy me. But I feel like more often than not, I'm having a laugh when the studio audience is, so it's less noticeable.
And Black Books is hilarious in almost every line, so it kind of works out.
I was wondering this myself. At first when he saw him, I figured Lester would quickly scamper back to his room and hope that Malvo didn't see him. Then when he actually went up and tried talking to him, I was like, "What the fuck is wrong with you, dude?"
In the beginning of the season, the way they met and everything, that was all kind of a giant misadventure that Lester stumbled ass-backward into, so I figured now that he made it out alive, and his life was finally where he wanted it, why would he go and fuck with that? Like was he just stupid enough that he thought that Malvo wouldn't fuck with him when pressed? Or, possibly, was Lester almost kind of wanting that thrill of danger again, ya know? Whether consciously or not, maybe he was wanting to kind of flirt with disaster a bit and felt like since he made it out okay last time, he could do that again this time?
I don't know, it was just very frustrating to me.
I 100% agree with you. There are way too many things in this season that I found unbelievable even before this, but this was the cherry on top for me.
You're right, Gus murdered Malvo, no two ways about it. It wasn't "justifiable homicide," it was premeditated murder. It also doesn't matter that Malvo was a bad guy, a wanted fugitive, etc. Gus could've (and obviously should've) called it in when he first saw the red car in the driveway. Instead, he went inside, laid in wait, and then shot multiple times the unarmed and badly injured Malvo as he sat on the couch nursing his broken leg. You can argue that he was avenging others, but that only makes it worse.
Again, I don't care what Malvo did, the other cops would have no choice but to arrest him. And I know, I know, somehow every single cop in this show (even the feds) are bumbling morons, but if anything, that just proves that they couldn't pull a cover-up, because they're all far too stupid to accomplish that.
Besides, for those people arguing that the cops could have easily swept this under the rug, gave Gus a medal, and carried on as usual, that's just not possible. There are way too many people involved, for starters, and the whole thing would likely be handled by a <i>different</i> jurisdiction anyway. I mean, the bad guy is killed by the deputy's husband? That in itself would require the case to be handled by another PD.
But, again, apparently every LEO in this show is an idiot, laws are meaningless, and logic is scarce. It's quite unfortunate.
I only started writing out a "WTF" list at the early part of episode 10, but I wrote down as many of those questionable/irksome parts that I could remember, and this was definitely one of them. There's no way that the cops <i>and</i> EMS would've missed the hand wound, and <i>then</i> the hospital staff... just no way in hell. And the hospital would have certainly noticed it, cleaned/tended to it, and given him antibiotics for it.
But, alas, like with just about every other thing in the season, you have to suspend your disbelief to unparalleled extremes in order for any of it to "work" (I'd say "make sense," but it just doesn't, ever, at all).
Banks and Cabot clearly had feelings for each other before she had her baby. They just acted like stupid children by being "coy" and passive-aggressive and annoying instead of using their words to express their feelings.
To me, their whole drawn-out thing was just as unbearable as Annie's character in itself.
That entire chunk of the episode was just mind-blowing to me. As you said, the idea that they'd go all-out like that with SWAT just for a single handgun sitting quietly on a shelf -- that seemed far-fetched to me.
But then the whole drama connected to that, about the formal inquiry regarding the "unlawful shooting" or some shit.
I kept yelling at my phone, things like, "They ran in with real guns and ONLY Tased the guy! That's a WIN for everyone, what the hell is wrong with you all??" and "The old guy was wielding the cane above his head like a weapon, THEY COULD HAVE SHOT HIM WITH A REAL GUN!" and "How in the absolute hell is any of this MORTON'S fault?!"
Whew. Yeah. That whole episode was exhausting and frustrating to watch.
"If you don't find Eastbound and Down funny then you need to kill yourself, your PC way of thinking is ruining the world."
It's not about being PC, it's just about preferring smart humor.
(And I'm pretty sure the whole "if you don't agree with me then you need to kill yourself" mindset is worse for the world than people just being bored with dick and fart jokes.)
Thank you! I know I'm a bit late to this thread/reply, but oh well.
I agree, just because someone doesn't find a certain show/movie/comic to be funny, that doesn't mean it's because they're being all "PC" and offended by everything.
Personally, I see "comedians" like Danny McBride or Bill Burr as one-trick ponies, whose only trick is being gross or offensive. My problem with their "humor" is that it's just simple, stupid, bottom-of-the-barrel shit that they repeat over and over because they're not smart enough to come up with anything that's actually humorous or clever.
There's no diversity in the characters played by actors like McBride or Ferrell or Rogan; they're just the same characters doing the same schticks that they've done in everything else they've been in.
I'll admit, I probably found them each funny the first time I saw them, but then it was like, "Oh, that's just the same character as that last movie, never mind."
Obviously humor is subjective, so I'm not saying that people who find this stuff funny are "wrong" or anything. But sometimes people just prefer smarter humor, and that doesn't mean that they're "too PC" or overly offended.
(Case in point: Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles")
I only watched Vice Principals and this show because of Walton Goggins being in both (I don't really care much for Danny McBride). Personally, I felt that both shows could've used more Goggins and fewer dick jokes (or over-the-top crude jokes in general; less is more). But McBride wrote both (I'm pretty sure), and that just seems to be his schtick, unfortunately, so one has to kind of lower expectations, I guess.
He's the only reason I watched this show. Walton Goggins is such an incredible and diverse actor; everything I've seen him in so far, I always find myself wanting more of him.
I agree, my parents are conservative christians and they would <I>haaate</I> this show lol Not even because of the blasphemy of it but because of all of the crude language and "jokes" that make up the show.
Of course, to be fair, I really don't think they wrote it with the intention of catering to the bible-thumping demographic in the first place... It clearly points out the hypocrisy of those types (the televangelist types that prey on people in the name of god while lining their own pockets with the money from their sheep).
Honestly, the only reason I watched this was because of Walton Goggins lol I don't care much for Danny McBride, but I watched this and Vice Principals and powered through the stupid stuff just because Goggins is in both of them.
I honestly assumed that it would be the excessive church talk that would annoy me the most with this one, but I agree, the unnecessary anatomy/sexual stuff was more obnoxious. Like it could be funny up to a point, maybe, but I feel like McBride always seems to write scripts that turn every dick and fart joke up to eleven, and it just ruins it completely.
I powered through this show mainly because of the few side characters that I liked or didn't completely hate, but I doubt I'll watch it again.
Man, I got all excited reading that article, but it looks like it was never made or something. That sucks :(
Yes, this is one of the things that frustrated me the most throughout this movie, is the inconsistencies when it comes to those things.
So the girl definitely gets killed by the dog, but when the dog drags her out of the house and they try to chase after it, somehow there's absolutely no blood trail to follow? Like, there <i>should</i> be a blood trail, so I'm assuming that there wasn't (because, ya know, demons), otherwise they would've followed it to find her?
So the girl is clearly dead from that, but the demon possessing her makes her back home suddenly, all bright and smiley and alive and well. Okay, sure. But, like you mentioned, why wasn't it the same with the mom? They both got hit by the truck, yet when we see the mom later, her legs are miraculously fine, but her face is all torn to shit. Then somehow she gets more mangled from jumping off the balcony (even though the demon possession has the power to fully heal people right away?) and the boy is dead as a doornail, Smalls. So presumably he didn't get possessed <i>or</i> come back to life.
Then there's the goat farmers.
My understanding when watching this last night was that the pregnant wife was worried (or knew) that the demon would possess them and their baby if they killed it (particularly if they shot it), which is why she initially grabbed the axe. I couldn't tell if she was going to kill the goat with the axe or just already knew what she had to do. But I took that scene to mean that she knew it would inhabit them if killed, so that's why she (without hesitation) axed her husband and then herself, so that they would be spared the possession stuff.
My friend, though, thought that right when the goat was killed, the lady was automatically possessed and <i>that's</i> why she killed her husband and herself.
(If anyone has any thoughts on this bit, feel free to share.)
But anyway, with the demon going from one body to the next, why didn't the farmers come back to life with the demon in <i>them</i>?
I just rewatched that part, and there is definitely a sound there which <i>could</i> sound like a knife piercing flesh, but if you watch closely, it really is just the sound of him closing and latching the metal gate at the door.
I was kind of thinking the same thing, especially for some of the more graphic scenes of brutality. Like I'm kind of hoping that the woman that was gang-raped by the camera crew was <I>not</I> a member of any indigenous tribes, because imagining the filming and directing process of those scenes is a bit unnerving...