You heard that HBOGo crashed while trying to stream the last episode of "True Detective," right? Sounds not ready for prime time to me.
Speaking of Not Ready For Prime Time, I think you can safely skip a much-hyped and little-delivering new show combining the talents of Alfonso Cuaron and J.J. Abrams called "Believe." I watched the pilot, and won't be bothering to follow up. Lame procedural about yet another kid with psychic powers being chased by bad people and protected by good people. BORING. Fortunately, for those of us of the pirate or HBO persuasion, "Game Of Thrones" will be back soon. Here be dragons. ________________________________ From: Bhairitu <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] True Detective: epilogue Sounds like a good show and I would gladly pay a $1 an episode to watch it. I'm sure others here would too. But HBO is the most snobbish of the Premium channels. There was quite an uproar among folks who wanted to watch "Game of Thrones" that they couldn't just buy episodes. Up until I booted Comcast out of my house I had HBO mostly for a couple years "for free." I say "for free" in quotes because that's what Comcast called but I'm sure HBO was getting their money out of the deal. Maybe HBO wouldn't mind selling episodes the day after on places like iTunes, Amazon, VUDU, Google Play, etc but they are bound by contracts with the cable and satellite companies. If they wouldn't want to do that then they are in the "business parlance" leaving money on the table. And folks in the US don't want to risk ridiculous fines and prison terms for just downloading torrents of the episodes. Torrents, as I explained before implicate the user because to have any torrent download speed you have to open your port so that the packets you've downloaded and be sent out from your computer to others. However a recent court decision in Germany says that "watching" a show on some foreign server is not a crime. The other solution with HBO is HBOGo but you need someone to give you their password. I could probably do that with my sister but she wouldn't understand it to even set up HBOGo that they wouldn't even use themselves. But that is most often the way that cable cutters watch in the US. On 03/10/2014 02:05 AM, [email protected] wrote: >Very satisfying conclusion to what will undoubtedly be seen as the best TV >show of the year. I'll offer no spoilers, just reflections. > >First, it was *exactly* My Kinda Series because it was almost completely character-driven. As series writer Nic Pizzolatto confirms in a long interview today, the plot involving the serial killers and the murders was merely a structural device that he needed to provide a framework for the story he was really interested in telling. That is, an analysis of the characters and relationships of two men, over a period of 17 years. As compelling as the plot sometimes was, it simply *wasn't the point*. It could just as easily have been a robbery, except that the statue of limitations on robbery probably doesn't last that long in Louisiana. > >Second, he confirms my earlier rant here against those who looked down on the philosophy that Rust Cohle spouted, calling it "hogwash." He points out that to believe that, you pretty much have to consider Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche hogwash, because the philosophy was theirs, sometimes verbatim. So much for the education levels of mainstream TV critics. > >Third (having already seen a couple of completely dumbass reviews after the final episode), he pooh-poohs the idea that Rust "finds God," pointing out that at best he's moved about 5% away from his previous dark view of life. It's not an insignificant 5%, but certainly not a shift to being a believer. > >Fourth, I am filled with nothing but admiration for Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughhey's performances in this series, which will without question earn them both Golden Globe and Emmy nominations. Woody's work is less flashy, which will mean that he probably won't win, but he was just as good as Matthew's. > >And fifth, I look forward to more of "the same, but not really" next year. "True Detective" was always intended as an anthology, with completely different sets of characters and plots each year. Pizzolatto even gives a hint in his interview as to what next season will bring: "It's about hard women, bad men, and the secret occult history of the United States transportation system." Can't wait...it'll be like a Dan Brown novel, but created by someone who can actually write. :-) > >hard women, bad men and the secret occult history of the United States >transportation system. >Read more at >http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/true-detective-creator-nic-pizzolatto-looks-back-on-season-1#1wW88PixZCHuYuFx.99 >hard women, bad men and the secret occult history of the United States >transportation system. >Read more at >http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/true-detective-creator-nic-pizzolatto-looks-back-on-season-1#1wW88PixZCHuYuFx.99 >
