DarthFed said:
Kieran said:
DarthFed said:
Billions is an awesome show. Chuck and Bobby are amazing characters. The show is kind of like a House of Cards except it's the stock market. There are no good-hearted characters yet most of them are likable and the dynamic is awesome. And I agree about Chuck's wife, she's a total fox.
How far are you? It's now in the middle of season 2, it's been really good.
She's a fox, she's a honey, she's a miaow! She was Rachel Mencken in Mad Men and I loved her then. She's tough too, and love that. Everything about her! Body double though, that time in the pool, was it?
lot
I think I'm maybe 1 ep off the pace, caught up falrly fast. Sheesh, the stock market's a ruthless pitch, isn't it?
I was surprised (and sad) that it was a body double. Sometimes it's obvious but that one wasn't.
I was traumatised - I needed a shrink. I looked up "Wendy Rhodes" in the phone book. :snicker
I know it hasn't got a huge fanbase here, but season 7 of The Walking Dead was long-drawn out, slow to get to the point, and when we expected it would all come together in the finale, there was a long sentimental thing between two characters who aren't major ones, and whose romance was a five minute affair - we're meant to accept it as Romeo & Juliet, feel sad, blub, wreck our popcorn - then a great action battle scene in the final 20 minutes - with the promise it'll resolve itself
next year.
Lads, this coulda been all sorted quick in five episodes, not freakin 16, with more pending. There was a lack of giant zombie setpieces this season, you'd almost think their budget couldn't handle it. There were standalone episodes devoted to minor characters - which were good, not great, but when you get six of them in a row, you start to wonder where's Rick and that hot black chick, and all the original gang.
The rules of the game are simple: slice & dice, grab & stab, bash & slash, a constant threat of walkers, with villainous humans being the real horror, but this season the persistent spooky threat of stumbling upon a herd of zombies vanished to a mere murmur, and it basically became Mad Max: The Soap Opera, with the main baddie, Negan, reduced to cruel fattist wisecracks (ooh you nasty boy!) and occasional flashes of his real range of unstable viciousness. It hasn't quite jumped the shark, but even this morning in my local caff, the guy who works there, a cake-swelled comics nutjob who's way ahead of me and fills me in on incoming data relating to the comic storyline, declared himself finally disappointed by the TV show.
That, my friends, tells the whole tale right there... :nono
