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khalid

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I like his character. I think it shows a guy struggling to be a hardass and trying to scare everyone, when deep down he isn't and doesn't want to be. I also think he has done a pretty convincing job with appearing to be a badass in the latter part of the season.

Fuck, can't wait for the velcoro showdown with him next sunday.
 
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popsicledeath

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The entirety of Frank's character is a 'bad act'. If you didn't get that after the first couple episodes, well, I don't know what to tell you.

That doesn't mean Vaughn isn't still a fucking terrible actor, though. I get what they were going for, but the role was miscast.
Yeah, I got it. We all got it. Just like we also all got that his was struggling with impotence on multiple levels before his avocado trees died. The problem is it takes really good acting to look like a character that's trying to act like a big shot and not quite managing it. You can't just give them shitty lines, poor direction and let them be a shitty actor and hope the audiences excuses it because the character is kinda supposed to be bad at acting too.

See also: Not letting an actual insane person playing Daniel Day-Lewis's role in There Will Be Blood. And not letting an actual retard playing Leo's role in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.


Speaking of, you stopped updating us with whether you fell asleep during episodes, which was actually pretty funny. How'd the last two go?
 
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Quaid

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Didn't fall asleep this time, but was paying more attention to refreshing rerolled than the actual show by the end of it.

The supernatural theme of S1 and the relationship between Marty and Rust kept me far more engaged than this season.
 

Homsar

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Fuck, can't wait for the velcoro showdown with him next sunday.
Well we already know nothing is going to happen from the original trailer, frank has to torture and burn shit and ray still has to go beat a couple more people. I really think frank was fed bad info
 

khalid

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Well we already know nothing is going to happen from the original trailer, frank has to torture and burn shit and ray still has to go beat a couple more people. I really think frank was fed bad info
I never expected one to kill the other, but I think it is going to be a fun scene.
 

popsicledeath

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I never expected one to kill the other, but I think it is going to be a fun scene.
They were probably just both duped by Frank's right-hand man. At least that's how they seem to be setting it up. So, there will be a heated argument, probably point guns at one another, then Velcro will trust Frank when he says he doesn't know, they'll figure out that it's the right-hand man Velcro is already checking on his double dealing, and Frank will finally have some relief for the blue balls in his heart.
 
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Khane

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How many times has Semyon said something he thinks makes him appear stoic and then immediately stand up and button his suit jacket this season? I'm pretty sure you could make a drinking game out of it.
 

Homsar

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I never expected one to kill the other, but I think it is going to be a fun scene.
Im assuming frank is gonna tell Ray that hard drive he saw is worth millions, was fed bad info, and the scene with ray on the escalators at an airport is him flying to santa clara and story will start taking place up north
 

Chukzombi

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they need more tits in this show, is mcadams and the redhead such big stars that they can have a no nudity clause?
 

ZyyzYzzy

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A tie in to season 1. Time is a flat circle. What goes around, rapes around. She'd be happy, though, and Frank and/or Velcro would have another illegitimate red-headed child.
Wait. V';Vs wife is a red head, can't have children and talks about having previous surgeries. She was a dude and inverted his penis into a vagina. He was aso the one who raped Velcoro's wife, hence the little bastards red hair.

That theory is on par with the S1 theory of grandpa being the yellow king and raping Marty's daughter, right?
 

Khane

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Wait. V';Vs wife is a red head, can't have children and talks about having previous surgeries. She was a dude and inverted his penis into a vagina. He was aso the one who raped Velcoro's wife, hence the little bastards red hair.

That theory is on par with the S1 theory of grandpa being the yellow king and raping Marty's daughter, right?
No, because for a brief episode or two in S1 with the red herrings they threw in there that was at least a plausible outcome. Your scenario for S2 is bulletproof and is clearly what's going on here, there is no doubt.
 

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There was as much evidence there as there is of the redhead being the baby daddy lol.
 

popsicledeath

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Wait. V';Vs wife is a red head, can't have children and talks about having previous surgeries. She was a dude and inverted his penis into a vagina. He was aso the one who raped Velcoro's wife, hence the little bastards red hair.
Franky Semen just isn't the man Ray Velcro is. Velcro can impregnate anyone, if his missing mustache doesn't turn back up to do it first!
 

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While not super original, I really like the structure of the show. Maybe they should have put the ellipsis after 3 episodes instead of 4, but maybe they didn't have 5 episodes worth of investigation. The lines are still problematic though...

What noble savage said about the different storyline he does not care about is interesting. I feel they are doing something pretty clever with the scenario here, but that is detrimental to many people's enjoyment of the show. In season 1, we start with ritualistic murders of innocent young women, so there is naturally from the audience a strong desire to see the crime solved and the murderer arrested. Here, the dead men are an old crook and a gangster, so at first glance it feels like a "who cares?" situation. It's criminals killing criminals. But that's the writers playing tricks on us, because they just don't emphasis the number of innocent victims: farmers who got their land poisoned, bystanders killed in the shootout, missing girls...

Even Bezzerides kinda forgot the missing girl before the sister contacted her, but she is the one who told Ray (and all of us, including noble savage): you should care.


Writing this, I realize I like the missing girl for Birdman in a kind of "since nobody cared, the exploited went and killed the exploiter" story.
 

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I like her dad for an out of nowhere contestant for Birdman. Peaceful hippy by day hearing crazy things his converts do and then blowing up criminals at night that pollute the Earth and take the powerless women.
 

Merrith

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I like her dad for an out of nowhere contestant for Birdman. Peaceful hippy by day hearing crazy things his converts do and then blowing up criminals at night that pollute the Earth and take the powerless women.
Plus he was so awesome as the killer in Disturbia.
 

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Two things:

A: VV's wife's "surgeries". Pitlor related? Probably not, but maybe!

B: When is she going to show her boobs. She has great boobs. You got a brief glimpse of nip last episode, but she really needs to air them out.
 

a_skeleton_03

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They were abortions nothing was vague about that. I am not sure what Pitlor is or if it's from the show or something else and google didn't tell me.